The Sermon To Feel God's Pleasure by David McGee
Jun 03, 2012
To Feel God's Pleasure (36:42)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 5:1-21; Romans 6:1-5; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Romans 8:3; Romans 8:13
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Guilt is a manipulator. Love is a leader.
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Romans 5:1-21
1) Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
2) through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
3) Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;
4) and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
5) and hope doesn‘t disappoint us, because God‘s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given to us.
6) For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7) For one will hardly die for a righteous man. For perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
8) But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God‘s wrath through him.
10) For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11) Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
12) Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
13) For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
14) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren‘t like Adam‘s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
15) But the free gift isn‘t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
16) The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
17) For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
18) So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
19) For as through the one man‘s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous.
20) The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly;
21) that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:1-5
1) What will we say then? Will we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2) Certainly not! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3) Or don‘t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4) We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5) For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
7) By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
8) Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
9) He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
10) Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ‘s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Romans 8:3
3) For what the law couldn‘t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;
Romans 8:13
13) For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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In final stimulus after five, beginning at verse eighteen and then reading through chapter six verse five two Phil God 's pleasure is an interesting concept to feel God 's pleasure. Optimally, we would say to feel God 's presence, but I wanted us to think about how that God is alive and God is touching our lives and how that we find his presence pleasurable it is a pleasure. It is pleasing for us to be in his presence, so robust, chapter five, beginning at verse eighteen here is in a nutshell, just as one person did it wrong and got us all in the just one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death another person did it right and got us out of it, the more that just getting us out of trouble. He got us into life. One man said no to God, and put many people in the wrong one man said yes to God, and put many in the right is referring to Adam and Christ, as in Adam all die as in Christ all are made alive. Twenty all the passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers, but said he didn't and doesn't have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace when it said versus grace, Grace wins hands down. Allstate can do is threaten us with death, but that's the end of it. Race because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah invites us into life, a life that goes on and on and on, world without end. In chapter six. So what do we do keep on sinning so God Barbara Deming, I should hope not. If we left the country were saying this sovereign, how can we still live in the old house. I like that if wavelength. If we've left the country worse in a bind in our house in Houston is in that life. How can we now live in that house up. We left that country or don't you realize, we packed up and left there for good. That's what happened in baptism when we went under the water. We left the old country of sin behind and we came out of the water. We entered into the new country of grace, a new life in a new land. That's what baptism, unto the life of Jesus means when we are lowered into the water. It is like the burial of Jesus when we are raised up out of the water. It is like the resurrection of Jesus. Each of us is raised into a light field world by our father so that we can see where we are going in our new grace sovereign country. We are raised into a light field world while it all to often look at life and we look at things in what appears to be a very logical arena, you will be added by the belief that good is the opposite of that mankind has for centuries, pursued the idea of finding fault or fault finding and then after we say that we if we put the IMO or the bad out there, cerebral or later we will learn not to do it. It appears logical that there is this whole philosophy appears to be so logical. The doctor study disease in order to learn what healthy life is psychologists have investigated sadness in order to learn about joy therapists have looked into the cause of divorce in order to learn about having this is anyways all of us have been encouraged to identify and analyze and correct our weaknesses in order to find strength. This advice is well intended, but it's really miss, miss misguiding nine. No-fault and failures in the and deserve to be studied in others reasons that people do what they do and these are important to study, but they reveal little bit of very little about strengths, so if I ever appear and I say, okay, you cannot. What were going to constructively criticize all of your faults. Okay, so you cannot hear and you stand and everybody gets to take a shot at you when everything is wrong with you. I'm a volunteer for that one was afterwards on afterward done with that whole idea of finding fault. We feel encouraged. We feel like we've accomplished something. If you're going finally go to come of all this discovery on everything that is wrong and the answer is no, because looking for and finding faults and being creditable deficit empower us to become stronger and only eats away at us and we begun even more critical is the fault findings deserve study, but we don't get our strengths from our faults. Strengths have their home pattern strings about our life and about our character as a whole different pattern in our life that are weaknesses in our sins. So the church of Rome had the concept if God loves and forgives sin. Let's keep on sending you both make God happy. Let's continue if God loves to forget. Let's find a way that God can continue to forget. Let's keep on sinning. Well Paul saying in verse of chapter six verse one this is what should we do get the bottom coupon for jamming. I sure hope not. If Wayne left the country where saddest Psalm or how can we still live in our houses. There, so if we have been forgiven, we can go live where Satan is, we can go on living that life that continues to destroy us. So, this section here in chapter six, from verse one to chapter eight verse thirty nine is the section that deals with what we call sanctification. The separation of ourselves from sin is separation from our sin on our life of sin to a righteous life struggle to look over her to look at what sin is so that we may know what righteousness is doesn't work to identify and analyze and correct our sin in order to become righteous is not a lot tried to do. Sent you now don't committed all trade don't steal, don't don't bear false witness adult life. While we have all of those things in our lives. Why didn't nice our society on the society of of Judaism and and and the Old Testament. Why didn't it work. We know what the laws were, but we yet we were still breaking them, and yet and our life. The lifestyle didn't change, and Jesus had to come and tell them you fulfilled the law. I ate your outward things, but you really haven't changed Romans chapter eight verse three says for what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own son. So our nature is that it are part of God 's that kind of controls what we do where we go, what we say our actions and things like that and would Christ forgives us we change our nature and change is that there were person, then no longer desires to find salvation in our actions, but finds forgiveness in Christ that when Christ came to give honest life 's blood became the sacrifice for our sin, and his body on the cross was a sacrifice for sin is death, became the atonement that the price was paid for our sin so that we could find forgiveness and restoration with. They were restored that he purchased our salvation, while when we lost while we go back to add, as in Adam all die in the garden, God created us created mankind men and woman. He created us to walk with him to be his friend, that we would be a friend with God and God came down in the cool of the day and walked without a need and they were has no friend with friend, but when's adamant Eve stands and they found they broke the commandment of God, God gave them one command don't either. The tree is one three. Even the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for the damage to id. at Dubai while at many broke that command. They ate of this, the trade, and they die. They died spiritually. They die physically because it led a nice garden was also the tree of life. The tram line. Gods intervened a mystery, but they never did. They looked and went to the tree. All knowledge of good and evil. They were tempted and may succumb to that temptation, and they die physically and spiritually. They found themselves estranged from God when Jesus Christ came him upon the cross, he purchased back that which we had lost the intended us to live forever and he intended us to walk with him as a friend so in that salvation. The client purchased for us on the cross, reinstate us to that place that we were supposed to have from the very beginning, a place of forgiveness. The place of restoration, the place of walking with God, and so if we think that we are going to walk with God by correcting all of our bad faults, and that we can we can look at all of our faults and find somehow way to God it doesn't work when we look at how Christ has come, and he has purchased our salvation, and we look at what God 's intention was at the very beginning. This intention was that we not save his intention was that we would walk with him as a friend and that he would walk with us, so here is this idea that we are supposed to walk with God, with exaggerated for what the law. The law came and pointed out all of the things that are wrong to these of the ten Commandments don't break them, and you'll find yourself headed right direction. But what happened was we couldn't do it. Jesus said no losses don't commit adultery. And Jesus says if you look to someone and you yelled these are then you committed the same instead. If you are stalling from someone. That's a sin. But if you collect your neighbor stopped to the point if you know you can't get away from thinking about it. Instead, so the nature that we have inside of us is the word God is coming to our life to help us so that we can overcome these things spiritually but we cannot measure by our own logic and reasoning I done in Jesus Christ. So when it's sending versus grace, Grace wins hands down. Grace God 's favor to you, grace is God 's favor to you. You can earn it, you can't make him love you. You can't make them change you can make his changes harder life is in his his nature is to love you the nature of God is that God has never had one bad thought about you about class. His grace is that he is divine favor rests upon God 's divine favor rests upon your life. Do we look at things in which ideologically, and no creditor I live while you know, I just had this or if I just had that I could make it while what if we had the favor of God. What if we had the divine favor of God as invested in our life. Could we make all things are possible to him who believes in the answer is yes, we can make it because the favor of God rest upon us. If the we look at the lobby reading this is thou shalt not. And whenever we see this in ourselves not to become experts in condemnation, it's easy to commit the murder if they hated convicted thief and an All-Pro liar, it is extrinsic, it's easy to pass judgment on people, but Christ, then come to pass judgment on us, so why should we be passing judgment upon ourselves. For God sent not his son in the world to condemn the world, but the world through him might be saved. There is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who him walk after the flesh, but after the spirit there is no condemning nature that Christ nature in a house is not about what is wrong with you. But what's right with you. God forgives us of our sins, and then he works in our life to bring about his relational experience where we find life into the Scriptures talk about what is at the light field world that we live in this life failed world of our father. There is no darkness in him there is no hiding from God out of any fact relating after they broke God 's commandment. They were hiding in the bushes, and God says Adam were are you that he didn't know what was that an outer year gone by Kelly's hiding in God, and no images asking him calling about cozy wanted Adam to respond to his voice, like us, how do we respond to God 's voice. How do we respond to the things that he calls us to do so. It's easy for us to be the standing condemnation to try and convict people and they were what's the news that the uncovering of all of these wrongdoings change our society does the uncovering and reporting of all the bad stuff change us every night. We have the news that five five thirty six six thirty seven. We haven't eleven ten early news ten thirty p.m. Chicago's network in a web. All other names and all this uncovering of all the things of gone wrong in our society and our surrounding areas and in our world have all this news doesn't change anything doesn't change the nature of watching maybe if they want not that bad. Wow look at those people. But what that idiot of how they harm someone. What does the nature of our society change because of the news. The answer is is a worthy awaiting the answer. Maybe that we could do the trick question. Pastors try to force now does our society change by watching the news and the answer is, it doesn't stop us today. Our society does all the police force will be dismissed because we have finally found that if we report all the bad things people will quit doing now doesn't work. Paul says, while Pablo Paul says in Romans chapter eight verse thirteen for if we live according to the sinful nature, we will die and waves easy to find what's wrong in our sinful nature because we have found that the sinful nature expresses itself in a way that generally is hurtful. It is derogatory. It is separation. It is separating us from one another, and it is exclusive, we start putting ourselves in a society where we are not as bad as others and all of this goes on and nothing changes. For if we live according to the sinful nature, we will die. But if this if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, he will live if by the Spirit. This is the spirit of God the Holy Spirit comes to make real to us the Scriptures and to empower us each one of the Linda Christian life in which we will be changed from the inside out. So we do not want to send them our failures for our failure to find the good things in life, we don't look to our failures to find good in this encounter backwards doesn't that we would look to what is wrong to figure out what writers we look to what white his in Christ and in the Scriptures to find out what we can become and how that God wants to do a work in our life that we were created for purpose. We have a God has a plan far life God has a plan for each live in a purpose for each person. And that purpose is found in the life and the love of God, not in the condemnation in the guilt that were going to guilt you into something guilt is a manipulator love is a leader manipulates us. Doesn't manipulate us. God loves us. He leads us in the Scripture says that we aren't you, shake their hand and that we hear his voice, and we follow him. We follow his love we follow the path of his of his righteousness. God intends for us is to shift our focus to shift our focus from south from, shall we keep on sending to her chapter five verses twenty and twenty one, it says all that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers, but said he didn't and doesn't have a chance in competition aggressive forgiveness. We called rings, said Johnson. How much when it is matched against grace. So when we focus on God 's grace and God 's mercy to us are faults of our failures can't compete. We have to let them go. We have to accept God 's grace, we have to accept God 's unmerited favor and love towards us. See Windows 7 versus Grace, Grace wins hands down all sin can do is threaten us with that but that's the infinite grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, and he invites us into life in Christ, we are invited into life eternal life. Life here in the presence that you shall find life and have it more abundantly. You shall find greatness in your life in Christ and how that God will work through you through the Messiah, a life that goes on and on and on and on and on ill I I work him will probably work. I am in hospice, a lot, and a lot of individuals are in the last days of their life, but it's it's always easier when people have a faith that their life is going to go on after they cease breathing after their life stops they have. They may don't fear because of a life that is coming alike that they have in God, and that life is the life that we have here and now we have life in God John Mueller we confess our sins, we have an eternal life is begun in Christ that God wants to do work in us while we are still here. God is not looking for the witness is not looking for the sin in our life. He's not looking for your failures. The others dissolve plaque set the eyes of God are upon you, and I did not, or upon you. Now do you think of that as God 's up there marking down all the bad things, or is it that he loves me so much he can take his eyes off he loves me so much you can take his eyes off me. You see we are raised into a light field world by our father, so we can see where we are going in our new race sovereign country grace sovereign country. The movie chariots of fire, one of the scenes involve the conversation between the Scottish Olympic runner Eric left Lida is a lie down. Why don't my ally DDE LL. Why don't I don't look for this and his sister Janet Jenny Waddell attempts to explain to her why he is postponing his missionary deployment to run in the Olympics. God mainly for purpose slide out saying he made me for purpose China, but he also made me fast and when I run, I feel his pleasure. When I run, I feel his pleasure that sense of feeling the smile of God, the wind in your sale. The sense of privilege to get to do something the feeling that you are doing what you were born to do. These are the signs, the telltale signs that God working online and it isn't found, and is discovered through finding fault is through finding place and purpose, and the smile of God is whereupon our life as we go about the tasks of living and going about our daily routines, we develop a tower consciousness, we develop a talent consciousness that when we do certain things. As like this is what I am for this is what I'm here for this is my purpose in our when I run. Al says when I run, I feel his pleasure. When I read when I speak it's like this is what I'm supposed to be doing with my life and now strengths aren't necessarily what we're good at and weaknesses are not what you are bad at. We can't look at. Everything were good at one point in our life and say this is my talent because there is a calling in my life that God has it all. I remember whenever I said I was going to Bible school has been the minister and all that said, wow that's good. You must be able to speak no can't do that either. The minister began to speak. I don't know, but I know that that's almost me to be a minister while. Northwood is sorry that my in college in West Virginia that the youth group leaders group. Leon asked me to speak, and they gave me twenty minutes and I took for I know all of your praying for that to come back but the family whenever large as the performance again, no. But anyhow I don't, so they figured it was a mistake cell. I they had me speak again however, three minutes and I was Don Ms. like you have really got me a preacher are you and what I knew that's what I was supposed to do after I graduated from now Bible school we went to this mission place in Maine and we stayed there for about two years and we came back and we started started at Milton, I want to try out of the church and they were trying to decide if they wanted me to come for a whole week of meeting so that they could determine whether I was good enough to be their pastor and my prayer was God. I only have three sermons. How could I ever speak for five days, my goodness. It scared me half to death. It took me for five days to write one message that was fifteen minutes long. You know, so if you had looked in five looked at that, I would say all never be a speaker. I'll never be able to stand in front of people, but yet there was a calling and that's where I felt his smile God 's presence. God 's pleasure, and you see it wasn't built on what I couldn't do was built upon what I felt God wanted. And God has called each of us. Each one of us has a divine calling and what we knew we may be doing it in error, working in it, and it's what we feel good at is what we feel purpose of the God smiles that I put stripes in my yard. Now the people, SSDI and I think it looks good to God in I'd I like putting strengths in my yard and I like my grasp. The green doesn't matter. People see it, it matters. Maybe it's the demigod like straight lines on, but it's just something that you feel good about, and each one of us have those areas of our life and is not built on what wrong with you. It's built upon what you look at the new general school. Everyone are all Missouri school and report cards and grades. Now I don't have a kids do this with, but I didn't. I know I did it. Did you look for the lowest drag say what happened here. I may have had that happen at parents elected. That's the luck SS always, and will be what is long with you, not what's right with you. Why don't we look at all of the A's and forget the one B, we look at our life and we look at and how often do we do that very same analogy log what's wrong with you, David. No one wants wrong with your life and what you know when he and I get it isn't what's wrong with your life. It's what's right with your life. It is where the strengths are is where you're going to excel, not in your weaknesses were going to sell that our strengths and son strengths. We don't know we have just yet I never thought that I would be able to be a speaker, a public speaker, but I love to do. I'd love to speak sometimes too long. I love to speak, but when I was eighteen. That was not a strength that I have, but it was something that I knew that I had to do, and that when I get it. I felt the depths where God wanted me to be sold and became my responsibility and with God 's help to develop it, and you see, that's what we find in what God is doing in our life. God smiles in our life when we are doing certain things this will come from the law. What's wrong with you. It comes from what's inside of you. The nature of the God has for you. The nature that God has put in you and will wait. Our nature with the nature of Christ before he is on our sins on those things that would drive us down. Don't you remember this value don't remember there is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, no condemning nature to a Christian saint and a huge user of you. God is the one who says this is the gift by putting this is the gift that I have for you walk in my spirit and my strength. Second Corinthians chapter twelve, says this is Paul's born in the flesh, and I'll close with this because of the extravagance of those revelations. Paul has had no new rate Paul's writings and sometimes week we look at them and we think, wow, how did he learn all this stuff. Paul had a revelation. Revelations from God. The disciples of the other disciples didn't tell Paul what happened on the night in which Jesus was betrayed. Paul had a revelation of it and he told his disciples what it happened that night because Paul had a revelation from Christ, and so did many of these things going on in his life and he talks about them because of the extravagance of those revelations and saw that I wonder they had. I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan 's angels did his best to get me down. Paul had an accuser was a guy called Satan 's angels, but always would try to getting down giver feel yourself being packed that, to the point of getting down on you are and will live down a open attention to Paul says they were there to get me down. But what he in fact was pushing me. July needs the time that testing is aware to a point of which he went to his knees and he began to pray no danger then I'm walking around high and mighty. At first I didn't think of it as a gift and I begged Bob to remove it three times. I did that and then he told me, my grace is enough. It's all you need my grace is enough grace God 's favor to you, my strength comes into its own, speaking of God, God 's strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began to appreciate the gift. Paul says, I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift that's the whole message quit focusing on your handicaps and start looking at your gift things because we all have them. We all have handicapped. We all have gift things everyone quit focusing on the handicaps and began to appreciate the gifts. It was a case of Christ's reign moving in on my weakness is what Paul said it was Christ's strength moving it on my weakness. So as we look at our life. You know what, we're not all perfectly round. Some of us. I working working at it, but were not all perfectly round or oblong, because there are things we do in our life there and British things we do in our life that are just plain can't do. I can't say don't try to understand and mouth the words they shut the mic off and everybody's happy. Now I can't say just isn't there, but like every one of us. There are things we do average the things we do very poor and their things that we can excel at. That's God 's gift to you for your life for the body of Christ for the world. You see, the Bible says that we are peculiar people, not strange people, but people who are set aside with the purpose we are not motivated by what's wrong. God is not focused on how bad you are God 's grace focuses on the gift things that he is placed in your life where you can excel in God 's grace can empower and it takes on a new dimension and in the Scriptures. This morning there was a word called in symbol and simple. The NSC and the LED and what it meant was if you take a hammer and you miss the nail and hit the wood. It leaves an index on Linux are an inseparable and impression of God 's mercy and grace everywhere we go, our gift things have that purpose, to make an impression everywhere we go to Mister so look at each other around. Tell you what your peculiar year set a particular purpose. You have a purpose God has a gift in you and it may not be developed yet. Maybe in its infant stage, but it's where you find God smiling at you and then and then in payment, unless itIn final stimulus after five, beginning at verse eighteen and then reading through chapter six verse five two Phil God 's pleasure is an interesting concept to feel God 's pleasure. Optimally, we would say to feel God 's presence, but I wanted us to think about how that God is alive and God is touching our lives and how that we find his presence pleasurable it is a pleasure. It is pleasing for us to be in his presence, so robust, chapter five, beginning at verse eighteen here is in a nutshell, just as one person did it wrong and got us all in the just one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death another person did it right and got us out of it, the more that just getting us out of trouble. He got us into life. One man said no to God, and put many people in the wrong one man said yes to God, and put many in the right is referring to Adam and Christ, as in Adam all die as in Christ all are made alive. Twenty all the passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers, but said he didn't and doesn't have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace when it said versus grace, Grace wins hands down. Allstate can do is threaten us with death, but that's the end of it. Race because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah invites us into life, a life that goes on and on and on, world without end. In chapter six. So what do we do keep on sinning so God Barbara Deming, I should hope not. If we left the country were saying this sovereign, how can we still live in the old house. I like that if wavelength. If we've left the country worse in a bind in our house in Houston is in that life. How can we now live in that house up. We left that country or don't you realize, we packed up and left there for good. That's what happened in baptism when we went under the water. We left the old country of sin behind and we came out of the water. We entered into the new country of grace, a new life in a new land. That's what baptism, unto the life of Jesus means when we are lowered into the water. It is like the burial of Jesus when we are raised up out of the water. It is like the resurrection of Jesus. Each of us is raised into a light field world by our father so that we can see where we are going in our new grace sovereign country. We are raised into a light field world while it all to often look at life and we look at things in what appears to be a very logical arena, you will be added by the belief that good is the opposite of that mankind has for centuries, pursued the idea of finding fault or fault finding and then after we say that we if we put the IMO or the bad out there, cerebral or later we will learn not to do it. It appears logical that there is this whole philosophy appears to be so logical. The doctor study disease in order to learn what healthy life is psychologists have investigated sadness in order to learn about joy therapists have looked into the cause of divorce in order to learn about having this is anyways all of us have been encouraged to identify and analyze and correct our weaknesses in order to find strength. This advice is well intended, but it's really miss, miss misguiding nine. No-fault and failures in the and deserve to be studied in others reasons that people do what they do and these are important to study, but they reveal little bit of very little about strengths, so if I ever appear and I say, okay, you cannot. What were going to constructively criticize all of your faults. Okay, so you cannot hear and you stand and everybody gets to take a shot at you when everything is wrong with you. I'm a volunteer for that one was afterwards on afterward done with that whole idea of finding fault. We feel encouraged. We feel like we've accomplished something. If you're going finally go to come of all this discovery on everything that is wrong and the answer is no, because looking for and finding faults and being creditable deficit empower us to become stronger and only eats away at us and we begun even more critical is the fault findings deserve study, but we don't get our strengths from our faults. Strengths have their home pattern strings about our life and about our character as a whole different pattern in our life that are weaknesses in our sins. So the church of Rome had the concept if God loves and forgives sin. Let's keep on sending you both make God happy. Let's continue if God loves to forget. Let's find a way that God can continue to forget. Let's keep on sinning. Well Paul saying in verse of chapter six verse one this is what should we do get the bottom coupon for jamming. I sure hope not. If Wayne left the country where saddest Psalm or how can we still live in our houses. There, so if we have been forgiven, we can go live where Satan is, we can go on living that life that continues to destroy us. So, this section here in chapter six, from verse one to chapter eight verse thirty nine is the section that deals with what we call sanctification. The separation of ourselves from sin is separation from our sin on our life of sin to a righteous life struggle to look over her to look at what sin is so that we may know what righteousness is doesn't work to identify and analyze and correct our sin in order to become righteous is not a lot tried to do. Sent you now don't committed all trade don't steal, don't don't bear false witness adult life. While we have all of those things in our lives. Why didn't nice our society on the society of of Judaism and and and the Old Testament. Why didn't it work. We know what the laws were, but we yet we were still breaking them, and yet and our life. The lifestyle didn't change, and Jesus had to come and tell them you fulfilled the law. I ate your outward things, but you really haven't changed Romans chapter eight verse three says for what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own son. So our nature is that it are part of God 's that kind of controls what we do where we go, what we say our actions and things like that and would Christ forgives us we change our nature and change is that there were person, then no longer desires to find salvation in our actions, but finds forgiveness in Christ that when Christ came to give honest life 's blood became the sacrifice for our sin, and his body on the cross was a sacrifice for sin is death, became the atonement that the price was paid for our sin so that we could find forgiveness and restoration with. They were restored that he purchased our salvation, while when we lost while we go back to add, as in Adam all die in the garden, God created us created mankind men and woman. He created us to walk with him to be his friend, that we would be a friend with God and God came down in the cool of the day and walked without a need and they were has no friend with friend, but when's adamant Eve stands and they found they broke the commandment of God, God gave them one command don't either. The tree is one three. Even the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for the damage to id. at Dubai while at many broke that command. They ate of this, the trade, and they die. They died spiritually. They die physically because it led a nice garden was also the tree of life. The tram line. Gods intervened a mystery, but they never did. They looked and went to the tree. All knowledge of good and evil. They were tempted and may succumb to that temptation, and they die physically and spiritually. They found themselves estranged from God when Jesus Christ came him upon the cross, he purchased back that which we had lost the intended us to live forever and he intended us to walk with him as a friend so in that salvation. The client purchased for us on the cross, reinstate us to that place that we were supposed to have from the very beginning, a place of forgiveness. The place of restoration, the place of walking with God, and so if we think that we are going to walk with God by correcting all of our bad faults, and that we can we can look at all of our faults and find somehow way to God it doesn't work when we look at how Christ has come, and he has purchased our salvation, and we look at what God 's intention was at the very beginning. This intention was that we not save his intention was that we would walk with him as a friend and that he would walk with us, so here is this idea that we are supposed to walk with God, with exaggerated for what the law. The law came and pointed out all of the things that are wrong to these of the ten Commandments don't break them, and you'll find yourself headed right direction. But what happened was we couldn't do it. Jesus said no losses don't commit adultery. And Jesus says if you look to someone and you yelled these are then you committed the same instead. If you are stalling from someone. That's a sin. But if you collect your neighbor stopped to the point if you know you can't get away from thinking about it. Instead, so the nature that we have inside of us is the word God is coming to our life to help us so that we can overcome these things spiritually but we cannot measure by our own logic and reasoning I done in Jesus Christ. So when it's sending versus grace, Grace wins hands down. Grace God 's favor to you, grace is God 's favor to you. You can earn it, you can't make him love you. You can't make them change you can make his changes harder life is in his his nature is to love you the nature of God is that God has never had one bad thought about you about class. His grace is that he is divine favor rests upon God 's divine favor rests upon your life. Do we look at things in which ideologically, and no creditor I live while you know, I just had this or if I just had that I could make it while what if we had the favor of God. What if we had the divine favor of God as invested in our life. Could we make all things are possible to him who believes in the answer is yes, we can make it because the favor of God rest upon us. If the we look at the lobby reading this is thou shalt not. And whenever we see this in ourselves not to become experts in condemnation, it's easy to commit the murder if they hated convicted thief and an All-Pro liar, it is extrinsic, it's easy to pass judgment on people, but Christ, then come to pass judgment on us, so why should we be passing judgment upon ourselves. For God sent not his son in the world to condemn the world, but the world through him might be saved. There is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who him walk after the flesh, but after the spirit there is no condemning nature that Christ nature in a house is not about what is wrong with you. But what's right with you. God forgives us of our sins, and then he works in our life to bring about his relational experience where we find life into the Scriptures talk about what is at the light field world that we live in this life failed world of our father. There is no darkness in him there is no hiding from God out of any fact relating after they broke God 's commandment. They were hiding in the bushes, and God says Adam were are you that he didn't know what was that an outer year gone by Kelly's hiding in God, and no images asking him calling about cozy wanted Adam to respond to his voice, like us, how do we respond to God 's voice. How do we respond to the things that he calls us to do so. It's easy for us to be the standing condemnation to try and convict people and they were what's the news that the uncovering of all of these wrongdoings change our society does the uncovering and reporting of all the bad stuff change us every night. We have the news that five five thirty six six thirty seven. We haven't eleven ten early news ten thirty p.m. Chicago's network in a web. All other names and all this uncovering of all the things of gone wrong in our society and our surrounding areas and in our world have all this news doesn't change anything doesn't change the nature of watching maybe if they want not that bad. Wow look at those people. But what that idiot of how they harm someone. What does the nature of our society change because of the news. The answer is is a worthy awaiting the answer. Maybe that we could do the trick question. Pastors try to force now does our society change by watching the news and the answer is, it doesn't stop us today. Our society does all the police force will be dismissed because we have finally found that if we report all the bad things people will quit doing now doesn't work. Paul says, while Pablo Paul says in Romans chapter eight verse thirteen for if we live according to the sinful nature, we will die and waves easy to find what's wrong in our sinful nature because we have found that the sinful nature expresses itself in a way that generally is hurtful. It is derogatory. It is separation. It is separating us from one another, and it is exclusive, we start putting ourselves in a society where we are not as bad as others and all of this goes on and nothing changes. For if we live according to the sinful nature, we will die. But if this if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, he will live if by the Spirit. This is the spirit of God the Holy Spirit comes to make real to us the Scriptures and to empower us each one of the Linda Christian life in which we will be changed from the inside out. So we do not want to send them our failures for our failure to find the good things in life, we don't look to our failures to find good in this encounter backwards doesn't that we would look to what is wrong to figure out what writers we look to what white his in Christ and in the Scriptures to find out what we can become and how that God wants to do a work in our life that we were created for purpose. We have a God has a plan far life God has a plan for each live in a purpose for each person. And that purpose is found in the life and the love of God, not in the condemnation in the guilt that were going to guilt you into something guilt is a manipulator love is a leader manipulates us. Doesn't manipulate us. God loves us. He leads us in the Scripture says that we aren't you, shake their hand and that we hear his voice, and we follow him. We follow his love we follow the path of his of his righteousness. God intends for us is to shift our focus to shift our focus from south from, shall we keep on sending to her chapter five verses twenty and twenty one, it says all that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers, but said he didn't and doesn't have a chance in competition aggressive forgiveness. We called rings, said Johnson. How much when it is matched against grace. So when we focus on God 's grace and God 's mercy to us are faults of our failures can't compete. We have to let them go. We have to accept God 's grace, we have to accept God 's unmerited favor and love towards us. See Windows 7 versus Grace, Grace wins hands down all sin can do is threaten us with that but that's the infinite grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, and he invites us into life in Christ, we are invited into life eternal life. Life here in the presence that you shall find life and have it more abundantly. You shall find greatness in your life in Christ and how that God will work through you through the Messiah, a life that goes on and on and on and on and on ill I I work him will probably work. I am in hospice, a lot, and a lot of individuals are in the last days of their life, but it's it's always easier when people have a faith that their life is going to go on after they cease breathing after their life stops they have. They may don't fear because of a life that is coming alike that they have in God, and that life is the life that we have here and now we have life in God John Mueller we confess our sins, we have an eternal life is begun in Christ that God wants to do work in us while we are still here. God is not looking for the witness is not looking for the sin in our life. He's not looking for your failures. The others dissolve plaque set the eyes of God are upon you, and I did not, or upon you. Now do you think of that as God 's up there marking down all the bad things, or is it that he loves me so much he can take his eyes off he loves me so much you can take his eyes off me. You see we are raised into a light field world by our father, so we can see where we are going in our new race sovereign country grace sovereign country. The movie chariots of fire, one of the scenes involve the conversation between the Scottish Olympic runner Eric left Lida is a lie down. Why don't my ally DDE LL. Why don't I don't look for this and his sister Janet Jenny Waddell attempts to explain to her why he is postponing his missionary deployment to run in the Olympics. God mainly for purpose slide out saying he made me for purpose China, but he also made me fast and when I run, I feel his pleasure. When I run, I feel his pleasure that sense of feeling the smile of God, the wind in your sale. The sense of privilege to get to do something the feeling that you are doing what you were born to do. These are the signs, the telltale signs that God working online and it isn't found, and is discovered through finding fault is through finding place and purpose, and the smile of God is whereupon our life as we go about the tasks of living and going about our daily routines, we develop a tower consciousness, we develop a talent consciousness that when we do certain things. As like this is what I am for this is what I'm here for this is my purpose in our when I run. Al says when I run, I feel his pleasure. When I read when I speak it's like this is what I'm supposed to be doing with my life and now strengths aren't necessarily what we're good at and weaknesses are not what you are bad at. We can't look at. Everything were good at one point in our life and say this is my talent because there is a calling in my life that God has it all. I remember whenever I said I was going to Bible school has been the minister and all that said, wow that's good. You must be able to speak no can't do that either. The minister began to speak. I don't know, but I know that that's almost me to be a minister while. Northwood is sorry that my in college in West Virginia that the youth group leaders group. Leon asked me to speak, and they gave me twenty minutes and I took for I know all of your praying for that to come back but the family whenever large as the performance again, no. But anyhow I don't, so they figured it was a mistake cell. I they had me speak again however, three minutes and I was Don Ms. like you have really got me a preacher are you and what I knew that's what I was supposed to do after I graduated from now Bible school we went to this mission place in Maine and we stayed there for about two years and we came back and we started started at Milton, I want to try out of the church and they were trying to decide if they wanted me to come for a whole week of meeting so that they could determine whether I was good enough to be their pastor and my prayer was God. I only have three sermons. How could I ever speak for five days, my goodness. It scared me half to death. It took me for five days to write one message that was fifteen minutes long. You know, so if you had looked in five looked at that, I would say all never be a speaker. I'll never be able to stand in front of people, but yet there was a calling and that's where I felt his smile God 's presence. God 's pleasure, and you see it wasn't built on what I couldn't do was built upon what I felt God wanted. And God has called each of us. Each one of us has a divine calling and what we knew we may be doing it in error, working in it, and it's what we feel good at is what we feel purpose of the God smiles that I put stripes in my yard. Now the people, SSDI and I think it looks good to God in I'd I like putting strengths in my yard and I like my grasp. The green doesn't matter. People see it, it matters. Maybe it's the demigod like straight lines on, but it's just something that you feel good about, and each one of us have those areas of our life and is not built on what wrong with you. It's built upon what you look at the new general school. Everyone are all Missouri school and report cards and grades. Now I don't have a kids do this with, but I didn't. I know I did it. Did you look for the lowest drag say what happened here. I may have had that happen at parents elected. That's the luck SS always, and will be what is long with you, not what's right with you. Why don't we look at all of the A's and forget the one B, we look at our life and we look at and how often do we do that very same analogy log what's wrong with you, David. No one wants wrong with your life and what you know when he and I get it isn't what's wrong with your life. It's what's right with your life. It is where the strengths are is where you're going to excel, not in your weaknesses were going to sell that our strengths and son strengths. We don't know we have just yet I never thought that I would be able to be a speaker, a public speaker, but I love to do. I'd love to speak sometimes too long. I love to speak, but when I was eighteen. That was not a strength that I have, but it was something that I knew that I had to do, and that when I get it. I felt the depths where God wanted me to be sold and became my responsibility and with God 's help to develop it, and you see, that's what we find in what God is doing in our life. God smiles in our life when we are doing certain things this will come from the law. What's wrong with you. It comes from what's inside of you. The nature of the God has for you. The nature that God has put in you and will wait. Our nature with the nature of Christ before he is on our sins on those things that would drive us down. Don't you remember this value don't remember there is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, no condemning nature to a Christian saint and a huge user of you. God is the one who says this is the gift by putting this is the gift that I have for you walk in my spirit and my strength. Second Corinthians chapter twelve, says this is Paul's born in the flesh, and I'll close with this because of the extravagance of those revelations. Paul has had no new rate Paul's writings and sometimes week we look at them and we think, wow, how did he learn all this stuff. Paul had a revelation. Revelations from God. The disciples of the other disciples didn't tell Paul what happened on the night in which Jesus was betrayed. Paul had a revelation of it and he told his disciples what it happened that night because Paul had a revelation from Christ, and so did many of these things going on in his life and he talks about them because of the extravagance of those revelations and saw that I wonder they had. I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan 's angels did his best to get me down. Paul had an accuser was a guy called Satan 's angels, but always would try to getting down giver feel yourself being packed that, to the point of getting down on you are and will live down a open attention to Paul says they were there to get me down. But what he in fact was pushing me. July needs the time that testing is aware to a point of which he went to his knees and he began to pray no danger then I'm walking around high and mighty. At first I didn't think of it as a gift and I begged Bob to remove it three times. I did that and then he told me, my grace is enough. It's all you need my grace is enough grace God 's favor to you, my strength comes into its own, speaking of God, God 's strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began to appreciate the gift. Paul says, I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift that's the whole message quit focusing on your handicaps and start looking at your gift things because we all have them. We all have handicapped. We all have gift things everyone quit focusing on the handicaps and began to appreciate the gifts. It was a case of Christ's reign moving in on my weakness is what Paul said it was Christ's strength moving it on my weakness. So as we look at our life. You know what, we're not all perfectly round. Some of us. I working working at it, but were not all perfectly round or oblong, because there are things we do in our life there and British things we do in our life that are just plain can't do. I can't say don't try to understand and mouth the words they shut the mic off and everybody's happy. Now I can't say just isn't there, but like every one of us. There are things we do average the things we do very poor and their things that we can excel at. That's God 's gift to you for your life for the body of Christ for the world. You see, the Bible says that we are peculiar people, not strange people, but people who are set aside with the purpose we are not motivated by what's wrong. God is not focused on how bad you are God 's grace focuses on the gift things that he is placed in your life where you can excel in God 's grace can empower and it takes on a new dimension and in the Scriptures. This morning there was a word called in symbol and simple. The NSC and the LED and what it meant was if you take a hammer and you miss the nail and hit the wood. It leaves an index on Linux are an inseparable and impression of God 's mercy and grace everywhere we go, our gift things have that purpose, to make an impression everywhere we go to Mister so look at each other around. Tell you what your peculiar year set a particular purpose. You have a purpose God has a gift in you and it may not be developed yet. Maybe in its infant stage, but it's where you find God smiling at you and then and then in payment, unless it