The Sermon The Lamb of God by David McGee
Aug 07, 2011
The Lamb of God (22:13)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 22:6-8; John 1:29-30
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Genesis 22:6-8
6) Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
7) Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
8) Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
John 1:29-30
29) On the next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30) This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.‘
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Thank you for pushing back the dark nest is always always important that we have a responsibility, and the responsibility, no, the whole scenario of pushing back darkness is light one candle new turn on the light and basically you look at your life your life is the light. The light. The dog. It has given you to shine, and that's all we pushed back the darkness is allow you like to sign so after they were looking at. I am entitled that the message they refrain or maybe a more popular note, it could be reboot the computer, or restore. But as we may frame as we brace saying things about and did not thinking of it talking to speaking to the adults whenever you were growing up, we were growing up, did you ever have asked to go somewhere, you know, I wanted out so that party a window with my friends all my friends are going all my friends are going there. Their parents all allow them to go. Why can I go and the answer was if your parents or friends allowed them to jump off a cliff or jump off the bridge, would you jump off the bridge with them, and that logic by Doctor Ray Frank L Israel framing something in our minds to look at it a little differently, so our life of faith is a refrain our life of faith is a refrain that we are lost now worthwhile. We were without Christ. Now we are so were looking at my door wanting to see him in a different and invented a unique perspective this already are looking at things differently looking at things from a different perspective through the light of God 's word. We are allowing the light to shine upon our past so we can see where were going on. I was when I when I saw this example, it had the example of Ronald Reagan and I remember Ronald Reagan that okay Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty four, and many feared that ranking could couldn't defeat Walter Mondale because of his advancing age and rank it was looking for an opportunity to put the issue to rest. When a question of age came up in a debate Reagan responded with this refrain of age. They said this is Ron Reagan said this, I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent 's youth and inexperience. So write it on his one-liner brought down the house and even Mondale laughed and the age issue was not brought up again in the campaign. Okay, as they were in arms all over the news and up against a wall, Mondale, the younger candidate and so finally they bombed no dried Obama, Reagan with the with the age question. He just took it and he turned around I I need to volunteers to a month that one up. You do the math. Thank you very much. The I know they are to find young men are they fine young men him okay, you're missing for us today as I know, but then this link, then, is learning what you see of all black across all. What happened there, but that more descriptive for data around. I now once all wall once across the UC whatever we raised frame. Sometimes whenever Lookout here. What you see missing people using the church. Okay good I can see that the charge. He sees people now be more specific that I am home actually okay after the smear my mind that some legacy painting K now wait a minute whenever we say things and reframing is bringing things into focus. Now some people are so focused they don't see the frame without they were so focused for convenient to be focused on his mom. You can be focused on a painting and not see the others. Reframing is allowing us to see the whole picture and yet come back into focus. We are alive and going back to school not meet you guys again. There gone back to school so school can be a broad picture, or can be on the glasses you have a day somewhere five okay here. Five. Now you can have a whole day of school. You can have one class that your focus on as we move another one into another. So what you know your changing your focus so you are been reframing about that. You're been refraining because not only do you see your mom, but if you look out, you see the painting but also what you see how sad is that I is thereby looks like they're officially how we focus and okay thank you very good all year perfect and will be longer be happier. So whenever you whenever you're appear you. You see the wall you see the charts you see individuals and so what do you see you what do we see in life is a good visit that is ugly is an opportunity arises defeat is it H like Reagan or do we need to refrain to say everything has an alternative. Everything has a flipside if you see a quarter and has ahead and has a tale. It now has a head signage outside you there. Everything has true perspectives now whenever we read frame. Usually when we look at one thing and then say something different. Save a different way. Mike and I not done this before, when from your perspective, how do you get out here when the preacher finishes speaking, how do you got here from where you said there are no doors out there to doors, but you can get out through these the one where I set best to exit where I stand to access. So what we're doing is in and are looking at certain things we save them a certain way. We do the very thing with our everyday life. Whenever were used to seeing something we see something that we could be up here and we can look at what they're where the empty pews are and or we can look to the full pews, people who are setting in the wake and look to what we're doing, we can look at what were saying and be so focused on that. All we see is Jan and apologist is done that can feel what that's worth. Focuses so once January was just green sweater jazz necklace on she has glasses sees as one sibling up to this whole thing wall wants software are no knowledge of exact a look at him. So what while we haven't focused no week we can go through things and we can look at things that miss the obvious in our life, we can miss the obvious, because we don't see God in our life. We don't see the hand of God working in our life. Now if we look at our work. The things we do every day. Can we say, God, and then can we see God 's hand in these things now we see we save the we have to reframe opportunities to the promises of God. What opportunities the opportunities are every day life that we encounter has its opportunities. It has its problems. It has its way of flipping things around to the side, but you say we we are allowing God to let us see things through his perspective now you have heard that it is set in, you heard that instead you heard many things, and in the Scriptures. When Jesus and I have a lowlight or when Jesus was in Matthew chapter can remember when Jesus talking about the ten Commandments, he said, you heard that it is sad but I tell you, and whatever you look at your life when you hear people talk. We have heard people talk about our work, our life about somebody else's life. You have heard that it is set now. But Jesus says in order to look at Jeremiah, chapter ten. Here is Jeremiah refraining how Israel is going to look at how they are hearing about the gods of the other enemies of their neighbors and how that Jeremiah is refraining this whole scenario. This is in the message Bible says missing. This is listened to the message, not the Best Buy was less of the message that God is sending your way house of Israel, listen most carefully again, don't take the godless nations as your models don't be impressed by their glamour and their glitz, no matter how much they impregnate their interest. The religion of these people is nothing but smoke so I says, telling them people you are you have heard it said of the other gods of the other nations what their God is and he is getting down a charge not to conform to the ways in the customs of the heathen king. We as Christians we has followers Jesus Christ, we as individuals who have the word of God in our hearts and our minds are charged not to follow the ways of the world. The ways of sin, the ways of darkness, the ways of dull looking at the world around us and recognizing that it is in pretty saturate you know, Jesus is coming back, and very soon how do we know this agreement to limit last week, but guys, I still can't get away from this it by them in the next five years by twenty twenty, when he moves his fourteenth twenty fourteen twenty twenty there protecting that we can go through checkout lines in and not have to have checked out Struthers to indicate the computers will stand the chances are that are in the each each job. Each of the parcels that we buy. Plus, those scanned the chip in your hand or arm or whatever your card and it will automatically be deducted totaled and deducted from your bank account so you will need to have money you will need to have visited it even had the needle and have a little chat, but in part and plan the whole thing. We are so close. We are so close that we only talked about this thirty years ago Bible school in a hall that you know the antichrist is going to come in the grubby one world market. One world leader OneWorld money system. It was out there, but here we are. It's not out there, it's here right now and we can easily transition right into the antichrist into the yell the world money system and the whole works. We can easily transition into that and look at the Middle East and look at the problems are going on over there and how that there's going to be wars over there and how that somebody is to come up and leave us alone you must save your form the arms and then, and the Jewish people, and so the coming of the return of Jesus Christ news to be part of my life. We need to raise frame reboots our focus because Jesus is coming back in this world that we live in is not our final home and the standards of this world are not the standards we live by the standards we loved by all. By the word of God that is implanted in our hearts and our minds and that we see things differently than in the war, not the way of the heathen do not approve of it. No more think in differently concerning it. Learning the way of the heathen is learning the way of deceit, dishonest, that life doesn't matter and that we are here for ourselves and no one else. It's the self-centered high. The I deserve this mentality, and that see that's the way of the heathen in our sculpture because God has and hasn't told us that when we are to pray for those you despite please use us. We are to pray for the ways of God to become our ways and that we think godly thoughts and we transition away from the thing so whenever we are saved, we move away from those things which would destroy our soul and destroy our thinking, learn not the way of the heathen, and then Jeremiah goes on here in Idol is nothing but a tree chop down then shaped by woodsman 's acts they trim it with tensile and balls use hammers announced to keep it upright here are Jeremiah, saying, look at this. Look at these items I want you to refrain your thinking of these items. They are all dressed up their comfort with gold. There fancied out with purple than raw you like with their son. The important thing and he said what you reframe this fast a piece of what that somebody has carved out and I have to nail it in place are to fall down. Don't be deceived by their workmanship and think that they are God 's. This is in God knows those principles that our society and in the world in general. There is this is the way that life is to be no everyone deserves something on me all the societal worrying the government is going to take care of you and you don't have to worry where money is always wanting every bank account just go get your chip. It's would made out of wood has to be nailed in place to fall down and has no life and consider what an idol is that is worshiped. It is nothing but a stock of a tree made by people. What is the promises of man, but empty words that have no life in them, and we are called. I like what it says here, it is like a scarecrow in the Cabbage Patch is like a scarecrow, the Cabbage Patch exemplar. There is like that. The theft. It is like dead word that has to be carried, it can't block don't be impressed by such stuff, it's useless for either for either good or evil. If it's useless, except anybody can't do any harm. If useless. Anytime the people here look at the scarecrow is not a God, look at the things that are presented in this world as if they are only hope our hope is in Jesus Christ and his love for us, his forgiveness and his grace and his mercy. We are to refrain her reframe our thinking rain boots ourselves as aware to the word of God, and the strength of God in school. God says that he will bring back to our members, those things we have faithfully study you study and ask God to help you understand what you need to know for the test before everything else that can be your prayer Isa pray all the time that I need at all the help I could get. And of course there was always somebody advances beside me. The activity enough not. We don't steal from other people. We don't cheat. And if we fail, we fail because we didn't do our part. Not because we didn't she correctly. I like and I'm sure you see people cheat. I remember victuals, pens, you know, somebody got the test of Olympus in college or wherever he had the task and he wrote that the nose multiple gas, multiple-choice multiple gas and the number one is a two headed in his pen in a very fine anything you rewrite his pin number three forty four left the press professor can grab the pen if he left school in our something potentially what made on aptitude to get ahead, we don't have to lie to get ahead, we don't have to betray to get ahead, we don't have to be deceitful lie because God is our provider. We do what we do as unto the Lord. So are studying and our work, our profession. We do it is on to the Lord because we're looking to refrain this is not for our employer is not for the paycheck. It's because we are living our life for God, and this is God 's opportunity in our life to do something with the talent he has given us to refrain that's a refrain because God is working in us all. This is nothing to bring always the scarecrow, no, this is nothing compared to you oh God, you're wondrously great. This is the refrain don't look at the scarecrow over there that's made out of the image that people put together with their hands and dressed up and end, and said this is a God worship, while about that than our society. There is no God. It's just whatever it also may take the scarecrow, and they said was they tried point out this is your guide members forget the other, it's not true. Jeremias, telling the people of Israel. All this is nothing compared to you oh God, the God of our fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God of Israel. He has given us his commandments is given us his laws given us his grace, you are wondrously great. You're famously great UK yeah, okay, fail to be impressed by you, King of the nation this is your very nature to be warships look far and wide among the elites of the nations. The best I can come up with is nothing compared to you the best I can come up with as a scarecrow one hour and a Cabbage Patch. They line up a lineup of sticks, good for nothing but making smoke filled with silver foil from Tarsus, covered with gold from new facts you say you've got these places you've got these days, and you're looking at them, and they're all address and a fly around the new jets, and they have their millions of dollars and they have all this things and they are then delete look at our society. Look at the movie stars look at these ones that are on the counter on the covers of magazines, look at this. This is the elite of our society. This is what you are to be like this. Nothing but sticks and smoke and mirrors because they get a change in a few years there got to be gone in a few years, but your life is eternal, and the things that we believe in the things we trust our eternal beings, gods might be Reverend Rick reverenced as change these people might be worshiped as idols, teen idols medicine that teen idols, we have movie stars. Stars we have belief in our society we have the rich of the rich. But what is a vital made from what is an idol made up something, we are told that is important rhetorical EasyLink athletes enough. What are they made up their made of their past performance and when they are present life cancels out their past performance, such as the two young men smoking marijuana that our backs for the Pittsburgh Steelers what's can happen to them is their career over either contracts canceled. Maybe, but you see, don't look back. The song. Your life is not about the distance you travel your life is about the direction you're going. I have been traveling this for almost sixty five years. I can't back tell you I've been traveling this for thirteen years. Don't look back. What direction are we headed forward. I may or may advertise doesn't matter off-line if we asked sixty five years behind us and were headed in the wrong direction, although where you go. It doesn't get all your headed in wrong direction. Why, because we started making dogs out of scarecrows and twenty gold on them in purple robes on them and say wow what a wonderful God. That is, it's a scarecrow in the inner cabbage patch, but whenever we have God is our Director weather was thirteen years old with over sixty five years old when I was going to church. I can I can still read. I don't remember much, but I remember as being for five years old, following my grandfather to the altar in our following my grandfather to the altar, and it was there from the original hub like the daughters for four years while these going in the right direction that I falter you that I failed you don't look back. What direction we going now is not what we've done wrong, its where were going with what we have, as you say we need to reframe our lives according to the word of God that our life is not made up of our class. We have experiences that taught us about life, but it is the word of God. That is the vision that we are following is the lighthouse that guides us to our future God is the real thing verse ten the living God, the eternal King when he's angry the earth shakes, yes, and the godless nations quite if they were looking at Israel, all the things going on over there. Pay attention, Israel is God 's, like us, we belong to God. But Israel, God had called in from the very beginning and send my hands on these people, Abraham. He made that promise, and he will not break his word to Abraham and his descendents. Israel is never going a lot of the news. It's always going to be front page news because it sometime in the future there to come out against Israel one hundred percent and then I tried destroy that place all the nations of the world may back off and say why you know let them do what they can over there. But God will protect patient because he is made a promise to one guy some four thousand years ago, God has made a promise to offset when we accepted him as our Savior. I will never leave you nor forsake you that there is nothing impossible in this life, and that no matter what direction you choose to choose the direction he goes towards me, and I will be your right hand. I will be your help I will be your strength. I will be your wisdom. I will be your help I will be a very present help in time of trouble you think we need to reframe our thinking with every frame our lives and that we are following God, not because I'm right. But because God is like, and I'm allowing myself to understand his word and to allow the wisdom of God the application of the truth of God 's word to my everyday life. The truth of God 's word to my everyday life. We don't come up here and say you got a dress a certain way that can appear and say you got to do a certain thing in order to prove that you follow God, we come before God with an open heart and an open mind and want God to bless us and let God to reveal himself to us. We want. We need God 's help and direction and understanding his word and understanding our life. It is God who makes a difference. And so it is God who is with me. If God will honor a promise he made some four thousand years ago to a guy called Abraham, wandering around in the desert and is still his people and his descendents are still over there in Israel, NE and the Arab countries is the segments are there. He brought them through the Holocaust. He brought them through all those things and brought them back to be a nation is a Jewish evangelists that it's going to Israel and I was interested anyone seen it support just like the churches in Iran need support and we need to pray for them and we need to give us what we can, but here's an interesting thinking I I thought was an other interesting point is that that in the Jewish synagogues. This year for the first time in the history that he knows of it. The Jewish and the other lovely. The Rabbi was a Rabbi. But you know it's the first time any that is that this is has come up that in the Jewish synagogues. They are going to dare not going to read Isaiah fifty three, the first time in their history. They will not read he was pierced through for our transgressions. The punishment for peace was upon him, nor are they going to read God has laid on him all of our sins, nor are they going to read who considered he was cut off out of the land of the living taking the punishment that was due to my people. They're not going to read about Jesus and the Senate. I do see they don't want to be reminded that the Messiah has come because they want to eliminate that from the influence upon their people because they know that Christians are using those verses to tell the Jewish people. Jesus is, I just like the leaders in Israel at the time of Jesus. If you are really the Messiah come off of the cross, while the leaders in the Jewish religion are now saying again don't read about referring. They are looking at this and making sure that their people do not see that the Messiah has come, they want to refrain their thinking. So they don't consider, but God is constantly leading us by his Spirit in teaching us by his word and play upon our hearts and our minds and bodies going to bless us. God is going to lead us and when we need help don't hesitate to ask God because he is a very present help in time of trouble. He is the one who will call our spirits when Lisa hurt and angry or upset. He is going to call our spirits. He is going to give us direction he is going to give us peace. He is going to direct our thoughts is going to direct our hearts is going to direct our lives. And whenever we need help in the classroom, whether were teachers or students, or whether were just reading the Scriptures, we need to pray and ask God for wisdom and understanding, and the application of these truths to our lives and study study study the truths of God 's word, and he will help us bring it back to our remembrance and then busting God. This is Ecclesiastes three eleven. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity in our hearts. God makes everything beautiful in its time. Nowhere were kind of right in the middle of our life, we can't figure out now is as good as his dad is so worried about. Give thanks unto God, everything is beautiful in his time, all things work together for good. We have these promises allow the promises to direct the but the bigger picture. God is in charge. He will take care of us. Amen. Father, thank you for the care that you give us for the promise to give us for helping us to see you, O God, as the light of the world shining in our lives, so got to be that life set on the hill, we might give the life of Jesus Christ to all who look upon us, for we are your children you are guiding us, you will God give us your promises and we are grateful. Help us Lord to be dependent upon you to reframe our thinking to reframe our thoughts to see you and us and that we may apply your wisdom and your guidance to everything we say and do everyone set whenever I start and then click on Blessed is Thank you for pushing back the dark nest is always always important that we have a responsibility, and the responsibility, no, the whole scenario of pushing back darkness is light one candle new turn on the light and basically you look at your life your life is the light. The light. The dog. It has given you to shine, and that's all we pushed back the darkness is allow you like to sign so after they were looking at. I am entitled that the message they refrain or maybe a more popular note, it could be reboot the computer, or restore. But as we may frame as we brace saying things about and did not thinking of it talking to speaking to the adults whenever you were growing up, we were growing up, did you ever have asked to go somewhere, you know, I wanted out so that party a window with my friends all my friends are going all my friends are going there. Their parents all allow them to go. Why can I go and the answer was if your parents or friends allowed them to jump off a cliff or jump off the bridge, would you jump off the bridge with them, and that logic by Doctor Ray Frank L Israel framing something in our minds to look at it a little differently, so our life of faith is a refrain our life of faith is a refrain that we are lost now worthwhile. We were without Christ. Now we are so were looking at my door wanting to see him in a different and invented a unique perspective this already are looking at things differently looking at things from a different perspective through the light of God 's word. We are allowing the light to shine upon our past so we can see where were going on. I was when I when I saw this example, it had the example of Ronald Reagan and I remember Ronald Reagan that okay Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty four, and many feared that ranking could couldn't defeat Walter Mondale because of his advancing age and rank it was looking for an opportunity to put the issue to rest. When a question of age came up in a debate Reagan responded with this refrain of age. They said this is Ron Reagan said this, I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent 's youth and inexperience. So write it on his one-liner brought down the house and even Mondale laughed and the age issue was not brought up again in the campaign. Okay, as they were in arms all over the news and up against a wall, Mondale, the younger candidate and so finally they bombed no dried Obama, Reagan with the with the age question. He just took it and he turned around I I need to volunteers to a month that one up. You do the math. Thank you very much. The I know they are to find young men are they fine young men him okay, you're missing for us today as I know, but then this link, then, is learning what you see of all black across all. What happened there, but that more descriptive for data around. I now once all wall once across the UC whatever we raised frame. Sometimes whenever Lookout here. What you see missing people using the church. Okay good I can see that the charge. He sees people now be more specific that I am home actually okay after the smear my mind that some legacy painting K now wait a minute whenever we say things and reframing is bringing things into focus. Now some people are so focused they don't see the frame without they were so focused for convenient to be focused on his mom. You can be focused on a painting and not see the others. Reframing is allowing us to see the whole picture and yet come back into focus. We are alive and going back to school not meet you guys again. There gone back to school so school can be a broad picture, or can be on the glasses you have a day somewhere five okay here. Five. Now you can have a whole day of school. You can have one class that your focus on as we move another one into another. So what you know your changing your focus so you are been reframing about that. You're been refraining because not only do you see your mom, but if you look out, you see the painting but also what you see how sad is that I is thereby looks like they're officially how we focus and okay thank you very good all year perfect and will be longer be happier. So whenever you whenever you're appear you. You see the wall you see the charts you see individuals and so what do you see you what do we see in life is a good visit that is ugly is an opportunity arises defeat is it H like Reagan or do we need to refrain to say everything has an alternative. Everything has a flipside if you see a quarter and has ahead and has a tale. It now has a head signage outside you there. Everything has true perspectives now whenever we read frame. Usually when we look at one thing and then say something different. Save a different way. Mike and I not done this before, when from your perspective, how do you get out here when the preacher finishes speaking, how do you got here from where you said there are no doors out there to doors, but you can get out through these the one where I set best to exit where I stand to access. So what we're doing is in and are looking at certain things we save them a certain way. We do the very thing with our everyday life. Whenever were used to seeing something we see something that we could be up here and we can look at what they're where the empty pews are and or we can look to the full pews, people who are setting in the wake and look to what we're doing, we can look at what were saying and be so focused on that. All we see is Jan and apologist is done that can feel what that's worth. Focuses so once January was just green sweater jazz necklace on she has glasses sees as one sibling up to this whole thing wall wants software are no knowledge of exact a look at him. So what while we haven't focused no week we can go through things and we can look at things that miss the obvious in our life, we can miss the obvious, because we don't see God in our life. We don't see the hand of God working in our life. Now if we look at our work. The things we do every day. Can we say, God, and then can we see God 's hand in these things now we see we save the we have to reframe opportunities to the promises of God. What opportunities the opportunities are every day life that we encounter has its opportunities. It has its problems. It has its way of flipping things around to the side, but you say we we are allowing God to let us see things through his perspective now you have heard that it is set in, you heard that instead you heard many things, and in the Scriptures. When Jesus and I have a lowlight or when Jesus was in Matthew chapter can remember when Jesus talking about the ten Commandments, he said, you heard that it is sad but I tell you, and whatever you look at your life when you hear people talk. We have heard people talk about our work, our life about somebody else's life. You have heard that it is set now. But Jesus says in order to look at Jeremiah, chapter ten. Here is Jeremiah refraining how Israel is going to look at how they are hearing about the gods of the other enemies of their neighbors and how that Jeremiah is refraining this whole scenario. This is in the message Bible says missing. This is listened to the message, not the Best Buy was less of the message that God is sending your way house of Israel, listen most carefully again, don't take the godless nations as your models don't be impressed by their glamour and their glitz, no matter how much they impregnate their interest. The religion of these people is nothing but smoke so I says, telling them people you are you have heard it said of the other gods of the other nations what their God is and he is getting down a charge not to conform to the ways in the customs of the heathen king. We as Christians we has followers Jesus Christ, we as individuals who have the word of God in our hearts and our minds are charged not to follow the ways of the world. The ways of sin, the ways of darkness, the ways of dull looking at the world around us and recognizing that it is in pretty saturate you know, Jesus is coming back, and very soon how do we know this agreement to limit last week, but guys, I still can't get away from this it by them in the next five years by twenty twenty, when he moves his fourteenth twenty fourteen twenty twenty there protecting that we can go through checkout lines in and not have to have checked out Struthers to indicate the computers will stand the chances are that are in the each each job. Each of the parcels that we buy. Plus, those scanned the chip in your hand or arm or whatever your card and it will automatically be deducted totaled and deducted from your bank account so you will need to have money you will need to have visited it even had the needle and have a little chat, but in part and plan the whole thing. We are so close. We are so close that we only talked about this thirty years ago Bible school in a hall that you know the antichrist is going to come in the grubby one world market. One world leader OneWorld money system. It was out there, but here we are. It's not out there, it's here right now and we can easily transition right into the antichrist into the yell the world money system and the whole works. We can easily transition into that and look at the Middle East and look at the problems are going on over there and how that there's going to be wars over there and how that somebody is to come up and leave us alone you must save your form the arms and then, and the Jewish people, and so the coming of the return of Jesus Christ news to be part of my life. We need to raise frame reboots our focus because Jesus is coming back in this world that we live in is not our final home and the standards of this world are not the standards we live by the standards we loved by all. By the word of God that is implanted in our hearts and our minds and that we see things differently than in the war, not the way of the heathen do not approve of it. No more think in differently concerning it. Learning the way of the heathen is learning the way of deceit, dishonest, that life doesn't matter and that we are here for ourselves and no one else. It's the self-centered high. The I deserve this mentality, and that see that's the way of the heathen in our sculpture because God has and hasn't told us that when we are to pray for those you despite please use us. We are to pray for the ways of God to become our ways and that we think godly thoughts and we transition away from the thing so whenever we are saved, we move away from those things which would destroy our soul and destroy our thinking, learn not the way of the heathen, and then Jeremiah goes on here in Idol is nothing but a tree chop down then shaped by woodsman 's acts they trim it with tensile and balls use hammers announced to keep it upright here are Jeremiah, saying, look at this. Look at these items I want you to refrain your thinking of these items. They are all dressed up their comfort with gold. There fancied out with purple than raw you like with their son. The important thing and he said what you reframe this fast a piece of what that somebody has carved out and I have to nail it in place are to fall down. Don't be deceived by their workmanship and think that they are God 's. This is in God knows those principles that our society and in the world in general. There is this is the way that life is to be no everyone deserves something on me all the societal worrying the government is going to take care of you and you don't have to worry where money is always wanting every bank account just go get your chip. It's would made out of wood has to be nailed in place to fall down and has no life and consider what an idol is that is worshiped. It is nothing but a stock of a tree made by people. What is the promises of man, but empty words that have no life in them, and we are called. I like what it says here, it is like a scarecrow in the Cabbage Patch is like a scarecrow, the Cabbage Patch exemplar. There is like that. The theft. It is like dead word that has to be carried, it can't block don't be impressed by such stuff, it's useless for either for either good or evil. If it's useless, except anybody can't do any harm. If useless. Anytime the people here look at the scarecrow is not a God, look at the things that are presented in this world as if they are only hope our hope is in Jesus Christ and his love for us, his forgiveness and his grace and his mercy. We are to refrain her reframe our thinking rain boots ourselves as aware to the word of God, and the strength of God in school. God says that he will bring back to our members, those things we have faithfully study you study and ask God to help you understand what you need to know for the test before everything else that can be your prayer Isa pray all the time that I need at all the help I could get. And of course there was always somebody advances beside me. The activity enough not. We don't steal from other people. We don't cheat. And if we fail, we fail because we didn't do our part. Not because we didn't she correctly. I like and I'm sure you see people cheat. I remember victuals, pens, you know, somebody got the test of Olympus in college or wherever he had the task and he wrote that the nose multiple gas, multiple-choice multiple gas and the number one is a two headed in his pen in a very fine anything you rewrite his pin number three forty four left the press professor can grab the pen if he left school in our something potentially what made on aptitude to get ahead, we don't have to lie to get ahead, we don't have to betray to get ahead, we don't have to be deceitful lie because God is our provider. We do what we do as unto the Lord. So are studying and our work, our profession. We do it is on to the Lord because we're looking to refrain this is not for our employer is not for the paycheck. It's because we are living our life for God, and this is God 's opportunity in our life to do something with the talent he has given us to refrain that's a refrain because God is working in us all. This is nothing to bring always the scarecrow, no, this is nothing compared to you oh God, you're wondrously great. This is the refrain don't look at the scarecrow over there that's made out of the image that people put together with their hands and dressed up and end, and said this is a God worship, while about that than our society. There is no God. It's just whatever it also may take the scarecrow, and they said was they tried point out this is your guide members forget the other, it's not true. Jeremias, telling the people of Israel. All this is nothing compared to you oh God, the God of our fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of Israel, the God of Israel. He has given us his commandments is given us his laws given us his grace, you are wondrously great. You're famously great UK yeah, okay, fail to be impressed by you, King of the nation this is your very nature to be warships look far and wide among the elites of the nations. The best I can come up with is nothing compared to you the best I can come up with as a scarecrow one hour and a Cabbage Patch. They line up a lineup of sticks, good for nothing but making smoke filled with silver foil from Tarsus, covered with gold from new facts you say you've got these places you've got these days, and you're looking at them, and they're all address and a fly around the new jets, and they have their millions of dollars and they have all this things and they are then delete look at our society. Look at the movie stars look at these ones that are on the counter on the covers of magazines, look at this. This is the elite of our society. This is what you are to be like this. Nothing but sticks and smoke and mirrors because they get a change in a few years there got to be gone in a few years, but your life is eternal, and the things that we believe in the things we trust our eternal beings, gods might be Reverend Rick reverenced as change these people might be worshiped as idols, teen idols medicine that teen idols, we have movie stars. Stars we have belief in our society we have the rich of the rich. But what is a vital made from what is an idol made up something, we are told that is important rhetorical EasyLink athletes enough. What are they made up their made of their past performance and when they are present life cancels out their past performance, such as the two young men smoking marijuana that our backs for the Pittsburgh Steelers what's can happen to them is their career over either contracts canceled. Maybe, but you see, don't look back. The song. Your life is not about the distance you travel your life is about the direction you're going. I have been traveling this for almost sixty five years. I can't back tell you I've been traveling this for thirteen years. Don't look back. What direction are we headed forward. I may or may advertise doesn't matter off-line if we asked sixty five years behind us and were headed in the wrong direction, although where you go. It doesn't get all your headed in wrong direction. Why, because we started making dogs out of scarecrows and twenty gold on them in purple robes on them and say wow what a wonderful God. That is, it's a scarecrow in the inner cabbage patch, but whenever we have God is our Director weather was thirteen years old with over sixty five years old when I was going to church. I can I can still read. I don't remember much, but I remember as being for five years old, following my grandfather to the altar in our following my grandfather to the altar, and it was there from the original hub like the daughters for four years while these going in the right direction that I falter you that I failed you don't look back. What direction we going now is not what we've done wrong, its where were going with what we have, as you say we need to reframe our lives according to the word of God that our life is not made up of our class. We have experiences that taught us about life, but it is the word of God. That is the vision that we are following is the lighthouse that guides us to our future God is the real thing verse ten the living God, the eternal King when he's angry the earth shakes, yes, and the godless nations quite if they were looking at Israel, all the things going on over there. Pay attention, Israel is God 's, like us, we belong to God. But Israel, God had called in from the very beginning and send my hands on these people, Abraham. He made that promise, and he will not break his word to Abraham and his descendents. Israel is never going a lot of the news. It's always going to be front page news because it sometime in the future there to come out against Israel one hundred percent and then I tried destroy that place all the nations of the world may back off and say why you know let them do what they can over there. But God will protect patient because he is made a promise to one guy some four thousand years ago, God has made a promise to offset when we accepted him as our Savior. I will never leave you nor forsake you that there is nothing impossible in this life, and that no matter what direction you choose to choose the direction he goes towards me, and I will be your right hand. I will be your help I will be your strength. I will be your wisdom. I will be your help I will be a very present help in time of trouble you think we need to reframe our thinking with every frame our lives and that we are following God, not because I'm right. But because God is like, and I'm allowing myself to understand his word and to allow the wisdom of God the application of the truth of God 's word to my everyday life. The truth of God 's word to my everyday life. We don't come up here and say you got a dress a certain way that can appear and say you got to do a certain thing in order to prove that you follow God, we come before God with an open heart and an open mind and want God to bless us and let God to reveal himself to us. We want. We need God 's help and direction and understanding his word and understanding our life. It is God who makes a difference. And so it is God who is with me. If God will honor a promise he made some four thousand years ago to a guy called Abraham, wandering around in the desert and is still his people and his descendents are still over there in Israel, NE and the Arab countries is the segments are there. He brought them through the Holocaust. He brought them through all those things and brought them back to be a nation is a Jewish evangelists that it's going to Israel and I was interested anyone seen it support just like the churches in Iran need support and we need to pray for them and we need to give us what we can, but here's an interesting thinking I I thought was an other interesting point is that that in the Jewish synagogues. This year for the first time in the history that he knows of it. The Jewish and the other lovely. The Rabbi was a Rabbi. But you know it's the first time any that is that this is has come up that in the Jewish synagogues. They are going to dare not going to read Isaiah fifty three, the first time in their history. They will not read he was pierced through for our transgressions. The punishment for peace was upon him, nor are they going to read God has laid on him all of our sins, nor are they going to read who considered he was cut off out of the land of the living taking the punishment that was due to my people. They're not going to read about Jesus and the Senate. I do see they don't want to be reminded that the Messiah has come because they want to eliminate that from the influence upon their people because they know that Christians are using those verses to tell the Jewish people. Jesus is, I just like the leaders in Israel at the time of Jesus. If you are really the Messiah come off of the cross, while the leaders in the Jewish religion are now saying again don't read about referring. They are looking at this and making sure that their people do not see that the Messiah has come, they want to refrain their thinking. So they don't consider, but God is constantly leading us by his Spirit in teaching us by his word and play upon our hearts and our minds and bodies going to bless us. God is going to lead us and when we need help don't hesitate to ask God because he is a very present help in time of trouble. He is the one who will call our spirits when Lisa hurt and angry or upset. He is going to call our spirits. He is going to give us direction he is going to give us peace. He is going to direct our thoughts is going to direct our hearts is going to direct our lives. And whenever we need help in the classroom, whether were teachers or students, or whether were just reading the Scriptures, we need to pray and ask God for wisdom and understanding, and the application of these truths to our lives and study study study the truths of God 's word, and he will help us bring it back to our remembrance and then busting God. This is Ecclesiastes three eleven. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity in our hearts. God makes everything beautiful in its time. Nowhere were kind of right in the middle of our life, we can't figure out now is as good as his dad is so worried about. Give thanks unto God, everything is beautiful in his time, all things work together for good. We have these promises allow the promises to direct the but the bigger picture. God is in charge. He will take care of us. Amen. Father, thank you for the care that you give us for the promise to give us for helping us to see you, O God, as the light of the world shining in our lives, so got to be that life set on the hill, we might give the life of Jesus Christ to all who look upon us, for we are your children you are guiding us, you will God give us your promises and we are grateful. Help us Lord to be dependent upon you to reframe our thinking to reframe our thoughts to see you and us and that we may apply your wisdom and your guidance to everything we say and do everyone set whenever I start and then click on Blessed is