Rogers_Death By Chatter (2 Timothy 2:14-19)

Will not fill. It is so good to have you back with us today. Thank you. Thank you.

Those of you that are here with us for the first time. So good to have you back with us today. Yeah, and those up either with us for the first time, welcome. Those of you that are with us for the first time in a long time it is good to have you today. Oh Joel. If you would, please read the scriptures for do your best to present yourself to God as one approved. A worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling, the word of truth but avoid irreverent Babble for it. Will lead people into more and more ungodliness and their talk will spread like gangrene among them are hyenas. And finally asked who have swerved from the truth saying that the resurrection has already happened, they are upsetting the faith of some Put God's Firm Foundation, stands bearing. The seal the Lord knows those who are his and let everyone who names the Lord, who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity. The scenes ends the reading of the Lord. Thank you for that Joel. The gospel indoors and it does no matter what. That means, the good news, the good news carries on. So, people were arguing over this for no apparent reason for us with her. It's, it's work with her at school, where there's a neighbor or longtime friend, sometimes we get in Conflict. Right there. We just, we just have conversations and the comes over little tiny things. And that little tiny thing that it starts out with go on that, we don't talk with them. For a couple days. Are weak for months or years and pretty soon a little tiny word that it starts out with. We don't talk with them for the rest of our lives and how long's it been since you talked to. So and so we don't talk much anymore.

little tiny things can lead to disconnection because we had a disagreement over

Have you been there? Do you struggle with that?

It's funny because, you know, there are big sins in our life. Weather today, diction. Whether it's a habit. Whether it's something that we place in front of God, we can see that it's an external thing that we have to deal with. But this is a really big thing. It is often untalked about and it's the tongue. I want to bring a towel tongue and just launched it out there, so that you realize how large your tongue really, really is. And I was going to give it to Mario to cook. Now went online to see how, how much they were in. Did you realize how expensive to have gotten? Sorry, Mario, just wasn't in the budget. So, I didn't get a tongue, but cowtowns are so massive. They're massive. Human tongues while they're not massive. Create massive issues and problems Wars are fought. Over the tongue, this passage of scripture reveals to us the issues that are there.

So Paul said don't quarrel over words. the main thing and watch what you say, would be the main thing, the main thing What was the main thing they were arguing over? Was there a resurrection, right?

Yes, that's the main thing. But do we in our society today? Keep the main thing the main thing or we quarreling over little things. Are we quarreling over things like our politics are we quarreling over how we treat this person or that person. Huge issue. But the question really is how would Jesus treat this person or that person? Jesus treated people with love. Grace and compassion. no matter who that person was no matter what their said issue was, Jesus welcomed the center in no matter what he would be called. Jesus welcomed them in with love Grace and compassion. Nobody, ask Jesus what his what his view of dispensational theology was or if if you was a covenant theologian. They just said, what do you do with this woman? That's caught in adultery. and Jesus said, if you're without sin cast your own Stone cast, the first stone,

And then he looked at it with the passion and should go away. Your sins are forgiven, I don't send anymore.

Jesus Had a Heart of Love. Grace and compassion.

So how do we keep the main thing? The main thing we focus on Jesus, we don't quarrel over those words. Guess what? I am. I'm a cooler I confess, I am cooler. I quarrel over stupid stupid things. And then I'd embarrass my wife several times, she get my wife, she's not a cooler. She's late, she's late every horse. You Ghostbuster P pick a little heart. So she shows up the basketball games and she sits down with several people and she goes hits, Scott done anything like to embarrass has has has Scott argued with the referee, has Scott, gotten a technical file, whatever it might be. I've been threatened to get kicked out of basketball games because I love my son and I don't want to be mean to him.

My wife. Starting Bears to my Lord. There places that I can that, I may I go now that I'm like, no, that guy. How do I know that guy. He's a referee.

So I've had to literally go to him and say, hey man, I apologize. That is not my character. That is not who I am. What if we could walk in Freedom to any place? No matter what your heart habit, or hang up? Is it easy to say? When those are the big things out there, but what if it was our tongue, if we're like that, I'm not scared to walk in any restaurant any building any business? Any home? Because my tongue

That's the freedom that we can walk in because of our savior, we have the ability to do. That is not incredible. We have the ability to tame that song. The next, the next phrase that's the fusions passage of scripture. Is it do your best to be one approved? Perfection is not going to be obtained. When you go to search the scriptures and become of a child of God, that knows the scriptures. We're not going to be one that perfect. The scriptures as one that teaches them. I go fruit. That is a load off, man. I got some Freedom. Does that mean I know? Is that mean that I have the freedom

but I am working throughout my life. To become more like, Jesus. To seek out and searching. No. The scriptures.

To become approved. I'm not perfect. None of us are Jesus is the only 200 person that at 200% person that ever lived a hundred percent man hundred percent human. So he was like all of us but he was also a hundred percent. He was the only perfect person to ever walk ungodly Bible or this won't hit home.

Ungodly Babel. Is speaking bad about somebody else. This discouraging words. It's distracting us from the main thing. Have you ever set? With with someone else and talk bad about another person.

Thanks for being honest. Have you ever sat and adjudged? Another people group?

Have you ever thought a bad word about somebody else?

So, we're far from perfection. What? The Lord gives us Grace. Remember those three words? Love Grace and compassion. So we can work this out to become like him.

But it's it's tough. It stop. We have to come to the reality. We have to Humble ourselves and not think we're perfect, but we have to Humble ourselves and know that is where we're at. Change 119 through 26 is know this, my beloved Brothers, let every person be quick to hear. Slow to speak. Slow to anger for the anger of man. Does not produce the righteousness of God.

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word. Which is able to save our souls. Be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves for it. Anyone is a hero of the word and not a doer. He is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in the mirror for. He looks at himself and he goes away and it once forgets what he was like. but the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of Liberty, And perseveres. Being no here, who forgets but I do or who acts. He will be blessed in his doing. How many of you have heard over 50 sermons?

Wild people in here, right? And and after you've heard those sermons, once you've left And you've got dinner in your stomach after. Disarmament utility. I can't really recall what that was about.

Zach kind of regular.

if I have my car, I know everything there is about my car. I mean, I'm not necessarily a car guy, but, but if I went to a car guy and and I said, I want to know everything there is about the sport. I know. And he gives me a detailed look on everything. There is to know about that 2004 Ford Escape.

Four-wheel drive, by the way.

Amy Says now here's the deal of Scott. You can't do anything with it. Until you take this. And put it in the ignition. I know you want to go out to Don's Place. Pick them up the other day. If you want to do this, you want to do that. You got all these things you want to do, but nothing in your car works. Until you turn the ignition. And you go from point A to point B. It's like, but Lord. I mean there's a preseason game between the New York and the

Phoenix Suns.

Until you turn the ignition. And go. You can't do anything but, you know, I need to go to until you turn the ignition. I'm really tired up until you turn the ignition and go. We can't have all the knowledge in the world.

Until we actually turn and go, it will do us any good.

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not Bridle his tongue but deceives, his heart This person's religion is worthless.

So all the things I think I got going by. Don't Bridle James says my tongue. So what does that mean with the keys? Not only when I'm going but maybe the best thing to do when I'm going. You shut my mouth.

People don't want to know how much, you know, until they know how much you care.

I don't remember the great Theologian who said it Buzz don't just share the gospel live, the gospel.

There are three things that that John Knox Jones me the other day and it's got way too far out there. You know, maybe maybe I mean it's a it's a great. It's too far out there. Are you going to back it down to help us go work in the neighbor?

I think this passage of scripture gives it to us rightly when it says, The first thing you need to do is just be with Jesus. What is that look like? Well, I can't pay my tongue. There's no way. You guys know for you yourself especially for me. I mean everybody in this city knows. I'm just loud. I make big statements, the Razorbacks are going to win the national championship left in the last 3 weeks. We know that's not going to happen.

But those are tax statements, I make because I'm passionate and I make big bowl. Brush statements. Well, slowing down. And being with Jesus. And I'm not talking about a morning quiet time, where we spend time in the scriptures and we pray and then we go off to work or we just live our day or whatever that might be about, my being, with Jesus being, with Jesus means moment. By moment. Great. If you're able to start your day in the scriptures, it's great. If you can have prayer time, that is deep and Rich. But moment-by-moment means Lord, I'm Giving You Everything. I'm not giving you the day, I'm giving you absolutely everything. My family is yours. My possessions are yours my house in and hope are yours. A 2000, Ford Escort with the keys in it or yours. How can we use this for your blessing? What do you need? All my relationships are yours. I trust you. I don't know where we're going today, but what do you want to do? That's being with Jesus and through that time it's not going to happen in a day or week, even a year. This is Decades of being with Jesus we become more like you So overtime. We become more like Jesus. So, this is decades. This is a lifetime. Of Walking With Jesus that we become more like Jesus. And then through that, we learn how to put the keys in the car. How to turn the ignition and where it is. He wants us to go. So we do what he did and how we were crafted and designed to work.

How we proved by God how we set out into the world. First note says remind them was he what was he reminding them of the Gospel. We're reminded that we are sealed by the Lord. If you're a follower of Jesus, you're his I sat with with a guy this week man and he told me you don't have done a lot of bad stuff in my life. I prayed the prayer and know that Jesus raised from the dead and I think I'll be in heaven.

I'm just not sure.

all those scriptures for the wages of sin is death, but most beautiful word in the Bible but the gift of God, it's a gift. All we can do is receive it but the gift of God is eternal life. Through Christ Jesus, our lord, there's nothing in it. There's also, there's nothing away from us. So know that we are sealed by the Lord. We are his That's the first thing. The second thing to be approved by the Lord, is I think about it with my kids. Remember, parents. Remember when you kids be in the backseat? You're on that long drive from from Minnesota. I don't know if you'll still arguing, but you all that long drive. To whatever destination the kids in the back. Corlin, you got, you're going to experience your standing by Corlin. You like guys, give it a break.

The Lord ever upstairs with me, just going to give it a break.

I sure feel like that. Would you get the blessing in that is I'm recognizing it and it causes me to go to my father Ingles Lord forgive me man. I need you, I'm desperate I'm with he is with me and I'm becoming more like him because I'm being with him. To do what he do. I'm going to the referee and I'm saying, man, forgive me, and he's like, huh? When you get here? Cuz I was saying, is that called that you made was wrong. He's like, dude, I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm a referee named Steve and I are really close friends. Because I'm asking for forgiveness and something he didn't even know what I'm talkin about. But when we see each other in town, we made this connection because I don't want to quarrel over words. We do our best to know the truth. Man. I'll get it wrong sometimes and I'll be the first one to confess it, but I'm trying, I'm trying to get in the scriptures and learn the best that I can. I am trying to know what the Lord is telling me and teaching me. And that's my, My Hope for you guys. My hope is that your diving into the scriptures to know him better? I think the best lesson that we can learn and walking with Jesus, anytime is just humility. Just a humble ourselves.

She lured, you were a servant leader. I want to be a servant leader to Humble myself for you and just figure out what I I walked from here. The last one. If, if somebody, if you got your Booker or

We we got the scriptures open right here. What's up? The last thing that says In this passage.

2nd, Timothy 3. Okay.

Bingo. Call Mike D. Big work. I'm going to I'm going to circle back over and and see what that really means. If we drill down, what does iniquity iniquity send?

God. Holy Any calls us to be holy. Just working on it, right? Cuz Jesus is the only perfect one but God is Holy, any calls us to be home. So we depart from sin, that woman at the well, I mean, when she was caught in adultery Jesus said, hey, whoever is without sin cast the first stone. Jesus told her go away and sin, no more.

So that's for us. Okay, I'm caught. Forgive me. How much do my best to send? No more. That's how we become approved by God is just doing our best to walk in that. This is a this is my dog and all of a sudden you know, in our past history, you happen to choose a child's life verse. What is what is your child's life verse? The one that you're going to pray over them and if you want the church to say, okay, we we agree to follow this. We're going to pray this over Kenzie page will. This was my oldest daughter's life first and man, you know, you do the best with first kid, right? So, I mean this was the one I memorized and I'm just, I'm cherishing it and I'm praying it over every day, all this different stuff. And so

This was this was the one that the pages have tried to adopt in walk. Trust. Hard word. Crushed, relinquishing everything.

Your first work will deal with Humanity. Do I really trust field? The building 20. Call sunfield busting in the office during the meeting and he's loud. Like me, he's got a great beard.

Just like field. After me, he'll come go with me. And we spent four hours together on Tuesday in Houston.

Because I trusted field field. Trusted me. It's a relationship that we have based on Christ. What is it? A smitch.

Of what it means when we trust in the Lord. We get to experience all of him. If we give it all over, we have no idea. The blessing that will receive on this Earth. As well as the next because it says, trust in the Lord with all your heart. Not what this marriage? Not with, just the areas that the nro, you're, you're willing to give trust in the Lord, with all your heart, lean. Not on, not on your own understanding, this flies in the way of everything, Western Christianity says, okay. Once I get my house paid off, once I've got everything set up for me, then I'll Trust in the Lord.

This is trust in the Lord.

Lean not on your own understanding. When society says, set you up now, just trust in him in all your ways acknowledge Him. You know what, ways are going on with you right now. You know, you know better than anyone here, only you and the Lord know what's going on in your life. I know bits and pieces but you and the Lord know everything. So, acknowledge Him. Bring him into it and humid sheep astray. That's what I'm looking for. I like to go fast. When do Fast on straight path. Not a crooked one. Walkaways this is been here the last couple weeks. So it must have been really important to Paul cuz he was writing it as as Jim put it last week as he was painting his last letter, it must have been really really important to him.

Did he make sure people understand?

No and walk with Jesus. So if you're here today and and you question about that, please talk to us afterwards. Talk to myself, Scott Mally, Melody. Karina

Am I a child of God? And then the next one. when you're interacting with the public at large people in the neighborhood, your workplace, the places where you live working play, does your speech reflect God. And your actions.

Be with Jesus. Become like Jesus and do what Jesus did, do your actions reflect Jesus. Those are the things for you to process this week as we walked