The Sermon You Can Count On God by David McGee
Oct 04, 2015
You Can Count On God (33:33)
Referenced Scriptures: Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:4-10
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Titus 2:11-14
11) For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
12) instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
13) looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ;
14) who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Ephesians 2:4-10
4) But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
5) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have you been saved),
6) and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7) that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
8) for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9) not of works, that no one would boast.
10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
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This morning's message is counting on . You can count on GOD. And. There are very few things that we. I think we can count on. There are you can count on the weather you can't count on people. You try and you know people do their best and. And we fail. Because we're going to come up short with certain things and certain. You know you try to be on time and. Some people can never be on time and some are always on time. But you can never you know. To sometimes things can happen. Whether it's intentional or unintentional. There are just things in life that happen it's like one individual used il ration he said. If you knew that Sa ay morning you had to be a certain place at ten o'clock. And your life in the life of your family depended upon it. Would you be there and you got a new guy would say well you know if the weather and the. You know go running in an accident or whatever it is know if everything that you own and possess. In this life. In a mental emotional physical whatever your home your land everything depended on you being there ten o'clock would you be there. And a guy says Wow. You know he says Lawwell. Well enough. And the person who's presenting it says. If everything you. Possessed. Would depend upon it you would go the night before you would go the day before. You would stay at the place you would stay overnight at the place you would do everything you could to be there so that you know you could be counted on to be there at that moment. To take care of all these things in our life so. The ogy is that if it. If it means that much to us. We will do heaven and earth to get there. To be to take care of it while. has already established all these things for us that we can count on for salvation we can count on for saving us from our sins. And the first group Gers in Titus chapter two. Beginning of verse eleven. Through verse fourteen for the grace of that bring salvation has appeared to all min. So as we begin to think about You can count upon had. by His grace. To forgive. Is appear to all min. So there is no one neither by His Spirit. Either by the word either by conscious even in some way or another by nature. has appeared to all men in some way that there is salvation. And it teaches us to say no to the ungodliness and Robie p ions and to live. Self controlled. Upright and godly lives in this present age. While we wait for the blessed and hope you see everything that we possess in we have strength for today and a bright hope for tomorrow. A bright hope for tomorrow. You see our relationship with is based upon hope and hope is you know like Jesus is returning. One day we're going to be in heaven. And one day. Everything of this life of this earth is going to be destroyed and p ed away heaven earth will p away. But my word will never p away so the heaven or earth are going to go disappear. But what's going to happen. We're going to be with in heaven and. We have this blessid hope now. We are one day closer than we were yesterday. Oh that's pretty smart pastor. But you know. He wrote this this was written. Some two thousand years ago. Maybe a little longer maybe a little shorter. Somewhere in that time period this was written. And guess what they we are one day shorter. Today than we were yesterday. And we're closer today than they were when this was written. And the the point is that we always have hope. We are people of hope that we are looking forward to something. And if it doesn't happen in our lifetime. It doesn't mean that our hope was a vain. Abraham had a promise to his to his self into his family and his descendants. That he would be as numerous as the stars and he didn't even have one child. So he had a hope of what was going to do in the future and he had this hope for many new numbers of years until he was too old even have a child and his wife was too old to have a child. And he still had this hope you see. So hope isn't based upon what we see. Hope isn't based upon what we know. And their knowledge of life and you know the events of life. is greater than all of these things and so is calling upon us to have hope. And that we see and to live. Self-control. Upright and godly lines in this present age. wants us to live a life of hope and that means that our expectations are godly life. Our godly living is going to be a directional sign for people who are lost. That are godliness. And this president age. That are our p ion of life. Would not be after this world but after . And in that p ion in that world that we live. We would live in such a way that we would be a road sign you know. Coming down to one thousand new yesterday. We needed to stop by the dump. By where the dump pile is there where they the garbage dump is. And so we were coming down and there's all of these arrows and a big sign. Go to the you know go everybody the left hand lane right hand lane close so I pulled over to the guardrail. In front of the beginning of those signs. And I'm thinking there's signs up the road. That says right lane close. Little closer. There's right lane close and local Oser. There's right wing close with this flashing arrow. Move over. And we're parked off of the road. And almost to the guardrails and right at the very beginning of one of those cones. And there's a guy coming down the road. In a motor home. And he's in the right hand lane. And he's not moving over. And I'm thinking. He's going to hit us. You know consenting there and run his out taken care of Jackie has a had a issue with the seat belt and I thought this is safest place of all to pull over. Because there's road signs or. There's cones. Everything says get out of the right hand lane. And there's this guy. And he is flying down the hill. In this motorhome. And there's ody in the left hand lane. And he doesn't move over. And I'm going . You've got to make this guy aware. That if he doesn't change something's going to happen. And. Oh about a hundred yards maybe or two hundred yards from where we rat he can he moved over just like oh. Woke up. Moved into the left hand lane. And just was barreling down the hill. Something. Thank you Lord. Because he wasn't paying attention. But we always in our own lives. is giving us direction. But sometimes we're not paying attention to what is putting up these road signs. Pay attention. Move over. Move the left move to the right. Stand up sit down fight fight fight you tell us what to do. That's a little cheer. OK. But. So we see our life in this in this in this place that we're living. And it's a beginning it's a new beginning every day is a new beginning it's a one day closer to heaven than we were yesterday. It's one day closer to the answer to our prayers and it was yesterday. It's a one day closer to the fulfillment of 's promise in our life and we had yesterday. And I like the story of how that Mary and Martha. You know Martha had the promise that she would have a son and her and her husband. Saccharine that. You know he went. Couldn't speak. You know he couldn't contradicted and he was. He was unable to speak in Mary. Had conceived by. By the Holy Spirit and she went to. And the Holy Spirit told her that your cousin Elizabeth has has conceived. And that you need to go and visit her. And so when she arrives at the door. Her cousin Elizabeth. And Mary greets Elizabeth. What happens the baby jumps in a room. OK. Comes Alive you notice tickin and jumping around and wow. Temp the life as it were. And I think it's like that in our lives whenever we hear a promise from . When we hear about doing things. Miraculous things. Something inside of us just comes to life. Something inside of us is wow that's really good. And now. And we'll try and cancel that well you know. If you really humble you when one thing that. You know that a god can do that for other people but he just doesn't have that in mind for you. Then why did it kind of jump inside of us. Why did the spirit cause that to be quickened inside of our lives. Because it's the spirit quickening those promises to our life. That helps us see that got what is about. And what wants to do for us and do in our lives and through our lives. So while we wait for the blessid hope. The Glorious Appearing of our great and Savior Jesus Christ. Who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own. You see. gave him self to us for us to redeem us from all wickedness. Wickedness has no place in our lives. When we allow it. Even to get a faint. Foothold or a flickering. That the spirit kind of comes and sets up a garden says not that's not for you that that's not part of who you are. Don't go that direction. Move over. Get out of that lane. Get in the other lane. Move away from those things and see that that's the Holy Spirit working in our lives and what is he doing he's creating something new every day every day the promises of are renewed. As the sun comes up and goes down every night. That their promises of a renewed every day every day we are reminded of the goodness of the provision of the hope that we have in our lives. And you see. And we are and what to say here. He S. Korea purify for himself and people that are his very own eager to do what is good. Eager to do what is good can't we can count on Todd. To put inside of us. Desires to do the good. To do good. The desire to do good. And as we start looking for people to do. Good to will find opportunities and what we are doing is planting seeds in people's lives. You know I think of where we are at here is the church. You know. We look around and I say you know what I think. I think this is a new beginning. I think this is a new beginning because . All along through the years has always had a time of kind of changing directions moving over. Removing over moving into another lane. You know it isn't that we're on the wrong highway. It's just that we need to move into another lane because something else is going to happen something else is going on in our life. And this is a new beginning. It's a new beginning for all of us. It's a new beginning where is going to bring to life the hope that is inside of us and will see the good that we can do in the other. In other people's lives. Now. We don't want to be like the little boy. Little Boy Scout. He was saw this older lady on the other side of the street so he goes to help or across the whole way across. She's beating him with his purse. And it get him to the other side. And the Boy Scouts finally sis minimises help when you cross the street. And she says but I didn't want to go across the street. So there you know there are things that we think that people need name a No one so don't give a tomake a it's OK so we're not going to do good to people who don't want it. We're going to do good to people who want to need. Who have this need in their life. All the long pointing them to Jesus Christ. All along saying you know what has a plan for your life. Because when we tell people that has a plan for your life. Something jumps inside of them. Just as the baby in Elizabeth womb. Jumped. When Mary greeted her. Whenever we tell people. has a plan for your life. And wants to do and to work that plan in your life inside of them will jump. That spirit that quickening power of the Holy Spirit. Doesn't matter where they are doesn't matter if they're a drug user a bike or a pros ute doesn't matter what it is that we look at people and we just tell them out of the depths of our heart you know what has a plan for you. I just know it. And you know what will bring that to our mind to tell people and put it in their hearts. And will do the rest. will do the rest. Because has a plan for every person's life. has a plan for every person's life. It is not the will of that any should perish. It is not the will of then any should end up. Separated from him for eternity. Or even in this life. has a plan for you gone is a new beginning for you while you don't know what I done I don't need to know knows. And he has a plan for you. knows what's the best for your life. knows where you're going to be at tomorrow. He knows what decisions you have to make today. And he wants to bring that into your life today. Solve that we have a bright hope for tomorrow. In a siege in chapter two. He sees in chapter two. Beginning of verse four. It says. But because of this great love for us. who is rich in mercy. So it starts off with who has a great love for us. Great love for us. Now it's hard for us to comprehend that because most the time. We look at things and we say. Well I didn't do anything for them to love me. That's not what is saying. loves you even with before you were born he loved you even before you even knew he loved you he loved you see. So for . And because of his great love for us who is rich in mercy. So he looks at us with mercy on merited favor. You don't have to earn it. I'm going to give this to you. I'm going to deposit. One million dollars in each of your savings accounts today. I'm not doing that as a using his il ration. And. But we risk was you'd say wow. I didn't do anything to deserve that. Well you know what you showed up. Because you showed up. This is what you get. And I was where you'd say well. I don't have to earn it. You don't have to pay taxes on it you don't even have to give it back. It's. It's their deposit it in your account. To spend any way you want to deposit in other people's lives. And you see we see why I didn't deserve it. You know. You know maybe just five hundred not one not a million you know. But you see. We can't control the amount. We can only control the use of it. You see the amount is made by . It's made up by Himself. Deposited into our lives. So that we can make deposits into the lives of others. It isn't for us to sit on and say let's let's get some interest on this I'm not using this. If I keep in the bank. I can build bigger banks and I can have bigger barns and I can have bigger accounts. We just lost it all. We will lose it all. But whenever we see that it's deposited into our lives. So that we can deposit into lives of other lives of others. It's going to make a big difference. So no I am not the positing a million dollars in everyone's life. Account. Now if you need a dollar. I can give you a dollar to deposit in your account. But you see the idea is that we are. has made a deposit into our accounts because he is rich in mercy. He is rich in mercy and made us alive with Christ. Even when we were dead in our transgressions. Here's the great part. While you were still dead in your transgressions. 's intention. Here is was had already made you alive you just haven't rive there yet. That's what I like about this. That has already made us alive. And those who are lost just haven't arrived there yet. So has a work for us. And you see like has all this he was deposited in our lives. And we just haven't got there yet to receive it. Because we need to come around in our thinking in our faith in our belief that. And our understanding that we're not going to use this just for OS. Just for me that when I realize that is going to honor my gifts as seed. Sounds into the soil of people's lives in the seed of the Kingdom of that is going to repot harvest in our lives. And that whenever we get to that point of harvest time. You know here we are harvesting corn. I love harvest time. I love. I love watching. You know. Go along and I see all the fields is cut off with the corn. I think of all that corn it's in people silos and in pits and stuff and he makes me excited. I must be stupid not a full these. But I like that because here we here they have a harvest and. They're going to they go in and they're going to have food for their for their cattle. They're going to have enough food for the winter for their cattle. And for their livestock and it. And it's all harvested and put away. You know it's wonderful and all they did was so a few bags a seed. And now they have enough harvest to feel silos and pits and. You know for all the feed for their cattle and in hogs or whatever they're growing they've got enough feed for them for the winter. Clear till next spring and summer. You think wow what a great thing. They planted it. knew there was a harvest. But they haven't. They didn't reach there until now. Same thing is going on in our lives. We're going to continue to reap the harvest. We're going to reach the times in which the harvest is coming into our lives because we've been faithful in sowing the seed. We've been faithful to sow the seed that has given to us. And we've put it into the lives of others. It is not wrong to repot harvest. It's not wrong for the farmer came out in the farmer saying. Well you know I only planted about. Maybe fifteen or twenty bags of of corn. I'm only going to go out and get fifteen or twenty bags and I'll just let the rest there. What's that that's not a harvest. That's a denial of 's blessing. That's a denial of what intended your planting to be sold of the farmer will go out he'll plant that exe of corn. And he'll come back with truckloads of harvest. He'll come back with silos full of harvest and pits. Full of harvest. You know. It's all because they planted a few bags. And they watched it grow all summer. is preparing us to come into our harvest. Because we've been faithful to so the seed. And he who is rich in mercy. Has not withheld. Any of that mercy from us. who is rich in Grace has not withheld any of that rich grace from us. You know and some of us have even had fertilizers built all over us. And you know fertilizers Arjen. It's manure. And any. You know. And it's just that time is stuff that stinky stuff that we've added jest. Get out of our lives and oversee it and let it go wash it off and keep going on because we're going to come into a harvest and fertilizers there to make the harvest grow. Because we did the right thing for the right reasons and for ourselves and other people. This is a new beginning. Isn't turn around in our e. There's not a turn around it's a ever increasing of our faith. It's a recognizing that we've always talked about a harvest. Always talk about planting always talk about sowing. But you see now is a time in which the sewing has been done. And the planting in the harvest it's growing and it's growing. And we're going to repot harvest. So in the harvest what are we going to do we're going to take what we have that is deposited in our lives. And we're going to make deposits and other people are going to make deposits and other people. No strings attached. Just deposits. Just deposits. Well you know you look good today. Well you know. has a plan for your life. You know we miss you in church. You know we are praying for you. I've been thinking about Joe. And you've been on my mind. I want to call you I want to say a low I want to pray for you. You see. has a way of working this into our lives through the ordinary effects of everyday life. The ordinary impact of everyday life. That has an eternal reward. The ordinary deposits of. You know what it's good to see you have been thinking about you just showing up. Talking to someone doing good for someone. Somebody you don't even know. Making a deposit. You know it's not a big thing it's not it's not earth moving it's not ether shattering It's just seeing something and making a positive remark and making a positive comment. So you see we are. He made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions. It is by grace you have been saved. We didn't get here. Because we're so good. No I know I am good in your eyes nose by grace. In his eyes I am good. But it is by His grace that I've got here and you see. It is by grace you have been saved and and raised up with Fina next verse verse six. And raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms. In Christ Jesus and raised us up with him with Christ. If we were seated next to the throne of Christ. But without the like. Here we are KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS and on his best friend. B.C. each of us are his best friends. I like this one. If had a refrigerator. Your picture would be on it. If had a refrigerator your picture would be on it. And he has this picture of us were his favorite child. Each one of us sits in that place. Of favorite. He gives to us his undivided attention. He's child ours us with his blessings. He gives to us his wisdom in his understanding of His grace and His mercy and blesses us with hope for tomorrow. Here we are in this place. In this position of power and of influence. And in this place of power and influence. The devil is afraid. Scared to death that we might recognize who we are. If evil can get us to back off from believing in making deposits in people's lives that were somehow not good enough to be in this place. If we can believe those lies the devil has defeated us from giving. Now he's already given up on us being in that place of that privileged position. Because he can't take us from the hand of . He can't remove us unless we try to jump out and all that kind of stuff. But he has us there has us there. He is the positive. These things into our lives into our minds in our hearts. He has brought this the people that are around your life for their for purpose. They're not only there to be gifts to you but you to be gift to them. And so in this gifting in this place of gifting we're going to make deposits. And we're going to do good things for these people and draw their attention to because is the one who's deposited in our life and we're making deposits and others. An order that. In the coming ages. He might show. The in comparable riches of His grace. So what does want to do. He wants to show the in in comparable riches of His grace. Now I don't know what riches look like. But you have them. We have them. We think we need to recognize that we have the in comparable riches of His grace. Expressed in his kindness. It's in his kindness in his love. You know. The other day. I I struggle sometimes with my emotions. Getting angry or not angry just upset. Maybe Rondell saying grievances he's probably right but I struggle with these things. And I need to tell myself because i nt. You know. Sometimes I'm not listening. But the kind. Just because I know. And there I don't know why. I think I know why be you know kind of fried myself with emotions and stuff. With all the things that I do and that's my excuse. But I need to remind myself because has been placed me there to make deposits in other people's lives. Only to be unkind. In my daily living with my wife and other people. He hasn't deposit all these things in me to be unkind. He has deposits these in my life to be kind and that in the kindness that we can live our life we are making deposits were helping were giving people a chance to see it work. Because inside of each of us is in comparable riches. Inside of you are riches beyond your wildest dreams inside of us are the glories of in the riches of His Kingdom. The richness of his kingdom in the richness of his blessings. And I mean they're all inside of us it's like looking into a. Perhaps a cave that's just filled with golden treasures of present and past. And it's just gold everywhere spewed forth and says. This is mine. But I've given you access to it all. Give it away. Given away. Deposited in people's lives. And tell them who it's from is from . It's a gift to you. The god has a purpose for your life. He has a purpose for worrier why you're here has a purpose for where you're going. We have bright hope for tomorrow. And it's all begun today. And you wake up tomorrow. And we're going to say. It's a new day it's begun again. And every day it's begun and began again. The kind. Tender hearted. Loving mercies. To one another becoming. And he says. Expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus we've got it from Jesus. We had invested in just come from a fall sky hit us on the head it came from Jesus for it is by grace you have been saved through faith. We recognize that has given this to us. And this is where we stand by grace. And we receive all these things through greys and this not for yourselves. It's a gift from . Not by works. So that we can boast about what we've accomplished. For we are 's workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus. To do good works. Which prepared in advance for us to do. has already prepared in advance. Things that we need to do. And he has given us all of the talents and abilities and things that we need for what comes into our life. Every every every every every every every every every everything that comes into our lives is already given to us what we need to meet that every every thing. Everything. Everything that comes to our live caught is already given us the provisions for it. Amen. It's a new day. It's a new beginning. It's a new life. And yes when it started today. This very moment. It's begun again and again and again. And never tires. Becomes weary. Because it's his treasure. And he just gives us access to it. To use for our lives and does Abbas to deposit into the lives of others. Every day every moment of every day for everything. For every reason. Hey man shall we stand on the key word today is. Every It has everything has a plan and a purpose. Every person. has a blessing. And every thing that comes up in our life there is something already there to meet it. Everything is as it should be. And will do a work in and through us. Amen. Thank you Father. Everything works together for good. To those who love you and are called according to your purpose. Every promise. In the Bible. Belongs to us. Every situation. You have given an answer to every problem. You've given wisdom for a solution to every person. You have provided salvation is. Amen. bless you turn disarm on and say everyone. This morning's message is counting on . You can count on GOD. And. There are very few things that we. I think we can count on. There are you can count on the weather you can't count on people. You try and you know people do their best and. And we fail. Because we're going to come up short with certain things and certain. You know you try to be on time and. Some people can never be on time and some are always on time. But you can never you know. To sometimes things can happen. Whether it's intentional or unintentional. There are just things in life that happen it's like one individual used il ration he said. If you knew that Sa ay morning you had to be a certain place at ten o'clock. And your life in the life of your family depended upon it. Would you be there and you got a new guy would say well you know if the weather and the. You know go running in an accident or whatever it is know if everything that you own and possess. In this life. In a mental emotional physical whatever your home your land everything depended on you being there ten o'clock would you be there. And a guy says Wow. You know he says Lawwell. Well enough. And the person who's presenting it says. If everything you. Possessed. Would depend upon it you would go the night before you would go the day before. You would stay at the place you would stay overnight at the place you would do everything you could to be there so that you know you could be counted on to be there at that moment. To take care of all these things in our life so. The ogy is that if it. If it means that much to us. We will do heaven and earth to get there. To be to take care of it while. has already established all these things for us that we can count on for salvation we can count on for saving us from our sins. And the first group Gers in Titus chapter two. Beginning of verse eleven. Through verse fourteen for the grace of that bring salvation has appeared to all min. So as we begin to think about You can count upon had. by His grace. To forgive. Is appear to all min. So there is no one neither by His Spirit. Either by the word either by conscious even in some way or another by nature. has appeared to all men in some way that there is salvation. And it teaches us to say no to the ungodliness and Robie p ions and to live. Self controlled. Upright and godly lives in this present age. While we wait for the blessed and hope you see everything that we possess in we have strength for today and a bright hope for tomorrow. A bright hope for tomorrow. You see our relationship with is based upon hope and hope is you know like Jesus is returning. One day we're going to be in heaven. And one day. Everything of this life of this earth is going to be destroyed and p ed away heaven earth will p away. But my word will never p away so the heaven or earth are going to go disappear. But what's going to happen. We're going to be with in heaven and. We have this blessid hope now. We are one day closer than we were yesterday. Oh that's pretty smart pastor. But you know. He wrote this this was written. Some two thousand years ago. Maybe a little longer maybe a little shorter. Somewhere in that time period this was written. And guess what they we are one day shorter. Today than we were yesterday. And we're closer today than they were when this was written. And the the point is that we always have hope. We are people of hope that we are looking forward to something. And if it doesn't happen in our lifetime. It doesn't mean that our hope was a vain. Abraham had a promise to his to his self into his family and his descendants. That he would be as numerous as the stars and he didn't even have one child. So he had a hope of what was going to do in the future and he had this hope for many new numbers of years until he was too old even have a child and his wife was too old to have a child. And he still had this hope you see. So hope isn't based upon what we see. Hope isn't based upon what we know. And their knowledge of life and you know the events of life. is greater than all of these things and so is calling upon us to have hope. And that we see and to live. Self-control. Upright and godly lines in this present age. wants us to live a life of hope and that means that our expectations are godly life. Our godly living is going to be a directional sign for people who are lost. That are godliness. And this president age. That are our p ion of life. Would not be after this world but after . And in that p ion in that world that we live. We would live in such a way that we would be a road sign you know. Coming down to one thousand new yesterday. We needed to stop by the dump. By where the dump pile is there where they the garbage dump is. And so we were coming down and there's all of these arrows and a big sign. Go to the you know go everybody the left hand lane right hand lane close so I pulled over to the guardrail. In front of the beginning of those signs. And I'm thinking there's signs up the road. That says right lane close. Little closer. There's right lane close and local Oser. There's right wing close with this flashing arrow. Move over. And we're parked off of the road. And almost to the guardrails and right at the very beginning of one of those cones. And there's a guy coming down the road. In a motor home. And he's in the right hand lane. And he's not moving over. And I'm thinking. He's going to hit us. You know consenting there and run his out taken care of Jackie has a had a issue with the seat belt and I thought this is safest place of all to pull over. Because there's road signs or. There's cones. Everything says get out of the right hand lane. And there's this guy. And he is flying down the hill. In this motorhome. And there's ody in the left hand lane. And he doesn't move over. And I'm going . You've got to make this guy aware. That if he doesn't change something's going to happen. And. Oh about a hundred yards maybe or two hundred yards from where we rat he can he moved over just like oh. Woke up. Moved into the left hand lane. And just was barreling down the hill. Something. Thank you Lord. Because he wasn't paying attention. But we always in our own lives. is giving us direction. But sometimes we're not paying attention to what is putting up these road signs. Pay attention. Move over. Move the left move to the right. Stand up sit down fight fight fight you tell us what to do. That's a little cheer. OK. But. So we see our life in this in this in this place that we're living. And it's a beginning it's a new beginning every day is a new beginning it's a one day closer to heaven than we were yesterday. It's one day closer to the answer to our prayers and it was yesterday. It's a one day closer to the fulfillment of 's promise in our life and we had yesterday. And I like the story of how that Mary and Martha. You know Martha had the promise that she would have a son and her and her husband. Saccharine that. You know he went. Couldn't speak. You know he couldn't contradicted and he was. He was unable to speak in Mary. Had conceived by. By the Holy Spirit and she went to. And the Holy Spirit told her that your cousin Elizabeth has has conceived. And that you need to go and visit her. And so when she arrives at the door. Her cousin Elizabeth. And Mary greets Elizabeth. What happens the baby jumps in a room. OK. Comes Alive you notice tickin and jumping around and wow. Temp the life as it were. And I think it's like that in our lives whenever we hear a promise from . When we hear about doing things. Miraculous things. Something inside of us just comes to life. Something inside of us is wow that's really good. And now. And we'll try and cancel that well you know. If you really humble you when one thing that. You know that a god can do that for other people but he just doesn't have that in mind for you. Then why did it kind of jump inside of us. Why did the spirit cause that to be quickened inside of our lives. Because it's the spirit quickening those promises to our life. That helps us see that got what is about. And what wants to do for us and do in our lives and through our lives. So while we wait for the blessid hope. The Glorious Appearing of our great and Savior Jesus Christ. Who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own. You see. gave him self to us for us to redeem us from all wickedness. Wickedness has no place in our lives. When we allow it. Even to get a faint. Foothold or a flickering. That the spirit kind of comes and sets up a garden says not that's not for you that that's not part of who you are. Don't go that direction. Move over. Get out of that lane. Get in the other lane. Move away from those things and see that that's the Holy Spirit working in our lives and what is he doing he's creating something new every day every day the promises of are renewed. As the sun comes up and goes down every night. That their promises of a renewed every day every day we are reminded of the goodness of the provision of the hope that we have in our lives. And you see. And we are and what to say here. He S. Korea purify for himself and people that are his very own eager to do what is good. Eager to do what is good can't we can count on Todd. To put inside of us. Desires to do the good. To do good. The desire to do good. And as we start looking for people to do. Good to will find opportunities and what we are doing is planting seeds in people's lives. You know I think of where we are at here is the church. You know. We look around and I say you know what I think. I think this is a new beginning. I think this is a new beginning because . All along through the years has always had a time of kind of changing directions moving over. Removing over moving into another lane. You know it isn't that we're on the wrong highway. It's just that we need to move into another lane because something else is going to happen something else is going on in our life. And this is a new beginning. It's a new beginning for all of us. It's a new beginning where is going to bring to life the hope that is inside of us and will see the good that we can do in the other. In other people's lives. Now. We don't want to be like the little boy. Little Boy Scout. He was saw this older lady on the other side of the street so he goes to help or across the whole way across. She's beating him with his purse. And it get him to the other side. And the Boy Scouts finally sis minimises help when you cross the street. And she says but I didn't want to go across the street. So there you know there are things that we think that people need name a No one so don't give a tomake a it's OK so we're not going to do good to people who don't want it. We're going to do good to people who want to need. Who have this need in their life. All the long pointing them to Jesus Christ. All along saying you know what has a plan for your life. Because when we tell people that has a plan for your life. Something jumps inside of them. Just as the baby in Elizabeth womb. Jumped. When Mary greeted her. Whenever we tell people. has a plan for your life. And wants to do and to work that plan in your life inside of them will jump. That spirit that quickening power of the Holy Spirit. Doesn't matter where they are doesn't matter if they're a drug user a bike or a pros ute doesn't matter what it is that we look at people and we just tell them out of the depths of our heart you know what has a plan for you. I just know it. And you know what will bring that to our mind to tell people and put it in their hearts. And will do the rest. will do the rest. Because has a plan for every person's life. has a plan for every person's life. It is not the will of that any should perish. It is not the will of then any should end up. Separated from him for eternity. Or even in this life. has a plan for you gone is a new beginning for you while you don't know what I done I don't need to know knows. And he has a plan for you. knows what's the best for your life. knows where you're going to be at tomorrow. He knows what decisions you have to make today. And he wants to bring that into your life today. Solve that we have a bright hope for tomorrow. In a siege in chapter two. He sees in chapter two. Beginning of verse four. It says. But because of this great love for us. who is rich in mercy. So it starts off with who has a great love for us. Great love for us. Now it's hard for us to comprehend that because most the time. We look at things and we say. Well I didn't do anything for them to love me. That's not what is saying. loves you even with before you were born he loved you even before you even knew he loved you he loved you see. So for . And because of his great love for us who is rich in mercy. So he looks at us with mercy on merited favor. You don't have to earn it. I'm going to give this to you. I'm going to deposit. One million dollars in each of your savings accounts today. I'm not doing that as a using his il ration. And. But we risk was you'd say wow. I didn't do anything to deserve that. Well you know what you showed up. Because you showed up. This is what you get. And I was where you'd say well. I don't have to earn it. You don't have to pay taxes on it you don't even have to give it back. It's. It's their deposit it in your account. To spend any way you want to deposit in other people's lives. And you see we see why I didn't deserve it. You know. You know maybe just five hundred not one not a million you know. But you see. We can't control the amount. We can only control the use of it. You see the amount is made by . It's made up by Himself. Deposited into our lives. So that we can make deposits into the lives of others. It isn't for us to sit on and say let's let's get some interest on this I'm not using this. If I keep in the bank. I can build bigger banks and I can have bigger barns and I can have bigger accounts. We just lost it all. We will lose it all. But whenever we see that it's deposited into our lives. So that we can deposit into lives of other lives of others. It's going to make a big difference. So no I am not the positing a million dollars in everyone's life. Account. Now if you need a dollar. I can give you a dollar to deposit in your account. But you see the idea is that we are. has made a deposit into our accounts because he is rich in mercy. He is rich in mercy and made us alive with Christ. Even when we were dead in our transgressions. Here's the great part. While you were still dead in your transgressions. 's intention. Here is was had already made you alive you just haven't rive there yet. That's what I like about this. That has already made us alive. And those who are lost just haven't arrived there yet. So has a work for us. And you see like has all this he was deposited in our lives. And we just haven't got there yet to receive it. Because we need to come around in our thinking in our faith in our belief that. And our understanding that we're not going to use this just for OS. Just for me that when I realize that is going to honor my gifts as seed. Sounds into the soil of people's lives in the seed of the Kingdom of that is going to repot harvest in our lives. And that whenever we get to that point of harvest time. You know here we are harvesting corn. I love harvest time. I love. I love watching. You know. Go along and I see all the fields is cut off with the corn. I think of all that corn it's in people silos and in pits and stuff and he makes me excited. I must be stupid not a full these. But I like that because here we here they have a harvest and. They're going to they go in and they're going to have food for their for their cattle. They're going to have enough food for the winter for their cattle. And for their livestock and it. And it's all harvested and put away. You know it's wonderful and all they did was so a few bags a seed. And now they have enough harvest to feel silos and pits and. You know for all the feed for their cattle and in hogs or whatever they're growing they've got enough feed for them for the winter. Clear till next spring and summer. You think wow what a great thing. They planted it. knew there was a harvest. But they haven't. They didn't reach there until now. Same thing is going on in our lives. We're going to continue to reap the harvest. We're going to reach the times in which the harvest is coming into our lives because we've been faithful in sowing the seed. We've been faithful to sow the seed that has given to us. And we've put it into the lives of others. It is not wrong to repot harvest. It's not wrong for the farmer came out in the farmer saying. Well you know I only planted about. Maybe fifteen or twenty bags of of corn. I'm only going to go out and get fifteen or twenty bags and I'll just let the rest there. What's that that's not a harvest. That's a denial of 's blessing. That's a denial of what intended your planting to be sold of the farmer will go out he'll plant that exe of corn. And he'll come back with truckloads of harvest. He'll come back with silos full of harvest and pits. Full of harvest. You know. It's all because they planted a few bags. And they watched it grow all summer. is preparing us to come into our harvest. Because we've been faithful to so the seed. And he who is rich in mercy. Has not withheld. Any of that mercy from us. who is rich in Grace has not withheld any of that rich grace from us. You know and some of us have even had fertilizers built all over us. And you know fertilizers Arjen. It's manure. And any. You know. And it's just that time is stuff that stinky stuff that we've added jest. Get out of our lives and oversee it and let it go wash it off and keep going on because we're going to come into a harvest and fertilizers there to make the harvest grow. Because we did the right thing for the right reasons and for ourselves and other people. This is a new beginning. Isn't turn around in our e. There's not a turn around it's a ever increasing of our faith. It's a recognizing that we've always talked about a harvest. Always talk about planting always talk about sowing. But you see now is a time in which the sewing has been done. And the planting in the harvest it's growing and it's growing. And we're going to repot harvest. So in the harvest what are we going to do we're going to take what we have that is deposited in our lives. And we're going to make deposits and other people are going to make deposits and other people. No strings attached. Just deposits. Just deposits. Well you know you look good today. Well you know. has a plan for your life. You know we miss you in church. You know we are praying for you. I've been thinking about Joe. And you've been on my mind. I want to call you I want to say a low I want to pray for you. You see. has a way of working this into our lives through the ordinary effects of everyday life. The ordinary impact of everyday life. That has an eternal reward. The ordinary deposits of. You know what it's good to see you have been thinking about you just showing up. Talking to someone doing good for someone. Somebody you don't even know. Making a deposit. You know it's not a big thing it's not it's not earth moving it's not ether shattering It's just seeing something and making a positive remark and making a positive comment. So you see we are. He made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our transgressions. It is by grace you have been saved. We didn't get here. Because we're so good. No I know I am good in your eyes nose by grace. In his eyes I am good. But it is by His grace that I've got here and you see. It is by grace you have been saved and and raised up with Fina next verse verse six. And raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms. In Christ Jesus and raised us up with him with Christ. If we were seated next to the throne of Christ. But without the like. Here we are KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS and on his best friend. B.C. each of us are his best friends. I like this one. If had a refrigerator. Your picture would be on it. If had a refrigerator your picture would be on it. And he has this picture of us were his favorite child. Each one of us sits in that place. Of favorite. He gives to us his undivided attention. He's child ours us with his blessings. He gives to us his wisdom in his understanding of His grace and His mercy and blesses us with hope for tomorrow. Here we are in this place. In this position of power and of influence. And in this place of power and influence. The devil is afraid. Scared to death that we might recognize who we are. If evil can get us to back off from believing in making deposits in people's lives that were somehow not good enough to be in this place. If we can believe those lies the devil has defeated us from giving. Now he's already given up on us being in that place of that privileged position. Because he can't take us from the hand of . He can't remove us unless we try to jump out and all that kind of stuff. But he has us there has us there. He is the positive. These things into our lives into our minds in our hearts. He has brought this the people that are around your life for their for purpose. They're not only there to be gifts to you but you to be gift to them. And so in this gifting in this place of gifting we're going to make deposits. And we're going to do good things for these people and draw their attention to because is the one who's deposited in our life and we're making deposits and others. An order that. In the coming ages. He might show. The in comparable riches of His grace. So what does want to do. He wants to show the in in comparable riches of His grace. Now I don't know what riches look like. But you have them. We have them. We think we need to recognize that we have the in comparable riches of His grace. Expressed in his kindness. It's in his kindness in his love. You know. The other day. I I struggle sometimes with my emotions. Getting angry or not angry just upset. Maybe Rondell saying grievances he's probably right but I struggle with these things. And I need to tell myself because i nt. You know. Sometimes I'm not listening. But the kind. Just because I know. And there I don't know why. I think I know why be you know kind of fried myself with emotions and stuff. With all the things that I do and that's my excuse. But I need to remind myself because has been placed me there to make deposits in other people's lives. Only to be unkind. In my daily living with my wife and other people. He hasn't deposit all these things in me to be unkind. He has deposits these in my life to be kind and that in the kindness that we can live our life we are making deposits were helping were giving people a chance to see it work. Because inside of each of us is in comparable riches. Inside of you are riches beyond your wildest dreams inside of us are the glories of in the riches of His Kingdom. The richness of his kingdom in the richness of his blessings. And I mean they're all inside of us it's like looking into a. Perhaps a cave that's just filled with golden treasures of present and past. And it's just gold everywhere spewed forth and says. This is mine. But I've given you access to it all. Give it away. Given away. Deposited in people's lives. And tell them who it's from is from . It's a gift to you. The god has a purpose for your life. He has a purpose for worrier why you're here has a purpose for where you're going. We have bright hope for tomorrow. And it's all begun today. And you wake up tomorrow. And we're going to say. It's a new day it's begun again. And every day it's begun and began again. The kind. Tender hearted. Loving mercies. To one another becoming. And he says. Expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus we've got it from Jesus. We had invested in just come from a fall sky hit us on the head it came from Jesus for it is by grace you have been saved through faith. We recognize that has given this to us. And this is where we stand by grace. And we receive all these things through greys and this not for yourselves. It's a gift from . Not by works. So that we can boast about what we've accomplished. For we are 's workmanship. Created in Christ Jesus. To do good works. Which prepared in advance for us to do. has already prepared in advance. Things that we need to do. And he has given us all of the talents and abilities and things that we need for what comes into our life. Every every every every every every every every every everything that comes into our lives is already given to us what we need to meet that every every thing. Everything. Everything that comes to our live caught is already given us the provisions for it. Amen. It's a new day. It's a new beginning. It's a new life. And yes when it started today. This very moment. It's begun again and again and again. And never tires. Becomes weary. Because it's his treasure. And he just gives us access to it. To use for our lives and does Abbas to deposit into the lives of others. Every day every moment of every day for everything. For every reason. Hey man shall we stand on the key word today is. Every It has everything has a plan and a purpose. Every person. has a blessing. And every thing that comes up in our life there is something already there to meet it. Everything is as it should be. And will do a work in and through us. Amen. Thank you Father. Everything works together for good. To those who love you and are called according to your purpose. Every promise. In the Bible. Belongs to us. Every situation. You have given an answer to every problem. You've given wisdom for a solution to every person. You have provided salvation is. Amen. bless you turn disarm on and say everyone.