The Sermon Ordinary Heroes by David McGee
May 16, 2010
Ordinary Heroes (31:54)
Referenced Scriptures: Acts 13:44-49;Galatians 5:22-23
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I have made you light
You bring salvation
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Acts 13:44-49
44) The next Sabbath almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.
45) But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
46) Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God‘s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
47) For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light of the Gentiles, That you should be for salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.‘"
48) As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
49) The Lord‘s word was spread abroad throughout all the region.
Galatians 5:22-23
22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23) gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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The Bible/ chapter thirteen, beginning in verse forty four hundred forty nine today was a day that was on the dinner that was we were having was between Mother's Day and Father's Day when I was thinking of the sermon northing in putting this together. I thought of in that context and the title. The message is ordinary heroes and ordinary heroes and those two words don't go together because often we think of heroes as not being ordinary. We think of them as being extraordinary and that they are they have accomplished feats are things that would be a Bob the ordinary. That's what makes him a hero. But whatever we think of ourselves and lost three to ask chapter thirteen and especially verse forty seven is what I want to focus on chapter thirteen beginning at forty four on the next sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord villagers saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talk abusively against what Paul was saying that Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly, we have to speak the word of God to you first, since you reject it, and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us. I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the year when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed in verse forty nine. The word of the Lord spread through the whole region so as we put this together via the idea ordinary. The definitions are to be expected in the normal order of things I quality songwriting ability. So, something that is regular something that is customary something that is often ended in its occurrence. And of course he rows while at the mythological or legendary figure, but I chose to overlook that part of the definition, but it is a man or woman admired for his achievements and noble qualities, one that shows great courage, so whenever we think of ordinary to be expected in the normal order of things, and he roused one that has great courage. We don't think of great courage in ordinary situations, but sometimes as we think about facing the children for another day that her parents found me. I opened a very downstairs now, whenever we think of raising our families and think of Ray and the responsibilities that come with our children and come with what has been is assigned to us or has been given to us in our life. It takes great courage it takes courage to face the ordinary things that go on in our society and our lives today sold to us as we look at the models in the Bible we think of them as heroes. Exceptional individuals that we were not consider them to be ordinary. Perhaps in any way would we think of them as being ordered, but if you would speak to any one of them if they would come here and talk with you sit with you at dinner today and as you are carrying on a conversation with them, you would find that they would give you the impression of just ordinary individuals, but ordinary individuals with a godly character and the character of meekness the character of the strength of God is able to guide them in their lives. Paul said to the Corinthians. I write in the neatness. The gentleness from the firm spirit of Christ, and I wanted to read this one in the also undulations, chapter five verses twenty two and twenty three says, but what happens when you live God 's way. He brings guests into your lives, much the same way the fruit appears in the portrait things like affection for others exuberance about life serenity we develop a willingness to stick with things a sense of compassion in the heart and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people, we find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life able to marshal and direct our energies wisely ordinary hero 's ordinary heroes. Heroes are also those individuals who step forward when other people step back. Heroes demonstrated quality of life. It takes them to new levels usually it takes them when circumstances are unfavorable. So we find ourselves having an exuberance about life having an exuberance about life and serene. While we are doing with it. Say saying that we have correct that we have a sense of purpose that that God has placed in our lives that we have a sense of purpose, a sense that this show is part of God 's will. This table is part of God 's desire for my life, and we find that there is a willingness to stick with things not give up compassion basically what permeates thing they think holiness permeates the library as a holy attitude about what I'm doing and what I am expecting and so as we are looking at ordinary heroes. We're looking at her from the perspective of what God is about and what God is doing in our lives. The early disciples. They preached boldly in the face of difficulties. They stayed the course whenever people who are now going to persecute Danmark, be them or throw them in prison. They know their tasks and they performed that with within the face of danger in the face of persecution. They know what they were called to do in a narrow but they weren't God would save them for these things as we make the stories of their lives. I view them as hero Irene. I view them as heroes and what they have done in all the songs we sang that God look beyond our faults inside means it's just rings in my ears from whenever I and my heart from whenever we were in May before when Rachel was born and we read that campground mars hill campground. They talk about sawdust floors of wooden benches and and you know the old Tabernacles of you ever heard of them or not, but they would have came meeting and that's where this she was Indian with. She sang the song catches a Navajo Indian, and she sang the song. I know it's digging on this hearing. It stirs that memory of all of just being in that campground being there and hearing her sing and hearing is not only what this U.S. Census, then her voice was something. It was her spirit that was so special. I see why was just something about Harry, now a law is something about her spirit that when she sang that song to start a whole new dimension because of where she came from because of where her life had taken her and how they got had brought her from so many different things in her life and that testimony God 's grace and mercy in the power of that city is the word that she sang. Where and this is where the courage. This is where the courage comes now live where the Spirit of God space to Lockhart 's and instincts to last more than just the words of space to last on all of an acceptance of an understanding that God is there with us, and God is there for us, for this is what the Lord has commanded us in murder and asked after thirteen versus forty seven, for this is what the Lord has commanded us. I have made jewellike. I made jewellike that you may bring salvation and if there was something impressive about this individual. It was that God was a light in her life and that is way think of ourselves and you know as ordinary heroes. God has made us alike in some ways whenever we think of the things that God has made us alike to bring salvation to the world while that's not us. That's some Superman person of some person who is far beyond our capabilities and health go faster than a speeding bullet. How many remember Superman and Superman the movie Superman this year is on me, however, say no whole rerun some of these they happen. Neither the and you now leave you here. The locomotive Chase, you know it. So whenever you see that look about them faster than a speeding bullet. The stronger than the locomotive more powerful than a speeding locomotive. Able to leap tall building in the single vial and how shall Wallace, Adam and a bounce off white like the Sony Betamax eighty wow, I had my NARAL, we have somebody can do all that stop and and and in all surviving down jump buildings and stop trains and that the hero. While God has made you like, dislike looked like what the definition of light is that what this will is electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. They traveled back in with the speed of a hundred and eighty six thousand two hundred eighty one miles per second. Okay, now we know what light is at the light. Light is the finance light is defined as electromagnetic ray electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength that travels in a vacuum with a speed of about a hundred eighty six thousand two hundred eighty one miles per second, so that's when we speak, so that why whenever we speak of why we often speak of objects so and I say to you. You are life. What do you think candle light fixture you think of the sun of fire think of what this is why we often don't think of what life is, and the Bible says that God says that he has made us light to the Gentiles, that is given us the ability to be like the object that brings light to the situation like that makes this impossible without life were in the dark at the time nighttime. I made your life to limit a vacuum and run fast. That would automate us. Where Mary God has made your life so that means we lived someplace that sheltered the last all the time. No, the Baathism life of the qualities that enable others to see and the quality of life 's other qualities that enable others to see. So when when God has made us a light to the Gentiles or guys may also like this we moved back for a moment when God has made us why he gives us the ability to seek to understand utilize parents we want to be able to provide life for our children. What that helping them to be able to cc one single problem fast facing the obstacles facing the difficulties in a word you're trying to teach and train train up a child of the way he should go result will not depart from it. The Scriptures say trade of a child in the things of the Scripture. Why, because it is beginning. In their life to be able to see them in the dark single throw the dark times, although I so we didn't dislike and we harvest light, and we prepare for the lie, why so they can take it into themselves. Did you know that some very wise person said this last week. I think that if you have a candle and you give life to another candle. It doesn't take away from your light. She told us why she wasn't sporting son is yet to be here for that, you know, yet he opted out on the sunny civilian miss him a lot. Very entertaining, very informative web of the time of going number time after time that you have so the idea is that whenever you're giving your life, it doesn't diminish whenever we use what God has given us and we tapped the reservoirs of God they do not diminish so ordinary. He rouses the idea we are tapping into such a limitless source that does not diminish with use in our society. We're used to, not so much around here whiteouts and so unknown, California and the major cities where they turn on your mere conditions in the summer was hot. I know we don't know that phenomena very well about being hot, but the air-conditioning. This will open the windows of reason night in May we never slept with the windows open. It was always cool and I got so-called indigo cool at night where we live the northern Maine that you didn't want to leave the windows( you would need the blankets and they need on my morning. It was just a cold area. I wheeze to say up there. We live in. There were two seasons. There was winter and there was July and hello, and was that what having the jarring in January that January February we had six weeks and never got above zero and when I had hair once I remember you getting a shower and no going out by the time with the house. The card that's when it was frozen. It was that cold so that I laugh and I sacrifice it for the mission field in northern Maine, so we may God has made us alike than the qualities of light are the qualities that enable others to see. So we documented in the spiritual sense of spiritual illumination. We talk about it as enlightenment. We saw the matter in a different light. They were able to look at life from a different perspective and the like that we put in up in the light that we shine. Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life of the life and he brought his life and life to your velocity was world, so God says he made. Like today, I can at this book. So I think I made it all up today I can complain about my health, or I can celebrate being alive today, I can moan that it is raining urgent. Be joyful that all the girls in the ring. Then I can regret all that I don't have a rejoice in everything I do. Today I can mourn everything I've lost regularly anticipate what is to come. Today I can complain that I have to work or celebrate have a new job. Then I can rest with you today. I can resent the mass. The kids made her give thanks that I have a family. Today I can whine about the housework or celebrate having a house today. I can cry over the people who don't care for me or be happy, loving and being loved by those who do, what does life have to do with that light has to do with our attitude and perspective of what is our. We can always find things we don't have ordinary heroes are ordinary people who look at things in a different light. I choose to be a lights are you raising small children how important it is for them to live in the light of godly parents know some pictures of my mom is now ninety six L my family. I was blessed with godly parents. I do go to church three times a week. So did Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night we traveled about twelve fifteen miles to church and we always had chores to get done. We store the milk the cows come home from school, get all the chores done it in the house to clean up as we didn't go from the barn to church. I would have been present in some of you don't know what I mean. Barnes are where cattle live and they have a distinct aroma distinct stink is the optimum work there and you get want to go from the barn anywhere where the public because people were able to pick up on that smell that you had grown accustomed to. Instead don't get the that yet. I know I had one friend who went to the bank after he had been in the field spreading manure and it was a very windy day and he had launched directly from the field to the bank and got my what a good group of people. These are everybody in line. There was a long line. He was resenting the fact is that stand in line and he was thanking God because everybody in front of capital and he was just thinking how Rutledge, he wasn't. How blessed he was, and I got upset alignment. Why did his banking and what all these people and let them in front of the Pentagon outside them is that often there was some deposit from the manure spreader above is that he didn't realize that he had and he began to check and find out there were other parts of his body that had positively neither that in the excitement he didn't smell anything so as to why we got cleaned up to go to church from the barn and we did that Everest every morning and every night that we went godly parents. What does it take to be their hero was okay for children to be to see you last their hero, ordinary people doing heroic things. What is our society. We know the faults and dysfunctions of our of our ally society of lying and stealing in anger and hatred and cheesy and families and problems in all the things, but you know how bright the light of love is that shines through ordinary people doing ordinary things how will I much light that shines in the dark world. Spend some time in the school system and see children who come from families where there is no light you see how important ordinary heroes become that God has made you will like you providing for a family. Perhaps your students do not how different your life is than those who have no light in their homes and their lives. See, he is the way, Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life but the life and the life he is come to be ordinary heroes ordinary lights that shine when it is darkest in no end to it. It doesn't take much lights whenever there's a lot of darkness. It doesn't take much like to really shine in all, there was one individual. I never forget and in him and him and I'm not poking fun that he was whiny how we were talking about how little the stars still shine during the daylight. It's just that the sun is brighter and you can see them, and he said why. Now if some of you are impressed with this. I'm sorry but this the stars are still shining, even though you can see that in this film. There okay will move on to my is to bring salvation to the ends of the earth of salvation is a saving grace. Our saving grace. The saving knowledge, there is some and now, Bob know why the Jesus Christ brings into our lives wherever you are, God is there with you that you thought wherever you are, that's where you are, but that was a brilliant thing. But remember this, wherever you are, God is there with you. Do what God has given you to do why don't know what God has given me to do it all. I read this in one of my classes that sometimes we have to look at the will of God as the glow you are the blobs and God 's Spirit is in you and you find yourself dealing the ordinary things of life. Whatever you find to do, do it with all of your money. The will of God is not something that is hidden from you. The will of God is about God moving the glow so what does your hand finds to do for the level does it change is a really that profile or is it just that very simple part of turning the light on trying to find the light switch your place. You get the point. For the light on and allow the light to shine in the world you live in allow the light to shine in the places you go allow that like to be there and what you have to do different when the light is on somebody's home there again. I'm looking to go there because you were experienced that phenomena experienced amid guidepost, not a hitching post send a morning of Sunday school based there shall be inside the house, not enhancing both the adult hits your life don't experience like this is where were going to stay. Now it's just simply a place along the way that we're going to move on from this experience in the next God is not God is not about taking us to a place and leaving us there thirty years, God abandoned us. That's why were still here. God has abandoned home. What a terrible, terrible place called what a glorious place that God has brought us and able to give us experiences in these thirty years that have taught us many different lesson you know why, son, and this is not a criticism. There are some denominations and sampling to move their passes every three to five years three to seven years and it's very common for that to happen and it's in is not an arbitrary thing, it's just that sometimes people, pastors become stagnant because they may have any experience and they go in and they relate an experience of when that experience is done there, done by four four Ron and I have for our children and far live. We have gone through so many different experiences with that, you know that we've been able to do in the community that kept us. Our experience is changing, and he kept us in the way of being able to brawl, and to develop and that it's it's different when not to say where I'm stuck in the same rut enough alone from the reader. But anyhow, I think five is then fine. It's been enjoyable and God has blessed us and God has, I think blessed you are community through what we do run with her teaching and my with agreement that I create in people 's lives and what we do our life is in the bringing your bring salvation is not in hitching post it in the bringing bringing yourself bringing your life bringing God 's salvation. You're an ordinary hero God empowers us much the same way that fruit appears in Orchard things like affection for others exuberance about life for a life, we develop a conviction based on the holiness that permeates the things of God, the God is about the ordinary doing it in an extraordinary way. Do you understand about fruit trees and how fruit groves. We just know they come to know the whole process of the germination of the trees in the species of the tree and that whatever you call helping the call species orders for Driscoll trees are called species are animals, trees, both species don't know those of you are listening, please send that to the e-mail address or an area routes develop a service attitude is more blessed to give than to receive serve service. Everything flows from serving in his greatest moneylending the sermon of all ordinary heroes love what they do, because when you what you do there is a different attitude about it, and it touches people 's lives in a different way ordinary heroes focus on priorities, not on the critical few things this evening we focus on the critical few things not on the insignificant many things ordinary heroes understand the soft stuff. The positive influence ordinary heroes and brace humor and optimism ordinary heroes are committed to excellence. Excellence is not an accident. Something that we act upon ordinary heroes know that you will always miss one hundred percent of the shots that you never take ordinary heroes have that leaders things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter the lease ordinary heroes earn trust ordinary heroes take actions you cannot discover new oceans while you still have your foot on the shore very heroes aim for the heart because people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Jesus has made you a light for the purpose of bringing salvation change to the The Bible/ chapter thirteen, beginning in verse forty four hundred forty nine today was a day that was on the dinner that was we were having was between Mother's Day and Father's Day when I was thinking of the sermon northing in putting this together. I thought of in that context and the title. The message is ordinary heroes and ordinary heroes and those two words don't go together because often we think of heroes as not being ordinary. We think of them as being extraordinary and that they are they have accomplished feats are things that would be a Bob the ordinary. That's what makes him a hero. But whatever we think of ourselves and lost three to ask chapter thirteen and especially verse forty seven is what I want to focus on chapter thirteen beginning at forty four on the next sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord villagers saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talk abusively against what Paul was saying that Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly, we have to speak the word of God to you first, since you reject it, and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us. I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the year when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed in verse forty nine. The word of the Lord spread through the whole region so as we put this together via the idea ordinary. The definitions are to be expected in the normal order of things I quality songwriting ability. So, something that is regular something that is customary something that is often ended in its occurrence. And of course he rows while at the mythological or legendary figure, but I chose to overlook that part of the definition, but it is a man or woman admired for his achievements and noble qualities, one that shows great courage, so whenever we think of ordinary to be expected in the normal order of things, and he roused one that has great courage. We don't think of great courage in ordinary situations, but sometimes as we think about facing the children for another day that her parents found me. I opened a very downstairs now, whenever we think of raising our families and think of Ray and the responsibilities that come with our children and come with what has been is assigned to us or has been given to us in our life. It takes great courage it takes courage to face the ordinary things that go on in our society and our lives today sold to us as we look at the models in the Bible we think of them as heroes. Exceptional individuals that we were not consider them to be ordinary. Perhaps in any way would we think of them as being ordered, but if you would speak to any one of them if they would come here and talk with you sit with you at dinner today and as you are carrying on a conversation with them, you would find that they would give you the impression of just ordinary individuals, but ordinary individuals with a godly character and the character of meekness the character of the strength of God is able to guide them in their lives. Paul said to the Corinthians. I write in the neatness. The gentleness from the firm spirit of Christ, and I wanted to read this one in the also undulations, chapter five verses twenty two and twenty three says, but what happens when you live God 's way. He brings guests into your lives, much the same way the fruit appears in the portrait things like affection for others exuberance about life serenity we develop a willingness to stick with things a sense of compassion in the heart and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people, we find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life able to marshal and direct our energies wisely ordinary hero 's ordinary heroes. Heroes are also those individuals who step forward when other people step back. Heroes demonstrated quality of life. It takes them to new levels usually it takes them when circumstances are unfavorable. So we find ourselves having an exuberance about life having an exuberance about life and serene. While we are doing with it. Say saying that we have correct that we have a sense of purpose that that God has placed in our lives that we have a sense of purpose, a sense that this show is part of God 's will. This table is part of God 's desire for my life, and we find that there is a willingness to stick with things not give up compassion basically what permeates thing they think holiness permeates the library as a holy attitude about what I'm doing and what I am expecting and so as we are looking at ordinary heroes. We're looking at her from the perspective of what God is about and what God is doing in our lives. The early disciples. They preached boldly in the face of difficulties. They stayed the course whenever people who are now going to persecute Danmark, be them or throw them in prison. They know their tasks and they performed that with within the face of danger in the face of persecution. They know what they were called to do in a narrow but they weren't God would save them for these things as we make the stories of their lives. I view them as hero Irene. I view them as heroes and what they have done in all the songs we sang that God look beyond our faults inside means it's just rings in my ears from whenever I and my heart from whenever we were in May before when Rachel was born and we read that campground mars hill campground. They talk about sawdust floors of wooden benches and and you know the old Tabernacles of you ever heard of them or not, but they would have came meeting and that's where this she was Indian with. She sang the song catches a Navajo Indian, and she sang the song. I know it's digging on this hearing. It stirs that memory of all of just being in that campground being there and hearing her sing and hearing is not only what this U.S. Census, then her voice was something. It was her spirit that was so special. I see why was just something about Harry, now a law is something about her spirit that when she sang that song to start a whole new dimension because of where she came from because of where her life had taken her and how they got had brought her from so many different things in her life and that testimony God 's grace and mercy in the power of that city is the word that she sang. Where and this is where the courage. This is where the courage comes now live where the Spirit of God space to Lockhart 's and instincts to last more than just the words of space to last on all of an acceptance of an understanding that God is there with us, and God is there for us, for this is what the Lord has commanded us in murder and asked after thirteen versus forty seven, for this is what the Lord has commanded us. I have made jewellike. I made jewellike that you may bring salvation and if there was something impressive about this individual. It was that God was a light in her life and that is way think of ourselves and you know as ordinary heroes. God has made us alike in some ways whenever we think of the things that God has made us alike to bring salvation to the world while that's not us. That's some Superman person of some person who is far beyond our capabilities and health go faster than a speeding bullet. How many remember Superman and Superman the movie Superman this year is on me, however, say no whole rerun some of these they happen. Neither the and you now leave you here. The locomotive Chase, you know it. So whenever you see that look about them faster than a speeding bullet. The stronger than the locomotive more powerful than a speeding locomotive. Able to leap tall building in the single vial and how shall Wallace, Adam and a bounce off white like the Sony Betamax eighty wow, I had my NARAL, we have somebody can do all that stop and and and in all surviving down jump buildings and stop trains and that the hero. While God has made you like, dislike looked like what the definition of light is that what this will is electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. They traveled back in with the speed of a hundred and eighty six thousand two hundred eighty one miles per second. Okay, now we know what light is at the light. Light is the finance light is defined as electromagnetic ray electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength that travels in a vacuum with a speed of about a hundred eighty six thousand two hundred eighty one miles per second, so that's when we speak, so that why whenever we speak of why we often speak of objects so and I say to you. You are life. What do you think candle light fixture you think of the sun of fire think of what this is why we often don't think of what life is, and the Bible says that God says that he has made us light to the Gentiles, that is given us the ability to be like the object that brings light to the situation like that makes this impossible without life were in the dark at the time nighttime. I made your life to limit a vacuum and run fast. That would automate us. Where Mary God has made your life so that means we lived someplace that sheltered the last all the time. No, the Baathism life of the qualities that enable others to see and the quality of life 's other qualities that enable others to see. So when when God has made us a light to the Gentiles or guys may also like this we moved back for a moment when God has made us why he gives us the ability to seek to understand utilize parents we want to be able to provide life for our children. What that helping them to be able to cc one single problem fast facing the obstacles facing the difficulties in a word you're trying to teach and train train up a child of the way he should go result will not depart from it. The Scriptures say trade of a child in the things of the Scripture. Why, because it is beginning. In their life to be able to see them in the dark single throw the dark times, although I so we didn't dislike and we harvest light, and we prepare for the lie, why so they can take it into themselves. Did you know that some very wise person said this last week. I think that if you have a candle and you give life to another candle. It doesn't take away from your light. She told us why she wasn't sporting son is yet to be here for that, you know, yet he opted out on the sunny civilian miss him a lot. Very entertaining, very informative web of the time of going number time after time that you have so the idea is that whenever you're giving your life, it doesn't diminish whenever we use what God has given us and we tapped the reservoirs of God they do not diminish so ordinary. He rouses the idea we are tapping into such a limitless source that does not diminish with use in our society. We're used to, not so much around here whiteouts and so unknown, California and the major cities where they turn on your mere conditions in the summer was hot. I know we don't know that phenomena very well about being hot, but the air-conditioning. This will open the windows of reason night in May we never slept with the windows open. It was always cool and I got so-called indigo cool at night where we live the northern Maine that you didn't want to leave the windows( you would need the blankets and they need on my morning. It was just a cold area. I wheeze to say up there. We live in. There were two seasons. There was winter and there was July and hello, and was that what having the jarring in January that January February we had six weeks and never got above zero and when I had hair once I remember you getting a shower and no going out by the time with the house. The card that's when it was frozen. It was that cold so that I laugh and I sacrifice it for the mission field in northern Maine, so we may God has made us alike than the qualities of light are the qualities that enable others to see. So we documented in the spiritual sense of spiritual illumination. We talk about it as enlightenment. We saw the matter in a different light. They were able to look at life from a different perspective and the like that we put in up in the light that we shine. Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life of the life and he brought his life and life to your velocity was world, so God says he made. Like today, I can at this book. So I think I made it all up today I can complain about my health, or I can celebrate being alive today, I can moan that it is raining urgent. Be joyful that all the girls in the ring. Then I can regret all that I don't have a rejoice in everything I do. Today I can mourn everything I've lost regularly anticipate what is to come. Today I can complain that I have to work or celebrate have a new job. Then I can rest with you today. I can resent the mass. The kids made her give thanks that I have a family. Today I can whine about the housework or celebrate having a house today. I can cry over the people who don't care for me or be happy, loving and being loved by those who do, what does life have to do with that light has to do with our attitude and perspective of what is our. We can always find things we don't have ordinary heroes are ordinary people who look at things in a different light. I choose to be a lights are you raising small children how important it is for them to live in the light of godly parents know some pictures of my mom is now ninety six L my family. I was blessed with godly parents. I do go to church three times a week. So did Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night we traveled about twelve fifteen miles to church and we always had chores to get done. We store the milk the cows come home from school, get all the chores done it in the house to clean up as we didn't go from the barn to church. I would have been present in some of you don't know what I mean. Barnes are where cattle live and they have a distinct aroma distinct stink is the optimum work there and you get want to go from the barn anywhere where the public because people were able to pick up on that smell that you had grown accustomed to. Instead don't get the that yet. I know I had one friend who went to the bank after he had been in the field spreading manure and it was a very windy day and he had launched directly from the field to the bank and got my what a good group of people. These are everybody in line. There was a long line. He was resenting the fact is that stand in line and he was thanking God because everybody in front of capital and he was just thinking how Rutledge, he wasn't. How blessed he was, and I got upset alignment. Why did his banking and what all these people and let them in front of the Pentagon outside them is that often there was some deposit from the manure spreader above is that he didn't realize that he had and he began to check and find out there were other parts of his body that had positively neither that in the excitement he didn't smell anything so as to why we got cleaned up to go to church from the barn and we did that Everest every morning and every night that we went godly parents. What does it take to be their hero was okay for children to be to see you last their hero, ordinary people doing heroic things. What is our society. We know the faults and dysfunctions of our of our ally society of lying and stealing in anger and hatred and cheesy and families and problems in all the things, but you know how bright the light of love is that shines through ordinary people doing ordinary things how will I much light that shines in the dark world. Spend some time in the school system and see children who come from families where there is no light you see how important ordinary heroes become that God has made you will like you providing for a family. Perhaps your students do not how different your life is than those who have no light in their homes and their lives. See, he is the way, Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life but the life and the life he is come to be ordinary heroes ordinary lights that shine when it is darkest in no end to it. It doesn't take much lights whenever there's a lot of darkness. It doesn't take much like to really shine in all, there was one individual. I never forget and in him and him and I'm not poking fun that he was whiny how we were talking about how little the stars still shine during the daylight. It's just that the sun is brighter and you can see them, and he said why. Now if some of you are impressed with this. I'm sorry but this the stars are still shining, even though you can see that in this film. There okay will move on to my is to bring salvation to the ends of the earth of salvation is a saving grace. Our saving grace. The saving knowledge, there is some and now, Bob know why the Jesus Christ brings into our lives wherever you are, God is there with you that you thought wherever you are, that's where you are, but that was a brilliant thing. But remember this, wherever you are, God is there with you. Do what God has given you to do why don't know what God has given me to do it all. I read this in one of my classes that sometimes we have to look at the will of God as the glow you are the blobs and God 's Spirit is in you and you find yourself dealing the ordinary things of life. Whatever you find to do, do it with all of your money. The will of God is not something that is hidden from you. The will of God is about God moving the glow so what does your hand finds to do for the level does it change is a really that profile or is it just that very simple part of turning the light on trying to find the light switch your place. You get the point. For the light on and allow the light to shine in the world you live in allow the light to shine in the places you go allow that like to be there and what you have to do different when the light is on somebody's home there again. I'm looking to go there because you were experienced that phenomena experienced amid guidepost, not a hitching post send a morning of Sunday school based there shall be inside the house, not enhancing both the adult hits your life don't experience like this is where were going to stay. Now it's just simply a place along the way that we're going to move on from this experience in the next God is not God is not about taking us to a place and leaving us there thirty years, God abandoned us. That's why were still here. God has abandoned home. What a terrible, terrible place called what a glorious place that God has brought us and able to give us experiences in these thirty years that have taught us many different lesson you know why, son, and this is not a criticism. There are some denominations and sampling to move their passes every three to five years three to seven years and it's very common for that to happen and it's in is not an arbitrary thing, it's just that sometimes people, pastors become stagnant because they may have any experience and they go in and they relate an experience of when that experience is done there, done by four four Ron and I have for our children and far live. We have gone through so many different experiences with that, you know that we've been able to do in the community that kept us. Our experience is changing, and he kept us in the way of being able to brawl, and to develop and that it's it's different when not to say where I'm stuck in the same rut enough alone from the reader. But anyhow, I think five is then fine. It's been enjoyable and God has blessed us and God has, I think blessed you are community through what we do run with her teaching and my with agreement that I create in people 's lives and what we do our life is in the bringing your bring salvation is not in hitching post it in the bringing bringing yourself bringing your life bringing God 's salvation. You're an ordinary hero God empowers us much the same way that fruit appears in Orchard things like affection for others exuberance about life for a life, we develop a conviction based on the holiness that permeates the things of God, the God is about the ordinary doing it in an extraordinary way. Do you understand about fruit trees and how fruit groves. We just know they come to know the whole process of the germination of the trees in the species of the tree and that whatever you call helping the call species orders for Driscoll trees are called species are animals, trees, both species don't know those of you are listening, please send that to the e-mail address or an area routes develop a service attitude is more blessed to give than to receive serve service. Everything flows from serving in his greatest moneylending the sermon of all ordinary heroes love what they do, because when you what you do there is a different attitude about it, and it touches people 's lives in a different way ordinary heroes focus on priorities, not on the critical few things this evening we focus on the critical few things not on the insignificant many things ordinary heroes understand the soft stuff. The positive influence ordinary heroes and brace humor and optimism ordinary heroes are committed to excellence. Excellence is not an accident. Something that we act upon ordinary heroes know that you will always miss one hundred percent of the shots that you never take ordinary heroes have that leaders things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter the lease ordinary heroes earn trust ordinary heroes take actions you cannot discover new oceans while you still have your foot on the shore very heroes aim for the heart because people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Jesus has made you a light for the purpose of bringing salvation change to the