WEBVTT 00:00:04.065 --> 00:00:07.065 You feel that? 00:00:07.133 --> 00:00:10.132 That was a second gone. 00:00:12.066 --> 00:00:16.932 Another one gone. 00:00:16.932 --> 00:00:20.399 Life is happening right now. 00:00:21.132 --> 00:00:22.332 And you? 00:00:22.332 --> 00:00:25.332 You're in it. 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:27.932 But here's the truth. 00:00:27.932 --> 00:00:30.932 You don't get a replay. 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:36.232 Opportunities missed them and they're gone. 00:00:36.432 --> 00:00:37.365 Look carefully, then. 00:00:37.365 --> 00:00:38.966 How you walk. 00:00:38.966 --> 00:00:44.765 Not as unwise, but as wise as the world says. 00:00:44.765 --> 00:00:46.232 Live for yourself. 00:00:46.232 --> 00:00:50.732 But wisdom says live for something greater. 00:00:52.299 --> 00:00:59.665 Because time you can waste it, or you can use it. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.000 Don't waste your life. 00:01:10.332 --> 00:01:11.266 Well good morning church. 00:01:11.266 --> 00:01:12.266 How are we doing? 00:01:12.266 --> 00:01:13.766 Morning. 00:01:13.766 --> 00:01:15.733 It's great to be with you this morning. 00:01:15.733 --> 00:01:17.299 And thank you for coming in. 00:01:17.299 --> 00:01:19.733 Despite the fact that we had daylight savings time. 00:01:19.733 --> 00:01:23.200 This is the cursed Sunday at Daylight Savings time. 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:24.433 We got the blessed Sunday. 00:01:24.433 --> 00:01:26.233 When we fall back to. 00:01:26.233 --> 00:01:30.299 This morning is the cursed Sunday when we spring forward. It. 00:01:30.299 --> 00:01:34.933 And this whole idea of Daylight savings time is kind of weird to me. 00:01:34.933 --> 00:01:35.865 Maybe to you all. 00:01:35.865 --> 00:01:43.033 But you know, it's an attempt to try to save some daylight by moving the clocks of the hand back an hour. 00:01:43.033 --> 00:01:45.832 But really, how much does it actually help? 00:01:45.832 --> 00:01:55.933 I'm not sure, but I am certain that there are some things that don't adhere to the time change. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:02.900 And one of those things would be my four month old son, Ezra. 00:02:03.766 --> 00:02:12.966 It doesn't matter what time it is, it doesn't matter what the clock says, what my phone says, if he wants to wake up, he's going to wake up. 00:02:12.966 --> 00:02:14.500 I was with him last night. 00:02:14.500 --> 00:02:18.699 He's been sleeping in little stints, and I want to go and give a shout out to my wife. 00:02:18.699 --> 00:02:19.599 She made it to the building. 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:21.733 I don't know why she even made it to the building today. 00:02:21.733 --> 00:02:26.866 He'd been under the weather, but she has made it taking care of two kids all week. 00:02:26.932 --> 00:02:27.765 Thankful for her. 00:02:27.765 --> 00:02:30.032 She makes it possible that we can do weekends like this. 00:02:30.032 --> 00:02:31.699 I'm so thankful for her. 00:02:31.699 --> 00:02:36.966 But with this whole DST, the daylight Savings time, my son really, really could care less. 00:02:36.966 --> 00:02:48.265 But you know, if my son did adhere to it, if he would adjust his sleeping schedule around it, I would come up with something called CST, a new CST that would be Colby Sleep Time. 00:02:48.265 --> 00:02:52.733 I would keep pushing that clock back over and over and over again till I got some sleep. 00:02:52.733 --> 00:02:54.233 But that don't happen. 00:02:54.233 --> 00:02:57.665 And this whole idea of daylight savings time is as simple. 00:02:57.665 --> 00:03:03.733 It is a simple attempt to try to manipulate our clocks to kind of gain more hours. 00:03:03.733 --> 00:03:09.532 But you and I both know that's not really what daylight saving time can do, because time goes on. 00:03:10.099 --> 00:03:12.466 Time is fleeting. 00:03:12.466 --> 00:03:24.532 And as we looked at that, this series or this this weekend with our students, how important is it just for us who are even older than teenagers, that we need to value our time more and more? 00:03:25.332 --> 00:03:32.400 Because the older I get, the less time I have, and certainly the less time I feels like I have. The days get shorter. 00:03:33.432 --> 00:03:48.566 But something interesting Moses wrote in Psalm 90, verse 12, he says, Lord, teach me to number my days, so that I will have a wise heart. 00:03:49.165 --> 00:04:02.233 Lord, teach me to know how long I've got left on this earth, because time is precious, and because of that I need to live appropriately, purposefully. 00:04:02.265 --> 00:04:06.599 And so our theme verse this this weekend was Ephesians five 1516. 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:12.000 It says, look carefully then, how you walk, not as unwise but as wise. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.466 And here's our kind of our key verse. 00:04:13.466 --> 00:04:25.665 Making the best use of the time for the days are evil, that we would value our time as something greater than just what we see on a digital clock. 00:04:26.365 --> 00:04:27.199 But it's interesting. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:31.833 Today we we've kind of lost this sense of fleeting time. 00:04:31.833 --> 00:04:34.165 And I think there's different factors that lead up to that. 00:04:34.165 --> 00:04:36.833 But I think part of that is our technology. 00:04:36.833 --> 00:04:40.932 Part of that is our mechanical clocks and our clocks on our phone. 00:04:40.932 --> 00:04:44.065 But there is a device, iconic device. 00:04:44.665 --> 00:04:45.865 It's on stage with me. 00:04:45.865 --> 00:04:49.899 That kind of helped you see how fleeting time is. 00:04:50.065 --> 00:04:51.399 And it's an hourglass. 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.399 So if you bear with me. 00:04:56.165 --> 00:04:56.500 You're. 00:04:56.500 --> 00:05:07.533 I'm assuming you know what an hourglass is, but the lower bowl, the sand fall, or the upper bowl that the sand falls down into the lower because of gravity. 00:05:07.533 --> 00:05:13.399 And as it's flowing, you can visually see second flowing. 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:21.533 But what's interesting, and what we do know about an hourglass is that at some point this sand is going to be empty. 00:05:22.333 --> 00:05:28.966 And we don't get that luxury with a phone, with a, with a watch, with clocks, because we don't see that the time is ticking away. 00:05:28.966 --> 00:05:30.966 Eventually it will be gone. 00:05:30.966 --> 00:05:33.699 But we see this here. 00:05:33.699 --> 00:05:39.300 And so we've used this this weekend as this image to know that your time is fleeting. 00:05:40.365 --> 00:05:44.199 It's not forever or time on this earth. 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:44.932 It's not forever. 00:05:46.233 --> 00:06:00.833 And so the main point we're going to see today is that we must remember God and our purpose, or else we will waste our time through distraction and idolatry. 00:06:01.932 --> 00:06:07.033 How crucial it is that we remember God and His purpose for our life. 00:06:07.033 --> 00:06:08.132 And we're going to see that today. 00:06:08.132 --> 00:06:11.665 In Deuteronomy chapter eight, we've got some scriptures. 00:06:11.665 --> 00:06:13.266 Turn with me to Deuteronomy chapter eight. 00:06:13.266 --> 00:06:14.632 The words will be on the screen. 00:06:14.632 --> 00:06:17.033 I hope you can follow along with us. 00:06:17.033 --> 00:06:19.600 We got some scripture to get through. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:25.233 We're going to look at as a couple big chunks of of Scripture, a handful of verses back to back. 00:06:25.233 --> 00:06:26.165 So bear with me. 00:06:26.165 --> 00:06:29.766 But I promise you, there is gold in this message. 00:06:29.766 --> 00:06:32.266 The Lord has so much to say. 00:06:32.266 --> 00:06:37.966 This Deuteronomy chapter eight Moses is writing to Israel. 00:06:38.065 --> 00:06:41.132 And if you don't know this story too well, they just got out of Egypt. 00:06:41.132 --> 00:06:43.199 They just been saved, redeemed by God. 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.665 So now they're wandering in the wilderness. 00:06:46.665 --> 00:06:49.865 They've been complaining, they've been disobeying. 00:06:49.865 --> 00:06:54.065 They have been running, running and doing things that God has not told them to do. 00:06:54.065 --> 00:06:56.533 And so God has said, you know what? 00:06:56.533 --> 00:06:59.165 This generation isn't going to go into the promised land. 00:06:59.165 --> 00:07:00.800 You're going to wander for 40 years. 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:16.600 And so Moses is writing this book as a charge and with instruction that as the people of Israel head into the Promised Land, there's some things you need to know and there's some things that you need to remember. 00:07:16.699 --> 00:07:22.600 And so he writes here in chapter, chapter eight of Deuteronomy, verse one, this is what he says. 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:28.665 He says, the whole commandment that I command you today, you shall be careful to do that. 00:07:28.665 --> 00:07:36.533 You may live and multiply and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. 00:07:36.533 --> 00:07:41.665 So right off the bat Moses says, and this is God speaking, actually Moses just right. 00:07:41.665 --> 00:07:45.899 And God says, if you obey me, you're going to multiply. 00:07:45.899 --> 00:07:47.132 You're going to be successful. 00:07:47.132 --> 00:07:49.699 And it's implied the opposite is true as well. 00:07:49.699 --> 00:07:54.665 If you don't obey me, you're going to get destroyed. 00:07:54.665 --> 00:07:59.865 And so from the very beginning, obedient to set before them that they need to obey God. 00:07:59.865 --> 00:08:04.733 Verse two says, and you shall remember, here's a really important word for this chapter. 00:08:04.733 --> 00:08:19.899 You shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these 40 years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 00:08:20.932 --> 00:08:25.466 So Moses says, you need to remember where you come from. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:35.066 You just got out of hundreds of years in Egypt, and because of that, you've been blessed by God to be redeemed and saved. 00:08:35.066 --> 00:08:41.133 And now you're heading into this promised land where you're going to have all of these wonderful things to you. 00:08:41.133 --> 00:08:45.332 But listen, don't forget where you just came from. 00:08:46.500 --> 00:08:52.166 And he used this whole process with them as he as as God says here to humble them. 00:08:53.100 --> 00:08:57.200 And how often do we need to be humbled by God? 00:08:57.899 --> 00:09:07.432 And so you all probably know this just as well as I do, that God will test you to expose what is truly in your heart. 00:09:07.633 --> 00:09:10.500 This was the whole point of this 40 years of wandering. 00:09:10.500 --> 00:09:15.865 God was wanting to see if their love for him and their obedience and faith to him was real. 00:09:17.033 --> 00:09:29.066 And that's why we go through seasons of testing and being tried and going through difficulties, because it's not wasted time, but it's purposeful time that God wants to test our hearts. 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:52.332 He goes on in verse three, God says, and he that this is now Moses speak, and he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 00:09:52.332 --> 00:09:53.533 Lead the scripture up here for us. 00:09:53.533 --> 00:09:55.633 I'm going to break this down. 00:09:55.633 --> 00:09:58.832 So manna was the bread that came down from heaven. 00:09:58.832 --> 00:10:02.832 It was literally the first instance we have of Uber Eats and DoorDash. 00:10:02.832 --> 00:10:08.432 This was the heavenly dash, the Heavenly Eats, the best delivery service you can imagine. 00:10:08.432 --> 00:10:10.633 God said, bread from heaven, here it comes. 00:10:10.633 --> 00:10:12.166 And they get to pick it up and eat it. 00:10:12.166 --> 00:10:16.066 It had a little sweet taste, but they even complained in where's our meat? 00:10:16.066 --> 00:10:17.332 God, they still at it. 00:10:17.332 --> 00:10:18.566 They had reasons to complain. 00:10:18.566 --> 00:10:21.633 And so God fed them and gave them food. 00:10:22.232 --> 00:10:25.466 And yet even through this process, he was humbling them for a purpose. 00:10:25.466 --> 00:10:35.966 What it says he was humbling them because he wanted them to know that you can't live by bread alone and by bread. 00:10:35.966 --> 00:10:38.299 This is literally meaning bread in this scenario. 00:10:38.299 --> 00:10:44.299 But the Bible applies this to so many areas of life that we can't live on anything alone. 00:10:44.299 --> 00:10:47.299 We simply need God. 00:10:48.365 --> 00:10:54.432 So if you know the story in Jesus's life, when he gets baptized, Holy Spirit sends him into the wilderness. 00:10:54.432 --> 00:10:57.066 For how many days, 40 days? 00:10:57.066 --> 00:11:00.832 How many years was Israel in the wilderness? 00:11:00.832 --> 00:11:07.399 You see the picture Jesus is kind of mimicking a little bit of what Israel was doing. 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:10.200 And so he's now in the the wilderness. 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.265 Jesus is and he is fasting for 40 days. 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:15.799 And don't you know it? 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:23.899 Here comes the enemy comes up to Jesus tempting him when he is as hungry and says, listen, Jesus, see those stones over there? 00:11:23.899 --> 00:11:25.100 Just turn them into bread. 00:11:26.166 --> 00:11:27.666 Bread. 00:11:27.666 --> 00:11:36.899 Jesus looks at them and says, let me quote you a verse that I know man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 00:11:36.899 --> 00:11:40.232 Jesus is saying, I can do without that. 00:11:40.332 --> 00:11:41.200 I can't do it. 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.633 That obedience to God. 00:11:43.633 --> 00:11:46.332 Jesus is saying, I am the true Israel. 00:11:46.332 --> 00:11:49.299 I'm the one who's doing what Israel didn't do. 00:11:49.299 --> 00:11:52.299 I don't need the bread, I need God. 00:11:52.765 --> 00:11:56.133 But before we can say, okay, Colby, I'm with that. 00:11:56.133 --> 00:11:57.765 I mean, I can I can fast from bread. 00:11:57.765 --> 00:11:59.232 I'm in fact, I'm gluten free. 00:11:59.232 --> 00:12:00.432 I don't need any bread. 00:12:00.432 --> 00:12:02.232 I can do that. 00:12:02.232 --> 00:12:03.100 But there's more than that. 00:12:03.100 --> 00:12:04.033 It's more than just bread. 00:12:04.033 --> 00:12:12.865 Because when he says, you cannot live by bread alone, he's talking about food or pleasures or luxuries or things of this world. 00:12:12.865 --> 00:12:16.932 But instead you will live by the word of God. 00:12:18.533 --> 00:12:21.500 So, friends, this morning, the point is this you. 00:12:21.500 --> 00:12:25.732 You can't live by the things that can be blessed to you. 00:12:25.732 --> 00:12:34.033 Your bread, your food, your houses, your comforts, your luxuries and friends. 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:38.566 You can be the poorest person in this country and be the richest person in the world. 00:12:38.566 --> 00:12:46.200 Because of where we live, we are highly blessed materially. 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:57.332 So imagine the Israelites are going in to a promised land and God saying, listen, don't forget where you came from because you can't live by bread alone. 00:12:57.332 --> 00:12:58.700 You need something more. 00:12:58.700 --> 00:13:09.732 If we don't have the Word of God, if we don't have God's presence, if we don't have God's protection, the bread don't matter, the luxuries don't matter, the comforts don't matter. 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:25.765 Because here is the thing about our modern culture the world promises instant, fleeting gratification, but God promises delayed, eternal satisfaction. 00:13:26.566 --> 00:13:31.932 Listen, you can easily go find something in the world that will give you your quick fix, I can assure you. 00:13:31.932 --> 00:13:38.700 You can go to your screens, go to your fridge and go have your experiences. 00:13:38.700 --> 00:13:51.666 And this isn't to knock on all of those things as being bad, but when those things become the main thing, that's when we get in trouble because they provide you with something that is fleeting and won't really gratify you long term. 00:13:51.666 --> 00:13:57.299 But God promises something to you and I that will satisfy you for eternity. 00:13:58.932 --> 00:14:00.000 But you know what you got to do? 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:03.265 You have to delay the pleasures of this life. 00:14:03.265 --> 00:14:05.600 Sometimes. 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:07.332 But it's easy. 00:14:07.332 --> 00:14:11.566 I see something, I'm gonna take it right here. 00:14:11.566 --> 00:14:13.533 What we see from Jesus and what we see. 00:14:13.533 --> 00:14:13.832 What? 00:14:13.832 --> 00:14:16.600 What Moses is saying to the Israelites. 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:17.500 It's all too humble. 00:14:17.500 --> 00:14:19.865 It goes on in verse four. 00:14:19.865 --> 00:14:24.966 Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these 40 years. 00:14:24.966 --> 00:14:25.566 Verse five. 00:14:25.566 --> 00:14:33.399 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his Son, the Lord your God disciplines you. 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:42.566 So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways, and by fearing him just like a good father would. 00:14:42.566 --> 00:14:48.666 God the Lord disciplines us like his kids. 00:14:48.666 --> 00:14:50.899 If we are the children of God, he is our father. 00:14:50.899 --> 00:14:55.765 He's going to discipline you and we need it. 00:14:57.732 --> 00:15:05.133 So recently, with all the snow and the rain a couple of weeks ago, or like three weeks ago or so, we had some water damage that happened in our basement. 00:15:06.100 --> 00:15:10.133 And so that required a quick phone call to some friends in the church that came over. 00:15:10.133 --> 00:15:15.432 And we swiftly pulled up carpet ripped up the pad underneath. 00:15:15.432 --> 00:15:18.265 So my basement looks like a frat house right now. 00:15:18.265 --> 00:15:20.265 There is furniture everywhere. 00:15:20.265 --> 00:15:23.200 Things turned up, upside down, carpet rolled up here and there. 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:25.799 And so we have no basement pretty much anymore. 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:28.466 And so we got to get some things figured out first. 00:15:28.466 --> 00:15:33.932 But you know, it's kind of frustrating because that place sort of became a semi man cave. 00:15:33.932 --> 00:15:35.700 I don't know if anybody's got any of those. 00:15:35.700 --> 00:15:43.966 And especially with having kids, two kids, three and under, you need a quiet place to go sometimes, but I don't have that anymore. 00:15:43.966 --> 00:15:45.500 And so that kind of disrupted my comfort. 00:15:45.500 --> 00:15:47.200 And I didn't like that. 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:49.033 I didn't like those disruptions in my life. 00:15:49.033 --> 00:15:51.200 And so obviously, I got frustrated. 00:15:52.332 --> 00:16:04.332 But, you know, the more and more I've thought about it, God uses those types of things to disrupt the comforts of our lives because he needs to humble us. 00:16:04.332 --> 00:16:06.100 I need to be humbled. 00:16:06.100 --> 00:16:24.166 If I get too comfortable with my things, in my possessions and my stuff and my experiences, I can so easily if I if I wanted to, I could try to do life without God and just live off my luxuries and comforts and experiences and just say, God, I'm good. I got this. 00:16:24.166 --> 00:16:29.666 But sometimes God needs to disrupt my life to listen. 00:16:29.666 --> 00:16:39.566 God will withhold comfort, to discipline and redirect us back to obedience, and sometimes we need that. 00:16:39.566 --> 00:16:41.966 We need to be redirected back to God. 00:16:41.966 --> 00:16:48.932 And so my first point this morning is this we are called to obey God by following him in his ways and fearing him. 00:16:50.966 --> 00:16:58.232 To obey God and to follow him and to fear him, and sometimes to get us back on track. 00:16:58.232 --> 00:17:01.232 God's got to flip our world upside down. 00:17:02.533 --> 00:17:03.700 And I know where you're at in the season. 00:17:03.700 --> 00:17:05.232 Maybe God's doing that with you. 00:17:05.232 --> 00:17:10.665 But listen, it's all for a purpose, okay? Go. 00:17:10.665 --> 00:17:11.799 So he goes on your verse seven. 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:13.732 This is Moses writing on behalf of God. 00:17:13.732 --> 00:17:34.165 Verse seven, for the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land full of brooks, of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys of the hills, a land of wheat and barley, a vines and fig trees of pomegranate granite, a land of olive trees and honey. 00:17:34.165 --> 00:17:38.865 A land in which you will eat without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing. 00:17:38.865 --> 00:17:48.032 A land whose stone eyes are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper and keep getting better. 00:17:48.099 --> 00:17:55.665 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:04.000 Those are wonderful things to be blessed by God with all of these things. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.066 And God blesses us with these things. 00:18:06.066 --> 00:18:09.165 But there is such a great danger. 00:18:10.432 --> 00:18:19.365 So there's a dangerous temptation to forget God when your life is full of ease, comfort and possessions. 00:18:20.099 --> 00:18:23.633 Because everything we purchase and buy has a cost. 00:18:23.633 --> 00:18:25.599 You buy a new car. 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:27.732 There's a temptation associated with him. 00:18:27.732 --> 00:18:29.000 You buy a new phone. 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:32.000 There's a temptation associated with it. 00:18:32.333 --> 00:18:43.032 When we get new things and we we enter new seasons, there is a temptation to live up for those things and forget the one who gave them to you. 00:18:43.299 --> 00:18:47.732 See, we can make good things into God. 00:18:47.732 --> 00:18:56.633 Things that is, we take the blessings that God has given us and we make them bigger than what they actually are. 00:18:56.633 --> 00:19:01.432 So instead of to worship the creator, we worship creation. 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:06.799 By hitting home yet? 00:19:07.032 --> 00:19:19.799 There was such a great temptation in our modern, rich society for us to get so sidetracked, to forget God, and to live for this life, and the possessions and the luxuries and experiences we can get. 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:25.432 So second thing I want to express to you this morning don't get too comfortable in this world. 00:19:29.232 --> 00:19:33.066 I'm thankful God doesn't let me get too comfortable. 00:19:34.032 --> 00:19:43.400 But if you feel yourself slipping into a life where everything just becomes easy and God just starts drifting into the background, you better watch out because God may be coming for you. 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:46.400 He may be stirring up your life. 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:52.865 And certainly I would rather live without God's discipline, and I'd rather just follow Jesus 100% of the time. 00:19:53.032 --> 00:19:55.900 But I'm I'm doing this, and I'm making this as a warning to you. 00:19:55.900 --> 00:19:57.665 Just as God was warning the Israelites. 00:19:57.665 --> 00:20:02.133 And for us, we have just as much temptation as they did when they entered the Promised Land. 00:20:04.133 --> 00:20:06.965 Don't get too comfortable. 00:20:06.965 --> 00:20:08.432 Verse 11. 00:20:08.432 --> 00:20:12.665 We're going to read a handful of verses here. So? So buckle up. Y'all ready? 00:20:12.665 --> 00:20:13.599 Take care. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:15.766 Lest you forget, here's our word. 00:20:15.766 --> 00:20:17.465 So he says to remember. 00:20:17.465 --> 00:20:19.432 Now he's saying, don't forget. 00:20:19.432 --> 00:20:21.133 Don't forget the Lord your God. 00:20:21.133 --> 00:20:32.566 By not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built good houses, and live in them. 00:20:32.566 --> 00:20:59.066 And when your herds and flocks multiply, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up or filled with pride, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground, where there was no water? 00:20:59.066 --> 00:20:59.766 Who brought you? 00:20:59.766 --> 00:21:04.066 Brought you water out of the flinty rock who fed you in the wilderness with manna? 00:21:04.066 --> 00:21:10.066 That's your fathers did not know they they might humble you and test you to do you good in the end. 00:21:10.066 --> 00:21:12.099 In verse seven, we gotta slow down here. 00:21:12.099 --> 00:21:24.400 Verse 17, here beware, lest you say in your heart my power and the might of my hand have gotten me this well. 00:21:24.865 --> 00:21:29.200 It was the phrase that I got at work that's got me here. 00:21:29.299 --> 00:21:32.299 Come on, me. 00:21:34.532 --> 00:21:36.700 It's me that's got me to this place. 00:21:36.700 --> 00:21:39.400 I made those good financial decisions. 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:41.465 I was able to do this or do that. 00:21:41.465 --> 00:21:42.400 I'm really smart. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:46.133 I'm really gifted me. 00:21:46.133 --> 00:21:49.133 Look at my life. 00:21:49.133 --> 00:21:53.732 I got the watch, the car, I got all I've got. 00:21:53.732 --> 00:21:56.232 It. 00:21:56.232 --> 00:21:58.066 And God thing even back then. 00:21:58.066 --> 00:21:59.900 Beware. 00:21:59.900 --> 00:22:00.799 Bless your heart. 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:08.965 Get to a place where you're so prideful that you think this season and everything that you got in your life right now is because of you. 00:22:09.133 --> 00:22:20.732 Verse 18, you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant, that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 00:22:20.732 --> 00:22:32.400 The only reason he blessed the people of Israel is because it was supposed to point back to him, God doesn't bless us so that we could get the glory. 00:22:32.465 --> 00:22:40.000 God blesses us and lifts us up so that we can point back to God and say, look what God did for me. 00:22:40.232 --> 00:22:41.432 Look at my life. 00:22:41.432 --> 00:22:42.500 I'm so blessed. 00:22:42.500 --> 00:22:43.532 I'm so thankful. 00:22:43.532 --> 00:22:44.766 And it's not because of me. 00:22:44.766 --> 00:22:47.232 It's not because of what I've done or what I've said or my gift. 00:22:47.232 --> 00:22:50.232 It's because God has blessed me. 00:22:52.333 --> 00:23:05.299 Verse 19 and if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. 00:23:05.299 --> 00:23:06.400 Are you listening? 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:09.400 This morning, Valley View Church. 00:23:09.865 --> 00:23:21.133 If your life is built around what you own, what you can experience, if it's built around the luxuries of this life, you will perish. 00:23:21.365 --> 00:23:23.599 May not be now, may not be tomorrow. 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:25.932 May not be in a month or a year. 00:23:25.932 --> 00:23:28.633 But eternity is coming. 00:23:28.633 --> 00:23:31.633 Verse 20, the last verse for our main passage this morning. 00:23:31.633 --> 00:23:41.066 Light the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you sow shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:52.232 Now if I can take what we've kind of talked through here and pointed towards our theme for the weekend, we will waste our time. 00:23:52.232 --> 00:23:59.032 If it is aimed at comforts, possessions and worldly experiences. 00:23:59.032 --> 00:24:14.400 You will weigh out your life if it's all about what you can attain to the job that you can have, the luxuries that you can possess, the experiences that you can accumulate, if that's what your life is built around, you are going to waste it. 00:24:17.165 --> 00:24:24.133 And that's so crucial for our students to hear that, for our students to know that now and not figure it out when they're 50. 00:24:24.133 --> 00:24:27.732 I want them to live the most fruitful life possible. 00:24:27.732 --> 00:24:30.165 That is full of meaning, and they make an impact. 00:24:30.165 --> 00:24:37.266 But for us as adults, some of us are already halfway there to the finish line. 00:24:38.099 --> 00:24:42.700 How how important it is that we use our time that we have left wisely. 00:24:42.700 --> 00:25:01.465 And if you use it for all of these things, you're going to waste it toward Jesus says in Luke 923 through 24, if anyone would come after me, they must deny themselves, take up their cross daily, and follow me. 00:25:01.465 --> 00:25:04.400 For whoever would save his life will lose it. 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:09.232 In other words, whoever clings so tightly to their life that they won't give up anything. 00:25:09.232 --> 00:25:10.599 I gotta have my comforts. 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:12.799 I gotta have my Sundays to myself. 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:14.333 I gotta have all my possessions. 00:25:14.333 --> 00:25:15.165 I gotta have all these things. 00:25:15.165 --> 00:25:16.333 And I'm not giving it up. 00:25:16.333 --> 00:25:20.500 This is what we look like before God with our hands clenched. 00:25:20.766 --> 00:25:22.032 I'm not giving up my life. 00:25:22.032 --> 00:25:22.965 God, this is mine. 00:25:22.965 --> 00:25:24.799 You gave it to me. I'm keeping it. 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:25.599 That's what it means. 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:29.066 If you would save your life, keep your life, you're going to lose it. 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:32.000 What does he say after that? 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:38.200 But if you lose your life, you'll find it. 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:39.865 You'll save it. 00:25:39.865 --> 00:25:48.000 So, do you look like this before God or this before God? 00:25:49.266 --> 00:25:56.500 See, when we become full of the world, we won't have the desire to enjoy God. 00:25:57.932 --> 00:26:02.599 My daughter, three years old and she is smart. 00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:05.599 She is clever and she's cute. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:18.599 She has three really good weapons, and she will enforce all of them so that she can have sweets before dinner. 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:24.232 And I'm telling you, it takes everything in me to say no. 00:26:25.465 --> 00:26:27.865 But she wants the candy, the cookies. 00:26:27.865 --> 00:26:29.532 She wants the gummies. You. 00:26:29.532 --> 00:26:31.299 She'll even want the healthier things. 00:26:31.299 --> 00:26:34.299 You'll want fruit and all of those things like. 00:26:34.299 --> 00:26:37.133 And to say no to that is important. 00:26:37.133 --> 00:26:40.099 Because if she fills up on that, she ain't going to eat dinner. 00:26:43.066 --> 00:26:52.965 Listen, this morning, if you are snacking and filling your life up in this world, you think you're going to be hungry for God. 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:55.299 If you are on your phone and by. 00:26:55.299 --> 00:27:03.932 And just as a side note, statistically the average American spends seven hours per day on a screen. 00:27:04.465 --> 00:27:09.266 And if we're only awake 16 hours, we get eight hours of sleep on average. 00:27:10.133 --> 00:27:13.500 That doesn't give you very long the rest of the day. 00:27:13.500 --> 00:27:14.833 Seven hours on a screen. 00:27:14.833 --> 00:27:18.133 If you fill your life up from there, guess what? 00:27:18.133 --> 00:27:21.500 You think you're going to be hungry for God's Word. 00:27:22.333 --> 00:27:29.400 If you still live your life with watching football all day on Sundays and spend and then listen, we got March Madness coming. 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:31.400 I get it. 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:38.833 If we spend all of our time focused on the screen of our TV for all the things that we can consume and eat up, you think you're going to be hungry for God? 00:27:40.333 --> 00:27:40.833 Students? 00:27:40.833 --> 00:27:46.900 You think you can spend hours and hours upon video games and social media and swipe and swipe and scroll and scroll? 00:27:46.900 --> 00:27:48.566 Do you think you all are going to want God? 00:27:48.566 --> 00:27:52.532 If you're filling up your life with all of those things? 00:27:52.965 --> 00:28:03.932 Because the flashing lights, the experiences that you're going to get, they will instantly they'll provide a little bit of gratification, but it's going to be gone in a second. 00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:06.700 You go to God's Word. 00:28:06.700 --> 00:28:09.700 You get filled up for a lifetime. 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:17.900 So my third point this morning is we need to enjoy the creator over his creation. 00:28:18.165 --> 00:28:21.432 Enjoy the blessings that God has given you. 00:28:21.432 --> 00:28:29.299 We are not a church that's so legalistic that we say you can't have technology, you can't have the experience, you can't enjoy life. 00:28:29.299 --> 00:28:31.633 No, we want to enjoy life. 00:28:31.633 --> 00:28:34.700 You can ask our students, we've been enjoying things this weekend. 00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:37.133 In fact, we fit just to give out a little glimpse. 00:28:37.133 --> 00:28:46.333 We fit 70 refrigerator boxes in that chapel, and we literally made a cardboard box maze in which students have to climb through above. 00:28:46.333 --> 00:28:48.066 It was pitch black. 00:28:48.066 --> 00:28:48.799 Super fun. 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:50.932 We had tons of stuff we like. 00:28:50.932 --> 00:29:01.900 We like fun around here. But listen, me, if you fill up your life with all of the pleasures and luxuries and things and it becomes the main thing in your life, you're going to forget God. 00:29:01.900 --> 00:29:07.532 So my point here is this Enjoy God and more than what God can give you. 00:29:10.500 --> 00:29:12.865 Y'all, I promised y'all something. 00:29:12.865 --> 00:29:13.932 I promised y'all some gold. 00:29:13.932 --> 00:29:16.633 Y'all ready for the gold? 00:29:16.633 --> 00:29:30.700 I want to take us through a couple verses here in John chapter six, and it's really important something is going to set up in in this really well in John chapter six, Jesus just fed the 5000. 00:29:30.965 --> 00:29:33.965 And if you remember what Jesus fed the 5000, he put them with bread. 00:29:33.965 --> 00:29:38.432 Fish kept putting things out the basket, hand, hand and pass it down. 00:29:38.432 --> 00:29:44.232 Then he goes on the water, walks across the water, through through the storm with his disciples. 00:29:44.232 --> 00:29:45.266 They get to the other side. 00:29:46.965 --> 00:29:55.900 And then this chapter records that crowd, that 5000 crowd that was filled with all that they could eat with their bread. 00:29:55.900 --> 00:29:57.365 You know what they do? 00:29:57.365 --> 00:30:03.266 They notice Jesus is gone, and they run all the way around the lake to find Jesus. 00:30:03.266 --> 00:30:04.633 Look at these verses. 00:30:04.633 --> 00:30:05.333 Y'all ready? 00:30:05.333 --> 00:30:07.732 Y'all ready? 00:30:07.732 --> 00:30:18.799 John 625 when they found Jesus, him on the other side of the sea, they said, Rabbi, hey, when do you come here? 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:21.799 It's good to see you. 00:30:22.532 --> 00:30:24.133 Look what Jesus says in verse 26. 00:30:24.133 --> 00:30:26.432 I think Jesus is hilarious. 00:30:26.432 --> 00:30:35.500 Jesus answered them, truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me not because you saw signs, but why you ate your fill of the loaves. 00:30:36.732 --> 00:30:39.732 I know what you're doing. 00:30:40.133 --> 00:30:42.432 I know what my daughter does when she comes up to me. 00:30:44.032 --> 00:30:46.032 Hi daddy. 00:30:46.032 --> 00:30:49.032 I know what that means. 00:30:49.965 --> 00:30:51.165 I got some parents in the room. 00:30:51.165 --> 00:30:55.266 I know when your students are coming up to me and say, hey, Kobe, what's up? 00:30:55.266 --> 00:30:58.266 What do you want? 00:30:59.099 --> 00:31:03.133 I can't tell you how many times I had to say that this weekend. 00:31:03.133 --> 00:31:04.633 This is Jesus. 00:31:04.633 --> 00:31:07.000 I know why you're here. 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:10.000 You want more bread? 00:31:10.099 --> 00:31:12.400 You see where I'm going already? 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:12.633 Where? 00:31:12.633 --> 00:31:16.700 We just want where we just talked about in Deuteronomy eight. 00:31:16.700 --> 00:31:29.900 And Jesus said to them, he keeps going, do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life. 00:31:29.900 --> 00:31:35.599 Are you hearing value church, which the Son of Man will give to you? 00:31:35.599 --> 00:31:40.465 For on him God the Father has set his seal on the job. 00:31:40.465 --> 00:31:43.732 And verse 32, because here's where it comes to a center point. 00:31:43.732 --> 00:31:44.066 Look at this. 00:31:44.066 --> 00:31:51.900 Verse 32, truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my father gives you the bread from heaven. 00:31:53.532 --> 00:31:56.532 For the bread of God is the one. 00:31:56.732 --> 00:32:03.400 It is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. 00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.799 So they asked the good question. 00:32:11.232 --> 00:32:15.965 Sir, give us this bread always. 00:32:15.965 --> 00:32:18.965 We want it. 00:32:19.365 --> 00:32:20.900 Isn't it funny how they're missing it? 00:32:20.900 --> 00:32:23.200 And it's standing right in front of them. 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:26.200 Y'all see that? 00:32:26.299 --> 00:32:27.900 I think we can laugh at them. 00:32:27.900 --> 00:32:28.700 And it is funny. 00:32:28.700 --> 00:32:34.965 I've laughed plenty of times, but do we not also miss it too? 00:32:36.432 --> 00:32:44.365 We have the bread of Heaven in front of us, and we keep going to the bread of the world. 00:32:44.700 --> 00:32:46.633 Y'all see that? 00:32:46.633 --> 00:32:47.799 So look what Jesus said to him. 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:53.032 Famous words I am the bread of life. 00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:55.900 Whoever comes to me shall not. 00:32:55.900 --> 00:32:58.965 Hunger means you'll be satisfied. 00:33:01.700 --> 00:33:05.900 And whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 00:33:08.066 --> 00:33:12.099 If I can bring all this to a point this morning. 00:33:12.432 --> 00:33:21.766 Jesus offers himself as the bread of life, who saves and satisfies us for all eternity. 00:33:23.766 --> 00:33:28.133 There is not a bread of this world that can do that for you. 00:33:28.133 --> 00:33:30.766 There is not a screen that can do that for you. 00:33:30.766 --> 00:33:42.965 There is not a relationship, or a marriage, or a child, or a degree, or a job, or a car, or a device, or a 401 K, or a house or a wardrobe. 00:33:42.965 --> 00:33:47.432 There is nothing that can offer you what Jesus offers you. 00:33:47.432 --> 00:33:53.833 He is the bread of life to give you eternity fully satisfied in him. 00:33:53.932 --> 00:34:00.932 And though the lie of the world is to say, there's something better for you here, don't buy that lie. 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:04.032 So, fourth and final point. 00:34:04.032 --> 00:34:07.400 Come enjoy the Bread of Life. 00:34:09.266 --> 00:34:12.266 For some of you, that's this morning. 00:34:12.733 --> 00:34:15.932 For some of you, your time is run. 00:34:16.032 --> 00:34:16.632 It's getting. 00:34:16.632 --> 00:34:17.865 It's getting close to running out. 00:34:17.865 --> 00:34:20.233 And look saying out. 00:34:20.233 --> 00:34:22.900 All of us don't know when our time is up. 00:34:22.900 --> 00:34:33.833 But this morning, maybe tonight or this morning is, is is your opportunity to come enjoy the Bread of Life because you've been snacking on the bread of the world. 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:40.666 My challenge for you is simple are you snacking on the world or are you enjoying the Bread of Life? 00:34:40.666 --> 00:34:43.666 This morning? 00:34:44.432 --> 00:34:51.766 Prince Valley of You is here not to just put on services and have activities for your kids. 00:34:51.766 --> 00:34:54.766 We want salvation. 00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:00.333 We want to see people to come to taste and see that the Lord is good. Amen. 00:35:02.065 --> 00:35:05.233 This weekend we had a student give their life to Christ. 00:35:05.233 --> 00:35:19.800 Praise God, praise God! What's to say that's not supposed to happen right now? 00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:21.300 You. 00:35:21.300 --> 00:35:22.333 You're here this morning. 00:35:22.333 --> 00:35:23.432 You don't know Jesus. 00:35:23.432 --> 00:35:25.666 You've never tasted and seen that the Lord is good. 00:35:25.666 --> 00:35:28.833 You've never taken the bread of life for yourself. 00:35:28.833 --> 00:35:31.000 Today's the day. 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:32.833 It's not tomorrow. 00:35:32.833 --> 00:35:37.300 You don't know when you're saying is going to end. 00:35:37.632 --> 00:35:45.965 Because here's what Jesus does Jesus and the gospel by believing and taking part in the Bread of Life. 00:35:46.865 --> 00:35:52.932 When your life expires, Jesus flips over your life for eternity. 00:35:54.532 --> 00:36:00.532 But it's a sand that will never, ever end. 00:36:00.532 --> 00:36:02.833 This could be you this morning. 00:36:02.833 --> 00:36:10.432 So if you're here this morning and you want to accept Jesus, don't hesitate and leave without finding one of us because we want to introduce you to the Bread of Life. 00:36:12.065 --> 00:36:13.800 Let's pray. 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:15.932 Father, we thank you for your word. 00:36:15.932 --> 00:36:27.432 We thank you for the beautiful story, the gospel story that brings in so much truth, the father. 00:36:27.432 --> 00:36:32.132 It redirects us back to to you and father. 00:36:32.132 --> 00:36:39.532 Some people may be in the room this morning, and they've been going through a season of discipline because they've kind of fallen off track. 00:36:39.532 --> 00:36:48.465 They've lost their sense of obedience and following you, and they've been settling for the bread of this world. 00:36:48.465 --> 00:36:54.865 But maybe this morning, father, there are people in this room that need to take a step of faith and say, I want the bread of life. 00:36:54.865 --> 00:36:57.865 I'm coming back to you. 00:36:58.266 --> 00:37:08.333 And, God, there may be some this morning who have never tasted the sweetness and the goodness and the satisfaction that comes from you. 00:37:08.333 --> 00:37:18.199 So if that would be them, God, that you would move, that you would bring them forward, that they would believe, and we would get to see more people come to Jesus today. 00:37:19.766 --> 00:37:31.132 But, father, wherever we're at in our path, in our journey, in our life, the the theme of this weekend is a humble reminder that our time is short and fleeting. 00:37:33.032 --> 00:37:38.266 May we not put off the decision to follow you. 00:37:38.266 --> 00:37:53.099 May we not put off the decision to obey you and to love you, and to seek you and pursue you, that we would make our life count, that we would live our life in such a way that it would brag about you. 00:37:53.099 --> 00:37:57.932 It would lift you up, it would glorify you so that other people would hear and believe. 00:37:57.932 --> 00:38:07.532 Our coworkers, our family, are the people we meet in the grocery store, the people that are surrounding us, that we would be an influence to them, and we would live a life that makes an impact. 00:38:09.565 --> 00:38:22.333 So this morning, father, wherever we're going to respond, I pray that, father, we turn our eyes to you and we turn our eyes to the bread of life, because you alone can satisfy. 00:38:22.632 --> 00:38:24.900 In Jesus name, Amen. 00:38:24.900 --> 00:38:25.432 Y'all stand. 00:38:25.432 --> 00:38:26.333 We're going to sing one more song.