The Sermon A Checklist in Your Life by David McGee
Mar 27, 2011
A Checklist in Your Life (36:29)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 12; Matthew 14:24-32
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The four Fs
- Flexibility (being able to turn the other cheek)
- Focus (focus on a mission that matters)
- Fostering (we need to be an encourager)
- Forgiveness
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Romans 12
1) Therefore I beg you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
2) Don‘t be fashioned according to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3) For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
4) For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don‘t have the same function,
5) so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
6) Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
7) or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
8) or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
9) Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
10) In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
11) not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
12) rejoicing in hope; enduring in oppression; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
13) contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
14) Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don‘t curse.
15) Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
16) Be of the same mind one toward another. Don‘t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don‘t be wise in your own conceits.
17) Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
18) If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
19) Don‘t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God‘s wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."
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.
Matthew 14:24-32
24) But the boat was now in the midst of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
25) In the fourth watch of the night Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.
26) When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It is a ghost!" and they cried out for fear.
27) But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! I AM! Don‘t be afraid."
28) Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters."
29) He said, "Come!" Peter went down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus.
30) But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"
31) Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
32) When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.
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One morning in the morning when I wake you are you okay you quickly need of April and I remember correctly. My husband always getting ready for fishing season, in a few weeks and you guys fisherman on it. I know I am okay okay what Jesus said in Matthew four nineteen, and follow me and I will make you fishers of men. What does that mean fishers of men make a ninetieth Illinois hide behind the cable and well it means that letters for following Jesus. We're supposed to make fishers of men, that means it has tell other people about Jesus. Now how can we do that and write for them. Okay, we can give our money to be GMC like we usually do next and he is the GMC Monday Sunday remember to bring your buddy barrels and so we can pray we can be fishers of men by telling other people giving money to the missionary can tell the world about Jesus but were also supposed to tell our own little world and towns about Jesus Army and lifetime rate that is less than before we think one person really can't do very much, but hasn't been as bad and helpless. That's not true. I have a bag of goldfish, night, but I know Fisher fishing today. Now let's suppose it is bag of gold fish is people represent people and put one goldfish on this planet one. If one person tells one person, not Jesus family have many people in the nineties. Now, and I think each of these two people tell somebody about Jesus coming to be had now for each of these four people tell us something about Jesus, though somebody by Jesus. Companies and Internet eight at the eight people tell something and how somebody like Jesus then sixteen okay, I can keep your goldfish and fill gap thirty two and sixty four and we would get a big tile of goldfish on his plate. All the client when people. One person told somebody about Jesus right so what you say what you tell other people about Jesus makes a difference. It really matters doesn't. So with my job if you have a job and can bring our money. We can send it to the missionaries to be DNC with intelligent people by Jesus Annan towns and rural communities, school and before you know it. There's the people nine by Jesus and his love for us in his forgiveness for us. So, how many of you kind of fishing for men help all three NATO fishing for men, not just fishing for fish and I like it pejoratively dismissed the youth event, it is something that is high. I have this wonderful experience and saw their AOS eight ten thousand six dozen thousand valuable hi teenagers. This none involves mostly teenagers that come from the state of Pennsylvania, Delaware and they feel they are usually the hurt feelings of giant Center there in Hershey and you know that Justin is a great time for renewal in a great time for the heart are young people to be involved with the greater church, which is the entire body of Christ and is different than I feel letting them know that it's more than just our little church on Sunday morning, but it's a great big body of Christ. That's all over the world, but just we get those all those people together citizens that we wonderful everyone recidivate paper checklist Wrangler Michelin got a paper my daily checklist never. I well remember two weeks ago I while for the last number of weeks I've been speaking on Romans chapter twelve and Romans chapter twelve is just goodness than this chapter that sought a kind of going over and over again in my and my head in my thoughts and I wanted you to look at this two weeks ago I talked about our checklist in our checklist is a list of things we go through for our know-how. They were yelling at an airline pilot. There someone in the yard if you that will be. If you've ever flown was someone in a private plane, you know that have a checklist and never smoke data pilot because it all there going over the plate on a commercial plane may have the same thing. Then a checklist that go over this checklist every time they start their engines every time you are going to begin applying whether the private plane whether the commercial playing. They have a checklist while I was thinking of this in Romans chapter twelve on this being a checklist that we look at in our lives and read over. We talked about well, the Lord 's prayer this morning in Sunday school and how important it is roster set aside a time in which we will go and pray, and the lesson this morning was typing it, which is an acceptable lesson because of it being the Lord 's prayer and done, and it was one that well maybe something will do it in church, but the idea of setting aside a time and and I have written, but together the sermon this morning about this checklist in and in the Holland is part of our life. And if you remember, verse one, and is taken from the message Bible else. Basically, this is the message Bible version of Romans chapter twelve is broken down segment by segment. The first part is verse one so here's what I want to do today, God helping me taking my everyday, ordinary life. My sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life and place it before God as an offering. The less. My statement of purpose now as high as I look over this checklist there are characteristics then that will make a difference in my life and the life of the people around me does everyone have one Eminem announce okay, didn't get one if you run out. Hopefully not. I made open enough, if not share with someone when you get one if the laughter after church. So the checklist will make a difference in your life in your Christian life in your personal life and your business life and professional life. It isn't something that that is, as we mentioned before, our Christian life isn't something that is isolated to our once a week off, encountering church. It is a total package of us as a person being involved in our daily lives, and there are at least I can probably for this more informative families for five days and then we can look at in this chapter that if we practice these divisions, and as we put them together we save them. Perhaps it's something that will bring about change in our life and change the positive in the NFL than that the four F's now not the only thing MNF is a failure. I do your job. I was used to build read Absalom, my paper on what happened tediously keeping delighted. But anyhow I narrated feature and now I don't know many of you are and he ever had. @ your papers. I hate red pens. No, at the Secretary of the at the hospice that seat. She's always saying things around. Read it now. She circles your mistakes and read the daily fix this unified can choose a different color, no as the light right up. Anyhow, after that's a personal thing and not have hasn't failure, but the first F. This flexibility being able to turn the other cheek. The Bible says Reynolds number able to change at will be able to change the brother be able to handle things and be flexible, offering you the analogy people say that you have a backbone. While gamma backbone that means you can hear flexible. Often we think of a backbone is that which is stiff and people on movable while know if you have a backbone which is you. We are flexible, variable to change were able to know. Move around and change direction, so flexibility is the ability to turn to turn on a dime to be able to be going in a particular direction and noticed something insight enough to be able to turn him look after the first few checklists here if you are flexible. How will we be able to embrace what God does for me best, fixing my the brother through what God wants me to do there not being drawn down by the situation. God will bring the best out in the today reason we have to be flexible& things going on in our life and things going on around us and cause us to look at life and to look at things and to be able to change and be able to is aware change directions. Now, Jan Giorgione shallot and she's downstairs. Jan had to change directions this week. A car was veered out in front of her and she had to be flexible as yet inflexible, she would've been had a head-on collision, but she neared off the road and yes they did have all that they had hit the pole and hit head-on with another vehicle who turned into their path while flexibility is the ability to get make choices and make changes at the same name for them and to recognize them. Flexibility is a new direction that was not obviously just a few moments ago that the flexibility of our Christian life that allows us to have insight insight to ourselves and to live by the by the spirit of God having insight into promises and hope about our life flexibility is not getting stuck and how he used to be. While you know I've always driven down the road this way before. While sometimes we have to be flexible. In the way of an oncoming car. Sometimes we have to be flexible to move out on the direction always do. I is a story. Somebody knocks at your door. He opened the door and a punch in the nose. Okay, it's okay to one alone on the road with Morgan. It was a knock on the door again, Illinois punch in the nose. Now, sooner or later he will learn to. Or not open the door for the lobbyists will you know what you know around the track of life and we walk around talking like there's a whole. They fall into the trap you fall into a hole when you're walking around track now you walk around the track. The second time the fallen disabled walk around Jack's third time, follow the same whole. Sometimes life is an IQ test, and sometimes people to think is more of a tragedy fall in the same hall. I called her over beyond the only one okay thank you very much. They follow the same all skyline, unless so what's wrong with us, don't we have enough sense to move it to know all I know there's a whole year is over. When I was on farm we use these the stack hay in the barn. You always hated it when you were down to the last role of balance on the bottom because they built the barn was too much effort into expensive Florida holds the whole laugh so they would just put boards across son areas of the barn floor. And so what would happen is given you in the barn floor would be covered, which pay our straw. It was loosening you put your valve on top of the solid when you think would happen if you stepbrother whether the board himself through the barn floor time measurement. Another part that is not clear that some of us are Alzheimer's women on women homebuyers in your Evelyn at all binding like there's strong hand across the floor don't go walking over there they go to Germany in the bottom frequent. I fallen through a couple of times in, but sooner or later you explore the fall. Flexibility is that things change, sometimes without notice. Now, we look at the changes in our lives. We were saying this morning about how that God is to bring about change and got in we look at how God is at work in us that we have a life is aware without God before God is a sinful life. It was a self-centered life. It was a life of failures into falling in the same holes and making the same mistakes before trying to make up our mind to get out of it will. God creates a new nature in us. He gives us a new perspective of life in Matthew chapter fourteen versus the beginning of verse twenty two. I wasn't going to read the whole thing. I asked it talks about Jesus. I finished the meal with his is no finish to know what the disciples and the crowd and he got told the disciples to get in the boat and go to the other side, and that he would catch up to them later, but when the boat was far out the scene. The wind came up against them. They were battered by the waves about four o'clock in the morning, Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. They were scared out of their ways adults, they said, crying out in terror, but Jesus was quick to comfort them courage. He says his name don't be afraid, Peter suddenly bolt said master, if it's really you call me to come to go on the water, he said, had jumping out of the boat pier walk on the water to Jesus. But when he looked down at the waves churning beneath his feet. He lost his nerve and he started to sink he cried Master saved me. Jesus didn't hesitate. He raced down and grabbed his hand and then he said eight hearts what I then climbed in the boat and the wind died down and the disciples in the boat. Having watched the whole thing worship Jesus saying this is a you are a godsend for sure now. Sometimes people are critical of Peter for syncing, but in all my knowledge is the only one walk on water flexibility embrace what God does best for me to check with fix my attention on God. Be ready for what God what he wants from me. Sometimes it's to get out of the boat did not want to say it, I let myself get drop-down, what's the next one, God will bring the best out of me today. You obviously can we get a different picture of what this checklist is a really start putting in the context am working in this case, what happened to Peter and the disciples would start fighting it in the context of what's going on in our life Peter Sankey was dragged down because he loved away from Jesus. You no longer saw no longer saw Jesus and and and and they didn't fire to come to him. He became distracted by the wind and the waves and things around them, and he had to say anything whatever we look at this check. Leslie began to start looking at our life don't allow ourselves to become distracted by the difficulties of life around us. Let us recognize the one with the I live in the pure grace of God, the unmerited favor of God, he looks at you and I say your grace and favor of God doesn't see one better than the other. He sees us as his children what the next one by people can read that you read my wife three major and high blood is a rating feature. If you need help see them after church one who I will when I have unlimited your grace of God. I find the body of Christ& I will find my meeting and function as part of the body. I thought I will not misinterpret my purpose is that when I will not misinterpret my purpose of cat is. I will not misinterpret my purpose. God is bringing God 's goodness on the second reading. So anyhow Jesus race was that I saw you signaling that the church run again. But what I didn't agree sorry how so I I I will not misinterpret my purpose is in and I will bring the submenu will later but the idea is clear, was not learning how to walk on water. He was learning how to walk with Jesus K in our lives. We sometimes gets no drawn down because their copy of the circumstances, but this went on learning to work for walk on this in the circumstances even on the circumstances were learning to walk with Jesus. So they are flexible enough to get out of the boat, where flexible to know that if you peer was flexible enough to try something you've never done before walk on water quality flexible enough to trust God to walk on the circumstances of my life and all I try him were the one hundred and two large walk with Jesus and then we need to try to get to our success is not about never failing our successes about walking with God, and learning how to be the person God wants us to be and we may have to try some things a number of times before we succeed. Think God is working. Here's your grace in our lives. There was this child is young entrepreneur out of the hold she was, but she was going to sell her dog for a thousand dollars, janitor, dog one) she sold. We will think and and the Albany area story. My first thought is was he trying to sort out, but that's not the store and on the Linux into selling the dog that's not the story. The story is addressed by the seller dog for thousand dollars is not a sign of their dog for sale thousand dollars and the denominator compliances while your government will discourage you know a thousand dollars lot of money for dogs is gathered it all. I know this is a this is a pedigree dog pedigree was operational. Anyhow, she was selling her dog for a thousand dollars at the end of the day. The neighbor drove by and was assigned their official who is only when out of the blue father will grow you know she's walking around anything. Did you sell your dog for a thousand dollars. All yeah I did better than that. I'm not true. Five hundred dollar cat. The digital rebel. I thought that was limited to five hundred dollars we have to be flexible phase change and she was yellow kids excited though. Though the first one is flexible. The second one is focused focused means a laser beam focus. Focus on a mission in the blended talk about the story of our with the fish knowledge one person winning a person one personnel goes to be yesterday we have a mission that matters. An admission that matters is the mission of life is greater than niacin is greater than our time and our talents is greater than life itself is a mission for eternity. We have a mission that matters and what we find is that we are part of something that is greater than ourselves. The checklist says I find my meaning and function as part of the body of Christ. You are part of something we are part of some your part of the body of Christ. You know, I said about you. The link is no young people. All kids. They are young people going to use convention finding out that your life is part of something much greater than just, I mean not just our body here, but knows the much greater community of believers out there and sometimes we lose perspective of the NR life is more than just taking care of ourselves in our own little community and I will halt with that in our offerings and our guests and our mission is written for people around the world. So we are part of a meeting on the meaning of our life is greater than just ourselves but the next one on the checklist okay, it says I will find my meaning and function as part of order price. I should have been numbered right. Okay, what's next. I am actually formed and marvelously functioning part of Priceline. I am excellently formed and marvelously functioning. We would believe that right is true. You are excellently formed and marvelously functioning copyright don't think effectively wonder marvelously functioning with you don't have each of us had no functioning part in the body of Christ. You belong. We belong together. We belong to God, but the I am going forward, our allies is inside of us. That's why forgiveness is so important in Garland. All the past you got a lead on your failures or mistakes go forward. What's next, I will not be envious or prideful. I'm not compare myself with others don't get into that game. While not as good as they look, but they can do forget that you are a unique individual by yourself functioning part of the body of Christ. Now we say these things were focused on a mission and vision that people will grow and be better than what they they thought they ever could be, were part of a mission and what is this, my guess of preaching and proclaim the good news of helping been help in teaching and teach the word of giving and giving encouragement to say that each of us have a part here. If helping the disadvantaged, the calm and not irritated the third half is fostering, fostering, we need to foster several things foster and encouraging spirit to be an encourager is always someone carrying something down. Look at the news. It's always about is not always is mostly about what's wrong with life and what went wrong here what's going wrong there, and we can do about the negativity about ourselves another only when a foster an environment and environment when people are encouraged where people and our families and our loved ones and are so we are encouraged waiting to be the biggest cheerleaders. My colitis cure the biggest cheerleaders that I know a lot of you thought my comments earlier one. She was, I am a cheerleader. We were there during conference last week, I lord help me, I spend eight hours listening to normal movable mold can hear everything everywhere now. Thousands of dead cheerleaders, elegant Jerry competition. Whether doing a weekend off. I enjoy everything sports and tarballs and mouse and dismounts and falls, and Johnston, Armenia was on her hours and hours and I noticed today that ours and ours ours with their watch a two minute performance, and he's been eight hours our is one I have watched Jackson slapped before but now there was a litigant 's guide, a visit that having these kids were so vivid and Rachel, daughter Madeleine Shue. They won first being the first is out of about twenty sons, Watson, cheerleaders, there will group their squad came in first, so they are quite excited about it. Then, in order, and rightfully so, but we foster we foster encouragement. We foster an environment. Why, because we are part of the body of Christ, that no part is better than or less than the other. The operative going back to the needs, your grace, that we live by that we are growing our knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ were different levels and different places in our growth and item element, but were still growing and we have a direction we going, going forward, and we're not going back. Why, because God has brought us here. We help others come together fostering and a calm encouraging more cheerleading in fostering other people 's confidence in their faith because of what God has done in our lives and how God has worked in people 's lives. We foster me to imagine what it was like in the boat when the disciples and Jesus in all the disciples whether they saw Jesus and Peter getting back into about while they were fostering their faith. Jesus was fostering their faith& this is that you are God 's son, for sure, that emanate like it's unbelievable what I appear you walk on water. He said that he walked on water. Jesus think about brought them back in the starlets call learning to walk with God. We foster perspective, what's the perspective he smiled all those underneath it. Their love from the center of who you are hold on for dear life to good love deeply. He fueled and ready cheerful, unexpected for a heart practice hospitality. No cursing under your breath is shared tears. You will not spew will not be stopped up. I will not be stuck up. I will not strike back. I will get along with others. I will one from evil. I will be a good friend. I will not get burned out. I'm alert sleeping on alert. I will not let an hard time is the daily checklist. Why, because we believe about God 's day in your part of the body of Christ. I will make friends no money that will discover beauty in everyone within the life of respect perspective, one that I sell another that Alaska be happy while yourself another Braveheart it alone fostering perspective came across the story, the young girl was in college and she wanted to have her parents keep things in perspective. So she wrote this letter to her parents, your mom and dad. I'm sorry that I have not written to you for such a long time, but all my stationery was lost. The night on the dormitory was burned down by the demonstrators. I'm out of the hospital now the doctors say my eyesight should return to normal sooner or later, this wonderful boy Bill, who rescued me from the fire kindly offered to share his apartment with me until I found a new place to live, love, Mary, that PS please disregard the above exercise in creative writing. There was not there has not been a fire and I haven't been in the hospital and I'm not living with Bill, but I did get the information and aftermath. I wanted to make sure you received the news in its proper perspective percent in all of all those things, not while Homeland licensed under the flexibility focus in fostering the first one is the fourth one is forgiveness. Forgiveness I needed Anita Anita, you want to idea. I need a volunteer will him. Jesus refuses you a step of faith as well. Thank you very much. Definitely left them on the we asked Jesus into our hearts. Okay, when Jesus is not hard to the local doorway. There's no other way to the father to heaven, but Christ and him on the ideas. This, that we have a heart to heart is the seat of our emotions and even receive the we are and as a challenge for us is that when we ask Christ into our heart. We become a new creation. The new creature in Christ Jesus. All things pass away, behold, all things become new. We have to have a right perspective, but it is saying incident when I ask Christ into my life. I enter into a heavenly realm. I have access to God. And so when I asked Jesus into my heart step forward. Jesus comes into my heart for what happened. It becomes a doorway. User into heaven. So whenever I now have access to God because Jesus is in my heart and so he enters my life theaters. My heart but I also through Christ. I now have access to God the father, so he is the doorway to heaven is the doorway to the promises of God is a doorway to my new life in my new future is a doorway to all things live in the doorway to this. This checklist of successful things that I'm going to do my life. It becomes a doorway that I enter into, so I now have twice in my heart. I also have access to the promises and excuses. If you have, so the challenge then is that we must do these things in our life and change them when we look at the become a new creation has placed in us. I now have access to God, and these are the promises and these are the things the wherewithal if I go through these the relationship of the higher, that is rationalized in the mind. You don't check your brain when you have a you have faith based upon a relationship of the heart and an understanding of your mind. It's a complete package. Go through this list, it's a complete package of my daily. My daily living that I am checking off. They gone through my relationship with my heart in the understanding of my mind. I am making the declaration of faith as I have entered in the promises of God, because trial Christ lives in my heart I'm a new creation. I wanted creature in Christ Jesus and what happens I will not try to get even. That's God 's business. It will be the judge. I don't have to worry about people who are partnering my enemy is hungry, and the freedom watch the stars in the human drink my generosity will supply some wickedness. It will surprise me because I'm not trying to rearrange my life. I'm trying to logon to work through me. Don't let people get the best of me. That's not just the mind over matter if the heart of the matter. He is the one who's going to take care. I will get the best of evil. I will call overcome evil by doing good and I will focus on the guy because you see, I will embrace the God that is best for me start all over again. The I will fix my attention on God. I can walk on water is a evil doesn't get me down. I will not allow it to drag me down. Why, because I'm going to overcome it by doing good. The checklist are free flow with our daily list as we spend time with God. We focus our attention from our heart and from our head in a relationship that opens the Wausau opens up to us eternity in heaven. Heaven is never so far away. God is never so far ways we just near us is in all these promises are because of the relationship I have with Jesus Christ. He is in is now my hope of glory. My character 's heaven I have a whole prepared forOne morning in the morning when I wake you are you okay you quickly need of April and I remember correctly. My husband always getting ready for fishing season, in a few weeks and you guys fisherman on it. I know I am okay okay what Jesus said in Matthew four nineteen, and follow me and I will make you fishers of men. What does that mean fishers of men make a ninetieth Illinois hide behind the cable and well it means that letters for following Jesus. We're supposed to make fishers of men, that means it has tell other people about Jesus. Now how can we do that and write for them. Okay, we can give our money to be GMC like we usually do next and he is the GMC Monday Sunday remember to bring your buddy barrels and so we can pray we can be fishers of men by telling other people giving money to the missionary can tell the world about Jesus but were also supposed to tell our own little world and towns about Jesus Army and lifetime rate that is less than before we think one person really can't do very much, but hasn't been as bad and helpless. That's not true. I have a bag of goldfish, night, but I know Fisher fishing today. Now let's suppose it is bag of gold fish is people represent people and put one goldfish on this planet one. If one person tells one person, not Jesus family have many people in the nineties. Now, and I think each of these two people tell somebody about Jesus coming to be had now for each of these four people tell us something about Jesus, though somebody by Jesus. Companies and Internet eight at the eight people tell something and how somebody like Jesus then sixteen okay, I can keep your goldfish and fill gap thirty two and sixty four and we would get a big tile of goldfish on his plate. All the client when people. One person told somebody about Jesus right so what you say what you tell other people about Jesus makes a difference. It really matters doesn't. So with my job if you have a job and can bring our money. We can send it to the missionaries to be DNC with intelligent people by Jesus Annan towns and rural communities, school and before you know it. There's the people nine by Jesus and his love for us in his forgiveness for us. So, how many of you kind of fishing for men help all three NATO fishing for men, not just fishing for fish and I like it pejoratively dismissed the youth event, it is something that is high. I have this wonderful experience and saw their AOS eight ten thousand six dozen thousand valuable hi teenagers. This none involves mostly teenagers that come from the state of Pennsylvania, Delaware and they feel they are usually the hurt feelings of giant Center there in Hershey and you know that Justin is a great time for renewal in a great time for the heart are young people to be involved with the greater church, which is the entire body of Christ and is different than I feel letting them know that it's more than just our little church on Sunday morning, but it's a great big body of Christ. That's all over the world, but just we get those all those people together citizens that we wonderful everyone recidivate paper checklist Wrangler Michelin got a paper my daily checklist never. I well remember two weeks ago I while for the last number of weeks I've been speaking on Romans chapter twelve and Romans chapter twelve is just goodness than this chapter that sought a kind of going over and over again in my and my head in my thoughts and I wanted you to look at this two weeks ago I talked about our checklist in our checklist is a list of things we go through for our know-how. They were yelling at an airline pilot. There someone in the yard if you that will be. If you've ever flown was someone in a private plane, you know that have a checklist and never smoke data pilot because it all there going over the plate on a commercial plane may have the same thing. Then a checklist that go over this checklist every time they start their engines every time you are going to begin applying whether the private plane whether the commercial playing. They have a checklist while I was thinking of this in Romans chapter twelve on this being a checklist that we look at in our lives and read over. We talked about well, the Lord 's prayer this morning in Sunday school and how important it is roster set aside a time in which we will go and pray, and the lesson this morning was typing it, which is an acceptable lesson because of it being the Lord 's prayer and done, and it was one that well maybe something will do it in church, but the idea of setting aside a time and and I have written, but together the sermon this morning about this checklist in and in the Holland is part of our life. And if you remember, verse one, and is taken from the message Bible else. Basically, this is the message Bible version of Romans chapter twelve is broken down segment by segment. The first part is verse one so here's what I want to do today, God helping me taking my everyday, ordinary life. My sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life and place it before God as an offering. The less. My statement of purpose now as high as I look over this checklist there are characteristics then that will make a difference in my life and the life of the people around me does everyone have one Eminem announce okay, didn't get one if you run out. Hopefully not. I made open enough, if not share with someone when you get one if the laughter after church. So the checklist will make a difference in your life in your Christian life in your personal life and your business life and professional life. It isn't something that that is, as we mentioned before, our Christian life isn't something that is isolated to our once a week off, encountering church. It is a total package of us as a person being involved in our daily lives, and there are at least I can probably for this more informative families for five days and then we can look at in this chapter that if we practice these divisions, and as we put them together we save them. Perhaps it's something that will bring about change in our life and change the positive in the NFL than that the four F's now not the only thing MNF is a failure. I do your job. I was used to build read Absalom, my paper on what happened tediously keeping delighted. But anyhow I narrated feature and now I don't know many of you are and he ever had. @ your papers. I hate red pens. No, at the Secretary of the at the hospice that seat. She's always saying things around. Read it now. She circles your mistakes and read the daily fix this unified can choose a different color, no as the light right up. Anyhow, after that's a personal thing and not have hasn't failure, but the first F. This flexibility being able to turn the other cheek. The Bible says Reynolds number able to change at will be able to change the brother be able to handle things and be flexible, offering you the analogy people say that you have a backbone. While gamma backbone that means you can hear flexible. Often we think of a backbone is that which is stiff and people on movable while know if you have a backbone which is you. We are flexible, variable to change were able to know. Move around and change direction, so flexibility is the ability to turn to turn on a dime to be able to be going in a particular direction and noticed something insight enough to be able to turn him look after the first few checklists here if you are flexible. How will we be able to embrace what God does for me best, fixing my the brother through what God wants me to do there not being drawn down by the situation. God will bring the best out in the today reason we have to be flexible& things going on in our life and things going on around us and cause us to look at life and to look at things and to be able to change and be able to is aware change directions. Now, Jan Giorgione shallot and she's downstairs. Jan had to change directions this week. A car was veered out in front of her and she had to be flexible as yet inflexible, she would've been had a head-on collision, but she neared off the road and yes they did have all that they had hit the pole and hit head-on with another vehicle who turned into their path while flexibility is the ability to get make choices and make changes at the same name for them and to recognize them. Flexibility is a new direction that was not obviously just a few moments ago that the flexibility of our Christian life that allows us to have insight insight to ourselves and to live by the by the spirit of God having insight into promises and hope about our life flexibility is not getting stuck and how he used to be. While you know I've always driven down the road this way before. While sometimes we have to be flexible. In the way of an oncoming car. Sometimes we have to be flexible to move out on the direction always do. I is a story. Somebody knocks at your door. He opened the door and a punch in the nose. Okay, it's okay to one alone on the road with Morgan. It was a knock on the door again, Illinois punch in the nose. Now, sooner or later he will learn to. Or not open the door for the lobbyists will you know what you know around the track of life and we walk around talking like there's a whole. They fall into the trap you fall into a hole when you're walking around track now you walk around the track. The second time the fallen disabled walk around Jack's third time, follow the same whole. Sometimes life is an IQ test, and sometimes people to think is more of a tragedy fall in the same hall. I called her over beyond the only one okay thank you very much. They follow the same all skyline, unless so what's wrong with us, don't we have enough sense to move it to know all I know there's a whole year is over. When I was on farm we use these the stack hay in the barn. You always hated it when you were down to the last role of balance on the bottom because they built the barn was too much effort into expensive Florida holds the whole laugh so they would just put boards across son areas of the barn floor. And so what would happen is given you in the barn floor would be covered, which pay our straw. It was loosening you put your valve on top of the solid when you think would happen if you stepbrother whether the board himself through the barn floor time measurement. Another part that is not clear that some of us are Alzheimer's women on women homebuyers in your Evelyn at all binding like there's strong hand across the floor don't go walking over there they go to Germany in the bottom frequent. I fallen through a couple of times in, but sooner or later you explore the fall. Flexibility is that things change, sometimes without notice. Now, we look at the changes in our lives. We were saying this morning about how that God is to bring about change and got in we look at how God is at work in us that we have a life is aware without God before God is a sinful life. It was a self-centered life. It was a life of failures into falling in the same holes and making the same mistakes before trying to make up our mind to get out of it will. God creates a new nature in us. He gives us a new perspective of life in Matthew chapter fourteen versus the beginning of verse twenty two. I wasn't going to read the whole thing. I asked it talks about Jesus. I finished the meal with his is no finish to know what the disciples and the crowd and he got told the disciples to get in the boat and go to the other side, and that he would catch up to them later, but when the boat was far out the scene. The wind came up against them. They were battered by the waves about four o'clock in the morning, Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. They were scared out of their ways adults, they said, crying out in terror, but Jesus was quick to comfort them courage. He says his name don't be afraid, Peter suddenly bolt said master, if it's really you call me to come to go on the water, he said, had jumping out of the boat pier walk on the water to Jesus. But when he looked down at the waves churning beneath his feet. He lost his nerve and he started to sink he cried Master saved me. Jesus didn't hesitate. He raced down and grabbed his hand and then he said eight hearts what I then climbed in the boat and the wind died down and the disciples in the boat. Having watched the whole thing worship Jesus saying this is a you are a godsend for sure now. Sometimes people are critical of Peter for syncing, but in all my knowledge is the only one walk on water flexibility embrace what God does best for me to check with fix my attention on God. Be ready for what God what he wants from me. Sometimes it's to get out of the boat did not want to say it, I let myself get drop-down, what's the next one, God will bring the best out of me today. You obviously can we get a different picture of what this checklist is a really start putting in the context am working in this case, what happened to Peter and the disciples would start fighting it in the context of what's going on in our life Peter Sankey was dragged down because he loved away from Jesus. You no longer saw no longer saw Jesus and and and and they didn't fire to come to him. He became distracted by the wind and the waves and things around them, and he had to say anything whatever we look at this check. Leslie began to start looking at our life don't allow ourselves to become distracted by the difficulties of life around us. Let us recognize the one with the I live in the pure grace of God, the unmerited favor of God, he looks at you and I say your grace and favor of God doesn't see one better than the other. He sees us as his children what the next one by people can read that you read my wife three major and high blood is a rating feature. If you need help see them after church one who I will when I have unlimited your grace of God. I find the body of Christ& I will find my meeting and function as part of the body. I thought I will not misinterpret my purpose is that when I will not misinterpret my purpose of cat is. I will not misinterpret my purpose. God is bringing God 's goodness on the second reading. So anyhow Jesus race was that I saw you signaling that the church run again. But what I didn't agree sorry how so I I I will not misinterpret my purpose is in and I will bring the submenu will later but the idea is clear, was not learning how to walk on water. He was learning how to walk with Jesus K in our lives. We sometimes gets no drawn down because their copy of the circumstances, but this went on learning to work for walk on this in the circumstances even on the circumstances were learning to walk with Jesus. So they are flexible enough to get out of the boat, where flexible to know that if you peer was flexible enough to try something you've never done before walk on water quality flexible enough to trust God to walk on the circumstances of my life and all I try him were the one hundred and two large walk with Jesus and then we need to try to get to our success is not about never failing our successes about walking with God, and learning how to be the person God wants us to be and we may have to try some things a number of times before we succeed. Think God is working. Here's your grace in our lives. There was this child is young entrepreneur out of the hold she was, but she was going to sell her dog for a thousand dollars, janitor, dog one) she sold. We will think and and the Albany area story. My first thought is was he trying to sort out, but that's not the store and on the Linux into selling the dog that's not the story. The story is addressed by the seller dog for thousand dollars is not a sign of their dog for sale thousand dollars and the denominator compliances while your government will discourage you know a thousand dollars lot of money for dogs is gathered it all. I know this is a this is a pedigree dog pedigree was operational. Anyhow, she was selling her dog for a thousand dollars at the end of the day. The neighbor drove by and was assigned their official who is only when out of the blue father will grow you know she's walking around anything. Did you sell your dog for a thousand dollars. All yeah I did better than that. I'm not true. Five hundred dollar cat. The digital rebel. I thought that was limited to five hundred dollars we have to be flexible phase change and she was yellow kids excited though. Though the first one is flexible. The second one is focused focused means a laser beam focus. Focus on a mission in the blended talk about the story of our with the fish knowledge one person winning a person one personnel goes to be yesterday we have a mission that matters. An admission that matters is the mission of life is greater than niacin is greater than our time and our talents is greater than life itself is a mission for eternity. We have a mission that matters and what we find is that we are part of something that is greater than ourselves. The checklist says I find my meaning and function as part of the body of Christ. You are part of something we are part of some your part of the body of Christ. You know, I said about you. The link is no young people. All kids. They are young people going to use convention finding out that your life is part of something much greater than just, I mean not just our body here, but knows the much greater community of believers out there and sometimes we lose perspective of the NR life is more than just taking care of ourselves in our own little community and I will halt with that in our offerings and our guests and our mission is written for people around the world. So we are part of a meeting on the meaning of our life is greater than just ourselves but the next one on the checklist okay, it says I will find my meaning and function as part of order price. I should have been numbered right. Okay, what's next. I am actually formed and marvelously functioning part of Priceline. I am excellently formed and marvelously functioning. We would believe that right is true. You are excellently formed and marvelously functioning copyright don't think effectively wonder marvelously functioning with you don't have each of us had no functioning part in the body of Christ. You belong. We belong together. We belong to God, but the I am going forward, our allies is inside of us. That's why forgiveness is so important in Garland. All the past you got a lead on your failures or mistakes go forward. What's next, I will not be envious or prideful. I'm not compare myself with others don't get into that game. While not as good as they look, but they can do forget that you are a unique individual by yourself functioning part of the body of Christ. Now we say these things were focused on a mission and vision that people will grow and be better than what they they thought they ever could be, were part of a mission and what is this, my guess of preaching and proclaim the good news of helping been help in teaching and teach the word of giving and giving encouragement to say that each of us have a part here. If helping the disadvantaged, the calm and not irritated the third half is fostering, fostering, we need to foster several things foster and encouraging spirit to be an encourager is always someone carrying something down. Look at the news. It's always about is not always is mostly about what's wrong with life and what went wrong here what's going wrong there, and we can do about the negativity about ourselves another only when a foster an environment and environment when people are encouraged where people and our families and our loved ones and are so we are encouraged waiting to be the biggest cheerleaders. My colitis cure the biggest cheerleaders that I know a lot of you thought my comments earlier one. She was, I am a cheerleader. We were there during conference last week, I lord help me, I spend eight hours listening to normal movable mold can hear everything everywhere now. Thousands of dead cheerleaders, elegant Jerry competition. Whether doing a weekend off. I enjoy everything sports and tarballs and mouse and dismounts and falls, and Johnston, Armenia was on her hours and hours and I noticed today that ours and ours ours with their watch a two minute performance, and he's been eight hours our is one I have watched Jackson slapped before but now there was a litigant 's guide, a visit that having these kids were so vivid and Rachel, daughter Madeleine Shue. They won first being the first is out of about twenty sons, Watson, cheerleaders, there will group their squad came in first, so they are quite excited about it. Then, in order, and rightfully so, but we foster we foster encouragement. We foster an environment. Why, because we are part of the body of Christ, that no part is better than or less than the other. The operative going back to the needs, your grace, that we live by that we are growing our knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ were different levels and different places in our growth and item element, but were still growing and we have a direction we going, going forward, and we're not going back. Why, because God has brought us here. We help others come together fostering and a calm encouraging more cheerleading in fostering other people 's confidence in their faith because of what God has done in our lives and how God has worked in people 's lives. We foster me to imagine what it was like in the boat when the disciples and Jesus in all the disciples whether they saw Jesus and Peter getting back into about while they were fostering their faith. Jesus was fostering their faith& this is that you are God 's son, for sure, that emanate like it's unbelievable what I appear you walk on water. He said that he walked on water. Jesus think about brought them back in the starlets call learning to walk with God. We foster perspective, what's the perspective he smiled all those underneath it. Their love from the center of who you are hold on for dear life to good love deeply. He fueled and ready cheerful, unexpected for a heart practice hospitality. No cursing under your breath is shared tears. You will not spew will not be stopped up. I will not be stuck up. I will not strike back. I will get along with others. I will one from evil. I will be a good friend. I will not get burned out. I'm alert sleeping on alert. I will not let an hard time is the daily checklist. Why, because we believe about God 's day in your part of the body of Christ. I will make friends no money that will discover beauty in everyone within the life of respect perspective, one that I sell another that Alaska be happy while yourself another Braveheart it alone fostering perspective came across the story, the young girl was in college and she wanted to have her parents keep things in perspective. So she wrote this letter to her parents, your mom and dad. I'm sorry that I have not written to you for such a long time, but all my stationery was lost. The night on the dormitory was burned down by the demonstrators. I'm out of the hospital now the doctors say my eyesight should return to normal sooner or later, this wonderful boy Bill, who rescued me from the fire kindly offered to share his apartment with me until I found a new place to live, love, Mary, that PS please disregard the above exercise in creative writing. There was not there has not been a fire and I haven't been in the hospital and I'm not living with Bill, but I did get the information and aftermath. I wanted to make sure you received the news in its proper perspective percent in all of all those things, not while Homeland licensed under the flexibility focus in fostering the first one is the fourth one is forgiveness. Forgiveness I needed Anita Anita, you want to idea. I need a volunteer will him. Jesus refuses you a step of faith as well. Thank you very much. Definitely left them on the we asked Jesus into our hearts. Okay, when Jesus is not hard to the local doorway. There's no other way to the father to heaven, but Christ and him on the ideas. This, that we have a heart to heart is the seat of our emotions and even receive the we are and as a challenge for us is that when we ask Christ into our heart. We become a new creation. The new creature in Christ Jesus. All things pass away, behold, all things become new. We have to have a right perspective, but it is saying incident when I ask Christ into my life. I enter into a heavenly realm. I have access to God. And so when I asked Jesus into my heart step forward. Jesus comes into my heart for what happened. It becomes a doorway. User into heaven. So whenever I now have access to God because Jesus is in my heart and so he enters my life theaters. My heart but I also through Christ. I now have access to God the father, so he is the doorway to heaven is the doorway to the promises of God is a doorway to my new life in my new future is a doorway to all things live in the doorway to this. This checklist of successful things that I'm going to do my life. It becomes a doorway that I enter into, so I now have twice in my heart. I also have access to the promises and excuses. If you have, so the challenge then is that we must do these things in our life and change them when we look at the become a new creation has placed in us. I now have access to God, and these are the promises and these are the things the wherewithal if I go through these the relationship of the higher, that is rationalized in the mind. You don't check your brain when you have a you have faith based upon a relationship of the heart and an understanding of your mind. It's a complete package. Go through this list, it's a complete package of my daily. My daily living that I am checking off. They gone through my relationship with my heart in the understanding of my mind. I am making the declaration of faith as I have entered in the promises of God, because trial Christ lives in my heart I'm a new creation. I wanted creature in Christ Jesus and what happens I will not try to get even. That's God 's business. It will be the judge. I don't have to worry about people who are partnering my enemy is hungry, and the freedom watch the stars in the human drink my generosity will supply some wickedness. It will surprise me because I'm not trying to rearrange my life. I'm trying to logon to work through me. Don't let people get the best of me. That's not just the mind over matter if the heart of the matter. He is the one who's going to take care. I will get the best of evil. I will call overcome evil by doing good and I will focus on the guy because you see, I will embrace the God that is best for me start all over again. The I will fix my attention on God. I can walk on water is a evil doesn't get me down. I will not allow it to drag me down. Why, because I'm going to overcome it by doing good. The checklist are free flow with our daily list as we spend time with God. We focus our attention from our heart and from our head in a relationship that opens the Wausau opens up to us eternity in heaven. Heaven is never so far away. God is never so far ways we just near us is in all these promises are because of the relationship I have with Jesus Christ. He is in is now my hope of glory. My character 's heaven I have a whole prepared for