The Sermon Flawless Performance by David McGee
Jun 29, 2014
Flawless Performance (33:35)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 51:1-17
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Psalm 51:1-17
1) Have mercy on me, God, according to your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
2) Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
3) For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
4) Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.
5) Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin did my mother conceive me.
6) Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
7) Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8) Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
9) Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.
10) Create in me a clean heart, God. Renew a right spirit within me.
11) Don‘t throw me away from your presence. Don‘t take your holy Spirit from me.
12) Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
13) Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.
14) Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, God, you God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
15) Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
16) For you don‘t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
17) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, God, you will not despise.
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Are messages from Psalm fifty one, and the title of it is flawless performance and we basically get that inclination on that Scripture from Psalm fifty one, verse Steen and seventeen, and which goddess are David is saying here going through the motions doesn't please you, meaning God afar a flawless performance is nothing to you, so whatever were looking at this Psalm, we wish to David. It's it's one of them truly unique Psalms and in the Scriptures, because it's an edited tape song of repentance. If the Dave Psalm of repentance and here's David King David and he is in a position of authority is a position of no overwhelming power king of a nation, kings and armies. Now he's in this place, but yet he also recognizes that the system. The religious system that is the one of sacrifices and the feeling of animals for the sacrifices of sin. He recognizes that this this these acts of sacrifice is a really enough that he sees that there's more to this forgiveness that comes from God than just killing animals and burning them on a sacrifice and we know as we look back over and put the history of Israel in the history of the sacrificial system into place. We also see how that Jesus Christ came to be the sacrifice for all the sins of humanity, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and so as we look back and see the sacrificial system is like when they were leaving the nation of Egypt. They were to take a lamb, and they were to bring it into their home and keep it for. I think five days and then at a certain time they were to sacrifice to take the blood of that land put it on the doorpost of their homes. So the angel of death would pass over while in our lives in the Jewish Passover and so in our lives. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who shed his blood upon the cross so that the blood of Christ when we ask for forgiveness cleanses us from all sin. And so that we no longer have death eternal death in our lives, and so David is is just no is referred to as a man after God 's own heart and we see David is a person with loss. We would think that if we were someone after God 's heart. We would be perfect. I know we can all measure up to some standards downright if it will fail in faith don't know a little bit, but nothing is an area whenever we want to see how the God wants us to live up to his standard, and in the standard that we have a fully asked the question on a scale of one to ten, how would we write ourselves. Our Christian walk. Okay, don't raise your hands and open up a number. So we see that it's important for us to look at what God has established in our life and see how the David here, a man after God 's own heart recognizes his need to be changed and to be cleansed, and a psalm fifty one verse one is as generous. Eleven. This is from the message Bible generous in love. God gives grace fusion mercy wipe out my bad record scrub away my guilt soaked out my sales in your laundry, but they ladies and on. I wish I identify with this right and error. There are certain ingredients that we can use on certain stains that can get them out of the garments will. What aren't one of them, and David sees that his stand on his law I service upon his soul. The knees asking God to soak it out to deliver him from these things on this path it. We think I I think of how that our faith: faith saves us from our past people are haunted by memories by things that have gone wrong things that have happened things that were deliberately done by someone else or not delivered westward looking for circumstances of life that some things have happened. By Dalits by deliberate actions, some by accident. There we go and we have to look at life. They would have to forgive him, and let it go because our decisions for our future connection cannot be made upon the hindrances of our past that what we do if we have anger and bitterness and hatred in and in Indian strife and all these things about our past. We carried them with us in our and our decision-making, but God wants to forgive us and that we can cleanse ourselves from these things and let them go, forgiveness is not an option, forgiving others in forgiving ourselves is not an option that when we forget we allow things to separate from us. Now that we remember. Yes, we don't have a magic eraser know how often do I have to forget you have to forgive until the pain no longer hurts no longer heard from the pain. They no longer hurts the memory isn't there and creating a paying now. I won't I won't make a joke about the person beside you there. Creating a pain in your life lump sum, but I won't do that. Okay, so we have to will have to let ourselves know that God is in innocent and David thing is McCain who recognizes his failures in his fault and he sang I know how bad I've been my stairs are staring me down. It is the universal first one personally, I know how bad I've been my sins are staring me down, fell faults and failures are sins of the past stairs down your when you are sins of the past dominate. They dominate when we try to forget them. Okay, don't think of a pink elephant. I'll think of a pink elephant thing I may think of a pink elephant. I like as I brought it up. I suggested while in our life when everything we don't know how to go on a diet. What happens then we crave food. Now I'm going to lose weight. I find it, don't we. We thought we should, whenever we start putting these things and places just don't like our are when humanity argument is the perspective of wanting to take and not deprive while wind sends an error in our life. It has the same effect and for Jim this is a way of saying looking at ourselves and looking at our past letting it go, but it doesn't depend it. It is not dependent upon my strength or willpower. It's God, and I working together. So, last God to forgive me of my sins, God is there working in my life to bring about this person that God wants me to be so that I can look at life from a divine perspective. I believe Christians should be the most creative people on the planet because we have the divine spirit of creation inside of us in our lives in the Holy Spirit and an interest God then brooded over the over the earth it without shame, without more analysts. Shape and boy you know when the Spirit of God Road in public. It's like God is hatching out hatching out a plan is bringing together a plan, and whenever we look at our lives. God is bringing together a plan. God is bringing together a plan if we has for each of our lives. Listen, think about that for a moment, what is the plan is trying to bring about for my life. Well, you're in the midst of it, you're in the middle of that plan, and what God is saying is don't allow failures to hinder future. Don't allow failures of path to hinder, present or future, so the way to do that isn't David is bringing it up here. Most of us for your the one I violated your the one meaning. God, I violated my relationship with you. God and you see you seen it all. Seeing the full extent of my evil. So here we doesn't like reselling is a will, you know, I won't tell about everything. I won't tell him that so he already knows there was a retirement for one of the features and one end and her favorite expression was either I don't want to tell my husband that she learned she do some job, I will tell Jim John, Jane Jacquard Romano, who was now a columnist select a brief update at the retirement they were a member of the other teachers are bringing out some of the things that she wouldn't tell our husband or husband there now and most of things he knew except one, and it's like it was like you did not enough I'll yeah, that was it bra. She dropped her iPad and brokers, green, and tell Jack that do not have any look to the judicial Yep, I repaired, though, is likely where looking at our life misalignment without we are transparent with God. Be transparent with ourselves finding fault is not finding areas that need improvement. We all have them. It's not finding fault finding places in our life that need improvement in others there's lots of there's lots of place for improvement. There's a there's a lot of need for improvement. So God has given us the ability to know to learn to absorb to put together things in our mind, our hearts to be creative in the creativeness of the spirit comes together with our thinking in with the events of life, not has a plan and it's all coming together and we cannot allow failure faults sins mistakes of the past to dictate what we're going to do today, so forgive them and let them go. God is not a manipulator. He's a leader. God does not manipulate God loves. He leads we follow you, David is on your the one he says are the highest antioxidant against people are sending is my stop is a predominantly God has all been against you. It's all that against you, because when I hurt other people. I'm hurting God think when you hurt. God hurts when people abuse hurt saying misrepresent whatever lie about you. God hurts. What because he doesn't want his children to hurt enough you have children, your child falls down gets hurt when you do, but I a lot is like you hurt just as bad as they do. While I love that I always love them whenever you punish them. It hurts me as much as it is, you and I doesn't work out you are a dozen Army money out while they don't do that so you have all the facts before you, David, saying this about God, you have all the facts before you know the thoughts and intentions of my heart. Whatever you decide about me as fair. Now if if we think of God as a person is trying to get even with us for our failures. It's a mistake. If God wanted you to have God wanted to get even for a even with us for our failures in our sins. We all went have a prayer filled lobby over, but I get out of step. David is saying. I've been out of step with you for a long time in the wrong since even before I was born. I been out of step with you in my own humanistic perspective, but what you're after his truth from the inside out pilot, what is truth. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. The truth that we find in life comes from God comes through God comes from his work. We find it in the Scriptures. Their guiding principles for interactions with God, and interactions with people, the ten Commandments fighting. We should know, think of the ten Commandments that will whatever on the relational experiences. The six relational experiences we find commandments basically make up all over. Noon is the clause to govern our society, so, so being anyone soaked budget okay seven or seven so cleaner, laundry and no clean scrubbed me and I'll have a snow white line scrub me playing me know. I used you have received a mother trying to describe a child's face, just like department will get this you will remain in a child's diet back now. I went with my pain felt that whatever a flamingo, I can take care of it. God is in trying to look at our faults and failures. He's looking at the picture of where we can become what he wants us to do and he says softly interfaces to know I like this one turned me into foot tapping songs, Thailand to offload clapping song I like music rest of you but I have I I I I I and I think that if we didn't step now that you hear music usually sits atop foot. I want to be a foot tapping song. What song would you say would be a dirge will always mean like at wait for things that go wrong again and I got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, now things can't get any worse than they are. Until the next minutes in on us all singing bus operates on and off looked up and saw turned me into something more than one. I thought tapping an upbeat on the person. Amen. Thank you that's okay. God makes me God make a fresh start in the I will be getting a new life. Everyday is a new beginning in the renewal of the promises don't throw me out with the trash or failed to bring holiness in me transitioning from life this thing in life just keeps getting better from here. Gently a job teaching rebels your way. So we got we find out that when God has a purpose of the plan. All this going on in our life that God is at work doing something now. Couple more things here, Jimmy of the death sentence. God, my salvation, and I'll sing anthems of life-giving frames, life-giving ways so the death sentence of failure has been paid. The death sentence of failure sins, mistakes, missing the mark all those things are paid if Redman get a new life and then comes the good you ever hear the expression button your lip and that is a biblical perspective, because verse fifteen, says unbutton my lips. I bet unbuttoning my lips. Dear God, and how loose I'll let loose your praise out there is speaking to all that we are doing there is there is that I don't know assuming all you need to come the church need from church. You know what people alike video network in the church you what you need. Database Jesus in your life will change. And Jesus is a real person, and we find that as we look at the realities of our relationship. Okay, as we look at the realities of who we are, we've got this new beginning, we got this new place in God. We've got a song in our heart. We've got to be the person in our weirdness by walking around the perpetual smile, but it is understanding the life is a gift and the gift we have is that the B shares say that three times. Life is a gift the gift of God got shared with now on scale one to ten, how would you rate your Christian walk ever watched. I don't like. I see some of the Shiite watch dancing with the stars the voice know what someone with a tender back and in a pushbutton that the voice yelling, and of course, one for the mind creates there really a flopping out five after ten day, what number would you thought for your life. All are setting before God. The setting for the judges of the earth, and you're the one that asked the judge yourself and what kind of array data. Give yourself. I had a baguette of what would you say now, before you give that answer question, what do you base that number on what do you base that number on not being perfect, alive, I understand I failed. Welcome to the human race off what number do you get yourself and why not, and in this whole Psalm. David is talking to us about how that he wants to be poured out before God. He wants God to come in and cleanse him to remove his failures of the past. He wants to unbutton his lips so that he can sing praises of his life is to know. So, what type of a song would we think of ourselves and our relationship with God. While I think most the time we give ourselves low numbers now we are for. I'm trying to be better and no, I'm going for a more will be in church more often. Note cause God is like. If you don't come to church. I agree with that one, but the I agree with them, but the way of thinking with thoughts that tell us what the judgment is against us. I failed in some way often. Whenever we give ourselves a low rank three four five, when we give ourselves a low rank. We are looking at things from a judge mental perspective that says we fail. What if the failure. Failure is never final event. What if the failure was forgiven is forgiven, but yet we still we still write our life raised upon failure, a fault, a mistake, willful, intentional, unintentional, we raise ourselves on those things. What does God say how is God looking at this busy if you gave yourself a low rank. What's the reason while a lot of busy people say they don't have time to pray don't have time to read the Bible. Therefore, they are a low rank K give ourselves a five four three L, and it of course we want to be humble. I don't say within. I know I deserve to be attend and I would tell you, but he also true that I am attend, but since I'm here, I'm a nine is not that kind of stuff that kind of new solar looking for when you want to the IRS assessment that goes on inside of us is a challenge then is for us to look at what God has done and how that God wants to move our lives, and you want the most important thing is is not how long you think about this. How much of the judgment that we put upon ourselves is based upon a quantitative thing I don't spend enough time frame, meaning hours, minutes, moments, I don't spend enough time reading the Bible sold. Therefore, because of a time frame. Quantitative thing. God doesn't like me. I don't like God approves that I'm a failure. Practicing the presence of God practicing the presence of God. God is interested in our relationship, not in the quantity of time that every moment of every day, God is here. God is with us. God is with us every moment of every day. What's he doing there. He's supporting you. These loving you, he is directing us he is helping us he is for giving us he is he is leading us. God is with us every moment of the everyday install it isn't the quantitative time that I sat down or kneel down and close my eyes and found I had an kinky, my thoughts straight about what I want is how God and was the time which I got something already knows our time with God is giving him, giving us a picture of our heart to him to go. It is a recognition that God is with me every moment of every day and I need to recognize I need to remind myself that God is here God is with and I don't understand why life why things happen the way they do. But yet I trust him. Oh, God is with me and the more that I recognize that God is with me to close the relationship I have with him and it is about success or failures about the relationship and that in this relationship I have peace. I have an understanding that I am forgiven, and every time I bring up my faults, God reminds me, he forgave me and that he is in the process of building my life, not destroying it, and that in the places that I find I don't have hope. He is there to give me hope in the voices I find myself that I am anxious. I find there is a piece in God. He is there I saw a on one of stations a thing on Darryl Strawberry Manor member Darryl strawberry. He was a baseball player for the New York Yankees pardon the mess to the mess he made whenever you play he made over thirty million a year add job that was a while back I sit you down because now the hundred million. But a half in a thirty million year and a short time ago and is passed, it was three million in debt, living in a big and living in the basement of his girlfriend 's parents home and his life was a mess, rugs, alcohol, the whole works and his girlfriend. They broke up. She found God that God that Jesus found forgiveness found how the God could restore her. She then have Darryl strawberry went met God. God saved and changed their life, and now he's got rehab centers, you know, for people in distress. The situation young people were individuals, that's for distressed people who are in distress with drugs and alcohol running to end their life, and he has a sponsor and it was funny was on Brian Reinke was the moderator of it, and whenever the guy was telling the stories as well. Money was white with trying to bring double trying to indicate was what you know, sometimes people who all these ways of ministry may find their life quite lucrative and NaCl and the commentator who was doing the story on Dale Strawberry says no. His wife has taught him how to shop at Walmart. He is not living a lucrative life and there is nothing in his home. The reminds him of his years in baseball. It's all in boxes that his testimony is God made my life valuable, not because of what I was, but because of who God is in his life now that is changed his life and he's now in the process of helping others meeting God allowing God, God is here, and our understanding of God comes from the Scriptures and if we don't understand as you know, he is one who was the brain is clear picture to our lives. It is one load wants us to understand what what he is about, and God is not about finger-pointing. Then it out and pushing in no rules and regulations is about attitude of the heart that governs actions because I want to serve him because I want to do the right things beforehand and it is a matter of a guilt trip. It's a matter of law is not a matter of keeping the Commandments as a matter of doing the Commandments, because I know it's best for me. I know what's best in my life and I and I pray I pray and I want creativity what a creativity of God to be in my life and in my mind and my heart. I want the strength of God to be in my life in my mind and my heart. I want the will of God to be in my mind, my heart to my strength. I want to not to touch my life in the I bet he can use me to touch other presence here with me. There were together in this and I need to remind myself every moment of every day. God is with me, God is with me to how we write ourselves about my ten. My to know God doesn't have a scale. He has a relationship, and in his relationship. He loves me for who I am no equipment about an hour. But anyhow I'm never on John Maxwell is to talk about the only fight about abilities and things that we have, and everybody has abilities. If we put a number on our abilities, yell like five nine. If I use the ability scale, and I thought my number on my ability to sing. I'm a minus two zero ten, minus two on singing, but the on speaking in Europe this this is my calling, but when I started this ministry of speaking and preaching and teaching, and all that I was about four baby of three and I'm trying to work my way up to five sixths, but John Russell says that that we don't. We need to take our life and the things we do best. The six to seventy eight. That's our place where God wants to do his greatest work in us because it's God. It takes us from eight to nine is God who takes is for many to attend and we can't be, we can be the greatest singer. The greatest speaker. The greatest writer of the greatest this with every tens and everything God wants us to allow him to take what we are that what we are good at and make it the best thing that he will surround us with people that help us compensate for our weaknesses so that when you get the whole group together across the board. The church is a ten, but individually we may be attending this way attended that way and attendant that way, but we all have weaknesses, and in those weaknesses. God brings strength beside us. So when God uses you to be an encourager for those were discouraged. It's God for those laminating God uses you to help meet their needs. You become attend to them. God is with me helping me understand who I am and God will help us take those six seven eighths whatever they are and take them up to another level and it will happen, but because we defeat ourselves by not putting quantities together, but because we remind ourselves. God is with me, God is with me and I talk to him every day. I speak with him every moment of every day, reminding myself. God is with me. So everybody say God is with me turn to somebody and say, God is with me. It's either the value time as God would give them a reason you have to okay, let's than selling, don't be anxious about anything, rather bring up all of your requests to God in your prayers. When you turn to God, he's already there. He's not showing up. He's already fair were just sponsoring ourselves to recognize God is with me. Father, thank you for your words, your life, you're like your spirit, your presence. God, you're with us, God, you do all things well your spirit empowers us your your your spirit inhabits our lives. It inhabits our lives in and give us understanding and wisdom and guidance in who created all things live inside of us. As David sought you for cleansing of his life. So Lord week we seek you. We ask you to forgive us of our sins to live within our hearts. It's just search me know my heart know my thoughts is any wicked way in me. Oh God, show it to me that I may ask for you about to cleanse me and God, your strength would be there to make me strong in you. Thank you, God, thank you Lord, thank you Lord God is with me, and then God is with me. Remind yourself of that when you're driving down the road when you're mowing your grasp. William cooking dinner. Remind yourself. God is with meAre messages from Psalm fifty one, and the title of it is flawless performance and we basically get that inclination on that Scripture from Psalm fifty one, verse Steen and seventeen, and which goddess are David is saying here going through the motions doesn't please you, meaning God afar a flawless performance is nothing to you, so whatever were looking at this Psalm, we wish to David. It's it's one of them truly unique Psalms and in the Scriptures, because it's an edited tape song of repentance. If the Dave Psalm of repentance and here's David King David and he is in a position of authority is a position of no overwhelming power king of a nation, kings and armies. Now he's in this place, but yet he also recognizes that the system. The religious system that is the one of sacrifices and the feeling of animals for the sacrifices of sin. He recognizes that this this these acts of sacrifice is a really enough that he sees that there's more to this forgiveness that comes from God than just killing animals and burning them on a sacrifice and we know as we look back over and put the history of Israel in the history of the sacrificial system into place. We also see how that Jesus Christ came to be the sacrifice for all the sins of humanity, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and so as we look back and see the sacrificial system is like when they were leaving the nation of Egypt. They were to take a lamb, and they were to bring it into their home and keep it for. I think five days and then at a certain time they were to sacrifice to take the blood of that land put it on the doorpost of their homes. So the angel of death would pass over while in our lives in the Jewish Passover and so in our lives. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who shed his blood upon the cross so that the blood of Christ when we ask for forgiveness cleanses us from all sin. And so that we no longer have death eternal death in our lives, and so David is is just no is referred to as a man after God 's own heart and we see David is a person with loss. We would think that if we were someone after God 's heart. We would be perfect. I know we can all measure up to some standards downright if it will fail in faith don't know a little bit, but nothing is an area whenever we want to see how the God wants us to live up to his standard, and in the standard that we have a fully asked the question on a scale of one to ten, how would we write ourselves. Our Christian walk. Okay, don't raise your hands and open up a number. So we see that it's important for us to look at what God has established in our life and see how the David here, a man after God 's own heart recognizes his need to be changed and to be cleansed, and a psalm fifty one verse one is as generous. Eleven. This is from the message Bible generous in love. God gives grace fusion mercy wipe out my bad record scrub away my guilt soaked out my sales in your laundry, but they ladies and on. I wish I identify with this right and error. There are certain ingredients that we can use on certain stains that can get them out of the garments will. What aren't one of them, and David sees that his stand on his law I service upon his soul. The knees asking God to soak it out to deliver him from these things on this path it. We think I I think of how that our faith: faith saves us from our past people are haunted by memories by things that have gone wrong things that have happened things that were deliberately done by someone else or not delivered westward looking for circumstances of life that some things have happened. By Dalits by deliberate actions, some by accident. There we go and we have to look at life. They would have to forgive him, and let it go because our decisions for our future connection cannot be made upon the hindrances of our past that what we do if we have anger and bitterness and hatred in and in Indian strife and all these things about our past. We carried them with us in our and our decision-making, but God wants to forgive us and that we can cleanse ourselves from these things and let them go, forgiveness is not an option, forgiving others in forgiving ourselves is not an option that when we forget we allow things to separate from us. Now that we remember. Yes, we don't have a magic eraser know how often do I have to forget you have to forgive until the pain no longer hurts no longer heard from the pain. They no longer hurts the memory isn't there and creating a paying now. I won't I won't make a joke about the person beside you there. Creating a pain in your life lump sum, but I won't do that. Okay, so we have to will have to let ourselves know that God is in innocent and David thing is McCain who recognizes his failures in his fault and he sang I know how bad I've been my stairs are staring me down. It is the universal first one personally, I know how bad I've been my sins are staring me down, fell faults and failures are sins of the past stairs down your when you are sins of the past dominate. They dominate when we try to forget them. Okay, don't think of a pink elephant. I'll think of a pink elephant thing I may think of a pink elephant. I like as I brought it up. I suggested while in our life when everything we don't know how to go on a diet. What happens then we crave food. Now I'm going to lose weight. I find it, don't we. We thought we should, whenever we start putting these things and places just don't like our are when humanity argument is the perspective of wanting to take and not deprive while wind sends an error in our life. It has the same effect and for Jim this is a way of saying looking at ourselves and looking at our past letting it go, but it doesn't depend it. It is not dependent upon my strength or willpower. It's God, and I working together. So, last God to forgive me of my sins, God is there working in my life to bring about this person that God wants me to be so that I can look at life from a divine perspective. I believe Christians should be the most creative people on the planet because we have the divine spirit of creation inside of us in our lives in the Holy Spirit and an interest God then brooded over the over the earth it without shame, without more analysts. Shape and boy you know when the Spirit of God Road in public. It's like God is hatching out hatching out a plan is bringing together a plan, and whenever we look at our lives. God is bringing together a plan. God is bringing together a plan if we has for each of our lives. Listen, think about that for a moment, what is the plan is trying to bring about for my life. Well, you're in the midst of it, you're in the middle of that plan, and what God is saying is don't allow failures to hinder future. Don't allow failures of path to hinder, present or future, so the way to do that isn't David is bringing it up here. Most of us for your the one I violated your the one meaning. God, I violated my relationship with you. God and you see you seen it all. Seeing the full extent of my evil. So here we doesn't like reselling is a will, you know, I won't tell about everything. I won't tell him that so he already knows there was a retirement for one of the features and one end and her favorite expression was either I don't want to tell my husband that she learned she do some job, I will tell Jim John, Jane Jacquard Romano, who was now a columnist select a brief update at the retirement they were a member of the other teachers are bringing out some of the things that she wouldn't tell our husband or husband there now and most of things he knew except one, and it's like it was like you did not enough I'll yeah, that was it bra. She dropped her iPad and brokers, green, and tell Jack that do not have any look to the judicial Yep, I repaired, though, is likely where looking at our life misalignment without we are transparent with God. Be transparent with ourselves finding fault is not finding areas that need improvement. We all have them. It's not finding fault finding places in our life that need improvement in others there's lots of there's lots of place for improvement. There's a there's a lot of need for improvement. So God has given us the ability to know to learn to absorb to put together things in our mind, our hearts to be creative in the creativeness of the spirit comes together with our thinking in with the events of life, not has a plan and it's all coming together and we cannot allow failure faults sins mistakes of the past to dictate what we're going to do today, so forgive them and let them go. God is not a manipulator. He's a leader. God does not manipulate God loves. He leads we follow you, David is on your the one he says are the highest antioxidant against people are sending is my stop is a predominantly God has all been against you. It's all that against you, because when I hurt other people. I'm hurting God think when you hurt. God hurts when people abuse hurt saying misrepresent whatever lie about you. God hurts. What because he doesn't want his children to hurt enough you have children, your child falls down gets hurt when you do, but I a lot is like you hurt just as bad as they do. While I love that I always love them whenever you punish them. It hurts me as much as it is, you and I doesn't work out you are a dozen Army money out while they don't do that so you have all the facts before you, David, saying this about God, you have all the facts before you know the thoughts and intentions of my heart. Whatever you decide about me as fair. Now if if we think of God as a person is trying to get even with us for our failures. It's a mistake. If God wanted you to have God wanted to get even for a even with us for our failures in our sins. We all went have a prayer filled lobby over, but I get out of step. David is saying. I've been out of step with you for a long time in the wrong since even before I was born. I been out of step with you in my own humanistic perspective, but what you're after his truth from the inside out pilot, what is truth. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. The truth that we find in life comes from God comes through God comes from his work. We find it in the Scriptures. Their guiding principles for interactions with God, and interactions with people, the ten Commandments fighting. We should know, think of the ten Commandments that will whatever on the relational experiences. The six relational experiences we find commandments basically make up all over. Noon is the clause to govern our society, so, so being anyone soaked budget okay seven or seven so cleaner, laundry and no clean scrubbed me and I'll have a snow white line scrub me playing me know. I used you have received a mother trying to describe a child's face, just like department will get this you will remain in a child's diet back now. I went with my pain felt that whatever a flamingo, I can take care of it. God is in trying to look at our faults and failures. He's looking at the picture of where we can become what he wants us to do and he says softly interfaces to know I like this one turned me into foot tapping songs, Thailand to offload clapping song I like music rest of you but I have I I I I I and I think that if we didn't step now that you hear music usually sits atop foot. I want to be a foot tapping song. What song would you say would be a dirge will always mean like at wait for things that go wrong again and I got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, now things can't get any worse than they are. Until the next minutes in on us all singing bus operates on and off looked up and saw turned me into something more than one. I thought tapping an upbeat on the person. Amen. Thank you that's okay. God makes me God make a fresh start in the I will be getting a new life. Everyday is a new beginning in the renewal of the promises don't throw me out with the trash or failed to bring holiness in me transitioning from life this thing in life just keeps getting better from here. Gently a job teaching rebels your way. So we got we find out that when God has a purpose of the plan. All this going on in our life that God is at work doing something now. Couple more things here, Jimmy of the death sentence. God, my salvation, and I'll sing anthems of life-giving frames, life-giving ways so the death sentence of failure has been paid. The death sentence of failure sins, mistakes, missing the mark all those things are paid if Redman get a new life and then comes the good you ever hear the expression button your lip and that is a biblical perspective, because verse fifteen, says unbutton my lips. I bet unbuttoning my lips. Dear God, and how loose I'll let loose your praise out there is speaking to all that we are doing there is there is that I don't know assuming all you need to come the church need from church. You know what people alike video network in the church you what you need. Database Jesus in your life will change. And Jesus is a real person, and we find that as we look at the realities of our relationship. Okay, as we look at the realities of who we are, we've got this new beginning, we got this new place in God. We've got a song in our heart. We've got to be the person in our weirdness by walking around the perpetual smile, but it is understanding the life is a gift and the gift we have is that the B shares say that three times. Life is a gift the gift of God got shared with now on scale one to ten, how would you rate your Christian walk ever watched. I don't like. I see some of the Shiite watch dancing with the stars the voice know what someone with a tender back and in a pushbutton that the voice yelling, and of course, one for the mind creates there really a flopping out five after ten day, what number would you thought for your life. All are setting before God. The setting for the judges of the earth, and you're the one that asked the judge yourself and what kind of array data. Give yourself. I had a baguette of what would you say now, before you give that answer question, what do you base that number on what do you base that number on not being perfect, alive, I understand I failed. Welcome to the human race off what number do you get yourself and why not, and in this whole Psalm. David is talking to us about how that he wants to be poured out before God. He wants God to come in and cleanse him to remove his failures of the past. He wants to unbutton his lips so that he can sing praises of his life is to know. So, what type of a song would we think of ourselves and our relationship with God. While I think most the time we give ourselves low numbers now we are for. I'm trying to be better and no, I'm going for a more will be in church more often. Note cause God is like. If you don't come to church. I agree with that one, but the I agree with them, but the way of thinking with thoughts that tell us what the judgment is against us. I failed in some way often. Whenever we give ourselves a low rank three four five, when we give ourselves a low rank. We are looking at things from a judge mental perspective that says we fail. What if the failure. Failure is never final event. What if the failure was forgiven is forgiven, but yet we still we still write our life raised upon failure, a fault, a mistake, willful, intentional, unintentional, we raise ourselves on those things. What does God say how is God looking at this busy if you gave yourself a low rank. What's the reason while a lot of busy people say they don't have time to pray don't have time to read the Bible. Therefore, they are a low rank K give ourselves a five four three L, and it of course we want to be humble. I don't say within. I know I deserve to be attend and I would tell you, but he also true that I am attend, but since I'm here, I'm a nine is not that kind of stuff that kind of new solar looking for when you want to the IRS assessment that goes on inside of us is a challenge then is for us to look at what God has done and how that God wants to move our lives, and you want the most important thing is is not how long you think about this. How much of the judgment that we put upon ourselves is based upon a quantitative thing I don't spend enough time frame, meaning hours, minutes, moments, I don't spend enough time reading the Bible sold. Therefore, because of a time frame. Quantitative thing. God doesn't like me. I don't like God approves that I'm a failure. Practicing the presence of God practicing the presence of God. God is interested in our relationship, not in the quantity of time that every moment of every day, God is here. God is with us. God is with us every moment of every day. What's he doing there. He's supporting you. These loving you, he is directing us he is helping us he is for giving us he is he is leading us. God is with us every moment of the everyday install it isn't the quantitative time that I sat down or kneel down and close my eyes and found I had an kinky, my thoughts straight about what I want is how God and was the time which I got something already knows our time with God is giving him, giving us a picture of our heart to him to go. It is a recognition that God is with me every moment of every day and I need to recognize I need to remind myself that God is here God is with and I don't understand why life why things happen the way they do. But yet I trust him. Oh, God is with me and the more that I recognize that God is with me to close the relationship I have with him and it is about success or failures about the relationship and that in this relationship I have peace. I have an understanding that I am forgiven, and every time I bring up my faults, God reminds me, he forgave me and that he is in the process of building my life, not destroying it, and that in the places that I find I don't have hope. He is there to give me hope in the voices I find myself that I am anxious. I find there is a piece in God. He is there I saw a on one of stations a thing on Darryl Strawberry Manor member Darryl strawberry. He was a baseball player for the New York Yankees pardon the mess to the mess he made whenever you play he made over thirty million a year add job that was a while back I sit you down because now the hundred million. But a half in a thirty million year and a short time ago and is passed, it was three million in debt, living in a big and living in the basement of his girlfriend 's parents home and his life was a mess, rugs, alcohol, the whole works and his girlfriend. They broke up. She found God that God that Jesus found forgiveness found how the God could restore her. She then have Darryl strawberry went met God. God saved and changed their life, and now he's got rehab centers, you know, for people in distress. The situation young people were individuals, that's for distressed people who are in distress with drugs and alcohol running to end their life, and he has a sponsor and it was funny was on Brian Reinke was the moderator of it, and whenever the guy was telling the stories as well. Money was white with trying to bring double trying to indicate was what you know, sometimes people who all these ways of ministry may find their life quite lucrative and NaCl and the commentator who was doing the story on Dale Strawberry says no. His wife has taught him how to shop at Walmart. He is not living a lucrative life and there is nothing in his home. The reminds him of his years in baseball. It's all in boxes that his testimony is God made my life valuable, not because of what I was, but because of who God is in his life now that is changed his life and he's now in the process of helping others meeting God allowing God, God is here, and our understanding of God comes from the Scriptures and if we don't understand as you know, he is one who was the brain is clear picture to our lives. It is one load wants us to understand what what he is about, and God is not about finger-pointing. Then it out and pushing in no rules and regulations is about attitude of the heart that governs actions because I want to serve him because I want to do the right things beforehand and it is a matter of a guilt trip. It's a matter of law is not a matter of keeping the Commandments as a matter of doing the Commandments, because I know it's best for me. I know what's best in my life and I and I pray I pray and I want creativity what a creativity of God to be in my life and in my mind and my heart. I want the strength of God to be in my life in my mind and my heart. I want the will of God to be in my mind, my heart to my strength. I want to not to touch my life in the I bet he can use me to touch other presence here with me. There were together in this and I need to remind myself every moment of every day. God is with me, God is with me to how we write ourselves about my ten. My to know God doesn't have a scale. He has a relationship, and in his relationship. He loves me for who I am no equipment about an hour. But anyhow I'm never on John Maxwell is to talk about the only fight about abilities and things that we have, and everybody has abilities. If we put a number on our abilities, yell like five nine. If I use the ability scale, and I thought my number on my ability to sing. I'm a minus two zero ten, minus two on singing, but the on speaking in Europe this this is my calling, but when I started this ministry of speaking and preaching and teaching, and all that I was about four baby of three and I'm trying to work my way up to five sixths, but John Russell says that that we don't. We need to take our life and the things we do best. The six to seventy eight. That's our place where God wants to do his greatest work in us because it's God. It takes us from eight to nine is God who takes is for many to attend and we can't be, we can be the greatest singer. The greatest speaker. The greatest writer of the greatest this with every tens and everything God wants us to allow him to take what we are that what we are good at and make it the best thing that he will surround us with people that help us compensate for our weaknesses so that when you get the whole group together across the board. The church is a ten, but individually we may be attending this way attended that way and attendant that way, but we all have weaknesses, and in those weaknesses. God brings strength beside us. So when God uses you to be an encourager for those were discouraged. It's God for those laminating God uses you to help meet their needs. You become attend to them. God is with me helping me understand who I am and God will help us take those six seven eighths whatever they are and take them up to another level and it will happen, but because we defeat ourselves by not putting quantities together, but because we remind ourselves. God is with me, God is with me and I talk to him every day. I speak with him every moment of every day, reminding myself. God is with me. So everybody say God is with me turn to somebody and say, God is with me. It's either the value time as God would give them a reason you have to okay, let's than selling, don't be anxious about anything, rather bring up all of your requests to God in your prayers. When you turn to God, he's already there. He's not showing up. He's already fair were just sponsoring ourselves to recognize God is with me. Father, thank you for your words, your life, you're like your spirit, your presence. God, you're with us, God, you do all things well your spirit empowers us your your your spirit inhabits our lives. It inhabits our lives in and give us understanding and wisdom and guidance in who created all things live inside of us. As David sought you for cleansing of his life. So Lord week we seek you. We ask you to forgive us of our sins to live within our hearts. It's just search me know my heart know my thoughts is any wicked way in me. Oh God, show it to me that I may ask for you about to cleanse me and God, your strength would be there to make me strong in you. Thank you, God, thank you Lord, thank you Lord God is with me, and then God is with me. Remind yourself of that when you're driving down the road when you're mowing your grasp. William cooking dinner. Remind yourself. God is with me