Pressing On: Pursuing Spiritual Growth and Humility

"Perfection God doesn't want us to just stay in the same grade just like no parent wants their children to stay in the same grade he wants every parent father or mother want their children to grow in understanding God and to learning everything that they need to have for life so similarly for Spiritual matters it's very important that we grow to be more and more perfect like god is perfect God says be holy as I'm holy be perfect as I'm perfect so we should be growing pressing on to Perfection." [00:00:15]

"Blessed truly happy spiritually Pro prosperous are those who are humble those who constantly and continuously keep pulling back the rating over their lives and they rate themselves as insignificant when you are bothered by somebody else when somebody offends you this is the time when we need to rate ourselves as insignificant that doesn't mean we just need to put up with all the way they're hurting to us we can speak back but when we are tempted to judge when we are tempted to have a desire to think and condemn them this is when we say Lord Jesus I want to root myself of all arrogance." [00:02:21]

"Some of us our problem with abundant food is just we eat too much this is going to be a very practical sermon I hope we can have more practical sermons we just eat too much we must value self-control and discipline more than we value Bible study and spiritual Zeal now self-control and discipline is not limited to food but it is an easy place where we can find ourselves out of control some of us just eat too much some of us are controlled by our stomach." [00:06:28]

"I fear that we can be distracted to be more interested in looking good than being a fiery witness for Jesus I fear that we may we may be more focused on having a pure diet than having a pure heart what gets us down more are we happy and cheerful when we lose 10 pounds even though we still lose our temper let me judge myself am I discouraged when I gain 10 even though my husband doesn't seem to mind the gain in the 10s I'm beating myself up my wife doesn't seem to mind the extra 10 pounds but I beat myself up and I'm more interested in that than the fact that my heart is not pure." [00:09:02]

"Careless ease the next one the next slide there's a lot of careless ease this is a huge area in my life too but I'm not going to spend a lot of time we've heard messages about this we heard last year Jeremy speak on to gather up the fragments the 12 baskets over we he this we've heard this spoken from Song of Solomon about catch the little foxes that are ruining the vineyard be careful as how you walk Ephesians 5:15 and 6 because the time is evil make the most of your time family of God there is spiritual output that the Lord wants to produce through you as you spend time with him to call people to encourage other people to write different ways." [00:15:41]

"Look we at nccf have a radically different view on money we tell you that it is not biblical and definitely not New Covenant to tithe God abolished tithing in the New Covenant so tithing means 10% God's replaced that with 100% God controls all of your money that's what he's replaced 10% with so I don't get to spend my money on whatever I want to spend it none of it not 1% not 10% not 99% 100% of it must be controlled by God and God determines not any church but the Holy Spirit should be controlling how we spend our money." [00:18:03]

"Some of us can be guilty about Not Giving enough we should be freed from any guilt that we have to give a certain amount no read this passage when you got some time 2 Corinthians 8:12 it says for the Readiness is is present and he's talking specifically about financial giving he's talking specifically about the Corinthian Church giving to the poor in Jerusalem and he says it is acceptable according to what a person has not according to what he does not have that's how we should assess our giving according to what we have so the person who has more should give more and the person who has less should give a lot less some people who have less should give nothing." [00:19:21]

"Let us think about that let us think let us sit down with our spouses and let us think about it Lord this is the sin of Sodom help us to start rooting it out in its cause and dear family let's not feel guilty about not giving some of us need to be giving nothing in fact if you have any questions please come and ask us Elders we've encouraged multiple people please give nothing if you have debts if you have other things like that don't give anything to the church God doesn't need your money this church doesn't need it but some of us are living luxurious lives and if we were to do the accounting we spend a lot more on our Pleasures than on God's Kingdom." [00:20:37]

"Protected from the guilt of Sodom I will be humble and rate myself as insignificant this is God's way to being happy and spiritually prop let me accept that let me embrace that food I will not be controlled by too much food or how I look I will live with self-control time the days are getting more and more evil so I will make the most of my time to live with courage and purpose money how I use the money I have will prove that I love God and his kingdom the books will be open one day family of God the books will be open how I used my money will prove whether I love God in his kingdom or I give it on my own Pleasures." [00:22:23]

"Men will be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God meditate on that dear brother and sisters we don't want to fool ourselves with the magnitude of Bible studies that we Are Spiritual we need to practically ask ourselves whether rubber hits the road if our actions prove that we're really on the Lord's Side finally if you have any questions about what I've spoken about I not run this by Bobby and Jeremy but I submit to them ask talk to them I was bothered by S what he said here I am willing to learn too but I'll tell you this as I judge myself as I Was preparing the sermon I have only one desire I want you to look me in the eye and I want to look each of you in the eyes and know that Jesus is your only desire." [00:23:44]

"That's what I'm interested in as I'm interested in securing we as Elders are interested in securing Simple and Clean and pure devotion to Jesus that's my heart so I hope you will also in your desire to follow these things and look at these things ask yourself Lord Jesus I want to go all out I want to be simple and pure to you and we'll see how the Lord Works in our lives may God help us." [00:24:44]