Choose Potential Over Problems: See People’s Best

And he arose and stood, and Jesus said to them, I'll ask you one thing, is it lawful to do on the Sabbath to do good or do do evil, to save a life or to destroy? And when he had looked around at all at them all, he said to the man, stretch out your hand. And he did so, and his hand was restored as whole as the other. [00:24:30] (18 seconds)  #StretchOutYourHand

he who is, he who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first. And again, he stooped down and he wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it being convicted by their conscience went out one by one beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst. [00:19:59] (21 seconds)  #NoStonesJustMercy

We've all had bad moments that we don't want to characterize our lives. We've all made dumb decisions and we don't want people to hold that over our heads for eternity. We don't want listen, we've all done things. We've all made mistakes. We've all made bad decisions. We've all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The Bible says, we've all been there. You don't want that to happen to you. Don't do it to other people. Don't reduce someone to their worst moment. [00:32:20] (30 seconds)  #NotDefinedByMistakes

According to the law, according to Jesus is God made flesh, according to his own law, she should have been put to death. But he looks at her and he says, neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more. Now, I've heard it preached where it's like, neither do I condemn you. Now, don't do that anymore. No. No. No. The way that I like to say this, he said, I'm I'm not gonna condemn you either, but I want you to understand you're better than that. You're you're you're you're you're better than what you have been doing. [00:22:15] (38 seconds)  #YoureBetterThanThat

Because oftentimes what I find is is I will judge others based off of their actions, but I want people to judge me off of my intentions. Oh, no. No. No. No. That's not what I really meant. I did that, but that's not what I meant by that. But if other people do something, we immediately judge the action. [00:26:22] (23 seconds)  #IntentionsMatterToo

We see this in politics all the time. If you don't agree with my politics and you're a horrible person, if you're a Republican, you can't be saved. If you're a Democrat, you can't be saved. Listen. Stop doing that mess. Don't reduce someone to their worst moment. Don't make everything a right or wrong decision. Don't make everything a good or bad play. Sometimes we just disagree, and that's okay. [00:33:13] (26 seconds)  #BeyondPoliticsPeopleFirst

So when I have a thought, then I have a choice to make. If I had the thought I want to get healthy, then I make the choice, I'm gonna join the gym. That leads to an action. So as we started this series talking about choices, we we learned that our choices determine the distance between where we are and where God wants us to be. [00:16:53] (27 seconds)  #ChoicesDetermineDestiny

Don't go there. It's the worst service ever. What if instead of taking it to social media, we went privately and talked to the server, we talked to the manager, and we saw if we could resolve the issue. What if instead of airing family problems or, issues with friendships on on on social media or talking about it with large groups of people. What if we went to that friend? What if we went to that, loved one? [00:28:45] (33 seconds)  #AddressPrivately