WEBVTT 00:00:00.179 --> 00:00:00.719 Man. 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:03.629 Well, welcome to hillside fellowship. 00:00:03.660 --> 00:00:07.290 Let me grab my bench, the chair. 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:08.070 First time. 00:00:08.070 --> 00:00:11.699 We just want to say welcome, so glad that you're here. 00:00:11.970 --> 00:00:16.079 Before I jump into the sermon and we get rolling on Philippians. 00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:17.309 One quick announcement. 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:28.890 In your bulletins, there is a little snippet about the SuperDuper meeting on November 10th you can tell who named it wasn't me. 00:00:29.940 --> 00:00:37.770 We are excited to outline our plans for the facilities as we look at being a fruitful family that sees disciples formed. 00:00:37.771 --> 00:00:44.189 We know we need facilities that facilitate that vision and mission, so we're going to have everybody together. 00:00:44.191 --> 00:00:54.600 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. 00:00:54.600 --> 00:01:00.240 We want to make sure we have enough time to answer all questions, so November 10th write it down here. 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:01.439 Five 30 be here. 00:01:01.441 --> 00:01:04.379 It's going to be super duper now. 00:01:05.579 --> 00:01:09.780 First timers, newcomers, so glad you're here. 00:01:09.781 --> 00:01:11.099 This is hillside fellowship. 00:01:11.100 --> 00:01:13.590 We believe Jesus Christ changes everything. 00:01:13.590 --> 00:01:16.439 He begins by changing us from the inside. 00:01:16.441 --> 00:01:22.319 He changes a, sends us out to encourage everyone everywhere to follow the one who changes everything. 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:24.900 His name is Jesus Christ, so I'm so glad you're here. 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.189 Uh, I get the honor of serving everyone each week just by teaching. 00:01:29.191 --> 00:01:29.909 My name is Dave. 00:01:29.911 --> 00:01:38.579 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. 00:01:38.581 --> 00:01:43.920 We've been looking at that through the book of Philippians, so open up to Philippians. 00:01:43.921 --> 00:01:44.819 I'm going to read it to you. 00:01:45.150 --> 00:01:53.370 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. 00:01:53.370 --> 00:02:08.759 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. 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:27.810 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. 00:02:28.020 --> 00:02:45.659 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. 00:02:45.900 --> 00:02:55.469 Therefore, my beloved brethren, whom I longed to see my joy and my crown in this way, stand firm in the Lord my beloved. 00:02:56.310 --> 00:02:59.280 Now, simple, simple enough passage. 00:02:59.590 --> 00:03:03.340 Let me give you a big picture, big thoughts so that we can walk through this together. 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:11.110 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. 00:03:11.650 --> 00:03:18.580 In fact, the Bible says that he's not slow about his promises as some count slowness, but he's actually patient towards us. 00:03:19.419 --> 00:03:23.949 Now, that means God loves the process of growing us. 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:30.159 How many of you ever seen how far you have to go and you get frustrated? 00:03:30.370 --> 00:03:31.870 You just look at your spiritual life. 00:03:31.871 --> 00:03:33.580 You're like, I've got so far to go. 00:03:34.270 --> 00:03:36.219 God's gotta be frustrated with me. 00:03:36.221 --> 00:03:38.080 He's just gotta be dissatisfied. 00:03:38.590 --> 00:03:39.909 I kind of live in that. 00:03:39.911 --> 00:03:42.520 I look at myself and I'm like, Dave, you're, you're a pastor now. 00:03:42.729 --> 00:03:44.259 You should have arrived. 00:03:44.770 --> 00:03:48.099 The truth is God's patient and he loves to grow us. 00:03:48.100 --> 00:03:50.590 He loves, he uses that term. 00:03:50.591 --> 00:03:52.539 Father, he loves to feed us. 00:03:52.540 --> 00:03:53.860 He loves to nurture us. 00:03:54.009 --> 00:03:55.240 He loves to grow us. 00:03:55.509 --> 00:04:02.050 Now, small theological picture, sin loves to stifle growth that Lee loves to stunt growth. 00:04:02.469 --> 00:04:10.150 In fact, this whole world system loves to distract us from those things that are actually healthy, spiritually healthy and good for us. 00:04:10.629 --> 00:04:13.360 Many of us get stuck in our sin. 00:04:13.419 --> 00:04:14.949 In fact, that's what sin does. 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:16.149 It enslaves us. 00:04:16.269 --> 00:04:18.339 Many of us today are stuck in sin. 00:04:18.910 --> 00:04:20.439 Our relationships are stuck. 00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:21.339 They're not growing. 00:04:21.341 --> 00:04:22.360 Our families are stuck. 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:23.139 They're not growing. 00:04:23.350 --> 00:04:25.360 We're spiritually stuck and not growing. 00:04:26.529 --> 00:04:32.139 It's because sin loves to create slaves and just gets, gets us stuck. 00:04:32.350 --> 00:04:34.480 I faced it in my addiction, in my alcoholism. 00:04:34.750 --> 00:04:38.410 I did the same thing over and over and over and I expected a different result. 00:04:38.709 --> 00:04:39.879 We call it insanity. 00:04:40.029 --> 00:04:41.439 That's what sin does. 00:04:41.649 --> 00:04:42.610 This is why and marriages. 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.230 You argue about the same thing. 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:46.329 Sin creates insanity. 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.079 Now here's the good news that the gospel gives to us. 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:57.519 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. 00:04:57.610 --> 00:05:01.930 He lived a life without sin so he could die in our place for our sin. 00:05:02.139 --> 00:05:06.189 He paid since penalty removing that from us. 00:05:06.310 --> 00:05:07.149 He was buried. 00:05:07.151 --> 00:05:07.790 He is Storico. 00:05:07.899 --> 00:05:10.870 He Rose again and he now gives a salvation. 00:05:11.379 --> 00:05:13.120 It's by grace through faith in him. 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:14.170 You can't earn it. 00:05:14.470 --> 00:05:16.269 You won't ever deserve it. 00:05:16.271 --> 00:05:17.560 You can't merit it. 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:28.779 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. 00:05:28.870 --> 00:05:31.480 God loves to grow things. 00:05:31.990 --> 00:05:40.060 Paul is talking now about this young church, the church at Philippi, and he's talking like a parent. 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:41.980 He wants to nourish them. 00:05:41.980 --> 00:05:43.480 He wants to feed them. 00:05:44.050 --> 00:05:56.949 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. 00:05:57.949 --> 00:06:05.600 So what Paul is going to do today, he's going to give them a series of multivitamins so that they might spiritually grow. 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:07.910 How many of you took Flintstone vitamins growing up? 00:06:07.911 --> 00:06:08.629 You just love? 00:06:09.259 --> 00:06:12.740 How many of you take a multivitamin now? 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:15.170 Plinths still Flintstones. 00:06:15.170 --> 00:06:16.730 I got some of that up in my office. 00:06:17.089 --> 00:06:22.370 The only problem is it says no sugar added in them, but their primary ingredient is sugar. 00:06:22.370 --> 00:06:23.509 I think that's why I like them. 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:29.240 Paul is going to give them a series of multivitamins because he wants us to grow. 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:30.470 Here's what I guarantee. 00:06:30.829 --> 00:06:32.300 I'm gonna walk through this passage. 00:06:32.300 --> 00:06:42.470 I'm going to show you if we are spiritually malnourished, if you're spiritually anemic, you will run to something in this world. 00:06:43.430 --> 00:06:51.050 If you where you are spiritually malnourished or anemic, you don't have the spiritual vitamins you need, you will run to something. 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:53.660 Drinking wasn't my problem. 00:06:54.769 --> 00:06:58.970 I was spiritually starving and it was simply my solution to my problem. 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:01.490 Methamphetamines weren't my problem. 00:07:01.490 --> 00:07:03.199 Pornography wasn't my problem. 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:05.329 Where are your spiritually malnourished? 00:07:05.331 --> 00:07:06.500 You will run to something. 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:08.509 What is that thing? 00:07:08.511 --> 00:07:09.500 Watch what Paul does. 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:17.569 He's going to give us a series of spiritual multivitamins as he walks through because he wants the church to grow. 00:07:17.779 --> 00:07:18.230 So watch. 00:07:18.230 --> 00:07:19.069 We're going to start out. 00:07:19.071 --> 00:07:22.959 I'm going to start out at the end of the story, chapter four verse one because it is that. 00:07:22.961 --> 00:07:32.899 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. 00:07:32.901 --> 00:07:38.029 I guarantee you, you're going to be looking somewhere, friends, you're going to be running to something. 00:07:38.031 --> 00:07:39.410 Jesus says, come to me. 00:07:39.949 --> 00:07:42.350 Let me give you everything that you need. 00:07:42.350 --> 00:07:45.620 Every day that you live for everything that I've called you to watch her. 00:07:45.620 --> 00:07:48.860 Paul starts out, he's going to give the first broad category. 00:07:48.860 --> 00:07:49.279 Watch this. 00:07:49.579 --> 00:07:58.250 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. 00:07:58.250 --> 00:07:59.810 Here comes what he wants for us. 00:07:59.990 --> 00:08:01.339 It's what every parent wants. 00:08:01.550 --> 00:08:06.740 We want our child to grow up, crawl, walk, and ultimately stand firm. 00:08:07.610 --> 00:08:09.050 Paul says, here's what I want. 00:08:09.500 --> 00:08:14.149 I want you in this way to stand firm in the Lord. 00:08:14.779 --> 00:08:16.910 It's very simple command, isn't it? 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.610 Just stay right there. 00:08:19.610 --> 00:08:20.629 Don't get distracted. 00:08:20.630 --> 00:08:25.220 You ever seen kids playing tee ball like w what Paul is doing? 00:08:25.221 --> 00:08:29.720 He's talking to an 11 year old church and he's saying, don't get distracted. 00:08:29.810 --> 00:08:30.920 Stand firm. 00:08:31.189 --> 00:08:31.610 No, no, no, no. 00:08:31.610 --> 00:08:33.019 Don't chase the butterflies. 00:08:33.169 --> 00:08:34.039 Stand firm. 00:08:34.370 --> 00:08:36.740 I know it's a Caterpillar stand. 00:08:36.740 --> 00:08:37.759 Firm focused. 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:38.899 Stay focused. 00:08:39.690 --> 00:08:46.070 Paul says, I want you to stand firm to stay focused because you live in this world of distractions. 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:46.970 How? 00:08:47.779 --> 00:08:49.879 How many of you have heard of distracted driving? 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.330 Don't, don't text stay alive or whatever. 00:08:53.331 --> 00:08:53.870 I don't know. 00:08:53.870 --> 00:08:56.700 It used to be a don't drink and drive. 00:08:56.700 --> 00:08:58.230 Now it's don't text and drive. 00:08:59.340 --> 00:09:00.750 How many of you text and drive? 00:09:00.830 --> 00:09:01.179 You fool. 00:09:01.210 --> 00:09:03.029 You practice distracted driving. 00:09:03.629 --> 00:09:06.000 Okay, so we've got like a dozen honest people. 00:09:06.950 --> 00:09:09.899 How many of you eat and drive and you do all? 00:09:10.049 --> 00:09:10.740 We do all kinds. 00:09:10.740 --> 00:09:13.320 I saw Lee reading a book and driving. 00:09:13.529 --> 00:09:14.940 I don't know how you do it. 00:09:14.970 --> 00:09:15.840 She was on the road. 00:09:15.841 --> 00:09:16.409 Okay? 00:09:16.830 --> 00:09:20.309 What Paul is saying is distracted driving is bad enough. 00:09:20.311 --> 00:09:22.440 Distracted living is horrific. 00:09:23.190 --> 00:09:28.620 You live in a world that is put together Christianity and the capitalistic system. 00:09:29.009 --> 00:09:30.539 There's a huge warning sign. 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.340 This world will absolutely distract you day in and day out. 00:09:36.250 --> 00:09:39.149 There's something new and improved constantly. 00:09:40.710 --> 00:09:43.529 There's something for a limited time. 00:09:43.769 --> 00:09:44.580 Come get it. 00:09:45.629 --> 00:09:47.850 It's the McRib this week. 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:50.909 It was out November 1st you know, then McRibs ribs back out. 00:09:51.570 --> 00:09:51.970 Any amen? 00:09:51.990 --> 00:09:52.409 Yeah. 00:09:53.490 --> 00:09:54.690 This is what the world does. 00:09:54.691 --> 00:10:03.179 This is why when it gets cold pumpkin spice latte pumpkin spices here, we will stay distracted over and over and over. 00:10:03.330 --> 00:10:06.690 Paul is saying, this world is totally distracting. 00:10:07.409 --> 00:10:08.309 Stand firm. 00:10:08.311 --> 00:10:09.570 Be very careful y'all. 00:10:09.929 --> 00:10:12.269 We can laugh about it, but here's what I'll tell you. 00:10:12.450 --> 00:10:16.500 Most of us did live distracted lives and we miss what matters. 00:10:17.549 --> 00:10:28.529 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. 00:10:29.730 --> 00:10:31.710 See, it happens quick process. 00:10:32.129 --> 00:10:34.440 Hey, stand firm. 00:10:35.700 --> 00:10:42.779 Don't be distracted and here's how watch, because many of us now are wondering, okay, how do I stand firm? 00:10:42.780 --> 00:10:44.429 I live in a world of distractions. 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.279 Paul is now going to give us a series of multivitamins. 00:10:47.280 --> 00:10:49.710 I've written them down on your, on your notes. 00:10:49.740 --> 00:10:55.470 Watch how beautiful this is because if you're spiritually anemic, guess what you can't do. 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:57.450 You can't stand firm. 00:10:57.750 --> 00:10:59.610 How many of you ever had your blood sugar drop? 00:10:59.610 --> 00:11:03.120 You've been a, you're, you're spiritually anemic. 00:11:03.389 --> 00:11:04.950 You can't even stand up. 00:11:05.610 --> 00:11:06.870 Paul is now going to tell you how. 00:11:06.870 --> 00:11:10.440 Watch this, why it's, it's tricky in here. 00:11:10.500 --> 00:11:24.240 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? 00:11:25.049 --> 00:11:26.759 How am I supposed to stand firm? 00:11:27.570 --> 00:11:32.250 For me it was how do I say, how do I live the next 45 years without a drink? 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:34.320 How do I stand firm? 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.990 Whatever your thing is, we're all addicted to something. 00:11:36.990 --> 00:11:38.220 Whatever your thing is. 00:11:38.580 --> 00:11:41.190 The question is, how do I stand firm? 00:11:41.909 --> 00:11:46.110 Because again, if you're spiritually anemic, if you have that spiritual malady, you will run to something. 00:11:46.830 --> 00:11:57.879 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. 00:11:58.059 --> 00:12:09.730 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. 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:12.639 It's big for antioxidants. 00:12:12.640 --> 00:12:14.470 It'll pull the bad stuff out of your body. 00:12:15.820 --> 00:12:16.200 Watch. 00:12:17.259 --> 00:12:21.129 You'll miss it before Paul says, stand firm. 00:12:21.130 --> 00:12:23.110 Notice what he says to the body there. 00:12:23.529 --> 00:12:25.179 I'm just going to give it to you one word at a time. 00:12:25.181 --> 00:12:25.750 Watch this. 00:12:26.379 --> 00:12:28.659 Therefore, my what? 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:31.059 I love you. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:33.639 I'm for you. 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.279 Do you know how many of us long to hear that? 00:12:38.019 --> 00:12:43.090 Do you know how many of us wish we would hear that from the people closest to us? 00:12:44.769 --> 00:12:51.039 But what happens in this world is we withhold words of love and affirmation because it's giving power away. 00:12:51.700 --> 00:12:52.990 Paul doesn't hold it back. 00:12:52.990 --> 00:12:55.090 He says, you guys are beloved. 00:12:55.269 --> 00:12:56.860 Watch what he says next. 00:12:56.889 --> 00:12:58.029 My beloved, what? 00:12:59.649 --> 00:13:01.570 You can use your outdoor Texas voices. 00:13:01.571 --> 00:13:02.440 It's okay. 00:13:02.710 --> 00:13:03.190 It's all right. 00:13:03.191 --> 00:13:03.549 It's not. 00:13:03.551 --> 00:13:11.279 None of these are trick questions, so the word after beloved is, yeah, we're family. 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:16.289 We totally took the glam shot together like this is God's family. 00:13:16.769 --> 00:13:19.590 We're, we're committed to each other pulses. 00:13:19.591 --> 00:13:21.240 I'm sticking it out with you guys. 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:22.710 I know you're a little squirrely. 00:13:22.860 --> 00:13:27.720 Next week we'll get into Yoda and[inaudible] and there's a, there's some kind of fight going on there. 00:13:28.049 --> 00:13:29.039 These things happen. 00:13:29.220 --> 00:13:29.730 We're family. 00:13:29.730 --> 00:13:31.169 Jesus made us family. 00:13:31.379 --> 00:13:35.820 Notice what he says next whom I long to see. 00:13:35.821 --> 00:13:37.259 I'm totally down with you guys. 00:13:37.260 --> 00:13:38.399 I want to be with you. 00:13:38.400 --> 00:13:42.029 I'm in prison in Rome, but I want to be with you now. 00:13:42.049 --> 00:13:44.460 When I think about you, I want to come be with you. 00:13:44.850 --> 00:13:45.840 It's like Lego land. 00:13:45.841 --> 00:13:47.100 I want to come be with you guys. 00:13:47.129 --> 00:13:48.000 This is awesome. 00:13:48.570 --> 00:13:52.710 Next, he says, you're my joy man. 00:13:53.070 --> 00:13:54.720 Super thrilled with you guys. 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.450 He also says, and you're my crown. 00:13:57.451 --> 00:13:58.620 I'm proud of you. 00:13:59.850 --> 00:14:02.309 Listen, I measured you guys on the little growth chart. 00:14:02.311 --> 00:14:03.389 You're growing. 00:14:04.409 --> 00:14:05.399 That's awesome. 00:14:05.400 --> 00:14:06.539 Well done. 00:14:07.710 --> 00:14:11.639 Then he says in this way, stand firm in the Lord. 00:14:11.850 --> 00:14:13.259 Vitamin E is huge. 00:14:13.260 --> 00:14:16.679 Just write down encouragement, encouragement. 00:14:17.100 --> 00:14:18.509 Then that sound like a simple thing. 00:14:19.620 --> 00:14:20.850 It's because it is. 00:14:21.809 --> 00:14:30.480 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. 00:14:30.809 --> 00:14:34.710 I call it the I've fallen and I can't get up principal. 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.440 Anybody ever seen that commercial dude growing up? 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.029 It was on like every five minutes. 00:14:39.030 --> 00:14:40.049 I would get so mad. 00:14:40.090 --> 00:14:41.950 Camera man help her. 00:14:42.909 --> 00:14:44.259 Clearly she's fallen. 00:14:44.260 --> 00:14:45.730 I'm sick and tired of it. 00:14:46.179 --> 00:14:48.009 Somebody helped this girl. 00:14:48.110 --> 00:15:00.500 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. 00:15:01.129 --> 00:15:02.120 I'm for you. 00:15:02.389 --> 00:15:04.070 You're doing well. 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:05.330 Keep it up. 00:15:06.230 --> 00:15:08.509 You see, this is what Jesus gives to us. 00:15:09.220 --> 00:15:14.210 Encouragement, words of affirmation, words of truth and works of love. 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.190 He says, keep going. 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.179 Here's what you need to know about what happened because of the fall. 00:15:21.019 --> 00:15:26.450 I am quick to receive the worst about me and quick to reject the best. 00:15:27.740 --> 00:15:31.970 And you are quick to receive the worst and quick to reject the best. 00:15:32.570 --> 00:15:33.710 Here's what happens. 00:15:34.490 --> 00:15:39.500 If I get one bad email and 10 positives, guess what I think about on the way home. 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:42.019 Now I'm horrible. 00:15:42.020 --> 00:15:43.789 I probably shouldn't be doing this. 00:15:44.230 --> 00:15:47.750 I was much better at making belt busters and dude burgers and hunger busters. 00:15:48.019 --> 00:15:49.009 I should go back. 00:15:49.730 --> 00:15:51.409 This is what sin has done. 00:15:51.410 --> 00:15:57.289 You see, you and I, we live with ourselves and so we see the negative and one negative can beat us down. 00:15:57.830 --> 00:16:04.490 So why Paul would say and encourage each other and Paul encourages the body there. 00:16:04.580 --> 00:16:10.519 So start with vitamin E, where, where do you struggle muscle most giving and receiving encouragement. 00:16:10.520 --> 00:16:12.049 I would just write that question down. 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:18.889 You see, because many of us are deficient in encouragement, giving and receiving. 00:16:19.429 --> 00:16:23.090 In America we say, if you see something, say something. 00:16:23.091 --> 00:16:23.809 You ever heard that? 00:16:25.490 --> 00:16:26.029 Nobody. 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:32.059 It's a terrorist like, Hey, if you see something, say something, and I think you should. 00:16:32.061 --> 00:16:38.509 If you see somebody putting like a pressure cooker on the side of the road, see something, say something. 00:16:38.990 --> 00:16:42.259 But we need terrorism to actually encourage us. 00:16:42.260 --> 00:16:43.759 If we see something, say something. 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:48.440 What I would say is, Hey, if you see something good, say something good. 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.529 Start with that in your marriage. 00:16:52.009 --> 00:16:56.269 What happens is we become so critical, bitter and cynical. 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:01.129 We can't say anything good because it's giving away power and we don't want to give away power. 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:02.750 Start here today. 00:17:03.710 --> 00:17:07.670 View your spouse as somebody who needs to know the encouragement of Christ Jesus. 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:09.950 And if you see something, say something. 00:17:10.220 --> 00:17:11.690 It doesn't have to be anything big. 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:13.190 Hey, you're breathing today. 00:17:13.250 --> 00:17:13.880 Good job. 00:17:15.859 --> 00:17:19.549 See what happens is we look at it and we're like, well, I'm not getting what I want. 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:20.660 Be grateful. 00:17:20.661 --> 00:17:21.829 Anybody married you? 00:17:21.830 --> 00:17:23.299 Dude, look in the mirror. 00:17:23.900 --> 00:17:27.319 It's a miracle, but we think we deserve more. 00:17:28.220 --> 00:17:30.049 POS starts with vitamin E, encouragement. 00:17:30.140 --> 00:17:31.369 Watch what happens next. 00:17:31.490 --> 00:17:33.890 He'll go w and here's what I've got to do. 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:35.500 Pulse that. 00:17:35.569 --> 00:17:40.400 Therefore, in chapter four, verse one actually reaches clear back to chapter three, verse one. 00:17:40.609 --> 00:17:44.029 And as Paul gives different, uh, scripts for vitamins. 00:17:44.210 --> 00:17:51.000 So I'm gonna go now to chapter three verse one because this is where Paul says, finally, rejoice in the Lord. 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:51.269 Wash. 00:17:51.329 --> 00:17:52.589 go chapter three verse one. 00:17:52.859 --> 00:17:53.759 I've got to speed it up. 00:17:53.760 --> 00:17:54.569 I'm down to seven minutes. 00:17:54.570 --> 00:17:55.079 Let's roll. 00:17:55.140 --> 00:17:56.789 Let's have fun, but let's roll. 00:17:57.029 --> 00:17:58.890 Let's do it well, but let's do it quickly. 00:18:00.869 --> 00:18:02.640 Here's Paul vitamin number two. 00:18:02.641 --> 00:18:03.960 It's vitamin R. 00:18:04.220 --> 00:18:11.190 it's, I would put a parenthesis, rejoice, but it could also be riboflavin B too, because that gives us our energy physically. 00:18:11.309 --> 00:18:12.509 Same thing spiritually. 00:18:13.019 --> 00:18:19.380 Finally, my brethren rejoice in the Lord to serve, to write the same thing. 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:20.970 No skin off my back. 00:18:21.150 --> 00:18:23.279 And it's a safeguard for you. 00:18:23.549 --> 00:18:26.160 Vitamin number two, you're exhausted. 00:18:26.161 --> 00:18:29.579 This world has left you frustrated, weary, tired. 00:18:29.580 --> 00:18:30.839 It's what the world does. 00:18:31.619 --> 00:18:34.049 Vitamin number two, rejoice. 00:18:34.980 --> 00:18:36.150 Rejoice. 00:18:38.069 --> 00:18:38.539 I'm just gonna. 00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:39.539 You can write this down. 00:18:40.500 --> 00:18:40.859 Oscar. 00:18:40.861 --> 00:18:43.079 The grouch lives in a garbage can by choice. 00:18:43.890 --> 00:18:47.220 Every superstar has tried to help that cat out. 00:18:50.309 --> 00:18:53.309 Every single Tom true Oscar get out of the garbage can. 00:18:53.339 --> 00:18:55.200 And Oscar's like, no, I'm staying here. 00:18:55.201 --> 00:18:57.150 Oscar wants everybody else in the garbage can. 00:18:59.309 --> 00:19:03.420 Gratitude is a decision and a discipline. 00:19:03.450 --> 00:19:04.349 I'm going to say this again. 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:09.839 Gratitude is a decision and the discipline grumbling is a default. 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:20.700 Gratitude recognizes and realizes reality as reality really is and says, thank you God, thank you. 00:19:21.609 --> 00:19:24.690 You've loved me infinitely, profoundly in Christ. 00:19:24.779 --> 00:19:25.500 Thank you. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:33.210 Grumbling is a default grumbling romanticizes the past and we'll take you back to addiction. 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:34.740 Read through Exodus. 00:19:35.069 --> 00:19:39.299 God brings his people out of slavery and what are those cats say? 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:47.640 Oh man, there were pots of meat back in Egypt and melons and leaks and cucumbers. 00:19:48.390 --> 00:19:52.259 The grumbling romanticizes the past. 00:19:52.260 --> 00:19:52.859 It's a lie. 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.250 I've had to repent this week profoundly. 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:58.259 This is embarrassing, but it's a true story. 00:19:59.009 --> 00:20:05.220 So our hillside family is just growing, expanding, expounding profoundly. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:07.980 I love to ride every newcomer and new member a letter. 00:20:09.529 --> 00:20:21.660 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. 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.170 Welcome to hillside fellowship. 00:20:27.779 --> 00:20:29.940 So glad you're part of our family. 00:20:30.950 --> 00:20:33.210 Like, this is how this is the internal voice. 00:20:34.430 --> 00:20:35.970 I hope you like it. 00:20:36.150 --> 00:20:39.329 You know I'm just grumbling and the Lord had to start. 00:20:39.330 --> 00:20:41.970 I had to go tell my team like I'm broken. 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:44.519 Something is internally wrong. 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:46.230 He's grown us. 00:20:46.289 --> 00:20:49.569 He's saving people, he's bringing people in. 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.920 He's doing miracle after miracle, and I'm like, welcome to our family. 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:58.000 Go home like in that broken. 00:20:58.539 --> 00:21:05.049 This is grumbling is a default mode that does not recognize reality as reality really is. 00:21:05.140 --> 00:21:12.099 So Paul says, rejoice, rejoice, and rejoice in the Lord. 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.339 Listen, I know many of us found out we had cancer this week. 00:21:15.340 --> 00:21:20.559 Family's falling apart, marriages falling apart, and you say, there's no way I can rejoice in my circumstances. 00:21:20.710 --> 00:21:23.049 He doesn't say rejoice in your circumstances. 00:21:23.170 --> 00:21:24.880 This world is a mess. 00:21:25.569 --> 00:21:33.279 He says, rejoice in the Lord that Jesus Christ is taking your sin, taking your shame, taken your guilt taken on death. 00:21:33.339 --> 00:21:34.630 He's defeated at all. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.660 He's given us new life, and in that I can say thank you Jesus. 00:21:37.869 --> 00:21:43.720 Thank you, and I can rejoice in the vitamin number two are rejoice. 00:21:43.990 --> 00:21:50.470 Now we go to chapter three verse two because here's this next command to us as next vitamin. 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:59.740 It's a B complex, a B, where vitamin B watch, be aware of the dogs. 00:22:00.059 --> 00:22:00.970 Beware of the evil workers. 00:22:00.971 --> 00:22:03.009 Beware of the false circumcision. 00:22:04.950 --> 00:22:15.210 Vitamin B, there will always be, there will always be people who add something to the finished work of Jesus Christ. 00:22:15.930 --> 00:22:17.160 Paul's not talking about out there. 00:22:17.161 --> 00:22:19.500 He's talking about in here right now. 00:22:20.069 --> 00:22:26.130 There will always be those who add to the finished work of Jesus Christ to amazing. 00:22:26.131 --> 00:22:27.420 It happens subtly. 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:29.220 Paul says, watch out their dogs. 00:22:29.221 --> 00:22:30.299 That is, they're dangerous. 00:22:30.390 --> 00:22:31.440 They will devour you. 00:22:32.190 --> 00:22:33.869 They're evil workers. 00:22:34.109 --> 00:22:36.480 That is, they love to exalt themselves. 00:22:36.579 --> 00:22:40.319 He'll look at that in verse 18 and 19 then he says, they're the false circumcision. 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:41.910 They focus on externals. 00:22:42.210 --> 00:22:46.200 It is amazing what we do to new Christians. 00:22:47.099 --> 00:22:49.920 It's amazing what these wolves will do to new Christians. 00:22:50.339 --> 00:22:55.769 Do you remember when you were a new Christian and all of a sudden somebody put all the weight of the world on you? 00:22:57.589 --> 00:22:59.240 Oh, you're a brand new believer. 00:22:59.269 --> 00:23:00.589 Welcome to the family. 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:03.319 Have you read Shaffer's systematic theology yet? 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:05.750 It's like, no, I didn't. 00:23:05.779 --> 00:23:06.589 What's eight volumes? 00:23:06.590 --> 00:23:10.609 You should start reading it like, okay, are you serving yet? 00:23:11.269 --> 00:23:12.589 No, I don't. 00:23:12.619 --> 00:23:14.450 Well, do you know what your spiritual gifts are? 00:23:15.529 --> 00:23:15.890 Well, no. 00:23:15.891 --> 00:23:17.299 I didn't know there were spiritual gifts. 00:23:17.569 --> 00:23:18.890 Oh, what are we? 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:21.470