The Personal Trainer

``But one thing I've never tried and that I would I would actually love to try someday because this is the thing. If you really wanna go after something physically and change something, whether, again, it's flexibility or dirt endurance or muscle, whatever it is, I think you can go the furthest fastest if you have a personal trainer. A personal trainer. Someone who is listening to you and identifying what your needs are, where you're going, someone who has a plan that works, and someone someone who's committed to helping you get there. I think that would be the best. I'm here to submit to you today that this guy behind me is the best personal trainer you could find. I think that Jesus wants to be your personal trainer. Dave Dave referenced this [00:13:08] (49 seconds)  #JesusIsMyTrainer

So I wanna spend, a few more minutes going through. There's I I kinda identified five different things that I thought are marks of a good personal trainer. And I wanna submit to you that I think Jesus meets these in spades. So let's go through these one at a time. A good personal trainer, first and foremost, is offering the best promises. Okay? So so if you go over to a physical train let let's say you wanted, you wanted to be, I'll go back to martial arts. Okay? Let let let's say I I had interest in being a a martial artist. Martial art do they call martial artists? That's weird. Someone good at martial arts. Right? Like like and I'm seeking out someone who can train me. Right? What I would be looking at what do they offer? What are the pro what is the promises that they they say? You will be this when you're done. Right? I that's where I would start. It's like, what is it that you're offering? [00:15:20] (55 seconds)  #JesusHasThePlan

What what we as Christians believe, what we read in God's word, and what we experience is is nothing less than than this promise of that is almost seems too good to be true. Right? And and in our world, sometimes when things are too good to be sound too good to be true, they are. But but this is God we're talking about. Right? Here's what here's what Jesus promises. [00:16:25] (24 seconds)  #JesusIsPersonal

You you where are we gonna go? There's no better plan out there. There's no better promise out there that anyone could offer. That we would come to to know the god that made us and be able to be with him forever. That's it. That transcends everything else. So Jesus, I believe, has the plan or a scroll to represent his plan here. [00:18:20] (22 seconds)  #TrainYourSpirit

A good personal trainer is first and foremost personal. Jesus Jesus is not a concept. Jesus is not a historical figure that should be revealed. Jesus is, was, and is the embodiment of God himself, the firstborn of all creation, the beginning and the end. And through, again, through mysteries we can't understand, he's he's here with us. So I I'm not the most eloquent person, so I do funny, silly things to help you remember. I want you to know and remember this that Jesus is here for you personally in the flesh. [00:27:44] (46 seconds)  #DontSettleSpiritually

Here's the truth though. We are body and spirit. We're body and soul. The same for what we just said for the for our body is exactly the same is exactly true for our spirit, for our soul. And just like there are are temporal physical world consequences for not exercising our bodies, there are eternal spiritual consequences for not exercising our spirit. [00:06:14] (28 seconds)  #ServeLikeJesus

But, again, like I said, here's the reality. While most of us might say, yep, or have experienced that at some point, that get makes sense, most of us don't do it. I I'm I'm a 100% with you. That's that's me. I remember starting the year like, no. This is the year I'm gonna be 50. Like, I you know, like, I'm gonna do it, and it's just so hard. But why? Why don't we do this thing that we know is good for us and know is gonna make us feel better and be better? Here's the here's the plain and simple truth. We don't do it because we don't need to. We don't have to do it. We don't have to do it. The motivation is not there. We're we're okay settling for where we're at. Everyone say the word settle. Settle. Settle. Okay? We're and and it's just the truth. We're we're we're gonna settle for where we're at because it's okay. We don't need to to do that. So so when we're talking about in this in this physical world, [00:04:58] (54 seconds)  #BibleTransformsYou

Serving. Right? When when we serve one another, when we serve our neighborhoods and we go to the nations, we are acting as Jesus did. He he's not a god that came to be served, he said, but to serve others and to die for them. When we do that, we feel his presence because we are we are letting him work through us. I could I could go on and I could go on. [00:11:47] (24 seconds)  #LearnFromJesus