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What discipline can do
I have never been a huge fan of car racing…Growing up all of my uncles were into it and I never really understood it...
See when I was a kid I never saw race car drivers as athletes the same way that a football player is or a baseball player
That is until I saw Netflix’s Documentary on F1 Racing...
Not only do these guys need to be in absolute peak physical condition to handle a car going as fast as they go but they need to have split second reaction times.
This documentary showed some of their workout routines, I mean you need to be in shape to withstand 4-5 G’s of force for 300KM
For these guys though, F1 Completely consumes their lives...
What they eat, how long they sleep, which exercises they are doing, how their mental health is doing...
What you have to do to get on the podium of an F1 Race is all consuming
These men who race F1 have their entire existence organized around standing on a Podium one day
The athletes who wake up and say, “I am going to have a cheat day” or “I don’t feel like working out today”
They don’t get podiums and they will actually lose their seat in F1
They have to get out there and keep up their routine even if they don’t want to do it
This is what it means to have discipline in your life.
To get out there and do something even if you don’t want to do it
I have come to really respect the sport for the physical effort needed to be a driver but also all of the metal focus it takes to compete at such a high level
There are 20 Men at a time who have made it onto the seat of an F1 car.
That’s it…Just 20 people in the world with the skill and the discipline to compete at that level
If you want to be the best at something then you need an extraordinary amount of discipline in that area
A discipline is any activity within our power that we engage in to enable us to do what we can not do by direct effort.
Here is what I mean by that
None of us here could actually get into an F1 Car and drive it
Probably no one here can get suited up, suit up and sit in an F1 car and even drive the thing, let alone race it…
In fact none of us would be able to turn on an F1 car…You need a team of engineers to do that
It takes intentional training to be able drive one of these cars, to turn in on and to be able to perform in it.
Now if it takes a lifetime of training just to be able to handle a special car...
What does it take in our lives to become like God?
This is what we are created for right?
We were made in his likeness?
In his image?
The Apostle Paul reminds us that God wants to make us new…Its called Christ-likeness
Now just to be clear it takes no effort or discipline can save you.
Thats because salvation only comes from the blood of Jesus on the cross.
How much more does it take in our lives with God to become the sort of person who lives and acts like Jesus?
What I have noticed about all of these drivers is that all of their training affects their character...
They put so much time and effort into driving fast…what happens with their character?
The driving training shapes their character whether or not they like it or not...
But we as people of God need to be primarily concerned with who God is making us to be
and how do our disciplines help shape that or hurt it?
What we do by default can either help or hinder our walk with God...
We could either live by default or by discipline…And living by default can be disastrous
So today is going to be a bit different in our sermon on the mount series...
I want to look at two things that the structure of the sermon on the mount reveals
1. Jesus gives an invitation to his righteousness
2. but then embedded within the sermon Jesus talks about three disciplines…and he just sort of assumes that we are all doing these three disciplines
So first: Jesus talks about righteousness
Structure
So what I want to do is show you some of the structure of what is happening in the sermon on the mount and hopefully you will see one of the overall points of why Jesus gave this sermon
So right in the opening of the sermon on the mount Jesus praised people who hunger and thirst for righteousness and who want it so bad that they are willing to endure suffering for it
Then in the next big section Jesus says this
So then in the rest of Chapter 5, Jesus says that he expects that our righteousness would surpass that of the most religious people
All through the sermon on the mount Jesus is confronting these systems of old righteousness
Like the scribes and the Pharisees were just focused on not doing wrong things
They were focused on the specific actions that would make them good people
It is much the same way that we think today by default about being a good person
When I was a kid my mom trained us to do a good deed for the day
and that is great, there is nothing wrong with that, we should all do good deeds every day
But the pharisees taught that righteousness was all about doing good deeds whereas Jesus taught that this all came from a renovated heart
See what Jesus actually taught was the gospel that God’s life is available to you today, this is called the kingdom of God
And if God’s life is available to you today then that means his righteousness is available to you today too
It means that God wants to renovate your heart and make you into the sort of person who he can extend his righteousness through
This is the gospel…That Jesus’ life is available to you today and he wants to transform you
So then Jesus tells us to practice righteousness but just not “to be seen’
so in this sentence there is an expectation that we ought to be doing righteous things...
The people of God ought to do good!
Don’t seek after false sources of righteousness…Seek after God’s righteousness
The sermon on the mount is all about righteousness and what it does is sort of confront the old way of righteousness
The old system of righteousness was all about not doing bad things
Don’t murder
Don’t commit adultery
Don’t lie
And what Jesus was saying is that we can not experience true righteousness without a full heart renovation.
See following Jesus is all about reorganizing your life around his life…and how do we do that?
But how do we get to that?
On some level we are all at church today because we want more of God...
Many of you are here every week out of habit and that is a great thing…you’ve built a discipline of coming to church....
But I think the main question is how do we reorganize our lives around Jesus in such a way that it
So in just the same way that a formula one driver has to train just to get in the car…They need to lead a disciplined life
We also need to discipline ourselves for righteousness...
So in the middle of the sermon on the mount Jesus then talks about 3 disciplines
Matthew 6:2 (NIV)
“So when you give to the needy...
Matthew 6:5 (NIV)
“And when you pray.....
Matthew 6:16
“When you fast....
disciplines shape us for righteousness
The assumption of Jesus is that his listeners were already doing these activities and Jesus was simply shaping the way that they did them
Giving, praying and fasting were merely part of public life
These were disciplines that were practiced carefully and under the watchful eye of the pharisees
But Jesus just slightly tweaked these activities....
Where everyone at the time was practicing their religiousness publically…they were doing it for some kind of religious clout...
Jesus said…do it in secret…Because the secrecy of practicing giving, prayer and fasting shapes your heart
What these disciplines do is that they slowly and over time re-organize your life around Jesus
So lets finally get to our sermon on the mount text for this morning shall we?
So Jesus first and foremost calls us to practice our “religious” efforts with him in secret
So then he says this about fasting
and again you see here that the discipline of fasting is to be done in secret but I wanted to spend a few minutes this morning talking about the importance of fasting
The discipline of fasting
The discipline of fasting is essentially abstaining from food or some kind of drink in a significant way
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