The Sermon Live Creatively by David McGee
Jul 14, 2013
Live Creatively (32:05)
Referenced Scriptures: Galatians 6:1-10
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Galatians 6:1-10
1) Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren‘t tempted.
2) Bear one another‘s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
3) For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4) But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.
5) For each man will bear his own burden.
6) But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
7) Don‘t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.
8) For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
9) Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don‘t give up.
10) So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
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Are your Bibles to Galatians chapter six, Galatians chapter six and am going to speak about living creatively living creatively will be reading from the message Bible and getting a chapter six verse one live creatively friends. If someone falls at the Sanford to really restore him saving your critical comments for yourself. You might need. You might be needing forgiveness for that for the day. You might need forgiveness before the days out stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed, share their burdens and so complete Christ law. If you think you are too good for that you are badly deceived. Make a cheerful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given and then sink yourself into that don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can be with your own life. Be very sure now you who have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity that you enter into generous common life with those who have trained you sharing all the good thing that you have and experience don't be misled. No one makes a full of God, what a person plans he will harvest the person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others ignoring God harvest the crop of weeds and he'll have to show for his life. This leads, but the one who plants in response to God letting God 's spirit to the growth working him harvest the crop of real-life eternal life. So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good at the right time. We will harvest a good crop. If we don't give up or quit right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all sharing with the people closest to us in the community of faith, whatever I speak about living creatively it is a very difficult task. Being creative is not that easy most that we think sometimes we are creative, but most of the time. We're not. We are confined within a box, and I did this little. I know that this illustration before, but maybe you've seen it before, but connect all the lines with four connect all the dots with four lines, and in all immediately. Our perception goes to see note one two three four wide and connect all the lines one two three four and connect all the dots and so we look at this and are perception is that we've got a connect the dots within a square because that's what's before us and our allies. Is it okay. Let's changed by what even a change. What do I need to change often. It's we wait until this conflict or something goes wrong or yellow there that we have to change and they were forced to see things differently, but you can connect all the lines you many remember, you know, you just have to go outside the box, and they all connect and it's easy once we see at all and it are alive. There are so many things that we look that cause us to respond the same old way and the Scriptures telling us blame creatively limp creatively. So how do we become creative with our thinking. How do we become creative. What why we look at the Scriptures we look at what the Bible in the Scriptures and the word of God has to say to want to challenge some of the things they were doing. I hectare across this writing about creativity is to think about it. Think about God 's creation, God 's accuracy observed the hatching of a for example the egg of a potato bug patches in seven days. Those are the canary in fourteen days. Those in the barnyard hen and twenty one days. The eggs of docking peace hats and twenty eight days. Those of the mallard and thirty five days. The egg of a parent have the ostrich hatched and forty two days. What's the difference. They are all divisible by seven the number of days in the week. God 's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant. The forelegs of this great beasts are all bent forward in the same direction. No other clock quadrupled whatever. What is it quadruped and ever written notice( and the other clutch affrighted cellmate gave it four) so that it can rise in the ground easily, you know, all horse rises from the ground on its two front legs. The column rises from the ground, but it's too hind legs first, all wise, the Lord is God 's wisdom is revealed in his arrangement of sections and segments as well as the number of grains H watermelon has an even number of stripes on the run engraver stop to consider taking the idea and normative. The idea living creatively is here we are with Molly and watermelon. But there are stop and look at noticed that the lines ever stopped to consider the lines. We never stopped to look busy and sometimes whatever creativity is that we have to look at something see ever what it is. There's more to it than what we see there's more to our relationship with God than this. What we've always done with large. Our relationship with people that will not always done. There's more to who we are as an individual, then we think there H orange has an even number of segments each year of corn has an even number of rows each stock of wheat has an even number of grain every bunch of bananas has its has its lowest role. An even number of bananas and each row disgraces by one, so that the one has an even number in the next row has an odd number. The waves of the sea under this World Cup into the ocean number of times they never realized that the sea rolls in on the shore, twenty six times to the minute and all kinds of weather. I was not an hurricane. They came in more often if the twenty six. All grains are found in even numbers on stocks and whenever the Lord says in the Scriptures talk to us that God is going to multiply what he gives you some thirty fold sixty four hundred fold there all even numbers you see some people criticize the Scriptures say, while the Scriptures are out of date, but there's nothing ever found that really contradicts nature and life. The Lord sitting upon the circle of your back when that was written. The earth was flat carried through space on the somebody shoulders, the chosen of God sits on the circle of the earth. All those things are in place, God has caught the flowers blossom. The certain specific times during the day that has the great botnet by the great botanist once said that if you have a conservatory contain the right kind of soil moisture and temperature. He could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those of her clothes the lives of each of us is ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for his glory. If we entrust him with our life. If you try to regulate your own life. It will only be a massive failure. Only the one who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide to a profitable in creativity. Creativity in our life. It should not be the abnormal and should be the normal, because I think it in the context of God who has created us, the God who spoke the universe into existence, the God who makes known the two blades of grass. The same no two snowflakes are the same no two leaves are the same regardless. This creates entities, the same God who lives within our heart where the ones who look at our life and we save the box. Then we start putting things within the confines of our boxes and the way the way that we have handled things before we continue to have on again and the way we do things we've all we get this pattern once worked before, why, why fix it, but God has a way of wanting to move into growing our lives. There's always more that we can become. There's always growth that needs to take place in our life. And it is a it is in that the change that we should, we are forced to look at things differently. The Psalms talk about letting God expand your boundaries, letting God expand your boundaries because the boundaries are we like to live. We all like to live on the edge. We like to live somewhere in the middle because it you were forced to think something might really change, but when God mocks out the wall. He fought workforce to look at things differently were forced to see a bigger picture were forced to realize that life isn't the way that we weep a look at it, and God wants to do more in our lives so living creatively, it says here in the first verse of our Scripture live creatively friends. If someone falls into sin, forgive and restore him creativity is not judgment. Creativity is not judgmental. Creativity is about understanding that there are laws of the universe know if you want to be creative and jump off of the building is twenty stories high. You're not going to defy the law of gravity, so that's not being critical, that's being stupid. I don't have to pass judgment on that creativity always that of gravity already is done that. So what if we look at things, our first instinct is that something else or persons that sometimes our instinct goes to the idea of being judgmental ball. Let's not be judgmental. Let's forgive restore save your critical judgment. Save your critical judgment, save those things for yourself because forgiveness is the only way we can deal with other people 's sins. Forgiveness is the only way we can deal with our own God doesn't want us to sit in judgment of our lives. We are told God 's word to sit in judgment of who we are, so that we will continue to become what God wants us to be. We are to be forgiven. Individuals who are living for God wanting other people to experience this. We want other people to understand what forgiveness is an forgiveness isn't being judgment judgmental forgiveness is being restorative that we want to restore people to the relationship. The goblins and a half, close to be restored to the relationship and to the person he wanted us to be the person he created us to be so weak. What did God intend for me. You and I could be if we didn't have any faults or failures. What type of person would we be if we didn't have faults and failures. While we certainly would be much better off. And now know that I have very few faults in him can't find very many of that's a joke. So if I have lots of thoughts and lots of failures, but the ideas that I must set in an understanding and creating we look at the Scripture hath a careful verse four and the careful or exploration of who you are, have a careful exploration of who you are. What that means was an explorer in Explorer is an individual who is going someplace he's never been before exploration lets go explore the depths of the sea title. What let's go explore Windber innings for harder than he thought much of an exploration as it bullets go explore China. Beijing was go explore Jerusalem. Let's go. It makes exploration is exploring someplace that we haven't been in our lives. The Scriptures kindness make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given. Let's look at who you are not from a critical eye of what is wrong. God doesn't sit in judgment. He sits as a savior to separate us from our sins are false. Our failures or mistakes the things we've done to hurt others and herself, so forgive us. We want to find forgiveness so that we can carefully explore who we are so careful exploration of who we are is allowing the word of God to search out the things our life, we need to change it openly with a one perfectly good the way IM as I've lived to this point and I'm sure that I can live until the day I die in their right. Let's prove you can live until the day you die. Most of us will live until the day we die. Again, it's another little thing. There jumped that ever sell off so first one says live creatively verse four says make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you've been given and then sink yourself into that it's not sitting in judgment of pretty cool all about that this was the cup that was look at, look at what I've done always do this stuff. What now, not why and when, why and when is an argument one house and assessment twenties many times would do it again. What how what I do and how did I do so, look at my life make a careful exploration neck. A careful exploration. And what is one reason for the Jaipur were using for the yardstick, the measurement. The measurement how my life is measured against the word of God measured against what God expects of us. He expects of us to love, to forgive to buying up heals the brokenhearted, to be forgiving love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness. Make this kind is long-suffering is to be our character and that we can't do this on our own if we think were going to change ourselves become this were wrong. We need God. We need his spirit to help us become that. And so, God comes into our life, not to tell us how wrong we are, but the show us how great and how good we can become and how that all of the things that we've been dealing can be done even to a greater than the benefit to ourselves and to others because God is in our life. The most creative people in the world should be Christians because God abides within our heart and God sees if we look at our life, we look at in the context of who we are where we are right now. Some things were within their projections of what we could become God sees our life while before we were yet in our mother 's womb. He knew us while we were yet in our mother 's womb. He informed us, God knows what's been happening in the future eternity. He knows all about us from before conception until eternity. God knows all of that. So, when God looks at the picture he doesn't see this microcosm of time he sees a total life, and then his spirit speaks to our hearts in our lives who wants to bring us to majority before we die before we returned to heaven before we go to heaven. So what this is maturing process look like. It looks like God, seeing us and we allowing God to partner with us to look at his word and allow his words become so real to us, we run to the altar we run into that place where God is, we run to the place regardless of your work in us, so make a careful exploration of who you are the work you have been given then sink yourself into it. Make a careful busy. This is not a comparison. This isn't me against the world, it's me and where I was yesterday what direction I'm headed today and what is my future hold for me. I am comparing a car is a comparison I'm looking at who I was, but the comparison really has a lot to look at Christ. I want to look at Jesus. I want to look at this pattern, and his ways and God is standing there in condemnation, you should you better measure up get going in a lifetime. He is there leaving us is the shepherd that leads his sheep. We follow him. We follow Christ and that we follow his pattern in his path. Jesus never sat in judgment in a oil of evil ever spoke negatively were the ones who were so religious that they couldn't see anything or hear anything that he had to say any a spoken of as being blind because they were already perfect in rural minds whenever we whenever we are judged mental leaves the board again whenever we are just Lamar lives. We generally have two responses. One is that we are very very negative, or very reactionary that when someone says, you know, David, you need to change. While I you you you to sail my gosh my faults and come to the surface. We blamed the shame we were, we digress, and eventually come around to being the same old self, yellow, we shamefully blamed me digress and we go back to being who we are now or we leave the we attack we attacked we justify we say were good enough. We go back to doing the same thing. We always did the same. This guy doesn't God inspires us to look at what we can become ill if what we're doing isn't working out. We now start working gently by the results. Sometimes it's results were sometimes we just haven't gotten to the place that will work in our member. One way you few speeches about changes that whenever we come to the wall like I can't get to that road over there until I hit that wall. I can't change now. I can change the writer to the left until I come to the T in the road and in our life. Sometimes we have to, we look at life. We know we have to change. We know the things have to be different, but I can't change until I reach that wall and sometimes we look at life as we run into a wall. It's like why God you bring me here because you need to go left or right. That's why, and it online shame, blame, we look at life and we look at changes God is in the get up and move his agenda. We are glad by his spirit and his word explore who we are. Don't be impressed with yourself. The Scriptures as though you yourself with others. We need to look at Christ. We need to look at his example of who he is and he will inspire us in our walk with him. Tech responsibility for doing the creative best take responsibility for doing the creative you can with your own life when we sit in judgment. We don't look at us. We look at the faults of others. God doesn't sit in judgment, God is there to lead and guide us. It is the presence of God that makes us aware of our shortcomings. Okay, not that we would be pushed back, but that will, we would be drawn to God 's presence is one that draws us in. He leads us as we become close to God, we become closer to God. We see the things that need to be let go about life and these things that we like a lot of are things that are hindering our personal spiritual development and our spiritual development is very much a part of our everyday life. Our ability to love and forgive and to give into to care for people to do our best for people. It is God 's true last touching them. So we live creatively. We do our creative best and first six talks about you, you can revisit talks about how that you have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity and the idea is we are here because we have been everything we have. We built on the shoulders of someone else everything in the church. This church was building all began with someone else somebody else's ministry summoned some other people that are long gone, so we are here on the shoulders of other people and what we build we build on their shoulders will be ours, an individual, we've learned and we come to understand we build ourselves on the shoulders of other people, and it is not so the idea doesn't come back to how great I am look what I've done. It's that we are thankful for those who brought us here. We never forget people who brought us to this point that the verse six is about. First, seven and eight says don't be misled. Don't be misled. No one makes a fool of God, what a person plans he will harvest whatsoever man. So what that shall he also reap. What goes around comes around. You never than the movie. I didn't looking up for San Jose for this up, but I didn't probably do some restrictions, but secondhand line noted Libya regime. The second line while in the story. The guys they buy the seeds from the traveling salesman and they have a garden and there's cabbage in his letters, and does all these things the LLC packages rate in each relevant as it's growing. They start looking around an envelope. It says all of all these roles are different state. How come everything looks the same, and the guy says it all. I think when they were. They were all the same seats when we planted that even though they were in different packages and there is all rows of corn. The guys sold in different packages, saying the wrapping said lettuce and carrots and potatoes, and all the things, but inside was the same scene in our lives. We are that we are with Christ and what we we are who we are no cats, change, we will plant and reproduce. We are is important that we allow Christ to do work in our hearts and lives, and then so whatsoever man sows, that shall he also reap. He will harvest what he plans all and all, all he'll have to show for his life. The person who just to see who sows the seeds to ignoring the needs of others, and ignoring God. It is that I have a harvest of weeds, but the one who plants in response to God letting God 's Spirit to do the growth work in him. I can't force myself to grow, but as I allow myself to be in God 's presence, reading his word and praying. I'm allowing the spirit to grow me to grow who I am and this person will touch the lives of others, and very positive way. First, nine and ten, so let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued in doing good, don't become weary in well doing, don't wear out doing good too good continue to do good in the matter how tired you get in the twenty four hours a relay for life no matter how tired we get in doing good for others. Don't become weary in well doing, and has a positive effect because of an outcome because the God is with us and so inverse first one live creatively. Things are not what you judge them to be verse four and five. Carefully explore who you are not judged mentally, but for giving me for six learn, grow, give back verse seven. Plant seeds, you will reproduce who noir plant seeds of love and forgiveness and growth verse nine and ten, so let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued at the right time. We will harvest a good crop. If we don't give up, we will reap a harvest don't quit. God has a way of bringing about sowing and reaping. You know God has a way of bringing about the harvest of the crop right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith. This is not something that is easy. Let's start with people who can we practice on point of the people are that I will practice on you out of practice doing good for you and if I do wrong, help me out here, as were all just beginning to understand that I have to do good, and sometimes I don't do right, and I planted seeds, and not by my garden art, lower back and you'll see that when come on Saturdays and some seeds are planted. They've done very well, but we bought these seeds in them. Canada last year and we know it to bring across taking up a special, sensitive, and I planted and and not on the ground, not one of them aground and I don't know why but somehow the season really grown and produced while some of them just I go on my look and there's nothing there in our lives. Whenever we so God 's goodness in God 's love, it can never be erased never be undone before last for an eternity, and people will remember what you have done when God 's Spirit is attached to it. They may not respond to it, but they will never be able to forget it because as an eternal perspective, that is, there's a trial quality that is in the seat that makes a difference in people 's lives and so we continue to sow the seed of God 's love and God 's goodness and as we look at our lives not in judgment. It's in how that God can make a difference in who we are so Mister father, we thank you for your blessings. We thank you for your word. We thank you God that you create in us a right spirit crate when you arrived when your heart. So God and renew our spirits and let us not become weary in doing good things, and Lord. Let us look at our life in ways that we can change and grow in our relationships with others in our relationship and in ourselves. Help us God. See your hand upon us, for Lord, you have a future. Your future is the bless us your future. Oh God, is to bring about your goodness in our lives. Help us. Oh Lord, to sense your spirits touch your seed growing in the house as we look at new ways to do all things that we might produce a harvest in office and in others that is eternal. We thank you Lord for your blessing we ask of God, your blessing upon your Word in our hearts and minds. We pray in the name of our Savior Jesus Christ. Everyone said amen and Saturday as slip and slide dreadlocked, I want to all theirAre your Bibles to Galatians chapter six, Galatians chapter six and am going to speak about living creatively living creatively will be reading from the message Bible and getting a chapter six verse one live creatively friends. If someone falls at the Sanford to really restore him saving your critical comments for yourself. You might need. You might be needing forgiveness for that for the day. You might need forgiveness before the days out stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed, share their burdens and so complete Christ law. If you think you are too good for that you are badly deceived. Make a cheerful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given and then sink yourself into that don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can be with your own life. Be very sure now you who have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity that you enter into generous common life with those who have trained you sharing all the good thing that you have and experience don't be misled. No one makes a full of God, what a person plans he will harvest the person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others ignoring God harvest the crop of weeds and he'll have to show for his life. This leads, but the one who plants in response to God letting God 's spirit to the growth working him harvest the crop of real-life eternal life. So let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good at the right time. We will harvest a good crop. If we don't give up or quit right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all sharing with the people closest to us in the community of faith, whatever I speak about living creatively it is a very difficult task. Being creative is not that easy most that we think sometimes we are creative, but most of the time. We're not. We are confined within a box, and I did this little. I know that this illustration before, but maybe you've seen it before, but connect all the lines with four connect all the dots with four lines, and in all immediately. Our perception goes to see note one two three four wide and connect all the lines one two three four and connect all the dots and so we look at this and are perception is that we've got a connect the dots within a square because that's what's before us and our allies. Is it okay. Let's changed by what even a change. What do I need to change often. It's we wait until this conflict or something goes wrong or yellow there that we have to change and they were forced to see things differently, but you can connect all the lines you many remember, you know, you just have to go outside the box, and they all connect and it's easy once we see at all and it are alive. There are so many things that we look that cause us to respond the same old way and the Scriptures telling us blame creatively limp creatively. So how do we become creative with our thinking. How do we become creative. What why we look at the Scriptures we look at what the Bible in the Scriptures and the word of God has to say to want to challenge some of the things they were doing. I hectare across this writing about creativity is to think about it. Think about God 's creation, God 's accuracy observed the hatching of a for example the egg of a potato bug patches in seven days. Those are the canary in fourteen days. Those in the barnyard hen and twenty one days. The eggs of docking peace hats and twenty eight days. Those of the mallard and thirty five days. The egg of a parent have the ostrich hatched and forty two days. What's the difference. They are all divisible by seven the number of days in the week. God 's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant. The forelegs of this great beasts are all bent forward in the same direction. No other clock quadrupled whatever. What is it quadruped and ever written notice( and the other clutch affrighted cellmate gave it four) so that it can rise in the ground easily, you know, all horse rises from the ground on its two front legs. The column rises from the ground, but it's too hind legs first, all wise, the Lord is God 's wisdom is revealed in his arrangement of sections and segments as well as the number of grains H watermelon has an even number of stripes on the run engraver stop to consider taking the idea and normative. The idea living creatively is here we are with Molly and watermelon. But there are stop and look at noticed that the lines ever stopped to consider the lines. We never stopped to look busy and sometimes whatever creativity is that we have to look at something see ever what it is. There's more to it than what we see there's more to our relationship with God than this. What we've always done with large. Our relationship with people that will not always done. There's more to who we are as an individual, then we think there H orange has an even number of segments each year of corn has an even number of rows each stock of wheat has an even number of grain every bunch of bananas has its has its lowest role. An even number of bananas and each row disgraces by one, so that the one has an even number in the next row has an odd number. The waves of the sea under this World Cup into the ocean number of times they never realized that the sea rolls in on the shore, twenty six times to the minute and all kinds of weather. I was not an hurricane. They came in more often if the twenty six. All grains are found in even numbers on stocks and whenever the Lord says in the Scriptures talk to us that God is going to multiply what he gives you some thirty fold sixty four hundred fold there all even numbers you see some people criticize the Scriptures say, while the Scriptures are out of date, but there's nothing ever found that really contradicts nature and life. The Lord sitting upon the circle of your back when that was written. The earth was flat carried through space on the somebody shoulders, the chosen of God sits on the circle of the earth. All those things are in place, God has caught the flowers blossom. The certain specific times during the day that has the great botnet by the great botanist once said that if you have a conservatory contain the right kind of soil moisture and temperature. He could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those of her clothes the lives of each of us is ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for his glory. If we entrust him with our life. If you try to regulate your own life. It will only be a massive failure. Only the one who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide to a profitable in creativity. Creativity in our life. It should not be the abnormal and should be the normal, because I think it in the context of God who has created us, the God who spoke the universe into existence, the God who makes known the two blades of grass. The same no two snowflakes are the same no two leaves are the same regardless. This creates entities, the same God who lives within our heart where the ones who look at our life and we save the box. Then we start putting things within the confines of our boxes and the way the way that we have handled things before we continue to have on again and the way we do things we've all we get this pattern once worked before, why, why fix it, but God has a way of wanting to move into growing our lives. There's always more that we can become. There's always growth that needs to take place in our life. And it is a it is in that the change that we should, we are forced to look at things differently. The Psalms talk about letting God expand your boundaries, letting God expand your boundaries because the boundaries are we like to live. We all like to live on the edge. We like to live somewhere in the middle because it you were forced to think something might really change, but when God mocks out the wall. He fought workforce to look at things differently were forced to see a bigger picture were forced to realize that life isn't the way that we weep a look at it, and God wants to do more in our lives so living creatively, it says here in the first verse of our Scripture live creatively friends. If someone falls into sin, forgive and restore him creativity is not judgment. Creativity is not judgmental. Creativity is about understanding that there are laws of the universe know if you want to be creative and jump off of the building is twenty stories high. You're not going to defy the law of gravity, so that's not being critical, that's being stupid. I don't have to pass judgment on that creativity always that of gravity already is done that. So what if we look at things, our first instinct is that something else or persons that sometimes our instinct goes to the idea of being judgmental ball. Let's not be judgmental. Let's forgive restore save your critical judgment. Save your critical judgment, save those things for yourself because forgiveness is the only way we can deal with other people 's sins. Forgiveness is the only way we can deal with our own God doesn't want us to sit in judgment of our lives. We are told God 's word to sit in judgment of who we are, so that we will continue to become what God wants us to be. We are to be forgiven. Individuals who are living for God wanting other people to experience this. We want other people to understand what forgiveness is an forgiveness isn't being judgment judgmental forgiveness is being restorative that we want to restore people to the relationship. The goblins and a half, close to be restored to the relationship and to the person he wanted us to be the person he created us to be so weak. What did God intend for me. You and I could be if we didn't have any faults or failures. What type of person would we be if we didn't have faults and failures. While we certainly would be much better off. And now know that I have very few faults in him can't find very many of that's a joke. So if I have lots of thoughts and lots of failures, but the ideas that I must set in an understanding and creating we look at the Scripture hath a careful verse four and the careful or exploration of who you are, have a careful exploration of who you are. What that means was an explorer in Explorer is an individual who is going someplace he's never been before exploration lets go explore the depths of the sea title. What let's go explore Windber innings for harder than he thought much of an exploration as it bullets go explore China. Beijing was go explore Jerusalem. Let's go. It makes exploration is exploring someplace that we haven't been in our lives. The Scriptures kindness make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given. Let's look at who you are not from a critical eye of what is wrong. God doesn't sit in judgment. He sits as a savior to separate us from our sins are false. Our failures or mistakes the things we've done to hurt others and herself, so forgive us. We want to find forgiveness so that we can carefully explore who we are so careful exploration of who we are is allowing the word of God to search out the things our life, we need to change it openly with a one perfectly good the way IM as I've lived to this point and I'm sure that I can live until the day I die in their right. Let's prove you can live until the day you die. Most of us will live until the day we die. Again, it's another little thing. There jumped that ever sell off so first one says live creatively verse four says make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you've been given and then sink yourself into that it's not sitting in judgment of pretty cool all about that this was the cup that was look at, look at what I've done always do this stuff. What now, not why and when, why and when is an argument one house and assessment twenties many times would do it again. What how what I do and how did I do so, look at my life make a careful exploration neck. A careful exploration. And what is one reason for the Jaipur were using for the yardstick, the measurement. The measurement how my life is measured against the word of God measured against what God expects of us. He expects of us to love, to forgive to buying up heals the brokenhearted, to be forgiving love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness. Make this kind is long-suffering is to be our character and that we can't do this on our own if we think were going to change ourselves become this were wrong. We need God. We need his spirit to help us become that. And so, God comes into our life, not to tell us how wrong we are, but the show us how great and how good we can become and how that all of the things that we've been dealing can be done even to a greater than the benefit to ourselves and to others because God is in our life. The most creative people in the world should be Christians because God abides within our heart and God sees if we look at our life, we look at in the context of who we are where we are right now. Some things were within their projections of what we could become God sees our life while before we were yet in our mother 's womb. He knew us while we were yet in our mother 's womb. He informed us, God knows what's been happening in the future eternity. He knows all about us from before conception until eternity. God knows all of that. So, when God looks at the picture he doesn't see this microcosm of time he sees a total life, and then his spirit speaks to our hearts in our lives who wants to bring us to majority before we die before we returned to heaven before we go to heaven. So what this is maturing process look like. It looks like God, seeing us and we allowing God to partner with us to look at his word and allow his words become so real to us, we run to the altar we run into that place where God is, we run to the place regardless of your work in us, so make a careful exploration of who you are the work you have been given then sink yourself into it. Make a careful busy. This is not a comparison. This isn't me against the world, it's me and where I was yesterday what direction I'm headed today and what is my future hold for me. I am comparing a car is a comparison I'm looking at who I was, but the comparison really has a lot to look at Christ. I want to look at Jesus. I want to look at this pattern, and his ways and God is standing there in condemnation, you should you better measure up get going in a lifetime. He is there leaving us is the shepherd that leads his sheep. We follow him. We follow Christ and that we follow his pattern in his path. Jesus never sat in judgment in a oil of evil ever spoke negatively were the ones who were so religious that they couldn't see anything or hear anything that he had to say any a spoken of as being blind because they were already perfect in rural minds whenever we whenever we are judged mental leaves the board again whenever we are just Lamar lives. We generally have two responses. One is that we are very very negative, or very reactionary that when someone says, you know, David, you need to change. While I you you you to sail my gosh my faults and come to the surface. We blamed the shame we were, we digress, and eventually come around to being the same old self, yellow, we shamefully blamed me digress and we go back to being who we are now or we leave the we attack we attacked we justify we say were good enough. We go back to doing the same thing. We always did the same. This guy doesn't God inspires us to look at what we can become ill if what we're doing isn't working out. We now start working gently by the results. Sometimes it's results were sometimes we just haven't gotten to the place that will work in our member. One way you few speeches about changes that whenever we come to the wall like I can't get to that road over there until I hit that wall. I can't change now. I can change the writer to the left until I come to the T in the road and in our life. Sometimes we have to, we look at life. We know we have to change. We know the things have to be different, but I can't change until I reach that wall and sometimes we look at life as we run into a wall. It's like why God you bring me here because you need to go left or right. That's why, and it online shame, blame, we look at life and we look at changes God is in the get up and move his agenda. We are glad by his spirit and his word explore who we are. Don't be impressed with yourself. The Scriptures as though you yourself with others. We need to look at Christ. We need to look at his example of who he is and he will inspire us in our walk with him. Tech responsibility for doing the creative best take responsibility for doing the creative you can with your own life when we sit in judgment. We don't look at us. We look at the faults of others. God doesn't sit in judgment, God is there to lead and guide us. It is the presence of God that makes us aware of our shortcomings. Okay, not that we would be pushed back, but that will, we would be drawn to God 's presence is one that draws us in. He leads us as we become close to God, we become closer to God. We see the things that need to be let go about life and these things that we like a lot of are things that are hindering our personal spiritual development and our spiritual development is very much a part of our everyday life. Our ability to love and forgive and to give into to care for people to do our best for people. It is God 's true last touching them. So we live creatively. We do our creative best and first six talks about you, you can revisit talks about how that you have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity and the idea is we are here because we have been everything we have. We built on the shoulders of someone else everything in the church. This church was building all began with someone else somebody else's ministry summoned some other people that are long gone, so we are here on the shoulders of other people and what we build we build on their shoulders will be ours, an individual, we've learned and we come to understand we build ourselves on the shoulders of other people, and it is not so the idea doesn't come back to how great I am look what I've done. It's that we are thankful for those who brought us here. We never forget people who brought us to this point that the verse six is about. First, seven and eight says don't be misled. Don't be misled. No one makes a fool of God, what a person plans he will harvest whatsoever man. So what that shall he also reap. What goes around comes around. You never than the movie. I didn't looking up for San Jose for this up, but I didn't probably do some restrictions, but secondhand line noted Libya regime. The second line while in the story. The guys they buy the seeds from the traveling salesman and they have a garden and there's cabbage in his letters, and does all these things the LLC packages rate in each relevant as it's growing. They start looking around an envelope. It says all of all these roles are different state. How come everything looks the same, and the guy says it all. I think when they were. They were all the same seats when we planted that even though they were in different packages and there is all rows of corn. The guys sold in different packages, saying the wrapping said lettuce and carrots and potatoes, and all the things, but inside was the same scene in our lives. We are that we are with Christ and what we we are who we are no cats, change, we will plant and reproduce. We are is important that we allow Christ to do work in our hearts and lives, and then so whatsoever man sows, that shall he also reap. He will harvest what he plans all and all, all he'll have to show for his life. The person who just to see who sows the seeds to ignoring the needs of others, and ignoring God. It is that I have a harvest of weeds, but the one who plants in response to God letting God 's Spirit to do the growth work in him. I can't force myself to grow, but as I allow myself to be in God 's presence, reading his word and praying. I'm allowing the spirit to grow me to grow who I am and this person will touch the lives of others, and very positive way. First, nine and ten, so let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued in doing good, don't become weary in well doing, don't wear out doing good too good continue to do good in the matter how tired you get in the twenty four hours a relay for life no matter how tired we get in doing good for others. Don't become weary in well doing, and has a positive effect because of an outcome because the God is with us and so inverse first one live creatively. Things are not what you judge them to be verse four and five. Carefully explore who you are not judged mentally, but for giving me for six learn, grow, give back verse seven. Plant seeds, you will reproduce who noir plant seeds of love and forgiveness and growth verse nine and ten, so let's not allow ourselves to get fatigued at the right time. We will harvest a good crop. If we don't give up, we will reap a harvest don't quit. God has a way of bringing about sowing and reaping. You know God has a way of bringing about the harvest of the crop right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith. This is not something that is easy. Let's start with people who can we practice on point of the people are that I will practice on you out of practice doing good for you and if I do wrong, help me out here, as were all just beginning to understand that I have to do good, and sometimes I don't do right, and I planted seeds, and not by my garden art, lower back and you'll see that when come on Saturdays and some seeds are planted. They've done very well, but we bought these seeds in them. Canada last year and we know it to bring across taking up a special, sensitive, and I planted and and not on the ground, not one of them aground and I don't know why but somehow the season really grown and produced while some of them just I go on my look and there's nothing there in our lives. Whenever we so God 's goodness in God 's love, it can never be erased never be undone before last for an eternity, and people will remember what you have done when God 's Spirit is attached to it. They may not respond to it, but they will never be able to forget it because as an eternal perspective, that is, there's a trial quality that is in the seat that makes a difference in people 's lives and so we continue to sow the seed of God 's love and God 's goodness and as we look at our lives not in judgment. It's in how that God can make a difference in who we are so Mister father, we thank you for your blessings. We thank you for your word. We thank you God that you create in us a right spirit crate when you arrived when your heart. So God and renew our spirits and let us not become weary in doing good things, and Lord. Let us look at our life in ways that we can change and grow in our relationships with others in our relationship and in ourselves. Help us God. See your hand upon us, for Lord, you have a future. Your future is the bless us your future. Oh God, is to bring about your goodness in our lives. Help us. Oh Lord, to sense your spirits touch your seed growing in the house as we look at new ways to do all things that we might produce a harvest in office and in others that is eternal. We thank you Lord for your blessing we ask of God, your blessing upon your Word in our hearts and minds. We pray in the name of our Savior Jesus Christ. Everyone said amen and Saturday as slip and slide dreadlocked, I want to all their