Free to start again (A New Start)

Father, in the name of Jesus, we just wanted to pray for your Holy Spirit to cover every single word that they was going to share with us. You have placed in his heart, Lord award for us to hear today, there's a port for someone today or perhaps all of us that will be transformed into Touch by what we are going to be listening today. So far. I just want to pray to open, heart open mind and allow the word of God to penetrate fully into our minds and our souls our hearts this morning. Father, thank you for Dave as he has been preparing for this moment. So thank you. Lord, and bless him. And in the name of Jesus, we pray. I mean

Thank you. If I say thank you to church but I usually swing online realize what the journeys. And so I'm ready to go. And then the computer Co-op right in the way for some very special software upgrade in this morning and every sound file, sounds like you're underwater. So that's what you were struggling with this morning and I understand from doing some research and a rapid pace of things that it's something to do with some drivers on the computer, going to have to try and resolve it but didn't know about it till this morning. That's why we went to live with it this morning but you know what is that? We will be able to get regular bikes with it.

We pressed into like Bush it unintentionally, but God has a plan. And we've been exploring a new start a new die as we come to the end of January, the end of the first month of the year, we've been talkin about a new stop alarm for this week about 3 to start again this morning.

I love you more. I'm already through on the price because I just sent

And I just bought her. I pray that your word would clearly speak for those Lords who who who need more of you. Automatic reply for the recording into things that go out later. That would be

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How many people have got it wrong this week? I'm going to ask you to put hands up. I'm not going to ask you what it is from time to time. Maybe we said something inappropriate. Maybe we we did something that. We not proud of might be a little envelope in the post, a little envelope in the police. Like they've, you were driving a little bit too fast. No cellular. Yes, I was just camera camera evidence. Then I have to take that consequence. There is a consequence for doing things wrong. I don't know. Some of us, I'm on my break. If somebody takes a picture of it, then take a picture of it. You got a little invitation to play something.

we do make mistakes, we do things that we shouldn't do and bring me through those things that we shouldn't do then often, we will find out that there are consequences

but sometimes there are things we feel I don't know what to do to put it, right? Am I beat you? We've got a broken relationship with a friend. Something's Happened. Woods of being said, a no one's picking up the phone, and no one's talking, and everybody's kind of feeling a little uncomfortable.

Yeah, that's what it's great to pry. When is great to repent, but I'm sorry for saying the things I shouldn't have said. Then what are you ever thought about this? But if you've ever had a speeding ticket, have you ever taken a bit of time to repent?

Is it August challenge by when I got the alert through the pass of yourself?

I'm going to say, sorry.

I'm outside. I got to be perfect. Could always drive out of the speed limit again cuz you so easy, but in Proverbs it says this, anyone who hides his sin doesn't succeed, but anyone who admits his sins and gives them up finds Mercy Find Messi Messi from the father.

You're one of the things that it's fascinating when you ever been through an annual review and you sit down with your boss and they talk about the things you should have done and they talk about things you've done well and then there's a bit of a kind of that that sandwich that goes on the tell you something good, they tell you something you need to improve. And then they tell you something good again I haven't done and and the boss just cuz you know what you really need to work a bit harder this. And yet. It always feels bad because you want to defend yourself and see what I did. My best orbis will battle the other. You know what? I think sometimes it's just good to say, you're probably right? Yes, I could have done better on my school report a couple of times in the years when I was in Primary School codes, do better?

In 2 Corinthians, 7, verse 10. It says this don't do, sadness causes us to Turner, what causes us to turn away from our sins and be saved. And we are certainly not sorry about that. But worldly, sadness bring staff.

Sometimes, there are things that we do that, do not break the law.

I thought you said and the spirit,

I need to do something though. Maybe I need to be more positive, maybe I need to speak into the situation. The Godly sadness that Spirit within us to turn us away from our sins so that we might be saved.

At what point on the journey, do we realize we're lost? We have shutting up now we have the technology better Press buttons like the turn left then right then. What are you done this recently and then you'll see if for whatever reason maybe this was broken and you caught in something you lost. Something is, oh my goodness. I don't know whether I am I because we hadn't looked at the map. We would have had an idea that we said, okay, I'm heading towards the Hopi and then I'm heading in this direction to maybe be looking at Pacific erodes. But now we just press the buttons and then suddenly we lost I think about some of the times when I've got lost and then it was a particular place where I was going to visit a client number of years ago. Now I wasn't using the am I headed down this road and then there was a road closure. So I had to couldn't go down the way I was planning to go to slide sunglasses and turn, right? And kind of had a bit of a gas and I'm going to get more lost than a bit more lost.

But here's the thing, I came to go back to the same place again. And now, when I go to certain Junctions, and I wasn't using the navigation, because I remember both routes would be Familia. B words would be something that we need to think about. So I didn't know whether I was off track or not.

So, I just stopped and I took a breath and I thought, what do I remember in track? I don't want to encourage you. When we feel maybe we're a bit off track, maybe we need to kind of take a note, take a breath. In Philippians 3 verses 13 and 14 in his brothers and sisters that I have taken. Hold of it yet. But here is the one thing I do. I forget what is behind me. I push hard toward. What is ahead of me? I move to go to go to win the prize. God has appointed me to win it. The Hadley price is Christ Jesus himself.

Let's be more like him. I'd be more like brothers, sisters, not having tight and hold of it yet. As one thing I do, I'm going to keep on moving. I'm going to keep on taking steps.

I'm going to press on. You're so easy to think long. I'm going to put my feet up, I'm going to give I'm going to take your pools. But why do we keep on we move on? Because the goal is to win the prize. How to win it? Well,

to be more like Christ and to know him fully

full specs of the Romans. I found my find price and I think I'll of the exploration of the Roman Road. I mean, Romans 8:28 says things God works for the good of those who love him. He pointed them to be saved in keeping with his purpose and I was there all day, I'm sure we've had. This is anybody listening?

One of the things that I often have to do it, but he's going to have to do a presentation record it and send it out to everybody around the world. They need to listen to it and then they required to listen to it and then I get people off the video cuz you're asking me questions. I've already told you the answer to

Do you know what? We need to be persistent. We need to press on. We need to press in and sometimes you and I will visit a friend will love our friend, will speak to a friend at this conversation before.

I remember visiting some friends, the other side of town, many years ago. Now. They come to church from time to time. I'm hoping to visit with them about a particular situation, about three years, lights up to visit them again, was having a coffee with them, and we had the same conversation. We were talking about the same thing in general. Why are we here again?

And I took a big deep breath, and then I went back into the room and I said the same things that I said, three years previously, maybe in a different life.

I think we have to have patience like he has bisons. We have to have persistence like he has positions. We need to present and we need to press on.

Hebrews. He's a great book of Hebrews 11, nice. Great Book of fight back, right? Chapter 15 and then that leaves to Hebrews 12. Therefore, we also since we are surrounded by so great. A cloud of witnesses. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin, which so easily, and snares us, let us run with endurance, the race that is set before us.

Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Who for the joy, that was set before him enjoyed the cross. Despising, shame on a set down at the right hand of the Throne of God.

For consider him who enjoyed such hostility from Sinners against himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your saw what he went through for us.

I'll go back to this cuz I do want to unpack some things is that for we are surrounded by so great. A cloud of witnesses. If you ever been to a conference, if you ever been to an event HD video conference in in the album, it's just like being in heaven. you can stop singing and you can listen to that the singing around, you just You must be transported to another place. Then we read laying aside every weight.

Every White and the sin, which so easily entangles, us.

Judy has brought a new rock for the office and it's one of them arrived. I'll rolled up. And it was light out what? When she enrolled it up. She said, well, accomplished down cuz everybody's going to end.

Boats tied outside and put some weights on it.

You have some little sorry things just a little thing from cruises to trick. Sometimes it could just be a few millimetres, you probably won't stay somewhere over the edge of a Paving slab. And you think how did I trip over that and then you realize it was just something very small. so let's lay aside, the wife of those things, unless run the race with Androids To win the prize. What is the price?

The author and finisher of our faith. Jesus who set before him and did nothing and enjoy the cross for you and me, despite despite the spitting on the scourging, if he's back.

Galatians chapter 5 it says this the one who chooses you does not keep you from a bang, the truth. You should know that just a little yeast. Works its way through the whole batch of dough.

Do you know what we can be catalysts, which I do we can be light in Dark Places. But you know what, I'll go to talk Chinese. Reach Out is rechargeable and so when I come to use it I can press the button and he's so fine. But if I don't plug it in to charge it up the moment that I need it, I'll come to press the button and it'll be flat, and you'll be no use for two. It's meant to bring light but it doesn't bring like you and I have to bring lights into dark places we meant to bring Clarity into confusing situations because We all aren't we? All hope you are the light of the world. You are the salt of the earth.

And this scripture says, a little least lightens the time. I want you and I to realize that we are catalysts for change but we still need to be plugged back into the power source if we all are that rechargeable torch and we got to go back to the power source and plug yourself in the Holy Spirit. Empowers us enables us to take us to be able to do any more than we ask or imagine.

I'm sorry I'm going to contact bring this to a close. This is written in Timothy. I want to encourage you so we could all say this, I have fought the good fight. I have finished the rice, I have kept the faith. He's not just something to think about for the end of our lives, but the end of a diet, the end of the week, the end of the year.

Maybe even the end of the situation, but maybe sometimes we actually feel like we're in a fight. What have we done? The best that we could do have? We broke rice and tenderness have we bought consideration and mercy into the conversation.

When I was asked you many, many, many years ago. Now I was reminded of this cuz I was talking to some students that I was teaching on Wednesday this week and I was telling a story or two story and these are not Christian students ask you tomorrow around the world starting a particular topic and I say to them how sometimes once you know something you go to keep on saying you couldn't keep glaring it, like they were talking about how in that group they were trying to make something happen. I need my key. In that something happened, they want the green. And then a number people to groups that awful. I just gave up because nobody seems to be listening. I said, did you come up with the right answer? And they wouldn't know. He said we should have kept on and kept on and then I have a scene in black and white 12, Angry Men. you may remember this film when they were twelve jurors and they come to vote on the particular situation and one man disagrees How do you tell someone he disagrees? And everybody goes well, this disagreement 2, + 10, and then three and nine, and then four nights, and start even show any tell if I should. It was 11 and 1. They needed in the united Masti station and the chairman of the of the jewelry eventually turned around and said well okay I'll go with you.

But it came out of persist persistent. It came out of perseverance and I want you to be able to say that. So I have fought the good fight, I have finished the riced, I have kept the fight, that was an opportunity for a new start every day. Every moment, any wrong doing the right just on, Father, forgive me and he is gracious. And just to forgive us, our sins, A consequence of the price of simple choices.

So, let me fry.

Probably. I pressed. You want to thank you.

There is a white. Three part of your kingdom. I used to believe in trust and know that Jesus, your son was sent to be all so you can just say

I'm sorry for all the gods. We thank you for sending your son, your one and only son that whosoever believes in Him. Should not perish, but have everlasting life. although I pray for all those who were listening, whether that is being now in the room online listing lights are although I pray that each one of us would know, We're all Destiny's Destiny's happening in eternity with God. Not an eternity without

so we want to choose Jesus.

I'm sorry, I'll put all trust in Jesus. Put off faith in Jesus, your one and only son.

The father even believing in Christ from time to time. We still get it wrong. And so, father, help us to keep shorts. It can help us from the things that we not proud of the things that we should. Cuz we will find grace and mercy at the foot of your the fruits of your throne. You're just God. But you are a gracious and merciful god. Received these pricing. receive all I'll come to seishun otoko cuz we talk to you. Let's be pressing to you. As we trust you. In Jesus name. Humming.