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139 and your white handouts psalm
139 psalm
139
This is my servant is dead or a rapist Jordan people and the land which I do give to them
But to the children of Israel every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon
I give it unto you as I said unto Moses from the wilderness and this Lebanon even under the great river
River Euphrates the land of the Hittites and under the great sea toward the going down to the Sun shall be your coast
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life
I was with Moses so I will be with thee
I will not fail fail thee nor forsake thee be strong and of a good courage for unto this people
Shall thou divide for an inheritance the land which I swear unto their fathers to give them only be thou strong and very
Courageous that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee turn not from it to the right
Hand or to the left that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth
But thou shall meditate therein day and night that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein for then
Thou shall make thy way prosperous and then thou shall have good success
Have I not commanded thee be strong and of a good courage be not afraid
Neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest
Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people saying pass through the host and command the people saying prepare you vittles for within three days
He shall pass over this Jordan to go into possess the land which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it and to the
Rubinites and to the Gadites into the half tribe of Manasseh spake Joshua saying
Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you saying the Lord your God has given you rest and I've given you
This land your wives your little ones and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan
But you shall pass before your brethren arms all the mighty men of valor and help them and to the Lord has given your
Brethren rest as he had given you and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God give with them
Then you shall return onto the land of your possession and enjoy it which Moses the Lord's
Servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sun rising and they answered Joshua saying all that thou command us us
We will do and whithersoever thou send us us
We will go according as we hearken unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee only the Lord thy God be
With thee as he was with Moses
Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment and will not hearken unto thy words and all that thou commandest him
He shall be put to death only be strong and of a good courage. Let us pray father
Thank you for this great church. Thank you for our pastor and his family
I pray that you would fill brother Jimmy Stewart with your Holy Spirit this evening
I pray that you would give him the words to speak. I pray that
that you would lay the truth and
power on his heart this evening and help us to be edified by what he preaches to us and I
Thank you so much for all the soul soul winners and all the soul winning that was done today
And we just continue I would pray that you continue to bless our church and put a hedge around every family and keep us safe
And we love you Jesus and we pray these things in Jesus name. Amen
Amen. All right. Well, good evening. Y'all. I'm Jimmy Stewart. It's very very man
It is so great to be here be able to preach and I just want to thank pastor Shelley for the opportunity to fill in
And I got a good sermon for you tonight
Hopefully it'll edify you a little bit and we read there in Joshua 1 but turn real quick to Psalms 126
I want to lay out here. There's kind of this biblical principle when it comes to preaching and
It basically goes when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs
The one that yells the loudest that's the one that got hit
So after this sermon the person that complains the most is probably the person that needs it the most
All right, so I just wanted to kind of lay that out first
Let's do a quick little kind of foundation here. You know, the Bible is a mix of spiritual
Physical and also mental things verses and it kind of moves between the three of these
You know zones all the time and a lot of times people get mixed up on these things
And obviously the most important is the spiritual aspect
You know, what does it profit a man if he gained the whole world but lose his soul?
So the spiritual is obviously the most important thing but we got to realize that what we do
Physically and mentally it affects us
Spiritually now think about it if I steal something that's in the physical, right?
But does that affect me in the spiritual if I said that right it affects it's in the physical, but it affects me in the spiritual
How about if I tell a lie? That's me physically telling a lie, but it affects me in the spiritual because I've sinned against God
How about an easy one? How about if you commit adultery? Is there any physical consequences of that? Yes
There's also spiritual consequences. There's mental consequences. So as we look at our sermon tonight
I don't want to we're gonna focus a lot on the physical and the mental
But I don't want you to think that I'm overlooking the spiritual at all. The spiritual is the
Paramount, but I don't want to forget about the physical and the mental as either
There's kind of some classic verses on this kind of moving in between these
Different areas things like first Corinthians 6 where your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
so your physical body is the temple of the spiritual Holy Ghost or
Romans 12 presents your bodies as a living sacrifice
And really people go south on this really quick and kind of the main way they go south
I think is in first Timothy 4 8 where it says bodily exercise profiteth little
But godliness is profitable unto all things that's kind of this go-to
For kind of like hey, don't try to lay some trip on me about getting in shape because bodily exercise profit
It's little in the context of that verse. Let's just think about it for a second in relation to
Spiritual things godliness. Yeah bodily exercise profits you nothing
I mean really very little in relation to godliness
But that doesn't mean that bodily exercise profits none. You can't just say well bodily exercise nothing
So I'm just gonna be some morbidly obese excessively idle
You know person and God's just gonna bless me. Obviously that's that's not true
Let's look there at Psalms 126 where you're at and kind of put this to a test as we lay our foundation here
Looking at verse 6 he that goeth forth and weepeth
Bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing
Bringing his sheaves with him now look at the three parts there he that goeth forth. That's physical
You can't go soul winning sitting on your couch eating chips off your chest
If you could the non-denom's would be soul winning machines, but they're not
Secondarily you weepeth. That's a state of mind where you have love for a person
Maybe you're you know, really really caring about this person
So there's the mental aspect and finally bearing precious seed it matters
What seed you're carrying when you go soul winning so I'm not discounting any of those
But I really want to nail in as our foundation here that what we do physically and mentally will affect us
Spiritually cool. All right turn to Joshua chapter 14 and we'll get into it here the title of my sermon tonight
Excuse me. I've been fighting something with my voice all week. The title of my sermon tonight is long term
success long term
Success now the obvious longest term success is heaven
That's the longest long term success. And again, that's the spiritual that has to be laid down
Right away that spiritually it's not about physical works
It's about faith alone and and it's a one-time decision and once person saved they're always saved
Okay, so can we just not go back to that milk? That's laid down. We're good
Cool as we look here in Joshua chapter 14
We have we have Joshua and Caleb and if you remember they were very successful after they spied out the land
And in fact, they were the only ones of the men 20 year olds and over that even made it out
So I would say they were very successful. So they're a good couple of guys to look at to find
Kind of a biblical pen plan for long-term success. Okay, we're in Joshua 14. Look at verse 7
This is Caleb talking
He says 40 years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea
To a spy out the land and I brought him word again as it was in my heart
Okay, he's 40 years old when he spies out the land go down to verse 10 and now
Behold the Lord hath kept me alive as he said these 40 and five years
Even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness and lo
I am now this day for score and five years old now since none of us go to public school
Let's do some math 40 plus 45. That's a real long pause
85 okay, so he's 85 so he's comparing here now where he's 85 verses when he was 45
This is where he's going with it now look at verse 11 as yet. I am as strong
this day 85 as I was in the day that Moses sent me as
My strength was then
40 so is my strength now both to go out or for war both to go out and to come in
So let's define success in the context of this sermon being as strong at 85 as I am at
40 that's how we're gonna define success for this particular sermon now this kind of a success
Let's first address here spiritually
I don't mean spiritually when I just said what I said here as strong at 85 as I am 40
Here's why I sure hope that after serving the Lord for 80 years. I'm not the same amount
Spiritually as I was at 40 I better be twice the guy at 85 that I was at 40
I mean we're talking 45 years of Bible reading and church and soul winning if I only say well
I'm as strong as I was when I was 40. That's like super letdown. That's plateau style
that's like you haven't grown in 40 years. Well I'm talking about physically and I know we don't
really talk a lot about physical strength if somehow it's kind of this giant plank in you
know Baptist eyes about physical things but we're gonna talk about it tonight so fine good. Now this
kind of success you know it doesn't happen by accident though you don't just fall into a giant
pile of success you know you need a plan so let's look at the biblical plan turn back to Joshua 1
just a couple chapters back and we're going to look how we can be as strong at 85 as I am at 40
and this portion of Joshua chapter 1 which brother Nick read for us this is a pep talk from God
and let's kind of skip down to verse 5 and the Lord here says there shall not any man be able
to stand before thee all the days of thy life. Can I just say for a moment step fast there shall
not be any man that is able to stand before you like that's a promise that we have from the Lord
and yeah they got their butts kicked at Ai in chapter 7 of Joshua that's okay that's not God's
fault they did that to themselves look when they're following the Lord the Lord's like look no one's
going to be able to stand before you and that's how I feel about our church you can stack up
15,000 faggots out there and no one is going to stand before us let's continue on he says I was
with Moses so will I be with thee and I love these verses here this last verse I will not fail thee
nor forsake thee I mean what a promise from God and he's telling Joshua that well now let's get
into the meat here the Bible's plan for long-term success look at verse 6 be strong and of a good
Courage for under this people thou shalt divide for an inheritance the land which I swear unto
Their fathers to give them so point number one and our plan our long-term plan for success or a plan for long-term success
Is we need to be?
Strong and yes, I literally mean
physically strong as in your muscles and your arms and your legs and your hips and your back and I'm
Literally talking about physical strength. We need that now. Where does strength come from though?
Well strength comes from only one place and it's called progressive overload
What that means is you add a little bit then you add a little bit more then you add a little bit more
Then more than more than more than more and if you keep the weight the same then you need to add more
Repetitions of that weight. So either one either adding more weight or rep more repetitions adds
Strength and we see this in the real world for people that have physical jobs
I think of a guy that works for sparklets water
Okay, he has those five gallon jugs and those are about 40 42 pounds each
You know the first couple of weeks when he's lugging those around they're really heavy
But then pretty soon he kind of gets used to it and he's kind of throwing them around and it's no big deal
Well, you wouldn't really even call him strong
Because he's now plateaued and he can haul that 40 pounds around really easily because it's not
Increasingly getting heavier and heavier and heavier, right? So there's there's there's no such thing really as
Naturally strong I may sound weird because I'm sure you know people that are way stronger than you naturally
But the thing about strength is that it's an individual thing
It's not compared to me or compared to you or compared to anyone else. It's compared to yourself is your strength, right?
So you may be naturally, you know strong but that doesn't mean you are
Strong if you kind of catch my drift. So strength does not come naturally
It must be trained and it must be obtained now
Let me just do a quick kind of asterisk side note to say I'm not talking about losing weight
Now if you want to lose weight great
Well, well, I'll give you a verse on it here real quick personally
I don't care what you look like so you can look like whatever you want
I'm talking about strength a lot of times losing weight comes with getting strong
But this isn't a thing where I'm saying well, you need to look like the Hollywood folks
You're some sort of you know beanpole blah, whatever. No, I'm not talking about that
I'm talking about literal physical strength just a quick verse on food
If you are thinking about to yourself, you'd like to kind of look at this as far as how you could eat
Ecclesiastes 10 17 and I love this verse says blessed art thou o land when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes
Eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness
So you can kind of implement this principle in your own life. Don't eat for drunkenness, which is like overeating, right?
Eat for strength eat the proper amount. That's just pure side note
But look I want you to be strong for a couple of reasons one
So soul win will be easier for you for getting up in the morning and reading your Bible
Will be easier for you. I want you to be strong also because the Lord's commanded you be strong
Now we need to be physically strong and I'm not only talking to the men
I'm also talking to the women and the children. We need to be physically strong
We need to work out exercise. We need to move more
So what's the definition of strong according to the dictionary? Right? Well, the dictionary says strong is physically powerful
capable of exerting great physical force
Marked by great physical power in good or sound health
Look, we need to exercise more
we are we being collectively us this time in our world are so
Idle compared to what all of human history has been and we kind of have just frog in the water
In a way kind of landed here and it's like man
We're all just sitting around all the time and I'm saying we because this has been on my heart as well
So here's a little catchphrase. I hope you can remember this in your brain and I hopefully I'll kind of burn it in there
Don't sleep in go to the gym. There's a nice little thing now
We can start really small and it's really important to start small whenever you start a new habit of any kind
It's really important to start small. So we have this thing in our brain where we kind of think well
It's got to be a hundred percent or nothing. That's not really true
We can start very small kind of add little bits to it
I think a good goal to eventually have is where you're doing some sort of weight bearing exercise three times a week and you're doing
What we'd call zone two cardio, which is like a jog or a brisk walk three times a week
This is kind of what you'd consider and kind of fitness in general considers this as like your bare minimum
And we kind of have that same in church too where it's like my bare minimum is like I'm reading the Bible once a year
I'm going to church
Let three times a week and I'm going soul winning now I can always do more but if I start like
Sinking back from that for whatever reason then I'm it's like my trigger to myself to say, okay
I'm kind of maybe backsliding I need to make sure that I get in there and I need to make sure that I'm
Maintaining my minimum it's kind of the same way with physical exercise or movement in general
We're going to talk about it here where you can set kind of a minimum and you'll know well
I'm being a little bit lazy because I'm not hitting my minimum, right?
So plainly put let's put it this way. Do you want to be reading your Bible when you're 85?
Do you want to be going to church when you're 85? Do you want to be going soul-winning when you're 85?
I mean I do and it all literally starts now since no one's 85
I think 76 is the oldest that we have in our room. No one's even close to that
It's all literally gonna start now now imagine this you are 85
And then all of a sudden you can't serve the Lord anymore for whatever reason your body gives out
I mean you've been studying the Bible this whole time going to steadfast
Soul-winning now all of a sudden what you're stuck at home for whatever reason maybe beyond your control
Maybe not beyond your control, but you're stuck at home now
Just join a Calvary Chapel and be a non-denom because you can't serve the Lord anymore
And maybe it's out of your control, but you can start working on that now preach the Bible
All right, let's look at a biblical connection between physical strength and Bible reading
I'm just gonna read it for you Ecclesiastes 12 12 says and by further and excuse me and further by these
My son be admonished of many books there is no end and much study is a weariness to the soul
So look you study a lot your body gets weary, right? It's weary. I said so excuse me weariness of the flesh
Let's read that again. Just so I'm very clear with it of making many books
There is no end and much study is a weariness of the flesh
Okay, so if you strengthen your flesh you can study more, right?
You see what I'm saying? So it's not like working out or exercising is just for no reason. No, it's literally improves
your
Everything in relation to your Christian life. Okay turn to Psalms chapter 90
So here I've laid out this first foundation here that our long-term success
Specifically has a lot to do with our physical condition now while you're turning to Psalms 90 2nd Corinthians
416 says for which cause we faint not but though our outward man
Parish yet. The inward man is renewed day by day. So is there a way to hold off the
Perishing of our outward man like just hold it off a little bit. Yes, it's called exercise
It's called being strong now. I love this in Psalms 90
You know, this is a prayer of Moses and we've been reading this in Joshua where Moses just died
So it's interesting that this relates to that but look at verse 10
the days of our years are three score years and ten which is 70 and if by reason of
Strength they be four score years. That's 80 yet
Is there strength labor and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away. So we're talking about
Ten years. So can we start now and literally for like 40 years
Work physically to just eke out an extra decade and it sounds like a lot of work to just get ten years
But what can you do in ten years? You can see your kids get married your grandkids. Maybe get married
How about this? What if you went soul-winning when you're 85 and you just get one person saved a month
You'd have to start at 75 for ten years one person a month
you know, that's a hundred and twenty people that are in heaven simply because
Back when you were younger, you started exercising and you got an extra decade out of yourself
And I get that being strong and exercising is is it's like I don't want to hear about that
I mean I get that but don't sleep in go to the gym say well
I can't afford a gym but gyms literally my gym costs $15 a month and I get going to public gyms is
Like walking through a minefield in today's I mean people are so insane the way that they dress I get it
Let me tell you a trick to that going at 5 p.m
No going at 5 a.m
You got the place to yourself man. It is a private gym. You got no one videoing themselves
None of that. It's a bunch of guys sweating like a gym should be right
The problem is today people want a magic pill see they don't want to put that hard work in but you know what?
There's a good movie is there is a magic pill and I'm gonna read the insert from our magic pill here, right?
This is from the FDA the magic pill can have immediate and long-term health benefits
It will reduce the risk of developing diseases like diabetes cancer
Cardiovascular disease and obesity the magic pill will also improve thinking learning
Judgment skills reduce anxiety and improve your sleep. It can strengthen muscles
lessen chronic pain and injury
Increase your heart rate to get your blood flowing resulting in higher energy levels
The magic pill can also keep your bones muscles and joints healthy lower cholesterol
lower blood pressure and
Protect your mental health this magic pill will also improve blood flow and it improves
Married activities now if we look at the insert here on our magic pill
It's pretty interesting here when you look at it. Oh
The magic pill all those things I read are the health benefits of
Exercise that literally is the magic pill. I know that sounds crazy, but it's not
So point number one for long-term success is to be strong
I'm gonna give you a couple of practical tips and all these tips that I'm gonna give throughout the sermon today
I have some handouts on the table. There's three different handouts. You're welcome to grab
You know one of each or whatever if I need more I can print off more no big deal
So we're some practical tips here for for setting out some sort of exercise kind of weaving this into your life, right?
Set a specific goal and get very very very specific
Like maybe you say I want to be able to do 10 push-ups like that's a great very specific
Goal and when you when you reach that goal set another goal number two start small, but be consistent
Three track your progress and number four progressively increase now. Let me give you eight
I have 18 tips here. I'm gonna kind of gonna rattle off to you
This is ways to integrate exercise and health and being strong just into your life number one
Go for a walk. I mean literally do you know what just walking for 15 minutes a day does for you?
Like it's it's um, according to the science
It's amazing and while you're walking you can double up and you can go over your scripture memory verse while you're walking
Your wife your husband the kids everyone can walk together. Here's
Number two park your car further away when you go to the store and yeah, maybe it's a hundred yards extra
But when you add that up by the end of the day, you've walked it in, you know a huge amount more than you would have
If you didn't number three take your kids to the park and play tag. They're like an endless source of
Energy that will tire you out in minutes
And don't underestimate to your kids being involved with this too, and I'll get to that more later
But when number four when you're at home
This is a good one for the ladies
When you're at home go to all the preaching to the music section play the hymns and dance around your house
It's great exercise just dancing and no one's there to make fun of you
No one cares what you look like and you're literally just dancing before the Lord and don't underestimate
How good that is just spiritually for you to be singing the hymns, but you're moving at the same time
How about when you're in the kitchen cleaning anytime? I'm in the kitchen like when I'm you know at the micro riveter
This is what I do like anytime. I'm in a line at the store or anything
I just kind of do these little raises like this and if I'm there for a while
I just switch to one foot if you need it to heart
Various you can just implement that and anytime you're standing you're just doing these little lifts like this and you're working your calves
It's a very easy way while you're cleaning at home. Let's say you're vacuuming or something along these lines
you know get dramatic with your movements and it just gets the body moving and it loosens things up and these kind of things have an
An effect where they build upon each other if you're at work and you have a job you can stand at work
I have a desk at work where it's a regular desk
But I click these little things and I pull it up and it's a standing desk and I made myself a rule every time
I'm on the phone at work. I have to stand up while you're standing
You can make little circles with your arms now in the store you kind of look funny
But if you're at home or whenever you're doing something just moving your arms around little circles
Hey go to a secondhand store and you can get a whole box of
Gym equipment that someone has thrown away for like five bucks
Get to your nice little one or two pound weights the little tiny ones and while you're sitting there do
500 curls with the one pound weight
It's a great way to to kind of double up on activities to get your bodies going. How about this by a jump rope?
What are they like a buck? I mean, they're super inexpensive your kids probably have one
Handgrip strength the little grippers that you always see a great way
In fact when I walked into the men's conference and I met Samson for the first time, you know
You probably know him. You know what he was doing. He was sitting there like this stretching his hands and I oh you're working on hand
Straight. I never met him before so you're working on hand straight then he goes well
Yeah, he's I don't want my hand to end up like this when I'm old. He goes. Yeah, I work on my hand strength
I stretch my fingers
Why do you think the hands get all arthritic and curled in because they're not working them and and yes
There's a genetic component, but we're just talking in general, you know, keep your body moving and it keeps it going, right?
Above all that if you have a chair, let's get a chair here
I'm assuming most people have a chair at home as long as I don't knock everything over here. Pardon me. Excuse me
Hey, right. Okay. Here's a chair. You ready? Watch this sit stand sit
Stand now do that 500 times you are getting exercise by literally just sitting and standing like this
In fact, they tell older people that don't have the ability to to move or walk
They literally say this is the exercise for them to do. This is all you need to do. This is a great way
Oh now now look
We've now we've doubled up on top of that. You can you know stand on the chair. You can get inventive is what I'm saying
There's no reason to sit around and let your body slowly waste away when it's very easy to just implement
Small little things one thing. Oh, how about this 16 do a handstand doesn't cost you anything
Works your arms out very difficult to do and it's just lean against the wall
There's something on the internet called animal flow. I don't know if any of you heard about it
It's kind of like a floor exercise movement thing, but it doesn't have the spiritual
component that
Yoga has doesn't have that it's just kind of replicating these kind of animalistic type movements
And I've actually really been enjoying it. It's a great exercise, and you're just on the floor, and there's a zillion
You know videos on it on YouTube and finally stretching just we're talking 30 seconds per muscle group in your body
We'll do wonders for your health okay bottom line. We need to move
More we need to add time to our life so we can get more people saved so we can earn more rewards
We need to be strong now when it comes to your kids thing about this you want them to brush their teeth their entire life
Right so you teach them when they're very young and you put that as a habit in them
And then they'll brush their teeth theoretically for the rest of their life
Well if the child is taught they every day we do some sort of exercise
He'll never know that that's not normal. It is normal. It's just no one else is doing it
But if you teach them at a young age you will literally input to them or imprint in their brain
That that daily exercise is just part of something that we do and then later in life
They'll keep that with them. He say well
I don't know anyone that does that you do actually because pastor Anderson literally does this
He taught his kids from a very young age
To exercise and they exercise with them and they go out
Exercising with him and then when the couple that have moved out guess what they're all exercising on their own now for the ladies
Turn to Proverbs 31
the Bible actually has a lot to say about health and
Strength when it comes to women and we're gonna kind of shotgun through a bunch of a bunch of verses here
So they're all right in a row in Proverbs chapter 31
But I want you to notice the language that it uses and in relation to this sermon and we're talking about at this point
Number one strength. Okay, we're gonna start in verse 13. You're ready 31 looking at 13
she seeketh wool and flax and
Worketh willingly with her hands verse 14. She's like the merchant ships
she bringeth her food from afar 15 she riseth also while it is yet night and
giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maiden 16
She consider at the field and buy it and with the fruit of her hands. She planted a vineyard pause
Gardening a great way to get exercise is planting a garden. Okay, let's continue 17. She girdeth her loins with
Strength and she strengthen it her arms
19 she lays her hands to the spindle and her hands hold the distaff 20
She stretch it out her hands to the poor as she reach it forth her hands to the needy 22
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry. Her clothing is silk and purple 24
She maketh fine linen and selleth it and deliver it girdles unto the merchants and 27
She look at the well to the ways of her household and eat if not the bread of idleness
Now in addition, you know a baby's health as it's growing is literally directly related to the health of the mom
Everyone knows that right like you don't smoke crack while you're pregnant
This it's not a new concept but it goes the other way too that the healthier you are
Oftentimes it greatly increases how your pregnancy goes
And let me say this as mom being kind of a central kind of person in the family, you know
A healthy mom equals a healthy husband equals a healthy kids
Equals a healthy family and kids can be great
Accountability in this you say kids we're going working out every day at let's say 6 p.m
Boy 6 p.m. When you're tired the next day here comes little Johnny mom. Are we going to work out?
Why did you remember that so they're great accountability because they keep you accountable for this type of thing okay?
Go back to Joshua one point number one. We're still on we've only got 800 verses to go should be done by about noon tomorrow
Point number one for long-term success is to be strong
You're going back to Joshua one don't sleep in go to the gym move more
Make it fun set a goal be consistent track your progress and progressively increase
I call this filling your strength bank
And why do I call it that because after 35 you literally just start wilting away now
It used to be 40 when you started wilting away
But because our world is just so full of garbage on every level now
it's 35 so literally 35 and
You know in the old days you could smoke three packs a day and eat bacon six times a day and live to be a hundred
Now you work out in a marathon runner, and you're dead at 40
It seems like because we're so excessively idle and we're just literally with kind of withering a way
Little by little by little so add these little things move more work up to lifting weights three times a week
Cardio three times a week look you're gonna need every ounce of strength that you can build
Then you're gonna need it not just to survive, but I want you to thrive
I want you to get strong. I want you to remain strong because point number one is be
Strong where they're at verse 6 in Joshua 1 be strong and of a good
courage for unto this people thou shalt or shout thou divide for an inheritance
The land which I swear unto their fathers turn to Philippians chapter 4 point number 2
good courage and I'm calling that
mental strength
Mental strength now the definition of courage from the dictionary is the state of mind
That enables one to face danger or fear with confidence and resolution or bravery
So it's a state of mind its mental health its mental strength and where does strength come from?
progressive overload whether it's mental or physical
Aggressive overload. This is where mental strength will cut work will come from. All right, we're in Philippians 4
Look at verse 6 be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication
With thanksgiving let your requests
Be made known unto God pause. Do you talk to God and I don't mean do you have a prayer time set aside?
I'm sure you do. That's great. We're kind of up in this game here
Do you talk to God like when you have issues?
Think about Isaiah 9 6 for unto us a child is born and a son is given and the government shall be on his shoulders
And his name shall be called
wonderful
Counselor like do you know people pay thousands and thousands of dollars to talk to a counselor when we literally have the
Counselor who's just sitting there waiting for you to talk to him like when you have cares
Pass them upon him talk to him. You know wives if your husband is doing something that's bugging you
Talk to God about it and watch the Lord change his heart in some manner
Not because you're gonna be ruling over him
But because you're calling out to the Lord and husbands the same thing goes with your wives
If you've got some issue and somehow there's some friction talk to God about it
How about this when you're in deep grief talk to God? He's the wonderful counselor
I mean him three five three five six is I love that him, you know, I must tell Jesus. I love them
He says I must tell Jesus all of my trials
I cannot bear this burden alone
Like the Lord gives us more than we think we can handle all the time now
It's not more than we can handle but it's more than we think we can handle and he literally wants you to ask for help
So he's like watch I'm just gonna dump this on you. Let's see what he does
Oh, he reverted to alcohol because he couldn't handle it fail. Oh pain pills fail
Oh, he's keeping it inside and he's girding, you know, he's gritting his teeth
So no one knows that he's really hurting fail verse 7 as we continue and the peace of God
Which path is all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds?
Through Christ Jesus now eight to the end. He's gonna rattle off a bunch of stuff and just for time
We'll just not repeat well, so ever things are so let's just look at this list. He says
Whatsoever things are true honest just pure
Lovely of a good report any virtue any praise think on these things
So he's literally telling you what to think on. So if you have some sort of TV show
Okay. Well, it's not on this list. I don't care what show it is
right so that it kind of like eliminates a lot of the things that we get ourselves into because we're thinking on things where God's like
No, don't think on that think on
These things that's mental health when you're thinking on
Certain things namely things that are true honest just pure lovely of a good report
virtuous or praiseworthy and isn't it interesting that the tiny hats that run the world literally are
causing everyone to think on the
Opposite of all these things. I mean think about Romans 1 and that list you don't have to turn there, but being filled with all unrighteousness
fornication wickedness covetousness
Maliciousness full of envy murder
I mean it goes on those are like the opposite of Philippians 4 and yet those are the things that they push
Constantly everywhere in the world is being pushed all those things
It's like a spiritual opposite of Philippians 4
But we even have like a physical slash mental opposite in Galatians 5
He says now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these adultery fornication?
uncleanness lasciviousness
Idolatry witchcraft and it goes on all of these things are the things that the world promotes constantly
So you can't just like be back on your laurels and thinking that you can just kind of you know
Skip through the daisies and everything's gonna find be fine. You need to be very vigilant because why?
Why does the world promote all of these things?
I think there's a great verse on this first Peter 2 11 says dearly beloved
I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lust which war against the soul
So look if they can't get to your soul, what do they go after your brain if they can't get to your brain?
What do they go after your body? I mean, it's a literal attack on all three front fronts
Constantly just a constant attack trying to get you away from what this says and on to what they say
Whatever it is and whoever they are
Proverbs 4 23 says keep thy heart with all
Diligence for out of it are the issues of life. Look we need to protect our minds
We need to protect our ears. We need to protect our eyes
We need to protect our hearts because stuff goes in but it don't come out and that's kind of one of these
Unintended consequences of sin. You're like, oh, I'll just go commit fornication
Yeah, you know what you never forget that and no matter how hard you want to try to forget it and yes not thinking about it
Causes to go to the back of your brain and you kind of forget about it
But then one day you meet the woman of your dreams and you go to have that wedding night
And what are you thinking about that whore from 12th grade?
That's not a good situation to be in and this goes the reverse for the women the same exact thing
We don't want stuff to get in there because it doesn't come out
We got a list of great things to think about true honest just pure lovely things of a good report
Virtuous things praiseworthy things it keeps the mind sharp thinking on those things
It keeps the mind clean it keeps the mind strong, but what about mental health in the sense of the
physiological health of your brain like the actual brain itself and the chemicals that go on in your brain well
I'm going to rattle off a couple of things here that
You know I've searched out to find through various sources over the last couple of years ways to keep the brain
Healthy and again this list will also be out there if you'd like to look at these things some of them
I'm sure will require more. You know explanation, and I'm happy to talk about if you'd like to ever okay
These are going to seem kind of random because we don't really talk about the health of our actual brains itself very often
It's kind of one of those things which don't talk about but number one cold
Exposure, and I'm sure no one has a cold tank that at their house virtually
but you've got a shower, and you can turn that thing from hot to cold and
literally one to two minutes a couple of times a week like
Resets your brain in a way that I can't explain in the context of this sermon
But it does good for you, and it's very easy to do zone two cardio for 150 to 180 minutes again
That zone two is like if you're walking and you can talk without like completely being out of breath
This is kind of that zone two area. You know we're talking. You know two and a half to three hours a
Week you know that's an hour three times a week
Agey one. I don't know if you're familiar with that any sort of the you know the green powdery drinks that are just fortified with fruits and vegetables
This sort of thing our food supply is so ridiculously destroyed that we literally need to supplement nutrition and
The sermon is not brought to you by a g1 though
I like a g1, but you can use any of them that you want it's just a step in this process
Alright number four watch the Sun set at night
And you know there's a natural thing in your brain that says oh the Sun's going down. It's time to sleep
It's just naturally does that but yet what do we do we flip on the TV flip on the screen which is full of light?
Which just annuls all of that
so
Eliminate nighttime light from your phones or from your TV you can sit in a nice dark room a dimmed room
But before that watching that sunset and especially as a habit if you watch the sunset it literally clicks your brain
Oh, it's time to go to sleep view the morning sun if you can get 20 minutes of early morning sun exposure
It does the opposite it tells your brain. Hey time to wake up
And it's amazing because I've implemented all these things and seen instant kind of effects throughout my day
No sunglasses while you're getting that morning sun if you if you have to look through a window
You know get as much as you possibly can but if you can go outside in the early early morning
Hey, you're supposed to be walking in the morning, right? So now you're walking in the morning getting early Sun and
Using your Bible memory you're tripled up now
So it's not like each of these things take a long time because you can kind of stack them on top of each other
There's this thing when it comes to breathing, you know, we sit so much that we slouch that we have these really tiny little shallow breaths
So this this there's a kind of a system here or whatever
I don't know systems the wrong word, but it's simply two breaths in and one out like this
And in fact, let's all try that ready. Let's exhale inhale twice and we're gonna exhale once ready in
Out. Okay. Now, you know how to do it
Just doing that is kind of amazing really because it sends oxygen to your brain
Because when you're sitting and you're breathing really shallowly, you're not getting oxygen to your brain
So you're not thinking is clearly or if you have an immediate adrenaline dump for some reason for something
You know doing that calms your nerves calms the adrenaline. Here's a good one number seven
Delay your caffeine for one to two hours after you wake up
Now there's a lot of physiological reasons for that
And it has to do with dopamine and how early you onset the amount of dopamine in your brain
But just delaying your coffee for an hour to two hours
Literally, you'll have twice as much energy. That's my numbers not real number
You'll have more energy throughout the day and less of a need for coffee
Whereas if you first wake up and you're like slamming coffee
You kind of spike your dopamine in a way which causes you for the rest of the day
To constantly be trying to get it to spike back up to the level that you lay down first thing in the morning
So this goes along also too with your phone
Don't look at your phone for an hour to two after waking up
And I mean you can look at the clock, but put it away, but it when you're scrolling
That's not what you want to do for an hour to two after you wake up
number eight
Electrolytes boy I have recently been turned on to these in the last couple of months and have been quite amazed
One brand that I like is called light show Lyte show. There's a really popular one called element
T but really there's lots of good videos on where to get electrolytes how to even make your own electrolytes
My soul winning was literally transformed from simply adding electrolytes to my water
Have you ever been out there and it's just a trillion degrees and you start getting foggy brain you ever had that you're like
Romans
Five, you know, you kind of you forget where you're going
That's because you're low on electrolytes when you sweat and you got those rings of salt
Those are the electrolytes leaving your body. You need to put those back into your body, right?
That's where we have the Gatorade and that's fine. But Gatorade has sugar and dye and everything else, which is okay
It's better than nothing, but you don't want to just drink straight water. I
Just trust me
Try them it's inexpensive and I and I've really been surprised at what I've seen from this
Okay number nine heat exposure if you can get 20 minutes of heat exposure three times a week
Well, we just talked about cold exposure. So cold you ready? Watch this hot
Very easy to switch between cold and hot. It's that easy
Number nine number ten when you're at work
Breaking things up into 90 to 120 minute blocks and then taking a break and stepping away from your work
Maybe walk or pace or you know, whatever this type of thing
this is a really good way to
focus for that short period of time and you'll get more done than trying to like bang out an eight hour session and
Especially if you've got a lot of work to do you'll find that when you work in these short blocks and then take a break your
Productivity goes up again stretching and and you know, how does stretching relate to the you know the brain?
Well, there's a brain body connection where stretching just helps your brain and again
I can't really get into the specifics of it, but and finally sleep don't underestimate sleep
Sleep in a cold room for eight hours now if you go to bed at midnight and your alarm goes off at eight
That's not sleeping for eight hours
That's your that's maybe like six and a half hours of sleep
Which means you probably want to block like eight and a half or a nine hour block
In order to get only eight hours of sleep
You'll find as you do these things you actually will start requiring a little bit less sleep
You'll notice it throughout the day if you're just dog-tired you need sleep. Don't underestimate sleep
What about freedom in Christ? What about freedom in Christ all these restrictions?
Well, hey, first Corinthians 6 12 says that all things are lawful unto me, but not all things are expedient
Yeah, you can do whatever you want
But that doesn't mean it's gonna help you and it's surely not gonna help you for the long term
And I should have read this here
But it says and but I will not be brought under the power of any see we have this epic
Epidemic of addiction going on in our world. I don't know if you've noticed
Right between sugar unhealthy foods tobacco marijuana internet TV music
like the devil figured out how to hook into our brains via dopamine and is literally just
You know like a dog leash moving the American people around at his will and think about tik-tok
Do you know why the videos are a certain length and why you have to swipe?
Because it's specifically designed to release dopamine every time you swipe
Literally specifically designed to do that and you get you addicted which is why it's like I wake up
Oh, what are they doing? Just like this because the brain just like a smoker first thing in the morning
Oh, I need my morning cigarette. It's literally the same
physiological
Reaction. Alright, so these 12 steps, right? They kind of need a whole sermon on their own but the bottom line
Okay, just because something is lawful unto you as a Christian. It doesn't mean it's gonna help you. So point number two
mentally strong thinking on things that are true on is just pure lovely of a good report any virtue anything that's
Seesworthy and mentally or physiologically the actual brain getting good brain habits
Okay, we're still in Joshua run, right?
If we're not go back to Joshua one, so point number one was be strong physically point number two strong mentally
As we continue on with our pep talk here from God to Joshua
We're gonna look at our plan for long-term success
We're in verse 6 be strong and of a good courage and look at this for unto this people thou shalt
Divide point number three. We're gonna use all this newfound physical strength and mental strength so we can divide
We're gonna divide from wicked people. We're gonna divide from ungodly things in our life
We're gonna rightly divide the word all of these take
Physical strength and mental strength now look at verse 7 we're gonna continue on only thou be strong
I feel like I've heard this somewhere before verse 6. He said be strong right now
He's on verse 7 be strong and now the Lord says be very courageous
So don't just be physically strong and don't just be mentally strong be very mentally strong now
Why that thou mayest and we're in verse 7
observe to do
According to all the law which moses my servant commanded thee turn not from it to the right or to the left that thou mayst
Prosper prosper whithersoever thou goest so we're going to be strong physically very strong mentally
Why so that we may observe to do now when we observe to do yes?
There's an initial we're going to observe to do all that's in the Bible, but for us. I want to talk about
observing
Other people and what I mean, I think of first Corinthians 11 1 and it says be followers of me
Even as I am of Jesus Christ now think of us in the new
I have be we have got the most amazing lineup of godly men that I
Ever seen I mean let's take pastor Steven Anderson for example his Bible knowledge his preaching
How about this how about the fact that he preaches a lot on physical health?
I don't know if you ever noticed it, but hopefully you will now
I mean he literally has multiple whole sermons on the topic besides the fact that he mentions it constantly
I mean that is an amazing example pastor Steven Anderson alone, but that's just the beginning
how about our pastor pastor Shelley how he finds spiritual pictures and things and
significances and the mental strength that he's
Accused from the persecution that we that we've gone through. Yeah. Do you have someone else you can ask about that?
There's not that many people in the world that you keep and ask about that. How about pastor Roger Jimenez?
He makes the Bible applicable and he has a knack for organization and it comes out in his sermons
How about pastor Bruce Mejia his deep brotherhood and love and the family atmosphere that first works has
That didn't happen on its own that happened from a man of God observing to do all how about pastor James Jason Robinson?
His low key kind of the way that he speaks is low key
But what I love about that is he's literally ripping your face off with a smile on his face
And and I love that about him. I love that
In fact when people complain that pastors yell I say oh here's pastor Robinson listen to him and there's like I don't know what to say
Because he just said the same thing, but he said it with a smile. How about pastor Aaron Thompson?
You know, he makes the complex simple and he has a zeal for church planting
How about pastor Joe Jones his pleasant personality and his hard-hitting linguistics, you know, those things cut like a knife
I love the sermon titles alone
How about pastor David Berzins?
He opens up the scripture in a new way unto me the way that he sees things. I really like it pastor Jared
Berzonski, he puts his heart into every sermon at least the ones that I have heard from him or going across the pond to pastor Kevin
Sepulveda from Australia
He's got that Australian look on things and it's totally different because he's not from America
So he doesn't even have he has like a different perspective on things not to mention brother
Dylan Oz brother Ben Naim brother Ian Taverner from the UK. How about brother Matthew Stuckey?
How about Deacon Corbin Russell or brother?
Chris Segura not to mention the countless other men that stand up regularly
Proclaiming the Word of God. I mean, let's look at the commonalities. They're all strong physically. They're all strong mentally
They can all rightly divide the word. They all observe and do all that is in the Bible
I mean, come on. What else could you want as far as Christianity goes? Well, how about long-term success?
Well, we've got some
Fantastic examples to follow in that regard. So what's our plan for long-term success so far one?
physical strength number two mental strength number three appropriately and rightly
Dividing from people or from wicked things and also the word and number four we're gonna observe and do all
now point
Four in our plan for long-term success. Remember we're looking at this this pep talk from God to Joshua
What are we gonna do with all this strength and all these skills that we have required?
Look at verse 8 this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth
Thou shalt meditate there in day and night
Why you say that thou mayest observe to do feel like I've heard that before too
According to all that is written therein for then that is you did all those other things first for then
Thou shalt make thy way
Prosperous and once you have done all of that and then thou shalt have good
Success now this particular word success is only found one time in the entire Bible
You know that and this is it and it's kind of in this success sandwich with strength physical strength and mental strength
It kind of surrounds
success all of that that we've talked about so far just to get to
Success now turn to 2nd Samuel 23. We have this interesting parallel passage
To this passage that we're reading. I don't know if it's really a parallel passage
But I found a lot of commonalities again
You're going to 2nd Samuel 23, but the parallel passage that I kind of it's not really a parallel passage
But kind of along these lines is Psalms chapter 1 you're going to 2nd Samuel
I'm gonna read this for you
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful,"
Sounds like he's dividing, "but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law does he meditate day and night.
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."
Sounds like success. It's a synonym. Sorry, Florida band. There are synonyms.
2 Samuel 23. I'm glad you got that, Ben. Thank you for that courtesy laugh. I appreciate that.
We're in 2 Samuel 23. Look at verse 9. "After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo, the Aholahite, one of the three mighty men of David."
Okay, so he's a very successful person. He's one of the top three mighty men, right? He's strong. He's successful.
Let's continue on. "When they defied the Philistines that were gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away."
Now, verse 10. "He arose and he smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword.
And the Lord wrought a great victory that day, and the people returned after him only to the spoil."
I bring this verse up at this time specifically because we need to use our strength to cleave unto this Bible.
And as we said earlier, everything in this world is trying literally to rip this out of your hand.
And yeah, I'm kind of mixing metaphors here, but we need to be very strong to cleave unto this Bible.
Proverbs 24, 10 says, "If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small."
Well look, your day of adversity is coming. I don't know when it is, but we all are going to have them,
and you're going to need strength. What's the point of going through all this just for when you're 60, 50, 40,
your back goes out, your hips goes out, you can't walk, and you can't go to church?
I mean, that would just be a travesty to have to be internet only because you were too lazy to work out your body.
And yeah, it would be your own fault, and yeah, it would be a punishment from the Lord in some way.
But let's avoid that, right? It's going to happen eventually, probably anyway.
Let's push that off. Let's have our long-term success, strong physically, strong mentally,
dividing correctly, observing and doing, following the examples. Why? All so we can be strong spiritually.
Isaiah 35, 3 says, "Strengthen ye the weak hands that confirm the feeble knees."
Revelation 3, 2 says, "Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain."
Look, wherever you are on the scale of your fitness, cool. Just start adding small things in there.
Literally, a walk for 15 minutes, moving more, sitting down, dance. When you're in the kitchen,
look at this. You can lean against your kitchen counter and do push-ups like this. I do it all
the time. It's not weird. Look at this. One hand, mom. Look at this. You can do just little things
to move. Strengthen that which remains. Daniel 11.32 says, "As such as do wickedly against the
covenant, shall he corrupt by flatteries." But listen to this. "But the people that do know their
God shall be strong and do exploits." Look, as Baptists, we serve a strong God. And as His
followers, we should reflect that strength that He has. Physical strength, yes, mental strength,
but spiritual strength. Grip onto this Bible and meditate on it day and night. Talk about it.
Think about it. Study it. Talk about it with other people. Having your mind wrapped around this
keeps it sharp. Hey, whatever things are true, just, you want to just describe the Bible anymore?
That whole list of Philippians describes the Bible. This is, in the old days, this was where
people learned to read was the Bible. We've moved so far away from that. We need to reflect God's
strength in our own lives. And really, it's kind of a scar on us or a mark or whatever when you
when you see folks that just refuse to even talk about that subject. And I get it's a touchy subject.
We're all in process, and we're in some area of this that I'm talking about tonight. And I love
that at some point, I've kind of had conversations with different people about this topic, and lots
of people are in different areas in regard to this. So I'm not coming down on anyone, but I'm
encouraging everyone, we need to think about our physical bodies, not as much as our spirit, but
let's just, for lack of term, let's just think about it as much as we do our spiritual life.
Now, it's obviously not as much. It's obviously not as important. But don't let that reduce it
down to where you're never thinking about your physical body at all. Next thing you know, it's
going to give out on you. And especially if you have pain now, like every decade older that you
get, your pain increases by 50% and your muscles decrease by 25%. Just naturally. So you're
literally just trying to fight against the system or against your own death of your body just to kind
of get a little bit more out of it, right? Just to kind of work that thing so you can be successful
now, but really you can be successful later. You can close your Bibles if you want, just listen
to this, but think about this. Who's the strongest guy that ever lived in the whole history of
mankind? Whenever a preacher asks that, whatever the question is, the answer is always Jesus, so
I'll tell you. I submit to you today that Jesus is the strongest physically, mentally, and spiritually
who ever lived. You ever seen that statue of Atlas, the guy with the the world on his shoulders?
You know, they model that after the reality of Christ. Why? Because he bore the weight of the sin
of the world on him. Like Jesus is literally the master of progressive overload. You ever seen those
strongman competitions and they're moving various objects or whatever? You ever seen how those guys
train? A lot of times what they'll do is, let's say they're doing like a squat. They'll have guys
on either side and they'll put a weight on and then they'll do a rep and then they'll say, "More!"
And then the guys will throw a weight on there real quick and then they'll do another rep and
he says, "More!" And he puts another one on, right? I don't know if you've ever seen this before but
it's a way for them to progressively increase the weight without them having to stop,
put the weights on themselves. They can just continually add more and more and more weight
and it's quite amazing to watch when they get into the really heavy weights. I mean,
people are lifting a thousand pounds and stuff, it's quite mind-boggling, but we have this very
type of situation in the Bible, the thing I'm kind of describing to you there. Jesus as the Word,
think about it, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God and
before the foundation of the world, Jesus said, "Yep, I'll go to earth and be the Savior of mankind."
Cool, but that's not enough. He said, "I need to do more." So Jesus, the author and finisher of our
faith, still not enough. He says he wants to do more. So he came to the earth born of a virgin
and he lived a perfect life and was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin.
So much so he resisted even unto blood all the while saying, "Give me more." He survived that
cruel trial of mockings and before Pontius Pilate he witnessed a good confession
the whole time thinking to himself, "I can take it. Give me more." So what did they do? They scourged
him. They whipped him. They spit on him. They beat him. They ripped out his beard. They put
a crown of thorns on his head and then beat it into place with a rod and his visage was so marred
more than any man and his form more than the sons of man all the while he's saying give me more and
then then they made him carry his own cross up the hill the very cross that you and I deserve
he carried that up the hill and when led to be crucified he just said give me more and as they
stretched out his hands right and pounded that nail into his hands aligned his feet and pierced
his flesh he screams more he can take more and as the people railed on him the very people that he
came to save railed on him and in fact the the the thieves on either side of him cursing at him
taunting him whatever they were doing he said more give me more and in this final act of love on the
earth through all the shouting of the crowd and everything that was going on one of those thieves
had a change of heart and in this little act of faith simply called upon the name of the lord
and he asked him lord remember me when you come into your kingdom and through his you know his
bloody beaten face hanging on the cross i i picture him like kind of looking up at him and and with
almost even a smile dare i say on his face saying today you will be with me in paradise
angels rejoicing right the chorus in heaven over a sinner that repented and jesus oh by the way he
says give me more and and then he was separated from the father and he cried out my god my god why
has thou forsaken me and he closed his eyes and he gave up the ghost and he descended into hell for
three days and three nights suffering an eternity of punishment the punishment that you and i
deserve but there was no more cry for more why because there was no more weight to be added onto
him the entire weight of the sins of the world have been placed upon him and yet this whole time
it pleased the father to bruise him and the father i imagine as he leans in and i can imagine him
with his son in hell burning and he says son i need you to push i need you to lift i need you to
rise and finally finally sweet sunday morning finally jesus did the single greatest feat of
strength in all of human history and he did a literal dead lift out of hell rising to heaven
and in perfect form returned from where the story began and there he waits but that's not the end
of the story because one day he's going to return and with all the strength and with fire in his eyes
and with a sword in his mouth and a rod in his hand he will reign and first corinthians 15 tells
us for he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet listen to this the last enemy that
shall be destroyed is death well we see it in revelation 20 we read that one day death and hell
will be cast into the lake of fire and that last enemy is done and brothers and sisters what a day
that will be but where will where will you be when that day happens will you be watching it from heaven
or will you be experiencing it from hell yes we fight against our flesh we fight against the tiny
hats the filthy reprobates the entire world system but we also fight against death itself
and the point of this sermon is to try and win a little bit back from death eke out a little bit
more time maybe only one decade but it's all to get souls saved it's all to get more rewards
and it's all for the glory of God that we do that what's our plan for long-term success one be
strong physically be strong mentally divide appropriately observe and do all keep a strong
grip on the King James Bible think about it spink about think about it speak it then we will be
prosperous and then looking back on our lives we can truly say that I was as successful or I was
excuse me I was as strong at 85 as I was at 40 and then finally then we can truly say that I am
a success let's pray heavenly father thank you so much for your word and showing us how that we can
be successful the sinners that we are Lord and thank you so much for your grace and your mercy
Lord I just pray that you would give us the strength to try and be strong Lord help us to
keep our bodies in a way that would be honoring to you Lord in a way that would allow us to
serve you more now and to serve you for a longer period of time Lord so that we could do that for
your honor and glory in Jesus name amen. Preach a sermon specifically about me doing a song number
Number 113, 13, wonderful piece.