Sermon Tone Analysis

You should have known better.

A couple weeks ago I have five or six guys that went to training in Mississippi.

While they were there two of them, both SWAT guys showed their butt.

They thought they knew more than the instructor and instead to keeping an open mind to the training, they didn’t think they needed it and so they started complaining and arguing and were acting like jerks.

One of them was a fairly new officer, a young guy.

The other one was his supervisor.

I didn’t even address the issue with the officer.

I dealt with the officer.

Not only do you know better, but look how you influence your officer.

He has been the instructor that had a bad student.

It’s a

When he looked at it from that perspective, it sunk in.

It changed his heart.

Change of heart

Ezekiel

Did you know you have the power to change your heart rate?

Combat breathing

This morning were are going to be looking at the change of heart that God allows us to make through Christ.

We will also examine how the decision making process works, and how we can make better decisions.

Stay Focused

Colossians

I am not prone to over reactions.

Understand the OODA loop.

Observe

Orient

Decide

Act.

Toss water bottle.

Talk about the warning.

Riding ahead

Observation and Decision

I can let my mind go places they shouldn’t.

We allow our selves to become disoriented.

Eliminate some decisions ahead of time

Dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, greed

Anger, wrath, malice, slander abusive speech.

Don’t lie.

Me Me Me

Hate, hate, hate.

Define how you will Act.

Put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

2 Corinthians 6:1-

It doesn’t matter what is happening in the world, or in your own deceitful heart.

It doesn’t matter what your going through or what you are feeling.

You have the Holy Spirit living inside you and the power of God in Christ Jesus at your finger tips and if you would submit to Him for just a second; not only would we not have the strife in our lives, we would see lives changed, through our obedience and His Power.

See all the angles

If you don’t take the time to see things from someone else’s perspective, you can’t act with their best interest in mind.

Walk a mile in his moccasins.

Poem 1895 “Judge Softly”

“Pray, don’t find fault with the man that limps,

Or stumbles along the road.

Unless you have worn the moccasins he wears,

Or stumbled beneath the same load.”

Forgive each other.

forgive each other for not forgiving.

Just as Christ forgave you.

John 13:

You are your brother’s keeper

Colossians 3:

Can you say or do it in the name of Jesus?