Together We Stand! (The importance of growing together and mentoring one another)

Spiritual maturity only comes through the facing of hard understandings of the truth of word of the word of God. Here's what I mean. If you are not being challenged in your faith, through the preaching that comes from the pulpit, through the teachings that come through bible studies, through your own personal devotion, through conversations you have with brothers and sisters in Christ, if you are not being challenged in your faith, times when you're going, I don't know about that, but let me look into it. God, I know you said this, but it's hard. If you're not experiencing that, there will be no growth. There will be no growth. [00:02:00] (46 seconds)  #GrowThroughTruth

That only comes with a repentant heart. That only comes through faith. There is only one way to know your salvation, to know your destination of heaven, and that is faith in Christ and a repentant heart. You cannot have faith and not come to repentance. It's not possible. Because faith is not just belief. It is belief with action. [00:46:47] (24 seconds)  #RepentanceAndFaith

Regardless of how you feel, here's what I want you to understand. Satan has a message for you. Be alone. Mhmm. Go for it. Wonder. Wonder off into the distance. In fact, in the book of John chapter 10, the Bible says that Jesus is the good shepherd. His sheep know his voice, and they follow him. Why would Satan want you to wander off alone if he was not the thing that Jesus talked about in John chapter 10, which is there is a wolf Mhmm. Sheep's clothing. There is a false guard at the gate, a false shepherd, a higher hand, so to speak. And when the wolf comes, the higher hand flees. [00:05:41] (48 seconds)  #StayWithTheFlock

And sometimes we just wing it, and then we get mad at God because it didn't go the way we thought it would go. God wants a relationship with you that is connected, not a relationship that is that is that is kind of, like, spotty, you know, like your Wi Fi signal at your house. He wants a good connection with you. And a good connection only exists in an environment where we don't neglect to meet together. We build our community together under the guidance of the word of God. [00:29:37] (33 seconds)  #ConnectedFaithCommunity

To love other people, to show compassion for other people, especially the people in this church with one another, But even our outside community, how do we stir one another up? How do we get ourselves to good works? Doing the right thing in the right way under the right circumstances. And by the way, guys, the world does not know how to do this the right way. Mhmm. Oh, don't worry. They know how to do good works, but they do it only when it's convenient, only when it meets the standard of what they want and how they want it. Very rarely does somebody come along who ultimately sacrifices everything just because they know they should, but god calls us to this. Mhmm. [00:19:40] (39 seconds)  #SacrificialGoodWorks

If I knew that there was a wonky outlet in this church, that if you plug something into it, it was gonna spark and maybe electrocute you. And I see you walking over to that wonky outlet, and I know you're gonna plug that out that thing in because you need to get power to whatever it is you're gonna plug in. And that's the only outlet you see, so you're heading over to it. If I looked at it and went, this is gonna be good. You think that's love? No. [00:30:39] (28 seconds)  #ToughLoveProtects

But the reality is very simple. God has called me to serve his kingdom. Mhmm. And I'm not doing it, oh, oh, I have to be here. Oh, it's so hard. I want to be here. Ask Randy. I was here at 06:00 this morning. He came in. He goes, oh, you beat me. I want to be here because this is where God's called me to serve his kingdom. That's the heart and the compassion that we need to have for our community, [00:17:42] (29 seconds)  #CalledToServeJoyfully

You know, that that that song, I'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody about somebody who saved my soul, that's not a joke. I I I don't want to be remembered. Look. Yet one day, when pastor decides to go home and I'm no longer here, don't you build a building to put my name on it? I don't want that because I'm not here for that reason. I'm not here to be remembered. I want him to be remembered. That's the whole point. Jesus should be the only name remembered when pastor is gone. And if it's anything other than that, I failed because it's not about me. [00:23:57] (39 seconds)  #JesusGetsTheGlory