The Sermon The Perfect Person Part IV - Walking by David McGee
Feb 16, 2014
The Perfect Person Part IV - Walking (33:15)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 8:9-11; Genesis 5:24; Isaiah 30:21; Hebrews 12:12-13; Psalm 23:4; Luke 3:4-5; John 11:10; 1 John 1:7
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Romans 8:9-11
9) But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn‘t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
10) If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11) But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Genesis 5:24
24) Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Isaiah 30:21
21) and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it; when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
Hebrews 12:12-13
12) Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
13) and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
Psalm 23:4
4) Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Luke 3:4-5
4) As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
5) Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, And the rough ways smooth.
John 11:10
10) But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn‘t in him."
1 John 1:7
7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
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Avast, me last week of my throbbing weeks you have sermons on the same topic that is run another Roman numerals& the perfect person and job we were talking about the old one is the perfect person. What we know that Jesus Christ is the only perfect individual, but in our walk with God. The optimum work today walk is where where I can what you know, talking about our hearts with Don that routine spoke of our hearts. We spoken are talking our mouths are speaking about taste and see our eyes are hearing are doing. And today, where finalizing it with walking our walk with the Lord, so walk to be defined is to proceed or to advance by moving your feet to walk is to move our advanced by moving your faith. Do you ever have a semi- day get moving. While they were seated at the airfield little faster, and I always liked Tim Conway, that was my favorite. Does it really done about them. Conway watched some of the old TV shows Kevin Conway and your person and every guy you have watched about an hour I can do a good time, I bought it out so it would say okay here is like one of those things. Please move after all, else I was them, so sometimes I think in our Christian walk. God saying move your feet. David yet love a little quicker, get down, but one foot in front of the other, or it can also mean a person 's usual mode of behavior your usual mode of behavior. So our Walkman is moving your feet as a physical mold the mother. Physical movement, but it is also a mode of behavior that are behavior before God and in life is our walk now going to read Romans chapter eight again, which has been the theme of our series. But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, has not welcomed his. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what were talking about buffer you welcome him in whom he dwells even though you still experience all the limitations of sin and outwards. I'm not a perfect person, we somehow forget that we still experience all the limitations of sin, we have limitations, knows no doubt about it. I can't say no. I was singing behind Jackson any goes like this covers is the media is like I realize I sound okay, but you know of one time was a few weeks ago I had the mic button on for my mic and they headed off back there, but somehow was making its way through the ladies in bears, and was ringing in their ears. My boys and they were all confused as to where they should be when they were singing so we all have the limitations of said while we all have limitations in our walk, but that's not an excuse. So we all have limitations. The ideas that we take the strengths that we have and we develop the strength and allow the spirit of God to take the strengths of our life and make them better and the weaknesses of our life bring them up so they're not our pitfalls in our learn how to say José got this boombox back here. The he will let me sing into. But anyhow, in our healthcare and do that against them for imposing side figure out I can sound like almost anyone through that little box. So even though we still experience all the limitations of sin here yourself. Life on God 's terms. And I think this is so appropriate for our walk because we walk through many different situations of them find that out today. We walked through many different similar situations, but you experience we experience life on God 's terms. I think of Paul on the boats no going to Rome and the boat is in the storm for two weeks, they throw ropes around the belt to hold together. And Paul says, you know, guys, if you listen you can say this, but if you're blessed with one being to storm and we would be thinking while, but he was experienced that he was experiencing that storm and the wrecking demolishing of the ship was if he was experiencing life on God 's terms. We experience life on God 's turn to God is always with us. We are safe in the arms of our father, but it doesn't mean bad things don't happen to good people bad things happen to us that happen in life, but we experience life on God 's terms. Sometimes some people just pulled right out in front of us. We run right into that was Jen 's accident. The full right out front, arrive on. I think it's all happening at the good story right. That's a good start to the version so we experience life on God 's heart. There are things that happen to us that this work plan for experience life on God 's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive and present God, who raised Jesus from the dead moves in your life, the other the same thing in you than he did in Jesus bring the alone live to himself in our walk we are going to walk writers and& in the wind. God lives in reason you and he dies as surely as he did in Jesus, you are delivered from the dead life with his spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ, whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God. We live life on God 's times, so our walk is armload of behavior living life on God 's terms. I live my life on God 's time are you ready as I had this video that was being being played before church and ninety and went into play. Some of it, and with the idea. Now this is a worship team doing this so you know all of you. We have three appeared today we can have a lot more on the worshiping right Scott, yes I do. He was ready for that once spirited person for that one day you are in in in in in. I know John Lennon and Beatles. I thought about that before Georgia visit were not dental after you how I never thought I would be using John Lennon nor the Beatles in a sermon, but you know anything is possible. I did a funeral number of years ago and the introduction, though my message was by the Grateful Dead enough and that was the rock group and add an data hardly and Marion by the casket and and they said that was pretty good). Also, anyhow. But they were never had anything to do with church bought. We never got out. We can make this work and what is the list. Detective Murtagh about experiencing life on God 's terms. We can work this out and as we walk with God. It is that how that we advance by moving forward in our faith. Although we have this understanding that God is going to work with and that we are changing our mode of behavior. Our walk and so God comes to walk with us, the Scripture Genesis in Genesis five twenty four and Enoch walked with God, and he was not for God took him that this lies in Iraq and God were such good friends that in the cool of the day. Basically, and did not want in life to God and he were walking together, and his walk with God was such that one day it up. I covered this taking of this evening walking around people who are just eternal optimist, while is this beautiful the snow while it just kind of piles up and it's really pretty and it keeps coming and coming and in and out, but a lot of these guys, I think that saw the hand of God in everything and he was walking with God every day in his life and limb, and rejoicing and happy in life and happy, and in the things going around him and the troubles that came in the difficulties the Cape. He was able to see the hand of God in everything in one day, God shows up as a xenon you think this created place is good, VMware show you my my my place and he and Enoch walked off into heaven, and so it's little things that Enoch walked with God. He was not, so we ask ourselves the question, then where do we walk in where we walked where, with whom do we walk and how do you know which way you're supposed to go and our walk with God is something that is the moving of our feet. I am real. You are reading it to heaven and I'm not mum on my generic God on God when Tim Conway that the good one. Our like I learn and know the much can not limited today, but we have this understanding, and sometimes our walk with God is just like on emotion, but our walk with God is that which God is involved in every aspect of my life, no matter how fast the time browse slowly comes, God is there. Isaiah thirty twenty one when he turned the rights or to the left. Your year will hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walked in. You see, whenever we I. I think you mentioned this in Sunday school that questions are to be the most creative people on the planet because we have this. The creative spirit of God inside of us and the creative spirit of God working with us in our daily walk is one that creates renews allows us to see things differently allows us to have a different perspective on the things that are so obvious and that's how Enoch was able to have a perspective of life that was solved, relevance, and so intense with his relationship with God that he does simply walked into heaven with God. And here in our life, we would say while that's pretty intense that have that walk with God while we can work this out. God says in his word, we can work this out that his spirit and his work come together and create this understanding in our hearts and our spirit that we can walk with God, and this is the way, what was Fleischer. I don't want. This is the way to know nobody better the fork in the road, take it. You get to the fork in road, take it or so I go left or right will take this is the way, walk, yet it is in understanding the Road less traveled who wrote that one road less traveled. I was long over the Longfellow know what's worth that was what was the lungful. They outline those homes is no the Road less traveled back to you. You know you can only see so far. Well this is the road take this road when you get there, you know where you're going walk this way Hebrews chapter twelve verse twelve and thirteen, so don't sit on your hands and Sunday school. We talked about the Solomon in his writing in the book of Proverbs and how that slothful slugger lazy person you got to read. Sometimes the proper UK and if you don't have a Sunday school book will give you the outline of the lessons is pointed in the book of Proverbs talks about the person who is lazy and he awakened in his bed and he says, and is raising for not getting out of bed is there are lions probably the streets the day in a like think about that. There are lions prowling the streets are they worth to live in Africa in the jungle lollies in Jerusalem and the fifth time of prosperity, no lions in the streets today. But in a lot a bad because he lives in the street today and then Proverbs likened him to a door hinge and what happens to a door hinge rolled over, I just flopped back and forth never go. They were just rolls over, so is the fall or the way the person who rolled over in bed, covered up and said, and he is so lazy that when we put this fork end of the pie he doesn't even know all the ones lifted up at the proper style, we find that don't sit on your hands. No more dragging your feet walk with the Lord plan a path for long distance runners, so no one will trip and fall, so no one will step in the whole and sprain an ankle help each other out and run for that in our walk with God. We had a way of supporting each other that we have a way of being part of the family of God. We have a way of understanding the relationships that we have and the encouragement that we offer the encouragement that we offer, Beth sent the picture of the class. I know Ballantyne she helped 's parent helper with her daughter and run this class and she sent a picture of the class in the Valentine saying hello to Mrs. McGee. She got that she showed everybody, this is my clients. This is my class was very helpful not only to the class and helping that helping rounded the class, but it was very helpful and supportive that her students set the message via Beth to run, we find that we can work this out long distance runners. You need to fill in the potholes. You need to fill in the holes in the indentations so that when people who are coming this way they don't even know there was a pothole there. Why could you fill, but it you help make up the distance in your walk with God. You have filed the copies, and you filled in and so that those who follow you and those who you can influence and help support don't have to step in the same home. That's your testimony of how that God has done something in your life. And as you share that testimony, you are helping someone else out. So you're helping someone else, not by the lawyer of the good news enough a bagel drive down the road and you blink your life as his accident had to slow down the people front of the other coming up is why I do that now. Last week, but I speak. Good Samaritan member by. It was funny, guys, not funny, but Monday night, is that whenever we were driving back on the night were driving back in the snowstorm is selling out in the car in front of us radar near fifty six in the Wall Street went across the media strip up over genocide wracked by wishful OnStar button in our new car told the person there is a wreck on Sunstone whatever, and how her words whenever she got all the information since will thank you for being a good Samaritan. I could run to, says that he placed on that, but just the helping each other out. Our faith is living active alive and moving faith is alive and active. It is living the word of God and the scriptural principles that are presented in the words are very much alive because it helps us in our doing so when you walk with the Lord in the life of his word, what a glory he sheds on our way, while we do his good will he abides with us still. You may remember, trust and obey the nation will have to when we walk with the Lord in the life of his word, what a glory he sheds on our way. So you see that the word of God is alive and active. It is shining is alike to our path in all this is talk about in Solomon enlists in the Proverbs talks about the aunt, ill will and not the AU in T1. The alien went public. They don't have to never have a director don't have someone to tell them what to do they just know what the supposed to do, and they work for the good of all and so it is that we walk walk with the Lord. Our walk is about living our walk is about being active. Our walk is about doing Psalm twenty three, four, NATO I walked to the Valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou or with Robin the staff they comfort me. I walk through the valley of the shadow. There are a lot of things that cast shadows. Overall life, death of someone we love, but there is loss of a job loss of abilities, losses that we have in our life the cast its shadow over our path and we have to walk through those difficult times, and even when I walk through the difficult times of my life where the shadow has darkened life. I don't have to be afraid why I will fear no evil. Why, because God is one and his staff. One is protection. One is guidance when I are through the shadow there was the guidance of God. This is the way, walk ye in it. There is the protection of God is my strength. He is my Redeemer. He will never leave mean officer Thursday. Shards of God, so as I walk through the valley of the shadows in which things happen in life and cast a shadow upon me wearing because God is with me and he will protect manual guide me with chapter three verse four and five. Another survey walk versus letting them use it. I is a fraction of the walkers rejected to reverse for a voice of one calling in little in the desert. This is John the Baptist prepared the way of the Lord, make straight the path for him. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth, what's this about. I want you to know that the King is coming, and when the King is coming to member the people and lender are to take the mountains down and fill in the Valley. The valleys are to be brought high, you are to make sure there are no potholes on the streets and that everything is as smooth as product possible, so that when the king passes through your area. The road is smooth and he really likes your town. As with his. The King is coming so and with the coming of the kingdom of God into our life. There is a way that God works in our life that the mountains that are so hard to climb the kind of flattened them out. The valleys that are so deep that we can we can get diode. This takes us down. Take us forever to get there for the I get out to the valleys in West Virginia. We whenever we went to school in West Virginia. You know why it's God 's country. Now why take me home, West Virginia, mountain mama 's take me home. July God loves West Virginia. He wanted to cram as much space as he could into it is so hoisted in the mountains go up and down the roads around and they followed the top when they made the roads and it was just one of those things that was very difficult place to go to the interstates now West Virginia, but they do mountains down valleys up bridges over rivers and not down, and will have in our life. God has a way of making the crooked ways straight the provision of God, what's don't happen. What's the verse we said even though you still experience all the limitations of sin and you yourself experience life on God 's turn God 's terms. God 's way has a way of bringing the bounces down filling in the valleys making the crooked places straight and all the potholes are filled with how this one more tumor versus John eleven ten in first on one seven. But if a man walk in the night. He stumbled because there's no life in him first on one seven but if we walk in the light as he is the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all set walking in the light is allowing the light of God 's word shy up our path level, which we know we're going. There is a way, this is the way, walk ye in it. There is an understanding straight is a path narrowed friends gate narrow path leads to eternal life. It means that the way that we walk with God has boundaries, doesn't mean the narrow run a clip to fall off that the word of God has boundaries, guide rails and don't break God 's commandments because they deal with our relationship with God and our relationship with people. Don't lie. Don't steal, don't cheat, don't kill, don't take people 's possessions don't sleep with other people 's wives and husbands. Now don't those things that will destroy a relationship with people and have no other gods before him. Love the Lord thy God with all your heart and soul in my these are the guide riles of our life and wife is a great place of opportunity between the guide rails of serving him and on the road to Emmaus, Jesus, the two were walking the road to Manso is not related to walking on road to MAS and Jesus comes alongside of them. They don't recognize and Jesus asked him why the long face by the face. They looked innocent. Don't you know what's happened. This guy we thought was going to be the Messiah. They killed Jesus says let me talk to you about this whole thing. He began to explain to them all of the things mentioned in the Old Testament about the Messiah. What the Messiah should do it when they got to their house. They didn't want him to leave and so the word constrain. It's almost like to grab pulling through and enough they forced the place. Stay with us. Please stay with us. Don't go away for this lifetime. You don't want down on the roads at night. Come stay with us in Jesus. Not knowing who it was they did know that it was Jesus sat down with him at supper he took bread, and he blessed and there is something about the way that he prayed or maybe it was the holes in his hand that they recognize the students in our walk with God. There are some times that it is kind of burns within us, you know there's something special about this moment, the something special about this place. The something special about this time God has blessed us he has come to live within us and it's like walking Enoch walking with God. It's like seeing God in everything doesn't mean everything is wonderful. It means that it means that I'm experiencing life on God 's terms it means that God is alive in his work and everything that I see in everything that I do and that I am safe and the people who love God are safe, and whether they live or whether they die. I am, we are safe in God 's hands and I'm a walk on Sunday and will be in heaven. But until that day comes, he walks with me, and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own and the joy we share as we can't carry their others ever known this mean God. Guess what, that's what God does with each individual and then what's that thank you father for hearing our first we need to see your hand in everything hear your voice. Oh God, in every decision that we make him Lord, we pray that you will guide us in the paths of righteousness for your namesake, so that we may walk through the valleys of the shadows, and we may experience your guidance in your protection in all things, so we thank you God for your forgiveness. We confess our sins and ask you to forgive us a live within arts, we ask you oh God, to make that crooked way straight in those potholes that keep busting things up in our lives. God, we pray by your words we fill them in. We move around them. We go a different direction. The one that speaks of your piece. Your forgiveness that is alive and active, taking us on the road to heaven. Thank you father for hearing our prayers. Thank you, O God for walking with us each step of the way we ask these things in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And everyone who expects Jesus to walk with them this day and from this day forward to a charity. Say amen and amenAvast, me last week of my throbbing weeks you have sermons on the same topic that is run another Roman numerals& the perfect person and job we were talking about the old one is the perfect person. What we know that Jesus Christ is the only perfect individual, but in our walk with God. The optimum work today walk is where where I can what you know, talking about our hearts with Don that routine spoke of our hearts. We spoken are talking our mouths are speaking about taste and see our eyes are hearing are doing. And today, where finalizing it with walking our walk with the Lord, so walk to be defined is to proceed or to advance by moving your feet to walk is to move our advanced by moving your faith. Do you ever have a semi- day get moving. While they were seated at the airfield little faster, and I always liked Tim Conway, that was my favorite. Does it really done about them. Conway watched some of the old TV shows Kevin Conway and your person and every guy you have watched about an hour I can do a good time, I bought it out so it would say okay here is like one of those things. Please move after all, else I was them, so sometimes I think in our Christian walk. God saying move your feet. David yet love a little quicker, get down, but one foot in front of the other, or it can also mean a person 's usual mode of behavior your usual mode of behavior. So our Walkman is moving your feet as a physical mold the mother. Physical movement, but it is also a mode of behavior that are behavior before God and in life is our walk now going to read Romans chapter eight again, which has been the theme of our series. But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, has not welcomed his. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what were talking about buffer you welcome him in whom he dwells even though you still experience all the limitations of sin and outwards. I'm not a perfect person, we somehow forget that we still experience all the limitations of sin, we have limitations, knows no doubt about it. I can't say no. I was singing behind Jackson any goes like this covers is the media is like I realize I sound okay, but you know of one time was a few weeks ago I had the mic button on for my mic and they headed off back there, but somehow was making its way through the ladies in bears, and was ringing in their ears. My boys and they were all confused as to where they should be when they were singing so we all have the limitations of said while we all have limitations in our walk, but that's not an excuse. So we all have limitations. The ideas that we take the strengths that we have and we develop the strength and allow the spirit of God to take the strengths of our life and make them better and the weaknesses of our life bring them up so they're not our pitfalls in our learn how to say José got this boombox back here. The he will let me sing into. But anyhow, in our healthcare and do that against them for imposing side figure out I can sound like almost anyone through that little box. So even though we still experience all the limitations of sin here yourself. Life on God 's terms. And I think this is so appropriate for our walk because we walk through many different situations of them find that out today. We walked through many different similar situations, but you experience we experience life on God 's terms. I think of Paul on the boats no going to Rome and the boat is in the storm for two weeks, they throw ropes around the belt to hold together. And Paul says, you know, guys, if you listen you can say this, but if you're blessed with one being to storm and we would be thinking while, but he was experienced that he was experiencing that storm and the wrecking demolishing of the ship was if he was experiencing life on God 's terms. We experience life on God 's turn to God is always with us. We are safe in the arms of our father, but it doesn't mean bad things don't happen to good people bad things happen to us that happen in life, but we experience life on God 's terms. Sometimes some people just pulled right out in front of us. We run right into that was Jen 's accident. The full right out front, arrive on. I think it's all happening at the good story right. That's a good start to the version so we experience life on God 's heart. There are things that happen to us that this work plan for experience life on God 's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive and present God, who raised Jesus from the dead moves in your life, the other the same thing in you than he did in Jesus bring the alone live to himself in our walk we are going to walk writers and& in the wind. God lives in reason you and he dies as surely as he did in Jesus, you are delivered from the dead life with his spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ, whether we live or whether we die, we belong to God. We live life on God 's times, so our walk is armload of behavior living life on God 's terms. I live my life on God 's time are you ready as I had this video that was being being played before church and ninety and went into play. Some of it, and with the idea. Now this is a worship team doing this so you know all of you. We have three appeared today we can have a lot more on the worshiping right Scott, yes I do. He was ready for that once spirited person for that one day you are in in in in in. I know John Lennon and Beatles. I thought about that before Georgia visit were not dental after you how I never thought I would be using John Lennon nor the Beatles in a sermon, but you know anything is possible. I did a funeral number of years ago and the introduction, though my message was by the Grateful Dead enough and that was the rock group and add an data hardly and Marion by the casket and and they said that was pretty good). Also, anyhow. But they were never had anything to do with church bought. We never got out. We can make this work and what is the list. Detective Murtagh about experiencing life on God 's terms. We can work this out and as we walk with God. It is that how that we advance by moving forward in our faith. Although we have this understanding that God is going to work with and that we are changing our mode of behavior. Our walk and so God comes to walk with us, the Scripture Genesis in Genesis five twenty four and Enoch walked with God, and he was not for God took him that this lies in Iraq and God were such good friends that in the cool of the day. Basically, and did not want in life to God and he were walking together, and his walk with God was such that one day it up. I covered this taking of this evening walking around people who are just eternal optimist, while is this beautiful the snow while it just kind of piles up and it's really pretty and it keeps coming and coming and in and out, but a lot of these guys, I think that saw the hand of God in everything and he was walking with God every day in his life and limb, and rejoicing and happy in life and happy, and in the things going around him and the troubles that came in the difficulties the Cape. He was able to see the hand of God in everything in one day, God shows up as a xenon you think this created place is good, VMware show you my my my place and he and Enoch walked off into heaven, and so it's little things that Enoch walked with God. He was not, so we ask ourselves the question, then where do we walk in where we walked where, with whom do we walk and how do you know which way you're supposed to go and our walk with God is something that is the moving of our feet. I am real. You are reading it to heaven and I'm not mum on my generic God on God when Tim Conway that the good one. Our like I learn and know the much can not limited today, but we have this understanding, and sometimes our walk with God is just like on emotion, but our walk with God is that which God is involved in every aspect of my life, no matter how fast the time browse slowly comes, God is there. Isaiah thirty twenty one when he turned the rights or to the left. Your year will hear a voice behind you saying this is the way walked in. You see, whenever we I. I think you mentioned this in Sunday school that questions are to be the most creative people on the planet because we have this. The creative spirit of God inside of us and the creative spirit of God working with us in our daily walk is one that creates renews allows us to see things differently allows us to have a different perspective on the things that are so obvious and that's how Enoch was able to have a perspective of life that was solved, relevance, and so intense with his relationship with God that he does simply walked into heaven with God. And here in our life, we would say while that's pretty intense that have that walk with God while we can work this out. God says in his word, we can work this out that his spirit and his work come together and create this understanding in our hearts and our spirit that we can walk with God, and this is the way, what was Fleischer. I don't want. This is the way to know nobody better the fork in the road, take it. You get to the fork in road, take it or so I go left or right will take this is the way, walk, yet it is in understanding the Road less traveled who wrote that one road less traveled. I was long over the Longfellow know what's worth that was what was the lungful. They outline those homes is no the Road less traveled back to you. You know you can only see so far. Well this is the road take this road when you get there, you know where you're going walk this way Hebrews chapter twelve verse twelve and thirteen, so don't sit on your hands and Sunday school. We talked about the Solomon in his writing in the book of Proverbs and how that slothful slugger lazy person you got to read. Sometimes the proper UK and if you don't have a Sunday school book will give you the outline of the lessons is pointed in the book of Proverbs talks about the person who is lazy and he awakened in his bed and he says, and is raising for not getting out of bed is there are lions probably the streets the day in a like think about that. There are lions prowling the streets are they worth to live in Africa in the jungle lollies in Jerusalem and the fifth time of prosperity, no lions in the streets today. But in a lot a bad because he lives in the street today and then Proverbs likened him to a door hinge and what happens to a door hinge rolled over, I just flopped back and forth never go. They were just rolls over, so is the fall or the way the person who rolled over in bed, covered up and said, and he is so lazy that when we put this fork end of the pie he doesn't even know all the ones lifted up at the proper style, we find that don't sit on your hands. No more dragging your feet walk with the Lord plan a path for long distance runners, so no one will trip and fall, so no one will step in the whole and sprain an ankle help each other out and run for that in our walk with God. We had a way of supporting each other that we have a way of being part of the family of God. We have a way of understanding the relationships that we have and the encouragement that we offer the encouragement that we offer, Beth sent the picture of the class. I know Ballantyne she helped 's parent helper with her daughter and run this class and she sent a picture of the class in the Valentine saying hello to Mrs. McGee. She got that she showed everybody, this is my clients. This is my class was very helpful not only to the class and helping that helping rounded the class, but it was very helpful and supportive that her students set the message via Beth to run, we find that we can work this out long distance runners. You need to fill in the potholes. You need to fill in the holes in the indentations so that when people who are coming this way they don't even know there was a pothole there. Why could you fill, but it you help make up the distance in your walk with God. You have filed the copies, and you filled in and so that those who follow you and those who you can influence and help support don't have to step in the same home. That's your testimony of how that God has done something in your life. And as you share that testimony, you are helping someone else out. So you're helping someone else, not by the lawyer of the good news enough a bagel drive down the road and you blink your life as his accident had to slow down the people front of the other coming up is why I do that now. Last week, but I speak. Good Samaritan member by. It was funny, guys, not funny, but Monday night, is that whenever we were driving back on the night were driving back in the snowstorm is selling out in the car in front of us radar near fifty six in the Wall Street went across the media strip up over genocide wracked by wishful OnStar button in our new car told the person there is a wreck on Sunstone whatever, and how her words whenever she got all the information since will thank you for being a good Samaritan. I could run to, says that he placed on that, but just the helping each other out. Our faith is living active alive and moving faith is alive and active. It is living the word of God and the scriptural principles that are presented in the words are very much alive because it helps us in our doing so when you walk with the Lord in the life of his word, what a glory he sheds on our way, while we do his good will he abides with us still. You may remember, trust and obey the nation will have to when we walk with the Lord in the life of his word, what a glory he sheds on our way. So you see that the word of God is alive and active. It is shining is alike to our path in all this is talk about in Solomon enlists in the Proverbs talks about the aunt, ill will and not the AU in T1. The alien went public. They don't have to never have a director don't have someone to tell them what to do they just know what the supposed to do, and they work for the good of all and so it is that we walk walk with the Lord. Our walk is about living our walk is about being active. Our walk is about doing Psalm twenty three, four, NATO I walked to the Valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou or with Robin the staff they comfort me. I walk through the valley of the shadow. There are a lot of things that cast shadows. Overall life, death of someone we love, but there is loss of a job loss of abilities, losses that we have in our life the cast its shadow over our path and we have to walk through those difficult times, and even when I walk through the difficult times of my life where the shadow has darkened life. I don't have to be afraid why I will fear no evil. Why, because God is one and his staff. One is protection. One is guidance when I are through the shadow there was the guidance of God. This is the way, walk ye in it. There is the protection of God is my strength. He is my Redeemer. He will never leave mean officer Thursday. Shards of God, so as I walk through the valley of the shadows in which things happen in life and cast a shadow upon me wearing because God is with me and he will protect manual guide me with chapter three verse four and five. Another survey walk versus letting them use it. I is a fraction of the walkers rejected to reverse for a voice of one calling in little in the desert. This is John the Baptist prepared the way of the Lord, make straight the path for him. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth, what's this about. I want you to know that the King is coming, and when the King is coming to member the people and lender are to take the mountains down and fill in the Valley. The valleys are to be brought high, you are to make sure there are no potholes on the streets and that everything is as smooth as product possible, so that when the king passes through your area. The road is smooth and he really likes your town. As with his. The King is coming so and with the coming of the kingdom of God into our life. There is a way that God works in our life that the mountains that are so hard to climb the kind of flattened them out. The valleys that are so deep that we can we can get diode. This takes us down. Take us forever to get there for the I get out to the valleys in West Virginia. We whenever we went to school in West Virginia. You know why it's God 's country. Now why take me home, West Virginia, mountain mama 's take me home. July God loves West Virginia. He wanted to cram as much space as he could into it is so hoisted in the mountains go up and down the roads around and they followed the top when they made the roads and it was just one of those things that was very difficult place to go to the interstates now West Virginia, but they do mountains down valleys up bridges over rivers and not down, and will have in our life. God has a way of making the crooked ways straight the provision of God, what's don't happen. What's the verse we said even though you still experience all the limitations of sin and you yourself experience life on God 's turn God 's terms. God 's way has a way of bringing the bounces down filling in the valleys making the crooked places straight and all the potholes are filled with how this one more tumor versus John eleven ten in first on one seven. But if a man walk in the night. He stumbled because there's no life in him first on one seven but if we walk in the light as he is the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanses us from all set walking in the light is allowing the light of God 's word shy up our path level, which we know we're going. There is a way, this is the way, walk ye in it. There is an understanding straight is a path narrowed friends gate narrow path leads to eternal life. It means that the way that we walk with God has boundaries, doesn't mean the narrow run a clip to fall off that the word of God has boundaries, guide rails and don't break God 's commandments because they deal with our relationship with God and our relationship with people. Don't lie. Don't steal, don't cheat, don't kill, don't take people 's possessions don't sleep with other people 's wives and husbands. Now don't those things that will destroy a relationship with people and have no other gods before him. Love the Lord thy God with all your heart and soul in my these are the guide riles of our life and wife is a great place of opportunity between the guide rails of serving him and on the road to Emmaus, Jesus, the two were walking the road to Manso is not related to walking on road to MAS and Jesus comes alongside of them. They don't recognize and Jesus asked him why the long face by the face. They looked innocent. Don't you know what's happened. This guy we thought was going to be the Messiah. They killed Jesus says let me talk to you about this whole thing. He began to explain to them all of the things mentioned in the Old Testament about the Messiah. What the Messiah should do it when they got to their house. They didn't want him to leave and so the word constrain. It's almost like to grab pulling through and enough they forced the place. Stay with us. Please stay with us. Don't go away for this lifetime. You don't want down on the roads at night. Come stay with us in Jesus. Not knowing who it was they did know that it was Jesus sat down with him at supper he took bread, and he blessed and there is something about the way that he prayed or maybe it was the holes in his hand that they recognize the students in our walk with God. There are some times that it is kind of burns within us, you know there's something special about this moment, the something special about this place. The something special about this time God has blessed us he has come to live within us and it's like walking Enoch walking with God. It's like seeing God in everything doesn't mean everything is wonderful. It means that it means that I'm experiencing life on God 's terms it means that God is alive in his work and everything that I see in everything that I do and that I am safe and the people who love God are safe, and whether they live or whether they die. I am, we are safe in God 's hands and I'm a walk on Sunday and will be in heaven. But until that day comes, he walks with me, and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own and the joy we share as we can't carry their others ever known this mean God. Guess what, that's what God does with each individual and then what's that thank you father for hearing our first we need to see your hand in everything hear your voice. Oh God, in every decision that we make him Lord, we pray that you will guide us in the paths of righteousness for your namesake, so that we may walk through the valleys of the shadows, and we may experience your guidance in your protection in all things, so we thank you God for your forgiveness. We confess our sins and ask you to forgive us a live within arts, we ask you oh God, to make that crooked way straight in those potholes that keep busting things up in our lives. God, we pray by your words we fill them in. We move around them. We go a different direction. The one that speaks of your piece. Your forgiveness that is alive and active, taking us on the road to heaven. Thank you father for hearing our prayers. Thank you, O God for walking with us each step of the way we ask these things in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And everyone who expects Jesus to walk with them this day and from this day forward to a charity. Say amen and amen