The Sermon Are you really responsible by David McGee
Jul 25, 2010
Are you really responsible (27:34)
Referenced Scriptures: James 2:14-26;John 1:8;1 Timothy 4:8
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Faith & Deeds/Works
Responsibility
Accountability
Rejoice
"Bad Luck"
Bad Habits
Bad Choices
Ownership
Rewards Await You
John 1:8 - "Look to yourselves"
Preparing for life’s defining moments
John 1:8 - "but that we receive a full reward."
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1 Timothy 4:8 - "Godliness is profitable for all things."
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James 2:14-26
14) What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can that faith save him?
15) And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
16) and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn‘t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
17) Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
18) Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
19) You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
20) But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
21) Wasn‘t Abraham, our father, justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
22) You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;
23) and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.
24) You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.
25) In like manner wasn‘t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
26) For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
John 1:8
8) He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
1 Timothy 4:8
8) For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
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Final James chapter two verses fourteen twenty six James chapter two verses fourteen to twenty six and were asking ourselves the question today that so are we really responsible are we responsible James chapter two verses fourteen to twenty six. What good is in my brother if a man claims to have faith that has no deeds can such faith save him suppose a brother or sister was on clothes and daily food. If one of you said to him, though I wish you well. Keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about this physical need, what good is it in the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by actions is there but someone will say you have faith. I have the show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do you believe that there is one God. Good. Even the demons believe that an shutter you fully should manage you are not the want evidence, you foolish man, do you want evidence that the faith without deeds is useless with our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar to see that his faith and his actions were working together and his faith was made complete by what he did and the scripture was fulfilled that says Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God 's friends issue that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone in the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to despise and send them off in a different direction at the bottom without the spirit is that so faith without deeds is dead now, faith in the is important to recognize that these two areas of our relationship with Jesus Rice go together, these faith and deeds in faith and works. The methods that we have written that I'm presenting this morning as lots is also much about how great our faith is like even be the greatness of the deeds that we are about what we have done, but the responsibility the responsibility we possess for a and the responsibility we possess far life and the responsibility that we have for our deeds that we have that follow us in what we do so we live in a culture that does not want accountability, you know, I read was yesterday 's paper and an NA this article is a victim 's family is dumbfounded by Lee Galvin, a traffic fatality if you read this, there is a a woman in Bedford County that was killed by a driver. The driver was happen to be an attorney who swerved thought with you. I don't know. Doesn't say what he did or didn't do, and he went off the road and hit the lady. She was walking beside the road and she was killed while it ended up that it says here. My mother 's life, and five hundred eighty nine dollars and he was let go. No accountability. If we were the driver would lead me, how would we want to be held accountable for being distracted and wondering off the road and and yet we've all been distracted and you know someone is killed. Are we looking at accountability and saying all while the attorney that that was the driver should be held accountable for what amount. If you run a family member and it was your mother, who was killed, would you want accountability, and I don't have the answer but this is that if that whole idea what is accountability. How far does it go board. Where does it begin who is responsible that is responsible for the actions who is responsible for the accident is wish you walking too close to the side of the road wasn't her fault was she far enough up far enough off the road and in them the person should not have a shipment paying attention easily should be held accountable for that. So it really goes back and forth in the argument ending and the outcome is that in this situation. He paid five hundred and eighty nine dollars and had been on was pleaded to that. Maybe some other things. The writers of Rome. I don't know accountability. We live in a culture that doesn't like accountability. We see it in the end him and I like it when that was the one person they sued. They sued McDonald's because they had gained weight is not Alan over obesity. They sued McDonald's because they even McDonald's and they gain weight so wasn't their fault so they were there was a lawsuit and then I was. There was some worry there was a lady who who sued McDonald's coffee, and when she got a cheap neurology, put it between her legs and was holding it with her, her legs and she still did in her legs so she sued and she wanted, so she does happen to go and do the same thing the Burger King that she soon began an@ media, the judge threw it out myself. That the idea of accountability who is responsible when does it common sense come over? the more common sense of there is nothing common about sense. So accountability says I need to control them all into my mouth if I am suing McDonald's. I have a responsibility in the responsibility is for myself. My responsibility is the God, and I'm a responsibility to others, and in this is all about who I am what I do where I go these days. This is part of the package of our responsibility while Scripture tells us to be respond to respond to live by rejoicing easy. The Bible tells us to plan for your life, you know, it's like setting in motion what you're going to do when something happens you ever do that with people in conversation. I know when I'm ready when I see them again, maybe that would you have) and less than Tylenol. What a wonderful thing the person they are right okay will move on. I but you get the picture you see, but the Bible tells us what we should do before the difficulty becomes we are to rejoice always and again I say, rejoice. The Bible tells us to rejoice, rejoice in every circumstances in every circumstance that we are to seeing God in every trial to see the hand of God in our life in every situation and to see the devil in the temptations is not God 's desire knowing all that, it's part of who I am that we are. We are drawn away and enticed by our old blasts and so on. But we need to see things for what they are the responsibility doesn't mean that I'm the blame for everything that goes on in my life and yelled in a nail blame game and go on the guilt trips and I like John say that we don't block the ultrathin notebook doctrines in church that not by betting how is this a teaser about that guy dizzily, no booking guilt trips. God is not interested in booking a guilt trip is interested in reviewing us finding us changing us, but not putting us on a guilt trip you see, we find that we are accountable and and we are not accountability is not saying that I'm to blame for everything that goes on in the world, you know, I knew I had a problem with this one guy when I was counseling a number of years ago, I knew I had a problem with this guy said I feel responsible for the war in Vietnam. No, my God, I I you know, I think he's been ultimately guilt trips because he wasn't even the war in Vietnam. Your blackjack. It was one of those things that in IEEE only was he was booking guilt trips. Anybody muzzled. They got one but some things are out of our control. Some things are our responsibilities and some people some things are come about in our life, because poor choices that other people may so we are responsible for how we respond in our faith, our deeds are words are works we are responsible now our faith and our works, our faith and our deeds go together and they come together to form character you never perform actions and responses may come together in our life to put things together in a healing rolling perspective. We talked about this in our Sunday school lesson this morning with David and it always studied how that is the last name. His last declaration before he died he was writing about his relationship with God and his righteousness, and seeking. David was able to move beyond the failures in his life to allow God to work in his life as a leader and as the leader of the nation of Israel and as a representative of God. He had to let go of the past. Paul says this regarding the things which are behind, I press on toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, so being responsible is human. I have a responsibility to move on in our spiritual life. We have a responsibility not guilt trips with the responsibility to allow God to forgive us and shall allow his forgiveness to touch our lives in such a way that we are moving on to the prize God has for us. We have a responsibility to move on in our lives. Now, moving on, doesn't necessarily mean changing spots in it are rearranging the chairs on the Titanic decay is not like what mortgage on his thinking out of the matter where we put the chairs so my life is a failure doesn't matter where I go or what I do, that life is likely not. There is no afterlife is nothing more than what we got sources of the over Sunday and he also doesn't matter where I put the chairs that not what God tells not the responsibility of taking responsibility at China like our culture saying there's nothing beyond ourselves and we can sue everybody because I'm that is not my fault, so faith in my come together to form our character for my actions or deeds and did you ever hear people say yet how they are just down on their luck or bad karma but get me started on that one. Some say they have a lot of bad luck. While the first spotted this is a bad lack or bad habits in the bad luck or bad choices in all some people continue to make the same choices. You can keep doing the same thing you've always done, you'll always get which already got thank you God confirmed that educate. Donate what you've always done, you'll always get what you already got okay so bad block is nothing more than bad choices and the reason that continues to haunt you with education making the same choices you'll be our slaves. The habits know how they got the data think I know what it up on Sundays five minutes for church again or maybe the same thing every Sunday. I like to have it all started that habit, you know litigants generally worry one of the no you don't have a habit of running around what the metal rod in a lightning storm and as you would be here. It but so we had habits, and we are happy to drive. We did it and have it there okay as long as they're good night reading the Bible, praying, setting time aside to pray those are good habits, and we need to create good habits and become slaves for them because you're going to create habits so we might as will make good ones know that things can happen. I let things can happen. You can buy a new car, drive down the road and get a flat tire that can happen, but if you drama on tires that are almost involved and their underinflated or overinflated and you get a flat tire. That's not bad, lock that choice. They now is not black. Whenever you leave your house and on vacation and not it burns down guys that gas line broke or something enterprise that that's bad luck, but it's a bad choice. Whenever you don't fix the leaky roof venue you know what that left the left water on the gas on or whatever I needed your bad choices, and it eventually caught up to you. Bad luck to get laid off from a job when people learn about you make bad choices, but it's a bad choice of a bad habit to be late for work every day and displaying shoddy shoddy workmanship, then have a bad attitude that you got yourself fire, so that's not bad luck that him bad choices. So, how often do we call something bad luck when it's really the result of bad habits. Why is that bad choices. We don't like responsibility faith and works go together. Our faith must be seeing and what we do. I think must be seeing and how we do it. Be faithful in the small things and God will reward you busy our Christian life is there is a relationship with Jesus Christ is the forgiveness of sins, but it's also part of how God works in us, and how the God works in our character. God works in an and how how is God going to reward us if we don't take responsibility for who we are in. How is God going to bless our life. If we're not responsible for our actions. No, how can we try and ask God to bless our efforts. If you are not responsible for our efforts. If things go wrong. We same lost his bad luck. So something goes right when we say all that good. Why would God get anyone and glory out of that there is a person who was passed over for job in the individual who passed the person over who was doing the interview, said it's too bad because with a few good choices that guy could be doing very well. A few good choices. Is it bad luck that habits are bad choices, estate, one man declared the harder I work the luckier I get. So if you want a little good luck make some good choices and develop good habits now I said all that, but the introduction, not really, but, that is to say that rewards await us rewards how and in the ideas. How do you set yourself up to receive God 's blessing. How do you create the atmosphere in which God can bless your life. God wants to reward us, and God wants to bless us, but we have a responsibility to trust God into war and to and to put our faith into actions that cause is our actions to overflow into our deeds and in the Scripture that we read with James. It says, you know a guy come ceiling and end doesn't have any ferreting and you say God bless you and the Navy: walk away and do nothing. You have done. You haven't changed that you know you have not only withheld blessing from that individual from your life but you have closed the door for blessing to come into your life. You see the rain falls on the just and the unjust. If you want. That means in a desert community rain is the biggest blessing of all and God 's goodness falls on the righteous, as well as the non- right because the rain is a just running the day the room. The rain is a is a blessing for life. So when the Scriptures talk about satisfying about how the God blesses people that deserve it and bless his people that don't deserve, not in our eyes, so the rewards await you as you mix and you are good choices as you develop good habits is a when ownership of our lives. How do we know when we have ownership. Ownership of our lives comes when we bring. I like the God ownership of our lives comes whenever we pray about the decisions that we are making. If you are going to make a decision then we prayed and asked God for guidance that Sally, that's telling us telling yourself and telling God, I am responsible for the decisions I'm going to make. I need your guidance. That's whatever whenever we pray about something, we are declaring ownership of if we say it's not my responsibility. And if you know I'm depending on the Carman block and everything else illegally to give credit to finance seconds on one aide says look to yourselves is a very interesting comment. Here's a look for yourself so you don't lose out on what we work so diligently together for or that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. So locate ourselves, whenever you're going to receive the full reward loyalty or South is the take heed to examine watch out for yourself what faith he examined left it yourself. These choices are going to be to make off these choices are going to take us someplace every choice we make. We are here by choice, not by chance, and we are preparing for our life defining moment why defining moments. Now think about this if you're on a cruise ship and you are headed to a port where all along the way they are making these the engine is running, and they are making writer adjustments to get the ship to note that the port at the port is the life. The finding moment, then alter the course we've been making adjustments every little decision. We may is making course adjustments that is taking us to life the fining moment and God is about bringing us to those moments of blessing and reward, and if we pay attention to all those course adjustments that God is making in our life attitudinal responsibility in all things we do things we say place no faith and works coming together as we pay attention to those who are making adjustments to bring us support that life. The finding moment if there is the full reward is that the reason there's a partial reward and even no reward. God wants to bring us the look to yourself and to recognize that there is a full reward. We as Christians wall stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and be rewarded. Teach that each may receive the things done in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad, not about luck. It's about choices is about faith. Indeed, and in the second, first Timothy four eight oh" this godliness is profitable regarding wearing out training hard for being here. I godliness is profitable for all things God desires to reward us. God desires to reward us. Godliness is profitable. His desire is to bring good things into our lives so we ask ourselves the question, how can God, be honor and bless us when were not responsible for our lives. How can God bless our lives. We are always taking guilt trips and blaming in the end, shrugging responsibility or if you are taking blame for things we never done and have no responsibility over so as we bring our faith and our deeds, together we find ourselves in the place were we are making choices and God wants the reward us and so we pray God direct my choice direct my thoughts direct my hands. My feet. The words I say things I do, God directed him, because this is your body, your temple. I am the dwelling place of God, and I desire to bless others through you. They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. I am responsible my faith, my works. My deeds. They come together and God has told me to rejoice whenever I'm whatever I'm sitting down and focus on where I'm going no matter what happens I'm going to rejoice because I know God is in control of my life and the circumstances that I face and he will give me the wisdom and he will give me the guidance that I need to make the right choice. And I must trust him when it doesn't look like it is good. I must trust him, that God is at work to reward me because God is about punishing is about rewarding us rewarding his people. Amen you believe that you say it's hot as if saying that they then let's all stand selling, hopefully follow will hopefully follow up as I may change my mind, I follow up with this and how I God will honor how we find a place of taking what's going on in our life and honoring God, and how that God sponsor that now that God is at work in us. So first it starts by saying this is what we brought out the day that it's not about blame. It's about that I am responsible for my life but I'm also responsible for bringing my life to God and allowing God to bless me with open to open my life that he can pour out his blessing for his blessing into my Final James chapter two verses fourteen twenty six James chapter two verses fourteen to twenty six and were asking ourselves the question today that so are we really responsible are we responsible James chapter two verses fourteen to twenty six. What good is in my brother if a man claims to have faith that has no deeds can such faith save him suppose a brother or sister was on clothes and daily food. If one of you said to him, though I wish you well. Keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about this physical need, what good is it in the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by actions is there but someone will say you have faith. I have the show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do you believe that there is one God. Good. Even the demons believe that an shutter you fully should manage you are not the want evidence, you foolish man, do you want evidence that the faith without deeds is useless with our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar to see that his faith and his actions were working together and his faith was made complete by what he did and the scripture was fulfilled that says Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God 's friends issue that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone in the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to despise and send them off in a different direction at the bottom without the spirit is that so faith without deeds is dead now, faith in the is important to recognize that these two areas of our relationship with Jesus Rice go together, these faith and deeds in faith and works. The methods that we have written that I'm presenting this morning as lots is also much about how great our faith is like even be the greatness of the deeds that we are about what we have done, but the responsibility the responsibility we possess for a and the responsibility we possess far life and the responsibility that we have for our deeds that we have that follow us in what we do so we live in a culture that does not want accountability, you know, I read was yesterday 's paper and an NA this article is a victim 's family is dumbfounded by Lee Galvin, a traffic fatality if you read this, there is a a woman in Bedford County that was killed by a driver. The driver was happen to be an attorney who swerved thought with you. I don't know. Doesn't say what he did or didn't do, and he went off the road and hit the lady. She was walking beside the road and she was killed while it ended up that it says here. My mother 's life, and five hundred eighty nine dollars and he was let go. No accountability. If we were the driver would lead me, how would we want to be held accountable for being distracted and wondering off the road and and yet we've all been distracted and you know someone is killed. Are we looking at accountability and saying all while the attorney that that was the driver should be held accountable for what amount. If you run a family member and it was your mother, who was killed, would you want accountability, and I don't have the answer but this is that if that whole idea what is accountability. How far does it go board. Where does it begin who is responsible that is responsible for the actions who is responsible for the accident is wish you walking too close to the side of the road wasn't her fault was she far enough up far enough off the road and in them the person should not have a shipment paying attention easily should be held accountable for that. So it really goes back and forth in the argument ending and the outcome is that in this situation. He paid five hundred and eighty nine dollars and had been on was pleaded to that. Maybe some other things. The writers of Rome. I don't know accountability. We live in a culture that doesn't like accountability. We see it in the end him and I like it when that was the one person they sued. They sued McDonald's because they had gained weight is not Alan over obesity. They sued McDonald's because they even McDonald's and they gain weight so wasn't their fault so they were there was a lawsuit and then I was. There was some worry there was a lady who who sued McDonald's coffee, and when she got a cheap neurology, put it between her legs and was holding it with her, her legs and she still did in her legs so she sued and she wanted, so she does happen to go and do the same thing the Burger King that she soon began an@ media, the judge threw it out myself. That the idea of accountability who is responsible when does it common sense come over? the more common sense of there is nothing common about sense. So accountability says I need to control them all into my mouth if I am suing McDonald's. I have a responsibility in the responsibility is for myself. My responsibility is the God, and I'm a responsibility to others, and in this is all about who I am what I do where I go these days. This is part of the package of our responsibility while Scripture tells us to be respond to respond to live by rejoicing easy. The Bible tells us to plan for your life, you know, it's like setting in motion what you're going to do when something happens you ever do that with people in conversation. I know when I'm ready when I see them again, maybe that would you have) and less than Tylenol. What a wonderful thing the person they are right okay will move on. I but you get the picture you see, but the Bible tells us what we should do before the difficulty becomes we are to rejoice always and again I say, rejoice. The Bible tells us to rejoice, rejoice in every circumstances in every circumstance that we are to seeing God in every trial to see the hand of God in our life in every situation and to see the devil in the temptations is not God 's desire knowing all that, it's part of who I am that we are. We are drawn away and enticed by our old blasts and so on. But we need to see things for what they are the responsibility doesn't mean that I'm the blame for everything that goes on in my life and yelled in a nail blame game and go on the guilt trips and I like John say that we don't block the ultrathin notebook doctrines in church that not by betting how is this a teaser about that guy dizzily, no booking guilt trips. God is not interested in booking a guilt trip is interested in reviewing us finding us changing us, but not putting us on a guilt trip you see, we find that we are accountable and and we are not accountability is not saying that I'm to blame for everything that goes on in the world, you know, I knew I had a problem with this one guy when I was counseling a number of years ago, I knew I had a problem with this guy said I feel responsible for the war in Vietnam. No, my God, I I you know, I think he's been ultimately guilt trips because he wasn't even the war in Vietnam. Your blackjack. It was one of those things that in IEEE only was he was booking guilt trips. Anybody muzzled. They got one but some things are out of our control. Some things are our responsibilities and some people some things are come about in our life, because poor choices that other people may so we are responsible for how we respond in our faith, our deeds are words are works we are responsible now our faith and our works, our faith and our deeds go together and they come together to form character you never perform actions and responses may come together in our life to put things together in a healing rolling perspective. We talked about this in our Sunday school lesson this morning with David and it always studied how that is the last name. His last declaration before he died he was writing about his relationship with God and his righteousness, and seeking. David was able to move beyond the failures in his life to allow God to work in his life as a leader and as the leader of the nation of Israel and as a representative of God. He had to let go of the past. Paul says this regarding the things which are behind, I press on toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, so being responsible is human. I have a responsibility to move on in our spiritual life. We have a responsibility not guilt trips with the responsibility to allow God to forgive us and shall allow his forgiveness to touch our lives in such a way that we are moving on to the prize God has for us. We have a responsibility to move on in our lives. Now, moving on, doesn't necessarily mean changing spots in it are rearranging the chairs on the Titanic decay is not like what mortgage on his thinking out of the matter where we put the chairs so my life is a failure doesn't matter where I go or what I do, that life is likely not. There is no afterlife is nothing more than what we got sources of the over Sunday and he also doesn't matter where I put the chairs that not what God tells not the responsibility of taking responsibility at China like our culture saying there's nothing beyond ourselves and we can sue everybody because I'm that is not my fault, so faith in my come together to form our character for my actions or deeds and did you ever hear people say yet how they are just down on their luck or bad karma but get me started on that one. Some say they have a lot of bad luck. While the first spotted this is a bad lack or bad habits in the bad luck or bad choices in all some people continue to make the same choices. You can keep doing the same thing you've always done, you'll always get which already got thank you God confirmed that educate. Donate what you've always done, you'll always get what you already got okay so bad block is nothing more than bad choices and the reason that continues to haunt you with education making the same choices you'll be our slaves. The habits know how they got the data think I know what it up on Sundays five minutes for church again or maybe the same thing every Sunday. I like to have it all started that habit, you know litigants generally worry one of the no you don't have a habit of running around what the metal rod in a lightning storm and as you would be here. It but so we had habits, and we are happy to drive. We did it and have it there okay as long as they're good night reading the Bible, praying, setting time aside to pray those are good habits, and we need to create good habits and become slaves for them because you're going to create habits so we might as will make good ones know that things can happen. I let things can happen. You can buy a new car, drive down the road and get a flat tire that can happen, but if you drama on tires that are almost involved and their underinflated or overinflated and you get a flat tire. That's not bad, lock that choice. They now is not black. Whenever you leave your house and on vacation and not it burns down guys that gas line broke or something enterprise that that's bad luck, but it's a bad choice. Whenever you don't fix the leaky roof venue you know what that left the left water on the gas on or whatever I needed your bad choices, and it eventually caught up to you. Bad luck to get laid off from a job when people learn about you make bad choices, but it's a bad choice of a bad habit to be late for work every day and displaying shoddy shoddy workmanship, then have a bad attitude that you got yourself fire, so that's not bad luck that him bad choices. So, how often do we call something bad luck when it's really the result of bad habits. Why is that bad choices. We don't like responsibility faith and works go together. Our faith must be seeing and what we do. I think must be seeing and how we do it. Be faithful in the small things and God will reward you busy our Christian life is there is a relationship with Jesus Christ is the forgiveness of sins, but it's also part of how God works in us, and how the God works in our character. God works in an and how how is God going to reward us if we don't take responsibility for who we are in. How is God going to bless our life. If we're not responsible for our actions. No, how can we try and ask God to bless our efforts. If you are not responsible for our efforts. If things go wrong. We same lost his bad luck. So something goes right when we say all that good. Why would God get anyone and glory out of that there is a person who was passed over for job in the individual who passed the person over who was doing the interview, said it's too bad because with a few good choices that guy could be doing very well. A few good choices. Is it bad luck that habits are bad choices, estate, one man declared the harder I work the luckier I get. So if you want a little good luck make some good choices and develop good habits now I said all that, but the introduction, not really, but, that is to say that rewards await us rewards how and in the ideas. How do you set yourself up to receive God 's blessing. How do you create the atmosphere in which God can bless your life. God wants to reward us, and God wants to bless us, but we have a responsibility to trust God into war and to and to put our faith into actions that cause is our actions to overflow into our deeds and in the Scripture that we read with James. It says, you know a guy come ceiling and end doesn't have any ferreting and you say God bless you and the Navy: walk away and do nothing. You have done. You haven't changed that you know you have not only withheld blessing from that individual from your life but you have closed the door for blessing to come into your life. You see the rain falls on the just and the unjust. If you want. That means in a desert community rain is the biggest blessing of all and God 's goodness falls on the righteous, as well as the non- right because the rain is a just running the day the room. The rain is a is a blessing for life. So when the Scriptures talk about satisfying about how the God blesses people that deserve it and bless his people that don't deserve, not in our eyes, so the rewards await you as you mix and you are good choices as you develop good habits is a when ownership of our lives. How do we know when we have ownership. Ownership of our lives comes when we bring. I like the God ownership of our lives comes whenever we pray about the decisions that we are making. If you are going to make a decision then we prayed and asked God for guidance that Sally, that's telling us telling yourself and telling God, I am responsible for the decisions I'm going to make. I need your guidance. That's whatever whenever we pray about something, we are declaring ownership of if we say it's not my responsibility. And if you know I'm depending on the Carman block and everything else illegally to give credit to finance seconds on one aide says look to yourselves is a very interesting comment. Here's a look for yourself so you don't lose out on what we work so diligently together for or that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. So locate ourselves, whenever you're going to receive the full reward loyalty or South is the take heed to examine watch out for yourself what faith he examined left it yourself. These choices are going to be to make off these choices are going to take us someplace every choice we make. We are here by choice, not by chance, and we are preparing for our life defining moment why defining moments. Now think about this if you're on a cruise ship and you are headed to a port where all along the way they are making these the engine is running, and they are making writer adjustments to get the ship to note that the port at the port is the life. The finding moment, then alter the course we've been making adjustments every little decision. We may is making course adjustments that is taking us to life the fining moment and God is about bringing us to those moments of blessing and reward, and if we pay attention to all those course adjustments that God is making in our life attitudinal responsibility in all things we do things we say place no faith and works coming together as we pay attention to those who are making adjustments to bring us support that life. The finding moment if there is the full reward is that the reason there's a partial reward and even no reward. God wants to bring us the look to yourself and to recognize that there is a full reward. We as Christians wall stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and be rewarded. Teach that each may receive the things done in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad, not about luck. It's about choices is about faith. Indeed, and in the second, first Timothy four eight oh" this godliness is profitable regarding wearing out training hard for being here. I godliness is profitable for all things God desires to reward us. God desires to reward us. Godliness is profitable. His desire is to bring good things into our lives so we ask ourselves the question, how can God, be honor and bless us when were not responsible for our lives. How can God bless our lives. We are always taking guilt trips and blaming in the end, shrugging responsibility or if you are taking blame for things we never done and have no responsibility over so as we bring our faith and our deeds, together we find ourselves in the place were we are making choices and God wants the reward us and so we pray God direct my choice direct my thoughts direct my hands. My feet. The words I say things I do, God directed him, because this is your body, your temple. I am the dwelling place of God, and I desire to bless others through you. They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. I am responsible my faith, my works. My deeds. They come together and God has told me to rejoice whenever I'm whatever I'm sitting down and focus on where I'm going no matter what happens I'm going to rejoice because I know God is in control of my life and the circumstances that I face and he will give me the wisdom and he will give me the guidance that I need to make the right choice. And I must trust him when it doesn't look like it is good. I must trust him, that God is at work to reward me because God is about punishing is about rewarding us rewarding his people. Amen you believe that you say it's hot as if saying that they then let's all stand selling, hopefully follow will hopefully follow up as I may change my mind, I follow up with this and how I God will honor how we find a place of taking what's going on in our life and honoring God, and how that God sponsor that now that God is at work in us. So first it starts by saying this is what we brought out the day that it's not about blame. It's about that I am responsible for my life but I'm also responsible for bringing my life to God and allowing God to bless me with open to open my life that he can pour out his blessing for his blessing into my