Finding Direction: A Journey of Faith
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"Most of the time when we get lost, it's because we fail to listen to directions, don't we? Or look at the map. Or if you're a guy like me, you're driving and before the GPS days, your wife says, you ought to think that maybe we should stop and ask for directions. And of course, I'm going to be like, no, I know where I'm going." [00:33:58] (20 seconds)
"And so, and we can get spiritually lost the same exact way that we can get physically lost, by not following directions, by not listening to the right people tell us the directions to go. We like to listen to Satan, or we like to listen to somebody that's got a self-help book that's going to fix everything. And so we can get spiritually lost." [00:37:13] (21 seconds)
"Here's the thing is, it's our job to be found by seeking God. And here's one thing that people say, and I get it, is like, oh, I found God. I found God today. It's like, really? Was he lost? Well, I found Jesus. It's like, well, Jesus was never actually really lost." [00:37:58] (19 seconds)
"Believing is not good enough. Because in James 2:19 it says, you believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe and shudder. So it goes beyond believing. We must become a follower of Jesus. We must become a follower. Jesus says in Matthew 16:24, if anyone would come after me." [00:40:19] (24 seconds)
"This is denying yourself every day. This is an everyday occurrence. We have to wake up every morning and we have to deny ourselves and put Jesus ahead of us. And I know that sometimes I have a hard time doing this. This is our human, our flesh and our spirit wants to fight with each other." [00:41:14] (20 seconds)
"But Jesus gives us this hope of this promise of living in the presence of the father. And Jesus goes on to say, if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself that where I am, you may be also." [00:42:50] (23 seconds)
"Jesus makes it pretty clear here. He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And I want to break this, these down this, this morning is the way Jesus is saying, he is the only way to salvation. He is the only way to the father. He is the only way that we can gain eternal life is through him. There's no other way." [00:47:14] (23 seconds)
"And salvation is a one-time deal that we get to salvation. That's fine that we get this. But here's more than this. This path, this way that Jesus is talking about, it's more than just a one-time deal. The fact that we can be saved when we come to him is really awesome. But the part of it is obedience to the way is a lifetime decision." [00:48:28] (26 seconds)
"Well, sometimes we get off track and we need God to be that GPS that's going to try to get us re-centered again. And sometimes we don't want to pay attention and turn around. But eventually, if we follow that path, it'll get us back on track." [00:50:24] (18 seconds)
"Jesus says come to the Lord's Supper remember me we do that every time at Westside now one thing that we can't get in a habit of doing is just doing it because that's what we do every Sunday the Lord's Supper is an intimate time that we commune with the Lord and we need to make sure that every time we do it that we're coming to the table and we're making an intimate moment in our lives that we're communing with the Lord evaluating ourselves not our neighbors or enemies we're evaluating ourselves we're coming to that table to remember that we were once sinners and we were just like the rest of the sinners and now that we remember that Jesus saved us from the sin and now we're no longer like them we no longer are lost but now we're found that's what communion's about" [01:00:17] (55 seconds)
"but I found out that giving is one of the most important things that we can do as Christians it's not just giving financial but it's giving ourselves to Jesus giving ourselves to the way and then giving became easy and then pretty soon giving became so easy Teresa had to tell me to quit giving things away but all of these things can be hard all of these things that I just read can be hard for us and as we walk this path and we get to these places to where we're kind of falling off the path it's hard to live this Christian life and that's why Jesus finishes up here in 16 in 17 he says that and I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him you know him for he dwells with you and will be with you Jesus says I am going to give you a helper to help you stay on court basically Jesus is saying I'm going to give you an eternal GPS that's going to keep you on this path but it's our job to listen to this GPS and without this GPS without the Holy Spirit we can't do these things and we can have the Holy Spirit and not use the Holy Spirit I've used this illustration before it's like my cell phone if I have a smart phone that is smarter than me by far and has more memory than my computer has in it and if I just used it for a telephone I'm not using it for all of the capabilities that I can use it for the Holy Spirit is the same way we have to tap into that we have to tap into the Holy Spirit before the Christians were actually called Christians they were called the way" [01:03:26] (122 seconds)
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"And so, and we can get spiritually lost the same exact way that we can get physically lost, by not following directions, by not listening to the right people tell us the directions to go. We like to listen to Satan, or we like to listen to somebody that's got a self-help book that's going to fix everything. And so we can get spiritually lost." [00:37:13] (21 seconds)
"Here's the thing is, it's our job to be found by seeking God. And here's one thing that people say, and I get it, is like, oh, I found God. I found God today. It's like, really? Was he lost? Well, I found Jesus. It's like, well, Jesus was never actually really lost." [00:37:58] (19 seconds)
"Believing is not good enough. Because in James 2:19 it says, you believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe and shudder. So it goes beyond believing. We must become a follower of Jesus. We must become a follower. Jesus says in Matthew 16:24, if anyone would come after me." [00:40:19] (24 seconds)
"This is denying yourself every day. This is an everyday occurrence. We have to wake up every morning and we have to deny ourselves and put Jesus ahead of us. And I know that sometimes I have a hard time doing this. This is our human, our flesh and our spirit wants to fight with each other." [00:41:14] (20 seconds)
"But Jesus gives us this hope of this promise of living in the presence of the father. And Jesus goes on to say, if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself that where I am, you may be also." [00:42:50] (23 seconds)
"Jesus makes it pretty clear here. He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And I want to break this, these down this, this morning is the way Jesus is saying, he is the only way to salvation. He is the only way to the father. He is the only way that we can gain eternal life is through him. There's no other way." [00:47:14] (23 seconds)
"And salvation is a one-time deal that we get to salvation. That's fine that we get this. But here's more than this. This path, this way that Jesus is talking about, it's more than just a one-time deal. The fact that we can be saved when we come to him is really awesome. But the part of it is obedience to the way is a lifetime decision." [00:48:28] (26 seconds)
"Well, sometimes we get off track and we need God to be that GPS that's going to try to get us re-centered again. And sometimes we don't want to pay attention and turn around. But eventually, if we follow that path, it'll get us back on track." [00:50:24] (18 seconds)
"Jesus says come to the Lord's Supper remember me we do that every time at Westside now one thing that we can't get in a habit of doing is just doing it because that's what we do every Sunday the Lord's Supper is an intimate time that we commune with the Lord and we need to make sure that every time we do it that we're coming to the table and we're making an intimate moment in our lives that we're communing with the Lord evaluating ourselves not our neighbors or enemies we're evaluating ourselves we're coming to that table to remember that we were once sinners and we were just like the rest of the sinners and now that we remember that Jesus saved us from the sin and now we're no longer like them we no longer are lost but now we're found that's what communion's about" [01:00:17] (55 seconds)
"but I found out that giving is one of the most important things that we can do as Christians it's not just giving financial but it's giving ourselves to Jesus giving ourselves to the way and then giving became easy and then pretty soon giving became so easy Teresa had to tell me to quit giving things away but all of these things can be hard all of these things that I just read can be hard for us and as we walk this path and we get to these places to where we're kind of falling off the path it's hard to live this Christian life and that's why Jesus finishes up here in 16 in 17 he says that and I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever even the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him you know him for he dwells with you and will be with you Jesus says I am going to give you a helper to help you stay on court basically Jesus is saying I'm going to give you an eternal GPS that's going to keep you on this path but it's our job to listen to this GPS and without this GPS without the Holy Spirit we can't do these things and we can have the Holy Spirit and not use the Holy Spirit I've used this illustration before it's like my cell phone if I have a smart phone that is smarter than me by far and has more memory than my computer has in it and if I just used it for a telephone I'm not using it for all of the capabilities that I can use it for the Holy Spirit is the same way we have to tap into that we have to tap into the Holy Spirit before the Christians were actually called Christians they were called the way" [01:03:26] (122 seconds)
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