The Sermon We will never follow through with something we haven't made a declaration on by David McGee
Apr 3, 2011
We will never follow through with something we haven't made a declaration on (28:42)
Referenced Scriptures: Joel 2:12-17; Romans 12;
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Joel 2:12-17
12) "Yet even now," says Yahweh, "turn to me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
13) Tear your heart, and not your garments, And turn to Yahweh, your God; For he is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, And relents from sending calamity.
14) Who knows? He may turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind him, Even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
15) Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.
16) Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, And the bride out of her chamber.
17) Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, And don‘t give your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?‘"
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.
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God knows what his life he gave his only son and I will crawl when I have live in pneumonia and is saying this is the season, this Lenten season, but Christ is hanging on the cross, and he loves us that much in those same hands were nailed to the cross of the same hand that holds all our fields are woundedness heels are broken the seals are misunderstandings in our frustration comes to Lawson gives us his grace unmerited favor that just pours out towards us all learn over and flood tides of him loud and types of compassion and high tides and how is it just washes over Arsenal lenses are hard refreshes us, even in the midst of our sorrow are paying our questions are doubts, our joys, whatever it may be Jesus, I need to choose to come to my rescue. Where else could you there. The question was presented in and in Jesus. They responded to Jesus 's you have the words of eternal life. Where else could we go, you know, we come together and it's a celebration of our relationship with God. But it's also a place of healing of restoration of closeness, God 's direction of God 's help to many different things. Whatever the need is of our own lives. God speaks to us the song through the worship to his word through our fellowship speaks to one's he speaks to the need of your life, and he gives you hope I need you Jews I need you, Jesus, I need you, Jesus would say that I need to choose again. I see you choose to come to my rescue. Rescue me more from myself from my sins from my thoughts from my actions from the things I've done from the fruitfulness. The fears of my past than the fears I may have of my future in my presence, O God rescued the lecture peace be upon us. Your forgiveness award upon our hearts. Jesus, I confess that I has thought, word or deed, I have sinned against you, but I ask you to forgive me and limited my heart and life. Let the removing of your spirits Wednesday, and now as we as we think about how the God 's concern for us. The big concern to God hat Ross is one of a loving father and the stories that we had in the Sunday school this morning depicted that it was a it was a challenge for the people of that time and and understand review that will bed and I'll try and put this all the other force for the message today but in Sunday school this morning. We talked about how that there were this group of people around Jesus and he was giving them this for these three stories and the Pharisees of the Sadducees were one group and they were the very religious, knowing that the keeping of the law and all that the people in front of Jesus or in front of it were attracted to him were centers and how now, centers and outcast sinners were individuals who did not believe in the synagogue did not believe in the reading of the Torah did not believe in that the rabbis and the outcast where the people who totally rejected it, and where and and and said there is no God, and there is the and the whole thing so these are the people who were in front of Jesus, the farther the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the other religious individuals and then we have the outcast and the same result didn't believe it all in. Jesus gives the story. The story out the found coin with the woman had lost the coin and she searched for whole house and then she threw a party which he found in the in the idea was that the party that she threw his lot of much greater expense than the finding of the court then there is the velocity that you leave the ninety nine in the wilderness and goes out and searches for the one lost sheep, and when he finds it, he rejoices an exciting throw the big party and their again, then the party that he throws the much greater expense than the finding of the one sheet and in its kind. It's a disproportionate is aware disproportion economy in the sense that God and this is Jesus, giving us an understanding of his father of the father and my father, but what God looks that for us, so he is willing to search diligently and when he has found that he rejoices. So, there is rejoicing in heaven over our lives and our relationship with Jesus Christ and then the main story out all of this, obviously, in the prodigal son, and the prodigal son is the guy. He's the youngest brother any more clues. Father says give me everything on giving my inheritance and I'm leaving home and this was an extremely well individual install. He goes away as everything squanders it and why is living these guys out partying for those money runs out that he finds himself in the pigpen living off of the office of food that the piggy and he says to himself, he came to himself and sometimes you ever wonder what does it take for us to come to ourselves in-house like when we wake up and the idea of waking up with the idea of understanding that God loves me and this is where the guy in the pigpen realized that his father loved him that much that he could return to his father. And even if it was the lowest position in his father 's estate. He was willing to assume that position just to be back in his father 's grace, and this is where in our lives that we wake up, we come to that point of realization that God loves me more than anything else in my life, and no matter what mistakes my failures whatever God loves me that much that I can come to him, and this was what was so difficult for the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the outcast who have rejected the religious system to understand was that when the father saw the sun, a great distance away. He ran to the they never unimagined God running towards loving someone that wants to be God chasing after this will be saying captured by his grace, and that that God 's eyes. God is. I pursuing us coming to us. He doesn't for a person was from behind. He pursues us as we turn we find out God is coming to us. So as we turn our lives to God. It is it is this realization that God really want in all my life on blender. She likes lighthouses, she has them all over her house to be going there. She has always white house with all around her room and everywhere and always say that sometimes raising kids, sometimes raising kids. We've got to be a lighthouse lighthouse is a symbol of sending out like an matter how far out to see the kids go, they know where home and the idea is that no matter how far out in life we go. Jesus Christ is the light of the world that sends out the beacon and we have a place that direction in our life that we know were having is and we know where lobbyists. We know where forgiveness is and we know that if I follow like I will find myself back in my days back at work God gives them were God loves me were God cares for me and so the prodigal son returns to this place and his father puts the ring on his finger put road lined with shoes. Honestly, it doesn't clean him up a taste of it. He comes now the state of the kingpin in the airman in a pregnant I have now raised to live on a farm we had things. But anyhow that you have this in a bring them back down. The challenging part was the brother who had stayed behind, said father you never threw me a party, you never threw me authority and hear my brother. He got my brother. He takes office squanders everything and he comes back and you know you never did anything for me. The people that Jesus was referring to as the brother were the Pharisees and Sadducees. They couldn't make will rejoice in that views individuals who were centers and outcast were finding their way back to God. They couldn't rejoice with that and I think the waking up experience in our lives is whenever we realize that no matter what we are very religious person, or whether we been an outcast. We rejoice with each other and that we are coming back. Christ and Jesus Christ becomes that that foundational experience in who we are and what he does for us and how he relates to us, and that's why we have communion and that's why we we sing the songs of worship. It's if it's a part of who we are that on this paper and robust efforts well that we will never, we will never follow through with something we haven't made a declaration of that if we if we rape, service, and we read over the Scriptures we see how the God 's work in our lives, and we declare our claim that we can manage it. We can manage this idea of what God is doing now in install chapter two verses, while seventeen that we see here what the prophet is a end. This is often referred used in the idea went down to. We are and what is called the Lenten season preview had fish on Friday at some Catholic Church sometime during the last weekend I always mail so we don't we. We don't do that okay and and and the idea is that whatever traditions as you have the fish on Friday as is known, the while the idea that the Lenten season is forty days and forty days from Ash Wednesday to ride except for sixth on the phone. They are not part of the Lenten season because Sunday is always the celebration, the resurrection. So in the Lenten season. It is more of a play, a time of all of introspection of repentance and looking to God for his grace, his mercy, and what is given to us, our gracious Savior and of course Sundays are excluded because Sunday is a day of celebration. Always, even in the length and enlightened season is up in the day of celebrating celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's why we at church on Sunday and Saturday at the Sabbath day in the Old Testament, so enjoy chapter two. This will be a couple of verses here, but there is also this is not too late. God 's personal messenger come back to me and really mean it contrasting and leaving sorry for your sins change your life, not just your close come back to God, your God, and here's why God is crying. He is merciful. He takes a deep breath and puts up with a lot the most patient God striving is in love, always ready to cancel, options, catastrophes, I like that God is always going to cancel out the Catholic catastrophe, who knows, maybe he'll do it now that you will turn around and show pity. Maybe when all is said and done, the only blessings: rollback of robust for your God blown the Rams for them in the trumpet in Zion because the repentance, a wholly fast day, public meeting. Get everyone bear consecrate the congregation and it all in and that's kind of what we did today consecrating him a congregation consecration of concentrating the body of Christ, the finally gathered to celebrate our faith and our relationship with Jesus Christ that we celebrate how they got has come into our lives, and change the. Going back to this idea went in length of the season, leading up to Easter is a time when Christians have historically prepare their hearts for Easter with reflection and repentance and prayer, and is an important season of the year the church year is an excellent way to help us focus our attention on God and what God is not brought now the church calendar is always organized around the activities all of the Scriptures and of the time, the church calendar follow sixties and Christmas, Epiphany Lent, Easter and Pentecost and affect, ask you to figure out how much you tell me a little bit. Which one of these is that the season that you like best day now we know that we make decisions based upon our heart and emotional decision with a rational understand okay when you make decisions ever by never going in. You never know whenever you need a new car in all, this just doesn't look good anymore. I think I hear something wrong, rename differently now. Leon always in the business. I'm always enough. I didn't want to buy some new, but have generally found green and the joinder tractors, but the there is always this emotional and financial item failed for me, it's kind of an emotional thing. I love to buy some green thing you by doing things like green grass green tractors, green appliance appliances dreamed not appliances, except that I like rain equipment. Now I bring my cousin will bring you liked on DRM and follow my friend. They bought red their final people you know is he not in the farming industry, you're either a year, okay. Agreeing or your red wired on those of the big things but distance. I'd like John Deere sells over ninety percent of the foreign market. So if you want to know what's, what's the best. The redhead, but they have to do with church. Nothing like bots actually look at what season that we look at that we make out his nominal readings over and describe them to you and you're going to make a hard and ahead decision as to which one and how you like the existing if you when you love your children. Your family. Love your wife you love your grandkids you love. It's an emotional thing, but it's also an intellectual. It's an emotional part of you that whenever you're telling your grandchild, you know, you got grandbabies know any always a jacket. Jonathan& the we see how that they are always part doing this what they're doing and and and Maddie Madeleine for balance and weight. We see how that they're part of our life and we get these pictures all the time you know about the grandkids and not allow it. They wonder for intelligence, no pics after the grandmother, but that you always see all these things, and those are hard things that are also intellectual things important that we come together and in our worship. It is a hard thing. It is an expression of our emotions as an expression of our feelings towards God, but it's more than just an emotion. It's a understand the Scripture is understanding what is behind this emulsion was behind our faith was behind our experience and sometimes we doubt in God doesn't have a hard time with our doubts where the Loveland art& & God comes with his word to teach us and to influence our thinking. He renews our heart and Windows are mine. Viewing is our thinking so that what we believe is not just an emotional thing, and what we believe is not just an intellectual thing. It's a combination of us as a total person sold. That's why, as we sense or feel the presence of God, since I feel this like crying worshiping, maybe sometimes laughing, sometimes dancing that even though the King. Then, before the Lord, and he danced with all of his life because I like God was upon him, and he was that he was gone, he would dance in and out of Solaris there's different ways in his laughter. There's peace there's July then Salomé and it just taking what we are just gone. Taking who we are and taking it to a different level. That's an emotional thing. But then there is the intellectual understanding of the lost coin velocity, the prodigal son is an understanding that we have in our mind that God loves us and he is willing to communion is willing to die for us, and as the prodigal son is returning the father runs to the child pursuing him. These are pictures mental pictures that talk about a hard relationship yes, Romans in the to develop who we are as a person so that we are not men, not pretending. Being something on Sunday and not different on Monday. Not that same we will be the same spiritual person on on Sunday and we want to have the character of God flowing in and through our life, we go through our walk with him, and in so doing, what happens is it stabilizes us. It stabilizes our emotions and our feelings and were not swept away with the criminal driven back and forth by the winds and waves up. What happens in our daily lives. So God comes to us to teach at the things that we might experientially understand them, we might variously have them in our hearts but also mentally grasp. This is God 's way of telling me he loves this is God 's way of letting me know he knows who I am where I am and what my needs are. I may not intellectually be able to get my mind on it, but I understand in my heart. She loves it must love the cassette tape above. Where is back Julie Davis was Lucas sat on on it and only I finally listened to the intimate Christmas and the adhesive, you'll love the SI and I finally got to listen to itself and forgive me but anyhow the right moving the guy talks about the solar systems and how far away. How many white years in millions of light-years. The solar system is, and that no other solar systems and how long you how big and how vast the universe is to say that God breathed the stars that the resistance he just opened into existence from all these worlds in order, and if you go to this galaxy into the Hubble telescope and you get in this faraway galaxy far far away, not Star Wars, but a half galaxy far far away. But anyhow, the Hubble telescope focuses in on their and the center of this galaxy is across the sky like the center. This is black hole in the center of the galaxy, galaxy far far away and they blew it up on our on the Hubble telescope. It's on the Nassau site and it's across, and then he went to the other exchange, he went into each cell in our body is held together by its called laminate and in the idea is that when you blow that up inside of every cell in our body that holds it together this laminate whatever they moved is the shape of a cross. So each cell in our body is held together by the shape of a cross, and we began to look at and say who there is a God who puts these galaxies and stars and you'll see he puts and here we are on this planet. This blue marble and in and in and in the size of the galaxies in a if you would take pin and stick it in the here and look at all the wealth and all the this all around us in this pan. The planet Earth. And that's the planet Earth and in this planet. I is you and I and God who spoke all of this into existence knows who you are. He knows where you are and he loves you. That's what we just experience in our worship. He is so great a number you know every stars in the and every thought in your heart. This report. Every thing that hurts you hurt him hurt, Scott, every joy, the joy of Satan. Jesus tells us the story of the product of the father wanting to his lost son. The God of this universe running to you and I and loving us Easter season wife dying for us. God spoke all of this into existence loves you and experience in our hearts hard even get our minds around that on the head of this pin is our earth, and on this Earth is me it is God through his Word, speaking to our hearts telling us he loves needed your mind around that. But yet he says I go to prepare a place for you that where I am that you may be also that we have hold in this life and the life to come. That's the Scriptures speaking to us in our heads, experiencing it in our hearts, and it's a revelation that I can give to you, but God 's Spirit quickens it in your hearts and minds to give you that understand that God touching. I know I did the advent of the length of the Pentecost of all that other than maybe next week, but the idea is that these are experiences for Ross as we worship their experiences of our hearts as we read the Scriptures and understand this, that the stories and in the ministry of Jesus, that's a concept that's getting our mind involved in our understanding, our faith. Our faith is in something that is based on nothing. Our faith is based upon the promises of God understanding that what he spoke into existence. He speaks into his words and his spirit speaks to our lives, and that makes them very, very and so you take these your read them in making your daily checklist, and that as we read them. They are declaration and you cannot manage what you don't speak you don't put into what you don't expect so these are what we expect. I gave this list. One of the ladies at the hospital and she goes through as you say I can't do this alone. I can't do that one. I said no less than him checklist okay, you want to check in often think that she knew she couldn't doubt, I think, although not at you. Check off everything and God help you do them all. I don't like this that though God has been help us manage what we declare that we declare what God wants God has a plan for me. The other purpose for my life, and he does not Jeremiah twenty nine eleven Ruth Dallas one out there and bring about the planned that you hope for hope is born in the heart. God is giving us a plan toGod knows what his life he gave his only son and I will crawl when I have live in pneumonia and is saying this is the season, this Lenten season, but Christ is hanging on the cross, and he loves us that much in those same hands were nailed to the cross of the same hand that holds all our fields are woundedness heels are broken the seals are misunderstandings in our frustration comes to Lawson gives us his grace unmerited favor that just pours out towards us all learn over and flood tides of him loud and types of compassion and high tides and how is it just washes over Arsenal lenses are hard refreshes us, even in the midst of our sorrow are paying our questions are doubts, our joys, whatever it may be Jesus, I need to choose to come to my rescue. Where else could you there. The question was presented in and in Jesus. They responded to Jesus 's you have the words of eternal life. Where else could we go, you know, we come together and it's a celebration of our relationship with God. But it's also a place of healing of restoration of closeness, God 's direction of God 's help to many different things. Whatever the need is of our own lives. God speaks to us the song through the worship to his word through our fellowship speaks to one's he speaks to the need of your life, and he gives you hope I need you Jews I need you, Jesus, I need you, Jesus would say that I need to choose again. I see you choose to come to my rescue. Rescue me more from myself from my sins from my thoughts from my actions from the things I've done from the fruitfulness. The fears of my past than the fears I may have of my future in my presence, O God rescued the lecture peace be upon us. Your forgiveness award upon our hearts. Jesus, I confess that I has thought, word or deed, I have sinned against you, but I ask you to forgive me and limited my heart and life. Let the removing of your spirits Wednesday, and now as we as we think about how the God 's concern for us. The big concern to God hat Ross is one of a loving father and the stories that we had in the Sunday school this morning depicted that it was a it was a challenge for the people of that time and and understand review that will bed and I'll try and put this all the other force for the message today but in Sunday school this morning. We talked about how that there were this group of people around Jesus and he was giving them this for these three stories and the Pharisees of the Sadducees were one group and they were the very religious, knowing that the keeping of the law and all that the people in front of Jesus or in front of it were attracted to him were centers and how now, centers and outcast sinners were individuals who did not believe in the synagogue did not believe in the reading of the Torah did not believe in that the rabbis and the outcast where the people who totally rejected it, and where and and and said there is no God, and there is the and the whole thing so these are the people who were in front of Jesus, the farther the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the other religious individuals and then we have the outcast and the same result didn't believe it all in. Jesus gives the story. The story out the found coin with the woman had lost the coin and she searched for whole house and then she threw a party which he found in the in the idea was that the party that she threw his lot of much greater expense than the finding of the court then there is the velocity that you leave the ninety nine in the wilderness and goes out and searches for the one lost sheep, and when he finds it, he rejoices an exciting throw the big party and their again, then the party that he throws the much greater expense than the finding of the one sheet and in its kind. It's a disproportionate is aware disproportion economy in the sense that God and this is Jesus, giving us an understanding of his father of the father and my father, but what God looks that for us, so he is willing to search diligently and when he has found that he rejoices. So, there is rejoicing in heaven over our lives and our relationship with Jesus Christ and then the main story out all of this, obviously, in the prodigal son, and the prodigal son is the guy. He's the youngest brother any more clues. Father says give me everything on giving my inheritance and I'm leaving home and this was an extremely well individual install. He goes away as everything squanders it and why is living these guys out partying for those money runs out that he finds himself in the pigpen living off of the office of food that the piggy and he says to himself, he came to himself and sometimes you ever wonder what does it take for us to come to ourselves in-house like when we wake up and the idea of waking up with the idea of understanding that God loves me and this is where the guy in the pigpen realized that his father loved him that much that he could return to his father. And even if it was the lowest position in his father 's estate. He was willing to assume that position just to be back in his father 's grace, and this is where in our lives that we wake up, we come to that point of realization that God loves me more than anything else in my life, and no matter what mistakes my failures whatever God loves me that much that I can come to him, and this was what was so difficult for the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the outcast who have rejected the religious system to understand was that when the father saw the sun, a great distance away. He ran to the they never unimagined God running towards loving someone that wants to be God chasing after this will be saying captured by his grace, and that that God 's eyes. God is. I pursuing us coming to us. He doesn't for a person was from behind. He pursues us as we turn we find out God is coming to us. So as we turn our lives to God. It is it is this realization that God really want in all my life on blender. She likes lighthouses, she has them all over her house to be going there. She has always white house with all around her room and everywhere and always say that sometimes raising kids, sometimes raising kids. We've got to be a lighthouse lighthouse is a symbol of sending out like an matter how far out to see the kids go, they know where home and the idea is that no matter how far out in life we go. Jesus Christ is the light of the world that sends out the beacon and we have a place that direction in our life that we know were having is and we know where lobbyists. We know where forgiveness is and we know that if I follow like I will find myself back in my days back at work God gives them were God loves me were God cares for me and so the prodigal son returns to this place and his father puts the ring on his finger put road lined with shoes. Honestly, it doesn't clean him up a taste of it. He comes now the state of the kingpin in the airman in a pregnant I have now raised to live on a farm we had things. But anyhow that you have this in a bring them back down. The challenging part was the brother who had stayed behind, said father you never threw me a party, you never threw me authority and hear my brother. He got my brother. He takes office squanders everything and he comes back and you know you never did anything for me. The people that Jesus was referring to as the brother were the Pharisees and Sadducees. They couldn't make will rejoice in that views individuals who were centers and outcast were finding their way back to God. They couldn't rejoice with that and I think the waking up experience in our lives is whenever we realize that no matter what we are very religious person, or whether we been an outcast. We rejoice with each other and that we are coming back. Christ and Jesus Christ becomes that that foundational experience in who we are and what he does for us and how he relates to us, and that's why we have communion and that's why we we sing the songs of worship. It's if it's a part of who we are that on this paper and robust efforts well that we will never, we will never follow through with something we haven't made a declaration of that if we if we rape, service, and we read over the Scriptures we see how the God 's work in our lives, and we declare our claim that we can manage it. We can manage this idea of what God is doing now in install chapter two verses, while seventeen that we see here what the prophet is a end. This is often referred used in the idea went down to. We are and what is called the Lenten season preview had fish on Friday at some Catholic Church sometime during the last weekend I always mail so we don't we. We don't do that okay and and and the idea is that whatever traditions as you have the fish on Friday as is known, the while the idea that the Lenten season is forty days and forty days from Ash Wednesday to ride except for sixth on the phone. They are not part of the Lenten season because Sunday is always the celebration, the resurrection. So in the Lenten season. It is more of a play, a time of all of introspection of repentance and looking to God for his grace, his mercy, and what is given to us, our gracious Savior and of course Sundays are excluded because Sunday is a day of celebration. Always, even in the length and enlightened season is up in the day of celebrating celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's why we at church on Sunday and Saturday at the Sabbath day in the Old Testament, so enjoy chapter two. This will be a couple of verses here, but there is also this is not too late. God 's personal messenger come back to me and really mean it contrasting and leaving sorry for your sins change your life, not just your close come back to God, your God, and here's why God is crying. He is merciful. He takes a deep breath and puts up with a lot the most patient God striving is in love, always ready to cancel, options, catastrophes, I like that God is always going to cancel out the Catholic catastrophe, who knows, maybe he'll do it now that you will turn around and show pity. Maybe when all is said and done, the only blessings: rollback of robust for your God blown the Rams for them in the trumpet in Zion because the repentance, a wholly fast day, public meeting. Get everyone bear consecrate the congregation and it all in and that's kind of what we did today consecrating him a congregation consecration of concentrating the body of Christ, the finally gathered to celebrate our faith and our relationship with Jesus Christ that we celebrate how they got has come into our lives, and change the. Going back to this idea went in length of the season, leading up to Easter is a time when Christians have historically prepare their hearts for Easter with reflection and repentance and prayer, and is an important season of the year the church year is an excellent way to help us focus our attention on God and what God is not brought now the church calendar is always organized around the activities all of the Scriptures and of the time, the church calendar follow sixties and Christmas, Epiphany Lent, Easter and Pentecost and affect, ask you to figure out how much you tell me a little bit. Which one of these is that the season that you like best day now we know that we make decisions based upon our heart and emotional decision with a rational understand okay when you make decisions ever by never going in. You never know whenever you need a new car in all, this just doesn't look good anymore. I think I hear something wrong, rename differently now. Leon always in the business. I'm always enough. I didn't want to buy some new, but have generally found green and the joinder tractors, but the there is always this emotional and financial item failed for me, it's kind of an emotional thing. I love to buy some green thing you by doing things like green grass green tractors, green appliance appliances dreamed not appliances, except that I like rain equipment. Now I bring my cousin will bring you liked on DRM and follow my friend. They bought red their final people you know is he not in the farming industry, you're either a year, okay. Agreeing or your red wired on those of the big things but distance. I'd like John Deere sells over ninety percent of the foreign market. So if you want to know what's, what's the best. The redhead, but they have to do with church. Nothing like bots actually look at what season that we look at that we make out his nominal readings over and describe them to you and you're going to make a hard and ahead decision as to which one and how you like the existing if you when you love your children. Your family. Love your wife you love your grandkids you love. It's an emotional thing, but it's also an intellectual. It's an emotional part of you that whenever you're telling your grandchild, you know, you got grandbabies know any always a jacket. Jonathan& the we see how that they are always part doing this what they're doing and and and Maddie Madeleine for balance and weight. We see how that they're part of our life and we get these pictures all the time you know about the grandkids and not allow it. They wonder for intelligence, no pics after the grandmother, but that you always see all these things, and those are hard things that are also intellectual things important that we come together and in our worship. It is a hard thing. It is an expression of our emotions as an expression of our feelings towards God, but it's more than just an emotion. It's a understand the Scripture is understanding what is behind this emulsion was behind our faith was behind our experience and sometimes we doubt in God doesn't have a hard time with our doubts where the Loveland art& & God comes with his word to teach us and to influence our thinking. He renews our heart and Windows are mine. Viewing is our thinking so that what we believe is not just an emotional thing, and what we believe is not just an intellectual thing. It's a combination of us as a total person sold. That's why, as we sense or feel the presence of God, since I feel this like crying worshiping, maybe sometimes laughing, sometimes dancing that even though the King. Then, before the Lord, and he danced with all of his life because I like God was upon him, and he was that he was gone, he would dance in and out of Solaris there's different ways in his laughter. There's peace there's July then Salomé and it just taking what we are just gone. Taking who we are and taking it to a different level. That's an emotional thing. But then there is the intellectual understanding of the lost coin velocity, the prodigal son is an understanding that we have in our mind that God loves us and he is willing to communion is willing to die for us, and as the prodigal son is returning the father runs to the child pursuing him. These are pictures mental pictures that talk about a hard relationship yes, Romans in the to develop who we are as a person so that we are not men, not pretending. Being something on Sunday and not different on Monday. Not that same we will be the same spiritual person on on Sunday and we want to have the character of God flowing in and through our life, we go through our walk with him, and in so doing, what happens is it stabilizes us. It stabilizes our emotions and our feelings and were not swept away with the criminal driven back and forth by the winds and waves up. What happens in our daily lives. So God comes to us to teach at the things that we might experientially understand them, we might variously have them in our hearts but also mentally grasp. This is God 's way of telling me he loves this is God 's way of letting me know he knows who I am where I am and what my needs are. I may not intellectually be able to get my mind on it, but I understand in my heart. She loves it must love the cassette tape above. Where is back Julie Davis was Lucas sat on on it and only I finally listened to the intimate Christmas and the adhesive, you'll love the SI and I finally got to listen to itself and forgive me but anyhow the right moving the guy talks about the solar systems and how far away. How many white years in millions of light-years. The solar system is, and that no other solar systems and how long you how big and how vast the universe is to say that God breathed the stars that the resistance he just opened into existence from all these worlds in order, and if you go to this galaxy into the Hubble telescope and you get in this faraway galaxy far far away, not Star Wars, but a half galaxy far far away. But anyhow, the Hubble telescope focuses in on their and the center of this galaxy is across the sky like the center. This is black hole in the center of the galaxy, galaxy far far away and they blew it up on our on the Hubble telescope. It's on the Nassau site and it's across, and then he went to the other exchange, he went into each cell in our body is held together by its called laminate and in the idea is that when you blow that up inside of every cell in our body that holds it together this laminate whatever they moved is the shape of a cross. So each cell in our body is held together by the shape of a cross, and we began to look at and say who there is a God who puts these galaxies and stars and you'll see he puts and here we are on this planet. This blue marble and in and in and in the size of the galaxies in a if you would take pin and stick it in the here and look at all the wealth and all the this all around us in this pan. The planet Earth. And that's the planet Earth and in this planet. I is you and I and God who spoke all of this into existence knows who you are. He knows where you are and he loves you. That's what we just experience in our worship. He is so great a number you know every stars in the and every thought in your heart. This report. Every thing that hurts you hurt him hurt, Scott, every joy, the joy of Satan. Jesus tells us the story of the product of the father wanting to his lost son. The God of this universe running to you and I and loving us Easter season wife dying for us. God spoke all of this into existence loves you and experience in our hearts hard even get our minds around that on the head of this pin is our earth, and on this Earth is me it is God through his Word, speaking to our hearts telling us he loves needed your mind around that. But yet he says I go to prepare a place for you that where I am that you may be also that we have hold in this life and the life to come. That's the Scriptures speaking to us in our heads, experiencing it in our hearts, and it's a revelation that I can give to you, but God 's Spirit quickens it in your hearts and minds to give you that understand that God touching. I know I did the advent of the length of the Pentecost of all that other than maybe next week, but the idea is that these are experiences for Ross as we worship their experiences of our hearts as we read the Scriptures and understand this, that the stories and in the ministry of Jesus, that's a concept that's getting our mind involved in our understanding, our faith. Our faith is in something that is based on nothing. Our faith is based upon the promises of God understanding that what he spoke into existence. He speaks into his words and his spirit speaks to our lives, and that makes them very, very and so you take these your read them in making your daily checklist, and that as we read them. They are declaration and you cannot manage what you don't speak you don't put into what you don't expect so these are what we expect. I gave this list. One of the ladies at the hospital and she goes through as you say I can't do this alone. I can't do that one. I said no less than him checklist okay, you want to check in often think that she knew she couldn't doubt, I think, although not at you. Check off everything and God help you do them all. I don't like this that though God has been help us manage what we declare that we declare what God wants God has a plan for me. The other purpose for my life, and he does not Jeremiah twenty nine eleven Ruth Dallas one out there and bring about the planned that you hope for hope is born in the heart. God is giving us a plan to