Romans 14 - 15

Greater love hath. No man than this in a man. Lay down his life for his friends, aren't you thankful for that today? That God loved us. He sent his son to die on the cross for you. And for me this morning, if you have your Bibles, go with me, if you will do Romans chapter 14, we're going to pick up where we left off. We weren't here last week. Those of you who were here, knew those who weren't here. You didn't know that, but we were awake camping for the weekend. So. Wonderful time of camping and good time to just get out and Ponder God's nature and in life. The song We sang, first this morning, now is the time to worship. Really is an important song to think about as we get into the word of God today. Come as you are to worship. God wants us to come as we are. He does not want us to leave. Unless we're better than what we are. When we leave out of this place, right? How often do we come to church just to get through it? Just to get, this is our Traditions. What we do on a Sunday, this get done with this so we can get on with our life.

And I've heard Christian say that. Maybe not in those exact words. But what life would we really have apart from Jesus Christ? What life would we have? If Jesus is not really a part of our everyday life and he ought to be it's not Sunday morning thing of worshiping God. It's an everyday thing. You wake up every morning. You see the sun shining? Or even if it's not shining, you still worship God. This is the day, the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. We looked at the first few chapters chapter 12. Chapter 13, but these four verses and four chapters here chapter 12 through chapter 16. Tell us about God's righteousness. Today. We're going to deal with God's righteousness and practical Christianity. We sort of lose that practical Christianity, when we began to include the ways of the world. What's going on the 21st? Century, what's happening today and our societies around us. We try to include that into our life. We try to have one foot in the things of God, and one foot in the things of the world and scripture tells us. That's Shaky Ground. You cannot serve God and Mammon meaning, you cannot serve God and the things of the world. We have to make a choice of what's important to us. Sadly, too many times. We make that choice and it's not always The Godly choice that we make it sometimes. The whirly choice, that comes our way and it seems as if many times were okay with that. Romans chapter 14, as we get into our word today. We need to understand that God wants us to serve him. With all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our being everything. We have holding back. Nothing. Keep your fingers. Romans 14, because we're going to jump back to Romans chapter 1. We're going to look at verses 16 and 17 as we begin this morning. Paul says in Romans 1:16, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation for everyone, who believes for the Jew first. And also, for the Greek, for in at the righteousness of God is revealed from Faith to Faith. As it is written, the just shall live. By faith. How are you living today? What is your life all about? What is important to you? And how you live your life. How are you perceived by those in the world? Do we strive to just be a little bit ahead of them? Are do we strive to be what God wants us to be? Scripture says, I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. I can be anything. I want to be through Christ. I can do what I want to do it through Christ. I just had to make sure it's through him. Not of my own want smaller, Moen worship Lord. What would you have me to do? That was Paul's question on that Damascus Road Lord, what would you have me to do? And God answered it, maybe. And not the way he was expecting. But in the way that God desired it to be, as we get into the word, this morning, Father open our hearts and our minds help us to put aside the business of our days of business of Our Lives where she happy with everything we have, as we come in here today to worship. When we walk out of here today. May we be changed for the better leaving behind the things that are keeping us from serving. You leave me behind the things that or are not helping us to in and build up the body of Christ, but father help us to reach out. As you would have us do with your power with your spirit to those around us. In Jesus name, we pray. Hey, man, we're looking for is Wands. Reversed nine hear Romans chapter 14 as we began. But what he shares with us in this passage. Is this thought your love may be tested by Christians. Who disagree with you more than unbelievers who persecute you think about that for a second? Your love. Maybe you disagree with you more than by unbelievers who persecute you? Do you love those around you? Do you love the Lord? First and foremost? Our love for the Lord. Then we follows up with the love for those around us. Our love for those around us ought to be. A pattern of our love for the Lord. Somebody said it takes a diamond to cut a diamond. Right. Takes a diamond to cut a diamond, scripture, says our iron sharpens iron. So a man's strengthens, a countenance of his friends. So what then should we do? When a brother or sister in the Lord disagrees with you on? How God's people ought to live?

You got, you know, that I get up here every Sunday and the Sunday's that I'm here, but mostly every Sunday. I try not to take too many Sundays off, but the older I get.

The more I seem to need, I don't know.

Right. I mean, I heard you guys, when you set down this morning, and I said, somebody sitting down and they're going to hear when you get up.

How do we, how do we treat those around us? Do we have a my way or the highway kind of attitude? Do we think that we've got, it figured out more than somebody else.

He talks about Acceptance in verses 1 through verse 9. Not all not, all believers are mature. Think about that? Not all believers are mature, love demands that mature members of the family, defer to the immature. That's not always an easy thing to do because then you're afraid that if you defer them and just let them have their way then it's just going to show the wrong pattern. What we got to make a point, wasn't the way it ought to be. There's problems.

But not to dispute over doubtful things for One Believes. He may eat all things but he who is weak eats, only vegetables, Hunter's Mark that one for your vegetarian friends. Right, let not him who eats his buys, him who does not either, let not him. Who does not eat judge him who eats for God has received him. Who are you to judge another servant to his own Master? He stands or Falls and these he will be made to stand for God is able to make him stand one person esteems one day above another, another esteemed everyday alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes a day, observes it to the Lord, and He who does not observe the day to the Lord. He does not observe it. He who eats eats to the Lord for he who, where he gives God. Thanks, and he who does not eat to the Lord. He does not eat and give God. Thanks for none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself for if we live, we live to the Lord. If we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die. We are whose The lures. Never forget. That part of this end Christ died and Rose and lived again, that we might be the Lord that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

Acceptance. Is he your lord?

He may be your savior. But is he your lord? It's a big difference. Xavier is Lord saying man, and that's a lot of people in this world that just want to be saved. And that's as far as they go with it. He is not really their lord. He's our savior. They believed enough to get into heaven. But they're not really doing anything with it. The bigger question is. No, he saved us. When we believe, when we trust in him. He saved his butt. Is he? Our Lord? Am I willing to follow him? Even when it's not comfortable, am I willing to follow him? Even when it's not popular? Am I willing to follow him? Even when I might be persecuted for my face? And Christians. Listen up. I think the day is coming. We really not been persecuted discuss. We have not, not one of your lost your head yet. Well, not chopped off anyway, but you know I'm saying the day is coming when we as Christians because of our faith will be persecuted because of our faith to the nth degree.

Question will be, is he your Lord? Are you going to do what he wants? Or you going to do what the world wants? All of God, understand? You don't feel give me a call on this one. What is the Opera down on you and me when he went to the Cross? I'm not doing it. No, he said God, thy will be done. One of these days. One of these days, we need to understand. What God wants we need to mature in our favor. This is the whole reason why we at we do churches in the whole reason. Why we we we we run Sunday school program. This is the whole reason why we do discipleship programs to help Christians mature in their face. Sunday school is not important for many any more. Discipleship is not important for many anymore. So, we're getting that one meal a week as a family. And, you know, what happens when family just sit down and maybe once a week to eat. There's not a whole lot of conversation happen. Right, we need. Each other more than each other. We need God. We need him to be a part. This is why he says, hey, it is God. God is able to make you stand. When all else is falling around apart, falling down around you, when everything else is falling apart, when you're on that Shaky Ground in life. God is there to help you stand when he is your savior? When he is your lord. There's a big difference.

Law, protects people. Love, gives them a chance to grow up. We encourage we teach, we share. But get this, and I know it's none of you is all the people in the first service people can be difficult. Have you noticed that? People can be difficult. But we must accept them and love for the Lord sake. I don't like what you do. You don't like what I do. Okay, you do your thing. I do my thing, but when we are a body, we got to work together because if I smashed my thumb, it hurts my pinky toe. I hurt my thumb to but it hurts my pinky toe. You know how? I know it hurts? My pinky toe till I do a little bit of that hurts. I don't say anything. But I do a little dance. That's how much smashing this part of the body hurts that part of the body.

so, when we As Believers smash one. Another You're smashing the rest of the body. It's not just one way. God says, Hey, listen, our love, your love is going to be tested. Follow God's example, and giving us his son, Jesus Christ. There's accountability talks about accountability and verses 10 through verse 12. We have no right to judge and condemn one another because the judge is the Lord. This is what he tells of a good verse 10. Romans 14:10, but why do you judge your brother? Why do you show contempt for your brother for? We shall all stand before the Judgment seat of Christ? For it is written. As I live, says the Lord. Every knee shall bow to me every tongue shall confess to God. What does he say their every need? What does that mean? Every knee? It means every knee. What does it mean that every tongue shall confess to God? It means every tongue. One day, all of us, Believers and unbelievers alike will confess. That he is God. The Believers to their Joy to the unbelievers to their Eternal Doom. Yes, he was God. That's too late. We need to say yes. We're now when we can say yes, he is God. Because with if it's were saying he was God, that means he still lives God, but it's too late for those who have chosen not to believe. Each believer. We'll have enough to do in keeping their own account, right, without interfering with somebody else's account. Isn't it? Amazing? How we can see the problems in other people's lives, but we can't see it in our own. The reason we do that is cuz by seeing in other people's lives, it makes us feel better and it covers up our problems and our issues. It covers up the things that maybe we're doing that. We know we shouldn't be doing but we good. Deflect the issue off to something else or someone else.

Look what he says. In verse 13 through verse 22, 23. He talks about acceptance. He talks about accountability verse 13 through 23. He talks about ambition. How much ambition do you have? Depends on the day, right? Bins on. What's going on. Depends on where we're at in life. Verse 13. Therefore he says Let not let us not judge one another anymore. But rather resolve this not to put a stumbling block or cause to fall in our brother's way. Have you done that? Have you put a stumbling block or a caused the fall? In another Believers way by your actions by your words by what you say or do. And if you do that and you don't care. Ouch. Because as we treat one another, we treat the Lord himself. What we do unto others, we have done as unto the Lord where there's a cup of cold water or food, whatever it is. Remember when Jesus was with his disciples and he said I'm hungry and they went off the Fine Food. And he came to, he came back, they came back with food and he said he was full of fat Jew. My meet my meat is to do the will of the father. And while they were all finding food. He was ministering to those in need. We need those who are all finding food, that's important. But we also need those who are willing to minister and do the work. And as Believers, if we are not maturing in the things of the Lord is going to be harder for us to minister in a way that we feel is appropriate, because, you know, who's walking around seeking to devour us seeking to destroy is seeking to terrorists Satan. He's walking about seeking whom he may destroy. Mahatma Gandhi. You heard me say this many times over my 30 years here, made a statement wants Mahatma. Gandhi said I would have become a Christian. Had it not been for Christians for the way that they treat one another. The way that they act with one another, the way that they talk. About one another. Here's what's important to me. I love our church. I wouldn't be here if I didn't. I am here until God moves me on and I have no idea when that day is, but listen up. Here's what's important that we love one, another. And the best way for us to love one. Another first to love God. A man. Love God, the way that we should and how is that? He said? Hey, if you love me, you will keep My Commandments.

Do you love God? Do you keep his Commandments? Not just one or two of their but you're comfortable with. No, you keep his Commandments. Most of them. That's honest. That's true. We keep most of it from time to time. We might keep all of them, but it being something else who comes in and out, and yes, it is. If it wasn't important. God would not have given it to us.

I shared an early service this morning. I'm in the process of cleaning up around the house, my stuff, my tools, my junk, my you name it. I'm cleaning up. I got a trailer out back in the house. I got tools and stuff and we stored Furniture in there and different things out there. That, that I was going to turn into a woodworking shop. I have never got to that because it's full of junk. Right. That needs to be cleaned up. I'm in there the other day. I'm cleaning up. I'm looking around and I spy in that trailer. The first dining room set that my wife and I had when we first got married. We furnished, our first apartment, to 2 bedroom. Duplex. We furnished. Our first apartment, 42 years ago, the whole apartment for $150. Craigslist, I'm not sure was Craigslist back then, but somebody had a couch and a chair and this and that, and whatever in the dining room table, we went there and they said, you can have the whole lot for $150. I'll take it. I'll take it. Bernice our house for 150 bucks, black naugahyde, couch and chair black naugahyde. Ottoman. Right? Coffee table was there, kitchen table with 4 chairs. We only needed to just heard me, right?

Where are you had the beds there Badger already purchased. Those are already there with a hundred fifty bucks. And I'm walking in there, and I see that chair that table over in the corner of the trailer and I send them on my page. Original kitchen. Table is still in the shed or trailer. You know what she says to me. Well, why don't you burn it?

No, I'm not a nostalgic, kind of guy, right. I moved a lot in my life.

But there's a word picture right there, I think. The legs are four legs over here at the table. Top is over there and that the little piece in the middle of whatever you call that leaf. Is in there. Midget or you can just use it for a work table for your Woodshop when you get the trailer cleaned out kind of thing, right? Anyway, I saw that what to do it took me back 42 years. To a time, when I had to go borrow pickup truck to go pick this furniture up on the side of the curb at somebody's house in Springfield, Missouri. We went, we got it. We put it there. We move that stuff a couple of times, and when we end up getting newer furniture, and here we are today. Killing that, man.

We still don't have new furniture, but you know what I'm saying? Live Life Goes On. It's not about all that stuff. There's nothing wrong with having stuff and Lord knows. I got stuff. I cleaned out my shed. I found three extra chainsaws. I didn't know I had I knew I had him. I just forgot. That's where they are. I've got for weed, wackers.

Who needs for weed? Wackers, only got two arms. I can only use two.

You got to have one in case, one doesn't work. You got to have a backup right? You think I was in the lawn business with all the things that I had. This is what God has supplied I guess over the years of 43, but the point is if there's things that we accumulate Even in our lives. That we need to get rid of. Because they have taken up space in our lives. And God has a hard time get through it. Not that he can't. God can do whatever God wants to do. He has a hard time getting through some of that stuff because we hold on to that stuff more important. It's more important in the things of God. There's some ambition in our lives. At 2 to clean that stuff out. We need to do that. Lord make me clean before you Lord. Here. I come here. I come to Worship. You Come Just As I am and here I am today, but let me tell you, if you walk out of here with the same junk in your life that you need to get rid of. When you walk in there, you got that same stuff. What have you really done other than spend an hour together with some cool people. God. Give it to him. Come as you are to worship, but when you leave walk out of here, giving God more room more space to work in your life. You cannot serve God and the world. That's confusing. The things of the world are creeping into the church. Have you noticed it's 20 with the 21st century. We don't agree with the way. Somebody lives are live, ever done something. Then we're wrong. And you know that, right. Who God says? Hey, here's what's right. Here's what's wrong. Do. The right thing. I may have shared years ago. When I went to Bible College, one of our first orientation classes that we had, was we sat down and they told us all the rules that the school had. We went to a very conservative School, very good. Lot of rules. But one of the founders of the school, our own would, we're still up there and you made the statement says, listen when we first opened the school, we didn't have any rules. But because you guys are go out and do stupid stuff. We had to make some rules.

Sort of sounds like the beginning of Genesis, right? When the Only Rule that God said was hey, this is all yours. Enjoy it. Just leave that tree alone. And they didn't leave that tree alone and then more rules have common sense.

we look around the world that we live in today, our own country, and we see chaos and destruction going on, and we wonder why will We kicked God out of schools. We take the Ten Commandments off the walls. We we can't share our faith with anyone else. Why? Because it might offend them until something tragic happens. Everybody pray.

And then you read all the continent that the conversation going on with. Yes. We need prayer. We need God to act. And our nation, we need God to act in our lives to hear something. We can pray for God to act in our nation. Do God's thing in our nation, but if we're not willing to let him do God's thing in our heart. There's a problem.

back to my, For chainsaws. One, I know where could I use that all the time? I took them, put the first one out. Gas it up in a pan that thing started right up. Good number to try it. It didn't start number three or number for tried it. It didn't start two out of the four. Start. That's good. I can get the other two going. I think they're going to need a little work. But in the process of storing them.

The mice got into him, those little chainsaw cases, make nice mice homes, right? So I have to clean that up. I have to take care of some of those issues. Going to take a little more work. You know, why? Because I didn't use those chainsaws for a long periods of all, they're stored their there. They're in storage and we have things in our life that are there taking up space. But in reality, if I'm not a lumberjack, how many chainsaws do I need? I'm not a carpenter. How many hammers do I need? If I'm not a mechanic how many socket sets do I need to see we get this stuff? We accumulate stuff that really takes over our lives. And we push got out and we don't have enough ambition. To work on it. Oh, I got the ambition started working out. You know, what happens, when you decide I'm going to haul, all this stuff out. You got to finish it. You got when you get her all hauled out, you got to take care of it. Otherwise the rains, common other things begin to happen, unless I don't care.

Promise. I care. I care about my stuff. I care about what God has provided for me. I care about the church. I care about you.

But guess who? Cares more? God. And as he says, as I live in verse 11, every knee shall bow. Every tongue shall confess to God and we ought to do it now. Well, we had the freedom and the ability to do it willingly. Then be put at a point in time when it's too late. We say, you know, what everything you said was true. Everything that God's word says it's true. Look what he says when he deals with this ambition. As I said, our desire is not to get everybody to agree with us. What kind of world would that be? If we all agreed, our desire must be to pursue. Peace? Our desire must be not to cause others to stumble but to help others to mature in Christ. How we doing with that? How are you doing? It's not just my job. It's not just those on staff as Believers to help others mature in Christ fathers and your families, helping others mature. In Christ, when we go off to work, helping others to mature in Christ, wherever we go. Helping others to mature in Christ. What starts as grieving. Look what he says in verse 15. He says yet, if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. So that would starts as grieving can become a fan down, the verse 21. It is good. Neither to eat meat, nor drink wine, or do anything, by, which your brother stumbles or is offended. Or is made week if I had, you will too bad. They don't like it too bad. That's the problem. That's the world. We live in today, right? We don't care about other people. He's not saying you can't do that. He just say, hey, if it causes your brother or your sister to stop, don't do that.

Can I at least get a naked man? Orono me.

This is when I get stuff when it gets down to the basics of what God wants us to do. And we know I'm speaking of myself as well as anybody else. We know we are not stepping up to the plate.

That was charged, as grieving can become a fending. Can make someone weak again. A 21. Look what he says. It's a good thing. Neither eat meat or nor drink wine or anything. By which a Brothers doubles or is offense, or is made week. We have a responsibility, not just for ourselves.

But how we treat those around us? It goes on causing others to stumble and fall verse 13 back to their. It says therefore let us not judge one another anymore. But rather resolve this not to put a stumbling block or a car's to fall in our brother's way. First 21, again is good. Neither to eat meat. Nor drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended, or is made weak. I am sure that in my life. I have caused others to stumble. I am sure that in my life. I have caused others to feel weak. Not my intention, not what I want. And I don't say that to help others.

It is not okay. Do not base your spirit jelly on my life. There's somebody greater than me. Say Amen. It's God. It's his son. Jesus Christ based on what she wants you to do. Not on what I think is right or wrong. I hope my ID is correct with God.

But we can also cause others to stumble. Every now and then the children will call up and need Pops to watch the grandkids. Right. And I'll say yes, so I watch the grandkids and the other day. I was over to Trenton, Ashley watching some, a few of the grand kids as the parents had a school thing, they needed to go to and take care of. So I didn't have to be there. Lori needed to be there two parents needed to be there. I did not. So I'm watching the grandkids.

I've got seven, I think out of the nine grandkids that I'm in control of maybe six. I can't really remember. I think I have only had sex. Maybe if I had seven, I lost my not a very good illustration. I'm using. But but they left the child with the children with me. My responsibility for that Hour 2 hours, however, long it was is to make sure that I returned those children and just as good a shape as they were given to me. They may have been dirty. They may have had other than food and stuff. But hey body-wise there was no bandages. There was nothing else going on. That was my plan. The company is a pops is course is not my house pasta. You know where the shovel is. I have no idea where they keep your shovel here. Did you check the shed? Finally, they find a shovel. They're going to go do some digging. So my one thing for the kids and taking care of Harrison, write my one thing to the rest of his listen, be careful with the shovel. Do not Chop anybody's toll off.

Good idea, right?

We got through that night. All is well. I'm back over to Trenton a she's a few days later. When Ashley comes out and asked Trent Trent, do you know where the shovel is? As well, it was over there. Is it was not there. I know where it's at. I remember I was here the other day and the kids tomorrow that they took it out back in the shed. They were digging a hole to China just like every kid always does, right. Sure, enough, that's where the shovel was. So my whole point is that listen when we are in charge of others, is to build them up, and maybe it's up to them how they want to grow where they want to go. But when we're destroying people's faith, when were tearing people down. That's not what God wants. Text work. Sometimes it takes more work than maybe we're willing to put into it, right. Gaining strength is important. The week Christian does not yet understand and practice freedom, in Jesus Christ. God gives us a lot of freedom. As you know, that there's a lot of freedom. There's a lot of freedom in Jesus Christ. When we follow him, when we do what he wants, Jewish Believers raised under the law of Moses. They were laws that they had to contend with. But now this Grace thing comes along and they didn't know how to act. They didn't know what to do. They didn't know how the to go for us because we've always been told we had to do it this way. And now you're saying this is okay. We understand that if you're been raised in different denominations over the years and things have changed and you come to the fact that all that really matters is not what the denomination sentences. What God's word says, believe in the Lord. Jesus Christ, thou shall be saved. That's it. Pretty simple. If you believe. Conscience become strong as we accept What God Says About Us in the word and act on it by faith. Do you believe?

This book to be the word of God. Do you believe that the words in this book are inspired by God, do you believe that has God placed all these words together and you can read through it and you can thank that. You find contradictions. But when you study it on the Greek or the Hebrew you find out there are no contradictions because it's amazing how all of these Riders could come together and write this book over all the years that they've written this book and how it fits together. As God would have it too. Amazing. It's amazing that God can do that. That's faith. It takes time for our conscience to develop. And we need to be patient with the weaker brother of the week or sister. Go to Romans chapter 15 as we wrap this up this morning cuz he talks about three things. He talks about a debt to the week and verse 1 through 46 in Romans chapter. 15 says, we then who are strong ought to bear with the Scruples of the week? Who wants to do that?

A lot of people with a lot of Scruples. Amen. Do you ever get tired of Baron with those Scruples of the week? How do you think God feels with us? We who are strong at the bear, with the Scruples of the week and not to please ourselves man. Let each of us, please his neighbor for his good leading to a different station building up for even if Christ did not please himself or even Christ, not pleased himself as it is written. The reproaches of those who were reproached, you fell, who fell on me, for whatever things were written, were written before for our learning that we threw the patience. And comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Do you have hope today? I hope you do hope is not in this world. John 14:27. Jesus says, peace. I leave with you. My peace. I give not the Peace of the world. The Peace of the world is messed up. God's peace is pure God's. Peace is right. It passes all understanding is in my peace. I give to you, but we got to reach out and take it. We got to accept that piece. If we live to please ourselves, we will not follow the example of Christ who live to please the father. And help others, who are you living for today? What's important Come Just As You Are to worship. But when you leave here today, leave a better person than what you came in, that may remind me to leave some things behind. That means you might need to just grab some things, clear, out some space in your life. But the other thing is coming. We have a debt to the lost in verses 7 through first 21 and tells us that God saved the Jews, so that they might reach the Gentiles and lead them and praising the Lord. And that amazing. God, save the Jews. So that you and I who are Gentiles might have faith.

When's the last time you've shared your face with an unbeliever? So it's easy to share our faith with other believers there. They understand. They're going to accept it. But when's the last time you shared your faith with an unbeliever? Waters. That are not sure about I did that here recently. Tell me is asking me if I would be interested in doing their funeral when the time comes. I said sure I would do that. But let me ask you a question first. Where is God in all this for you? And the Animals? I'm not really sure. Well, if you would have died today, where would you spend eternity? Well, I got an idea about that when you started going into reincarnation and everything else and I said, Lord, I hope there's no reincarnation. I'd hate to think what I'm coming back at.

We got into those discussions. I left their pleading with the guys and listen, whatever else, read the book of John, the Gospel of John read that and then make your decision based upon what you fine, but don't just read through it. The reason study it out and I'll come back and we'll talk again. Still wants me to do his funeral. I said what you'd be nicer for me if I could stand up and tell people that I know where you're at? That you're a Believer and you went to heaven. That's the nice part. I can always do that and funerals that I that I perform. Cuz I don't know, but the hope is not for the deceased. The hope that is Left Behind as for those who live that there's something bigger and greater the Gentiles were, share the gospel because God sent his son to the Jews.

God saved us that we might win others. Romans 1:14 tells us that then a 22 and 23. We have a debt to Israel. The Gentiles are indebted to the Jews, John for 22 talks about that, and that debt is paid by pray for them Psalm 122 over 60 talks about that. Witnessing to them in love sharing our material gifts, to assist them. Are you willing? What would God have you do? Is he your savior, or is he your lord and savior? If he's our savior, okay, we're going to heaven but if he's our savior and our Lord that we have a responsibility to follow him and to do what he's called us to do, don't just take the blessing that God has given you. And run with a woohoo. I'm safe. I'm going to heaven. Not really sure I could count on that if you believe, that's what Bible says. Okay, but there's more to it. Once we become a believer. We shall know them by their fruits, but judge your own fruit before you judge others. Come. Just As You Are. The worship we've done that this morning. Amen. We've come together to worship. How you going to leave today? When you walk out of here today? Are you going to leave the same person? That came in. Are you going to allow God to work in your heart? Because if you say, well, I'm good enough. Now, you're not. None of us are good enough. We have not reached that place we need to be. We will never reach that place on this Earth. That's the downside. The blessing is, we can grow. There's always room for growth. There's no ceiling to stop in this Christian walk. When we get to heaven. We shall be like him. Are you ready for that? Come Just As You Are to worship and walk down here, a changed man a changed woman to change. Child a change purse and father. We thank you. We thank you for your word. We thank you for your guidance or Direction. Father. We need you today more than ever. Our world is crazy. Our country is crazy. You are the only hope that we have, but when we begin to twist your word, the fit. Are lies and changing our lives to fit your word? There are problems when we try to fit the word. To our lives. There's blessings when we fit our lives to your word, help us to be what you want us to be, not what we desire to be, help us to seek your mind and your ways. In Jesus name, we pray.