November 11, 2018 Sun am John 13:34

And allow myself to have that piece cuz he's willing to give it to us, but we have to be willing to accept it.

James 4:11 through 12 says that brothers and sisters do not slander one another anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judge is it when you judge the law you're not keeping it but sitting in judgment on it, there is only one lawgiver and judge the one who is able to save and Destroy, but you who are you to judge your neighbor? Don't judge your neighbor. We do we judge the world. We love to judge the world. I'll look at what those people are doing. Look at what they're doing that way, but they're trying to take away from us. Look what they're trying to walk up. Look on Facebook and all these different places and we're worried about being persecuted. We were told we were going to be persecuted Jesus told us that we need to accept that and endnote and not allow ourselves to be distracted from our core job description is to show significant of to love to to seek and save the Lost anything else. That we get distracted with they're pushing us away from what airport job description is we can't allow ourselves to be distracted by the world.

John 15:12 says as the father has loved me so I have loved you now remain in my love. If you keep my Commandments, you will remain in my love just as I have kept my father's commands and we made it his love I have told you this so that my so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete my command. Is this love each other as I have loved you? Netsports John 15:9 through 12. Why does God want us to because he loved us first says it right there in the scripture. He loved us first and because he loved us first our love is our face faith in action. It should be Our Fate In Action cast hot as my example Jesus spoke to people where they were Jesus didn't speak to them from an elevated. I'm the Son of God actually tried to shy away from even being called Christ. Stay because it was political at that time. He spoke to people where they were. He talked to the Rich Young Ruler and he told the Rich Young Ruler what he needed where he was that he needed to give up all his possessions. That was what that person needed to do. He spoke to him where he was when we talked to people made it to love people be able to spread the word of God. We have to be willing to show the scriptures. We have to be willing to show What God Says about salvation, but we have to do so with love and we have to speak to people where they are not where we are or where they are.

So and ask the guys this question cuz I can I can relate to this is when you're talking to your wife and sometimes you're just sitting there and the TV is on or whatever. Have you ever had a situation too many years. Have you been married? Maybe maybe it's reverse. I don't want to be on one side of the other speaking from my own perspective and your and your spouse will say talk to me. And an insult you look at your spouse. I am looking at mine right now. So she better get her ass. So so you look at your spouse and I wanted to tell you this for a long time, and I don't know how to say it. But The plumber is coming at 4. So if you can be here, that would be good. If it's important right that it is important that the plumbers coming right cuz you know, I have 4 kids and they do not stop up the toilet.

That we really tell the people that we love that we love them and enter talk about things other than while work is I'm guilty. Really really guilty of talking about work, especially this week and all these things happening and talking about that. Don't get really excited about that. But am I talking about things that really matter to my spouse to the people that that are at a point of saying this is that that is God God saying to love me love me first and then love your brother, but is he such an egomaniac in the sky to say tell me how great I am tell me how that's not what he's doing and you can see it in the scripture what he's saying is love one another what he's saying is talk to me. Show me how much you love me by how you play the words by the thought but it matches of all the things that you say and do show me that you love me. Don't just tell me. And that's how we do. So, let's get the road. Again. Thanks Doc for the car pictures and rrwards think about our words can can scare our lives are words using the wrong words using the wrong words with the wrong spots and we'll talk about that. These are kind of combined, but I thought I'd tackle words burst. They can take us in a direction that we don't necessarily want to go. So I used to go 1986. I was 16 1516 and I went to a I'll tell you in in high school and that age. I was not a ladies man at all. I was scared to death of girls. And so I was in Quebec and they spoke French. I spoke some French not a whole lot but enough and and this these kids had been making fun of me and this girl walks up to me again. I was a very you would know by now. Very short and gangly little kid and itchy walked up to me and she was trying to speak English cuz she was French and she said are you a dog or hog Lee and it ended by this right? So I just look at her and I go

Which means you're a dog, too. Best I could come up with him shortly was the fact that I said in French. I was even more minute. Anyway, I did that and then she goes and she looks at me and she goes to gym sorry, and she You a dog is this what happen if we say the wrong words and we don't think about the words that were using receive them with the wrong intentions. Things can go wrong James 3 5 through 6 is wise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes grape consider. What a great Forest is set on fire by a small Spark. The tongue also is a fire a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body and says the whole course of one's life on fire and itself set on fire by hell are words can affect others are words can affect us others words can affect us and we can hear him and we can see him and we can feel him but we have to answer that with with Christ course. I I've extended my questions out there to the individuals is very requested and one of them that that I I got was about the fact that how do we answer? Hatred in the world. How do we show love when all we see is haters? Whether it's racial hatred. Where are there? It's whatever it is, and I can be difficult even to even answer but they are the answer is the person that ask a question to the answer and the answer is Jesus.

I lost a friend this week. If I was 8 years old and my name is my next door neighbor. He was from a family with his parents born in England, but they were generally from Jamaica and I change my life and directly or indirectly with this person and we'd stayed in contact for a long time and he passed away this week, but I write my thoughts this morning driving in when should we were driving riding our bikes and and there had been mrs. In the mid-to-late 80s and there had been some racial tensions and the new alarm in New York border. It's all the Americans become off into Canada where I grew up into neck Niagara Falls, Ontario is where I grew up and This car can decide if we're riding single-file the right way on each other in this car came up windows rolled down. They looked at me then do anything drove up faster and to my friend and pelted him with about six eggs and took him down.

and What I always say when things like this happen. I'm up by brush. The egg shells off his jacket and I was angrier than he was ice. And what is a do, you know, those guys are like he knew what was going on and there have been some tensions at that point. And he said, it's not me. It's the color of my skin. And all I can say is going to do anything we can talk about that much but I can tell you was both of us from that point and maybe for me it was from that point, but I learned that did to see that hatred and to pay hatred and that's possible that that's what to see that and to not want that.

Around that concept around the fact that race doesn't matter that this these things don't matter but it is that we answer it with Jesus that we realize that Jesus didn't care about who someone was Escape for everyone.

Proverbs 15 verse 26 is a lord to test the thoughts of the wicked were gracious words are pure in his sight words can be difficult to say, sometimes we can try to figure things out and we can try to say things. I have a history. I could be up here telling you stories all day long about things that that were me trying to say these words in the words don't come out and I liked it a task manager just comes out in gibberish right, but but we try to communicate and so going back to the story of of me and Aunt and girls at this point. I was in college and still deathly afraid of girls had a little more confidence is my zits finally cleared up but I like there was this girl that I knew that guy didn't know where buy a new people that you or they say. I think she might like you and I okay. Well, maybe I should talk to her and you should ask in this room until I'm like, I was scared to death even talked to her just normal for me. And so I'm like over here and Mike my brain didn't get the answer cuz my feet were already walking over toward so I'm over there. I have no idea what I'm going to say. She said she looks at me and I look at her. She looks at me in. she kept looking at me cuz I was standing there with my mouth and I said

and and then I tried again and I said and then the third time.

She said, okay. Coming up on 24 years on that one. So that their difference is is it can we get the words of Love out? Can we get the things it does not just what the words were but was the feelings behind those words and are they God's love are they pure? What is the motive behind those words?

Proverbs 12:6 is the words of the wicked lie in wait for blood but the speech of the upright rescues them. I haven't seen that one before and I kind of I kind of like that that scripture the words are of love words of compassion Reach people. The world prepares us to 2122 B. Fight Fire with Fire Red that's what they want us to be but it's the word that we are talking to God. We were talking to each other. We're talking to God and we're communicating who we who he is and who we are.

So now we go into our thoughts are thoughts Drive our words don't they? To a point where we so nice we have to harness our thoughts and harness our mindset because we can be angry or we can we can feel something and we have to like this. That happens so we have to be able to control our thoughts to control our brains to control. Our hearts is ultimately that's what we're talking about is where it's coming from from our core. Can we communicate? Without words can we communicate just do our thoughts that I'm horrible at like my facial expressions you I'm a terrible liar is my face shows it and I just I can't I can't say something people know you were upset about that. How did you know she can she's got this look of death when she gets to the kids. I caught it on camera a couple times. He said he got caught in the crossfire one time and I read her thoughts because of what is so we can say the words.

People still know people know if you doing this with different ways. You can say sorry.

Sorry, sorry. Sorry million different ways. And then there's

Sherlock the one from the heart people know because our hearts are behind those words and that's how we show love to show love to each other.

Matthew 5 21 through 22. It was said that people to people long ago, you shall not murder and anyone who will be subject to judgment, but I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment against anyone who says will brother or sister Rock up is answerable to the court and anyone who says you will be in danger of the fire of hell. So showed you that our anger can lead us to send our anger can lead us to judgment. And that we have to control what we say. God calls us to do that. That our thoughts alone can be send we see that in Matthew 5 27 through 28 you have heard it was said You shall not commit adultery, but I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. We think about the fact that that that can be difficult. That could be something that is a challenge. But that God gives us an answer that God says something like okay. Right along right after I causing you to stumble.

Gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body and for the whole body to be thrown into hell and that if your right hand causes you to stumble.

It is better for you to lose one part of your body then for your whole body to go into hell scripture what God is saying to us is if it's the television it's causing you to send turn it off. She's only people that complain about what's on TV bladder control it cuz we have that way to control it right now by fight streaming in all these different controller comes into your house.

Or the old-fashioned way and far as I know they still have power buttons, right? So we have to turn off if it's on your phone turn it off. If it's not whatever it's saying that whatever is causing us to whatever is causing our thoughts to not show up and not be loving to not be what God wants us to be we have to cut it out of our lives. Romans 10 verse 10 just four days with your heart that you believe in or justify it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved Romans 10:10 this to happen in line to be able to show up because otherwise words I say if the words that come out and my my brain is not my heart is not with one than the words mean nothing.

Let's delve into our actions where the rubber meets the road.

Where we where did you learn to drive a car? Behind the wheel or with the little rules of the road book that they give you okay. We know that we know what the rules are. We know what we're supposed to be saying we know it wasn't through the rules waiting Through the Bible. We know what what the commands are more supposed to do for where we learn to live.

Is my living practically it's like doing right. That's how we learn to drive is by doing it. I can read a book called and how to fly a plane until I fly a plane. I'm not really going to be a pilot. Right? So I would hope that the that the passengers would appreciate that. So the point is that that we have to come out of our hands. It has to come out of her we have to be willing to be mobile with the word and to make a difference. It's not enough to just say it James 2 14 through 17. What good is it my brothers and sisters if someone claims to have faith but has no Deeds can such Faith save them suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them go in peace keep warm and well-fed. What does nothing about their physical needs what good is it in the same Faith by itself is not accompanied by action is dead. Show me if I see that somebody is in need unlike off. Good luck with that and walk away. What am I doing? I'm walking away. I'm sitting I am not doing something to help that person. Even if it's doesn't have to be monetary if it's emotional and it's helping them. It's doing all these different things but there's ways to help people we have to be willing to do that. But what happens if we get stuck with our daily lives and we don't have the time and sometimes a desire to do these things. We have to look back at the word to realize that we need to have that desire. We need to be that sports car that we need to be willing to move at a moment's notice to be ready to rebuke and exhort into two given it a test of why we believe what we do to be ready in season and out of season.

So we have to do start at so that's what happened were first baptized what kind of sports car cuz you want to help people. We want to serve Bible studies and make a difference if I just learned and in the difference in him that Jesus is made in my life. Great how we all should be then what happens is overtime. Got other priorities things happen in life get a family. Happy time. You didn't have power steering. Our priorities have changed things focused and we're not helping as much we're not showing love. We're not doing all the things to build up the church that we're supposed to do and it and it takes that react formation of the word. Remember where we came from is as God tells us so many places to remember who we are what our job is what is our job description my job description all things. I see on Facebook saying bad things about Christians. My job is to love the world and to love my fellow Christians and let God judge the world.

Sometimes it happens if we let things go so far that we end up with a rust bucket. I got this from typing the Google rust-bucket. That's exactly what came up. And so so what did happen is if we are not effective and we are not loving people enough then you can start to erode our hearts. We can start to become negative. We can start not coming to church and forsaking the assembly and not being who were supposed to be because the law is not in our hearts. Our actions are not having our actions reaffirm our heart. Our actions are actions you just as much for us as they do for the person we're doing it for because it shows us and shows God that we love him. And that we've read his work.

Peter Love Jesus Peter had a great Bay. Peter was a man of action didn't always Engage The Brain first right before he did things. He was a little impetuous is like I had a dog like that. What time did he would Jumpman like midair? Where am I going to land? Right sir. Peter was quick to which is a good quality in a lot of cases of Peter saw Christ on the water and when others body was a ghost Peter called out to Jesus in Matthew 14, 27 through 31 what Jesus immediately said to them take her as it is, I don't be afraid Lord if it's you Peter replies is Matthew 14:27 31 tell me to come to you on the water. Come he said and then Peter got down out of the boat and he saw the wind and he was afraid and beginning to sink Cried Out Lord save me immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him you of little faith. Why did you doubt so we know that Peter didn't fail fail here in a lot of ways because you is Peter got out of the ball Peter took action.

Mike Padilla, but he got out and and he did something about it, but he wavered he started to sing. But what did he do after that?

So my answer is when we do. When we try to love we try to take action we try to use the words we try to use the art where have the right. And we take those actions to love someone to show fake We start the sink because I can happen. Are we reaching out to Jesus? And I think the better question is are we reaching out to Jesus first or are we trying to grab on anything we can back here? That's the difference. charger wrap up What is our motivation? What's our gas? What's our fuel? What's driving us? We know that that bar was driving us. It's God's promises God sacrifice sacrifice Romans 6 8 through 11 know we died with Christ. We believe that we will also live with them for we know that since Christ.

Was raised from the dead he cannot die again has Mastery over him the death. He died he died for all but the life he lives he lives to God in the same way to sell dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. If we have accepted Jesus for the remission of our sins, and we are living that life. We are dead to our old selves. There is no sin that can bind us anymore because Jesus is already beat spiritual death, but yet our hearts are mined have to be in Focus. We can't just do what we want. We can lose that Salvation Army motivation has to be to win that race Luke. 9:62 says Jesus replied what's a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God. There's no going back. It shouldn't be we shouldn't be looking back on. All of I wasn't at church. I could be out there doing this and playing softball 96 we are supposed to God is our priority. We're supposed to not look back at our prior lives. John 13 verse 34 through 35 or initial scripture this morning a new command. I give you love one another as I have loved you.

By this everyone will know you are my disciples if you love one another. We're supposed to be identified by that love. We know that if we haven't accepted price and we have to hear his words that we have to to Believe In Christ. We have to repent of our sins. We have to confess Christ as our savior. We have to be baptized for the remission of her since I feel the descriptor sums out those points very well Romans 6 8 through 11 says now we died with Christ. We believe that we will also live with him for that. We know that since Christ was raised from the dead. He cannot die a death no longer has Mastery over him the death. He died he died to sin once and for all but the life he lives he lives to God in the same way count yourselves, but alive to bring Christ Jesus. So we hear that scripture we hear that scripture again and again and realize that that is the the reason that we have to go motivation to be able to do these things the say the things that were supposed to love one another and to show that love because when we show that love we're telling we're talking to God. We are reflecting that love to God. So if you have a need this morning, we has to come to work as we staying at 7.