WEBVTT 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:11.460 Father, I pray that those aren't just words out of my mouth, but the truth of my heart. 00:00:12.150 --> 00:00:20.640 Then we would come to you, the great creator, King of the universe, and surrender our little stories to your great, glorious, eternal, infinite story. 00:00:21.510 --> 00:00:26.280 And so I pray for this time as we simply walk through your word. 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.379 We believe it's true and it's good. 00:00:29.420 --> 00:00:47.640 And father, as we look at anxiety and we look at the peace of God that surpasses all comprehension, um, I feel like I'm the last one there should be speaking about that because you know, I'm not good at casting my anxieties on you, but thank you that by your grace I am growing in it and thank you for opportunities to repent. 00:00:48.509 --> 00:01:02.850 And so I pray that you would use your word to set us free from anxiety and worry and stress that we would actually obey your word and run to you and cast all of that on you knowing that were your personal concern, that you love us, that you're for us. 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:08.640 So I pray you would use your word to strengthen, encourage, and equip your body through your spirit for your glory. 00:01:08.641 --> 00:01:09.299 In Jesus' name. 00:01:09.510 --> 00:01:10.049 Amen. 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:22.349 Well, as you're grabbing your seat, uh, let me start out just by telling you that I love you. 00:01:22.739 --> 00:01:24.750 I am so grateful for you. 00:01:25.489 --> 00:01:27.420 Uh, and these aren't just words. 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:43.290 When I think about you, the body of Christ, your my heart just fills up and overflows with love and so grateful for Christ in you, your lives, how you invite neighbors and friends and, and broken people like me to come here about the hope in Jesus Christ. 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:51.090 My heart literally just jumps and lbs harder because I see Christ in you and I love you and I don't think I tell you that enough. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:51.989 So thank you. 00:01:53.069 --> 00:02:02.459 Uh, second tomorrow's veterans day and I just wanted to tell the vets we love you and thank you for, uh, for your service. 00:02:05.510 --> 00:02:05.510 [inaudible] 00:02:06.140 --> 00:02:07.879 in fact, let's do something different. 00:02:07.881 --> 00:02:11.569 We typically have vet stand, but you guys have stood for us long enough. 00:02:11.570 --> 00:02:14.780 Let us stand for you and just say thank you. 00:02:14.781 --> 00:02:18.680 If you stand for the vets that should just stay seated. 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.069 [inaudible] yeah. 00:02:29.729 --> 00:02:30.210 Thank you. 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:31.889 Thank you. 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:39.120 Uh, third, uh, it's November 10th. 00:02:39.121 --> 00:02:40.469 Tonight's the super duper meeting. 00:02:40.471 --> 00:02:41.099 Don't miss it. 00:02:41.100 --> 00:02:41.909 If you miss it. 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.719 I just, I saw the first printout of all the information. 00:02:45.721 --> 00:02:46.469 You're going to love it. 00:02:46.471 --> 00:02:47.550 It's not a town hall. 00:02:47.550 --> 00:02:48.449 It's not going to be lame. 00:02:48.629 --> 00:02:49.770 It's going to be super duper. 00:02:49.770 --> 00:02:52.680 That's why we called it as super do for meeting. 00:02:53.250 --> 00:03:06.430 And so come here where Jesus is leading us next steps as we do facility updates and improvements so that we can fit more people in to hear about the great news of Jesus Christ. 00:03:06.729 --> 00:03:11.349 And so now visitors, guests, I've met a bunch of you your first time here. 00:03:11.350 --> 00:03:12.310 So glad you're here. 00:03:12.311 --> 00:03:13.090 My name's Dave. 00:03:13.091 --> 00:03:14.500 There's nothing special about me. 00:03:15.099 --> 00:03:16.389 Uh, this is hillside. 00:03:16.390 --> 00:03:18.370 There is something special about this place. 00:03:18.371 --> 00:03:20.229 We believe Jesus changes everything. 00:03:20.979 --> 00:03:27.400 And so every week I just get the honor of reading the scriptures and we encourage everyone everywhere, every day to follow the one who changes everything. 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:28.599 His name is Jesus Christ. 00:03:28.990 --> 00:03:33.129 And so no cards hidden under the table like no slight of hand. 00:03:33.131 --> 00:03:37.449 I want you to know, follow, serve, worship, obey and enjoy Jesus Christ. 00:03:37.870 --> 00:03:38.560 My name is Dave. 00:03:38.561 --> 00:03:41.289 I'm a recovering alcoholic and addict and Jesus has changed me. 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.069 And so I find a lot of hope and help just preaching the gospel. 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:47.830 And we love encouraging other people into that. 00:03:47.830 --> 00:03:49.539 So no hidden agenda. 00:03:50.229 --> 00:03:50.979 Just Jesus. 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:55.180 I want you to know him because he brings help, hope, healing, and life. 00:03:55.181 --> 00:03:58.840 And you can look around and see people nodding and crying at that because he's changed us. 00:03:58.990 --> 00:04:00.009 None of us are awesome. 00:04:00.010 --> 00:04:02.379 We gathered together to celebrate the one who is awesome. 00:04:02.860 --> 00:04:03.849 His name's Jesus. 00:04:04.090 --> 00:04:09.099 And we've been looking at where joy is found flipping's all about joy being found in Christ. 00:04:09.100 --> 00:04:12.099 So if you'll open up the Philippians chapter four, I'll read it. 00:04:12.129 --> 00:04:20.410 This is one of the most convicting, challenging passages in all the Bible to me because I'm not good at obeying it. 00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:26.470 Um, I, from the earliest age I can remember, I was afraid. 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:28.569 And so I was afraid to get out of bed at night. 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.930 So I would, I would wet the bed rather than get up and go out. 00:04:31.930 --> 00:04:33.850 I was afraid to be alone. 00:04:34.420 --> 00:04:38.439 So I spent a lot of my life just panicked and anxious. 00:04:39.209 --> 00:04:43.209 Um, I was afraid to stay at other people's houses, so I would just stay at my house. 00:04:43.211 --> 00:04:45.279 I was afraid of school, so I'd run away. 00:04:45.790 --> 00:04:47.829 Alcoholism was never my problem. 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:52.660 It was my solution to the internal spiritual issues that I had. 00:04:53.170 --> 00:04:59.050 So even now at 44, I find myself anxious and worried pretty much from the beginning of my day. 00:04:59.410 --> 00:05:02.829 So I'm not good at this, but I am growing in this. 00:05:03.370 --> 00:05:06.490 Jesus has given me grace and I am growing in this. 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:12.310 But even as I stand up here on stage, if you could see me the way God sees me, you would see my heart pounding. 00:05:12.310 --> 00:05:16.540 You would see my thoughts racing, you would see anxiety and worry. 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:21.310 And so even as I speak, I have to whisper, Lord Jesus, forgive me and give me courage. 00:05:21.310 --> 00:05:21.970 And strength. 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:28.449 So I tell you all that because this is not something I'm good at that I'm going to say follow my lead. 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:39.550 I have to repent probably at least a thousand times a day just as the anxiety to worry, the stress and the fear come and I have to say, Jesus, give me, give me strength and forgive me. 00:05:39.610 --> 00:05:41.860 I want to grow and trust in you. 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:43.750 So now let me read that to you. 00:05:43.750 --> 00:06:00.439 Having laid it all out there, God says, Paul writes in Ephesians chapter four verse one through seven therefore my beloved brethren, whom I have long to see my joy and my crown in this way, stand firm in the Lord my beloved. 00:06:01.310 --> 00:06:07.370 I urge Yoda and I urge Senta key to live in harmony in the Lord, indeed true companion. 00:06:07.579 --> 00:06:08.279 I ask you all. 00:06:08.281 --> 00:06:23.060 So to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life, rejoice in the Lord always again, I will say rejoice. 00:06:23.629 --> 00:06:25.819 Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. 00:06:25.821 --> 00:06:41.089 The Lord is near be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God and the peace of God that surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 00:06:42.259 --> 00:06:45.949 So very simple text, very beautiful text. 00:06:45.951 --> 00:06:46.910 We'll we'll walk through it. 00:06:46.911 --> 00:06:49.910 Let me give you a big theological perspective before we jump in. 00:06:50.629 --> 00:06:59.240 If you read straight through the Bible, the truth that you, one of the main major truths over and over and over and over that you would walk away with is that God is a God of all peace. 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:06.110 That he created us for a place of peace, of garden, of peace, Shalom, wholeness, completeness. 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:18.889 That when we rebelled, he sent his son the Prince of peace to purchase peace through his blood, the spirit of peace, that we might be a people of peace and peacemakers and we might know the peace of God and that piece might guard our hearts and minds. 00:07:18.891 --> 00:07:23.870 So pieces are big, big theological truth and subject in the Bible. 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:26.000 But here's the small picture. 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:29.870 Sin separated me from the peace of God. 00:07:29.870 --> 00:07:32.089 And now most days, I don't know the peace of God. 00:07:32.091 --> 00:07:34.009 I know problems, pain. 00:07:34.370 --> 00:07:40.670 I know conflict and concern now because sin separated me from the one who is peace. 00:07:41.060 --> 00:07:49.399 So now any given day, if you talk to me, I would know conflict and concerns, and this is I think true for all of us. 00:07:50.029 --> 00:07:55.459 If we're in tune with reality, everyday we have conflict and every day we have concerns. 00:07:55.461 --> 00:07:56.420 Anxieties, worries. 00:07:56.420 --> 00:08:04.399 In fact, if we were honest right now, how many of you had conflict with your spouse on the way out to church and it just happens now? 00:08:04.470 --> 00:08:05.899 Nobody wanted to be seen in that. 00:08:07.550 --> 00:08:09.769 If you could see what I saw, you would see this. 00:08:10.149 --> 00:08:11.810 It was just really quick, really low. 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:14.930 It's true. 00:08:15.139 --> 00:08:19.250 We live in a world at war, at war with God at war with one another. 00:08:19.819 --> 00:08:28.670 Today's scripture is just so beautiful and so helpful that peace of God that surpasses all comprehension really will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 00:08:29.060 --> 00:08:30.529 We want peace. 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:31.790 Jesus. 00:08:31.790 --> 00:08:42.470 When he came said, if you only knew the things that make for peace and we just don't because we live at war with God as we try and write our own stories and we live at war with one another. 00:08:42.471 --> 00:08:46.970 As our stories collide and conflict, Paul wants us to mature. 00:08:47.419 --> 00:08:49.039 He's been saying this over and over and over. 00:08:49.041 --> 00:08:50.509 He wants us to grow up. 00:08:50.899 --> 00:08:56.879 Part of growing up means that we know how to deal with conflict and we know how to deal with concerns. 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:07.259 That is, we know how to enter into conflict and walked through conflict for the glory of God and we know how to deal with our concerns and cast those out like like trash from our house. 00:09:07.259 --> 00:09:08.220 We get rid of it. 00:09:08.490 --> 00:09:14.279 So today Paul is going to walk us through that through conflicts and concerns so that we might grow in Christ. 00:09:14.490 --> 00:09:15.809 Now I'm going to walk you through it. 00:09:15.870 --> 00:09:17.399 We're going to enjoy it together. 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:24.120 If you don't get the first verse in the first verb, you're going to miss you get, we're going to miss what Paul has for us. 00:09:24.210 --> 00:09:29.490 So let's, we'll jump into verse one after I start at the end of the story. 00:09:29.490 --> 00:09:33.720 I tried this last week and I totally messed it up, so I wanted to try it again so I could learn. 00:09:34.649 --> 00:09:35.730 Here's where we're going. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:45.750 Verse seven is at the end, and this is, I think what we all want that I think because some people don't want peace. 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.240 War is very profitable for some people. 00:09:48.899 --> 00:09:51.059 Conflict is very needed for some people. 00:09:51.061 --> 00:09:58.769 So I can't say everybody wants peace because if I'm ever in my addiction, I need conflict to justify my addiction. 00:09:59.340 --> 00:10:01.440 So if I'm in my addiction, I don't want peace. 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:05.820 But for the normies regular people, I think we want peace. 00:10:06.509 --> 00:10:08.129 And Paul promises it right here. 00:10:08.130 --> 00:10:08.580 Watch. 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:15.269 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 00:10:15.870 --> 00:10:22.230 Now, typically we just quote the promise, the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:26.669 But notice verse seven it starts with a connective conjunction. 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.019 This is a promise, but it's a promise with a premise. 00:10:31.020 --> 00:10:33.750 And if you don't follow the premise, you're not going to get the promise. 00:10:33.809 --> 00:10:41.070 You with me, if you've got your J B Phillips Bibles or new living Testament Bibles, I love what they do because it clarifies it. 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:51.960 If you do these things and pointing up, if you do these things, then the peace of God that surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts and minds in Christ. 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:53.309 I just want the promise. 00:10:53.311 --> 00:10:54.330 I don't want the process. 00:10:54.331 --> 00:10:54.750 Amen. 00:10:55.980 --> 00:10:58.889 That is I think the peace of God is some mystical magic. 00:10:59.970 --> 00:11:07.200 Start us that he just sprinkles on me is like, Dave, here's the peace of God because when I'm in conflict, I just want peace. 00:11:07.201 --> 00:11:08.610 I'm like, do away with the conflict. 00:11:08.610 --> 00:11:09.659 God, give me peace. 00:11:09.899 --> 00:11:11.519 He's like, I totally will. 00:11:12.509 --> 00:11:20.309 If you'll do these things, you'll experience the peace of God that surpasses comprehension, but if you don't do these things, guess what he had? 00:11:20.311 --> 00:11:21.330 There's no peace. 00:11:21.779 --> 00:11:29.250 I'm not just going to magically give you peace and not allow you to deal with the things that are leading towards the conflict. 00:11:29.610 --> 00:11:33.539 He's going to walk us through the things that lead towards the conflict. 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:35.399 He's going to clarify a whole bunch. 00:11:35.400 --> 00:11:35.730 Watch. 00:11:35.730 --> 00:11:36.629 Start in verse one. 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:38.759 If you missed this verb, you'll miss. 00:11:39.029 --> 00:11:39.899 You'll miss the point. 00:11:40.230 --> 00:11:46.440 Therefore, my beloved brother and whom I long to see my joy and my crown in this way. 00:11:46.710 --> 00:11:48.929 Stand firm. 00:11:48.931 --> 00:11:49.830 There's your command. 00:11:49.950 --> 00:11:52.200 Stay put, stay right where you are. 00:11:52.470 --> 00:11:52.980 Stand. 00:11:53.500 --> 00:11:57.279 But it's prepped positional in the Lord. 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:59.950 So there's one place that pieces to be found. 00:12:00.070 --> 00:12:01.539 It's in the Lord. 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.210 Now he uses a very interesting word here in the Greek curiosus. 00:12:05.289 --> 00:12:09.039 Lord Paul doesn't use terms haphazardly or randomly. 00:12:09.460 --> 00:12:17.980 He says there's one person who's writing a story that you can trust and the story that the Bible tells us, very simple. 00:12:18.789 --> 00:12:19.539 Let me give it to you. 00:12:19.870 --> 00:12:22.779 In three seas, God created everything. 00:12:24.190 --> 00:12:26.230 God controls everything. 00:12:26.230 --> 00:12:32.110 He's the Lord and God's going to complete and culminate everything that he completed in controls. 00:12:32.710 --> 00:12:37.509 So you can totally stand firm in his story because he's going to carry it out. 00:12:37.779 --> 00:12:41.950 Now, if I don't juxtapose that to the story of the world is telling, you're not going to get it. 00:12:41.950 --> 00:12:47.120 So let me tell you this story that I got probably from about eighth grade on the world. 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:48.519 Story goes like this. 00:12:49.269 --> 00:12:50.679 You're an accident. 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:53.049 Something blew up. 00:12:53.710 --> 00:12:56.950 Then there was some goose somewhere and then there was a zoo and then there was you. 00:12:56.951 --> 00:13:02.740 But you're an accident so we can't tell you what to do with your life. 00:13:02.740 --> 00:13:04.240 It's going to be pretty aimless. 00:13:04.659 --> 00:13:15.820 So just figure out what you want to do, do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life like all kinds of ridiculous like, but it doesn't matter what you do because you work goo crawled around. 00:13:15.940 --> 00:13:23.320 Then there was you and it's aimless, so you need to be anxious and freaked out because this whole thing is very poorly. 00:13:24.250 --> 00:13:25.330 There is no story. 00:13:25.331 --> 00:13:26.980 This world has that ends well. 00:13:27.190 --> 00:13:28.720 Every story ends with anxiety. 00:13:28.990 --> 00:13:30.879 So you are an accident, you're aimless. 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:34.059 You should be anxious because it's a mess. 00:13:34.299 --> 00:13:41.200 You see the story that the world is telling in the story that the Lord is telling are very different, very, very different. 00:13:41.470 --> 00:13:43.419 We're actually in the middle of the social experiment. 00:13:43.421 --> 00:13:49.720 They don't tell us when they do these social experiments, but in the seventies and eighties it was like, Hey, you're an accident. 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:52.600 Figure out what you want to do with your life and we hope everything goes well. 00:13:53.590 --> 00:13:58.179 Eighties nineties 2000 2019 why is everybody anxious and freaking out? 00:13:58.809 --> 00:13:59.799 We don't get it. 00:13:59.980 --> 00:14:01.120 What's wrong with you? 00:14:02.049 --> 00:14:11.740 Well, when you remove all purpose from life and you expect people to build their life on a scaffolding of nothingness over a deep, dark black hole, yeah, you did this. 00:14:12.220 --> 00:14:16.870 This is a profound social experiment that isn't going well at all. 00:14:16.899 --> 00:14:23.320 We're all freaking out now in that, I call it my HEB shopping cart race car principle. 00:14:23.350 --> 00:14:23.980 It's a long one. 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:28.629 When I go to HEB, my kids love it. 00:14:28.630 --> 00:14:34.169 Especially my four year old, my six year old, I put them in the race car shopping carts. 00:14:34.171 --> 00:14:35.379 You ever seen that at HEB? 00:14:35.830 --> 00:14:36.399 Awesome. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:37.840 It's got lightning bolts. 00:14:37.841 --> 00:14:38.980 They had lightning McQueen. 00:14:39.100 --> 00:14:39.909 My kids love it. 00:14:40.029 --> 00:14:48.370 You get my three or four year old daughter in there and she thinks she is Mario Andretti up in that mug, but here's the interesting thing. 00:14:48.370 --> 00:15:00.259 She actually thinks that she's in control and steering and she'll begin to fight with Paxton who thinks he's in control and steering, and I'm telling them guys, there's no rack and pinion. 00:15:00.260 --> 00:15:10.250 There's no connection here, but they will literally freak out when they see the candy aisle or they're spinning, laughed, literally and freak. 00:15:10.549 --> 00:15:12.009 It's not journeying. 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:16.700 And I'm like, because you're not in control. 00:15:17.870 --> 00:15:19.460 Daddy's in control. 00:15:20.269 --> 00:15:26.059 And then they'll begin freaking out, but we want to go that way and then they'll start freaking, no, I want to go this way. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.129 And I'm, I just said, be quiet. 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.019 Daddy's in country. 00:15:30.100 --> 00:15:31.700 Daddy's actually dairy. 00:15:32.450 --> 00:15:34.370 You're not in control. 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:38.059 You see, many of us are trying to write our own story. 00:15:38.061 --> 00:15:42.019 We've gone off script and we're not standing firm in Christ Jesus. 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:48.679 We're like little kids in a shopping cart freaking out because it's not turning. 00:15:48.980 --> 00:15:50.480 It's not turning because it's not. 00:15:50.509 --> 00:15:51.889 You're not in control, bro. 00:15:52.490 --> 00:15:54.710 There's somebody else steering the cart. 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:56.750 His name is Jesus Christ. 00:15:56.990 --> 00:15:58.429 He created everything. 00:15:58.610 --> 00:16:02.149 He's in control of everything and he's going to complete and culminate it. 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:06.470 If you want to know verse seven the peace of God that surpasses all comprehension. 00:16:06.471 --> 00:16:07.009 Write this down. 00:16:07.129 --> 00:16:11.090 If you want to know the peace of God that surpasses comprehension, you've got to know your place. 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:14.870 If you want to know his piece, you've got to know your place. 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.870 You're not in control. 00:16:19.009 --> 00:16:21.500 You're not in control. 00:16:21.590 --> 00:16:23.629 Think about how much you're not in control of. 00:16:23.690 --> 00:16:25.340 Let it freak you out. 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.120 I'm not in control of anybody else driving around me. 00:16:29.509 --> 00:16:30.230 I'm not in control. 00:16:30.230 --> 00:16:34.159 My heartbeat, I can't control anything that goes on inside of me. 00:16:34.160 --> 00:16:36.320 I could die right now, right? 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.659 I'm not in control. 00:16:39.259 --> 00:16:41.750 He is, and he says, stand firm in me. 00:16:41.750 --> 00:16:47.330 If you want to know his peace, know your place and stand firm in Jesus Christ. 00:16:47.331 --> 00:16:48.169 He's good. 00:16:48.350 --> 00:16:49.370 He loves you. 00:16:49.580 --> 00:16:53.539 He's riding a glorious, beautiful story and you can trust him. 00:16:53.541 --> 00:16:54.769 Your dad's in control. 00:16:54.980 --> 00:16:55.820 He's got this thing. 00:16:55.909 --> 00:16:57.500 I took a road trip to Dallas. 00:16:57.620 --> 00:16:59.090 You ever heard of backseat drivers? 00:16:59.659 --> 00:17:03.230 I've got children, backseat drivers, and they are convinced. 00:17:03.500 --> 00:17:09.859 I don't know where I'm going first couple of times, super duper cute from a little blonde, blue eyed girl. 00:17:10.460 --> 00:17:13.579 Daddy, we're lost or not. 00:17:13.580 --> 00:17:13.880 Sweetie. 00:17:13.881 --> 00:17:15.289 Daddy knows exactly where he's going. 00:17:15.789 --> 00:17:24.140 Then the amped up daddy, we're going the wrong way, so I start trying to explain to her, sweetie, we're still on Google maps. 00:17:24.140 --> 00:17:25.819 We're okay where the blue dot weren't going. 00:17:25.910 --> 00:17:26.990 She doesn't understand. 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:29.000 She doesn't even know North, South, East or West. 00:17:29.269 --> 00:17:30.230 She starts crying. 00:17:30.740 --> 00:17:32.569 We're going the wrong way. 00:17:33.299 --> 00:17:40.289 I finally just told her, sweetie, I can't explain to you because you couldn't comprehend North, South, East, West Google maps. 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:45.509 Anywhere we're going, I 35 daddy knows how to get to Dallas and daddy's going to get you there safe. 00:17:45.690 --> 00:17:46.440 Trust me. 00:17:46.980 --> 00:17:48.150 See, here's the truth. 00:17:48.180 --> 00:17:51.809 You want to know the peace God, trust in the Lord with all your heart. 00:17:51.810 --> 00:17:53.400 Don't lean on your own understanding. 00:17:53.579 --> 00:17:55.769 You can't write a good story in all your ways. 00:17:55.770 --> 00:17:56.490 Acknowledge him. 00:17:56.700 --> 00:18:00.150 He will make your paths straight. 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:02.640 Don't go off script and write your own story. 00:18:02.730 --> 00:18:03.869 Stand firm in the Lord. 00:18:03.990 --> 00:18:08.160 There's 0.1 is that clock right? 00:18:08.670 --> 00:18:09.480 Just take it off. 00:18:09.509 --> 00:18:10.349 It doesn't matter anymore. 00:18:10.351 --> 00:18:10.829 Watch what? 00:18:11.549 --> 00:18:12.059 That's verse one. 00:18:12.089 --> 00:18:13.170 Watch what happens here. 00:18:14.730 --> 00:18:18.359 Now while we're in that shopping cart, listen y'all, I love you. 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:19.140 I'm for you. 00:18:19.470 --> 00:18:26.039 While you and I, while we are in that shopping cart, it matters how we travel through HEB. 00:18:26.730 --> 00:18:30.059 It can be an awesome trip or it can be an awful trip. 00:18:30.390 --> 00:18:43.349 It can be a trip that, that we enjoy in this, in this life, or it can be a trip you have to endure or daddy's got to light you up because you're throwing fits, but it matters how we travel. 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:46.259 My kids will fight over nothing, literally nothing. 00:18:46.470 --> 00:18:52.380 They'll fight over the crack, which is definitionally nothing is the area between two things that has nothing. 00:18:53.579 --> 00:18:56.640 Watch if you want to know the peace of God that surpasses comprehension. 00:18:56.641 --> 00:19:02.160 I'm just going to walk you through a series of things that Paul models for us because I think we want peace. 00:19:02.769 --> 00:19:03.480 I think we do. 00:19:03.990 --> 00:19:05.970 If you want that, watch where he starts out. 00:19:06.450 --> 00:19:12.900 First word I now he's going to urge DOD and center key to live at harmony in the Lord. 00:19:13.019 --> 00:19:19.410 If you want peace, if you want peace, that peace that surpasses all comprehension. 00:19:19.619 --> 00:19:24.630 It begins with a willingness to walk the plan that God has. 00:19:25.349 --> 00:19:26.730 It begins with a willingness. 00:19:27.150 --> 00:19:30.660 Paul jumps into this huge mess that we'll talk about in just a minute. 00:19:30.750 --> 00:19:34.559 Yoda and[inaudible], they were fighting Paul. 00:19:34.619 --> 00:19:40.980 He wants peace for the body of Christ, so he is willing to jump into conflict. 00:19:40.980 --> 00:19:41.640 Write this down. 00:19:41.819 --> 00:19:44.579 Conflict never resolves itself. 00:19:46.740 --> 00:19:47.250 I'm going to say it again. 00:19:47.460 --> 00:19:50.430 Conflict never, ever, ever resolves itself. 00:19:50.431 --> 00:19:53.819 The only way through conflict is to face it. 00:19:54.390 --> 00:19:56.430 Time will not heal all things. 00:19:56.431 --> 00:20:00.990 Saints, many of us believe that I'm on a fight with my spouse. 00:20:00.990 --> 00:20:01.980 I'll just give it some time. 00:20:01.980 --> 00:20:03.150 Time heals all things. 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:05.700 It's actually not true. 00:20:05.849 --> 00:20:08.549 If time healed, all things, I would never ever go to the doctor. 00:20:08.650 --> 00:20:09.329 I'd just sit at home. 00:20:10.619 --> 00:20:13.140 Well, I've got high blood pressure and high cholesterol. 00:20:13.140 --> 00:20:14.220 I'll just give it some time. 00:20:15.829 --> 00:20:16.829 Then I had cancer. 00:20:16.890 --> 00:20:17.910 I'm just going to give it some time. 00:20:17.911 --> 00:20:18.660 It'll go away. 00:20:19.140 --> 00:20:20.819 Time doesn't heal all things. 00:20:20.970 --> 00:20:23.250 Time allows gangrene to grow. 00:20:23.789 --> 00:20:25.200 That's what time does. 00:20:25.470 --> 00:20:26.819 You want to know the peace of God? 00:20:26.970 --> 00:20:27.750 No, the plan of God. 00:20:27.750 --> 00:20:28.920 Here's the plan of God. 00:20:29.190 --> 00:20:34.289 He has given you in Christ the ministry of reconciliation. 00:20:35.130 --> 00:20:38.069 You are an ambassador for Christ. 00:20:38.070 --> 00:20:41.099 It is as though God is making an appeal through you. 00:20:41.549 --> 00:20:55.000 We begged you on behalf of Christ Jesus, be reconciled to God because God made his son, Jesus Christ, who knew no sin to be made sin for you so that you could live at peace with God and live at peace with one another. 00:20:55.299 --> 00:20:56.259 That's your ministry. 00:20:56.260 --> 00:20:57.670 You want to know the peace of God? 00:20:58.630 --> 00:20:59.829 Join the plan of God. 00:20:59.830 --> 00:21:00.460 He's req. 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:02.109 Clawson's chapter. 00:21:02.740 --> 00:21:09.730 You go through cautions, chapter one verse 20 he's reconciling this whole broken mug to himself and he wants you to be part of that plan. 00:21:10.059 --> 00:21:10.869 Paul jumps in. 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:11.319 You want to? 00:21:11.320 --> 00:21:12.220 I wish we had more time. 00:21:12.221 --> 00:21:14.109 You want to know why we avoid conflict? 00:21:15.009 --> 00:21:16.029 It's always messy. 00:21:16.089 --> 00:21:17.470 There's always friendly fire. 00:21:17.529 --> 00:21:18.759 There's always shrapnel. 00:21:18.819 --> 00:21:20.710 It never seems to go well. 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:23.589 There's always just spiritual slime. 00:21:23.590 --> 00:21:25.930 It's like we spiritually sneeze on each other. 00:21:25.931 --> 00:21:29.289 It's a mass, so we just go like spiritual turtles. 00:21:29.290 --> 00:21:30.640 You ever seen two turtles fight? 00:21:32.109 --> 00:21:32.769 Yeah, they don't. 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:33.940 They just go into their shell. 00:21:35.140 --> 00:21:37.000 That's why there aren't turtle cage matches. 00:21:39.009 --> 00:21:40.299 At least not that I know of. 00:21:40.599 --> 00:21:45.269 Maybe there is with snapping turtles, but I think they still just withdraw pastas. 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:45.910 Don't withdraw. 00:21:46.539 --> 00:21:48.579 Listen, some of you are like skunks. 00:21:48.580 --> 00:21:49.930 You ever seen two skunks fight? 00:21:50.769 --> 00:21:51.579 You don't want to. 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:55.960 Everything stinks cause they just spread and then you smell it from miles. 00:21:55.961 --> 00:22:00.339 When two skunks fight, everybody knows Yoda and Centacare like two skunks. 00:22:00.690 --> 00:22:01.299 They are fighting. 00:22:01.300 --> 00:22:02.140 Everybody knows. 00:22:02.141 --> 00:22:03.309 Everybody wants to avoid it. 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:05.170 Paul says, you want to know the peace of God? 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:06.160 Join the plan of God. 00:22:06.609 --> 00:22:09.369 He's reconciling us to one another. 00:22:09.460 --> 00:22:11.200 So there's point to watch this. 00:22:11.380 --> 00:22:13.359 Then he said, this is so funny. 00:22:14.019 --> 00:22:21.329 You may not think so in the English or in the Greek, and this may just be a Greek geek joke pod here. 00:22:21.579 --> 00:22:22.569 One verb is enough. 00:22:22.570 --> 00:22:22.990 Amen. 00:22:23.769 --> 00:22:26.680 Like per a sense subject, verb, direct object that you go to. 00:22:27.529 --> 00:22:36.309 Paul goes, I urge Yoda and I urge he double verbs this mug. 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:37.990 It's totally bizarre. 00:22:39.009 --> 00:22:40.329 You know why it has to do that. 00:22:42.190 --> 00:22:45.769 If he only put one verb in there and said, I urge Yoda and Cinta key. 00:22:45.789 --> 00:22:49.440 You know what Cintiq Q would say, he put the verb in front of your name. 00:22:50.109 --> 00:22:53.140 Yo, your the issue here. 00:22:53.380 --> 00:22:54.819 Even Paul knows you're the issue. 00:22:54.820 --> 00:22:57.039 Girl, look where the verb is placed. 00:22:59.130 --> 00:22:59.589 Isn't that? 00:22:59.890 --> 00:23:01.269 That's what happened. 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:01.890 You. 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:03.759 You want to know the peace of God? 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:07.059 Then he says, be willing to fix the problem, not the blame. 00:23:07.660 --> 00:23:10.599 If you want to know the peace of God, be willing to fix the problem. 00:23:10.601 --> 00:23:14.500 Here's how you fix the problem in America right now, all we do is fix the blame. 00:23:15.579 --> 00:23:16.690 That's all fixed. 00:23:16.691 --> 00:23:17.079 The blame. 00:23:17.080 --> 00:23:17.859 We put it somewhere. 00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:19.779 Just watch things. 00:23:19.809 --> 00:23:21.220 How many, I'm not going to go there. 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:22.509 Many of us watch the news. 00:23:22.510 --> 00:23:23.170 Even this morning. 00:23:23.829 --> 00:23:25.329 The news isn't news anymore. 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:28.720 It's a blame slopping contest. 00:23:29.470 --> 00:23:30.279 It's their fault. 00:23:30.280 --> 00:23:31.059 It's their fault. 00:23:31.060 --> 00:23:32.140 It's the Republican's fault. 00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:34.059 It's the Democrats followed as the president's fault. 00:23:34.210 --> 00:23:35.650 No, it's the Congress's fault. 00:23:36.190 --> 00:23:44.079 We seek to fix the blame of fix the blame somewhere, but we're not willing to do the work and fix the problem. 00:23:44.740 --> 00:23:45.410 This happens. 00:23:45.411 --> 00:23:46.789 I see it in marriages. 00:23:47.059 --> 00:23:52.579 We spend the majority of our time fixing the blame on our spouse, but we're not willing to fix the problem. 00:23:52.730 --> 00:23:55.279 Paul says, I'm not playing that game. 00:23:55.280 --> 00:23:57.980 I urge Yoda and I earned Syntech key. 00:23:58.099 --> 00:24:00.170 Own your own stuff. 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:03.319 You want to know the peace of God, man. 00:24:03.410 --> 00:24:04.700 Own your own stuff. 00:24:04.730 --> 00:24:06.529 Matthew chapter seven Jesus would say it. 00:24:06.890 --> 00:24:13.759