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This week we launch a four week series entitled “Brutally Honest”.
Brutally Honest: not holding back from speaking what is on your heart and mind.
Being “Brutally Honest” with yourself.
What does it mean to be brutally honest? It is not holding back and telling the whole truth.
Spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down in the most delightful way.
Examine all your motives?
Self Inventory? Is this to much.
How do you have a “Brutally Honest” conversation with yourself?
*Use Brutally Honest Questions throughout sermon series.
*I am not okay! - I have gotten in a rut and I don’t know how to get out!
Is it okay to say I am not okay. Here at Church on The Hill it is okay to say you are not okay.
Talk sanely and forgivingly to yourself. Do not beat yourself up.
Pay attention to the labels you apply. The labels we use are often convenient symbols, but they don’t connote your entire existence. - I am an alcoholic vs. I am a faithful believer in Christ that struggles with alcohol.
What kind of questions should I be asking myself?
What areas of my life have I let go by the way side?
Where am I with my walk with God?
What areas of my life do I have that are unhealthy and damaging?
Do I eat to much drink to much?
What kind of negative self talk do you do?
If you spoke to your best friend the same way you spoke to yourself would you still be friends?
Do you think to highly of yourself?
Am I happy about who I have become? Why or why not?
Am I to old to change?
I am going to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
Brutally Honest Question to Self: Why did I say that, why did I do that.
40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
Examine
Brutally Honest Question to Self: Am I on the right track with God? Y/N
Am I living out the life God called me to live? Why or why not? What is hindering me from becoming what God has called me to be?
What spiritual practices do I need to reinstate into my life? What spiritual rhythms do I need to start doing?
Quarantine during 2020 was a nice break for the first two weeks. Then I missed gathering with other believers.
4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else,
Brutally Honest Question to Self:
Well I am not as bad as that guy. We should compare ourselves to God’s standard, not to anyone else.
Why do we always compare ourselves and how we are doing to someone else when all God ask is for us to give an account of ourselves and no one else?
How am I measuring up compared to Jesus?
Why did I say that, why did I do that?
59 I have considered my ways and have turned my steps to your statutes.
59 I pondered the direction of my life, and I turned to follow your laws.
Consider / Ponder / Think: The Psalmist always seem to take time and self examine.
Brutally Honest Question to Self:
Are my ways lining up with God’s ways?
On a scale from 1-10, 1 being horrible and 10 being Never better (work on this)
My ways vs. Gods ways.
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
Brutally Honest Question to Self:
You may have noticed that on some pictures of Abraham Lincoln there is a wart on his cheek but that on others it is not there. As one artist was preparing to paint his portrait, he began to have Lincoln move around. He said, “President Lincoln, will you sit here?” Then this man would move his easel and have Lincoln shift around again. President Lincoln began to smile because he saw what the artist was doing. He was trying to get Lincoln in a position where the wart would not show. Finally the artist was satisfied, and he asked, “President Lincoln, how do you want me to paint you?” Lincoln replied, “Paint me just as I am—wart and all.” That’s what a mirror would tell you; if you have a wart, it will show up. That is one reason many of us don’t like to spend too much time in the presence of a mirror. My friend, the Word of God will tell you what you are.
Michael Jackson: Man in the mirror
Hearers but not doers.
28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. 29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment. 32 Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world.
5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?
End with this verse and make a call of salvation.
Brutally Honest Question to Self:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference, living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; taking this world as it is and not as I would have it; trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will; so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.