Press On | Pastor Grant Ethridge | Liberty Live Church

So the goal in this life is not perfection. It's progress. Not perfection, but progress. Now apply that to your job. Apply that to school. Apply that to your relationships. Apply that to marriage. Apply that to your family. Just stay humble. God resists the proud. He gives grace to the humble and stay hungry. God has more. Everybody say more. More. [00:47:36] (28 seconds)  #ProgressNotPerfection

There ought to be a holy discontentment in us that we want more of what God has for us. That we're gonna keep growing. I've said it many times, but I'm gonna say it again. You can make excuses or you can make progress but you can't do both. God wants us to make progress. Paul said, I've not arrived. He wrote 13 books of the bible and he said, I haven't arrived. [00:48:04] (25 seconds)  #NeverArrivedKeepGrowing

One of the reasons that I think so many people have no joys, they have no purpose. They have no direction. They're just cast to and fro. They're just drifting and existing in life. Now, don't just read over this and miss it. It says, Christ Jesus took hold of me. You didn't find god. He found you. God wasn't lost. You were. And [00:50:43] (23 seconds)  #GodFoundYou

You are not what your past says you are. You're a new creation. Old things are passed away. All things become new. Your past does not define you. Sins must be forgiven and successes must be forsaken. Don't go around saying, look what I did. I don't care how good it was. I don't care how bad it was. No. [01:02:42] (19 seconds)  #YouAreANewCreation

Paul is saying, I know I'm not perfect, but I press on. I know I'm not perfect, but I'm making progress. Paul is saying, I'm not everything that I ought to be, but praise God, I'm not what I used to be. And that'll be your attitude today. I mean, when you and your spouse do not have the best day or the best week, you don't throw in the towel. You press on. Everybody say press on. On. [00:47:10] (26 seconds)  #PressOnToday

A little boy heard that in Sunday school one Sunday, he said, that is nothing. My mom looked back driving this week. She turned into a telephone pole. Just wanna make sure you're awake. Alright? Listen. We gotta be straining ahead, not looking back. It's the picture of a runner who's headed for the finish line. And I'm telling you, runners get cramps and runners sometimes stumble, but you gotta keep pressing on. You gotta keep running. [01:04:05] (28 seconds)  #EyesOnTheFinishLine

The verses in the Bible that give me the most problems are not the verses I don't understand, it's the ones I do understand. It's trying to live up to what I already know. Amen? Amen. And so he says here, our perspective has gotta be heavenward. We take this view. We think differently than the world. We live up. [01:06:07] (19 seconds)  #HeavenwardPerspective

You gotta see where you are at school, in your neighborhood, in the workplace, in life, wherever you are in life that god has placed you there for a reason. Your business, your leadership, your skills, your influence. They're not secondary to god's purposes. They're the very tools that god will use to accomplish his purposes. [00:52:20] (21 seconds)  #YourWorkIsPurpose