Living Like Christ: Valuing Others Above Yourself

And so here's what Paul is saying. Just to repeat, he says, whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. How have you done? Have we failed? I I think we all have. K? And and that's not I'm not putting anybody down. I think it's just reality. And but he gives us he gives us the word. It's not a faulty GPS, k, that we're getting instructions from. We're getting instructions instructions from the anointed word of god. As believers in the lord, we declare that our lives stand on one firm foundation and that's a choice. That's a choice. [01:02:07] (68 seconds)  #LiveWorthy

Anyway and so programming didn't consider all of the factors. And and so I was thinking of the both the bible and the things that god gave us, you know, way back. And it speaks it's a textbook to us of ideals or information to handbook of truths, the pattern of Jesus that brings us saving faith. Okay? And and and godly living and the hope of heaven, all of that's in there. We can pattern our lives after the word of god. And so this morning, we wanna talk about a few things. Some of the things that, you know, we would read in there won't lead us wrong. K? It won't lead us wrong, and they may not align totally with the lifestyle of today. Okay? [00:59:24] (70 seconds)  #BibleBlueprint

But his I remember the phrase when he'd been taking advantage and got the advantage somehow. Well, that's good business. That's good business. Oh, But, that's not good business. I was just a kid. I was like a teenage kid. But I remember listening to this, and I thought, you know, you're a crook. That's not good business. You're a crook. That's wrong. That's a lie. You've you've basically stolen from those people some things. It wasn't huge amounts of money or what have you, but there was just you know, it's it's stuck in my mind about about that and his good business things. [01:05:03] (40 seconds)  #IntegrityMatters

You know, we hear so many things today of lifestyle, and, you you know, there's so many things that they they concoct as far as what's acceptable. And, man, there's stuff we watch TV, and we we, you know, we get up on a lot of stuff that you think, really? Like, people actually believe that that makes any sense. The morality, the immorality, and I'm saying the moral values are so skewed, and that's taken to be the norm. But we know that it doesn't bring it doesn't bless us. It doesn't give us prosperity in our spiritual walk. So Paul's bringing out some very basic things to us today. [01:03:15] (56 seconds)  #CounterCulturalFaith

And so he said they were they were trusting in the GPS. And and, you know, just down the roadways here, there's another little road, and we just lived beyond it before. And and I had this garment thing that our kids gave us because I thought I was, you know, gonna get lost. But so I thought, I'm gonna see what this thing says to us. So you'd as we were heading toward just toward town here a little bit, and it said to turn left. Well, there's nowhere to turn left, but there's a little there's a little road. It goes right beside access road beside the landing road, and it goes about a block, something like that, and it comes back out again. [00:58:26] (49 seconds)  #TrustGodNotGPS