The Sermon There's More by David McGee
Jun 08, 2014
There's More (34:04)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 143:6
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Psalm 143:6
6) I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
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I was thinking of someone they were on Skype and they said that the label they were always call like this in the of the grandmother that is on Skype and on. That's one of those computer things we cannot do your kids and she always inevitably turns the computer pushes a computer back and all vacancies stop overhead. Now add and the V presence is talking to will call there brother a relative that's the end. Take over fixed the computer so we can see her and sold-out run over and pulled the computers I can ever figure this out with its usual picture in the corner, and that's what they see whenever that's on there on the camera, so I never saw that before because you had it above your head, you know, and elevating the show was a popular head so fortunately the family knew that there was more to mother than what appears there is more to the picture than what you see and I was thinking of the data title of this message. There is more to you. There is more to God than what we perceive and what we see there is more than what we see. So imagine answering the doorbell and being handed a special delivery letter, and as you open this letter, you begin to read that you could have the opportunity of a lifetime that will change your life forever and all it takes is that you will take this information and submit a resume and a complete decal on who you are and as you submit this, you have a very good chance of quadruple in your salary, your yearly and tremendous bonuses and opportunities for management, but we must look at the application and the application states that you must submit up all identity check on who you are so, what would you send what would you send in this resume that says they want to know you and what a personal resume of your life and with this you submit to an office and you will have the opportunity to take on this job will quadruple plus have all the bonuses and so on. So generally, whatever we think of is okay to put together a resume while first of all, I got a put a picture on it that so you rummage through the photographs and say I better go get a professional one. Nine nine, the swimsuit. What is the one you want to put in there okay so I have it out at you. You go to the professional photographer in you get your target your best foot forward. Best picture forward so you prevent you prepare this resume because they want to know you completely solve there was a lengthy decals, recording your education, your career, as you know, if we look at a resume. We generally want to want to have an outline when I'm a outline of what people do you want a career history you want using your civic and church activities think that you were done. You you worked at sports camp the church. Yet, without on a resume and White House. Want to put on there. Your notice in your noticeable accomplishments of what you've been able to do over the years, offices held in these organizations, honors and awards received, and promotions that you may have had. And of course most importantly. A few glowing letters from friends and your pastor. Amen, I sub good report, you better show up at sports. Can I so you send this off to set up your packet of information and you setback it with a contented smile. You know what I think I got this job, i.e. I got this job and out. This is something that's going to fit who I am and what I been praying about and guess what the application comes back incomplete. This is an incomplete resume to see the packet tells what you look like the packet tells how well you have performed and tells what you have achieved, but you haven't told much to us about who you are seeing there is a difference between what we do and how we are now and it seems like what about the saying. While yes they are similar and they are the same in some way. They are the same, but you know there's a very hard concept to do to grass I think because I'm more of a idea no factual yell. I worldwide imagine this in Sunday school on whenever we did the ordination training. We know hospitals than in California for a week in our labor. This nice hotel of the agreement. We are busy now fourteen hours a day doing all the different trainings and attending seminars and all that stuff and job Newt Gingrich was there that the that week, and in the local newspaper. They had Newt Gingrich attend form and you know you if you think I have seen in my picture taken with them all that stuff. But one of the things that they were trying to train us with his heart disease reversal program was that in group support. You said in this group. No, not group therapy, support, and they asked us to participate in. So of course you know I was picked on by the leader to start off while tell us about tell us about what you feel and I supply think I feel that you don't nice if that's not right in the hostesses tell us about how your feeling prices while I think I think that I feel good today right. I've been praying that because I didn't get the memo. Now I have Saturday while asking her out and start our know your guinea pig is also tell us how you're feeling and I said while I think you should know this is a feeling, not a thought. Tell us what you feel, how, why did you say South Africa they get your and so we look at things and sometimes for me. You know this was a very difficult concept to get an easy concept. Once you knew what they were asking for. Because if we for people who are more safe. Taking that knowledge and feelings are the same thing. They're not knowledge and feelings are not the same feelings are one thing knowledge than other now feelings are important. We without feelings. There is no life. The K left, but the spirit giveth life Scripture seller set, meaning that all lanes will kill you. No no no I because of what it dies, it makes life and intellectual assent without any relational experiences. We are relational beings. We have the liens. No matter how much we try and negate them. We feel certain things. The hot, I feel that the bench is hard no I thought eight. I think I feel the benches heart while is a resident. I think I feel. I think I feel hot like dry jumping into a swimming pool. I think I feel wet. I noticed it. I feel that using so I feel that I feel I hurt I feel discouraged, I feel so there are feelings, but we cannot remain viable life by feelings because feelings is just a and a while I feel offended. So therefore I'm not. I feel that God has allowed me wait a minute. That contradicts the knowledge that we have of his work. So when the feelings are there. We have to make sure that the anchor is in place and the anchor is knowing and knowing that we have anchors the feelings always did this in counseling and because most the time, most not always this is a this is a it's something uptight when it is now the RSS understanding that we have men are more men are more help. Dominantly but not always paying this is not always met or more factual women are more emotional became that is a generalization that's the word is looking for a generalization. It was not always that way. Sometimes it's reversed, but it still but a generalization that are more factual women are more emotional. So here we go coming together coming together coming you're really going apart, going apart, going apart to limit what happened never from Mars, women are from Venus. Where did you come from Minas word you come from Mars by two different levels, but the reason that we function so well together is that knowledge and facts anchor the emotions in motion. A motion to help give life to the facts. So therefore we find ourselves merging together one in the other. Now in our there is more to you than what you see when you look in the mirror. There is more to God than what we think we know because we know about God but if there is not this understanding emotional understanding of God. It's kind of lax now when I think of. I been writing my book on grief and for those you are watching my television. I can tell you that it's going to be on sale soon noticed that I'm not done with it yet but I know I am. I have gone into the conclusion that it's got a be rewritten for the fourth time that I've been doing this, but in grace. The if we were just factual beings, all of our grief, sorrow would be done at the cemetery if we were factual beings. The not getting a job not getting the promotion not going on that play sort it out. Not making the team for kids trying out for team not making the team even no far dogs. Although the losses and you see if we were factual beings. The when the note was there there would be no response. Okay were off, but for kids going to college being rejected from a particular school. Not fitting into a profession. There is a sense of failure. That's a feeling and what happens is that knowledge if we were just knowledge, we would be done with grieving at the cemetery. Why comes first is that I'm going on the life is going on, but there is an emotional response. How long did it take the lead bullet with the person I'm still learning. She's still learning the word was right. It's a progress only been about eighty years. But we're making progress, now forty two, moderate forty two& I came I got. I have a duty is right on forty two years, the June twenty fourth this year that we were born. We were born five we were married in nineteen seventy two, June twenty four about that the staff. The first time I you guys see what happens. Emotions frustrations emotions do not dictate our life. They are part of our life, you know I the illustration of the illustrations I use in my book. I is in dialogue with little wiki is and hopefully is anchors while at anchor, will hold the ship and place, but it doesn't calm the sea. We have knowledge that something has happened a lot, says expert that we have experienced, but we had we still have the emotional upheavals that take us up and down and up and down those of the emotional packages get rid of the emotions I went have all the problem while giving it rid of all your emotions, your dad, why because you have no life in your actions, but if you are just emotions during emotional roller coaster. Your emotional wreck your aim is ever hear those words emotional wreck without and we carried Judy and the way to church this morning. They came very close to the edges with a rack because somebody was going through a red light and forgot that it was red and yellow sheet squealing of tires and the just down the road here. There's somebody did have the rack and no, but the so the facts and emotions. They're both are both together in our life and we cannot eliminate them. I wish the knowledge of this rejection, the knowledge of this experience would just go away. It won't. It won't go away, and so you got to learn that there is emotions and our facts now if you look at your resume. What is a containing is probably saying telling telling who you are what you have done, but there's more to you than a list of things that you accomplish. So imagine coming to church, but at the imaginary one, because you're already here. And so, imagine coming to church and vine. I give you a packet, the says this is a resume mail. God is wanting to make an application to your life. So tell us about God. So give us a resume that God might submit to you. All you have to do is identify God in your life. Forget the identified fraud going, how are you going to identify God in your life. The ideas blessings. So what he does miracle he saved me from my sins and how you identify God what we used to identify God. The work of God in our life, you believe in God, and I sure do. Then tell me how to recognize and while I recognize the role he loves me. How does he do that. I think I feel love. I think that God loves me, is that an action or is that it had a action or a feeling is that a no a or a feeling idiocy that God is with us. What does that look like God has promised never to leave a score for seconds. I think everybody saying God has promised never to leave me nor forsake me, what does that look like what does that look like that. He walks that Mary talk to me and he tells me I'm yours. I'm his own and we decide what does that look like if she we have a hard time putting that into a picture that is capable of being realized in our everyday life. But what does that look like well-liked and I balled exactly where the redshirt and Jackson wants me to shave my beard and he wears glasses. So what what his pastor looked like, but you see, what do I am who you are is more than what you look like. So you find that when we are looking at God is me when you are looking at God. He is more than just an accumulation of things that he's done that we must look beyond the rearranging of circumstances in order to prove. Okay, it's like the audio. The movie the passion they bring their hall. Christ before the local governor, and unite cc and drunker and it's who is driving. I'll think of it now. They hauled a holiday for that this drug is not pilot it's the other guy Nero and Bob letting up, not Nero apparently held before Harry and Eric this denies a partying guide in outlining bases this on Jesus, you nowadays questioning into this. This is Jesus, you don't look like God than me can you do a little miracle for me, we did a little miracle for me. What is he trying to do is try to get God to prove something to him that he has got the Pharisees, the ones who wanted Jesus dead. They go to the cross and they say well if you're really the Messiah comes out after there do a little miracle for us. If you are really my God, they do a little miracle watch as we what our relationship with God, do we look for the knowledge. This is what to do a little miracle for us, then we'll know. But five years from now. Probably you do another little miracle so that we know than six months from then please come you do a little miracle for us because and when God stops doing the miracles that we stop our belief, God is more than just actions is more than just the miraculous the rearranging of circumstances. God is a personal being a personal person who, while still has feelings who has character traits, who has the ability to be rejected and turned aside all the ability to be accepted and brought into our life. So the character of God is such that he is more than just what we know because the Pharisees. They kept all the ten Commandments. Even those who came to Jesus and Jesus in operating drug you should do a little miracle for me because I kept all the commandments since I was a kid. I've done them all so good that you can think of me as being proud and I'm proud of who I am look at what I have done with that is that really who we are. If you had to sell everything, what would that leave you what would that leave you what kind of person with that leave you with. So if we took away everything that we had if we took away all of the fancy close in the cars we have in place that we live and get all the money in the bank and the money coming in no job whatever they wanted to play all those things. Who would we be that the person that Jesus loves. That's the person that God loves. So if we took away the miraculous. We took away the walking on water. The feeding of five thousand. The Billy took away all of that, that he did what would we be left with. That's the character of God. That is our hunger that is the person of God that we love and who loves us so he looks beyond faults and failures, good things, bad things, yell two factors can include all too small now, no beard, big beard. What ever he looks beyond all of those things, strips away and leaves us standing there as a person and says to us. I love you I love you so flee or submitting a resume to identify us then take away all of the things we've done all the education all of the promotions. All of the incomes all of the jobs we've done everything of our life to go all the way there we spent how would we write a resume for that person. I gave José about twenty scriptures were supposed to read nine get to them yet and I don't think of going to this is going to be a continuation of part one of a series of five hundred is almost like Wednesday night and Bibles. They were going through the book of James, and we can get through that follows five chapters and maybe seven months but because we talk about anything and everything doesn't have to be on the Scripture text you can be and come from the text, but it can be whatever's going on in our life, because what is going on in my life is more important than women finished this book in three days on better the beatings will continue until the attitude changes. Let's hang a middle teach them a lesson. Let's read until they can send you don't know we mean it. You don't straighten up on binoculars and any other in any other wounds than the others. Those those bots, you know, growing up, I brought you into this world and I can take you out anybody been told that anybody use those phrases on other people. What are the things you know, we look at that and that is what we tried to do or trying to manipulate actions because if we can manipulate actions we can get them going in the right direction and then we can make sure their fix for what they need to be doing. How do we manipulate God. We manipulate God by saying I believe he will do this for me why I got faith. I got faith. I think a dog to do anything I want because I believe, but belief is more than here. Belief is something that was here in the heart, not as more than just something in our head. I know the Bible says. I can move mountains. If I believe FIFA is a grand mustard seed, I can say to this mountain, jump, and it will jump the letter, for I know that if I say God will listen to what I have to say and jump that mountain layouts right on the way. I know that getting why would God want to do that for you because I told him what he should do. I know what he wants me to do and I know that mountains both the outgoing will let me ask you this. If you set down in your chair and Jesus were setting right there beside you, what would he want you to do what when he wants you to say what what he wants you to feel and from this relationship. What would he want you to know he would want us to know if that mountain moves or doesn't move your okay. You're safe. I'm with you, you're with me and moving mountains and rearranging things is not what I'm here for. I'm here with you to love you without any mountains being moved without any lists of accomplishments by you. I'm here to love you to know you to keep you and in that relationship. If that mountain needs moved its here in that relationship, you need to walk on water, no problem. But God doesn't walk on water because I can one two eight on one meter walk on law water unless he asked me to let me demonstrate you my faith when they walk bringing up when I walk and walk on water here for you I would demonstrate to you my faith. I can rearrange I can part is water in in vivo because God wants to prove to you that I'm a good person. That's what water is not part the waters not been a part not like I walk on water, and I'm not. I walk across the pews and I because I don't what is approved, God isn't here to prove that he's God. God is here for us to know that he is God, and the knowing begins in our hearts and I guess this comes, this whole scenario number now begun the full scenario, but it is comes from an individual that we earn around an iron contact with that the illness has come back in their life and probably will kill them take their life and the question is, where's the relationship with God. All I'm unsaved I'm going to go to heaven but this backup for a little bit in my suggestion was, take communion every day as I I I read somebody else or hurt somebody else speak about this, I thought what a wonderful thing to do. It was who is a person on TBN were headed up with the lady. Anyhow, it's the lady and she talked about how that her illness was such that they had given up and she talked about how much he had gone every day and took communion and is focused on being in the presence of God in the presence of God. Everything changes, and that's where I want us to focus on being in the presence of God. Everything changes, whether I live or whether I die with her. The mountain is moved or not, whether the seas, parts, or I have to get a boat and go across God is with me and I am safe because I know it in my heart and when I know it in my heart I know that God can speak that means they gave it you can walk on water. David in your heart. I you can even say that mountain going to Scott, but I'm not directing him. I am allowing him to speak that is where our greatest faith is God wants to speak to a hearts he wants to hold us in his arms. He wants us to know that we are safe. Our sins are forgiven, eternity in heaven is our home and I am with you, David. Every step of the way it's in that place. It's in that place of presence of God. I can say to mountains being the no problem because I know that that's what God wants to do my life. This is where we are at. God wants to do things in our life, not to prove that we have faith but to let us know he is God is sovereign about everything. His purpose for life and nothing, nothing in this the guy has brought life, nothing will ever be able to separate us from his mom. Nothing will ever be able to stop that love from coming to us. Nothing will ever to come between us because I'm safe in the arms of my father, and he loves me, and that's who God is and God is that results in the if he wants me to it needs me to I can walk on water, but until that day comes, I'm getting about so we spent some is more to us. There's more to God than just a list of facts take away everything, all the accomplishments all of the things we've done all the education all of the degrees all of their awards take them all away and what are we left with that Sue God loves father, thank you, thank you for your presence. Thank you for your love. Thank you for the assurance thank you for the knowing in our hearts that you are here you are with us your grace is sufficient for your mercy is everlasting and Lord. We are grateful that you love us you love me for being me, and then God loves me for being me say that God loves me for being me. Got to be anybody else but you next Sunday. Church starts at ten o'clock ten o'clock church starts at ten o'clock best anniversary tomorrow, they got married Scott Paul hey hey Scott, did you remember that you are okay. Good judgment that oneI was thinking of someone they were on Skype and they said that the label they were always call like this in the of the grandmother that is on Skype and on. That's one of those computer things we cannot do your kids and she always inevitably turns the computer pushes a computer back and all vacancies stop overhead. Now add and the V presence is talking to will call there brother a relative that's the end. Take over fixed the computer so we can see her and sold-out run over and pulled the computers I can ever figure this out with its usual picture in the corner, and that's what they see whenever that's on there on the camera, so I never saw that before because you had it above your head, you know, and elevating the show was a popular head so fortunately the family knew that there was more to mother than what appears there is more to the picture than what you see and I was thinking of the data title of this message. There is more to you. There is more to God than what we perceive and what we see there is more than what we see. So imagine answering the doorbell and being handed a special delivery letter, and as you open this letter, you begin to read that you could have the opportunity of a lifetime that will change your life forever and all it takes is that you will take this information and submit a resume and a complete decal on who you are and as you submit this, you have a very good chance of quadruple in your salary, your yearly and tremendous bonuses and opportunities for management, but we must look at the application and the application states that you must submit up all identity check on who you are so, what would you send what would you send in this resume that says they want to know you and what a personal resume of your life and with this you submit to an office and you will have the opportunity to take on this job will quadruple plus have all the bonuses and so on. So generally, whatever we think of is okay to put together a resume while first of all, I got a put a picture on it that so you rummage through the photographs and say I better go get a professional one. Nine nine, the swimsuit. What is the one you want to put in there okay so I have it out at you. You go to the professional photographer in you get your target your best foot forward. Best picture forward so you prevent you prepare this resume because they want to know you completely solve there was a lengthy decals, recording your education, your career, as you know, if we look at a resume. We generally want to want to have an outline when I'm a outline of what people do you want a career history you want using your civic and church activities think that you were done. You you worked at sports camp the church. Yet, without on a resume and White House. Want to put on there. Your notice in your noticeable accomplishments of what you've been able to do over the years, offices held in these organizations, honors and awards received, and promotions that you may have had. And of course most importantly. A few glowing letters from friends and your pastor. Amen, I sub good report, you better show up at sports. Can I so you send this off to set up your packet of information and you setback it with a contented smile. You know what I think I got this job, i.e. I got this job and out. This is something that's going to fit who I am and what I been praying about and guess what the application comes back incomplete. This is an incomplete resume to see the packet tells what you look like the packet tells how well you have performed and tells what you have achieved, but you haven't told much to us about who you are seeing there is a difference between what we do and how we are now and it seems like what about the saying. While yes they are similar and they are the same in some way. They are the same, but you know there's a very hard concept to do to grass I think because I'm more of a idea no factual yell. I worldwide imagine this in Sunday school on whenever we did the ordination training. We know hospitals than in California for a week in our labor. This nice hotel of the agreement. We are busy now fourteen hours a day doing all the different trainings and attending seminars and all that stuff and job Newt Gingrich was there that the that week, and in the local newspaper. They had Newt Gingrich attend form and you know you if you think I have seen in my picture taken with them all that stuff. But one of the things that they were trying to train us with his heart disease reversal program was that in group support. You said in this group. No, not group therapy, support, and they asked us to participate in. So of course you know I was picked on by the leader to start off while tell us about tell us about what you feel and I supply think I feel that you don't nice if that's not right in the hostesses tell us about how your feeling prices while I think I think that I feel good today right. I've been praying that because I didn't get the memo. Now I have Saturday while asking her out and start our know your guinea pig is also tell us how you're feeling and I said while I think you should know this is a feeling, not a thought. Tell us what you feel, how, why did you say South Africa they get your and so we look at things and sometimes for me. You know this was a very difficult concept to get an easy concept. Once you knew what they were asking for. Because if we for people who are more safe. Taking that knowledge and feelings are the same thing. They're not knowledge and feelings are not the same feelings are one thing knowledge than other now feelings are important. We without feelings. There is no life. The K left, but the spirit giveth life Scripture seller set, meaning that all lanes will kill you. No no no I because of what it dies, it makes life and intellectual assent without any relational experiences. We are relational beings. We have the liens. No matter how much we try and negate them. We feel certain things. The hot, I feel that the bench is hard no I thought eight. I think I feel the benches heart while is a resident. I think I feel. I think I feel hot like dry jumping into a swimming pool. I think I feel wet. I noticed it. I feel that using so I feel that I feel I hurt I feel discouraged, I feel so there are feelings, but we cannot remain viable life by feelings because feelings is just a and a while I feel offended. So therefore I'm not. I feel that God has allowed me wait a minute. That contradicts the knowledge that we have of his work. So when the feelings are there. We have to make sure that the anchor is in place and the anchor is knowing and knowing that we have anchors the feelings always did this in counseling and because most the time, most not always this is a this is a it's something uptight when it is now the RSS understanding that we have men are more men are more help. Dominantly but not always paying this is not always met or more factual women are more emotional became that is a generalization that's the word is looking for a generalization. It was not always that way. Sometimes it's reversed, but it still but a generalization that are more factual women are more emotional. So here we go coming together coming together coming you're really going apart, going apart, going apart to limit what happened never from Mars, women are from Venus. Where did you come from Minas word you come from Mars by two different levels, but the reason that we function so well together is that knowledge and facts anchor the emotions in motion. A motion to help give life to the facts. So therefore we find ourselves merging together one in the other. Now in our there is more to you than what you see when you look in the mirror. There is more to God than what we think we know because we know about God but if there is not this understanding emotional understanding of God. It's kind of lax now when I think of. I been writing my book on grief and for those you are watching my television. I can tell you that it's going to be on sale soon noticed that I'm not done with it yet but I know I am. I have gone into the conclusion that it's got a be rewritten for the fourth time that I've been doing this, but in grace. The if we were just factual beings, all of our grief, sorrow would be done at the cemetery if we were factual beings. The not getting a job not getting the promotion not going on that play sort it out. Not making the team for kids trying out for team not making the team even no far dogs. Although the losses and you see if we were factual beings. The when the note was there there would be no response. Okay were off, but for kids going to college being rejected from a particular school. Not fitting into a profession. There is a sense of failure. That's a feeling and what happens is that knowledge if we were just knowledge, we would be done with grieving at the cemetery. Why comes first is that I'm going on the life is going on, but there is an emotional response. How long did it take the lead bullet with the person I'm still learning. She's still learning the word was right. It's a progress only been about eighty years. But we're making progress, now forty two, moderate forty two& I came I got. I have a duty is right on forty two years, the June twenty fourth this year that we were born. We were born five we were married in nineteen seventy two, June twenty four about that the staff. The first time I you guys see what happens. Emotions frustrations emotions do not dictate our life. They are part of our life, you know I the illustration of the illustrations I use in my book. I is in dialogue with little wiki is and hopefully is anchors while at anchor, will hold the ship and place, but it doesn't calm the sea. We have knowledge that something has happened a lot, says expert that we have experienced, but we had we still have the emotional upheavals that take us up and down and up and down those of the emotional packages get rid of the emotions I went have all the problem while giving it rid of all your emotions, your dad, why because you have no life in your actions, but if you are just emotions during emotional roller coaster. Your emotional wreck your aim is ever hear those words emotional wreck without and we carried Judy and the way to church this morning. They came very close to the edges with a rack because somebody was going through a red light and forgot that it was red and yellow sheet squealing of tires and the just down the road here. There's somebody did have the rack and no, but the so the facts and emotions. They're both are both together in our life and we cannot eliminate them. I wish the knowledge of this rejection, the knowledge of this experience would just go away. It won't. It won't go away, and so you got to learn that there is emotions and our facts now if you look at your resume. What is a containing is probably saying telling telling who you are what you have done, but there's more to you than a list of things that you accomplish. So imagine coming to church, but at the imaginary one, because you're already here. And so, imagine coming to church and vine. I give you a packet, the says this is a resume mail. God is wanting to make an application to your life. So tell us about God. So give us a resume that God might submit to you. All you have to do is identify God in your life. Forget the identified fraud going, how are you going to identify God in your life. The ideas blessings. So what he does miracle he saved me from my sins and how you identify God what we used to identify God. The work of God in our life, you believe in God, and I sure do. Then tell me how to recognize and while I recognize the role he loves me. How does he do that. I think I feel love. I think that God loves me, is that an action or is that it had a action or a feeling is that a no a or a feeling idiocy that God is with us. What does that look like God has promised never to leave a score for seconds. I think everybody saying God has promised never to leave me nor forsake me, what does that look like what does that look like that. He walks that Mary talk to me and he tells me I'm yours. I'm his own and we decide what does that look like if she we have a hard time putting that into a picture that is capable of being realized in our everyday life. But what does that look like well-liked and I balled exactly where the redshirt and Jackson wants me to shave my beard and he wears glasses. So what what his pastor looked like, but you see, what do I am who you are is more than what you look like. So you find that when we are looking at God is me when you are looking at God. He is more than just an accumulation of things that he's done that we must look beyond the rearranging of circumstances in order to prove. Okay, it's like the audio. The movie the passion they bring their hall. Christ before the local governor, and unite cc and drunker and it's who is driving. I'll think of it now. They hauled a holiday for that this drug is not pilot it's the other guy Nero and Bob letting up, not Nero apparently held before Harry and Eric this denies a partying guide in outlining bases this on Jesus, you nowadays questioning into this. This is Jesus, you don't look like God than me can you do a little miracle for me, we did a little miracle for me. What is he trying to do is try to get God to prove something to him that he has got the Pharisees, the ones who wanted Jesus dead. They go to the cross and they say well if you're really the Messiah comes out after there do a little miracle for us. If you are really my God, they do a little miracle watch as we what our relationship with God, do we look for the knowledge. This is what to do a little miracle for us, then we'll know. But five years from now. Probably you do another little miracle so that we know than six months from then please come you do a little miracle for us because and when God stops doing the miracles that we stop our belief, God is more than just actions is more than just the miraculous the rearranging of circumstances. God is a personal being a personal person who, while still has feelings who has character traits, who has the ability to be rejected and turned aside all the ability to be accepted and brought into our life. So the character of God is such that he is more than just what we know because the Pharisees. They kept all the ten Commandments. Even those who came to Jesus and Jesus in operating drug you should do a little miracle for me because I kept all the commandments since I was a kid. I've done them all so good that you can think of me as being proud and I'm proud of who I am look at what I have done with that is that really who we are. If you had to sell everything, what would that leave you what would that leave you what kind of person with that leave you with. So if we took away everything that we had if we took away all of the fancy close in the cars we have in place that we live and get all the money in the bank and the money coming in no job whatever they wanted to play all those things. Who would we be that the person that Jesus loves. That's the person that God loves. So if we took away the miraculous. We took away the walking on water. The feeding of five thousand. The Billy took away all of that, that he did what would we be left with. That's the character of God. That is our hunger that is the person of God that we love and who loves us so he looks beyond faults and failures, good things, bad things, yell two factors can include all too small now, no beard, big beard. What ever he looks beyond all of those things, strips away and leaves us standing there as a person and says to us. I love you I love you so flee or submitting a resume to identify us then take away all of the things we've done all the education all of the promotions. All of the incomes all of the jobs we've done everything of our life to go all the way there we spent how would we write a resume for that person. I gave José about twenty scriptures were supposed to read nine get to them yet and I don't think of going to this is going to be a continuation of part one of a series of five hundred is almost like Wednesday night and Bibles. They were going through the book of James, and we can get through that follows five chapters and maybe seven months but because we talk about anything and everything doesn't have to be on the Scripture text you can be and come from the text, but it can be whatever's going on in our life, because what is going on in my life is more important than women finished this book in three days on better the beatings will continue until the attitude changes. Let's hang a middle teach them a lesson. Let's read until they can send you don't know we mean it. You don't straighten up on binoculars and any other in any other wounds than the others. Those those bots, you know, growing up, I brought you into this world and I can take you out anybody been told that anybody use those phrases on other people. What are the things you know, we look at that and that is what we tried to do or trying to manipulate actions because if we can manipulate actions we can get them going in the right direction and then we can make sure their fix for what they need to be doing. How do we manipulate God. We manipulate God by saying I believe he will do this for me why I got faith. I got faith. I think a dog to do anything I want because I believe, but belief is more than here. Belief is something that was here in the heart, not as more than just something in our head. I know the Bible says. I can move mountains. If I believe FIFA is a grand mustard seed, I can say to this mountain, jump, and it will jump the letter, for I know that if I say God will listen to what I have to say and jump that mountain layouts right on the way. I know that getting why would God want to do that for you because I told him what he should do. I know what he wants me to do and I know that mountains both the outgoing will let me ask you this. If you set down in your chair and Jesus were setting right there beside you, what would he want you to do what when he wants you to say what what he wants you to feel and from this relationship. What would he want you to know he would want us to know if that mountain moves or doesn't move your okay. You're safe. I'm with you, you're with me and moving mountains and rearranging things is not what I'm here for. I'm here with you to love you without any mountains being moved without any lists of accomplishments by you. I'm here to love you to know you to keep you and in that relationship. If that mountain needs moved its here in that relationship, you need to walk on water, no problem. But God doesn't walk on water because I can one two eight on one meter walk on law water unless he asked me to let me demonstrate you my faith when they walk bringing up when I walk and walk on water here for you I would demonstrate to you my faith. I can rearrange I can part is water in in vivo because God wants to prove to you that I'm a good person. That's what water is not part the waters not been a part not like I walk on water, and I'm not. I walk across the pews and I because I don't what is approved, God isn't here to prove that he's God. God is here for us to know that he is God, and the knowing begins in our hearts and I guess this comes, this whole scenario number now begun the full scenario, but it is comes from an individual that we earn around an iron contact with that the illness has come back in their life and probably will kill them take their life and the question is, where's the relationship with God. All I'm unsaved I'm going to go to heaven but this backup for a little bit in my suggestion was, take communion every day as I I I read somebody else or hurt somebody else speak about this, I thought what a wonderful thing to do. It was who is a person on TBN were headed up with the lady. Anyhow, it's the lady and she talked about how that her illness was such that they had given up and she talked about how much he had gone every day and took communion and is focused on being in the presence of God in the presence of God. Everything changes, and that's where I want us to focus on being in the presence of God. Everything changes, whether I live or whether I die with her. The mountain is moved or not, whether the seas, parts, or I have to get a boat and go across God is with me and I am safe because I know it in my heart and when I know it in my heart I know that God can speak that means they gave it you can walk on water. David in your heart. I you can even say that mountain going to Scott, but I'm not directing him. I am allowing him to speak that is where our greatest faith is God wants to speak to a hearts he wants to hold us in his arms. He wants us to know that we are safe. Our sins are forgiven, eternity in heaven is our home and I am with you, David. Every step of the way it's in that place. It's in that place of presence of God. I can say to mountains being the no problem because I know that that's what God wants to do my life. This is where we are at. God wants to do things in our life, not to prove that we have faith but to let us know he is God is sovereign about everything. His purpose for life and nothing, nothing in this the guy has brought life, nothing will ever be able to separate us from his mom. Nothing will ever be able to stop that love from coming to us. Nothing will ever to come between us because I'm safe in the arms of my father, and he loves me, and that's who God is and God is that results in the if he wants me to it needs me to I can walk on water, but until that day comes, I'm getting about so we spent some is more to us. There's more to God than just a list of facts take away everything, all the accomplishments all of the things we've done all the education all of the degrees all of their awards take them all away and what are we left with that Sue God loves father, thank you, thank you for your presence. Thank you for your love. Thank you for the assurance thank you for the knowing in our hearts that you are here you are with us your grace is sufficient for your mercy is everlasting and Lord. We are grateful that you love us you love me for being me, and then God loves me for being me say that God loves me for being me. Got to be anybody else but you next Sunday. Church starts at ten o'clock ten o'clock church starts at ten o'clock best anniversary tomorrow, they got married Scott Paul hey hey Scott, did you remember that you are okay. Good judgment that one