The Sermon Let Your Light Shine by David McGee
Aug 10, 2014
Let Your Light Shine (34:24)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 5:14-16; Genesis 3:9; Ephesians 1:4; 1 Samuel 16:7; Genesis 50:19-21
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Matthew 5:14-16
14) You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill can‘t be hid.
15) Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a bushel basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
16) Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Genesis 3:9
9) Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
Ephesians 1:4
4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
1 Samuel 16:7
7) But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don‘t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
Genesis 50:19-21
19) Joseph said to them, "Don‘t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?
20) As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
21) Now therefore don‘t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
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The final my message today is let your light shine. Let your light shine in the Matthew chapter five, verse sixteen will actually verse fourteen to sixteen it says here's another way to put it you are here to be liked, bring up the God colors in the world and I I like that. That's part of access God colors. Thank you, Mister is this that I like the pharmacist point out God 's colors in the world know what is what, as you know, what is your world color do not sometimes we look at children in her coloring their pages and stuff. And while widely losing that color. Why are they doing at that way, whilst because of the way they like it and not a novel way to pass judgment upon it, like if you look at a child's drawing. You don't say what is it you ask them always beautiful something about it. That's enough you allow them to describe what it is to you while at our world around us. We know we look at everything. God, what colors of this, what's this all about and we need to reframe that is a God. What does this mean, how is this part of your plan house as part of the world that we live in and how this is going to bring about your eternal purpose. By that I know we like. Then, last judgment, and no are good at, it's not acted on them. Good. I've visited a critic is a bed next guy about the world and about the political radar about what's going on and how things should be done about to really we should be asking God while joblessness to you what, how is this in our life. How are we to shine your light upon this event, and as we think about our path. I always log on the light into our path that somehow that there is a lantern along the way, but in reality, as we were, as I was praying there. I noticed that the thought was that where I'm out on the path your life is there so that even though we can look out into the distance. We know eternity. Eternity is there waiting us, but how do we get from here to there. While one step at a time, and the word of God will like our half in our lives as we are serving God. We know what we are starting that God is there with us and he is stepping with us. So is another way to put it. You're here, be the light bring out the God colors in the world. God is not a secret to be capped were going public with this, as public as a city on the hill. If I make your life embarrassed by make you like bears, you'll think I'm going to hide you under a bucket. Do you aren't putting you on a light stand now that I've put you there on a hilltop on a light stand shine keep open house. Be generous with your lives. By opening up to others. You'll prompted people to open up with God. This generous father in heaven. So is much of this by opening up to others. Your prompt people to open up with God, and so the challenge in all of this is that we are in a world that is lost and that the challenge is how do we bring life to the loss so that the lost income to find Christ and we today is the celebration of the hundreds anniversary of this was a God and man video, but it's eighteen minutes, so if you listen to me watch a video for eighteen minutes in the was no vote. I unlock the video the more interesting but anyhow, it's a hundred years and hundred years and started out. I believe with forty two people. The nominations are now with forty two people and farm that has grown to be the second-largest denomination world in a hundred years, and what we attribute all of this to is the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit 's work upon our lives to evangelize the world, and last week with David be here. The work in El Salvador. The person that he is in L Ron Bueno. His father was a missionary to the output to El Salvador and started out the Latin American child care on supporting children to go to school and I remember when we started help here supporting them, and little did I know that my son, my son would be involved with that same program or the descendents of that man is starting the program and are our missions groups have been about sending and presenting them as presenting the message of Jesus Christ around the world and we have missionaries and again around the world, serving and how to know the exact number of adherents, there are people that are in church on Sunday morning, but it is astronomical, that it could take off in such a young forty two people to end up being the second largest in the world. So we need to recognize that God has a purpose for our life and that are lied as the shine and that the world is full of lost people. The average person in the world today. Without faith, and without God, and without hope is engaged in a desperate personal search for their lifetime. They are looking for something and they don't have an answer. I spoke with a spouse, not too long ago and their spouse the last thing that a woman so that I spoke with one individual and their spouse was in critical care for. I think nineteen days on a respirator didn't know if they were not delivered. I became off the respirator and spent another three weeks in the hospital, recovered, and then went home and then on being at home. There continue to recover things are going well and so I spoke to listen while you know, we we we have our security in knowing that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that we we can go to heaven. No, that when life was over, have as our home and the person I was speaking to hunt in her head and said no not my family. They are going to sell ice in heaven and hell they're planning on running an ice business and now, because they think to be profitable. There, and enough. It's like what I like the way you know what, have me talk to them I will talk to them for you and we can discuss some of the issues on heaven and of life in all hallows of life and we find a people who are lost are really lost them know they have no direction for their path, then no light on their path. There is no way, no sense of directions which ways up with ways out of this world which way is peace. Anything we sing about it. We say this saw that we had out there, just a little note Jesus, your name is like hunting your notice that the word is alike to our path wasting these things, and sometimes it just doesn't sink in all that we are implying all that we are putting into our life without God we are lost, lost, we don't have life we have in existence without Christ we don't have an eternal home in heaven you are separated from God for an eternity. We are lost and using our challenge is that we recognize not only does God know us. He loves us. Not only does God know where you're at peace plan to be there with you in whatever we face our temptations when we face our difficulties. His word, lights up our lives think will like this up because we have hope so. This is why let your light so shine before men in using with your knowledge of how the light. No still shining in the darkness don't like to walk around in the dark. Maybe some of you do on another run for your urban caving in a urban caving your talk about darkness that I memorize and colleagues Sally Houston and West Virginia would just be launching an outside look that one up. Anyhow we go spelunking. Anyhow, we had a light similar helmets and with no through the caves. And of course you get back in these caves in and for me. I got lost once or twice and it was a scary thing is the guy the guy that we do loss from set-top or less places, units and about twenty minutes later we come across them, and he said Lott took a long time. Then it consists usually takes a little less time than that finding is that people always walk in circles so he stayed where he last saw us and we came back to them eventually in your life. I liken it to when the children of Israel came to the promised land. God said, go and take the land and what happened out. We can't do that, the word of God came to their life and said this lab is the land of promise for you and they came right to the land and at times in the land. This problems in length. They refused to allow the light was shining on their path. They refuse to follow it. So what made them the temperature of forty year trip and they can back the very same spot dots is no think Glenn and had a bright idea job will do that in our lives near me do that. We take, we take a trip your head if you don't conquer if we don't deal with the problems in our life is way bringing it back up again because it's not about getting to heaven is not about me being perfect to you being perfect. It's about allowing the God the Word of God to shine upon our path to making a victorious over these things in our life and the more we are victorious over them. The greater the victory is now live and the realization that God is there helping us along the way. A sad commentary on all those that are on those who were lost their living on borrowed time. They are living on borrowed strength and everybody knows Robin and I bought not today. So therefore we put it off as I wait for the decision is offered for those the things off until another time and really the light of grace in the light of God 's mercy shine upon our life and whether I live or whether I die, belong to God, and challenges for our life is related to take care of eternity and we need to take care of eternity. Should the unexpected happen today that we don't. We know this body stops functioning. I'm safe for an eternity because I'm not lost in this life. I know who I belong to, and I know a who loves me and was forgiven me. So MS forgiveness. I'm safe for an eternity now being sacred eternity. I can` today I thought I was safe for tomorrow. I'm safer today. God is good, take care of me when I show up at the gates and easier to care me now. So God 's chair was upon my life and young and few weeks than could you be going back to school teachers go back to school by Glenda. Yes, big smile, teachers, going back to school and were ready out of civil rights act. Now this is less than the otherwise the Rayovac. The idea is that anyone ever were in school. God can be preparing our path. The light of God to be a product that to help us to direct us in our studies in the things that we should now be spread all time, God, you know what the study. You know it's on test and dynamic developed important in the material that I'm reading what's important because some of us just filler and some of it's important how I know the important thing you know whenever I was in college I would highlight my books are great highlighter to why gave those books to Rhonda and her friends in the eighties. All the tests, then it is not a daily study violated. I didn't get an a on the tenth. But they and my roommates as they were staying with study the Bible. It's because they know that I would highlight what was important. I like it all and I would be able to do that but it just couldn't recall those things, but in alpha, but the ideas. God will help us to know what is important. What is that what is it that I need to know that will help me take my next step. That's the path the world one hundred people who are lost, they need to know Jesus. Our responsibility is to allow the light of Christ assign an alive that it reflects into their not something people don't want like it doesn't mean that the turnoff doesn't mean we have to drive them away, that we shyness in your eyes. Nowhere is talking up and wonders knees. Those two are right now, the same genetic pool. Okay, because and Roy, her husband and I were talking and and and and does the same thing as Wanda another look at their iPhone to know and they see something and run-of-the-mill all look at this. I'm driving this shot, regular appointment does jump out at the last nice photograph. I was not driving your own outlook while and I think and why. Okay, so it's a genetic thing. I liked that we shine in people 's lives is not there, Guest L shall arise if the light into our path and that the person who dies without Christ is lots. So if there lost at the end of their life. There lost here and I never thought of it this way, but the lost have squandered a rare fortune. You see, our life, your life is worth a fortune. Your life is worth a fortune thing about that begin. This is God talking not me, your life is worth fortunately, because God gave himself and he was the only worthy sacrifice for the Fortune of your soul of your life. The fortune of what you are worth could only be paid by something of equal or greater value. Jesus came to us to be like us so we can become like him. And when we are lost. We are squandering a fortune because at the end of life. Only what is done for Christ last initiate I was when when David Michael was in high school and college, you know God, we can do with him. And if you really must know his glycated is great person had no sense of direction only downhill skiing downhill racing down and it's faster to go back for anyone to go anywhere in college. I never interested in know about this but have downhill. My mountain bike racing. You look down on my mountain bike racing is enough of the top of the ski slope and you race to the bottom of the hill turns and stuff and sliding and jumping was the affidavit I love you, David Orchard of the Michael I borrowed it go so I will probably enjoy this kit in February by you on the top of the Beavercreek, the judge loving flies skiing buddy Anthony class I took a dad, I got this on what where you sleep it off the car time allows a row is limited. I have honestly been diagnosed, coupled with God, why have you just can't. But again, all the way God had a plan and a purpose and have anything that he wanted to do and started to take in college and didn't finish. He quit because he didn't like it is exactly what he's doing in El Salvador and all their you could not have planned. If you sat down and said, this is where you end up. This is what you have to do to get there, you couldn't find any better. Your life is so valuable. God has a plan for you every step of the way and even if you don't know where you're going. God does and they are not lost in whatever we don't know where McGowan were not lost because God is with us. His light is shining on our path and what God 's light is shining on our path down the right path were going in the right direction and God will help us when we were at and then take it even is generally football we play inflaming, but soccer and soccer. Even if the does all those things will come and go but the most important thing that God is what's in your head, and in your heart, which entered the heart what you and your head and your heart is a God is using these things using your thoughts and using your talents and lives in your abilities went on last without squandering of fortune were building a fortune because greater is he losing you, than he that is in the world. That's the light on your path. I can do all things through Christ. It is a strength, but the wife on your path is impossible. I can never get as the light in your path with God all things are possible, has even begun to enter in the hearts and minds of the things of God has prepared for them to love him. While this is a really new experience was taking me back the light of God, the light of God 's word shining on your past. The last if, like the human driver. Someone who never ask directions by the garments I don't do that, but a half younger he might my run his mom. She drove in runs that never drove so she would drive him everywhere and he would always like no different routes and stuff and then she would say, will versus adeno never been on this viewer lots largest ever been on this road before enough, so something like that. I just I've never been on this road before. So therefore not lost his to come out somewhere and so the challenge is that there is a call upon our life. There are people who are modest and then Lauridsen and down, to Adam invented him. Where are you the call of God is upon us to bring the attention to ourselves where you and me were hiding you can hide from God. You can't hide from yourself. You can't hide from who you are as a person you can hide in God, as alleged behind because you are is what he may do and what he may do is perfect. This is perfectly suited for you. You think you're not like anybody else. That's good like anybody else you like your brothers and sisters in your parents and grandparents in a look-alike to you mad like it, but you're not having God has a purpose in the plan he make you perfect, perfectly suited for who you are to be any as a path perfectly suited for your life so people who are lost, squandered entire life never knowing where the rat and ending up trying to sell ice and hell no time to take the franchise with them. God calls us by name and then he challenges us in Ephesians chapter one verse four. Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him, love busy God knew who you are who you were where you be this letter challenges that it's hard for us to understand is that God has all knowledge. God has all knowledge he doesn't remember the past, God doesn't seem to the future. He has all knowledge he knows before the world was ever created. He knew you be sitting here today, so how can you be lost if God knew where you are at in your lineup with God God in your heart. His word is in the shine upon your path because God is the God knows we go to be tomorrow. And God wants to give us the direction of his word to take us to our tomorrows, because eventually our tomorrows are going to end up at heaven 's gate, and whatever we end up at Heaven's Gate religious dogma dog so well done thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of the Lord 's only want God to tell us. Well done. We need to look at the path lobbies weren't shy upon my path today that God will help you. He will help us be the best person we possibly can be right here right now and the more we focus on that, the better. Were going to be tomorrow because we're not in this for ourselves where this for God and God 's blessing will be upon our life and what God blesses it multiplies no life with others was a life doesn't add up with God. It doesn't add up. It multiplies multiple in multiple, multiple ill one grain of kernel corn to produce two ears of corn is to bring those English throw out there in the harvest one grain of oats can produce a whole lot is ahead of oats with all the elves inside the one grain, your life multiplies the look for things that add up our God to multiply the value allowed God to work upon the value in the planting and harvesting. Let your light so shine that those who are in darkness and no, there is life there is a way. There is a path and God is the one who's taking you and then in first Samuel sixteen, but the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance ran his physical stature because I have refused to talk about the brothers of David for the plus, he is a man sees for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart yesterday. You don't have to have all of the abilities of all the talents within your heart makes you different than everybody else. If you have the heart if you like your heart. Anyhow, it airports are hard and soul into it. We open your heart. If you are going to do this. I'm going to accomplish this, it's going to work in my life. There is a heart felt encouragement. There is a heartfelt push that allows us to go from where we are to where we need to be edited that heartfelt desire that will make you more than you could ever imagine. Because when we have a heart when the heart is in it, it changes everything, because it is the heart of a man that makes the difference. It hasn't the talents they say that all the time about sports, especially with football and basketball and baseball. That's up to you to have somebody like the talents and abilities, but don't have a heart for them never make it be okay. Someone who doesn't have the abilities and doesn't have the talent but has a heart that won't let them collect there. The person did you want there, the person to succeed, whether it's onto the field, or whether it's in business or whether it's with their family. If the heart of what matters in your heart forty changes everything and God says don't look at your ability to look at your talents. The look of what this video the heart for God will change he will move mountains for people have a hard and have a desire to overcome and to be victoriously more than a conqueror. If you have a heart for God will change the hearts of men because you have allowed the light of God shine outward from your life to make a difference for them because if you have a heart a passion, a desire not to make everything new. God can change everything you see those who are lost. Squander their hearts desire. Those who are lost. Don't have a lie for their path. Those who are lost and no sense of direction, but those who know Jesus know that they are safe in God 's hands know that God has a plan for their life long before they were ever born, God had a plan for you. God has a call call for your life. It is a call that touches your heart. And when we respond to that call. We say Jesus, I don't understand, but I trust you. I will do my best and what you give me I will do my best at what is good for me. I will change my God, I want you to change my attitude towards you to change my thoughts. God, I want you to give me the strength to do your will. I want you all got to help me become the person you want me to be. God help a today. This is not a matter of, well, it's a matter of spirit, if not we are. We are a we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. We are a spiritual being having a physical experience the spirit of God is alive and not in that same spirit, the rates price on the dead is the same spirit that abides within each of us if that spirit that help Peter preach on the bad Pentecost, if that same spirit that changed Paul and went from unsolved high system all who began to press the gospel to loss if that same spirit, the Rose tried the price of the Atlantic& there is inside of us that the spirit of life, the spirit of life spirit of love, spirit that fuels our brokenness heals all wounds is a strength for today is this direction for the path and every moment of every day. I'm safe in eternity. I'm safe in this moment, but nothing can ever separate me from the love of God. So, in this moment, God, let your light shine upon my path as I take my next step as I go to work. They go to school. As I go about my daily business. My daily work. My daily activities. God let your light so shine that I can take the steps you have for me and God, that light will touch the lives of others. So we spent the last Scripture that one rate is just Genesis fifty nineteen Joseph replied this is after his brothers sold him as a slave no. Zero one oh. Read the life about a life that gets all mixed up and is messed up and couldn't possibly be in a dream one day his brothers and everybody would bow down to him to know how what it meant, but his brothers. They couldn't take that, so they tried to destroy the dream by destroying him sold as a slave. While we know the story. Joseph does his best rises from the top of leadership in Potters House betrayed. False into the pit of despair thrown in prison rises to the point of top of being a leader in prison tells interpretation of dreams and guess what forgotten again. Finally, Pharaoh has a drain, Joseph interprets it, he becomes second-in-command of Egypt. She had a path. Had a plan. He wanted the light of God 's plan, the light of God 's word the light of God 's hope in his heart shine upon his path took into second-in-command of Egypt, and his brothers came& Holden and Egypt don't be afraid. He told his brothers do I act for God, don't you see you plan evil against me, but God used those same plans for my good. Never allow the plans of others to become your plans whether they are good or evil. Your plans are directed by God, and whether they needed for evil minute for good. Doesn't matter. God has a plan for your life. Amen. Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for your word of God that shines upon our hearts in our lives that we thank you for the courage that you give us. Thank you for the renewal of strength that you give us. Thank you for the healing virtue of the flows through us. Thank you, O God, for the life of Jesus Christ. Besides the product we ask your blessing on our lines. Ask your God to abundantly bless us multiply your blessing into our lives the way will be good the words of our time, our talents of our days are moments you will gobble reap a harvest and God will continue to pour out a blessing upon us upon blessing upon blessing and the things we pray in Jesus name in their medicine and a blessing on some bites on your multiply the FFF are many done it. We don't do that you will do thatThe final my message today is let your light shine. Let your light shine in the Matthew chapter five, verse sixteen will actually verse fourteen to sixteen it says here's another way to put it you are here to be liked, bring up the God colors in the world and I I like that. That's part of access God colors. Thank you, Mister is this that I like the pharmacist point out God 's colors in the world know what is what, as you know, what is your world color do not sometimes we look at children in her coloring their pages and stuff. And while widely losing that color. Why are they doing at that way, whilst because of the way they like it and not a novel way to pass judgment upon it, like if you look at a child's drawing. You don't say what is it you ask them always beautiful something about it. That's enough you allow them to describe what it is to you while at our world around us. We know we look at everything. God, what colors of this, what's this all about and we need to reframe that is a God. What does this mean, how is this part of your plan house as part of the world that we live in and how this is going to bring about your eternal purpose. By that I know we like. Then, last judgment, and no are good at, it's not acted on them. Good. I've visited a critic is a bed next guy about the world and about the political radar about what's going on and how things should be done about to really we should be asking God while joblessness to you what, how is this in our life. How are we to shine your light upon this event, and as we think about our path. I always log on the light into our path that somehow that there is a lantern along the way, but in reality, as we were, as I was praying there. I noticed that the thought was that where I'm out on the path your life is there so that even though we can look out into the distance. We know eternity. Eternity is there waiting us, but how do we get from here to there. While one step at a time, and the word of God will like our half in our lives as we are serving God. We know what we are starting that God is there with us and he is stepping with us. So is another way to put it. You're here, be the light bring out the God colors in the world. God is not a secret to be capped were going public with this, as public as a city on the hill. If I make your life embarrassed by make you like bears, you'll think I'm going to hide you under a bucket. Do you aren't putting you on a light stand now that I've put you there on a hilltop on a light stand shine keep open house. Be generous with your lives. By opening up to others. You'll prompted people to open up with God. This generous father in heaven. So is much of this by opening up to others. Your prompt people to open up with God, and so the challenge in all of this is that we are in a world that is lost and that the challenge is how do we bring life to the loss so that the lost income to find Christ and we today is the celebration of the hundreds anniversary of this was a God and man video, but it's eighteen minutes, so if you listen to me watch a video for eighteen minutes in the was no vote. I unlock the video the more interesting but anyhow, it's a hundred years and hundred years and started out. I believe with forty two people. The nominations are now with forty two people and farm that has grown to be the second-largest denomination world in a hundred years, and what we attribute all of this to is the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit 's work upon our lives to evangelize the world, and last week with David be here. The work in El Salvador. The person that he is in L Ron Bueno. His father was a missionary to the output to El Salvador and started out the Latin American child care on supporting children to go to school and I remember when we started help here supporting them, and little did I know that my son, my son would be involved with that same program or the descendents of that man is starting the program and are our missions groups have been about sending and presenting them as presenting the message of Jesus Christ around the world and we have missionaries and again around the world, serving and how to know the exact number of adherents, there are people that are in church on Sunday morning, but it is astronomical, that it could take off in such a young forty two people to end up being the second largest in the world. So we need to recognize that God has a purpose for our life and that are lied as the shine and that the world is full of lost people. The average person in the world today. Without faith, and without God, and without hope is engaged in a desperate personal search for their lifetime. They are looking for something and they don't have an answer. I spoke with a spouse, not too long ago and their spouse the last thing that a woman so that I spoke with one individual and their spouse was in critical care for. I think nineteen days on a respirator didn't know if they were not delivered. I became off the respirator and spent another three weeks in the hospital, recovered, and then went home and then on being at home. There continue to recover things are going well and so I spoke to listen while you know, we we we have our security in knowing that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that we we can go to heaven. No, that when life was over, have as our home and the person I was speaking to hunt in her head and said no not my family. They are going to sell ice in heaven and hell they're planning on running an ice business and now, because they think to be profitable. There, and enough. It's like what I like the way you know what, have me talk to them I will talk to them for you and we can discuss some of the issues on heaven and of life in all hallows of life and we find a people who are lost are really lost them know they have no direction for their path, then no light on their path. There is no way, no sense of directions which ways up with ways out of this world which way is peace. Anything we sing about it. We say this saw that we had out there, just a little note Jesus, your name is like hunting your notice that the word is alike to our path wasting these things, and sometimes it just doesn't sink in all that we are implying all that we are putting into our life without God we are lost, lost, we don't have life we have in existence without Christ we don't have an eternal home in heaven you are separated from God for an eternity. We are lost and using our challenge is that we recognize not only does God know us. He loves us. Not only does God know where you're at peace plan to be there with you in whatever we face our temptations when we face our difficulties. His word, lights up our lives think will like this up because we have hope so. This is why let your light so shine before men in using with your knowledge of how the light. No still shining in the darkness don't like to walk around in the dark. Maybe some of you do on another run for your urban caving in a urban caving your talk about darkness that I memorize and colleagues Sally Houston and West Virginia would just be launching an outside look that one up. Anyhow we go spelunking. Anyhow, we had a light similar helmets and with no through the caves. And of course you get back in these caves in and for me. I got lost once or twice and it was a scary thing is the guy the guy that we do loss from set-top or less places, units and about twenty minutes later we come across them, and he said Lott took a long time. Then it consists usually takes a little less time than that finding is that people always walk in circles so he stayed where he last saw us and we came back to them eventually in your life. I liken it to when the children of Israel came to the promised land. God said, go and take the land and what happened out. We can't do that, the word of God came to their life and said this lab is the land of promise for you and they came right to the land and at times in the land. This problems in length. They refused to allow the light was shining on their path. They refuse to follow it. So what made them the temperature of forty year trip and they can back the very same spot dots is no think Glenn and had a bright idea job will do that in our lives near me do that. We take, we take a trip your head if you don't conquer if we don't deal with the problems in our life is way bringing it back up again because it's not about getting to heaven is not about me being perfect to you being perfect. It's about allowing the God the Word of God to shine upon our path to making a victorious over these things in our life and the more we are victorious over them. The greater the victory is now live and the realization that God is there helping us along the way. A sad commentary on all those that are on those who were lost their living on borrowed time. They are living on borrowed strength and everybody knows Robin and I bought not today. So therefore we put it off as I wait for the decision is offered for those the things off until another time and really the light of grace in the light of God 's mercy shine upon our life and whether I live or whether I die, belong to God, and challenges for our life is related to take care of eternity and we need to take care of eternity. Should the unexpected happen today that we don't. We know this body stops functioning. I'm safe for an eternity because I'm not lost in this life. I know who I belong to, and I know a who loves me and was forgiven me. So MS forgiveness. I'm safe for an eternity now being sacred eternity. I can` today I thought I was safe for tomorrow. I'm safer today. God is good, take care of me when I show up at the gates and easier to care me now. So God 's chair was upon my life and young and few weeks than could you be going back to school teachers go back to school by Glenda. Yes, big smile, teachers, going back to school and were ready out of civil rights act. Now this is less than the otherwise the Rayovac. The idea is that anyone ever were in school. God can be preparing our path. The light of God to be a product that to help us to direct us in our studies in the things that we should now be spread all time, God, you know what the study. You know it's on test and dynamic developed important in the material that I'm reading what's important because some of us just filler and some of it's important how I know the important thing you know whenever I was in college I would highlight my books are great highlighter to why gave those books to Rhonda and her friends in the eighties. All the tests, then it is not a daily study violated. I didn't get an a on the tenth. But they and my roommates as they were staying with study the Bible. It's because they know that I would highlight what was important. I like it all and I would be able to do that but it just couldn't recall those things, but in alpha, but the ideas. God will help us to know what is important. What is that what is it that I need to know that will help me take my next step. That's the path the world one hundred people who are lost, they need to know Jesus. Our responsibility is to allow the light of Christ assign an alive that it reflects into their not something people don't want like it doesn't mean that the turnoff doesn't mean we have to drive them away, that we shyness in your eyes. Nowhere is talking up and wonders knees. Those two are right now, the same genetic pool. Okay, because and Roy, her husband and I were talking and and and and does the same thing as Wanda another look at their iPhone to know and they see something and run-of-the-mill all look at this. I'm driving this shot, regular appointment does jump out at the last nice photograph. I was not driving your own outlook while and I think and why. Okay, so it's a genetic thing. I liked that we shine in people 's lives is not there, Guest L shall arise if the light into our path and that the person who dies without Christ is lots. So if there lost at the end of their life. There lost here and I never thought of it this way, but the lost have squandered a rare fortune. You see, our life, your life is worth a fortune. Your life is worth a fortune thing about that begin. This is God talking not me, your life is worth fortunately, because God gave himself and he was the only worthy sacrifice for the Fortune of your soul of your life. The fortune of what you are worth could only be paid by something of equal or greater value. Jesus came to us to be like us so we can become like him. And when we are lost. We are squandering a fortune because at the end of life. Only what is done for Christ last initiate I was when when David Michael was in high school and college, you know God, we can do with him. And if you really must know his glycated is great person had no sense of direction only downhill skiing downhill racing down and it's faster to go back for anyone to go anywhere in college. I never interested in know about this but have downhill. My mountain bike racing. You look down on my mountain bike racing is enough of the top of the ski slope and you race to the bottom of the hill turns and stuff and sliding and jumping was the affidavit I love you, David Orchard of the Michael I borrowed it go so I will probably enjoy this kit in February by you on the top of the Beavercreek, the judge loving flies skiing buddy Anthony class I took a dad, I got this on what where you sleep it off the car time allows a row is limited. I have honestly been diagnosed, coupled with God, why have you just can't. But again, all the way God had a plan and a purpose and have anything that he wanted to do and started to take in college and didn't finish. He quit because he didn't like it is exactly what he's doing in El Salvador and all their you could not have planned. If you sat down and said, this is where you end up. This is what you have to do to get there, you couldn't find any better. Your life is so valuable. God has a plan for you every step of the way and even if you don't know where you're going. God does and they are not lost in whatever we don't know where McGowan were not lost because God is with us. His light is shining on our path and what God 's light is shining on our path down the right path were going in the right direction and God will help us when we were at and then take it even is generally football we play inflaming, but soccer and soccer. Even if the does all those things will come and go but the most important thing that God is what's in your head, and in your heart, which entered the heart what you and your head and your heart is a God is using these things using your thoughts and using your talents and lives in your abilities went on last without squandering of fortune were building a fortune because greater is he losing you, than he that is in the world. That's the light on your path. I can do all things through Christ. It is a strength, but the wife on your path is impossible. I can never get as the light in your path with God all things are possible, has even begun to enter in the hearts and minds of the things of God has prepared for them to love him. While this is a really new experience was taking me back the light of God, the light of God 's word shining on your past. The last if, like the human driver. Someone who never ask directions by the garments I don't do that, but a half younger he might my run his mom. She drove in runs that never drove so she would drive him everywhere and he would always like no different routes and stuff and then she would say, will versus adeno never been on this viewer lots largest ever been on this road before enough, so something like that. I just I've never been on this road before. So therefore not lost his to come out somewhere and so the challenge is that there is a call upon our life. There are people who are modest and then Lauridsen and down, to Adam invented him. Where are you the call of God is upon us to bring the attention to ourselves where you and me were hiding you can hide from God. You can't hide from yourself. You can't hide from who you are as a person you can hide in God, as alleged behind because you are is what he may do and what he may do is perfect. This is perfectly suited for you. You think you're not like anybody else. That's good like anybody else you like your brothers and sisters in your parents and grandparents in a look-alike to you mad like it, but you're not having God has a purpose in the plan he make you perfect, perfectly suited for who you are to be any as a path perfectly suited for your life so people who are lost, squandered entire life never knowing where the rat and ending up trying to sell ice and hell no time to take the franchise with them. God calls us by name and then he challenges us in Ephesians chapter one verse four. Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him, love busy God knew who you are who you were where you be this letter challenges that it's hard for us to understand is that God has all knowledge. God has all knowledge he doesn't remember the past, God doesn't seem to the future. He has all knowledge he knows before the world was ever created. He knew you be sitting here today, so how can you be lost if God knew where you are at in your lineup with God God in your heart. His word is in the shine upon your path because God is the God knows we go to be tomorrow. And God wants to give us the direction of his word to take us to our tomorrows, because eventually our tomorrows are going to end up at heaven 's gate, and whatever we end up at Heaven's Gate religious dogma dog so well done thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of the Lord 's only want God to tell us. Well done. We need to look at the path lobbies weren't shy upon my path today that God will help you. He will help us be the best person we possibly can be right here right now and the more we focus on that, the better. Were going to be tomorrow because we're not in this for ourselves where this for God and God 's blessing will be upon our life and what God blesses it multiplies no life with others was a life doesn't add up with God. It doesn't add up. It multiplies multiple in multiple, multiple ill one grain of kernel corn to produce two ears of corn is to bring those English throw out there in the harvest one grain of oats can produce a whole lot is ahead of oats with all the elves inside the one grain, your life multiplies the look for things that add up our God to multiply the value allowed God to work upon the value in the planting and harvesting. Let your light so shine that those who are in darkness and no, there is life there is a way. There is a path and God is the one who's taking you and then in first Samuel sixteen, but the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance ran his physical stature because I have refused to talk about the brothers of David for the plus, he is a man sees for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart yesterday. You don't have to have all of the abilities of all the talents within your heart makes you different than everybody else. If you have the heart if you like your heart. Anyhow, it airports are hard and soul into it. We open your heart. If you are going to do this. I'm going to accomplish this, it's going to work in my life. There is a heart felt encouragement. There is a heartfelt push that allows us to go from where we are to where we need to be edited that heartfelt desire that will make you more than you could ever imagine. Because when we have a heart when the heart is in it, it changes everything, because it is the heart of a man that makes the difference. It hasn't the talents they say that all the time about sports, especially with football and basketball and baseball. That's up to you to have somebody like the talents and abilities, but don't have a heart for them never make it be okay. Someone who doesn't have the abilities and doesn't have the talent but has a heart that won't let them collect there. The person did you want there, the person to succeed, whether it's onto the field, or whether it's in business or whether it's with their family. If the heart of what matters in your heart forty changes everything and God says don't look at your ability to look at your talents. The look of what this video the heart for God will change he will move mountains for people have a hard and have a desire to overcome and to be victoriously more than a conqueror. If you have a heart for God will change the hearts of men because you have allowed the light of God shine outward from your life to make a difference for them because if you have a heart a passion, a desire not to make everything new. God can change everything you see those who are lost. Squander their hearts desire. Those who are lost. Don't have a lie for their path. Those who are lost and no sense of direction, but those who know Jesus know that they are safe in God 's hands know that God has a plan for their life long before they were ever born, God had a plan for you. God has a call call for your life. It is a call that touches your heart. And when we respond to that call. We say Jesus, I don't understand, but I trust you. I will do my best and what you give me I will do my best at what is good for me. I will change my God, I want you to change my attitude towards you to change my thoughts. God, I want you to give me the strength to do your will. I want you all got to help me become the person you want me to be. God help a today. This is not a matter of, well, it's a matter of spirit, if not we are. We are a we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. We are a spiritual being having a physical experience the spirit of God is alive and not in that same spirit, the rates price on the dead is the same spirit that abides within each of us if that spirit that help Peter preach on the bad Pentecost, if that same spirit that changed Paul and went from unsolved high system all who began to press the gospel to loss if that same spirit, the Rose tried the price of the Atlantic& there is inside of us that the spirit of life, the spirit of life spirit of love, spirit that fuels our brokenness heals all wounds is a strength for today is this direction for the path and every moment of every day. I'm safe in eternity. I'm safe in this moment, but nothing can ever separate me from the love of God. So, in this moment, God, let your light shine upon my path as I take my next step as I go to work. They go to school. As I go about my daily business. My daily work. My daily activities. God let your light so shine that I can take the steps you have for me and God, that light will touch the lives of others. So we spent the last Scripture that one rate is just Genesis fifty nineteen Joseph replied this is after his brothers sold him as a slave no. Zero one oh. Read the life about a life that gets all mixed up and is messed up and couldn't possibly be in a dream one day his brothers and everybody would bow down to him to know how what it meant, but his brothers. They couldn't take that, so they tried to destroy the dream by destroying him sold as a slave. While we know the story. Joseph does his best rises from the top of leadership in Potters House betrayed. False into the pit of despair thrown in prison rises to the point of top of being a leader in prison tells interpretation of dreams and guess what forgotten again. Finally, Pharaoh has a drain, Joseph interprets it, he becomes second-in-command of Egypt. She had a path. Had a plan. He wanted the light of God 's plan, the light of God 's word the light of God 's hope in his heart shine upon his path took into second-in-command of Egypt, and his brothers came& Holden and Egypt don't be afraid. He told his brothers do I act for God, don't you see you plan evil against me, but God used those same plans for my good. Never allow the plans of others to become your plans whether they are good or evil. Your plans are directed by God, and whether they needed for evil minute for good. Doesn't matter. God has a plan for your life. Amen. Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for your word of God that shines upon our hearts in our lives that we thank you for the courage that you give us. Thank you for the renewal of strength that you give us. Thank you for the healing virtue of the flows through us. Thank you, O God, for the life of Jesus Christ. Besides the product we ask your blessing on our lines. Ask your God to abundantly bless us multiply your blessing into our lives the way will be good the words of our time, our talents of our days are moments you will gobble reap a harvest and God will continue to pour out a blessing upon us upon blessing upon blessing and the things we pray in Jesus name in their medicine and a blessing on some bites on your multiply the FFF are many done it. We don't do that you will do that