The Sermon Blessed A Sacred Nature by David McGee
Sep 06, 2015
Blessed A Sacred Nature (33:17)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 32; Matthew 7:1-12; Psalm 65:4-8
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Psalm 32
1) Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.
2) Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn‘t impute iniquity, In whose spirit there is no deceit.
3) When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
4) For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
5) I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn‘t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, And you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6) For this, let everyone that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
7) You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8) I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
9) Don‘t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, Whose are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
10) Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, But he who trusts in Yahweh, lovingkindness shall surround him.
11) Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart! Psalm 33
Matthew 7:1-12
1) "Don‘t judge, so that you won‘t be judged.
2) For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged: and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
3) Why do you see the speck that is in your brother‘s eye, but don‘t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
4) Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;‘ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?
5) You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother‘s eye.
6) "Don‘t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
7) "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.
8) For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
9) Or what man is there of you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10) Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
11) If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
12) Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Psalm 65:4-8
4) Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, That he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, Your holy temple.
5) By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, Of those who are far away on the sea;
6) Who by his power forms the mountains, Having armed yourself with strength;
7) Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the turmoil of the nations.
8) They also who dwell in far-away places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning‘s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
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Indirectly we have been speaking on this subject for the last two weeks. Psalm One Blessed is the man who walk not in a council the un ly that was that was wise counsel and today we're looking at blessed again and the le is blessed and then and the definition for being blessed is a sacred nature connected with or a sacred nature connected with Now if we would think of ourselves as sacred. We would kind and while that's not me must be talking about somebody else and we also say in and of course we were saying is that is able to make us more than what we think we could be and the challenge for Osas that how then do we become more than what we think we could be you know the military says be all that you can be you know joined join the Marines or join a special armed forces so we're looking at becoming more than what we are I mean it's why we go to school now go to school to learn to continue to develop our character develop our information develop our resources learning how to connect to other things that are out there beyond ourselves and beyond what we can do at this moment so when I'm thinking of being bless I think of it in the context that is helping me become more than what I am. If we're not willing to receive blessings. It's like not being able to receive knowledge. Am smart enough in her tone I know you may have information but you know I know it all. While When that happens. Were really lost and you know the old cliche I give you a piece of my mind and then of course you tell them you don't have enough to give away keep it a so we have these ideas about what's going on in our lives and we need to recognize that being blessed is being connected to the nature of being connected with So receiving good things into our life is not a bad thing you know we sing for the birthdays and things like that we're giving on are for the person. During for their time for their birth and for the day that they celebrate. Well is giving OS blessings is giving to us when we're connected to him he knows what's he knows what we need to put into our lives to keep us growing in believing and you know allowing his goodness to to be displayed in us now. The challenge is that if we are allowing to do this then we are is expecting us to use it. He's not a you know he's not kind of dumping things into the freezer here we're going to keep them until he comes you know children frozen until he returns and then we take him to heaven and say here look what I got you know it's like the guy who buried his talent he you know he went buried it in what good is a buried talent what good is things in your life. Gifting Zin your life if we don't use them so the attention that we're focused on is and the attention that the blessings in the gifting czar are but there has to be a channel through which the blessings flow and and is telling us over and over again that we are to receive and he is really he is willing to bless his children he is willing to bestow gifts upon his children and even in first Corinthians thirteen it talks about the gifts of the Spirit he will divide severally and as he wills and the purpose of dividing the gifts. Severally as He wills is for the benefit of the Body of Christ so for the benefit of the Body of Christ is going to distribute his gifts and His gifts are to be distributed as He wills upon people who are receptive so being receptive to 's blessing Dan allows us to be receptive to his his spirit his word because it's not something that we're just taking to Horton slash free so it doesn't spoil until spring or until Jesus returns we are bringing into our lives integrating into our allies and allowing it to flow for follow on work from us so in some thirty two verse one verse one into it says Blessed while this is a skillful song or Psalm of David blessed and the definition here of Blessed is happy fortunate to be indeed a person who is blessed is he who has forgiveness of his transgressions continually exercise the him Hussein is covered so we're looking at this we're saying what separates us from the blessing. What separates us from Well send us. So we have a an understanding Well I'm not good enough. See the Bible's doesn't say to all those who feel not good enough the only ones that we look at sin is that which separates and wants to forgive us if wants to take away all of our sins and get them out of the way why do we keep bringing them back. Why do we keep bringing back things that is getting rid of you know it's like the guy he opened his front door to pick the newspaper up and there was his neighbor's dog here with the newspaper you know so he gave the dog a treat and you know than took the newspaper the next morning open the dog and there's a dog with a newspaper but he has seven others from the neighbors collected in setting on a front porch. He wanted you know we got one tree for one boys get a bunch of treats for seven Well you know the dog is responding to the treats he's responses learning by giving that by receiving it you know and so in our lives in a we're not dogs but we you know we respond to people who are are nice not people who blow their horns and we'll let people get in front of them. OK I have tell the story we were in a parking lot doesn't Sunday school I heard we were in a parking lot and to spur this test some night this week and I'm standing in line and everybody is just the whole place is just the stencil ody's moving so I'm in line and I've done in my son in here and it's like well you know this somebody's going to cut in front of you and I'm saying no they're not and I think in front of me. Well anyhow this young girl with the nice B.M.W. pulls right up and sticks or per in front of mine. Well you know I already made up my mind she was not getting in even before she came she was not getting in. While in her mind she was getting in because she was going to let some old fat men get from her so anyhow I placed on the horn and I know and I do you know I'm telling her that she can't do this and she's not listening and then she gets in front of me and you know after I let her in front very meekly. Reverently I'm sitting there and I'm thinking of David you told you she was coming you should have just left her in but I didn't want to lettering. But then you know it's like you gave her you gave away your peace to someone who really should have just never given it to she just left it happen and you know it's you know took me a while to settle down from that and you know I gave something away then I should have given away in and got it already I feel you've got it already told me ahead of time somebody is common and you need to back off while ody's you know I'm not backing off you know I got here and I've been here for ten minutes waiting to get out of this parking lot and no one's getting in front of me. has other plans so I repented of it you know an ascot forgiveness and makes a good sermon il ration you know and. But anyhow it ended up you know being able to go in the right direction and soon is this person got in front of me the people and made the right turns and turn interaction I was gone and we all got out in a minute later you know but it was like he was all set narrow waiting for David's test to be finished. Well sometimes we look at these things and you know that's sometimes I you know whatever. Shouldn't do those things and but is or how many times do we allow that the blessing that wants to give us we say I don't deserve that or that's not going to happen and we make up our mind not to be receptive. Not to allow what wants to do and he's already told us what he's doing and we just need to go along with it because it isn't about the person cutting in and it isn't about me blowing the horn it's about being receptive to what 's voice is saying on the inside you know. Love forgive him now and you know I do that enough you know I deserve this place and of course. It didn't so whenever we think about being blessed it is a sacred nature connected with We are all blast we are all blessed were all blessed with forgiveness. We're all blessed with love we're all blasts were connected to the sacred nature they were connected with 's nature that says I love you more than you can ever love you you can never think of being loved I have plans better for you than you can ever imagine. I've gotta give things in power to bestow upon you through my word and my spirit I've got so much to give you see were connected to this nature of and we need to be we need to see that the blessings that are coming tomorrow. Our life are not about things that I have earned. See I earned the right to that spot in that line because I got there first but because I earned it doesn't mean that it's mine because whom I to say what needs to be there and who needs to be there and in that spot. Whom I to determine these things it's like yes I ne'er and I have my reasons for being there but somebody else wants it more you know what knew that before the world was ever created. He knew that was going to happen. Well why didn't he change her mind. Anna that wasn't the point why didn't I allow him to change mine. You see blessed and happy for some thirty two one says count yourself lucky this is a Message Bible house yourself lucky how happy you must be you get a fresh start your slate white clean verse two count yourself lucky holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from him so we are blessed we are to consider ourselves lucky we are to consider ourselves most blessed most privileged we are of the we are the most fortunate people on the planet. We are us beyond any expectation of that we can come up with in life and imagine be uneasy would imagine has a blessing for us has a connectedness with us that when people are against us. He's for us when we feel down and now he's just preparing the way for a we are blessed and our challenge is to be recipients of that blessing and sometimes we just need to let people get in front of us to receive our blessing. Sometimes we just need to be receptive of what is giving us and in that receptive in that think is going to bless us with his piece and then also give us something good to give to someone else when they've been much better. Testimony for had I just waved and said hey bless you. Back up and let her get in well who would have taught her a lesson. It did I really teach or anything that I teach anybody else in the car. Anything not really taught him how to be angry and blow their horn you know you thought I was in El Salvador with requirements to drive in El Salvador is you have to be able to blow your horn and you have to be able to know that what you are driving is worth smashing into somebody else. Through you had three lanes of road and you have five vehicles across and everybody's trying to get off on one exit and they know how to blow the horn you know and it's just and they have you know we have words they have certain signals with their horns they stand for different things. OK so you can tell what other people are saying by how they blow the horn and what consecutive order they do is that so. To drive down there is just an absolute nightmare you know we were we were coming up the silver you know it was three lane highway one wing coming down two lanes going up. OK We're driving up the hill and there are three tractor trailers across the hill. Wait a minute or two lanes going up and one wing coming down and you have three tractor trailers. Filling up the whole hill. Where are the people going this coming down and then not fast like they're not you know have a sixty miles an hour they're going like five ten miles an hour in there are three Briest going up the hill. If like what if you come around the turn and you're coming down or three tractor trailers in front of you and a cliff on the other side not that cliff but another clip. Sneak. And we have to learn how to be kind. So 's counsel he says count yourself lucky blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes isn't it. Imputes no iniquity doesn't ever reason to give us anything. did it has a reason to bless us in Matthew chapter seven we have this game here about don't judge your be judged in all you know just not to be not judge whatever Marie debt do not judge so that you will not be judged for in the way you judge you will be judged and by your standard of measure it will be measured to you. I often I'm often struggle with that verse because I would think why would be using his judge my judgments against me you know if I don't think something's wrong. Maybe there's that mean he doesn't think it's wrong. You know if I think it's OK to you know he says don't steal but if I think it's OK to steal aggro still is that you know that what he's saying no. The emphasis is being blessed. Connected to the nature of So it means that when I am critical of me I will be critical of others if I'm critical of others I will be critical of me if I judge people harshly I judge myself harshly and that when I see the failures in others. I see the failures in me and I when I see the foul years a Me I like to point them out another so that people won't look at mine. So what's going on harry telling us that what how you think about judging you know and sentencing sentencing people and you know all condemning them and putting them in their place is the very thing the same measure that we feel against ourselves if we we were somewhere and I can't remember where and there was a scale was an old scale was at the Indiana county fair and at the fair. They has the old things from the you know your bygone years you know in the early days you know the eighty ninety years ago and they had a scale and they had weights over here that you could put on and then you could fill up the grain or whatever and this one and they were when they balanced out you know you had five pounds ten pounds whatever. Well whenever we use this judgment scale we're looking to bring a balance to our life and whenever we are critical of ourselves and others are balance so what we do to bring it back into balance is to be Judge Mental of other people well you know they're not very good. I'm sure that lady what a blow the horn at me you know in and I'm sure that what we're trying to do is balance out the scale by being critical of others so that we don't feel so bad. Well why shouldn't I steal everybody else does but will. Why should I lie about people because everybody else does see we're trying to balance the scale and is saying don't do that to rid of that judge mental thing so that we are looking at 's grace and 's mercy and we're blessed because we're connected to the grace of and when we're looking at ourselves and saying not perfect but you know what neither is anybody else. OK But you know what I'm forgiven so therefore I forgive I make mistakes so therefore I learned how to be accepting of other people for who they are. I like to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do. We're setting a standard by which we can live and we can live more completely more fully that we can allow the Spirit of to help to teach us what his word really means when we're out of balance trying to justify we're trying to use the word of to be critical of other people you know there are you know some some churches some people religious people like to be very critical of other churches other and they their criticisms are only trying to balance out the judgments that they make upon themselves and others and it doesn't work doesn't do that do not judge the way you judge you will be judged. Why do you look at the spec to your brother's eye but don't notice the log that is in your own to another translation has it why do you notice the the little piece of splinter that's in your neighbors I knew got a telephone pole sticking out of yours. Let me help you here you know you know the him in there with your telephone pole is to your own eye you've got so many fall so you're trying to find the faults of others and it's like don't do that so as we look at that in the in the Message Bible the last part of verse verse seven of met Matthew seven says don't bargain with Be direct you see if we are blessed which we are connected to the we are connected with that the nature of is connected to our nature our nature is connected to his as we face a law that current. If we allow that spirit if we allow that word to flow into our lives and flow from to us we are allowing it to influence everything that we're with that we're doing and so don't bargain with So if I'm living in the right spirit in the right connection don't bargain with Be direct ask for what you need I need patience. You know I need to listen to your word. Don't play the cat and mouse hide and seek gain done playing the games. OK where's at today you know in the the area at the three s s and move them around. Do you get at this time or do you get me and we're moving to show you get me get my way. Plough or nd Well guns their own forgiven the land go. So don't play the games you know look at where we are at be direct what you need ask for because is more willing to give us than we are to receive wants to bless us and you see I think of it in this scenario we spoke about it may be that I think in Sunday school. That before the foundation of the world you know says that created the heavens and earth he created all this and he put in place and rested now heard a critic on T.V. saying well if you guys if you have a supreme being who gets tired he still had two supreme Izzy you know but that's not what he was that was not what he was talking about it means that what needed to be accomplished is already accomplished. Meaning that before the foundation of the world was created knew that Christ he cried through Christ would come and be the atonement for sin and that he would be to sacrifice so the sacrifice of Christ was already in place even before the Adam and Eve sinned it wasn't some solution oh my gosh what am I going to do now. Now bank kind he's really blown it what am I going to do. 's worrying in heaven no it's already said so in our lives. knows what we have need of even before we asked in our asking is a way of connecting to . And being blessed is a way that is transferring his blasting into our lives and he is blessing us and he is giving to us. Bore the we can even ask or imagine. He's allowing the he wants us to I asked he wants us to be recipients of he wants us to pray and to believe in to recognize how that we can use what do we have need of C. We don't have a spiritual freezer that needs filled up we have we have Nana The will bring into our life and you can't store it up because it rots and he wants us to use it as we get it and live our life and be that person that wants us to be with loving and caring and forgiving and and doing and allowing to work and flew through the flow through us because we're truly blessed I give something away I don't lose anything I gain. C N N In the old the old economy it's if you have a PI OK you have a pie you got six pieces and you get one piece but if you come back and take two pieces you've robbed other people for of their portion but in 's dynamics you can't use. You can't deplete the reason the reservoirs we can't deplete what wants to use what wants to give us and we can't deplete the see what has here in store for you and in your life. He doesn't need it to be in somebody else's life you know I don't really think I should get this because needs to give this to somebody else. Oh doesn't have enough to go around. has got doesn't have enough to go around so there's not enough of 's grace and mercy to go around so I will need to draw upon that right now. I'll wait because I don't want to deplete it. has everything in our was aware in our warehouse of stuff things blessings to pull into our lives and if we don't use it it doesn't get used because it's designated that were for our own lives and your life. What has for your life is designated for your life and if you use everything that has get in store for your life it's not going to take anything from me and I can't take anything from you as in blessings from He has enough he has enough and you see whenever we are blessed we are connected with We have a sacred nature that is connected to and the sacred nature in our life is Jesus Christ inside of us that's the sacred nature there's nothing holy about me it's living in me it's the sacredness of 's word in my life. Heaven and earth will p away but this word will never p away and so the Word of is eternal and it's inside of us and it will never die and those we call dead are still alive because of the sacred nature of inside of them and if is going to and when this body stops functioning and we go to heaven it's a welcoming home to heaven because of the sacred nature because of the Word of Jesus Christ the Living Word Alive Inside of us so if I can live on for an eternity in the presence of because of his love and forgiveness inside of me and his nature inside of me what am I. Stealing from by a loud in his blessings to be inside to come into my life I'm not stealing anything. It's a transfer from the nature of by face that exist in the spiritual realm being transferred into the physical realm into me if I transferred. If I had your checking account number and I went to the bank and said I want to transfer funds from my account to this account what these numbers can you do that and they'll send a transfer from my account to your account because you gave me your numbers in the sacred nature is the same way wants to deposit things into our lives and what he wants to deposit I don't know they can be anything it can be the gifts of the Spirit they can be the fruits of the spirit it can be things that can be money it can be love you can be forgiveness forgiveness for ourselves and forgiveness for others it can be the as Instead I'm not alone in this I will never leave you nor for sake you. If these s s that I am forgiven if you confess your sins and you know ask for forgiveness of your sins what's come the transference of forgiveness to us and I'm forgiven and so I'm not looking at you to transfer things into my life I need to look to strengths for things into my life because they are there in his account and no matter how much he transfers doesn't affect the balance of his account. If everyone of us received everything that has for us and he transferred it all into our lives the account of would not be diminished one iota. Consult ready created it's already there and so all we're doing is learning to live in our faith and in our relationship with Christ so what do you think about that. Bless a divine connection we're blessed. Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the Council of the un ly nor sand nor stand in the sit stand in the path of centers or sit in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his delight to see meditate day and night and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water whose least doesn't wither that his fruit comes and you know in season and it's always coming it's always bearing whenever the fruit tree and we're going to be harvesting apples and in peaches and they're already started peaches in the eye of the other fruits. What happened is that fruit come into being. It's connected to the roots. It's connected to the resort has of water and nourishment the thing comes through the root system right up through the trunk of the tree out the branch and right into the fruit. It's connected. Blessed we are connected to the divine nature of and what happens we're allowing it to flow from the source of into our own life to produce fruit here have some fruit that's a gut saying to us here have some fruit. If your tree it's your Cerys and I'm blessing and in that blessing is producing a man so I was didn't I should have peaches to hand out or something I didn't think of that you know yeah I got peach I don't he just apples maybe when the apples get here I'll think of it but you see how I mean to say that that's the connected the apple tree doesn't have to struggle and force and make apples it's just natural. Same thing in our life it's a natural response to be blessed to produce fruit it's a very natural thing for us to produce fruit and you know what how many apples are in an apple seed it produces a tree and the tree produces bushels and bushels of apples every year one seed what wants to do in our life is one seed you're blessed. Oh and it grows and it produces and it produces and what do you do with the apples you give them away. He can weigh in to get and what do we do while we go through the cycle again. We're blessed. Connected to the divine nature of we're blessed I'm blessed I'm blessed then again I'm blessed Father we thank you that we are blessed by your spirit and your word and We just want to bear fruit because we're connected and Lord we just have to allow it to happen. Believe it to happen. we are fruit bearing trees coming into our due season. Amen and Amen bless you. Blessed A Sacred Nature Indirectly we have been speaking on this subject for the last two weeks. Psalm One Blessed is the man who walk not in a council the un ly that was that was wise counsel and today we're looking at blessed again and the le is blessed and then and the definition for being blessed is a sacred nature connected with or a sacred nature connected with Now if we would think of ourselves as sacred. We would kind and while that's not me must be talking about somebody else and we also say in and of course we were saying is that is able to make us more than what we think we could be and the challenge for Osas that how then do we become more than what we think we could be you know the military says be all that you can be you know joined join the Marines or join a special armed forces so we're looking at becoming more than what we are I mean it's why we go to school now go to school to learn to continue to develop our character develop our information develop our resources learning how to connect to other things that are out there beyond ourselves and beyond what we can do at this moment so when I'm thinking of being bless I think of it in the context that is helping me become more than what I am. If we're not willing to receive blessings. It's like not being able to receive knowledge. Am smart enough in her tone I know you may have information but you know I know it all. While When that happens. Were really lost and you know the old cliche I give you a piece of my mind and then of course you tell them you don't have enough to give away keep it a so we have these ideas about what's going on in our lives and we need to recognize that being blessed is being connected to the nature of being connected with So receiving good things into our life is not a bad thing you know we sing for the birthdays and things like that we're giving on are for the person. During for their time for their birth and for the day that they celebrate. Well is giving OS blessings is giving to us when we're connected to him he knows what's he knows what we need to put into our lives to keep us growing in believing and you know allowing his goodness to to be displayed in us now. The challenge is that if we are allowing to do this then we are is expecting us to use it. He's not a you know he's not kind of dumping things into the freezer here we're going to keep them until he comes you know children frozen until he returns and then we take him to heaven and say here look what I got you know it's like the guy who buried his talent he you know he went buried it in what good is a buried talent what good is things in your life. Gifting Zin your life if we don't use them so the attention that we're focused on is and the attention that the blessings in the gifting czar are but there has to be a channel through which the blessings flow and and is telling us over and over again that we are to receive and he is really he is willing to bless his children he is willing to bestow gifts upon his children and even in first Corinthians thirteen it talks about the gifts of the Spirit he will divide severally and as he wills and the purpose of dividing the gifts. Severally as He wills is for the benefit of the Body of Christ so for the benefit of the Body of Christ is going to distribute his gifts and His gifts are to be distributed as He wills upon people who are receptive so being receptive to 's blessing Dan allows us to be receptive to his his spirit his word because it's not something that we're just taking to Horton slash free so it doesn't spoil until spring or until Jesus returns we are bringing into our lives integrating into our allies and allowing it to flow for follow on work from us so in some thirty two verse one verse one into it says Blessed while this is a skillful song or Psalm of David blessed and the definition here of Blessed is happy fortunate to be indeed a person who is blessed is he who has forgiveness of his transgressions continually exercise the him Hussein is covered so we're looking at this we're saying what separates us from the blessing. What separates us from Well send us. So we have a an understanding Well I'm not good enough. See the Bible's doesn't say to all those who feel not good enough the only ones that we look at sin is that which separates and wants to forgive us if wants to take away all of our sins and get them out of the way why do we keep bringing them back. Why do we keep bringing back things that is getting rid of you know it's like the guy he opened his front door to pick the newspaper up and there was his neighbor's dog here with the newspaper you know so he gave the dog a treat and you know than took the newspaper the next morning open the dog and there's a dog with a newspaper but he has seven others from the neighbors collected in setting on a front porch. He wanted you know we got one tree for one boys get a bunch of treats for seven Well you know the dog is responding to the treats he's responses learning by giving that by receiving it you know and so in our lives in a we're not dogs but we you know we respond to people who are are nice not people who blow their horns and we'll let people get in front of them. OK I have tell the story we were in a parking lot doesn't Sunday school I heard we were in a parking lot and to spur this test some night this week and I'm standing in line and everybody is just the whole place is just the stencil ody's moving so I'm in line and I've done in my son in here and it's like well you know this somebody's going to cut in front of you and I'm saying no they're not and I think in front of me. Well anyhow this young girl with the nice B.M.W. pulls right up and sticks or per in front of mine. Well you know I already made up my mind she was not getting in even before she came she was not getting in. While in her mind she was getting in because she was going to let some old fat men get from her so anyhow I placed on the horn and I know and I do you know I'm telling her that she can't do this and she's not listening and then she gets in front of me and you know after I let her in front very meekly. Reverently I'm sitting there and I'm thinking of David you told you she was coming you should have just left her in but I didn't want to lettering. But then you know it's like you gave her you gave away your peace to someone who really should have just never given it to she just left it happen and you know it's you know took me a while to settle down from that and you know I gave something away then I should have given away in and got it already I feel you've got it already told me ahead of time somebody is common and you need to back off while ody's you know I'm not backing off you know I got here and I've been here for ten minutes waiting to get out of this parking lot and no one's getting in front of me. has other plans so I repented of it you know an ascot forgiveness and makes a good sermon il ration you know and. But anyhow it ended up you know being able to go in the right direction and soon is this person got in front of me the people and made the right turns and turn interaction I was gone and we all got out in a minute later you know but it was like he was all set narrow waiting for David's test to be finished. Well sometimes we look at these things and you know that's sometimes I you know whatever. Shouldn't do those things and but is or how many times do we allow that the blessing that wants to give us we say I don't deserve that or that's not going to happen and we make up our mind not to be receptive. Not to allow what wants to do and he's already told us what he's doing and we just need to go along with it because it isn't about the person cutting in and it isn't about me blowing the horn it's about being receptive to what 's voice is saying on the inside you know. Love forgive him now and you know I do that enough you know I deserve this place and of course. It didn't so whenever we think about being blessed it is a sacred nature connected with We are all blast we are all blessed were all blessed with forgiveness. We're all blessed with love we're all blasts were connected to the sacred nature they were connected with 's nature that says I love you more than you can ever love you you can never think of being loved I have plans better for you than you can ever imagine. I've gotta give things in power to bestow upon you through my word and my spirit I've got so much to give you see were connected to this nature of and we need to be we need to see that the blessings that are coming tomorrow. Our life are not about things that I have earned. See I earned the right to that spot in that line because I got there first but because I earned it doesn't mean that it's mine because whom I to say what needs to be there and who needs to be there and in that spot. Whom I to determine these things it's like yes I ne'er and I have my reasons for being there but somebody else wants it more you know what knew that before the world was ever created. He knew that was going to happen. Well why didn't he change her mind. Anna that wasn't the point why didn't I allow him to change mine. You see blessed and happy for some thirty two one says count yourself lucky this is a Message Bible house yourself lucky how happy you must be you get a fresh start your slate white clean verse two count yourself lucky holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from him so we are blessed we are to consider ourselves lucky we are to consider ourselves most blessed most privileged we are of the we are the most fortunate people on the planet. We are us beyond any expectation of that we can come up with in life and imagine be uneasy would imagine has a blessing for us has a connectedness with us that when people are against us. He's for us when we feel down and now he's just preparing the way for a we are blessed and our challenge is to be recipients of that blessing and sometimes we just need to let people get in front of us to receive our blessing. Sometimes we just need to be receptive of what is giving us and in that receptive in that think is going to bless us with his piece and then also give us something good to give to someone else when they've been much better. Testimony for had I just waved and said hey bless you. Back up and let her get in well who would have taught her a lesson. It did I really teach or anything that I teach anybody else in the car. Anything not really taught him how to be angry and blow their horn you know you thought I was in El Salvador with requirements to drive in El Salvador is you have to be able to blow your horn and you have to be able to know that what you are driving is worth smashing into somebody else. Through you had three lanes of road and you have five vehicles across and everybody's trying to get off on one exit and they know how to blow the horn you know and it's just and they have you know we have words they have certain signals with their horns they stand for different things. OK so you can tell what other people are saying by how they blow the horn and what consecutive order they do is that so. To drive down there is just an absolute nightmare you know we were we were coming up the silver you know it was three lane highway one wing coming down two lanes going up. OK We're driving up the hill and there are three tractor trailers across the hill. Wait a minute or two lanes going up and one wing coming down and you have three tractor trailers. Filling up the whole hill. Where are the people going this coming down and then not fast like they're not you know have a sixty miles an hour they're going like five ten miles an hour in there are three Briest going up the hill. If like what if you come around the turn and you're coming down or three tractor trailers in front of you and a cliff on the other side not that cliff but another clip. Sneak. And we have to learn how to be kind. So 's counsel he says count yourself lucky blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes isn't it. Imputes no iniquity doesn't ever reason to give us anything. did it has a reason to bless us in Matthew chapter seven we have this game here about don't judge your be judged in all you know just not to be not judge whatever Marie debt do not judge so that you will not be judged for in the way you judge you will be judged and by your standard of measure it will be measured to you. I often I'm often struggle with that verse because I would think why would be using his judge my judgments against me you know if I don't think something's wrong. Maybe there's that mean he doesn't think it's wrong. You know if I think it's OK to you know he says don't steal but if I think it's OK to steal aggro still is that you know that what he's saying no. The emphasis is being blessed. Connected to the nature of So it means that when I am critical of me I will be critical of others if I'm critical of others I will be critical of me if I judge people harshly I judge myself harshly and that when I see the failures in others. I see the failures in me and I when I see the foul years a Me I like to point them out another so that people won't look at mine. So what's going on harry telling us that what how you think about judging you know and sentencing sentencing people and you know all condemning them and putting them in their place is the very thing the same measure that we feel against ourselves if we we were somewhere and I can't remember where and there was a scale was an old scale was at the Indiana county fair and at the fair. They has the old things from the you know your bygone years you know in the early days you know the eighty ninety years ago and they had a scale and they had weights over here that you could put on and then you could fill up the grain or whatever and this one and they were when they balanced out you know you had five pounds ten pounds whatever. Well whenever we use this judgment scale we're looking to bring a balance to our life and whenever we are critical of ourselves and others are balance so what we do to bring it back into balance is to be Judge Mental of other people well you know they're not very good. I'm sure that lady what a blow the horn at me you know in and I'm sure that what we're trying to do is balance out the scale by being critical of others so that we don't feel so bad. Well why shouldn't I steal everybody else does but will. Why should I lie about people because everybody else does see we're trying to balance the scale and is saying don't do that to rid of that judge mental thing so that we are looking at 's grace and 's mercy and we're blessed because we're connected to the grace of and when we're looking at ourselves and saying not perfect but you know what neither is anybody else. OK But you know what I'm forgiven so therefore I forgive I make mistakes so therefore I learned how to be accepting of other people for who they are. I like to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do. We're setting a standard by which we can live and we can live more completely more fully that we can allow the Spirit of to help to teach us what his word really means when we're out of balance trying to justify we're trying to use the word of to be critical of other people you know there are you know some some churches some people religious people like to be very critical of other churches other and they their criticisms are only trying to balance out the judgments that they make upon themselves and others and it doesn't work doesn't do that do not judge the way you judge you will be judged. Why do you look at the spec to your brother's eye but don't notice the log that is in your own to another translation has it why do you notice the the little piece of splinter that's in your neighbors I knew got a telephone pole sticking out of yours. Let me help you here you know you know the him in there with your telephone pole is to your own eye you've got so many fall so you're trying to find the faults of others and it's like don't do that so as we look at that in the in the Message Bible the last part of verse verse seven of met Matthew seven says don't bargain with Be direct you see if we are blessed which we are connected to the we are connected with that the nature of is connected to our nature our nature is connected to his as we face a law that current. If we allow that spirit if we allow that word to flow into our lives and flow from to us we are allowing it to influence everything that we're with that we're doing and so don't bargain with So if I'm living in the right spirit in the right connection don't bargain with Be direct ask for what you need I need patience. You know I need to listen to your word. Don't play the cat and mouse hide and seek gain done playing the games. OK where's at today you know in the the area at the three s s and move them around. Do you get at this time or do you get me and we're moving to show you get me get my way. Plough or nd Well guns their own forgiven the land go. So don't play the games you know look at where we are at be direct what you need ask for because is more willing to give us than we are to receive wants to bless us and you see I think of it in this scenario we spoke about it may be that I think in Sunday school. That before the foundation of the world you know says that created the heavens and earth he created all this and he put in place and rested now heard a critic on T.V. saying well if you guys if you have a supreme being who gets tired he still had two supreme Izzy you know but that's not what he was that was not what he was talking about it means that what needed to be accomplished is already accomplished. Meaning that before the foundation of the world was created knew that Christ he cried through Christ would come and be the atonement for sin and that he would be to sacrifice so the sacrifice of Christ was already in place even before the Adam and Eve sinned it wasn't some solution oh my gosh what am I going to do now. Now bank kind he's really blown it what am I going to do. 's worrying in heaven no it's already said so in our lives. knows what we have need of even before we asked in our asking is a way of connecting to . And being blessed is a way that is transferring his blasting into our lives and he is blessing us and he is giving to us. Bore the we can even ask or imagine. He's allowing the he wants us to I asked he wants us to be recipients of he wants us to pray and to believe in to recognize how that we can use what do we have need of C. We don't have a spiritual freezer that needs filled up we have we have Nana The will bring into our life and you can't store it up because it rots and he wants us to use it as we get it and live our life and be that person that wants us to be with loving and caring and forgiving and and doing and allowing to work and flew through the flow through us because we're truly blessed I give something away I don't lose anything I gain. C N N In the old the old economy it's if you have a PI OK you have a pie you got six pieces and you get one piece but if you come back and take two pieces you've robbed other people for of their portion but in 's dynamics you can't use. You can't deplete the reason the reservoirs we can't deplete what wants to use what wants to give us and we can't deplete the see what has here in store for you and in your life. He doesn't need it to be in somebody else's life you know I don't really think I should get this because needs to give this to somebody else. Oh doesn't have enough to go around. has got doesn't have enough to go around so there's not enough of 's grace and mercy to go around so I will need to draw upon that right now. I'll wait because I don't want to deplete it. has everything in our was aware in our warehouse of stuff things blessings to pull into our lives and if we don't use it it doesn't get used because it's designated that were for our own lives and your life. What has for your life is designated for your life and if you use everything that has get in store for your life it's not going to take anything from me and I can't take anything from you as in blessings from He has enough he has enough and you see whenever we are blessed we are connected with We have a sacred nature that is connected to and the sacred nature in our life is Jesus Christ inside of us that's the sacred nature there's nothing holy about me it's living in me it's the sacredness of 's word in my life. Heaven and earth will p away but this word will never p away and so the Word of is eternal and it's inside of us and it will never die and those we call dead are still alive because of the sacred nature of inside of them and if is going to and when this body stops functioning and we go to heaven it's a welcoming home to heaven because of the sacred nature because of the Word of Jesus Christ the Living Word Alive Inside of us so if I can live on for an eternity in the presence of because of his love and forgiveness inside of me and his nature inside of me what am I. Stealing from by a loud in his blessings to be inside to come into my life I'm not stealing anything. It's a transfer from the nature of by face that exist in the spiritual realm being transferred into the physical realm into me if I transferred. If I had your checking account number and I went to the bank and said I want to transfer funds from my account to this account what these numbers can you do that and they'll send a transfer from my account to your account because you gave me your numbers in the sacred nature is the same way wants to deposit things into our lives and what he wants to deposit I don't know they can be anything it can be the gifts of the Spirit they can be the fruits of the spirit it can be things that can be money it can be love you can be forgiveness forgiveness for ourselves and forgiveness for others it can be the as Instead I'm not alone in this I will never leave you nor for sake you. If these s s that I am forgiven if you confess your sins and you know ask for forgiveness of your sins what's come the transference of forgiveness to us and I'm forgiven and so I'm not looking at you to transfer things into my life I need to look to strengths for things into my life because they are there in his account and no matter how much he transfers doesn't affect the balance of his account. If everyone of us received everything that has for us and he transferred it all into our lives the account of would not be diminished one iota. Consult ready created it's already there and so all we're doing is learning to live in our faith and in our relationship with Christ so what do you think about that. Bless a divine connection we're blessed. Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the Council of the un ly nor sand nor stand in the sit stand in the path of centers or sit in the seat of the scornful but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his delight to see meditate day and night and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water whose least doesn't wither that his fruit comes and you know in season and it's always coming it's always bearing whenever the fruit tree and we're going to be harvesting apples and in peaches and they're already started peaches in the eye of the other fruits. What happened is that fruit come into being. It's connected to the roots. It's connected to the resort has of water and nourishment the thing comes through the root system right up through the trunk of the tree out the branch and right into the fruit. It's connected. Blessed we are connected to the divine nature of and what happens we're allowing it to flow from the source of into our own life to produce fruit here have some fruit that's a gut saying to us here have some fruit. If your tree it's your Cerys and I'm blessing and in that blessing is producing a man so I was didn't I should have peaches to hand out or something I didn't think of that you know yeah I got peach I don't he just apples maybe when the apples get here I'll think of it but you see how I mean to say that that's the connected the apple tree doesn't have to struggle and force and make apples it's just natural. Same thing in our life it's a natural response to be blessed to produce fruit it's a very natural thing for us to produce fruit and you know what how many apples are in an apple seed it produces a tree and the tree produces bushels and bushels of apples every year one seed what wants to do in our life is one seed you're blessed. Oh and it grows and it produces and it produces and what do you do with the apples you give them away. He can weigh in to get and what do we do while we go through the cycle again. We're blessed. Connected to the divine nature of we're blessed I'm blessed I'm blessed then again I'm blessed Father we thank you that we are blessed by your spirit and your word and We just want to bear fruit because we're connected and Lord we just have to allow it to happen. Believe it to happen. we are fruit bearing trees coming into our due season. Amen and Amen bless you. Blessed A Sacred Nature