You Are A Melody-Maker" Ephesians 5:15-21

Are we going to say that Job after losing everything and on his knees face in the dirt over the freshly dug graves of his 10 children can worship God. That Paul and Silas who had been stripped naked and beaten to pulps with rods and chained in prison can at midnight pray and sing to the glory of God? Are we really gonna say, I just really didn't like it. [00:59:56] (41 seconds)  #WorshipThroughTrials

Money leaves and money comes back. Time leaves and never comes back. You have less time left to live now than you did when I started this sermon. We all do. And it's not coming back. You're never getting more. You're never holding on to what you got. You are always always losing time until there is no time left for you to lose. [00:49:54] (28 seconds)  #TimeIsIrreplaceable

What is the wise thing to do today? Not the easy thing to do, not the popular thing to do. What is the wise thing for you to do today? Is to walk in wisdom down front and physically what God would have you to do. Is it for you to realize, okay, I I don't know everything but but god has given me the stuff I need to know. So, I'm just going to do that and trust him with the stuff that I don't know. [01:04:03] (45 seconds)  #WalkInWisdom

So so much so that I actually downloaded an app that monitors screen time and before I open any social media or anything like that on my phone, I have to take a few extra steps to do it and right there looking at me on my phone is a message I wrote to myself that literally says, this does not help you become the man you want to be. There are other more beneficial things to do with your time. [00:47:23] (30 seconds)  #LimitScreenTime

Now this whole notion of walk, this is not the first time it showed up. This is not the first time it's appeared to us in scripture and we know that when the bible talks about walking it's not necessarily talking about getting from point a to point b. It's not about getting your heart rate up. It's not about burning calories. It's not about getting from one destination to the next. It is literally speaking in terms of your life and how you live it. [00:35:12] (23 seconds)  #WalkingIsLiving

Have have you ever heard this statement? I have. People have always said, well you know you need to be careful. Alright? As a Christian, you you need to be careful. You don't wanna be so heavenly minded that you're of no earthly good. Okay. Answer honestly, is the chief charge against going to be you know he's a great guy. She's a fine lady but man they are just so heavenly minded. [00:44:33] (36 seconds)  #HeavenlyMindedMyth

Everyone is team wisdom and that is very very good. We need to understand how do we get wisdom? Does wisdom come with another degree? Does wisdom come with prolonging or continuing education? That certainly gains you knowledge particularly on a very on a singular subject. What you major in, what you commit your life to studying, that will give you knowledge in that matter, but will that give you wisdom? [00:37:07] (29 seconds)  #WisdomIsMoreThanKnowledge

So if that's how the wisest man to ever live got wisdom, I think that will be enough for you and I today. Now remember what I said. In in in these in what we read, this sentence that we read, we get told what to do and then we kinda get a means for doing it. We're told walk in wisdom. Not be an unwise person but be a wise person. That's what we're told to do. [00:41:28] (22 seconds)  #BeWiseNotFoolish