Imitate Jesus: Think, Feel, and Act Like Him

``Yet, when we come to our passage this morning in Luke six, Jesus shows us a new algorithm of how we are to live our life, that we would be trained, informed by the teachings of Jesus, and it looks like his followers as he says this, blessed are the poor, blessed are the hungry, blessed are the ones who are hurting, blessed are you when people don't like you. Now, that's not motivational, that's not a hustle culture, that doesn't trend, but it's a voice of Jesus that speaks to us. [00:16:52] (36 seconds)  #KingdomAlgorithm

Jesus is teaching that god's kingdom reverses the world's values. Dependence, hunger, sorrow, and faithfulness to Christ lead to true blessing. Well, self sufficiency, comfort, and approval can result in spiritual loss. [00:28:28] (19 seconds)  #KingdomReversesValues

That that Jesus speaks directly to their critical thoughts and he reminds them that he is the Lord of the Sabbath, which teaches us this really, really, really important principle of this, religious activity does not equate to spiritual intimacy. That just because you're you're doing the right things and observing the laws and checking the boxes doesn't equal spiritual intimacy with God. [00:22:13] (28 seconds)  #HeartNotHabits

And if you think about social media, Instagram and those things, there are are algorithms that are formed to teach you and train you. Every day, if you think about it, your phone is training you. Your feed, whatever platform you use learns what you pause on. Your algorithm learns what you like and before you know, it's telling you a story about what matters. [00:15:58] (29 seconds)  #YourFeedIsTrainingYou

There's one algorithm that's that as you scroll will say something like this, you're winning if you're busy. If people notice you, if you're climbing and you get grades or followers, resumes, likes or if you have a relationship. If you stay comfortable, don't fall behind, don't look weak. It feels normal because everyone is running on it. [00:16:28] (24 seconds)  #BusynessIsntWinning

what's important about this is that God wants to change you. God wants to change us and all of these disciples came from different walks of life and different background and they all had their own struggles and they all had their own brokenness, and when we understand when Jesus transforms us and when we have an encounter with the living Christ, it is not as important who you were in your past life or former life before Christ. What is more important is this question, who are you becoming? [00:25:08] (33 seconds)  #WhoAreYouBecoming

I pray that we as a people, this is where real transformation takes place. It's not just when we know more about God, but it's when we become like him and we become like him and the way that we pursue him and the way that we imitate him and just as we talked about at the very beginning in the way that we think, the way that we feel, and the way that we act. That is where you will see transformation in your life and in mine. [00:36:26] (29 seconds)  #BecomingLikeJesus

What you fill yourself with matters. The inputs, the the the music, the movies, the kinds of conversations that you have with other people are shaping your life. And so, if we wanna be a people who are be imitating Jesus and that we are living the way that Jesus lived, then we need to make sure that we're having positive, godly inputs into our lives that are going to shape and form how we're going to live. [00:33:26] (30 seconds)  #GuardYourInputs

are you is your relationship with God one and where you feel like you don't need him or you're self sufficient without him to find your meaning, your value or are you in the blessed where you realize your need, you realize your lack and you believe that God is the one who is able to meet you and fill you? [00:30:28] (21 seconds)  #DependOnGod

It's important that you realize that what comes into you will eventually come out of you. In your life, let me just ask in your free time, what what kinds of things are you allowing access to both your mind and your heart? What things are you internalizing, allowing to become you and to realize that what you allow in will eventually come out. [00:33:56] (27 seconds)  #WhatYouAllowInMatters

And let me just say this, it's not as merely as important where you've been or what you've done. What's important is that is where you're going and what you're going to do. You can't change the past. You can't fix the past. All you can do is change today and ultimately, that will change your future. God wants to change you and that's what we can take away from the calling of these 12 disciples. [00:25:48] (28 seconds)  #TodayChangesTomorrow

the values that the world celebrates and embraces are not always the values of the kingdom of God, that we are called to live a different way, a counter way than the world, and the main difference is this. It's the difference of us feeling that we are self sufficient, that we have what we need and that we are in charge rather than us having a posture before God where we are dependent upon him [00:29:57] (27 seconds)  #ChooseDependence

He introduces that the kingdom of God is a paradox and often what you think about the kingdom is different or or what the world offers is different than how what God's kingdom offers. God's kingdom reverses the world's definition of what blessing is [00:26:37] (20 seconds)  #KingdomParadox

It's not that you don't even care about what's happening to you to your brother or that you shouldn't ever have judgment but there's a posture or a positioning of how you do that and what it's that you have a heart of humility where before we become critical and judgmental and lead with everybody else and what's wrong with everyone else and what's wrong with the world and what's going on and if that person just did this and this person just did this, it's a pause and to ask the question, what's going on in my own heart? What's going on on in my own soul? [00:31:41] (31 seconds)  #PauseBeforeYouJudge

If you have a decision in your life this morning that you're wrestling with, I just wanna encourage you, not just to throw a a prayer up and ask god that you hope that he will bless it, but to be disciplined and to understand that God wants you to come to him and he wants to give you direction in your life. [00:24:24] (18 seconds)  #PrayAndDiscern

This is just an important thing in your life when you come to big decisions, not to just come into it casually but that you come into it prayerfully, that you spend time with the Lord, that you seek discernment and wisdom from other people to understand what is the best thing for you to do and that it says that Jesus went to the mountainside to pray and he prayed all night before he came away with a decision. [00:23:59] (25 seconds)  #DiscernmentBeforeDecision