No Confidence in the Flesh: Worship by the Spirit

Such a relationship needs leads to obedience on our part. In fact, Jesus defines eternal life in this way as knowing God and knowing Jesus Christ, which involves both faith in him and love for him. I don't know if you caught that, but I love the order of this. It's knowing him, a deep faith and love in Jesus that then leads us to follow him. See, religion says, follow the ways, and maybe you can get to him. Do all the things, and maybe you can experience God. But Jesus says, no. No. No. No. Come to me. Receive me. Receive grace [00:15:39] (40 seconds)  #KnowJesusByFaith

by faith in me like salvation is yours. Come to me. And then something that happens then is as we experience him, there's this deep love and faith in him that then leads us to want to keep his commands. See, religion could be defined like this. Religion is outside in living. It's I perform out here so that maybe something will happen here. But see, grace and a relationship with Jesus is no. No. No. Something has happened here, which motivates me to live a certain way out here. [00:16:18] (32 seconds)  #GraceInsideOut

Religion creates insecurity. Right? It's I'll never do good enough. I will always fall short. All I'm doing is trying to stay within the lines. Religion creates insecurity, but Jesus creates security. Because when I'm with Jesus, it's like, yeah, I'm gonna fall short, but he's with me. I'm gonna go outside the lines, but he's gonna bring me back by his grace. It is such a freeing place to live when you can live in and work with Jesus. See, living according to religion and works is exhausting. But living focused on Jesus, we get to know him experientially, and it's freeing. [00:16:51] (44 seconds)  #FreedomInChrist

You know, this week, I was driving my son to school in the morning, and I had my worship playlist on. It was still on my phone from my time with the Lord in the morning. And I was I was driving, and there's a song that came on, and it's a song I've led worship with. I've it's a song I've sung a lot. It's a song I've worshiped with in the car a lot. But as I was listening to it that morning, just something happened in my heart. And I I didn't know what it was. I couldn't define it, but I just knew it was a moment. [00:22:52] (29 seconds)  #TurnAsideEncounter

If you've made Jesus the lord of your life so you don't have to be a pastor. You don't have to be a person on a stage. If you've made Jesus the lord of your life, then you are a sheep. And and more exciting than being one of his sheep is this, you hear his voice. You can sense his leading. So if you're not hearing his voice, which, by the way, I'm not talking about an audible voice. I am talking about those internal nudgings and and the move of the spirit and those that witness of the holy spirit in your heart like I had on that morning. But when you're you hear his voice, you might just need to, like, turn off all the other voices in order to hear him a little bit better. [00:24:09] (35 seconds)  #ReadToMeetJesus

I wanna encourage you, if you fell off the train, jump back on. Not because checking the box on a Bible reading plan does anything for you. It doesn't. But when you can approach the word of God and every day say, Jesus, I thank you that this is you on paper for me. I pray this every morning, you guys. Jesus, I don't wanna I don't wanna read you and miss you. God, help me see you. Give me a fresh revelation today. I wanna encourage you today. Let's break off a spirit of religion. It's not about checking the boxes and getting it done. It is about saying, God, I wanna know you and the power of your resurrection. Speak to me today. Are you up for that? [00:31:45] (40 seconds)  #ReleaseReligionEmbraceGrace

the holy spirit of God is completely wrapped in this entire thing. Like, he doesn't want us just to go through the motions. And if you're going through the motions and you're experiencing God is boring, guess what? That's not the one he wants you to have. Because the spirit of God and living according to his spirit is wrapped up in this whole thing. Paul says this in Romans chapter eight. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace. [00:21:30] (38 seconds)  #ServeFromTheHeart

worthy are you or our Lord and God to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things. And by your will, they existed and were created. So so what is part of the atmosphere of heaven? It's elders. There's 24 people that have been elevated above all else in heaven, and guess what they're doing? They're bowing, and they're casting their crowns at the feet of the Lord. You know, we can give God a lot of offerings this side of heaven. We can give him an offering of our time. We can give him an offering of our serving. We can give him offerings of our giving, our finances. And as we've already looked at in this book, we can give him precious offerings out of pain and out of suffering. [00:28:08] (39 seconds)  #WorshipBySpiritNotMarks

And it's it's no worry for me to say it again, and it's a safeguard for you. What is Paul saying? Well, he's using repetition to drive home a point. It's like people would say, oh, Paul wrote to you? I I bet you he wrote about rejoicing, didn't he? Because he keeps saying it over and over and over. The the things that are are repeated are important for us to hear. And how many golfers do we have in the room this morning? Come on, my people. When I golf, I have to tell myself, like, literally every shot, head down, swing easy. [00:10:16] (32 seconds)

This is still old covenant times, ladies and gentlemen. And he's already God is already pointing us to the fact that, no. No. No. You need to mark or cut away your heart, separate your heart. You are different than those who don't follow me. So you're with me this morning so far? So now that we've set this baseline, it was an important kind of baseline that we wanted to establish here. We can go to Philippians chapter three and hear what Paul wants to speak to us today from this chapter. And he says this in Philippians three verse one. [00:09:27] (29 seconds)

So what is Paul saying? It says that it righteousness was credited to Abraham before there was ever the sign of the covenant. And so what does that mean for us today? It means whether you're marked or not doesn't matter. In fact, if it mattered, then ladies, I don't know what to tell you, actually. Maybe you're out. I don't know. Either way, we're grateful. Aren't we? Okay. And I will say because some people get caught up in this. It's more of a personal preference thing now and a cultural thing, and while you are not under commandment if you love Jesus to be marked. Okay. [00:08:06] (31 seconds)