The Sermon So What Happened? by David McGee
Oct 23, 2011
So What Happened? (33:44)
Referenced Scriptures: Philipians 1:6; Jeremiah 29:11; Philipians 1:9-17; Philipians 3:6-8
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No what happens to you, it's what happens in you.
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Philipians 1:6
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Jeremiah 29:11
11) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
Philipians 1:9-17
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Philipians 3:6-8
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This morning we are full of instep. The one verse six is one of my favorite scriptures and is something one of those Scriptures that we we quote a lot and while I was thinking of the title. So what happens. So what happens in out whenever we think about life and we think about all this coming replace them a lot of different situations. All of us are placed in a lot of different situations, whether via worker explored family neighborhood wherever driving the church bubble diving accident at the point where all were in different situations. So what happens while Philippians one six and I'm reading out of the message Bible that I can put that up that all he has, but that they just the message Bible is there has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work, and you would keypad it and bring it to a flourishing finish. I like that flourishing finish on the very day of Christ Jesus appears so we know that in retweet. We spoke about some of this arthritis. The lesson this morning that Jesus Christ is going to combat the high know that individual in California predicted the end of the world again at icebound to determine someday taking, predicting in the environment from your right step might be a while, but the Jesus is going to return no man knows the time of the hour, so we don't have to wait, we can raise the signs of the time, but we don't have the day or the hour we are in the last days. But in all there in the last of times and things are coming to a close, and they will close but we're not sure when it will happen, but I tell that day comes, realized this, God has started a great working you think God has started a great work in you. Now we went the great work with it what what everyone wanted to let me be private. If you want me to invent something to the limited while the great work that we are about, you know, it's like your pinky finger that if you don't have it, would you listen and you have your later finger. How would you visit and get going here or would you listen to the whatever we think about what we've got. We generally think of it in the context of ordinary waking of our life as ordinary. We think of our ability to touch to speak to hear the tent else smell to travel to motivate to move whatever we think of these things as ordinary. But John is saying that he has God has started a great work in you. God has a purpose God has a plan, Jeremiah twenty nine eleven for I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you plan to give you a whole and eight future God has started a great work. So the great work is not in hindsight the great work that God is doing isn't in our present and in our future God has a purpose for you. Not only a reason for you, but he has the work for you, it hasn't not only does he ever reason for you to be here. He has a work for you to be here now as we look at our life one. We see we generally think. Think of the guys I already foreigner because it's mine. It's not that important got a lot of flaws. This interview. Hair picked up a few pounds for no, we look at our last release a ordinary, but the Scripture says that God has begun a great work God has begun a great work replace a great work God has begun the dating guys think I has begun a great work in me. Then again, God has begun a great work in me. Now do you believe that they regularly said that I said I repeated it, but a foreign area where legislative matter what you do still ordinary by the work of God in all is a good work. A great work. A blast work less work that there are blessings and benefits law. We have all things bring God to the surface of our life every situation brings God for the service of our life and leave and are placed in the position of choosing how they gobble, we will respond to this letter on the gray chapters I have opposed the back to using when Paul Yucca. Sometimes we get we get caught up in while you and I don't have this amount of data and I have this problem. That problem. I was due back to Paul in second Corinthians eleven twenty two by their Hebrews online other Islamic Israelites on my by the Abraham 's descendents, all my sees arguing with these is not arguing he's presenting his case because inquired there were a lot of people running around saying that they were super apostles, and that what Paul was was is nothing so policy if you want to believe that estoppel to give you used to let me give you a few ideas and a few things that I thought my credentials under servants of Christ, I'm out of my mind talk like this. This is the method by him out of my mind talk like this to bring up these these crazy things that happen in my life, but if you want them. I want you to hear up a post on the court Corinthians, I worked harder in prison more frequently then flogged more severely, and then exposed to death again and again five times I received from the Jews for a license minus one, three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked I spent in day-to-day life floating in the open sea. I've been constantly on the move. I've been in danger from rivers in danger from bandits danger from my own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers, a city danger in the country dangerous. See danger from false brothers now okay now how many have ever been under the impression the want your Christian. Nothing bad when rapidly saying it isn't what happens to us, it's what happens in 's and Izumi can we can look at our life, and sometimes things happen. Things happen in our life. Things were totally unprepared for things that we just come out of the blue were doing our job redoing our life were doing things. It is bad. Things fall and a Raven a lot while we have this little video about this guy, who's he's it. He's an auctioneer and it's in Italian, solid and hard to follow and a hazard subtest do it in English, but is an auctioneer. He's auctioning off this maze and is worth millions of dollars a day and so the process in the bidding. All that is going to him him toward commercial one million check your heart attack risk that you have a heart attack in the million-dollar baseman David Boston gate things happen in our lives, sometimes there totally unprepared for it. Only when we talk about all the on all the things going on young then and I think instead about that, you know, I think, I think the ship was going to say I want to take it down. I think that the negative meet me with change in obtaining eleven the practice. Then they take these long canes and ABP but what the policy change is that only times three times patient with thirty nine stripes five different times. I mean, these are difficult situations in England and found cities and think what you know what I nearly get beaten today think what happens in us is more important than what happens to us, our position in Christ is one God has given to all believers in the last week we talked about kings and queens the two crowns from Burger King. What would be the position of an individual. If you were king and queen. What position would you have and how would you approach life from that position. Now the challenge never as high when we possess and how the apart approach life position of being a Christian. What is our position. How is it that we are to see our life and how is it that we are to live our life. What is Paul saying to us what a callous in the opening Scripture that there has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that God who started this great work, and you would keypad. God is at a great working you so from this position of a great work being accomplished in your life God is at work in you while what about all the difficulties. What about all the problems. What about this thing, what about that okay what about as a Christian. From this position. God is giving us the direction yell from this position, which shows how the we will live our lives, how we will respond while I run this position. Can you imagine that your life that you that your life that you know we like to think we've got the better office. Now I'd like the interop with Billy Graham MacDonald, but that good enough in our I know, I think I can be better off cleanup. I was this urban, but you know what good you imagine you would be better off that I mean how do you think you'd be better off that while I had more money in the Rob, I will have a little box in the tonight in bringing out but down there. The idea is that we often have this. The better off of. I won the lottery. I be better off it by adding this job or lived in this community, or if I had done this if I'd done that, or if I hadn't done this, what, what if your life that you for who you are right where you're at and from this position that you are at right now. God is telling us choose because God is great, God was a happier dog who started this great work, and you won't see God in our life fits us and from this position not prohibiting the slave of society and that L Paul got a rice of the slaves. It is a survey rest as well. Let your master dictate who you are from your position as a Christian you are to serve God. Well your life that God has begun a great work in you and is not a keypad, he saw your life that you now. We make something out of it apart because we often look at the circumstances, shipwreck, beaten, breaking the vase we look at circumstances to dictate our position. Our position has nothing to do with circumstances. Our position has everything to do with the word of God, and how that word is in our hearts and our minds to approach what happens in our life. We buy nature are dead in our trespasses and sins, just as in the beginning God created Adam, anime, the bravest a lot of the breath of life and Adam became a living soul that Adam did not have the power to bring the breath of life into him. It was just a piece, it always assumed there would not come in the form of a man. God ravens in the minimum breath of life, God raised him to Austin. We aren't we the breath of God in us, and because of that recognize Wimbledon forever. The breath of life in us. And when Christ resisted forgiveness of our sins, we are in a position to let them live that that's exactly who we are blaming, according to the principles of God 's word limit by those principles to make the word of God alive in us and causing are alive to take the direction of the word of God. Not the direction of the circumstances it out. I was thinking with all this rain in El Salvador. I was thinking of this one pastor that we go and visit whenever there is the that I, David. David likes is his mentor, although Ms. Mentor and he has a second-grade education and he passes a church in rural communities and his house 's house is like a pole barn. It is open on three sides, and there is only one rule that is enclosed that the bedroom is probably a ten by ten area that's the only place in his house that is enclosed as a bedroom. He has one section of that old area as the wall there, that's where they have their third plates and stuff and they'll have placed their belongings just one wall and all the rest of the places open and I thought of while Howard Dean, how would you survive in the three weeks of rain living in a place like that we could never dry out clean. It was just a know and he's not alone green lot of the country is like that, and some of the people who do have houses. Imagine your entire family and your extended family coming to your house and your house is a twelve by twelve square with a roof on and everybody staying inside. While this is a downpour in an in this part of an island in the sky Miguel is he's like this is a great man of faith, his church 's charges. They have they built it recently and has a metal roof and when we were there last you can see where the sunlight was coming through the roof and has been reticent while all those hellholes and rupees is all that for people while they were having charge, they drew dynamite on the will on the roof of the church, and while it were blowing trying to blow holes in the roof and this legality is a great man of faith. He was some drunk one drug came into his into his church, one one one day and one up on the platform, pulled out his machete. It was going to cut his head off our church and the gal who is a pacifist that those hands and knees. Since you must, you must and got a and it was like there we look at our life and we say, my life doesn't fit my life doesn't fit is what online doesn't fit we don't believe that God is doing a good work in the house where I live doesn't fit we don't believe that God 's work helping us and him working through us because we're not living in that position that place where God has escalated and that is that God has begun a great working you editors of the circumstances to determine who you are, whether you succeed or fail. It isn't about failure. It is about success. It's about what God is doing in our hearts and in our minds that we can see how can't is working in us to bless us, or to do cause us to grow and to develop it does all of us have needs to growl all of us have to brawl the change from who we are because were not perfect. I know that the shock that I just is it an act of God to bring us the life is an act of God. God has brought us to live a spiritual life, your work working. I see a lot of people every week. You know, and working with people and in seeing them. What is so disturbing. The most disturbing thing that I have to deal with and it would be revealed working with familial patients now have a limited life expectancy. The most disturbing thing is those who have no faith, no relationship with God, and they are so stubbornly one thing the Bears entertain the thought that there is a God, and they are frightened to death and then the most rewarding very rewarding is that people who want to know Ken can I go to heaven when at what I have to do if I die to get to heaven, what I have to do and we talk about it and and we know what is it that you think you have to do what is your faith tell you what is your confession. What you remember on your faith was there ever a confession, and it was a confession about the confession was about Jesus Christ and forgiveness of sins, and when people thought and meaning of that confession. When people find a place of all of relationship with Jesus Christ. Everything changes their illness hasn't changed their life expectancy hasn't changed, but I am a whole new perspective on their line. Then a whole new perspective on life and of death of hope in this life and hope in the life to come. Nothing changed from their circumstances, but their position in their life changed because now they are Christian. Now they know Jesus Christ. Now they have hope. I don't give that to them. Jesus Christ gives it to them, and that's the same thing that you and I live with whatever we take the word of God, and apply to our lives, our situations don't maybe it may never change will be seeing it differently. We responsibly definitely holy is the Lord was saying about it, and inspires us and tells us that we have hope in this life and the life to come. It changes our perspective, our life had because God is part of this great work, and you will seem added he won't see bad situations where I changed my position in my life and how I see my life and how I see my circumstances changes. The changes because of the word of God 's sake we are to choose wisely. There is the end. And this is from a natural perspective of the multiple relational perspective without self-knowledge at the WR of your life. Go to bed if you don't know who you are. Second, some mindfulness understanding our motives. What we do what we do, why suggests for our own game was different that helping others soft vigilance knowing what makes you tick and what ticks you off, self-consciousness, knowing how you come across to others, self alertness maintaining your emotions, physical and spiritual condition. Knowing maintaining your emotional, physical and spiritual condition self alertness is a because God is in our lives doesn't mean I'm absent and I'm not asinine here and because I am a Christian and wanted to serve the needs I served with the purpose spoke about that last week before we don't have an empty container. We have a purpose for who we are. There is a reason for us being here, there is something that we do in our life with our life is of value to God and to others insult me have a purpose. So, in this place in this position of life. We are God 's work to the work a lot through us and changing us. Paul says there has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work, and you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish a flourishing for students, where we pray and we ask God for wisdom, which is an understanding and how the wisdom is a general oversight of how things apply, helping to put together an understanding which of the application. We have a godly character and action that goes on Philippians one nine so this is my prayer. We know that God has begun the work. And you know, I pray that your love will flourish that he will not only love much loved much, but well can't read what effect can read my writing. So this is my prayer that your liable, Larry said that he will not only love much, but well learn to love appropriately. You need to use your head and test your feelings. Learn to live appropriately learn to love appropriately is a are our society. We don't wait. We use the one we use word love for what last it out into the rubbing the line. What that's even the big thing anymore, but now that that lustful thing that's not love or if you love somebody, you know, I'm an admin relationship, such as friendship, when people try to peer pressure. If you want to be accepted. You want to be logged, you got it do certain things in order to fit in us not love. Love the Scripture tells us that we are to learn love appropriately in the appropriate lob is receiving the love of God. In this position. This position on your life. It God has begun a good work in you and he wants to bring it to a conclusion of flourishing finish when Jesus Christ returns. So, in this place I have to know myself know who I am the one I do. Why do I know that until appropriately appropriately loving appropriately. This allowed the Jesus Christ has for us. He would never ask us to do anything that would cause you to be true for your character in who you are in your relationship with him to be destroyed. He would never tempt us, he would never attempt us to do something that would be sinful, which is a separation from God, which is it we never ask us to break our relationship with him to go against his word love appropriately while that is attached to Christ, that you may be able to discern what is best first line that you may be able to discern what is best seen in this love relationship here well now see, this is the wisdom and this is the understanding of the word of God in your life that it will help us to to discern what is best. God is with us, and in this position am I God is giving me the wisdom and understanding to be able to discern to know what is best for my life. Why, because my life fits God has a purpose. The plan for our life and all of you happen in our life are not what we base it on its upon God 's word discern what is best verse twenty seven. What happens. Conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the gospel. Whatever happens, be prepared to conduct yourself in a manner that is worthy of your position king and queen their position. How should they act as a king and queen of a country. How is it that we should live as a child of God and the world that we live in the life that fits who we are living with wisdom and understanding character purpose. Verse sixteen. Paul says there is never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work, and you would keep lock keypad, a verse six. Excuse me, and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day the Christ appears, God is at work. Learn to love letter to live, learn to speak appropriately so, what is the word we go first chapter three verse one, and that's about it. Friend. Be glad God rejoice in the Lord always. And again I say, rejoice. So in this physician of life God has asked us to be happy, not happy to rejoice happy depends on happenings all the things fitting into place. We always talked about Mosaic and smashed the pause and that sometimes we done those when you do with them. Paul said, forgetting those things which are behind, I press on their things in our life, we need to let go of. They don't fix it. We are, we don't. They don't fit in who we are in Christ. Those things need to be forgiven forgotten and left go. That's a good sequence of forgiven forgotten to let go. Do we ever forget. Now we need to just let it go for Gannon don't bring them up. God doesn't bring it up, so don't you in your position. You have a place in God, you have a place in this life that God is at work doing a great work in you. We need to see God at work in us through us make decisions wisely lobbed correctly rejoice in God, and know that God is taking us through to a flourishing finish when Jesus Christ returns so VIPs with yourself and with God forgiven. Forgive yourself forgive others, letting go, move on with your life. Why is your futures in front of us. Your future is in front of you. There is never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work, and you would keep that and bring it to a flourishing finish with the King James version of the and I remember was that your letters. Yet here was we got a good working, you will complete it before the day of Jesus Christ. God is at work. What position are you with you are in a position of being a Christian, a child of God. He has created you like you could raise yourself to this place. God has given it to you, and from this place. This position. God is at work, you will live forever. Allow the things of life ship wrecked beatings distressed on how to allow those to interfere with the war. God gives us a way of seeing through the beyond the goddess of work he's doing a great work in you. God is doing a great work in me say God is doing a great work in the well-positioned. We have what's all stand and gynecology, stand on the platform right here. Change your position that the big guys in Christ, he changes our position. No longer either limit the Chrysler limited me. We see how all this comes together, we see how the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that he is Lord. I've already done. There is power in the name of Jesus. So from this position. I pray from this position. I believe from this position. I see God at work in my life. I don't understand why circumstances have, the goddess of work and orders them. I'm shipwrecked the dynamite floating in deep do you think Paul ever question that is floating a day and a night in a deep hanging on for dear life. The thing is out there wondering what is God doing now. Sherry did so we can wonder, but he says rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice, be happy in God, what to say. I like the message, and that's about it. FriendsThis morning we are full of instep. The one verse six is one of my favorite scriptures and is something one of those Scriptures that we we quote a lot and while I was thinking of the title. So what happens. So what happens in out whenever we think about life and we think about all this coming replace them a lot of different situations. All of us are placed in a lot of different situations, whether via worker explored family neighborhood wherever driving the church bubble diving accident at the point where all were in different situations. So what happens while Philippians one six and I'm reading out of the message Bible that I can put that up that all he has, but that they just the message Bible is there has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work, and you would keypad it and bring it to a flourishing finish. I like that flourishing finish on the very day of Christ Jesus appears so we know that in retweet. We spoke about some of this arthritis. The lesson this morning that Jesus Christ is going to combat the high know that individual in California predicted the end of the world again at icebound to determine someday taking, predicting in the environment from your right step might be a while, but the Jesus is going to return no man knows the time of the hour, so we don't have to wait, we can raise the signs of the time, but we don't have the day or the hour we are in the last days. But in all there in the last of times and things are coming to a close, and they will close but we're not sure when it will happen, but I tell that day comes, realized this, God has started a great working you think God has started a great work in you. Now we went the great work with it what what everyone wanted to let me be private. If you want me to invent something to the limited while the great work that we are about, you know, it's like your pinky finger that if you don't have it, would you listen and you have your later finger. How would you visit and get going here or would you listen to the whatever we think about what we've got. We generally think of it in the context of ordinary waking of our life as ordinary. We think of our ability to touch to speak to hear the tent else smell to travel to motivate to move whatever we think of these things as ordinary. But John is saying that he has God has started a great work in you. God has a purpose God has a plan, Jeremiah twenty nine eleven for I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you plan to give you a whole and eight future God has started a great work. So the great work is not in hindsight the great work that God is doing isn't in our present and in our future God has a purpose for you. Not only a reason for you, but he has the work for you, it hasn't not only does he ever reason for you to be here. He has a work for you to be here now as we look at our life one. We see we generally think. Think of the guys I already foreigner because it's mine. It's not that important got a lot of flaws. This interview. Hair picked up a few pounds for no, we look at our last release a ordinary, but the Scripture says that God has begun a great work God has begun a great work replace a great work God has begun the dating guys think I has begun a great work in me. Then again, God has begun a great work in me. Now do you believe that they regularly said that I said I repeated it, but a foreign area where legislative matter what you do still ordinary by the work of God in all is a good work. A great work. A blast work less work that there are blessings and benefits law. We have all things bring God to the surface of our life every situation brings God for the service of our life and leave and are placed in the position of choosing how they gobble, we will respond to this letter on the gray chapters I have opposed the back to using when Paul Yucca. Sometimes we get we get caught up in while you and I don't have this amount of data and I have this problem. That problem. I was due back to Paul in second Corinthians eleven twenty two by their Hebrews online other Islamic Israelites on my by the Abraham 's descendents, all my sees arguing with these is not arguing he's presenting his case because inquired there were a lot of people running around saying that they were super apostles, and that what Paul was was is nothing so policy if you want to believe that estoppel to give you used to let me give you a few ideas and a few things that I thought my credentials under servants of Christ, I'm out of my mind talk like this. This is the method by him out of my mind talk like this to bring up these these crazy things that happen in my life, but if you want them. I want you to hear up a post on the court Corinthians, I worked harder in prison more frequently then flogged more severely, and then exposed to death again and again five times I received from the Jews for a license minus one, three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked I spent in day-to-day life floating in the open sea. I've been constantly on the move. I've been in danger from rivers in danger from bandits danger from my own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers, a city danger in the country dangerous. See danger from false brothers now okay now how many have ever been under the impression the want your Christian. Nothing bad when rapidly saying it isn't what happens to us, it's what happens in 's and Izumi can we can look at our life, and sometimes things happen. Things happen in our life. Things were totally unprepared for things that we just come out of the blue were doing our job redoing our life were doing things. It is bad. Things fall and a Raven a lot while we have this little video about this guy, who's he's it. He's an auctioneer and it's in Italian, solid and hard to follow and a hazard subtest do it in English, but is an auctioneer. He's auctioning off this maze and is worth millions of dollars a day and so the process in the bidding. All that is going to him him toward commercial one million check your heart attack risk that you have a heart attack in the million-dollar baseman David Boston gate things happen in our lives, sometimes there totally unprepared for it. Only when we talk about all the on all the things going on young then and I think instead about that, you know, I think, I think the ship was going to say I want to take it down. I think that the negative meet me with change in obtaining eleven the practice. Then they take these long canes and ABP but what the policy change is that only times three times patient with thirty nine stripes five different times. I mean, these are difficult situations in England and found cities and think what you know what I nearly get beaten today think what happens in us is more important than what happens to us, our position in Christ is one God has given to all believers in the last week we talked about kings and queens the two crowns from Burger King. What would be the position of an individual. If you were king and queen. What position would you have and how would you approach life from that position. Now the challenge never as high when we possess and how the apart approach life position of being a Christian. What is our position. How is it that we are to see our life and how is it that we are to live our life. What is Paul saying to us what a callous in the opening Scripture that there has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that God who started this great work, and you would keypad. God is at a great working you so from this position of a great work being accomplished in your life God is at work in you while what about all the difficulties. What about all the problems. What about this thing, what about that okay what about as a Christian. From this position. God is giving us the direction yell from this position, which shows how the we will live our lives, how we will respond while I run this position. Can you imagine that your life that you that your life that you know we like to think we've got the better office. Now I'd like the interop with Billy Graham MacDonald, but that good enough in our I know, I think I can be better off cleanup. I was this urban, but you know what good you imagine you would be better off that I mean how do you think you'd be better off that while I had more money in the Rob, I will have a little box in the tonight in bringing out but down there. The idea is that we often have this. The better off of. I won the lottery. I be better off it by adding this job or lived in this community, or if I had done this if I'd done that, or if I hadn't done this, what, what if your life that you for who you are right where you're at and from this position that you are at right now. God is telling us choose because God is great, God was a happier dog who started this great work, and you won't see God in our life fits us and from this position not prohibiting the slave of society and that L Paul got a rice of the slaves. It is a survey rest as well. Let your master dictate who you are from your position as a Christian you are to serve God. Well your life that God has begun a great work in you and is not a keypad, he saw your life that you now. We make something out of it apart because we often look at the circumstances, shipwreck, beaten, breaking the vase we look at circumstances to dictate our position. Our position has nothing to do with circumstances. Our position has everything to do with the word of God, and how that word is in our hearts and our minds to approach what happens in our life. We buy nature are dead in our trespasses and sins, just as in the beginning God created Adam, anime, the bravest a lot of the breath of life and Adam became a living soul that Adam did not have the power to bring the breath of life into him. It was just a piece, it always assumed there would not come in the form of a man. God ravens in the minimum breath of life, God raised him to Austin. We aren't we the breath of God in us, and because of that recognize Wimbledon forever. The breath of life in us. And when Christ resisted forgiveness of our sins, we are in a position to let them live that that's exactly who we are blaming, according to the principles of God 's word limit by those principles to make the word of God alive in us and causing are alive to take the direction of the word of God. Not the direction of the circumstances it out. I was thinking with all this rain in El Salvador. I was thinking of this one pastor that we go and visit whenever there is the that I, David. David likes is his mentor, although Ms. Mentor and he has a second-grade education and he passes a church in rural communities and his house 's house is like a pole barn. It is open on three sides, and there is only one rule that is enclosed that the bedroom is probably a ten by ten area that's the only place in his house that is enclosed as a bedroom. He has one section of that old area as the wall there, that's where they have their third plates and stuff and they'll have placed their belongings just one wall and all the rest of the places open and I thought of while Howard Dean, how would you survive in the three weeks of rain living in a place like that we could never dry out clean. It was just a know and he's not alone green lot of the country is like that, and some of the people who do have houses. Imagine your entire family and your extended family coming to your house and your house is a twelve by twelve square with a roof on and everybody staying inside. While this is a downpour in an in this part of an island in the sky Miguel is he's like this is a great man of faith, his church 's charges. They have they built it recently and has a metal roof and when we were there last you can see where the sunlight was coming through the roof and has been reticent while all those hellholes and rupees is all that for people while they were having charge, they drew dynamite on the will on the roof of the church, and while it were blowing trying to blow holes in the roof and this legality is a great man of faith. He was some drunk one drug came into his into his church, one one one day and one up on the platform, pulled out his machete. It was going to cut his head off our church and the gal who is a pacifist that those hands and knees. Since you must, you must and got a and it was like there we look at our life and we say, my life doesn't fit my life doesn't fit is what online doesn't fit we don't believe that God is doing a good work in the house where I live doesn't fit we don't believe that God 's work helping us and him working through us because we're not living in that position that place where God has escalated and that is that God has begun a great working you editors of the circumstances to determine who you are, whether you succeed or fail. It isn't about failure. It is about success. It's about what God is doing in our hearts and in our minds that we can see how can't is working in us to bless us, or to do cause us to grow and to develop it does all of us have needs to growl all of us have to brawl the change from who we are because were not perfect. I know that the shock that I just is it an act of God to bring us the life is an act of God. God has brought us to live a spiritual life, your work working. I see a lot of people every week. You know, and working with people and in seeing them. What is so disturbing. The most disturbing thing that I have to deal with and it would be revealed working with familial patients now have a limited life expectancy. The most disturbing thing is those who have no faith, no relationship with God, and they are so stubbornly one thing the Bears entertain the thought that there is a God, and they are frightened to death and then the most rewarding very rewarding is that people who want to know Ken can I go to heaven when at what I have to do if I die to get to heaven, what I have to do and we talk about it and and we know what is it that you think you have to do what is your faith tell you what is your confession. What you remember on your faith was there ever a confession, and it was a confession about the confession was about Jesus Christ and forgiveness of sins, and when people thought and meaning of that confession. When people find a place of all of relationship with Jesus Christ. Everything changes their illness hasn't changed their life expectancy hasn't changed, but I am a whole new perspective on their line. Then a whole new perspective on life and of death of hope in this life and hope in the life to come. Nothing changed from their circumstances, but their position in their life changed because now they are Christian. Now they know Jesus Christ. Now they have hope. I don't give that to them. Jesus Christ gives it to them, and that's the same thing that you and I live with whatever we take the word of God, and apply to our lives, our situations don't maybe it may never change will be seeing it differently. We responsibly definitely holy is the Lord was saying about it, and inspires us and tells us that we have hope in this life and the life to come. It changes our perspective, our life had because God is part of this great work, and you will seem added he won't see bad situations where I changed my position in my life and how I see my life and how I see my circumstances changes. The changes because of the word of God 's sake we are to choose wisely. There is the end. And this is from a natural perspective of the multiple relational perspective without self-knowledge at the WR of your life. Go to bed if you don't know who you are. Second, some mindfulness understanding our motives. What we do what we do, why suggests for our own game was different that helping others soft vigilance knowing what makes you tick and what ticks you off, self-consciousness, knowing how you come across to others, self alertness maintaining your emotions, physical and spiritual condition. Knowing maintaining your emotional, physical and spiritual condition self alertness is a because God is in our lives doesn't mean I'm absent and I'm not asinine here and because I am a Christian and wanted to serve the needs I served with the purpose spoke about that last week before we don't have an empty container. We have a purpose for who we are. There is a reason for us being here, there is something that we do in our life with our life is of value to God and to others insult me have a purpose. So, in this place in this position of life. We are God 's work to the work a lot through us and changing us. Paul says there has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work, and you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish a flourishing for students, where we pray and we ask God for wisdom, which is an understanding and how the wisdom is a general oversight of how things apply, helping to put together an understanding which of the application. We have a godly character and action that goes on Philippians one nine so this is my prayer. We know that God has begun the work. And you know, I pray that your love will flourish that he will not only love much loved much, but well can't read what effect can read my writing. So this is my prayer that your liable, Larry said that he will not only love much, but well learn to love appropriately. You need to use your head and test your feelings. Learn to live appropriately learn to love appropriately is a are our society. We don't wait. We use the one we use word love for what last it out into the rubbing the line. What that's even the big thing anymore, but now that that lustful thing that's not love or if you love somebody, you know, I'm an admin relationship, such as friendship, when people try to peer pressure. If you want to be accepted. You want to be logged, you got it do certain things in order to fit in us not love. Love the Scripture tells us that we are to learn love appropriately in the appropriate lob is receiving the love of God. In this position. This position on your life. It God has begun a good work in you and he wants to bring it to a conclusion of flourishing finish when Jesus Christ returns. So, in this place I have to know myself know who I am the one I do. Why do I know that until appropriately appropriately loving appropriately. This allowed the Jesus Christ has for us. He would never ask us to do anything that would cause you to be true for your character in who you are in your relationship with him to be destroyed. He would never tempt us, he would never attempt us to do something that would be sinful, which is a separation from God, which is it we never ask us to break our relationship with him to go against his word love appropriately while that is attached to Christ, that you may be able to discern what is best first line that you may be able to discern what is best seen in this love relationship here well now see, this is the wisdom and this is the understanding of the word of God in your life that it will help us to to discern what is best. God is with us, and in this position am I God is giving me the wisdom and understanding to be able to discern to know what is best for my life. Why, because my life fits God has a purpose. The plan for our life and all of you happen in our life are not what we base it on its upon God 's word discern what is best verse twenty seven. What happens. Conduct yourself in a manner worthy of the gospel. Whatever happens, be prepared to conduct yourself in a manner that is worthy of your position king and queen their position. How should they act as a king and queen of a country. How is it that we should live as a child of God and the world that we live in the life that fits who we are living with wisdom and understanding character purpose. Verse sixteen. Paul says there is never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work, and you would keep lock keypad, a verse six. Excuse me, and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day the Christ appears, God is at work. Learn to love letter to live, learn to speak appropriately so, what is the word we go first chapter three verse one, and that's about it. Friend. Be glad God rejoice in the Lord always. And again I say, rejoice. So in this physician of life God has asked us to be happy, not happy to rejoice happy depends on happenings all the things fitting into place. We always talked about Mosaic and smashed the pause and that sometimes we done those when you do with them. Paul said, forgetting those things which are behind, I press on their things in our life, we need to let go of. They don't fix it. We are, we don't. They don't fit in who we are in Christ. Those things need to be forgiven forgotten and left go. That's a good sequence of forgiven forgotten to let go. Do we ever forget. Now we need to just let it go for Gannon don't bring them up. God doesn't bring it up, so don't you in your position. You have a place in God, you have a place in this life that God is at work doing a great work in you. We need to see God at work in us through us make decisions wisely lobbed correctly rejoice in God, and know that God is taking us through to a flourishing finish when Jesus Christ returns so VIPs with yourself and with God forgiven. Forgive yourself forgive others, letting go, move on with your life. Why is your futures in front of us. Your future is in front of you. There is never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work, and you would keep that and bring it to a flourishing finish with the King James version of the and I remember was that your letters. Yet here was we got a good working, you will complete it before the day of Jesus Christ. God is at work. What position are you with you are in a position of being a Christian, a child of God. He has created you like you could raise yourself to this place. God has given it to you, and from this place. This position. God is at work, you will live forever. Allow the things of life ship wrecked beatings distressed on how to allow those to interfere with the war. God gives us a way of seeing through the beyond the goddess of work he's doing a great work in you. God is doing a great work in me say God is doing a great work in the well-positioned. We have what's all stand and gynecology, stand on the platform right here. Change your position that the big guys in Christ, he changes our position. No longer either limit the Chrysler limited me. We see how all this comes together, we see how the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that he is Lord. I've already done. There is power in the name of Jesus. So from this position. I pray from this position. I believe from this position. I see God at work in my life. I don't understand why circumstances have, the goddess of work and orders them. I'm shipwrecked the dynamite floating in deep do you think Paul ever question that is floating a day and a night in a deep hanging on for dear life. The thing is out there wondering what is God doing now. Sherry did so we can wonder, but he says rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice, be happy in God, what to say. I like the message, and that's about it. Friends