I Don't Know

Every now and then people will say, what are you preaching about this Sunday?

Yeah, we I have conversations and enjoy doing that, but I was really hoping somebody would ask me that question last week cuz this is the stuff I had prepared for last week. Nobody did. So it's really disappointed and so extra week, maybe somebody will this week Friday. Sean says, what are you preaching about? And I said, I don't know.

And if I had to give this form of the title, it would be. I don't know. Because what is it that we do really know. And what is it that you really build our lives around? You know, this. Cultural statements. Who, you know, but what you know, I told you once before about Sean and Sean of Johnny and Leslie and the only way they could get it taken off with it, go to the County prosecutor. So they went and met with County prosecutor and the guy says, are you the people with little red trucks that are you? The people who chose my daughter being the star of the show? Ya need me to do with what it was totally and we feel that all the time. Mark Twain said something to the effect, if it ain't what, you don't know the hurt you. It's what, you know? That ain't so. And that really is true and I see that and feel that in so many different situations. Terry did not like Mickey D's. Do you like to eat there? She was very patient through youth ministry in burn patients or grandchildren and afterwards. He was like I don't want to go back there ever again. So she did a McMuffin and forever you know, or the Avery Griffin. The guy says, you want bacon on that sounds good. So I cast of The Predator. Rings 818. And I'm like, I just want one.

And he said that's the price of one. $8. I mean I I went back and looked at this stuff in media because I wanted to make sure I was telling you what was really true for years. We bought them two for $3 and when they originally came out they were $0.63. This is the mid-seventies and the goal was to have a breakfast sandwich. You can buy with your loose change Suddenly that stain seems just a little bit, still a good sandwich. There was a kid at 3. Who had lost both of his parents when he was in high school. And there was a foster care, family at church, who would take him in and but totally unmotivated. Because you could talk to him and he didn't need to go to school. He didn't need to go to vo-tech. He did need to get prepared in anyway, because on his 18th birthday, he would receive $100,000. And that's what you going to do with it, a house and live on the interest. Yo it's not going to work that way you know you think you know and that there's a lot of money especially for somebody in that situation just finishing high school and there were a lot of things that could have been very helpful for him. If he can use it well and wisely. But he went through it in a weekend. He literally did when what he sought. It was going to be. We get into this real bad habit of doing things. We've always done doing his way. We've always done it doing it. Best based on the expectations that we have from the path right now, I'm cleaning house, getting rid of everything and the other day I had some some food and the little plastic container was just such a good one that I cleaned it out and put it under the cabinet with the other 20 that I'm fixing to throw in the trash.

Doesn't make any sense. We just kidding. Heavier. And, you know, we talked about that path of least resistance, the things that pull us in certain directions, and we wind up just going on our old course of behavior. Ephesians 4 22-24 cuz you were taught with regard to your former way of life to put off your old self which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires to be made new in the attitude of your minds and to put on the new self-created to be like God and true righteousness and holiness

I was working in the yard one day when the my neighbor in the morning and my neighbor came out to get ready to leave for the day and he had a bunch of stuff and he also had a can of an adult beverage and he said that on top of this car, put the stuff in the back seat, got in the car and left the can up there. He's backing out. So I wait to have you left on top of your car. He said, I know. Any blacked out very slowly like 2 miles an hour and pull that safe speed just to keep from saying I did something that might be able to stay. I know, I don't, I don't know. I don't know what's going on. And we knew that we had, we had plunged into that as well. You did something wrong. I know I did, I meant to say is that I meant to fall down. I mean, it was all part of my plan because we get so ego base amount. We think other people might be thinking about us, when you really get down to it, when you are person who feels like, you know, it all. And I think that applies to all of us at various moments, we kind of feel like I got this.

Did we put ourselves in a place where we don't really? Even eligible to function, spiritually. Because that's the total opposite of spirit live living. I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen this afternoon. I don't have any plans that answers all of the possibility, that's not for me to decide. It's so if I allow myself to develop or allow myself to acquire the Earthly, Manifestation of perception of just give me my best chance that I will take care of it. I can figure it out. What have we can? But a lot of times we can't, In order for us to be God's people in order to be led by God, we got to be willing to be taught. And if you know it all, there's not much room for that. Is Psalms 24 vs 4 & 5. David says, show me your password, Lord, teach me your pass Guide Me In Your Truth and teach me for. You are God, my savior and my hope is in you all day long at all. The other words of King. They're the words of a conqueror. There's the words of a a guy who killed the giant didn't really established a reputation just in one brief moment.

David says, I have so much to learn. And I know where the real source of wisdom comes and my commitment is to follow you.

Because I don't know. Psalms 119 verse 66 Again, David teach me knowledge and good judgment for I trust your commands. I know where truism come from, I know where the central core of life is it comes from you, God. And David is here, remind me himself and pleading with God, that he'll help him to continue to have dependence on God. Psalms 142. Verse 10. Teach me to do, your will for your, my God, may your good spirit lead me on level ground. Teach me to do, your will Lord about to have a class in a handout a handout. Let me take these two bullet points home and, and try to memorize some David Goes, how God teaches. And sometimes there's been very difficult parts of David's life, because God has thrown him some pretty big obstacles to deal with. And then we say, I want to be dependent on God, I want to trust God's what I want to go to that. God wants me to go. Then we're saying, I understand that the teaching process It's going to be yours as well.

Hebrews 2225. See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks, if they did not Escape when they refused him we warned them on Earth. How much less will we if we turn away from him? Who warns us from heaven?

We hear lots of things and. G out. What the writer here saying is, there's a, there's a higher voice. Are you listening to that?

Many things in your life that you thought good about bad about and good about bad about. I was going to mention foods and I thought, no, I don't want to be here till Thursday. There's times when we can think this is the greatest thing ever within the next week or so it's different things we can look in financial World, physical things, all kinds of things, this is the right thing. Only a decade later later maybe this ain't another bit of direction there. So what do you really know? What can you really Bank on? Absolutely, totally convinced. Is the way to go.

I'd like to look, there's a lot of confusion in this life and lots of voices, pushing us and trying to get us to go in a lot of different directions.

2nd Timothy chapter 1 in. This is my text. First 12. Paul says, that is why I'm suffering as I am. Yet, this is no cause for shame. He's in prison, this is the last book that Paul will ever write. He's fixing to be executed as a government political prisoner. This doesn't look good. It's not a great place to be, not only from what's going to happen to him. But for the reflection across the entire Brotherhood, people are going to be making assumptions about other Christians based on what rollem is ultimately going to do for Paul to Paul. And then he says, But I know whom I have believed. Does he know it all? Do I have everything figured out? Why not Paul?

I just have to know. Who it is? I have to know. I have to believe totally and completely in this direction in this application in my life and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have trusted to him until that day, what's Paul trusted to God and Jesus? Well, I'm just being too that this is the last. But the power will ever ride in a historically, even keep your history to the Bible. It appears that that is actually the case is that Paul is very shortly going to live his life.

You think of all the wonderful people he's going to see what he gets there.

Steven. Was there a moment? When Stephen came up the Paul. And they introduce themselves to each other again. You think they'd maybe you were a little bit Huffy. I think, when they met on the golden Streets, Run Road, another and we were sore Ben, Lovett got his price of it.

There are people up there now but I actually put there. but I believe, That he is able. To keep all of the one I've done and to guard against that or trusted to him.

That believe in pulse life becomes his foundation for everything that he does. And I think that's exactly what this passage of scripture is trying to humiliate us. You don't have to have all the answers because the questions are going to change. You don't have to everything so you don't have to have all down. Totally washed away. You have to say and know who Jesus is. And I believe he's able to do what he promised to do. And that's where I'm going to make the choices and that's what I'm going to answer to. It's what's going to have Direction. In my life. I was watching a YouTube video. And this. So the girl looks like about 19 or 20 and this is not part of the story. This is what I made up. But yeah I can see her home from college and they have this long staircase and she set up a video camera to capture her sliding down the stairway.

She's just out of frame and things. She says it makes such a point for me, was I guess that's why they told us we shouldn't do this.

It is just sounds like all those years. She's wanted to slide down the staircase. Maybe the tonight's the first time, she's at the house to ourselves. And so, damn.

That's why God stepped in the way he does. And he says,

If you will trust me, I'll get you. To where you want to go.

To know what, you know, and what you do. Not know that is true knowledge. now, that's a secular voice, but it seems thing that God is telling us What you doing that was important, what you can do is important but any when you know the difference and you know, that I am the difference. In the middle. Would you play with me?

Dear God, we thank you for this day and thank you for the blessings of this day. Father, we thank you that we can know. That we can look to you in the simply put her hand in yours. Or did you will take us where we need to go and help us in the obstacles? The crises that we have, we seen that over and over in our lives but it slides for memory, so easily other. We just asked that we short-circuit the process. You look to you. Look at your son and just say I know and I'll be with you. We thank you for forgiving our sins. We thank you for creating a home in heaven for us. We pray this through Jesus. Amen.

Mr. Greg, why did you pick this invitations home?

Okay, no, no, do that happens a lot. And I've mentioned it a lot and I just, yeah, we didn't talk. We didn't have a communication here but some