Kingdom Come: What are you chasing?

And the temptation is to try to do this all in our own strength and muscle up and white knuckle it even more. But the reality is what we need is not to white knuckle it anymore, but we need is to receive the grace that is available to us through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. [00:50:40] (17 seconds)  #GraceOverGrit

Or another one, we confuse our attendance with obedience. Meaning that as long as I'm in church, I'm doing what God wants, I'm okay with God and he's okay with me and there's no real problem. Except that James would tell us to be doers of the word not just hearers. And so understand then, we can't just show up to church because you can show up to church every single Sunday for your entire life and still find yourself in hell. [00:38:54] (28 seconds)  #DoersNotJustHearers

Word says meditate on this day and night. Chew it up like cud, like, you know, a cow regurgitates its cud and chews on it again and again and again. I mean, that's what we're supposed to do with the word. That's what meditate really means. A word to think about it, a word to ponder it, We're to look at its application to our life and it ought to be life changing for us because it points us back to Jesus. [00:43:03] (25 seconds)  #ChewOnTheWord

Yet, we're not called to do this in our own strength. In fact, that's why we need a savior because we can't. That's why Ephesians chapter two verse eight verses eight and nine verses eight and nine say, for by grace you have been saved through faith And this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God not a result of works so that no man may boast. [00:49:48] (30 seconds)  #GraceNotWorks

So church family, I hope that today this is an opportunity for us to look in our hearts and look at our our real true motivations of why we do the things that we do. Do we do them to honor ourselves, to make ourselves look good, do we are we really living for Christ? Are we really trying to carry out his mission and to bring other people to know reflecting all of the glory back to him. [00:50:17] (23 seconds)  #CheckYourMotives

And I think when we look at these holistically, the theme of all of these is it's it's about me and what I want and it's about me controlling my situation and it's about me controlling the outcomes and it's really about my glory because that's what we're most concerned about. Instead of it being about God's will and God's in God's way by the power of the Holy Spirit and for God's glory. [00:43:39] (33 seconds)  #NotAboutMe

And in response to Lindsey Bond's post and that little phrase, the only failure in life is not trying. He says this, but the only failure in life in a biblical context is not trying to do God's will and God's power for God's glory. God's will, God's power for God's glory. [00:26:26] (25 seconds)  #PursueGodsWill

And so it's a lesson for us too as well that like when things come up and when we're confronted, a brother or sister comes and says, hey, I see this is going on in your life. Can you tell me about it? I think maybe something's wrong. Like, we've gotta be a people who are humble, who are coachable, and willing to admit when we're wrong, and be willing to walk forward together because our culture says, you confront me and you don't like what I have to say, then screw you. I'm out. But you don't find that anywhere in the gospel. [00:41:45] (32 seconds)  #HumbleAndTeachable