The Sermon Philippians 3:8-11 by David McGee
Apr 11, 2010
Philippians 3:8-11 (32:48)
Referenced Scriptures: Philippians 3:8-11
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I count it all as rubbish as compared to the knowledge of Jesus and Him crucified.
Counting it all as loss...: Lasting fulfillment, see it, structure it, create it
God knows what He: We need to understand that there's something better we're moving on to.
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Philippians 3:8-11
8) Yes most assuredly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
9) and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
10) that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;
11) if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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The nearby holds the Philippians, chapter three, seeing structuring and creating quite interesting title, I thought it all most the time. If you can't see you can do it if you can think it, you don't have it in your mind to accomplish. So where do, how do we arrive at new thoughts, new ideas, new perspectives, how do we arrive at these places. How do we change what we are to where we want to be if we don't know what it is you don't did you ever go on vacation to someplace you've never heard up the whole L I a you never heard of it. How do you know where it is not a lot I get there if you don't know where it is in. Also, if it's if it doesn't exist in your mind and no one has told you about it. How did you get there, so they were always lost, even when they didn't know whether for me. I'm not a direction person I have environment in the car. You know that the hospital. They have these addresses and yelled than these directions to follow to get the people 's house and do not visit families in their homes. They tell me. While it didn't turn Miller written up her younger lower yogurt in all segments, a legacy of dollars in distributor you don't tell me directions don't know you got a lot money really aware scalp Avenue is what would scout before you get the tonight interactive to nineteen are just like confusing to me, so he just gave me an address I type it in and it says I'll be there certain time, and I said either words or I just follow the little lady, GG, I follow GG and she tells me where to go. Sometimes you get so upset that there is a better way and you have a garment of thank you, I really can't be dissenting voice to the coming out. There is a better way you done a volume data, so I not good with directions as in finding I don't go back to certain place. Yup, I've been there once that I can generally find my way back to get there, but I can't tell you what routes and all that stuff so if you don't see something if you don't have an idea where it is, how can you get there. And so, in our faith and our relationship with Jesus Christ, God has a way of giving Flossie 's word gives us the ability to say things that we couldn't see before and to understand things we didn't understand before, whenever we start taking God 's word and allowing God 's word to be implemented in our life, we find ourselves thinking and doing differently than we had before. It is a guilt trip, but it isn't condemnation and visit you now do this or go to hell. LOL things that get out of hell free card. It's not what it's about. It's in our relationship with Jesus Christ. That gives us hope in this life and in the life to come, and that there is a AMC to be the structure and being able to create Philippians, chapter three, beginning in verse seven, but whatever was to my profit I can now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God, and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his suffering it's becoming like him in his death and solve somehow to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Paul is saying, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ if we are aware of Paul. Paul laws a Pharisee of the Pharisee was the elite of society. He was the undergraduate, a member of the Supreme Court of his society. If you consider Harvard, the elite school or some other one. But Paul was obviously school of Gamaliel that there wasn't a hire teachers in Gamaliel and policies that students. So he's highly educated peers very solace and he is a member of the Pharisees meeting that he is the Supreme Court rulers on his day, so here is Paul saying everything that I've attained in all of my knowledge of all my positions and all the things I've done that I've done. I consider them all a loss. I consider them as rubbish compared to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and him crucified cells compared to everything else I've attended my life knowing Jesus is greater. All of these things. They sang the song knowing you, Lord felt dulling here Lord is like putting things in perspective for us. So if you don't say things suddenly will visualize things are you to visualize by Sunday. Rhonda went through the church. She started the last few and wrote everybody's name down the whole way down and back each side in Iran and thirteen people here. She wrote your name down families and everybody else, and she was able to go through and not only know what family she was not receiving everybody think like you, please thought that I very well. Bromley ran around on hundreds love him anyway, which is naming everyone these goes back into this post exile to fill. She just also feel no news eleven film eleven. She's able to back in the last earth today who was near where they sat last week. She probably tell you why does she actually pick up the film Bush is a picture on the iPod, and as the picture and she can girlfriend that she can visualize it and put it together well as we visualize the newly become dissatisfied with your belt before looking at the where were going to go in our life. God knows what he created us for we were each created for purpose. However, we arrive at that purpose. We cannot live without purpose, without really knowing we can add talents and abilities and desires, and these are all good, but it's when those talents and abilities are put together with the spirit of God and the word of God. It begins to make sense for us to begin supplying how it comes together for defining a purpose for life. So as we visualize the new would become dissatisfied with your now you don't have to destroy something to leave if you want to trade your car in the first thing you do is, I think I hear something my wife on the better it out if we want to trade in something if they wanted to read is something we have to say we announce just no good. I think I'll sell it for my friends what it is logo by his own difference was not that bad. Sometimes we feel like if we're going to move on from where we are. We have to destroy something that were with so that it's no good, we can move on to something better. The idea is we know that something is better, we don't have to destroy the old innocent you will recognize there's something better. We're moving on to Paul saw everything in his life and he says this is a lot everything that he wants everything getting enough. Pharisee of the very few the elite of his society and not his education. He restated what he learned was of no value in the sense that you now forget education. You don't need it now. It was saying that all that I knowledge everything that I've done with my life is not comparable to the value that I find in Jesus. Now he didn't stop thinking or knowing everything that he was a Pharisee in everything that he is studied under Gamaliel. Suddenly a race that was memory. He saw that in comparison that the knowledge of Christ was greater than all the knowledge that he had put together all the things that you done with his life to that point now. He took those experiences, and he understood them, and he saw how Jesus can put all that together in his life to make sense when you're going through high school and college and things sometimes like water from a ever-growing use this for, but yet there are times and experiences in our life. Later on that they are a benefit to a yellow David graduated when he was in college and he was going to graduate in biblical studies and art. I thought all those years of all that money we put in the college and the like. Why is he doing biblical studies and art. If there's two things that don't go together as biblical studies and are no pretty good and we went El Salvador. It was the most perfect thing. He could've ever done because he became a speaker spoken churches and things like that and when out of the role communities and spoke there, but he also became however for four in Las Vegas and was taking the pictures and setting up the website and all the pictures they go out for the unlikely ministry. It was perfect and asked me my opinion how things fit sometimes not at the moment, but as we go on with our life. So saying yourself into it. Sometimes it's like asking God God, how do you see this going on in my life. How do you see this going down lasting fulfillment doesn't come from reaching another goal or meeting another deadline. It is in finding that place where God has for us and that he is a work in our life that I might know him. Paul says that I might know Jesus Kate. We spent last week, resurrection, Jesus risen from the unit as a whole list of evidence to prove the resurrection of Jesus Christ as an authentic real event in history. It's like we have the Declaration of Independence. That was an outstanding event that happened in history, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is an authentic event that happened in history is documented by evidence. Paul is one of those individuals that we could say Esau Jesus Christ and Jesus changed his life. Now here's Paul on the road to Damascus that he is going to Damascus to kill Christians and is going there with an order to disband the Christian and to punish that person could while on the road. He meets Jesus and it totally changes his life that any rights herein and the letter to the Philippians, he says that I might know him. This is my goal that I might know him and the power of his resurrection so Paul is not when I met Jesus and I encountered the power of the resurrection changed my life and why whenever we talk about worship and without him we sing praises and we sing our songs and worship God, and listen to the Scriptures and praying me what are we doing we want to know him. We want to know Jesus Christ away. That gives us that assurance, and the power that resurrection is the power that God gives to us flawlessly trial. I then enables us to be different enables us to see things and to understand things that we couldn't all or not that we can't see without God 's help, that I might know him. We need God 's affirmation phrases of people with a bucket of water withholding the praises of people discount common. They go on, they fall away, but the most important phrase we have is that God got asked us to do only what his grace and his power will do through us. God is analysis to do or to go to accomplish things that he will not give us the strength of the power to do Abraham saw a country. Now this is where we'll talk about seeing things that are different. A Brown when God spoke to him. This is a grandma want to go to a place done with the show. You words that when you get there. So Abraham start out on a journey to go through a land that he was going to occupy his descendents will occupy God gave Abraham a promise that you're going to have the sentences as many as the stars that he and Brandon have a child is understanding in our spirit that gives us hold it whatever the circumstances down in less dreams and circumstances can take your dreams away when God gives you a dream God gives you hold it isn't the cause. The tide is favorable that the tide may be totally unfavorable, but there's something in your heart that says the class and gives you hope against that breath of life. Your spirit. That's where we find God awakening us, giving us his ability. Robert Browning says why stay we on earth except to grow were only here for one purpose and that the growing to change. Yet few of us dedicate ourselves to the process of growth because growth requires change and most of us are uncomfortable with change. You see, we don't life the process of change and growth as a process, we are the sum game area you are the son of your five closest friends and you will change according to the book that you read if you don't have inputted into your cells into who you are. Nothing changes. That's why the Scripture in FY, we pray. That's why you can read the same verse twenty times in the twenty first we rated something happens, it ignites something inside of you. That's why there is this the spirit comes to give us why to give it to us in abundance that were not used to see the process of change is something that God is involved in and how that we take on this whole process coming to church. You know, praying, reading the Scriptures the things are involved process. I went to work, go to work five days a week and want to work five days a week. I may go to school five days a week. It is in a process to process were dedicated to it. It's like the mother set concepts signing guys finally get up church is going to be in an hour. She has been here anything she wait about five minutes and sorry young charges got me affected libraries regarding, erratic overcharge, so I'm sorry Madison#, you've got another charge. I don't want to go to church, but son of a pastor to Google on the needs on the ground if we don't change, we don't grow if we don't grow. Are we really living growth demands the temporary surrender of security, immediately giving up of the familiar but limiting patterns of our safety, but it's an unrewarding work if we don't change values no longer believed in relationships that lost their meaning taking a new step is what we fear mouth. Yet our real fear should be the opposite of doing nothing, seeing yourself into it, visualize the new structure built the structure. Nothing exists without a structure you want to structure your bones are your structure. One of those animals that don't have bones invertebrates and what is their structure, thereby their skin so everyone in the structure of some form or another. What type of structure does your vision of what you can become, will become is a story of a couple who love mushroom one day they were there they stopped along the roadside of a bond, which will mushroom and so they went home and they made much the omelettes mushroom salad mushroom soup and even concocted a question desert. Not only did they love mushrooms. Their cat of the must gobble up everything that was left over. Later the lady went out in the kitchen from the cat lying on the floor gasping for breath. She immediately called back and said they'd probably baptized a problem on some poisoned school and by husband and wife to go to the hospital. So after returning home after delegating their stomachs pumped the couple came home expecting to see the cat lying lifeless on the floor instead. The cat was in the corner with a brand-new litter what they thought were death pains were only brought pain. Awaiting them. You had children, I understand that it feels like death paintings, but it is worth it. So what seems that your dreams that you are God, that they may be gasping at their last breath really perhaps is just the birthing something new. Sometimes our dreams, we must have been the second time, and I like Joseph Leone had his first stream and there was cheese of grain bowing down to him, but his second dream the second dream was bigger than that this time he saw the sun and the moon eleven stars bowing down his family totally got upset with that, but sometimes our dreams you like the first one he saw was the cheese of grain and now sees the stars in heaven. See if you are all mildly, and all I feel are abounding in who you are and any you find that there is a place in your life that you need to dream bigger dreams. Sometimes we're not dreaming big enough. Sometimes we need to see things in a different perspective. And if we are abandoning our dreams because of discouragement or whatever we need to rise up and dream again. Remember the promise. Remember the promise that instilled the drink. The structure in your life is toward the dream. What do the promises that God has placed in your heart. What do they say with his drinking since I didn't say what to build an outhouse windows, power, now I thought of as involving Bill now how's that for a ridiculous exact in El Salvador. The community of fifteen or twenty five thousand people. They didn't have one latrine, so you can imagine the community. Twenty thousand people somewhere in there. Not having a bath. Their kids and their children were dying from disease. So, someone had a David within black churches in and they got latrines and help eradicate some of the diseases that were killing the fan this entry was something that we don't understand yet in some ways. Purpose for our life and give meaning to what's going on, God builds our life precept upon precept, brick by brick. The child sometimes looks too big for us and you want it to challenge looks too big for you, then that's good because you must mean God in order to accomplish it. If you get if you get accomplished the dream on your own is not a God thing is a creating the new creating something you see instructions for use. The structure is based upon the promise, the promises that God has broken your heart in your life. You can take all the promise of the Scriptures and put them all together to build something in your life. God inspires certain promises to your life is on that inspiration that the structure begins to take form. So there is a vision of what we can become there is a structure to it based upon the principles of God that he has given us. And then there is the creating of it. The creating of the slide to creating up who you are. We celebrated with the kids and their major acts six whimsical but the six costs cash okay, I'm advantage of practice Allah what what's so important about six wins and a cash while if you're a digital theme is very important to dream up an idea. Obviously, somebody put together a routine of routine structure you want to grow what routine you commit yourself to to fulfill the dream. When you commit yourself to prayer. We've commit yourself to reading the Scripture will commit yourself to coming to church byline. Halladay, water, water practice today. This is the whole idea of seeing something structuring it, and then creating it. If you know save the world rotating. If you don't structure of the routine, you'll never created, whether it's a drill team, or whether it's your life, or whether to everyday life, going to work whether the incorporation of the promises of God into your life if you don't say if you don't structure. You'll never created, and how can God create something that you can't see because he will created with its promise it will be brought in your spirit. It will challenge you know, thirty years ago Sunday, I tried out spoke here, the pastor stood about right. There were Hosea 's my hands on both sides of pew. I can still picture and there was this kind of this spirit inside of me that said you cup your all filled the church. Thirty years later and have thirty years. Gently sermons that is the people came and went for thirty years later, after not always remember it now always think about it than I would say well I guess, unless I didn't hear right. But you know last Sunday, happen. Not maybe we can get a hundred and twenty. The lady on Expo, but to have a hundred and thirteen. Every Sunday would be great having you here today is great, but you see, you've got to see you got a structure and got a created forgetting Paul says, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to the things which are ahead, forgetting to be able to be for fruitful. You've got to be able to forget in order to become fruitful. Forget your past. Forget the failures. Paul said, I count all of this is as is loss for the knowledge of Christ for getting this as being my goal in life. Knowing Christ is my goal. Knowing him, I will be fruitful. Joseph Joseph was a dreamer. We found himself in prison and go soul, my brothers and imprisoned in Egypt and Joseph declared God has caused me to be for a full in the land of my affliction. You say we need to reframe our paying rate, frame our life, but it are all different picture frame, but a whole different context. Whenever we start seeing things differently. We start responding differently if we start understanding why we need to do six things and rifle. It was our understanding why we need to do that and how that it looks when there is a whole group of people diagnosed six standing where they get together. There's something that looks about that at a fifth inability while if we don't say we won't accomplish it. If we don't stand alone structure of South Fork fitfully around sand riddled with the structure together for will never create within your eyes see and spirit. You can create hot hollow organs. It is to be able to receive from other people. Sometimes we don't like to be that ballroom, but if it works for other people, we wouldn't be who we are ever was a process they would be who they are giving and receiving is so much a part of our personal growth and development. God is a gracious giver and if we're not willing to receive happily how can we know the greatness of the gifts that he wants to give in Florida, will he give. We don't know the greatness of the blessing of giving to others say it's it's a balance not of accumulation of things, but it's a balance of a process they were all involved in and becoming the person God created us, there's a story it says a few years ago a group of salesman went to a regional sales conference in Chicago, then a short-term life that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night dinner in their rush with tickets and briefcase, one of the salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table, which held a display of apples. The apples flew everywhere without stopping a looking back to as the recent playing on time for their boarding all but one deposit to be deep breath and experienced a twinge of compassion for girl whose apples stand was overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him and waved goodbye. Follow them to call his wife when they arrived at home and explain that he will be there on a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. It was glad that he did the sixteen -year-old girl was totally blind. She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks and frustration and at the same time helplessly groping for her spill programs as a crowd swirled around her. No one stopping and no one cared for who she was or her plight. The salesman knelt on the floor with her and gathered up the apples and put them back on the table and help her organize her display as he did this he noticed that many of them have become battered and bruised the easy set aside. In another baskets and when he had finished people 's wallets and said to the girl here. Please take this forty dollars for the damage we did. Are you okay she nodded through her tears. He continued on with. I hope we can swallow your day to badly that the salesman started to walk away the bewildered blind girl called out to him. Mister he paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, argued Jesus. He stopped in his stride and we wondered, then slowly made his way to catch the later flight. The question burning in his soul be Jesus. Do people mistake you for Jesus, but our destiny is not to be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact in a world that is blind to his love, his wife and his grace. We've got to see it. We've got the structure and regards, creative, and in that whole process. We want to look like Jesus. It's not for RVing, but for his. And as we have his gain. We gained that glory for us in The nearby holds the Philippians, chapter three, seeing structuring and creating quite interesting title, I thought it all most the time. If you can't see you can do it if you can think it, you don't have it in your mind to accomplish. So where do, how do we arrive at new thoughts, new ideas, new perspectives, how do we arrive at these places. How do we change what we are to where we want to be if we don't know what it is you don't did you ever go on vacation to someplace you've never heard up the whole L I a you never heard of it. How do you know where it is not a lot I get there if you don't know where it is in. Also, if it's if it doesn't exist in your mind and no one has told you about it. How did you get there, so they were always lost, even when they didn't know whether for me. I'm not a direction person I have environment in the car. You know that the hospital. They have these addresses and yelled than these directions to follow to get the people 's house and do not visit families in their homes. They tell me. While it didn't turn Miller written up her younger lower yogurt in all segments, a legacy of dollars in distributor you don't tell me directions don't know you got a lot money really aware scalp Avenue is what would scout before you get the tonight interactive to nineteen are just like confusing to me, so he just gave me an address I type it in and it says I'll be there certain time, and I said either words or I just follow the little lady, GG, I follow GG and she tells me where to go. Sometimes you get so upset that there is a better way and you have a garment of thank you, I really can't be dissenting voice to the coming out. There is a better way you done a volume data, so I not good with directions as in finding I don't go back to certain place. Yup, I've been there once that I can generally find my way back to get there, but I can't tell you what routes and all that stuff so if you don't see something if you don't have an idea where it is, how can you get there. And so, in our faith and our relationship with Jesus Christ, God has a way of giving Flossie 's word gives us the ability to say things that we couldn't see before and to understand things we didn't understand before, whenever we start taking God 's word and allowing God 's word to be implemented in our life, we find ourselves thinking and doing differently than we had before. It is a guilt trip, but it isn't condemnation and visit you now do this or go to hell. LOL things that get out of hell free card. It's not what it's about. It's in our relationship with Jesus Christ. That gives us hope in this life and in the life to come, and that there is a AMC to be the structure and being able to create Philippians, chapter three, beginning in verse seven, but whatever was to my profit I can now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God, and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his suffering it's becoming like him in his death and solve somehow to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Paul is saying, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ if we are aware of Paul. Paul laws a Pharisee of the Pharisee was the elite of society. He was the undergraduate, a member of the Supreme Court of his society. If you consider Harvard, the elite school or some other one. But Paul was obviously school of Gamaliel that there wasn't a hire teachers in Gamaliel and policies that students. So he's highly educated peers very solace and he is a member of the Pharisees meeting that he is the Supreme Court rulers on his day, so here is Paul saying everything that I've attained in all of my knowledge of all my positions and all the things I've done that I've done. I consider them all a loss. I consider them as rubbish compared to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and him crucified cells compared to everything else I've attended my life knowing Jesus is greater. All of these things. They sang the song knowing you, Lord felt dulling here Lord is like putting things in perspective for us. So if you don't say things suddenly will visualize things are you to visualize by Sunday. Rhonda went through the church. She started the last few and wrote everybody's name down the whole way down and back each side in Iran and thirteen people here. She wrote your name down families and everybody else, and she was able to go through and not only know what family she was not receiving everybody think like you, please thought that I very well. Bromley ran around on hundreds love him anyway, which is naming everyone these goes back into this post exile to fill. She just also feel no news eleven film eleven. She's able to back in the last earth today who was near where they sat last week. She probably tell you why does she actually pick up the film Bush is a picture on the iPod, and as the picture and she can girlfriend that she can visualize it and put it together well as we visualize the newly become dissatisfied with your belt before looking at the where were going to go in our life. God knows what he created us for we were each created for purpose. However, we arrive at that purpose. We cannot live without purpose, without really knowing we can add talents and abilities and desires, and these are all good, but it's when those talents and abilities are put together with the spirit of God and the word of God. It begins to make sense for us to begin supplying how it comes together for defining a purpose for life. So as we visualize the new would become dissatisfied with your now you don't have to destroy something to leave if you want to trade your car in the first thing you do is, I think I hear something my wife on the better it out if we want to trade in something if they wanted to read is something we have to say we announce just no good. I think I'll sell it for my friends what it is logo by his own difference was not that bad. Sometimes we feel like if we're going to move on from where we are. We have to destroy something that were with so that it's no good, we can move on to something better. The idea is we know that something is better, we don't have to destroy the old innocent you will recognize there's something better. We're moving on to Paul saw everything in his life and he says this is a lot everything that he wants everything getting enough. Pharisee of the very few the elite of his society and not his education. He restated what he learned was of no value in the sense that you now forget education. You don't need it now. It was saying that all that I knowledge everything that I've done with my life is not comparable to the value that I find in Jesus. Now he didn't stop thinking or knowing everything that he was a Pharisee in everything that he is studied under Gamaliel. Suddenly a race that was memory. He saw that in comparison that the knowledge of Christ was greater than all the knowledge that he had put together all the things that you done with his life to that point now. He took those experiences, and he understood them, and he saw how Jesus can put all that together in his life to make sense when you're going through high school and college and things sometimes like water from a ever-growing use this for, but yet there are times and experiences in our life. Later on that they are a benefit to a yellow David graduated when he was in college and he was going to graduate in biblical studies and art. I thought all those years of all that money we put in the college and the like. Why is he doing biblical studies and art. If there's two things that don't go together as biblical studies and are no pretty good and we went El Salvador. It was the most perfect thing. He could've ever done because he became a speaker spoken churches and things like that and when out of the role communities and spoke there, but he also became however for four in Las Vegas and was taking the pictures and setting up the website and all the pictures they go out for the unlikely ministry. It was perfect and asked me my opinion how things fit sometimes not at the moment, but as we go on with our life. So saying yourself into it. Sometimes it's like asking God God, how do you see this going on in my life. How do you see this going down lasting fulfillment doesn't come from reaching another goal or meeting another deadline. It is in finding that place where God has for us and that he is a work in our life that I might know him. Paul says that I might know Jesus Kate. We spent last week, resurrection, Jesus risen from the unit as a whole list of evidence to prove the resurrection of Jesus Christ as an authentic real event in history. It's like we have the Declaration of Independence. That was an outstanding event that happened in history, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is an authentic event that happened in history is documented by evidence. Paul is one of those individuals that we could say Esau Jesus Christ and Jesus changed his life. Now here's Paul on the road to Damascus that he is going to Damascus to kill Christians and is going there with an order to disband the Christian and to punish that person could while on the road. He meets Jesus and it totally changes his life that any rights herein and the letter to the Philippians, he says that I might know him. This is my goal that I might know him and the power of his resurrection so Paul is not when I met Jesus and I encountered the power of the resurrection changed my life and why whenever we talk about worship and without him we sing praises and we sing our songs and worship God, and listen to the Scriptures and praying me what are we doing we want to know him. We want to know Jesus Christ away. That gives us that assurance, and the power that resurrection is the power that God gives to us flawlessly trial. I then enables us to be different enables us to see things and to understand things that we couldn't all or not that we can't see without God 's help, that I might know him. We need God 's affirmation phrases of people with a bucket of water withholding the praises of people discount common. They go on, they fall away, but the most important phrase we have is that God got asked us to do only what his grace and his power will do through us. God is analysis to do or to go to accomplish things that he will not give us the strength of the power to do Abraham saw a country. Now this is where we'll talk about seeing things that are different. A Brown when God spoke to him. This is a grandma want to go to a place done with the show. You words that when you get there. So Abraham start out on a journey to go through a land that he was going to occupy his descendents will occupy God gave Abraham a promise that you're going to have the sentences as many as the stars that he and Brandon have a child is understanding in our spirit that gives us hold it whatever the circumstances down in less dreams and circumstances can take your dreams away when God gives you a dream God gives you hold it isn't the cause. The tide is favorable that the tide may be totally unfavorable, but there's something in your heart that says the class and gives you hope against that breath of life. Your spirit. That's where we find God awakening us, giving us his ability. Robert Browning says why stay we on earth except to grow were only here for one purpose and that the growing to change. Yet few of us dedicate ourselves to the process of growth because growth requires change and most of us are uncomfortable with change. You see, we don't life the process of change and growth as a process, we are the sum game area you are the son of your five closest friends and you will change according to the book that you read if you don't have inputted into your cells into who you are. Nothing changes. That's why the Scripture in FY, we pray. That's why you can read the same verse twenty times in the twenty first we rated something happens, it ignites something inside of you. That's why there is this the spirit comes to give us why to give it to us in abundance that were not used to see the process of change is something that God is involved in and how that we take on this whole process coming to church. You know, praying, reading the Scriptures the things are involved process. I went to work, go to work five days a week and want to work five days a week. I may go to school five days a week. It is in a process to process were dedicated to it. It's like the mother set concepts signing guys finally get up church is going to be in an hour. She has been here anything she wait about five minutes and sorry young charges got me affected libraries regarding, erratic overcharge, so I'm sorry Madison#, you've got another charge. I don't want to go to church, but son of a pastor to Google on the needs on the ground if we don't change, we don't grow if we don't grow. Are we really living growth demands the temporary surrender of security, immediately giving up of the familiar but limiting patterns of our safety, but it's an unrewarding work if we don't change values no longer believed in relationships that lost their meaning taking a new step is what we fear mouth. Yet our real fear should be the opposite of doing nothing, seeing yourself into it, visualize the new structure built the structure. Nothing exists without a structure you want to structure your bones are your structure. One of those animals that don't have bones invertebrates and what is their structure, thereby their skin so everyone in the structure of some form or another. What type of structure does your vision of what you can become, will become is a story of a couple who love mushroom one day they were there they stopped along the roadside of a bond, which will mushroom and so they went home and they made much the omelettes mushroom salad mushroom soup and even concocted a question desert. Not only did they love mushrooms. Their cat of the must gobble up everything that was left over. Later the lady went out in the kitchen from the cat lying on the floor gasping for breath. She immediately called back and said they'd probably baptized a problem on some poisoned school and by husband and wife to go to the hospital. So after returning home after delegating their stomachs pumped the couple came home expecting to see the cat lying lifeless on the floor instead. The cat was in the corner with a brand-new litter what they thought were death pains were only brought pain. Awaiting them. You had children, I understand that it feels like death paintings, but it is worth it. So what seems that your dreams that you are God, that they may be gasping at their last breath really perhaps is just the birthing something new. Sometimes our dreams, we must have been the second time, and I like Joseph Leone had his first stream and there was cheese of grain bowing down to him, but his second dream the second dream was bigger than that this time he saw the sun and the moon eleven stars bowing down his family totally got upset with that, but sometimes our dreams you like the first one he saw was the cheese of grain and now sees the stars in heaven. See if you are all mildly, and all I feel are abounding in who you are and any you find that there is a place in your life that you need to dream bigger dreams. Sometimes we're not dreaming big enough. Sometimes we need to see things in a different perspective. And if we are abandoning our dreams because of discouragement or whatever we need to rise up and dream again. Remember the promise. Remember the promise that instilled the drink. The structure in your life is toward the dream. What do the promises that God has placed in your heart. What do they say with his drinking since I didn't say what to build an outhouse windows, power, now I thought of as involving Bill now how's that for a ridiculous exact in El Salvador. The community of fifteen or twenty five thousand people. They didn't have one latrine, so you can imagine the community. Twenty thousand people somewhere in there. Not having a bath. Their kids and their children were dying from disease. So, someone had a David within black churches in and they got latrines and help eradicate some of the diseases that were killing the fan this entry was something that we don't understand yet in some ways. Purpose for our life and give meaning to what's going on, God builds our life precept upon precept, brick by brick. The child sometimes looks too big for us and you want it to challenge looks too big for you, then that's good because you must mean God in order to accomplish it. If you get if you get accomplished the dream on your own is not a God thing is a creating the new creating something you see instructions for use. The structure is based upon the promise, the promises that God has broken your heart in your life. You can take all the promise of the Scriptures and put them all together to build something in your life. God inspires certain promises to your life is on that inspiration that the structure begins to take form. So there is a vision of what we can become there is a structure to it based upon the principles of God that he has given us. And then there is the creating of it. The creating of the slide to creating up who you are. We celebrated with the kids and their major acts six whimsical but the six costs cash okay, I'm advantage of practice Allah what what's so important about six wins and a cash while if you're a digital theme is very important to dream up an idea. Obviously, somebody put together a routine of routine structure you want to grow what routine you commit yourself to to fulfill the dream. When you commit yourself to prayer. We've commit yourself to reading the Scripture will commit yourself to coming to church byline. Halladay, water, water practice today. This is the whole idea of seeing something structuring it, and then creating it. If you know save the world rotating. If you don't structure of the routine, you'll never created, whether it's a drill team, or whether it's your life, or whether to everyday life, going to work whether the incorporation of the promises of God into your life if you don't say if you don't structure. You'll never created, and how can God create something that you can't see because he will created with its promise it will be brought in your spirit. It will challenge you know, thirty years ago Sunday, I tried out spoke here, the pastor stood about right. There were Hosea 's my hands on both sides of pew. I can still picture and there was this kind of this spirit inside of me that said you cup your all filled the church. Thirty years later and have thirty years. Gently sermons that is the people came and went for thirty years later, after not always remember it now always think about it than I would say well I guess, unless I didn't hear right. But you know last Sunday, happen. Not maybe we can get a hundred and twenty. The lady on Expo, but to have a hundred and thirteen. Every Sunday would be great having you here today is great, but you see, you've got to see you got a structure and got a created forgetting Paul says, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to the things which are ahead, forgetting to be able to be for fruitful. You've got to be able to forget in order to become fruitful. Forget your past. Forget the failures. Paul said, I count all of this is as is loss for the knowledge of Christ for getting this as being my goal in life. Knowing Christ is my goal. Knowing him, I will be fruitful. Joseph Joseph was a dreamer. We found himself in prison and go soul, my brothers and imprisoned in Egypt and Joseph declared God has caused me to be for a full in the land of my affliction. You say we need to reframe our paying rate, frame our life, but it are all different picture frame, but a whole different context. Whenever we start seeing things differently. We start responding differently if we start understanding why we need to do six things and rifle. It was our understanding why we need to do that and how that it looks when there is a whole group of people diagnosed six standing where they get together. There's something that looks about that at a fifth inability while if we don't say we won't accomplish it. If we don't stand alone structure of South Fork fitfully around sand riddled with the structure together for will never create within your eyes see and spirit. You can create hot hollow organs. It is to be able to receive from other people. Sometimes we don't like to be that ballroom, but if it works for other people, we wouldn't be who we are ever was a process they would be who they are giving and receiving is so much a part of our personal growth and development. God is a gracious giver and if we're not willing to receive happily how can we know the greatness of the gifts that he wants to give in Florida, will he give. We don't know the greatness of the blessing of giving to others say it's it's a balance not of accumulation of things, but it's a balance of a process they were all involved in and becoming the person God created us, there's a story it says a few years ago a group of salesman went to a regional sales conference in Chicago, then a short-term life that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night dinner in their rush with tickets and briefcase, one of the salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table, which held a display of apples. The apples flew everywhere without stopping a looking back to as the recent playing on time for their boarding all but one deposit to be deep breath and experienced a twinge of compassion for girl whose apples stand was overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him and waved goodbye. Follow them to call his wife when they arrived at home and explain that he will be there on a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. It was glad that he did the sixteen -year-old girl was totally blind. She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks and frustration and at the same time helplessly groping for her spill programs as a crowd swirled around her. No one stopping and no one cared for who she was or her plight. The salesman knelt on the floor with her and gathered up the apples and put them back on the table and help her organize her display as he did this he noticed that many of them have become battered and bruised the easy set aside. In another baskets and when he had finished people 's wallets and said to the girl here. Please take this forty dollars for the damage we did. Are you okay she nodded through her tears. He continued on with. I hope we can swallow your day to badly that the salesman started to walk away the bewildered blind girl called out to him. Mister he paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, argued Jesus. He stopped in his stride and we wondered, then slowly made his way to catch the later flight. The question burning in his soul be Jesus. Do people mistake you for Jesus, but our destiny is not to be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact in a world that is blind to his love, his wife and his grace. We've got to see it. We've got the structure and regards, creative, and in that whole process. We want to look like Jesus. It's not for RVing, but for his. And as we have his gain. We gained that glory for us in