Physical Reset: "Stop Neglecting, Start Nurturing" | Titus 2:11-14

What a powerful statement. Right? Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit that God has placed in you. Like this thing that you have been blessed with that wakes up in the morning with breath in its lungs and has the opportunity to live and use its gifts and talents. It's a temple, which means it's a place of worship. The physical is a worship thing. It's not just a number on a scale. It's not just the number of steps that one takes, but it's a a way in which you live to honor God. [00:01:53] (34 seconds)  #bodyIsHolyTemple

the words of God are true, your body is the temple of the holy spirit, honor God with your bodies. If the world's research tells us that we're not, we're exhausted, 50% burnt out, people are running here, there, and everywhere, We can stop doing some things and we definitely need to start doing other things to help us be the people God wants us to be. Because you know what God wants for you? Fruitful and not exhausted. [00:41:43] (33 seconds)  #beFruitfulNotExhausted

Like, if you're taking notes, want you to see this and and here's the truth and the tension of today. It's hard to be fruitful when you're exhausted. Like, God wants us to bear life that is fruitful. God wants us to bear spiritual fruit. He wants us to to have the fruits of the spirit on display. It's hard to be fruitful when you're exhausted. [00:15:49] (27 seconds)  #restForFruitfulness

Brothers and sisters, as you go out today, here's what I want you to hear. God loves you. God forgives you. Like, for every time you got this wrong, Jesus got it right. So whatever the reset is that you long to carry out, know that he's given you and will give you a spirit of love, power, and self discipline to carry it out during the week ahead as you seek to honor him and rest and not rush. [00:45:00] (24 seconds)  #forgivenAndEmpowered

Like someone once said that 70% of discipleship think about that. We're talking about discipleship being in God's word. There's a quote from pastor. 70% of discipleship is getting a good night's sleep. Like owning the fact that you are created and that god is god, go to bed and let god do what he needs to do during the night and get back up and do what god wants you to do tomorrow. [00:37:56] (23 seconds)  #sleepIsDiscipleship

Like, Jesus understood better than just about anybody the principle of rushing and resting. Like, when there was work to do, when there were people that were there, like, Jesus didn't walk away from the opportunities, but he knew at a certain point because he was a physical being. He knew for the disciples that in that moment, were so excited. They they were probably willing to to compromise and then try and compensate and skip food and skip sleep because there was work to do. Like, Jesus understood the power and principle of resting. [00:20:48] (36 seconds)  #jesusModeledRest

Like in six days, God made the heavens and the earth. On the seventh day, he rested. Not because God got tired, but to set up a principle that he wanted you and me to honor. Because he knew it was good for created beings to to understand their limitations. If you think I know what's changed more than anything in those a hundred years, People stopped resting. [00:22:19] (28 seconds)  #SabbathSetsTheRhythm

And so, you consider this reality, understand the implications why resets are needed because oftentimes, it begins with even the best of intentions, we compromise. That's the first thing we'll do. Well, why reset doesn't get it, we compromise and then we compensate. We we try and adjust for it. We try and do something about it. We'll we'll compromise our schedule. We'll compromise non negotiables from a physical perspective. Then we compensate and then we'll crash. And God doesn't want us crashing. It's not fruitful. [00:18:09] (42 seconds)  #avoidCompromiseCrash

Like, do you look a lot more like Jesus or less like Jesus when you're exhausted? Like, when you come home and you're exhausted, does your wife get the best of you? Does your husband see the good in you or does he get the impatient? Does she get the lack of joy? What what does it look like? What does it look like to the world when you're exhausted? When God calls you, like, as your mission and purpose to let the light of Jesus shine and and be seen in you when when you're running on empty. [00:16:16] (36 seconds)  #exhaustedHindersWitness

Like, last time I checked, God told you to take care of this thing because if you don't take care of this thing, what you do for a living on a Sunday can't be done. And if you're exhausted, you know how much a communication is verbal and nonverbal? Like, if you're a pastor and you are the best verbal communicator in the world, but you do a lousy job of taking care of your body and you are exhausted, you know, what you communicate? 80% to 90% is nonverbal. [00:17:28] (31 seconds)  #careBodyCareMinistry

I've learned this. Staycations are no vacations. They are work. It's not recovery. And if you are cashing out checks with your vacation time and not using it, you're not helping yourself. You're just not. Studies will show you. Employers know this, that people who take their vacation time, studies have said they have sustained productivity and high performance. Your boss and your employers want you to take it because it makes you a better employee. [00:36:50] (32 seconds)  #takeRealVacations

Like, I know some of you can't sit still. It is next to impossible for you to like go home on a Sunday after church and just do nothing. Like, watch TV. That's great. Sit outside. Enjoy the sunshine. Like, instead of doing an eight hour project, like, can you sabbath for a day? And maybe not even perfectly, start with half a day. Like, shut it down. It'll be good for your soul and your body. [00:39:50] (30 seconds)  #practiceHalfDaySabbath

We need to start by asking the right question. If you wanna reset physically, ask the right question. Not what's normal. Not not what's normal in the world's perspective, but what's needed. What's needed To honor God with my body. Like all too often, we negotiate things that should be nonnegotiable because the world says that's normal. Start looking different. You'll be blessed. [00:33:30] (30 seconds)  #askWhatsNeededNotNormal

Like, you choose to work overtime, when you choose to work extra hours, are you doing it because you have to? And some of you do. God bless you. I get it. We live in a tough world today where finances are tough. But some of you are doing it just to have extra, like, have that third house and have another TV. Like, sometimes we we overdo it because we wanna retire at 59 instead of 65, and we do it at the expense of our life and our physical well-being and the lives of others, your marriage. [00:34:06] (33 seconds)  #rethinkOvertimeChoices

we as a church ask you to volunteer. We as a church ask you to join a group. We as a church tell you to love your neighbor and help others. Like, we we pile on, don't we? Like, there's all sorts of good things you can do. There's all sorts of godly things in this world that we can spend our time on, but something's gotta give. [00:15:08] (21 seconds)  #balanceMinistryAndLife

And the work that you have to do is only putting it in the one machine, taking it out, putting it in the other, and then folding it, not washing it by hand and hanging it out and dealing with all sorts of different just think about the modern conveniences we have today that allow us more time and yet we're more exhausted today. Physically, we're more worn down and stretched out than ever before. And you can add new things to your list, resolutions physically that you think are gonna make it better, But just adding more is not gonna get it done. [00:12:30] (38 seconds)  #conveniencesDontSolveExhaustion

Like, so what's changed in our world today that that number has gone up so much? Like, you ever stopped and paused and thought about what life was like a hundred years ago versus today that has made it so much more exhausting and people are so much more burned out? Like like, here's one truth. There's not more hours in the day than there were a hundred years ago. Like, we still get 24 per day. Right? [00:11:08] (23 seconds)  #hoursStill24

You see, the creator knows, if you're taking notes, the creator knows that the created has limits. God knows that you and I have limits. Don't go climbing Superstition Mountain and do all that hard work up to the top and then jump off because you can't fly. You have limits. But you'll work eighty hours a week and you'll think you can be a great husband and dad. [00:24:17] (34 seconds)  #knowYourLimits

Like a physical reset, unless you are the most disciplined godly person in the world, is something that probably has to happen on a regular basis. It probably happens throughout the course of the year at different times for different reasons. And and, what I pray today is that you see the reason why a physical reset is so important for us, and not just from a physical perspective, but also from a spiritual one. [00:07:15] (26 seconds)  #regularPhysicalResets

Like, if we can just own it and be honest that we are created and human, then we're also gonna be able to open our eyes to this reality that we live in a broken world and as sinful human beings on our own, we cannot reset. We're always gonna chase after the things. We're always gonna add so that we can have more. We're gonna negotiate because we think we know best. [00:28:08] (24 seconds)  #cannotResetAlone