Fit 2 Serve Method

Performing The Common Uncommonly Well

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IN ORDER for God to bring out the best in His children, He brings about scenarios in our lives to build strength and character.When building our physical bodies, development takes on the form of pumping weights, running on a treadmill, and participating in activities that require tennis shoes. Workouts involve some sweat, heavy breathing, and perspiration because something is being developed. God allows trials and adversity to put us in gymnasium situations. Just like the Father did with His Son Jesus, He creates a workout scenario that includes a difficulty that we must work through.A lady came to work out at the gym. Everything about what she had on said she was going to go for a killer workout. She wore the typical attire, the headband around her head, wristbands around her wrists, and had a water bottle on her side. She stepped into a clear area and bent down to touch her toes in order to stretch. This woman looked very serious about working out. She grabbed some dumbbells, walked over to a bench, and sat down. Lifting the weights, she did a couple of bicep curls, put the weights down, and wiped herself off with a towel. In an exasperated voice she said, “Whoof! That’s enough for today!” This lady looked the part but she had not truly come to the gym for a workout.

James 1:1-4

1) “James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.

2) My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

How can a person consider trouble as an opportunity for joy?

This is a remarkable command—we are to choose to be joyful in situations where joy would naturally be our last response.

When certain circumstances make us angry and we want to blame the Lord, James directs us to the healthier alternative—joy.

Those who trust in God ought to exhibit a dramatically different, positive response to the difficult events of life.

3) knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

the troubles strengthen believers by adding endurance to the faith that is already present.

Endurance is faith stretched out; it involves trusting God for a long duration

4) But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”

It is not our nature to endure. When it comes to trials, we would rather escape, explain, or exit the difficulty. In fact, we will tend to do almost anything to avoid enduring a trial. Faithful endurance, however, generates whole people, recognized as strong in character, or mature.

We will be seasoned, experienced, well-developed, fit for the tasks God sent us into the world to do. This strength is a quality developed by how much we have learned from the trials we have experienced. We are also ready for anything because we have been fully trained. The weaknesses and imperfections are being removed from our character; we are gaining victory over old sins;

Which follows two pillars and these two pillars will be our

TWO POINTS TODAY!

#1 Faith Training - FROM THE INSIDE AND OUT

#2 Fitness Training - OVERCOMING ADVERSITY

Story: There was a TV show about a very heavy man who decided to change his life. This man was very heavy … around a thousand pounds. All he did was lie in bed, because that’s all he could do. He just lay in bed all day long waiting to die. His doctor had to come to his house to see him.

On one visit, the doctor shrugged and told the man that there was nothing else he could do for him. He said, “Well, if you are just going to lie here and do nothing, you are going to die. I can guarantee you that. Instead of lying there and waiting for death, at least die doing something.”

That struck a cord. The man decided to do something. The television show fast-forwarded to a year later and showed that same man, 250 pounds thinner and walking around. He decided that he didn’t want to go out like that. He chose not to settle.

Some of us have settled although we have the power to get up and do something through the power of God at work within us.675

1 John 4:4 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

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1st Point

FAITH Training

Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

7.8 Billion People In The World and 2.4 Billion of Them Are Christians

STAT SLIDE

Believe

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

We need to believe in Jesus Christ

Verse built on the rock

Story: When I came to the Lord

Humility

Proverbs 3:34 “Surely He scorns the scornful, But gives grace to the humble.”

Story: Jesus washed the disciples feet

Gave us a great example

Love

John 13:34-35 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.””

They will know that we are Hid disciples by our Love

This is not a suggestion it is a command

Phileo.....eros.....Agape

Story: We got kicked out of Gym For Jesus Music

Serve

Galatians 5:13 “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.”

We have freedom in Christ but our fredom should not be used for selfish gain. It should be used to serve others

Story: I rededicated my life to the Lord . It was all about SERVE

Character

Romans 5:3-4 “And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.”

Time under tension builds character

Story : Playing Tennis at an early age built character by the time I got to College

Transform

Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Catepillar into a butterfly-unrecognizable

Story: Watermelon China

2nd Point

Fitness Training

1Timothy 4:8 “For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.”

There are 41,370 fitness centers in the US.

Over 70 million adults in U.S. are obese

(35 million men and 35 million women).

99 million are overweight

(45 million women and 54 million men).

Nutrition

Foundational piece on the physical side.

Without controlling your nutrition you will be on a rollercoaster with your physical health & wellness.

You can’t out work your eating habits

1 Corinthians 6:19 “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?”

Story: So many times we chew on junk food and our taste buds change.

Mobility

Flexibility = Strength,

If we work on our mobility which is boring to most.

We will always be great at functionally moving through life at every level..

James 1:22 “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”

Story: People ask about how much you lift but not how flexible you are.

Endurance

Our heart is the most important muscle to train

This walking jogging, running.

This is as simple as walking.

We need to condition the heart the largest muscle.

Hebrews 12:1 “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 ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,”

Story: Ragnar race over 2 days 200miles

Gymnastics

Any exercise in which you move your body through a range of motion (ROM) or extended range of motion (EROM)

without an external load.

Push-ups, sit ups, pull-ups, air squats

Matthew 11:30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.””

Weights

When we have the proper stability we can add load

When all these things are in place.

This will make us stronger, faster, and set us up for longevity

Example - Picking something Up, Putting Something Down

Matthew 23:4 “For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.”

The Religious Leades where Burden Bringers

Jesus was Burden Takers

Sport

Putting all of our training in place to better ourself in sport

Example:

Coordination - tennis,

Jumping - basketball.

2 Timothy 2:5 “And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.”

In Closing our two Points

TWO POINTS TODAY!

#1 Faith Training - FROM THE INSIDE AND OUT

#2 Fitness Training - OVERCOMING ADVERSITY

Scale of 1-10 where are you on the the scale of Physically & Spiritually Fit?

The big question is what is God telling you to do?