Welcome to Windber PA's First Assembly of God's The Sermon I Am by David McGee Page

This is a machine transcript of the sermon. It won't be completely accurate of what's said in the sermon.

They had no idea what he was talking about so he tried it again, in times of we had something explained to us, you know, sometimes it's just impossible to see what someone is telling us whatever were giving directions are great for giving directions. You see, if you want to go through the pallets of caregiver hospice either down or to St. John's and hang a right go the top of the hill to the breast center and turn left. Not I can see that perfectly in my mind how many here see that in your book is like while only help you. Never been there. We don't know what's the street. What's the street number, what's the address about whatever were talking about not stealing something not lying, not bearing false witness, not cheating, we were thinking of the seas were looking at them in the context of of the Commandments of God says don't do this because it will destroy your life, and Emily think of how this guy. How is the little things going to destroy me, because the little things will end up being the same scenario we use in the big things integrity doesn't start whenever we have something major integrity starts when we have something that is very easy, very small, very minimal, so we already set up our mind what were going to do so. Jesus is giving them the story. The second time he says I'll be explicit. Then I am the gate for the sheep. All those others are up to no good shapes the others. Every one of them. So Jesus is saying, I indicate in the book of Revelation. We have it, that behold, I stand at the door knock, if any man opens the door, I will commend him and supplicant that we see the analogy of the door. We see the analogy of how that the doorway is an opening you know that the leave today, you have to go through the or to live today. You had to go through door so the being here. You had to walk through a door. Jesus was saying, I am the gate. I am the gate. I'm literally the gate that you are going to walk through that goes on. He says anyone who goes through me will be cared for, will freely go in and out and find pasture. A faith is only there to steal at the kilo to destroy. I have come that they can have real life and eternal life more and better life than they ever dreamed. So here we are in this place in our life, and God is telling us. I want to give you a life is greater than you've ever imagined. I want to fulfill your dreams, the dreams of your heart. The ideas that are inside of you to become what are they and where they come from, what all our dreams come from radar aspirations come from word awareness. These desires of our heart originates and I believe that God is the originator of many ideas, not all ideas, but his originator of all of the dreams of our hard and I are continually say Christians should be the most creative legal Christians should be the most creative people on the planet because we have not only have the foundation of our life established. We have the creating creativity of God at work inside of us. If the same Spirit who raised Christ and the dead dwell in you, he shall quicken your mortal bodies that not only is, for whatever we die and are are resurrected. It is the quickening of the spirits are minds. Our thoughts and our application and understandings that we pray for the things we believe that God will work in our life these through his Spirit in his word while in John. There are several times in the book of John, where Jesus tells them are claims that I have. I am, and these phrases are phrased as a declaration that Jesus is presenting to the people that will help them have a picture better understand what he is here for he says I am the bread of life. In John chapter six verse thirty five. He says I am the bread of life, while the bread and ended in a miserably causally made reference points to the man of the wilderness. The man of the forty years that they spent in the wilderness, the God provided the manner manner is what is it that's what means Nana, what is it, and then you know what was that every day they woke up. It was there, and on on Friday that was twice as much for them together so that they would have to gather on the Sabbath Saturday and it would be there the next day, month on month on Sunday and here is Jesus saying I am the bread of life. I am more than enough for your life that every day you wake up. I am your bread of life. Every aspect of life that you need. I am there for you. I'm there to give life to you. I am the bread. The bread of life kind of goes along with what we've been saying in Luke chapter fifteen, when Jesus is using the story of the prodigal son in the father and the prodigal 's brother what to tell him everything I have is yours. Everything that I have is yours is talking to the brother, the son. His son did stay behind and didn't run off and squander as well. He tells his brother. He tells his son. Everything that I have is yours. Whatever were trying to understand what God 's gifts are to our lives there were more than we can ever ask or think they are greater than we can ever imagine, because God has so many things plan for our lives in so many blessings he wants to bestow upon us that we need to open our hearts are open our minds and open our lives to the goodness of God has for us. The limitations that we put on life, from a perceived perspective of how good we think we can be, or how bad we think we were, and most often we look from a negative perspective about the failures of life and isn't it interesting that God is not the one who reminds us of our failures. God does not remind us of our faults, he gives to us. The imagery in the Scripture about how the we can become that he will do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think that there is nothing that can separate us from God, life floor death principalities or powers. So God gives us this picture of his forgiveness. He gives us this picture of breaking the chains that bind us all of all the limitations on our abilities and what we can and cannot do it all. He works outside of those things. And sometimes our greatest opportunities in life are in our greatest problems some as a man. Yes, yes I like that I like my greatest problems again when we think of King David. David Israel by David Magee, David King David Psalmist, what was is what was what you know when they think of David what he the Y by Goliath so Goliath is his biggest challenge is as young as this giant of a man who is the epitome of a soldier he is. He has under his undefeated and they are willing this whole army is willing to back one man and his abilities to take on anybody, and in the opposing army, and he's able to do this insult. David's biggest battle. David's biggest challenge is Goliath, and it is Goliath that propelled David into the eyes of the nation that brought about his being seated in the king 's palace, and being the harpist in his whole future was opened by his biggest problem, but David wasn't there hunting for giant David was there serving his brothers. It was there serving his brothers and his brothers really welcomed with open arms. No, I didn't open it while walking with a private account. When you doing here who's watching those few sheet, you little once when you cannot hear you come here to get out of work are just mostly back in the film watching over those few sheep and I say that David that is challenged to try to become something that is not what is and he is not a lot left over today. David is not a lawyer but yet, but they try to dress them up in the King 's armor and some see always people trying to put him in his place, shouldn't you be home pending those few sheep, so his brothers put them out there in the Shepherdsville. The King was trying to make him look good as he went out into face Goliath was killed enough. I did my best for the poor by Gabe on my armor now and but David. He sees this as a challenge of an affront to God who is this uncircumcised 's philistine who comes against the God of Israel, and how does David know that he's able to take on Goliath while I fought the bear and I thought the lion and I killed them, and I can take on this giant you see when God tells us that I am the bread of life that there is nothing in life that I can give you usually come through life is you come through me to life than that which was on handing to Israel that there is need for sustained every day in the wilderness that God was there and he is the bread to the news this life, Christ said his fullness of grace is in Christ there is no lack. So here we are facing. You have a giant you have a little battles. What is the little battles refacing are only a preparation for the big one mean this is the worst thing, however, face alight while you know if you face the little things and you conquer then when the big things arrive, you'll still have that same attitude or that same perspective, just like we service you if you go to the candy store and you don't still that piece of candy you know when it comes to someone dropping a hundred dollar bill in front of you I member. I went to the was walking on the bank of two years ago. A lot the twenty dollar bill on the ground is pretty neat. I picked it up, walked a few more feet and has another twenty one little further, there was another twenty iPhone twenties right up in the parking lot of my collected over a hundred hundred forty dollars and twenty dollar bills, so I put them in my pocket and said, thank God one home is that that that that that that that that this could not attend that that that that is what I do. I took it back to the bank. I said to him, is not only comes in flames if I wanted to, but here's a hundred and forty dollars. I found in the parking lot scattered up to the end of the parking lot here it is, and put my name on Eric as I wanted if they don't come for an later that afternoon, so make a man screaming at them that they had shortchanged them a hundred forty dollars and invades it. Now here's your iron fortysomething found in the parking lot so you see, because you don't steal the candy means you don't still the hundred forties don't want the money of public finds itself but if if nobody claims that I wanted, but is not my day to take while I didn't take the candy you won't take the hundred forty dollars. You won't take the files and four hundred dollars and will take whatever because is not right. And you know that inside when you do the little battles and give thanks to God for the little things and you said God had working in the little things, when the bigger things come to do the same thing whether it's up to a five cent piece of candy or whether its outer and forty dollars. You're not going to take it because it's not yours that integrity is what God is building in your life that not only helps you in dealing with ordinary things. It helps you in challenging the big things in your life. I don't think I can do that on my own good you need help. So, we pray, Jesus designed the bread of life, so seven times. He says this in the book of John the second lysozyme, the light of the world in Christ there is no darkness in Christ there is no darkness there and in Christ there is no shadow of turning. That's a song and Scripture no shadow of turning. It means that no matter how made plays when we yell and I turn this way against the eyeshadow in Christ, no matter which way you look at him. There are no shadows because he is the light. And when Christ light shines in our life. He is the light that shines our path that we pray direction choices he is a likable shine America is a likable shine in your path. Even when it makes very little sense gel over here five years ago, January two thousand ten, I asked as I would remember that within January two thousand ten Joe said here in the corner by himself on a few for a whole year set by himself. This whole quarters chose the fact that now it's it's your music that it will still think of everyone across rebel to do what Joe has done in bringing his family and friends and you know all of these people felt that but whatever we see that our influence our influence as part of our time as part of our stewardship is our influence influencing people for Christ planting the seed of God in people 's lives. Jesus is the light of the world. There is no darkness in him. It's all a little globe& and crannies of our life have God 's life home then they are not the heaven from him, and so every little thing that comes into my life, God is there, whether it is the major decisions or the little decisions, God is there and the life in the Scripture that we have for our text. Jesus says I am the gate. Often, he says that he is the door, all who enter enter through him. No one comes to the father but by me that Jesus is the way the truth is, we give you a little later the way the truth and the life that no one enters and everything that we have and are in our life comes from God 's blessing his understanding that we have entered in through the gate. They understood this and knows biblical times. We often have dates of know growing up on the fly, and it always had gates, always adores pasture fields, gates, yet I close the digital 's the gate, because if you didn't close the gates caused by get out your trouble enough of it was scary at times ever had in my life was. It was like two o'clock in the morning three o'clock in the morning house got out. We had about a hundred head three of a hundred cows. It's the middle of the night two in the morning there in the cornfield. Corn is above your head okay and the cows are away at one end of the field and your dad says go out there in the middle. The cornfield turned the cows towards the barn gate. Did you ever have a hundred cows stampeding through a cornfield at two o'clock in the morning and you can't see in common. You can see in front of you and your standard jumper than three men trying to get them to vote on the health of the left overlap, go left, go the barn to the barn in our failure jumping, screaming and my dad belonged to their all in all drugs that I'm glad I know where they were and I can just hear my does newly relieve and entail identity and down. Now that the NAR in the scenario will. God, I was wondering sometimes it does not, in the middle of our lives jumping and screaming things don't go this way don't go this way, but you say, but I really want to know. I really want to. Okay, Jesus came that we might really have life. I negate we are admitted into our heavenly kingdom through the gate through Christ Jesus says I'm the good Shepherd on the good Shepherd. Again, these are analogies that we sometimes you lose. But the analogy of a shepherd is the guy who watches the sheep out out on the hillside, and the shepherd is a guy who will die for a sheep, not the hireling, e.g., said I'm not a hireling, a Harling says, you know what the sheep were in trouble. Nobody here on the watch him again unless they appear online with the lion and the bear watching sheep because they might eat me instead of the set of the shape abides in some of those shepherds were set in the middle of the sheep fold and say okay can have anyone in the topic me know. And so Jesus is the good shepherd that he will lay down his life for his sheep he he is the one who will seek the lost when the sheep is lost. The washing he goes after the fold and that he is there to be the shepherd shepherd is someone who leads us into green pastures is another thing that I recently heard never knew this. I'd heard of it, but I never put the two together that the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want leave me alone out of there and then we go to the Valley of the shadow of death, where I am going through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Now the shadow of death is not someone dying is someone grieving ABE on the second one is his staff wanted a music club and the other is the staff and our sodomite in the context that is used for guiding, not for beating if you get a line if you never had a mother with a renewed my mom and get the wooden spoon. You get the ones you bought it on add-in. He got the backside bought this staff. Rod is that Rob was a club. The staff was not only something for guidance, but the staff was the history they wrote the history on a person 's staff so that they would remember when they would remember the times of their life. They were the markers of their life the times in which, for David when he fought Goliath and the bear, he had that on his staff. As he went, and face Goliath, he would've been able to look at his staff and say, God was with me then we need to have. In our own life and remember in two thousand ten January. My life changed, but the staff while only face other difficult as we pull the staff would out of step with us and remember that in the next year and the next year. The next months, we've we could just go down over that staff and see every marker in our life then was an ensign. The first situation, the brought change the change bird brought God 's change in for life no more one. Staff on the good Shepherd, Jesus says I'm the resurrection and the life. This is this is so important that not either. What happens in our life. He is the quickening power to bring us life. He is the life is that the breath of life that comes into us that he breezed into our life and we become a living soul. We are alive forever. Amen. Thank you we are alive for ever that we are alive for ever. Why is the breath of life is in this life. I stop rating doesn't matter the breath of life is the breath of God became a living soul and the soul will never die is been an eternity in heaven or Al Bonomo never die were never going to die. We have the breath of life, so we have our life settled end-of-life is saddled. God is good, take care of me for eternity. Why would God abandon us now why would God abandon us in this place in our life of me have difficulties and problems and trying to choose directions. God is never going to abandon this, why does I will never leave you nor forsake you. Nothing can separate you from love of God, so if I am in this place of security. My lower children have the ability to make choices. Why do some kids have the ability to choose better than others. Why do some adults have the ability to choose better than others when we know that we are loved. We don't fear making wrong choices where we are now all that we are in love we do not fear making wrong choices. Perfect love displaces fear in our lives when I know that I loved by God and in his love. I know that he will not, he will guide me, and he will prepare a place for these prepared a place for me. He's going to help me get there. And so every situation in my life is a place where God is loving me and bringing me closer to him, and in the place of relationship. I don't fear failure because God is there to help me and every mistake. Everything that I see his mistake is actually stepping stone. The wording was the taking because there is no value in God, and there is no fear in love and peace, peace, the guards our hearts long pieces, a place of power. So when I see what God is truly, truly envy that I find that I am at peace with myself when I'm at peace with God, and that peace is a position of power where I'm able to live my life in the strength of God, that the sixth. I am the way the truth and the life. I am the road. I am the roadmap and I have the vehicle traveling the road. I am the road. The truth, I am the life. Christ is the beginning, the middle and the end. I am in him set out. I am initiated. I'm going out but I am in him. I am going to finish in him. I am going to know the truth about what happens in my life. I'm able to see it, feel it, understand it because I measure truth by his eternal standard doesn't change, as in Christ. I have life, and I have it in the abundance I have a wife. I have it in abundance. What is there about abundance that we don't understand that Yahoo is abundantly above and beyond everything we can ask or think, and finally Jesus in John the seventh. I am as I am the real buying. I'm the true vine, I'm true. I'm truth, Christ is our truth that when I understand the truth of his Word. I'm not in darkness, I have direction for my life. I do not use the truths of God 's word to beat me up or push people aside or to manipulate someone. I use the truth of God 's word to set ourselves free. Free from sin, free from past free to make choices for today and for tomorrow is a liberating presence of God that separates me from my sin gives me hope. No matter what the situation is that I face be comfortable become verbal be comfortable with a amen at being comfortable. Be comfortable where we are at. If we are in Christ, I'm safe for time and for eternity. It doesn't mean that I'm taking a snooze. It means that in with his presence. I am free from my pass them free from my failures on free from the states that I thought I had made that were going to ruin my life because God work. He is at work changing not only the circumstances you were changing me, and then I stand selling in first Timothy, chapter six. It says a devoted life. Spring. Well, but it's the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Second, first Timothy, chapter six verses six, seven and eight. It devoted life does not bring well it's usually a devoted life does bring well, but it is the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. You don't have to be somebody else you would not be comfortable being them. You would not be comfortable being them. You can only beat you, and that's the person that Jesus loves in an thank you father for your part for your word. Thank you for your word that sets us free. God, we are. We have sent the God we are not only sinners saved by grace we are Christians. We are sons and daughters of God endowed with the dog with the power of the life of our Creator. Thank you, God, for saving me from my sins. Jesus, I confess that I have sent I ask your forgiveness and ask for your strength to walk with you each day can do the so my own. I need your help. Amen. Amen. God bless us one and all payment though forget what we ended with a down meet DamonThey had no idea what he was talking about so he tried it again, in times of we had something explained to us, you know, sometimes it's just impossible to see what someone is telling us whatever were giving directions are great for giving directions. You see, if you want to go through the pallets of caregiver hospice either down or to St. John's and hang a right go the top of the hill to the breast center and turn left. Not I can see that perfectly in my mind how many here see that in your book is like while only help you. Never been there. We don't know what's the street. What's the street number, what's the address about whatever were talking about not stealing something not lying, not bearing false witness, not cheating, we were thinking of the seas were looking at them in the context of of the Commandments of God says don't do this because it will destroy your life, and Emily think of how this guy. How is the little things going to destroy me, because the little things will end up being the same scenario we use in the big things integrity doesn't start whenever we have something major integrity starts when we have something that is very easy, very small, very minimal, so we already set up our mind what were going to do so. Jesus is giving them the story. The second time he says I'll be explicit. Then I am the gate for the sheep. All those others are up to no good shapes the others. Every one of them. So Jesus is saying, I indicate in the book of Revelation. We have it, that behold, I stand at the door knock, if any man opens the door, I will commend him and supplicant that we see the analogy of the door. We see the analogy of how that the doorway is an opening you know that the leave today, you have to go through the or to live today. You had to go through door so the being here. You had to walk through a door. Jesus was saying, I am the gate. I am the gate. I'm literally the gate that you are going to walk through that goes on. He says anyone who goes through me will be cared for, will freely go in and out and find pasture. A faith is only there to steal at the kilo to destroy. I have come that they can have real life and eternal life more and better life than they ever dreamed. So here we are in this place in our life, and God is telling us. I want to give you a life is greater than you've ever imagined. I want to fulfill your dreams, the dreams of your heart. The ideas that are inside of you to become what are they and where they come from, what all our dreams come from radar aspirations come from word awareness. These desires of our heart originates and I believe that God is the originator of many ideas, not all ideas, but his originator of all of the dreams of our hard and I are continually say Christians should be the most creative legal Christians should be the most creative people on the planet because we have not only have the foundation of our life established. We have the creating creativity of God at work inside of us. If the same Spirit who raised Christ and the dead dwell in you, he shall quicken your mortal bodies that not only is, for whatever we die and are are resurrected. It is the quickening of the spirits are minds. Our thoughts and our application and understandings that we pray for the things we believe that God will work in our life these through his Spirit in his word while in John. There are several times in the book of John, where Jesus tells them are claims that I have. I am, and these phrases are phrased as a declaration that Jesus is presenting to the people that will help them have a picture better understand what he is here for he says I am the bread of life. In John chapter six verse thirty five. He says I am the bread of life, while the bread and ended in a miserably causally made reference points to the man of the wilderness. The man of the forty years that they spent in the wilderness, the God provided the manner manner is what is it that's what means Nana, what is it, and then you know what was that every day they woke up. It was there, and on on Friday that was twice as much for them together so that they would have to gather on the Sabbath Saturday and it would be there the next day, month on month on Sunday and here is Jesus saying I am the bread of life. I am more than enough for your life that every day you wake up. I am your bread of life. Every aspect of life that you need. I am there for you. I'm there to give life to you. I am the bread. The bread of life kind of goes along with what we've been saying in Luke chapter fifteen, when Jesus is using the story of the prodigal son in the father and the prodigal 's brother what to tell him everything I have is yours. Everything that I have is yours is talking to the brother, the son. His son did stay behind and didn't run off and squander as well. He tells his brother. He tells his son. Everything that I have is yours. Whatever were trying to understand what God 's gifts are to our lives there were more than we can ever ask or think they are greater than we can ever imagine, because God has so many things plan for our lives in so many blessings he wants to bestow upon us that we need to open our hearts are open our minds and open our lives to the goodness of God has for us. The limitations that we put on life, from a perceived perspective of how good we think we can be, or how bad we think we were, and most often we look from a negative perspective about the failures of life and isn't it interesting that God is not the one who reminds us of our failures. God does not remind us of our faults, he gives to us. The imagery in the Scripture about how the we can become that he will do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think that there is nothing that can separate us from God, life floor death principalities or powers. So God gives us this picture of his forgiveness. He gives us this picture of breaking the chains that bind us all of all the limitations on our abilities and what we can and cannot do it all. He works outside of those things. And sometimes our greatest opportunities in life are in our greatest problems some as a man. Yes, yes I like that I like my greatest problems again when we think of King David. David Israel by David Magee, David King David Psalmist, what was is what was what you know when they think of David what he the Y by Goliath so Goliath is his biggest challenge is as young as this giant of a man who is the epitome of a soldier he is. He has under his undefeated and they are willing this whole army is willing to back one man and his abilities to take on anybody, and in the opposing army, and he's able to do this insult. David's biggest battle. David's biggest challenge is Goliath, and it is Goliath that propelled David into the eyes of the nation that brought about his being seated in the king 's palace, and being the harpist in his whole future was opened by his biggest problem, but David wasn't there hunting for giant David was there serving his brothers. It was there serving his brothers and his brothers really welcomed with open arms. No, I didn't open it while walking with a private account. When you doing here who's watching those few sheet, you little once when you cannot hear you come here to get out of work are just mostly back in the film watching over those few sheep and I say that David that is challenged to try to become something that is not what is and he is not a lot left over today. David is not a lawyer but yet, but they try to dress them up in the King 's armor and some see always people trying to put him in his place, shouldn't you be home pending those few sheep, so his brothers put them out there in the Shepherdsville. The King was trying to make him look good as he went out into face Goliath was killed enough. I did my best for the poor by Gabe on my armor now and but David. He sees this as a challenge of an affront to God who is this uncircumcised 's philistine who comes against the God of Israel, and how does David know that he's able to take on Goliath while I fought the bear and I thought the lion and I killed them, and I can take on this giant you see when God tells us that I am the bread of life that there is nothing in life that I can give you usually come through life is you come through me to life than that which was on handing to Israel that there is need for sustained every day in the wilderness that God was there and he is the bread to the news this life, Christ said his fullness of grace is in Christ there is no lack. So here we are facing. You have a giant you have a little battles. What is the little battles refacing are only a preparation for the big one mean this is the worst thing, however, face alight while you know if you face the little things and you conquer then when the big things arrive, you'll still have that same attitude or that same perspective, just like we service you if you go to the candy store and you don't still that piece of candy you know when it comes to someone dropping a hundred dollar bill in front of you I member. I went to the was walking on the bank of two years ago. A lot the twenty dollar bill on the ground is pretty neat. I picked it up, walked a few more feet and has another twenty one little further, there was another twenty iPhone twenties right up in the parking lot of my collected over a hundred hundred forty dollars and twenty dollar bills, so I put them in my pocket and said, thank God one home is that that that that that that that that this could not attend that that that that is what I do. I took it back to the bank. I said to him, is not only comes in flames if I wanted to, but here's a hundred and forty dollars. I found in the parking lot scattered up to the end of the parking lot here it is, and put my name on Eric as I wanted if they don't come for an later that afternoon, so make a man screaming at them that they had shortchanged them a hundred forty dollars and invades it. Now here's your iron fortysomething found in the parking lot so you see, because you don't steal the candy means you don't still the hundred forties don't want the money of public finds itself but if if nobody claims that I wanted, but is not my day to take while I didn't take the candy you won't take the hundred forty dollars. You won't take the files and four hundred dollars and will take whatever because is not right. And you know that inside when you do the little battles and give thanks to God for the little things and you said God had working in the little things, when the bigger things come to do the same thing whether it's up to a five cent piece of candy or whether its outer and forty dollars. You're not going to take it because it's not yours that integrity is what God is building in your life that not only helps you in dealing with ordinary things. It helps you in challenging the big things in your life. I don't think I can do that on my own good you need help. So, we pray, Jesus designed the bread of life, so seven times. He says this in the book of John the second lysozyme, the light of the world in Christ there is no darkness in Christ there is no darkness there and in Christ there is no shadow of turning. That's a song and Scripture no shadow of turning. It means that no matter how made plays when we yell and I turn this way against the eyeshadow in Christ, no matter which way you look at him. There are no shadows because he is the light. And when Christ light shines in our life. He is the light that shines our path that we pray direction choices he is a likable shine America is a likable shine in your path. Even when it makes very little sense gel over here five years ago, January two thousand ten, I asked as I would remember that within January two thousand ten Joe said here in the corner by himself on a few for a whole year set by himself. This whole quarters chose the fact that now it's it's your music that it will still think of everyone across rebel to do what Joe has done in bringing his family and friends and you know all of these people felt that but whatever we see that our influence our influence as part of our time as part of our stewardship is our influence influencing people for Christ planting the seed of God in people 's lives. Jesus is the light of the world. There is no darkness in him. It's all a little globe& and crannies of our life have God 's life home then they are not the heaven from him, and so every little thing that comes into my life, God is there, whether it is the major decisions or the little decisions, God is there and the life in the Scripture that we have for our text. Jesus says I am the gate. Often, he says that he is the door, all who enter enter through him. No one comes to the father but by me that Jesus is the way the truth is, we give you a little later the way the truth and the life that no one enters and everything that we have and are in our life comes from God 's blessing his understanding that we have entered in through the gate. They understood this and knows biblical times. We often have dates of know growing up on the fly, and it always had gates, always adores pasture fields, gates, yet I close the digital 's the gate, because if you didn't close the gates caused by get out your trouble enough of it was scary at times ever had in my life was. It was like two o'clock in the morning three o'clock in the morning house got out. We had about a hundred head three of a hundred cows. It's the middle of the night two in the morning there in the cornfield. Corn is above your head okay and the cows are away at one end of the field and your dad says go out there in the middle. The cornfield turned the cows towards the barn gate. Did you ever have a hundred cows stampeding through a cornfield at two o'clock in the morning and you can't see in common. You can see in front of you and your standard jumper than three men trying to get them to vote on the health of the left overlap, go left, go the barn to the barn in our failure jumping, screaming and my dad belonged to their all in all drugs that I'm glad I know where they were and I can just hear my does newly relieve and entail identity and down. Now that the NAR in the scenario will. God, I was wondering sometimes it does not, in the middle of our lives jumping and screaming things don't go this way don't go this way, but you say, but I really want to know. I really want to. Okay, Jesus came that we might really have life. I negate we are admitted into our heavenly kingdom through the gate through Christ Jesus says I'm the good Shepherd on the good Shepherd. Again, these are analogies that we sometimes you lose. But the analogy of a shepherd is the guy who watches the sheep out out on the hillside, and the shepherd is a guy who will die for a sheep, not the hireling, e.g., said I'm not a hireling, a Harling says, you know what the sheep were in trouble. Nobody here on the watch him again unless they appear online with the lion and the bear watching sheep because they might eat me instead of the set of the shape abides in some of those shepherds were set in the middle of the sheep fold and say okay can have anyone in the topic me know. And so Jesus is the good shepherd that he will lay down his life for his sheep he he is the one who will seek the lost when the sheep is lost. The washing he goes after the fold and that he is there to be the shepherd shepherd is someone who leads us into green pastures is another thing that I recently heard never knew this. I'd heard of it, but I never put the two together that the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want leave me alone out of there and then we go to the Valley of the shadow of death, where I am going through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Now the shadow of death is not someone dying is someone grieving ABE on the second one is his staff wanted a music club and the other is the staff and our sodomite in the context that is used for guiding, not for beating if you get a line if you never had a mother with a renewed my mom and get the wooden spoon. You get the ones you bought it on add-in. He got the backside bought this staff. Rod is that Rob was a club. The staff was not only something for guidance, but the staff was the history they wrote the history on a person 's staff so that they would remember when they would remember the times of their life. They were the markers of their life the times in which, for David when he fought Goliath and the bear, he had that on his staff. As he went, and face Goliath, he would've been able to look at his staff and say, God was with me then we need to have. In our own life and remember in two thousand ten January. My life changed, but the staff while only face other difficult as we pull the staff would out of step with us and remember that in the next year and the next year. The next months, we've we could just go down over that staff and see every marker in our life then was an ensign. The first situation, the brought change the change bird brought God 's change in for life no more one. Staff on the good Shepherd, Jesus says I'm the resurrection and the life. This is this is so important that not either. What happens in our life. He is the quickening power to bring us life. He is the life is that the breath of life that comes into us that he breezed into our life and we become a living soul. We are alive forever. Amen. Thank you we are alive for ever that we are alive for ever. Why is the breath of life is in this life. I stop rating doesn't matter the breath of life is the breath of God became a living soul and the soul will never die is been an eternity in heaven or Al Bonomo never die were never going to die. We have the breath of life, so we have our life settled end-of-life is saddled. God is good, take care of me for eternity. Why would God abandon us now why would God abandon us in this place in our life of me have difficulties and problems and trying to choose directions. God is never going to abandon this, why does I will never leave you nor forsake you. Nothing can separate you from love of God, so if I am in this place of security. My lower children have the ability to make choices. Why do some kids have the ability to choose better than others. Why do some adults have the ability to choose better than others when we know that we are loved. We don't fear making wrong choices where we are now all that we are in love we do not fear making wrong choices. Perfect love displaces fear in our lives when I know that I loved by God and in his love. I know that he will not, he will guide me, and he will prepare a place for these prepared a place for me. He's going to help me get there. And so every situation in my life is a place where God is loving me and bringing me closer to him, and in the place of relationship. I don't fear failure because God is there to help me and every mistake. Everything that I see his mistake is actually stepping stone. The wording was the taking because there is no value in God, and there is no fear in love and peace, peace, the guards our hearts long pieces, a place of power. So when I see what God is truly, truly envy that I find that I am at peace with myself when I'm at peace with God, and that peace is a position of power where I'm able to live my life in the strength of God, that the sixth. I am the way the truth and the life. I am the road. I am the roadmap and I have the vehicle traveling the road. I am the road. The truth, I am the life. Christ is the beginning, the middle and the end. I am in him set out. I am initiated. I'm going out but I am in him. I am going to finish in him. I am going to know the truth about what happens in my life. I'm able to see it, feel it, understand it because I measure truth by his eternal standard doesn't change, as in Christ. I have life, and I have it in the abundance I have a wife. I have it in abundance. What is there about abundance that we don't understand that Yahoo is abundantly above and beyond everything we can ask or think, and finally Jesus in John the seventh. I am as I am the real buying. I'm the true vine, I'm true. I'm truth, Christ is our truth that when I understand the truth of his Word. I'm not in darkness, I have direction for my life. I do not use the truths of God 's word to beat me up or push people aside or to manipulate someone. I use the truth of God 's word to set ourselves free. Free from sin, free from past free to make choices for today and for tomorrow is a liberating presence of God that separates me from my sin gives me hope. No matter what the situation is that I face be comfortable become verbal be comfortable with a amen at being comfortable. Be comfortable where we are at. If we are in Christ, I'm safe for time and for eternity. It doesn't mean that I'm taking a snooze. It means that in with his presence. I am free from my pass them free from my failures on free from the states that I thought I had made that were going to ruin my life because God work. He is at work changing not only the circumstances you were changing me, and then I stand selling in first Timothy, chapter six. It says a devoted life. Spring. Well, but it's the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Second, first Timothy, chapter six verses six, seven and eight. It devoted life does not bring well it's usually a devoted life does bring well, but it is the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. You don't have to be somebody else you would not be comfortable being them. You would not be comfortable being them. You can only beat you, and that's the person that Jesus loves in an thank you father for your part for your word. Thank you for your word that sets us free. God, we are. We have sent the God we are not only sinners saved by grace we are Christians. We are sons and daughters of God endowed with the dog with the power of the life of our Creator. Thank you, God, for saving me from my sins. Jesus, I confess that I have sent I ask your forgiveness and ask for your strength to walk with you each day can do the so my own. I need your help. Amen. Amen. God bless us one and all payment though forget what we ended with a down meet Damon