A Different Way Of Doing Life

So for us today, in our culture today, with all these different conversations about who God is, when it comes to knowing God, Jesus is the true vine. Jesus is the true vine. He's the true source of life. And let me just say this as strongly as I can. There is no other life source or way that we can tap into the power and the presence and the provisions of god but through his son. Just read his word. Time and time again, he says, those who who have the son have the father. You don't there's no there's no connecting with a god out there apart from what he has done through his son. [00:57:23] (40 seconds)  #KnowGodThroughJesus

Jesus is the true vine. He's the true source of life. And let me just say this as strongly as I can. There is no other life source or way that we can tap into the power and the presence and the provisions of god but through his son. Just read his word. Time and time again, he says, those who who have the son have the father. You don't there's no there's no connecting with a god out there apart from what he has done through his son. And their relationship is so intimate. It's so beautiful as we look at scripture. [00:57:34] (35 seconds)  #JesusTrueVine

People will still try and, find life from other vines. Met a few of my high school friends this week. It was interesting. Some of those vines could be money, could be friends, could be sex, could be hobbies, could be careers. Let me just say this. God wants to bless us with provisions and sincere friends. He wants us to understand sexuality from his perspective as the one who designed us as sexual human beings. Right? God knows a few things about this. He's not anti hobby. He's not anti fun. [00:58:10] (33 seconds)  #ChooseTheTrueVine

He wants to lead us in our vocational directions, our vocational activities. But when we look to these other things as our life source that happens too often, life source, let me say that clearly, they have taken on an idolatrous place in our lives. And an idol is anything we put ahead of God. Anything we put ahead of Jesus has the potential to be an idol. [00:58:42] (27 seconds)  #KeepGodFirst

``people will exhibit all sorts of destructive behavior, and he he makes a list. He says they're gonna be boastful, they're gonna be proud, they'll be abusive, ungrateful without love, unforgiving, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Do you know how he starts the list? I didn't read the first thing he said. He started the list and he said this, and this is my theory of the number one idol. People will be lovers of themselves. Lovers of themselves. [00:59:37] (33 seconds)  #LoversOfSelf

And like I said before, I had read this over the years, and I I I understood it, but just seems like it clicks in at some point. I think Jesus is serious here. Apart from me, you can't do nothing. Jesus brings forth the fruit. We can't produce it. We can't manufacture it. We can't make it happen. We can't just fix it. And it's hard for us to move into this different way of doing life because we've been trained in so many ways to just do it, to just make things happen independently from God. [01:00:58] (36 seconds)  #OnlyInChrist

It's my money, and I could do whatever I want with it. We don't have independently the resources to do life well. And let me say this, when we do life independently from God, we will often take very good things that he's given to us, our talents, our skills, people, and we will we will make a mess out of it. We will trash those things. We will waste the gifts that God has given us when we seek to do life independently from him. [01:03:28] (27 seconds)  #StewardNotOwner

So put this verse into practice, especially if you're trying to step out in some things a little over your head even, you know, sometimes. I know about you. I'll I'll I've had times where I said, Lord, I can't do this. And the holy spirit will remind me, who said it's about you? Who said it's about you? It's no longer me. It's Christ in me. So if we know he's asking us to do something, we're not sure about it, but we know it's him, we can step out in faith so we can pray this prayer all the time. [01:05:47] (34 seconds)  #NotAboutMeItsChrist