Dropping Psalms Week 4

How do you get your political views? Don't worry, we're not getting political. Who shapes your thinking when it comes to the way you raise your children or the way you view marriage or the way you view your work, or your boss, or the way you manage your finances? What influences you? But we're going to see this morning that Psalm one sets the stage for all of those things and it really lays out for us what our views should be and what, more importantly, should be shaping our views. [00:32:03] (50 seconds)  #ShapedByInfluence

You see, today, you get to choose the blessed path. How do we do that? Well, it starts by you trusting Christ as your savior. Jesus Christ, the son of God, left heaven and came to earth, lived for thirty three and a half years, walked among men a sinless perfect life so that you and I could know that heaven is our home. So that we could be brought back into fellowship and relationship with him. [01:00:09] (28 seconds)  #ChooseTheBlessedPath

And when he died on the cross of Calvary some two thousand years ago, he did so paying the price for your sins and for mine. That all we have to do is by faith trust him and repent of our sins and his redemptive work, what he did on the Cross Of Calvary and paying for our sins will be applied to us. Our sins will be forgiven and heaven will be our home. [01:00:37] (22 seconds)  #SavedByGrace

You were fine until they planted that wrong seed. You're happy? You didn't know anything was wrong. You didn't know what a sorry man you'd married until then. Or man, you'll be you'll be at work and somebody be complaining about their spouse. You know, my wife does this and she does that and you start thinking, you know what, mine does that too. [00:43:19] (22 seconds)  #AvoidNegativeSeeds

If you're here this morning and you're always one of those people that you you just haven't decided which you wanna be when you grow up and you just you're never satisfied. You're always unhappy. You're always just, I don't know. I don't know. And let's try this and let's try that. And you're always trying the latest greatest thing to bring you peace and happiness and joy. You're gonna continue to struggle until you get rooted and grounded in the word of God and in your relationship with Jesus Christ. [00:56:00] (23 seconds)  #RootedInTheWord

I watch it and I think, my gosh, and and they'll say, how many times am I gonna have to tell you? Well, at least once more. You're gonna it's on and on and on again. And that's why Deuteronomy says that we're to teach the truth of the word of God in the mornings when we rise up and as we go through our our day, as we work, and then as we go to bed at night. Because we're constantly having to reinforce. We're planting those seeds planting those seeds. And don't despair moms because they will take root at some point. Hopefully, you'll live long enough to see them take root and see the fruit of your labor, but don't give up. [00:38:42] (33 seconds)  #TeachAndPersevere

On more than one occasion, unfortunately, after I'd gone home and with a friend and spent some time with a friend, the way I would behave during that week, my mom would say something to me like, well, I can tell who you've been hanging around. I can tell who you've been playing with because the things I was saying and the attitude that I had was not the one that she had been raising me with. You see, a mother, she cannot force roots to grow but she can plant seeds. [00:37:33] (25 seconds)  #PlantSeedsOfFaith

Obviously, I'm overstating, but my point is we start listening to the wrong voices, we start hanging out in the wrong place, and next thing you know, we've got the attitude of the scorner and the mocker. We've been negatively influenced. And and we live in a world that is constantly inundating us with the wrong stuff and we've got to be intentional about what influences us and who influences us. You see, many godly mothers have served as early warning systems in our lives. [00:43:59] (29 seconds)  #GuardYourInfluence