Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 1: Well, welcome to hillside fellowship.
Speaker 1: Let me grab my bench, the chair.
Speaker 1: First time.
Speaker 1: We just want to say welcome, so glad that you're here.
Speaker 1: Before I jump into the sermon and we get rolling on Philippians.
Speaker 1: One quick announcement.
Speaker 1: In your bulletins, there is a little snippet about the SuperDuper meeting on November 10th you can tell who named it wasn't me.
Speaker 1: We are excited to outline our plans for the facilities as we look at being a fruitful family that sees disciples formed.
Speaker 1: We know we need facilities that facilitate that vision and mission, so we're going to have everybody together.
Speaker 1: It's November 10th in your bulletins it says fellowship popcorn and snack time starts at five 30 we're actually going to start the meeting at five 30 you can eat your popcorn afterwards.
Speaker 1: We want to make sure we have enough time to answer all questions, so November 10th write it down here.
Speaker 1: Five 30 be here.
Speaker 1: It's going to be super duper now.
Speaker 1: First timers, newcomers, so glad you're here.
Speaker 1: This is hillside fellowship.
Speaker 1: We believe Jesus Christ changes everything.
Speaker 1: He begins by changing us from the inside.
Speaker 1: He changes a, sends us out to encourage everyone everywhere to follow the one who changes everything.
Speaker 1: His name is Jesus Christ, so I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 1: Uh, I get the honor of serving everyone each week just by teaching.
Speaker 1: My name is Dave.
Speaker 1: I'm a recovering addict and alcoholic and Jesus changed me and so I'm so grateful to be able to proclaim the goodness of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: We've been looking at that through the book of Philippians, so open up to Philippians.
Speaker 1: I'm going to read it to you.
Speaker 1: Philippians chapter three we're going to read 17 down through chapter four verse one and so we'll read that and then we'll enjoy it together.
Speaker 1: Great section in Philippians chapter three verse 17 God says, Paul writes, brethren, join in following my example in and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
Speaker 1: Four from many walk of whom I've often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that there are enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction, whose God is their appetite, whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things for our citizenship.
Speaker 1: Is is from is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of his glory, by the exertion of the power that he has, even a subject, all things to himself.
Speaker 1: Therefore, my beloved brethren, whom I longed to see my joy and my crown in this way, stand firm in the Lord my beloved.
Speaker 1: Now, simple, simple enough passage.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a big picture, big thoughts so that we can walk through this together.
Speaker 1: If you read straight through the Bible, one of the amazing truth about God, one of the amazing things you'd learn about God is that God is patient.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says that he's not slow about his promises as some count slowness, but he's actually patient towards us.
Speaker 1: Now, that means God loves the process of growing us.
Speaker 1: How many of you ever seen how far you have to go and you get frustrated?
Speaker 1: You just look at your spiritual life.
Speaker 1: You're like, I've got so far to go.
Speaker 1: God's gotta be frustrated with me.
Speaker 1: He's just gotta be dissatisfied.
Speaker 1: I kind of live in that.
Speaker 1: I look at myself and I'm like, Dave, you're, you're a pastor now.
Speaker 1: You should have arrived.
Speaker 1: The truth is God's patient and he loves to grow us.
Speaker 1: He loves, he uses that term.
Speaker 1: Father, he loves to feed us.
Speaker 1: He loves to nurture us.
Speaker 1: He loves to grow us.
Speaker 1: Now, small theological picture, sin loves to stifle growth that Lee loves to stunt growth.
Speaker 1: In fact, this whole world system loves to distract us from those things that are actually healthy, spiritually healthy and good for us.
Speaker 1: Many of us get stuck in our sin.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's what sin does.
Speaker 1: It enslaves us.
Speaker 1: Many of us today are stuck in sin.
Speaker 1: Our relationships are stuck.
Speaker 1: They're not growing.
Speaker 1: Our families are stuck.
Speaker 1: They're not growing.
Speaker 1: We're spiritually stuck and not growing.
Speaker 1: It's because sin loves to create slaves and just gets, gets us stuck.
Speaker 1: I faced it in my addiction, in my alcoholism.
Speaker 1: I did the same thing over and over and over and I expected a different result.
Speaker 1: We call it insanity.
Speaker 1: That's what sin does.
Speaker 1: This is why and marriages.
Speaker 1: You argue about the same thing.
Speaker 1: Sin creates insanity.
Speaker 1: Now here's the good news that the gospel gives to us.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the son of God, coequal and co-eternal with the father and the spirit took on human flesh and he dwelt among us.
Speaker 1: He lived a life without sin so he could die in our place for our sin.
Speaker 1: He paid since penalty removing that from us.
Speaker 1: He was buried.
Speaker 1: He is Storico.
Speaker 1: He Rose again and he now gives a salvation.
Speaker 1: It's by grace through faith in him.
Speaker 1: You can't earn it.
Speaker 1: You won't ever deserve it.
Speaker 1: You can't merit it.
Speaker 1: He gives it freely and Jesus Christ sets us free from slavery to sin so that we might grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: God loves to grow things.
Speaker 1: Paul is talking now about this young church, the church at Philippi, and he's talking like a parent.
Speaker 1: He wants to nourish them.
Speaker 1: He wants to feed them.
Speaker 1: In fact, a church at Phillip pipe probably got planted around 50 80 Paul's writing in in 61 80 so this is an 11 year old church and Paul wants to nourish.
Speaker 1: So what Paul is going to do today, he's going to give them a series of multivitamins so that they might spiritually grow.
Speaker 1: How many of you took Flintstone vitamins growing up?
Speaker 1: You just love?
Speaker 1: How many of you take a multivitamin now?
Speaker 1: Plinths still Flintstones.
Speaker 1: I got some of that up in my office.
Speaker 1: The only problem is it says no sugar added in them, but their primary ingredient is sugar.
Speaker 1: I think that's why I like them.
Speaker 1: Paul is going to give them a series of multivitamins because he wants us to grow.
Speaker 1: Here's what I guarantee.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk through this passage.
Speaker 1: I'm going to show you if we are spiritually malnourished, if you're spiritually anemic, you will run to something in this world.
Speaker 1: If you where you are spiritually malnourished or anemic, you don't have the spiritual vitamins you need, you will run to something.
Speaker 1: Drinking wasn't my problem.
Speaker 1: I was spiritually starving and it was simply my solution to my problem.
Speaker 1: Methamphetamines weren't my problem.
Speaker 1: Pornography wasn't my problem.
Speaker 1: Where are your spiritually malnourished?
Speaker 1: You will run to something.
Speaker 1: What is that thing?
Speaker 1: Watch what Paul does.
Speaker 1: He's going to give us a series of spiritual multivitamins as he walks through because he wants the church to grow.
Speaker 1: So watch.
Speaker 1: We're going to start out.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start out at the end of the story, chapter four verse one because it is that.
Speaker 1: Therefore, watch what Paul says and watch how he gives us just a series of multivitamins and where you're lacking in any one of these multivitamins.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you, you're going to be looking somewhere, friends, you're going to be running to something.
Speaker 1: Jesus says, come to me.
Speaker 1: Let me give you everything that you need.
Speaker 1: Every day that you live for everything that I've called you to watch her.
Speaker 1: Paul starts out, he's going to give the first broad category.
Speaker 1: Watch this.
Speaker 1: He says this in chapter four verse one therefore my beloved brethren, whom I longed to see my joy and my crown in this way, and here comes the imperative.
Speaker 1: Here comes what he wants for us.
Speaker 1: It's what every parent wants.
Speaker 1: We want our child to grow up, crawl, walk, and ultimately stand firm.
Speaker 1: Paul says, here's what I want.
Speaker 1: I want you in this way to stand firm in the Lord.
Speaker 1: It's very simple command, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Just stay right there.
Speaker 1: Don't get distracted.
Speaker 1: You ever seen kids playing tee ball like w what Paul is doing?
Speaker 1: He's talking to an 11 year old church and he's saying, don't get distracted.
Speaker 1: Stand firm.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Don't chase the butterflies.
Speaker 1: Stand firm.
Speaker 1: I know it's a Caterpillar stand.
Speaker 1: Firm focused.
Speaker 1: Stay focused.
Speaker 1: Paul says, I want you to stand firm to stay focused because you live in this world of distractions.
Speaker 1: How?
Speaker 1: How many of you have heard of distracted driving?
Speaker 1: Don't, don't text stay alive or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It used to be a don't drink and drive.
Speaker 1: Now it's don't text and drive.
Speaker 1: How many of you text and drive?
Speaker 1: You fool.
Speaker 1: You practice distracted driving.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've got like a dozen honest people.
Speaker 1: How many of you eat and drive and you do all?
Speaker 1: We do all kinds.
Speaker 1: I saw Lee reading a book and driving.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 1: She was on the road.
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 1: What Paul is saying is distracted driving is bad enough.
Speaker 1: Distracted living is horrific.
Speaker 1: You live in a world that is put together Christianity and the capitalistic system.
Speaker 1: There's a huge warning sign.
Speaker 1: This world will absolutely distract you day in and day out.
Speaker 1: There's something new and improved constantly.
Speaker 1: There's something for a limited time.
Speaker 1: Come get it.
Speaker 1: It's the McRib this week.
Speaker 1: It was out November 1st you know, then McRibs ribs back out.
Speaker 1: Any amen?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is what the world does.
Speaker 1: This is why when it gets cold pumpkin spice latte pumpkin spices here, we will stay distracted over and over and over.
Speaker 1: Paul is saying, this world is totally distracting.
Speaker 1: Stand firm.
Speaker 1: Be very careful y'all.
Speaker 1: We can laugh about it, but here's what I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: Most of us did live distracted lives and we miss what matters.
Speaker 1: It's amazing to me because we'll wake up one day and say, how did my kids turn 18 and they're moving out and all of a sudden you'll want a relationship with them when you've spent 18 years distracted from their presence.
Speaker 1: See, it happens quick process.
Speaker 1: Hey, stand firm.
Speaker 1: Don't be distracted and here's how watch, because many of us now are wondering, okay, how do I stand firm?
Speaker 1: I live in a world of distractions.
Speaker 1: Paul is now going to give us a series of multivitamins.
Speaker 1: I've written them down on your, on your notes.
Speaker 1: Watch how beautiful this is because if you're spiritually anemic, guess what you can't do.
Speaker 1: You can't stand firm.
Speaker 1: How many of you ever had your blood sugar drop?
Speaker 1: You've been a, you're, you're spiritually anemic.
Speaker 1: You can't even stand up.
Speaker 1: Paul is now going to tell you how.
Speaker 1: Watch this, why it's, it's tricky in here.
Speaker 1: If you don't watch the grammar, therefore my beloved brethren, whom I longed to seem my joy and my crown, he says this, it's just one clause in the Greek in this way, stand firm and we've got to ask in what way?
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to stand firm?
Speaker 1: For me it was how do I say, how do I live the next 45 years without a drink?
Speaker 1: How do I stand firm?
Speaker 1: Whatever your thing is, we're all addicted to something.
Speaker 1: Whatever your thing is.
Speaker 1: The question is, how do I stand firm?
Speaker 1: Because again, if you're spiritually anemic, if you have that spiritual malady, you will run to something.
Speaker 1: So Paul is now going to give us his list of multiple spiritual multivitamins so we can stand for, and I guarantee you where you're lacking these multivitamins, you will run to something in this world.
Speaker 1: You will start checking off these multivitamins, watched the first one I put vitamin E in your note chart and your note sheet, vitamin E C, vitamin E is super important.
Speaker 1: It's big for antioxidants.
Speaker 1: It'll pull the bad stuff out of your body.
Speaker 1: Watch.
Speaker 1: You'll miss it before Paul says, stand firm.
Speaker 1: Notice what he says to the body there.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to give it to you one word at a time.
Speaker 1: Watch this.
Speaker 1: Therefore, my what?
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 1: I'm for you.
Speaker 1: Do you know how many of us long to hear that?
Speaker 1: Do you know how many of us wish we would hear that from the people closest to us?
Speaker 1: But what happens in this world is we withhold words of love and affirmation because it's giving power away.
Speaker 1: Paul doesn't hold it back.
Speaker 1: He says, you guys are beloved.
Speaker 1: Watch what he says next.
Speaker 1: My beloved, what?
Speaker 1: You can use your outdoor Texas voices.
Speaker 1: It's okay.
Speaker 1: It's all right.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 1: None of these are trick questions, so the word after beloved is, yeah, we're family.
Speaker 1: We totally took the glam shot together like this is God's family.
Speaker 1: We're, we're committed to each other pulses.
Speaker 1: I'm sticking it out with you guys.
Speaker 1: I know you're a little squirrely.
Speaker 1: Next week we'll get into Yoda and[inaudible] and there's a, there's some kind of fight going on there.
Speaker 1: These things happen.
Speaker 1: We're family.
Speaker 1: Jesus made us family.
Speaker 1: Notice what he says next whom I long to see.
Speaker 1: I'm totally down with you guys.
Speaker 1: I want to be with you.
Speaker 1: I'm in prison in Rome, but I want to be with you now.
Speaker 1: When I think about you, I want to come be with you.
Speaker 1: It's like Lego land.
Speaker 1: I want to come be with you guys.
Speaker 1: This is awesome.
Speaker 1: Next, he says, you're my joy man.
Speaker 1: Super thrilled with you guys.
Speaker 1: He also says, and you're my crown.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: Listen, I measured you guys on the little growth chart.
Speaker 1: You're growing.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Well done.
Speaker 1: Then he says in this way, stand firm in the Lord.
Speaker 1: Vitamin E is huge.
Speaker 1: Just write down encouragement, encouragement.
Speaker 1: Then that sound like a simple thing.
Speaker 1: It's because it is.
Speaker 1: This is why the Bible in Hebrews chapter three verse 13 says, encourage one another day after day, as long as it's called today so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Speaker 1: I call it the I've fallen and I can't get up principal.
Speaker 1: Anybody ever seen that commercial dude growing up?
Speaker 1: It was on like every five minutes.
Speaker 1: I would get so mad.
Speaker 1: Camera man help her.
Speaker 1: Clearly she's fallen.
Speaker 1: I'm sick and tired of it.
Speaker 1: Somebody helped this girl.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this, many Christians into church and we fallen and we don't feel like we can get up and people come in and people go out and we have no one in our lives to say, I love you.
Speaker 1: I'm for you.
Speaker 1: You're doing well.
Speaker 1: Keep it up.
Speaker 1: You see, this is what Jesus gives to us.
Speaker 1: Encouragement, words of affirmation, words of truth and works of love.
Speaker 1: He says, keep going.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know about what happened because of the fall.
Speaker 1: I am quick to receive the worst about me and quick to reject the best.
Speaker 1: And you are quick to receive the worst and quick to reject the best.
Speaker 1: Here's what happens.
Speaker 1: If I get one bad email and 10 positives, guess what I think about on the way home.
Speaker 1: Now I'm horrible.
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't be doing this.
Speaker 1: I was much better at making belt busters and dude burgers and hunger busters.
Speaker 1: I should go back.
Speaker 1: This is what sin has done.
Speaker 1: You see, you and I, we live with ourselves and so we see the negative and one negative can beat us down.
Speaker 1: So why Paul would say and encourage each other and Paul encourages the body there.
Speaker 1: So start with vitamin E, where, where do you struggle muscle most giving and receiving encouragement.
Speaker 1: I would just write that question down.
Speaker 1: You see, because many of us are deficient in encouragement, giving and receiving.
Speaker 1: In America we say, if you see something, say something.
Speaker 1: You ever heard that?
Speaker 1: Nobody.
Speaker 1: It's a terrorist like, Hey, if you see something, say something, and I think you should.
Speaker 1: If you see somebody putting like a pressure cooker on the side of the road, see something, say something.
Speaker 1: But we need terrorism to actually encourage us.
Speaker 1: If we see something, say something.
Speaker 1: What I would say is, Hey, if you see something good, say something good.
Speaker 1: Start with that in your marriage.
Speaker 1: What happens is we become so critical, bitter and cynical.
Speaker 1: We can't say anything good because it's giving away power and we don't want to give away power.
Speaker 1: Start here today.
Speaker 1: View your spouse as somebody who needs to know the encouragement of Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: And if you see something, say something.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be anything big.
Speaker 1: Hey, you're breathing today.
Speaker 1: Good job.
Speaker 1: See what happens is we look at it and we're like, well, I'm not getting what I want.
Speaker 1: Be grateful.
Speaker 1: Anybody married you?
Speaker 1: Dude, look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: It's a miracle, but we think we deserve more.
Speaker 1: POS starts with vitamin E, encouragement.
Speaker 1: Watch what happens next.
Speaker 1: He'll go w and here's what I've got to do.
Speaker 1: Pulse that.
Speaker 1: Therefore, in chapter four, verse one actually reaches clear back to chapter three, verse one.
Speaker 1: And as Paul gives different, uh, scripts for vitamins.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go now to chapter three verse one because this is where Paul says, finally, rejoice in the Lord.
Speaker 1: Wash.
Speaker 1: go chapter three verse one.
Speaker 1: I've got to speed it up.
Speaker 1: I'm down to seven minutes.
Speaker 1: Let's roll.
Speaker 1: Let's have fun, but let's roll.
Speaker 1: Let's do it well, but let's do it quickly.
Speaker 1: Here's Paul vitamin number two.
Speaker 1: It's vitamin R.
Speaker 1: it's, I would put a parenthesis, rejoice, but it could also be riboflavin B too, because that gives us our energy physically.
Speaker 1: Same thing spiritually.
Speaker 1: Finally, my brethren rejoice in the Lord to serve, to write the same thing.
Speaker 1: No skin off my back.
Speaker 1: And it's a safeguard for you.
Speaker 1: Vitamin number two, you're exhausted.
Speaker 1: This world has left you frustrated, weary, tired.
Speaker 1: It's what the world does.
Speaker 1: Vitamin number two, rejoice.
Speaker 1: Rejoice.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna.
Speaker 1: You can write this down.
Speaker 1: Oscar.
Speaker 1: The grouch lives in a garbage can by choice.
Speaker 1: Every superstar has tried to help that cat out.
Speaker 1: Every single Tom true Oscar get out of the garbage can.
Speaker 1: And Oscar's like, no, I'm staying here.
Speaker 1: Oscar wants everybody else in the garbage can.
Speaker 1: Gratitude is a decision and a discipline.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say this again.
Speaker 1: Gratitude is a decision and the discipline grumbling is a default.
Speaker 1: Gratitude recognizes and realizes reality as reality really is and says, thank you God, thank you.
Speaker 1: You've loved me infinitely, profoundly in Christ.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Grumbling is a default grumbling romanticizes the past and we'll take you back to addiction.
Speaker 1: Read through Exodus.
Speaker 1: God brings his people out of slavery and what are those cats say?
Speaker 1: Oh man, there were pots of meat back in Egypt and melons and leaks and cucumbers.
Speaker 1: The grumbling romanticizes the past.
Speaker 1: It's a lie.
Speaker 1: I've had to repent this week profoundly.
Speaker 1: This is embarrassing, but it's a true story.
Speaker 1: So our hillside family is just growing, expanding, expounding profoundly.
Speaker 1: I love to ride every newcomer and new member a letter.
Speaker 1: Well, I get in on Monday and there's like 40 letters, so I start writing and I'm getting writer's cramp and by the second or third letter, I'm just grumbling.
Speaker 1: Welcome to hillside fellowship.
Speaker 1: So glad you're part of our family.
Speaker 1: Like, this is how this is the internal voice.
Speaker 1: I hope you like it.
Speaker 1: You know I'm just grumbling and the Lord had to start.
Speaker 1: I had to go tell my team like I'm broken.
Speaker 1: Something is internally wrong.
Speaker 1: He's grown us.
Speaker 1: He's saving people, he's bringing people in.
Speaker 1: He's doing miracle after miracle, and I'm like, welcome to our family.
Speaker 1: Go home like in that broken.
Speaker 1: This is grumbling is a default mode that does not recognize reality as reality really is.
Speaker 1: So Paul says, rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice in the Lord.
Speaker 1: Listen, I know many of us found out we had cancer this week.
Speaker 1: Family's falling apart, marriages falling apart, and you say, there's no way I can rejoice in my circumstances.
Speaker 1: He doesn't say rejoice in your circumstances.
Speaker 1: This world is a mess.
Speaker 1: He says, rejoice in the Lord that Jesus Christ is taking your sin, taking your shame, taken your guilt taken on death.
Speaker 1: He's defeated at all.
Speaker 1: He's given us new life, and in that I can say thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and I can rejoice in the vitamin number two are rejoice.
Speaker 1: Now we go to chapter three verse two because here's this next command to us as next vitamin.
Speaker 1: It's a B complex, a B, where vitamin B watch, be aware of the dogs.
Speaker 1: Beware of the evil workers.
Speaker 1: Beware of the false circumcision.
Speaker 1: Vitamin B, there will always be, there will always be people who add something to the finished work of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Paul's not talking about out there.
Speaker 1: He's talking about in here right now.
Speaker 1: There will always be those who add to the finished work of Jesus Christ to amazing.
Speaker 1: It happens subtly.
Speaker 1: Paul says, watch out their dogs.
Speaker 1: That is, they're dangerous.
Speaker 1: They will devour you.
Speaker 1: They're evil workers.
Speaker 1: That is, they love to exalt themselves.
Speaker 1: He'll look at that in verse 18 and 19 then he says, they're the false circumcision.
Speaker 1: They focus on externals.
Speaker 1: It is amazing what we do to new Christians.
Speaker 1: It's amazing what these wolves will do to new Christians.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when you were a new Christian and all of a sudden somebody put all the weight of the world on you?
Speaker 1: Oh, you're a brand new believer.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the family.
Speaker 1: Have you read Shaffer's systematic theology yet?
Speaker 1: It's like, no, I didn't.
Speaker 1: What's eight volumes?
Speaker 1: You should start reading it like, okay, are you serving yet?
Speaker 1: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: Well, do you know what your spiritual gifts are?
Speaker 1: Well, no.
Speaker 1: I didn't know there were spiritual gifts.
Speaker 1: Oh, what are we?
Speaker 1: What are we producing in American churches nowadays?
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So you're not serving anywhere.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 1: Are you tithing?
Speaker 1: Are you giving 10% well, no.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know Thai Dean was a word.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Oh, Oh my.
Speaker 1: What are we going to do with these?
Speaker 1: These babies?
Speaker 1: Well, are you evangelizing?
Speaker 1: Are you knocking on doors and telling people about Jesus?
Speaker 1: Listen, you take new believer.
Speaker 1: You take a young believer who's kind of introverted like me.
Speaker 1: You don't think I am.
Speaker 1: This cost me everything that I've got for the week.
Speaker 1: You tell me I've got to go knock on doors.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask, Hey, can I get circumcised and said ours?
Speaker 1: Is there a switch here?
Speaker 1: Is there a flip?
Speaker 1: Can I go that route?
Speaker 1: Because cold calling people really just kills me.
Speaker 1: There will always be people who put extra on the gospel.
Speaker 1: Oh gee, what Jesus did is good, but you need to do more.
Speaker 1: Paul says, you Christian, take your vitamin B B, where do not add anything to the finished work of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: When Jesus said it is finished, he meant it is and always will be finished.
Speaker 1: He has done it all and he meets us where we're at.
Speaker 1: I don't care how jacked up you are, you could be strung out in a cardboard box like me.
Speaker 1: He loves us where we're at and he loves me too much to leave me there.
Speaker 1: So he begins to grow me by grace, but don't add anything to the gospel.
Speaker 1: I took a art appreciation class in community college back in 1994 Linn Benton, Oregon.
Speaker 1: Now there's a whole bunch of loggers and welders there and I was in my art appreciation class with loggers and welders and a teacher.
Speaker 1: I think she knew she was teaching loggers and welders.
Speaker 1: She handed us a picture of the Mona Lisa and said, I want you guys to make it better, and these loggers and welders started putting mustaches on the Mona Lisa and tats teardrop, teardrop, tats.
Speaker 1: I knew what the art teacher was doing because I'm multicultural and very, very informed, so I didn't do anything to it.
Speaker 1: What Christianity does oftentimes is that a mustache to the finished work of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Don't do it.
Speaker 1: Paul says, be aware.
Speaker 1: Take your vitamin B.
Speaker 1: Watch where he goes.
Speaker 1: Next, verse 17[inaudible].
Speaker 1: Next vitamin is vitamin D, vitamin D.
Speaker 1: we'll just call it discipleship.
Speaker 1: Watch what Paul says here, because this is true for all of us.
Speaker 1: Every single one of us here will follow someone you're put together to follow someone.
Speaker 1: We all begin to model and mimic someone.
Speaker 1: The question is, who are you following?
Speaker 1: Watch what Paul says.
Speaker 1: Brethren, join in following my example and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this very simply, very straightforward.
Speaker 1: Christianity is not a solo sport.
Speaker 1: There's no solo sport about Christianity.
Speaker 1: It's always a body sport.
Speaker 1: That's why he calls us to be one body.
Speaker 1: He calls us to join with one another.
Speaker 1: This is why at hillside we do community groups and we gathered together to do life together because Christianity is not a solo sport.
Speaker 1: If you show me a Christian, that's Roland solo.
Speaker 1: I'm going to show you a weird Christian.
Speaker 1: I call it my nacho Libris principle.
Speaker 1: Anyone listen, nacho.
Speaker 1: He was a free nacho.
Speaker 1: He's also a super freak or spandex and a Cape and a mask.
Speaker 1: You show me a Christian that's roll in solo.
Speaker 1: I'll show you a weird freaky Christian rock in the spiritual spandex, Cape and mask.
Speaker 1: You were not meant to roll alone.
Speaker 1: Paul said, come join me.
Speaker 1: You're going to follow someone.
Speaker 1: Paul said, make sure you're getting your vitamins right.
Speaker 1: Vitamin D, you were meant to model and mimic your life after someone who are you following?
Speaker 1: That's your vitamin D.
Speaker 1: watch where Paul goes next, you jumps back in a verse 18 and 19 this is another B complex vitamin a.
Speaker 1: Again, Paul's not, Paul is not railing on the world.
Speaker 1: He's warning the church.
Speaker 1: This is for us.
Speaker 1: He says, for many walk of whom I've often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross.
Speaker 1: That is be careful of those who downplay and diminish the work of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: They're throughout the scriptures.
Speaker 1: They're called wolves, false profits.
Speaker 1: Uh, they are dangerous and one thing they always do is they, they dismiss or downplay the cross of Christ.
Speaker 1: Paul just calls him enemies of the cross.
Speaker 1: He says, not only that, but their end is destruction and their God is their appetite.
Speaker 1: They are led around by the desires of the flesh.
Speaker 1: More pleasure, more power, more possessions.
Speaker 1: Uh, they always want the loss and desires of the flesh to be gratified.
Speaker 1: He says their glorious, their shame, things they should be ashamed of.
Speaker 1: They begin to Glorianne, Hey, we have freedom.
Speaker 1: We can sleep around, we can do whatever we want.
Speaker 1: They began to take power, possessions, and they set their minds on earthly things.
Speaker 1: Please recognize this and realize this.
Speaker 1: This is a daily reality.
Speaker 1: The B complex vitamins are a daily reality.
Speaker 1: I call it my Roy man principle.
Speaker 1: How many of you have ever gone down to Mexico and bought a pair of knock off sunglasses?
Speaker 1: Roy Barron's, is it ERC?
Speaker 1: Lee's ladies.
Speaker 1: How many of you gone and bought a couch purse?
Speaker 1: Dunian, Bork?
Speaker 1: Any of this?
Speaker 1: You go down.
Speaker 1: It looks very, very similar.
Speaker 1: It could almost be Ray, man.
Speaker 1: I remember buying this true story, man.
Speaker 1: I went straight down.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, man.
Speaker 1: Sunglasses, six bucks.
Speaker 1: This is awesome.
Speaker 1: I've told you this story.
Speaker 1: I'm driving back before I even get over the border.
Speaker 1: The pops out and not rolling with one lens, trying to put the other lens back in.
Speaker 1: You need to know this.
Speaker 1: Read through second Corinthians chapter 11 the worst kind of an enemy as the enemy that looks like a friend.
Speaker 1: There are those among us who do not glory in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: Do not delight in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: They want followers for themselves.
Speaker 1: They want power for themselves.
Speaker 1: Pauses.
Speaker 1: This is no shock.
Speaker 1: Even the enemy himself appears as an angel of what?
Speaker 1: A whole of light.
Speaker 1: See, the enemy's tactic is not to get me to be evil.
Speaker 1: It's to separate me from Jesus because he knows if I'm separated, I'm not getting the vitamins and the nutrients I need to stand firm.
Speaker 1: As Paul says, be careful not everybody who gets up and quote Genesis to revelation believes Genesis to revelation.
Speaker 1: Not everybody who quotes Genesis to revelation lives.
Speaker 1: Genesis to revelation process.
Speaker 1: Beware.
Speaker 1: Now watch where he hands.
Speaker 1: Verse 2021 I'll end with this.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Our citizenship is in heaven from which also we eagerly wait for a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of his glory, by the exertion of the power that he has, even to subject all things to himself.
Speaker 1: Now go home.
Speaker 1: Look at 18 and 19 there's w.
Speaker 1: there's a way that cats in the world walk.
Speaker 1: Paul says, but this is how we walk.
Speaker 1: He draws this juxtaposition and contradistinction this difference of quality.
Speaker 1: Let me walk you through it very quickly because it'll give you a clue what you're dealing with.
Speaker 1: Mindset on this world are always filled with very predictable things.
Speaker 1: When my mind is fixed on this world.
Speaker 1: Here's what I have.
Speaker 1: Anxiety, panic, fear, stress, worry, guilt, shame, blame, contempt and resentment because they won't do what I want them to do, right?
Speaker 1: And it's very predictable mindset on this world system.
Speaker 1: We're all trying to be the storyteller and everybody's freaking out and everybody's anxious and everybody's angry.
Speaker 1: We've got one year left kill election and that's when it gets super duper heightened, right?
Speaker 1: The world runs and gets anti-anxiety meds.
Speaker 1: It's like, Oh, I want a trip.
Speaker 1: Trump.
Speaker 1: Wham, will he not win?
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is and we're all, we all freak out.
Speaker 1: That's the mindset on this world.
Speaker 1: Anxiety, panic, fear, stress, and worry.
Speaker 1: As soon it just got quiet in here and people are like, but you want Trump to win, right?
Speaker 1: Do I have to leave?
Speaker 1: Listen, just read a history.
Speaker 1: It's really hard not to when reelections unless you say, I promise no new taxes and Ross pro comes in and if you're hearing you're like, I want Trump out.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to get a president out.
Speaker 1: Deal with it.
Speaker 1: You got mad at me when I prayed for president Obama.
Speaker 1: You get mad at me when I pray for and love and serve president Trump.
Speaker 1: There is no salvation in this world.
Speaker 1: That's why we eagerly wait for a savior.
Speaker 1: His name is the Lord Jesus Christ and when he comes back, he's going to make everything better.
Speaker 1: The mind set on the world, anxiety, panic, fear, stress, worry, the mindset on heaven and Jesus Christ, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, self control, and then our light shines and they say, how can you live at such peace in a world of chaos?
Speaker 1: And I get to say, because I've got vitamin C going on, a lot of confidence that my Savior's coming back.
Speaker 1: You see you can live with that confidence and that courage because here's the truth, that the scripture gives us this world and things in this world are going to proceed from bad to worse.
Speaker 1: It's in there.
Speaker 1: Read it.
Speaker 1: I read it and I was like, Oh no, it's in there.
Speaker 1: In this world, you'll have trouble, tribulation, trials and tests and in this world things will proceed from bad to worse and then Jesus Christ is going to come and the heavens are going to be rolled back and we'll see a white horse and him who sat on, it's called PayPal and true and in righteousness.
Speaker 1: He's going to judge and wage war in his eyes are going to be like a flame of fire for this world that has rejected him and he from his mouth is going to draw a sharp sword and with it he'll strike down the nations and he'll rule them with a rod of iron.
Speaker 1: This world system has nothing to offer us except anxiety, panic, fear, stress and worry.
Speaker 1: My goal, my desires that you had come to Jesus Christ and experience the life, the love, the joy, the peace, the patients that's in him, I call it the, did you leave any room for dessert?
Speaker 1: Principal?
Speaker 1: Honestly, I worked at, I worked at, at olive garden.
Speaker 1: They trained me how to wait tables and increase revenue.
Speaker 1: You come to the table after they're done with their noodles and you say, did you leave any room for see you've been there.
Speaker 1: And most times we say, Oh no I didn't, but I'll eat it.
Speaker 1: We just do cause we want it.
Speaker 1: It's like sugar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm stuffed, but I can make a little room if you're filling your belly with the things of this world.
Speaker 1: My question is, have you left any room for Jesus?
Speaker 1: You see, we eagerly wait for a savior.
Speaker 1: We live lives with chosen emptiness.
Speaker 1: We make room for Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Have you left any room for Jesus?
Speaker 1: Because if not, I can guarantee you're going to have anxiety, panic, fear, stress and worry and you're going to be running into the things of this world and you're going to be spiritually anemic.
Speaker 1: Make room for Jesus.
Speaker 1: What would it look like today to say, Jesus, I've been gorging myself on this world.
Speaker 1: I left room for you.
Speaker 1: Would you help me to make room for you so I can eagerly await that day?
Speaker 1: You come back and my life might be one of joy and peace and patience and goodness and kindness and gentleness.
Speaker 1: He'll do it.
Speaker 1: He's a good shepherd.
Speaker 1: He loves you.
Speaker 1: Let's pray.
Speaker 1: Father God, thank you for this time simply to look at your goodness to us through your son Jesus Christ, and I pray for those here even today as I've looked at eyes, pray for those who don't know you.
Speaker 1: Would you give the grace that even now might be a time of confessing sin and putting faith in Jesus Christ?
Speaker 1: So father, would you help those of us who have been running to this world's system to run to you and receive that spiritual nutrient that we need from Jesus Christ?
Speaker 1: I pray you'd be glorified in this time in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Amen.