many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. So we being many
are one body in Christ, and every one member is one of another, having then gifts differing
according to the grace that is given to us. Whether prophecy, let us prophesy according
to the proportion of faith. Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering. Or he that teacheth
on teaching, or he that exhorteth on exhortation, or he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity.
He that ruleth with diligence. He that showeth mercy with cheerfulness. The love be without
dissimulation, abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good. He kindly affection
one to another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another. Not slothful in business,
fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing
instant in prayer, distributing to the necessity of saints, given hospitality. Bless them which
persecute you. Bless and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them
that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend
to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Recompense to no man evil for
evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth
in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather
give place unto wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," saith the
Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him. If he thirst, give him drink, for in
so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome
evil with good.
Spirit dealer of God, thank you for this church, thank you for our pastor. Just ask that you
would bless him with your Holy Spirit now as he preaches your word, in Jesus' name we
pray. Amen.
Okay, we're in Romans chapter 12 this morning and today the title of my sermon this morning
is good, acceptable, and perfect. Good, acceptable, and perfect. And of course what I'm referring
to is the will of God. It says in verse number two, be not conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of God. Now what is this referring to? Well, I'm going to give you
two interpretations of this particular passage and the end of the sermon, or the majority
of the sermon, I'm going to spend on what I believe the proper interpretation is. But
the first, by way of introduction, I'm going to explain to you what in general people say
this is referring to. And in fact, I probably preach this. And I would even say this is
a bad interpretation. In fact, I believe it's scriptural, there's principles behind this.
And that is that it's referring to God's plan A, B, and C. When the Bible says that we
need to prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God, it's referring to
God's plan A, B, and C. Now you say, what does that referring to? What do you mean by
that? Well, you think about the fact that when you assess the will of God, we know that
God has a perfect will for your life. And in some instances, Christians can make really
bad decisions, right? When they make bad decisions, they get out of God's will, they get involved
in some sin that takes them out of the way. They live in rebellion against God. They essentially
forfeit God's plan A, right? And then they got to settle for God's plan B. And so when
you think about it, you know, God's will is always perfect. However, there are instances
where people can backslide to get away from the Lord and they don't really serve God.
You know, they're just out of church kind of doing their own thing. Well, in that case,
obviously they forfeit God's will or certain blessings that they could have gotten in God's
perfect will. And now they have to essentially, you know, be a part of God's acceptable will.
And one way that we can illustrate this in the Bible, if you think about it, the children
of Israel, God's perfect will for the children of Israel was to leave the land of Egypt and
go straight into Canaan land, right? Go straight into the promised land, start serving God
right away, doing that, which is pleasing unto the Lord and just kind of fulfill the
promises that were given to their forefathers. But that didn't happen, you know, because
of their rebellion, their disobedience, their lack of faith, they ended up wandering in
the wilderness for 40 years. And it wasn't until 40 years thereafter that they were able
to go into the promised land and fulfill God's plan for their lives. And we would say that
that was acceptable. Why? Because even through the wilderness, God blessed them. Even when
they're in the wilderness of sin, God used them. He showed himself strong on their behalf.
He provided manna and wonderful biblical pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ were illustrated
while the children of Israel were in the wilderness. So we're not saying that the acceptable will
of God is somewhat inferior. You know, God's blessing is always good. God's will is always
good. However, if someone forfeits the perfect will of God for their lives, there's always
the acceptable will. In other words, it wasn't God's original plan, but it is God's plan
now, right? And God can still bless a person when they backslide, they get out of church.
Maybe they do that, which is displeasing unto the Lord. Then in fact, as a pastor, I've
seen this multiple times throughout the years where I see people get out of church, they
stop serving God, and then they come back, they get right with the Lord. They start loving
God again, they start reading the Bible, they start soul winning, and God begins to bless
them because of it. And we would say God's blessing that maybe they missed out on God's
perfect will, but there's still the acceptable will. Now you say, what is the goodwill? Well,
think about this, you know, sometimes you lead someone to Christ at the door and they
never come to church. You know, they don't come to church, they don't serve God. And
think about this, maybe later on in their life, in their 50s, 60s, 70s, maybe they
start deciding, you know what, I'm going to start going to church and I want to get right
with God. I want to start seeking after the Lord. You know, that is still God's goodwill
because of the fact that God, no matter what stage of life you're in, no matter what age
you're at, you should, and you should serve God and God will bless you for it. His hand
can be upon, he can bless your family. He can bless your marriage. He could bless your
finances. He could bless your job. He can use you in a great way. And I've heard it
this way by many preachers of times past, is that they'll say, you know, if you think
about the perfect will of God being plan A, the acceptable will of God being plan B, and
the good will of God being plan C, just know this, God's plan C is still better than the
devil's plan A. So even though you have to saddle for plan C, which is the good will
of God, it's still far superior than what the devil has planned for you. So even if
you've back slid for 10 years, 20 years, whatever it may be, you know, you come back, you're
like, look at everything that I missed out on. Well, here's the thing though, is that
Satan just wants to destroy you. Satan wants to just rob you of every blessing. And if
it wasn't for God providing a plan C, his good will of God, you would have just came
out losing on everything. And so the point of that particular interpretation is that
often people have a tendency to think, well, you know, just throwing up the baby with the
the bath water, I've already back slid in, and therefore what's the point of even coming
back to church?
And I think a lot of preachers will preach that interpretation, rightfully so, because
they want to deter Christians from getting out of church.
And that's a good motivation, amen.
It's like, hey, stick with God's perfect will.
Stick with God's perfect will.
Don't lose out on God's blessing.
Stick it out.
When it's hard, make sure you're serving God.
Don't get out of church.
Don't get out of the Bible.
Don't get out of soul winning because you need to fulfill God's perfect will.
But let's say a person gets out of church.
Let's say they backslide.
Well, then preachers come back and say, "Hey, but you know what?
There's still the acceptable will of God."
You can still be restored.
God can still bless your life and God can still use you in a great way.
He can bless you totally in your family with your marriage, no matter what it is because
God's will is still good and he can still enrich your life even though you might have
missed out on some things in those years that you were backslidden.
And so I think that is a legitimate biblical principle, it may not be the primary interpretation
of this verse, but it's a good scriptural principle nonetheless because of the fact
that God does have a will for our lives and in fact the Bible says that we are as workmanship
created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God has before ordained that we should walk
in them.
What does that mean?
God has a plan for your life.
And you know you got a lot of you know liberals and non-denom type churches that will abuse
that phrase.
God has a plan for your life but you know what there is truth to it though.
You know God does have a plan for your life.
He does have a will for your life.
He does want to bless you and you know what if you forfeit some of those blessings it
doesn't mean you can't keep serving God in the long term.
God can still use you in a great way even when we make mistakes because we're all going
to sin.
We're all going to make mistakes.
And so there's always God's plan A, B, and C. Now I think that's a great interpretation
but I don't think it's the primary interpretation of this particular passage because I don't
really think this is referring to God's plan A, B, and C describing God's will as God's
plan A, B, and C but rather it's just the way it's just three different ways of describing
God's will that it's good, it's acceptable, and it's perfect.
The first interpretation is legitimate in a sense of we can find scriptural basis behind
it throughout the Bible.
However, the primary one is the most important one and that is that it's a description of
what God's will is and that is that it's good, acceptable, and yes, it is perfect.
Now before I get into that, let's talk about a couple things here that we see in these
two verses and that is before you could even discern, before you could even choose or know
what is God's good, acceptable, and perfect will, you have to be able to discern these
things and have the capability of viewing life through the lens of the Bible.
And in fact, look at Romans chapter 12 verse one, it says, "I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God," listen to this, "the present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
So the first thing we see there is that in order for you to even know what is the good,
acceptable, perfect will of God, you have to have the right living.
So this means not just anybody knows to discern these things, right?
Not just any Christian.
You actually have to be a Christian who, I don't know, lives like a Christian.
You actually have to present your body a living sacrifice.
What does that mean?
Well, a living sacrifice simply means that you are dying daily to self, right?
Jesus said, "If any man come after me, let him take up his cross daily and follow me."
What does that mean?
You have to crucify the flesh on a daily basis, essentially use the members of your body to
serve the Lord Jesus Christ, okay?
That's what a living sacrifice is.
And you know, here's the problem with the living sacrifice is it's always coming off
the altar.
So you can put yourself on the altar and say, "I'm going to serve the Lord today, and today
I'm going to obey the commands of God, I'm going to read the Bible, I'm going to go
to church."
But you know what?
You might get off the altar tomorrow though.
So obviously this has to be a daily choice that we make to serve God.
And this is why, you know, sometimes churches will promote this thing of, "Hey, surrender
your life to God," or whatever.
And obviously there's a lot of problems with that.
Number one being that they often mix that with salvation.
And let me just say this is that you don't get saved by surrendering your life to God.
You get saved because of the fact that you believe in the Christ who literally laid down
his life for you.
That's what it is.
Parents, if your children are getting fussy, like I mentioned in the announcements, please
make sure you utilize the mother baby room so that you're not being a distraction to
the service.
Okay.
So present your bodies of living sacrifice means that you have to die to self, crucify
the flesh on a daily basis.
And it says holy.
So you have to live a separated life, right?
And here's the thing.
Here's the third one.
Listen to this.
Acceptable unto God.
This means that you have to serve God on his terms, not yours.
So the life that you live has to be acceptable to God.
It's not like, well, you know, I just serve God the way I think it's, you know, I worship,
we worship God in our own ways.
You know, I have a relationship with God.
Yeah.
But is it acceptable unto God though?
And you say, well, you know, yeah, I think it's acceptable.
You know, I think I can, I think I believe in my heart that I'm doing right.
I don't care what your heart says though.
The heart is deceivable above all things and desperately wicked.
Who could know it?
Okay.
So thankfully God gave us an entire Bible that you can see what is acceptable and to
God and what isn't.
So if you think to yourself, well, I think what I'm doing is acceptable.
Okay.
Prove all things, hold fast that which is good.
Let's see if the Bible actually approves of your behavior, your thought process, your
character, your practices, your form of worship.
And if it doesn't, then it needs to go out the window because that's not acceptable
into God.
And so in order for us to even discern what is the good, acceptable, perfect will of
God, we have to have the right living.
You have to live a life that is pleasing unto the Lord, serving the Lord Jesus Christ, using
your members as unto righteousness and not unto sin, as the Bible says.
Likewise, reckon yourselves also to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through
Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies that you should obey and the lust
thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves
unto God and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Essentially saying that use your body to serve the Lord.
Use your body to get in your car on Sunday morning and drive yourself to church.
Use those feet to go preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Use your mouth to open your mouth boldly to make known the mysteries of the gospel.
So on and so forth, right?
And of course holy and you got to make sure it's acceptable unto God and we have an entire
Bible that God gave to us to help us with that, okay?
Let me read to you a verse here, Psalm 11 verse 10 says, "The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom."
Listen to this, "A good understanding have all they that do his commandments, his praise
endureth forever."
What does that say?
You know, if you want proper understanding of the will of God, you got to be able to
make sure you're serving God, doing his commandments, okay?
But it's not enough that we have the right living.
According to the Bible, we have to also have the right thinking too because look at Romans
chapter 12 and verse 2, it says, "And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind."
And so what is it telling us here?
It's saying that, you know, you can't have a worldly mindset.
In other words, you can't allow the philosophies, the political ideologies, the interpretations
of other Christians so-called to influence you in your way of thinking.
This has to be the thing that renews your mind, because it says be not conformed to
this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
In other words, let me put it to you in the simplest terms.
You need to get brainwashed, and people have to say, "Oh, you've been brainwashed."
And I always say, "Yes, I have.
My brain has been washed by the blood of the lamb, by the washing of the water of the
word."
And so, and the Bible tells me in Ephesians chapter two that, you know, I walked according
to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
And the fact that our minds were subject to the lust of this world, we have to have our
minds washed by the Bible and make sure that we are thinking biblically, right?
You say, "Well, how do you know if I'm thinking, how do I know if I'm thinking biblically?"
Well, if biblical preaching bothers you, you have a worldly mind.
If you read the Bible and it's just like, "Well, I don't know about that," then you're
worldly.
People often think a worldly person is someone who dresses like the world, and obviously
there's some truth to that.
But really, at the end of the day, it's someone who just thinks worldly, someone who has
a worldly mindset that is not subject to the law of God.
It's someone who's not conforming their ideologies to what the Bible says.
They're judging their Christian life based upon what everyone else outside of the Bible
says.
Okay?
And so we need to have renewed thinking.
So in order for us to discern these things, you have to be a person who has the right
living, and renewed thinking, the right type of thinking.
So it's then and only then that you can prove, what does that mean?
To prove means you can test, you can discern what is that good, acceptable, and perfect
will of God.
Let me read to you from Isaiah 55 verse number eight.
God speaking here says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither your ways, my ways,
say the Lord."
I know a lot of churches and stores that sell signs, Hobby Lobby or whatever, they'll have
that verse, and they'll often think, "My thoughts are not your thoughts," and they try to romanticize
this verse.
But what this is referring to is that God's saying, "You don't think like me."
That's what he's saying.
And obviously, what he's implying is that our way of thinking is inferior.
And what he's saying is that you have a problem, and your problem is that you don't think like
God.
You don't think like the Lord Jesus Christ.
And in fact, he says, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your way, say, of the Lord."
He said, "We're so far apart removed that you could basically measure it the way heaven,
the distance from heaven to the earth itself."
And you know what?
It would be a sad thing to say that about a Christian though, because according to the
Bible, we're supposed to be heavenly minded to set our affections on things above, not
on the things of this earth.
So it's not impossible to think like the Lord.
And in fact, the Bible says what?
We have the mind of Christ.
We possess the mind of the Lord, and so it would be a shame for Christians not to know
what the Lord thinks about a particular subject, because they don't read the Bible, you understand?
Have a renewed mind, have the capability of understanding what the Bible says, and judge
all things according to the Bible.
Don't compartmentalize Christianity and say, "Well, religious things, that's, you know,
that's, we got to judge the Bible according to, but everything else is just everything
else."
No, the Bible says that God has everything that pertains to life and godliness.
The precious promises that are left in the Bible are given to us so we can discern and
prove and test things and live in accordance to God and his word, okay?
The Bible tells us, "You have not so learned Christ, if so be that you have heard him and
have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus, that you put off the former conversation,
the old man, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind."
Bible tells us, "And you put on the new man, which after God has created righteousness
and true holiness."
So it's all contingent upon right living and right thinking, making sure that you're conforming
your mind to the Bible.
And today, this morning, I'm trying to conform your mind to the Bible.
I'm trying to change your mind to think biblically.
But you know what?
Monday through Saturday, you're on your own, buddy.
You know, I can try to saturate your mind with Bible for an entire hour, two hours if
you come back Sunday night, three hours if you come back Thursday.
But other than that, you're on your own, which means that you have to be able to read the
Bible on your own and, you know, just you guys ever see that video of that Chinese kid?
He's like trying to study for a test and he grabs the book and he's just like, you know,
it's not going to, it doesn't work that way.
You got to actually open up the Bible and read it and conform your mind to the word
of God, making sure that you're saturating your mind with the mind of Christ.
Because folks, we have a lot of decisions to make every single day, got a lot to say.
And there's a lot of there's there are many voices in the world and none of them are without
signification.
There's constantly people trying to grab your attention, trying to distract you, trying
to change your mind about certain things.
And folks, I'm just telling you, the Bible says, keep thine heart with all diligence
for out of it are the issues of life.
And so it's important that we constantly have the word of God right here, constantly filtering
through what we're listening to, hearing, seeing what people are telling us.
This is what it means to not be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the
renewing of our minds.
Isaiah chapter five, Isaiah chapter five, if you would hold your place there in Romans
chapter 12.
So, let me give you the three ways that the Bible describes the will of God.
Let's talk about these three descriptions here.
Of course, by way of introduction, I gave you what a lot of people say that verse is
referring to.
But again, what I believe this is talking about is just three ways of describing God's
will.
Number one, three ways to describe the will of God.
Number one is that the will of God is good, it's good.
God's will is always good.
You say, "What do you mean by that?"
Well, it means that the will of the Lord, no matter how evil the world tries to portray
it to be, is always right.
The will of God is always correct, it's always right, and it should never be evil spoken
of.
And, you know, that's important because you have a lot of people in the world today that
will look at the beliefs of the Bible and speak evil of them, or you have Christians
that will try to make excuses for what the Bible says.
If you've ever read the Bible cover to cover, you see how controversial it can be, unless
you've only stuck to like the book of John or Proverbs or whatever.
But folks, if you read it from Genesis to Revelation, there's some crazy stuff in there.
And if you haven't been brainwashed by the Bible, it could rub you the wrong way, you
know?
It could bother you, it could rub you the wrong way to the point where you're just like,
"I can't take this preaching.
You know, I can't handle what the Bible says about this.
I'm going to a different church."
That's what it does in real time.
Amen?
Folks, this is how it happens.
Folks, the reason people can't handle biblical preaching is because their brain is not washed.
You know?
But folks, let me just say this.
If you can't handle what I'm saying right now, and I'm not even getting crazy, then
go to the Liberal Fund Center.
Go to the Liberal Fund Center.
We'll help you with your, you know, problems and your depression and your effeminacy and,
you know, whatever.
We help people with that here too, but folks, we need to preach the whole council of God.
Not even say fag in the sermon, good night in the morning.
Oh, wait, there it goes.
But folks, that's proof right there that some people can't even handle the basics.
Can't handle the basics of just, oh, he's just raised his voice a little too high or
something like that.
I mean, good night in the morning.
Talk about the filth of the mind can't handle the word of God.
You know, his ways are higher than their ways, apparently.
I mean, not even as high as the heavens are from the earth.
It's like the heavens to Pluto or something.
And it's sad when Christians can't handle that.
And look, folks, when I prepared the sermon, I thought to myself, this is a nice sermon,
you know?
I just want to teach people just the basic truth here of the Bible.
But it kind of goes to show you.
It goes to show you that, you know, some people, doesn't matter what the truth is, they just
can't handle it.
Okay?
But hold on a second.
The will of God is always good, though.
And this preaching is always good.
There's nothing perverse or angry or, well, I guess it is angry, you know, there's nothing
perverse or evil about it.
Okay?
And you know what?
I'm honestly saying, "Well, this kind of preaching is bad.
This kind of preaching doesn't help people.
You're going to scare people away."
Yeah, I'll scare people away who don't want to hear the Bible.
If you don't want to hear the Bible, then why do you go to church?
I mean, the reason you go to church is to hear me yell at you about the Bible.
I mean, does this say "Ted Talk Baptist Church" outside or something?
The last time I checked, it says "First Words Baptist Church."
And we live in 2024 where you can literally look me up before you come to the church.
You can do your research beforehand and see if this is the kind of church you would want
to attend so that you're not offended when you do come.
They weren't even here in June.
But let me just say this is that the Bible says that the will of God is just always good.
And you know what?
It is unsavory to the world sometimes.
Sometimes the world just doesn't like the truth.
It doesn't like biblical preaching.
It doesn't like what the Bible says about a role of a man and the role of a woman.
It doesn't like when you tear down its golden calves of false teachings and false ideologies.
It doesn't like when it uses certain terms and teaches certain doctrines.
It doesn't like it.
But at the end of the day, don't capitulate to the pressures of this world that tries
to demonize the Bible.
The will of God is always good.
And when you come across verses in the Bible that seem a little crass, a little coarse,
you know, and it bothers you, what you need to do is just ask the Lord, "Help me to have
a greater appetite for righteousness."
Because at the end of the day, that's what it is.
Help me to love the Bible more because it is offending me.
Well, you know, the Bible says, "Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall
offend them."
And so in order to not be offended by the Bible, you actually have to love the law
of God.
And I'm not saying anything unbiblical here.
I mean, I've literally got past my introduction and I've read a ton of verses.
That's it.
People will always view the ways of the Lord as being perverse.
But let me read to you from Psalm 19 verse 9.
It says, "The fear of the Lord is clean and enduring forever.
The judgments of the Lord are true," listen to this, "and righteous altogether."
We're not the kind of church that's like, "Well, this, you know, the book of John is
really nice, but, you know, you kind of want to stay away from the other parts."
They get, they're not, you know, it's wrong to like use a wrong cultural context.
You know, we got to be able to explain, no, it's all good.
The book of Leviticus is great.
The laws are great.
The imprecatory Psalms are wonderful.
They should be sung in church.
All of the Bible is good.
All of God's judgments are great.
And in fact, it says that they're righteous altogether.
And the point that I'm making is you should never be ashamed of the Bible.
Okay?
Look at Isaiah chapter five, verse 20, look what the world does here.
Isaiah five, 20 says, "Woe unto them to call evil good and good evil.
They put darkness for light and light for darkness.
They put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight," the Bible
says.
So the Bible prophesies of this and tells us that there's going to be people who look
at good people, good churches, good doctrine, a good God, and say that's evil.
Right?
They'll look at you, you know, they'll look at you with your wife, with your husband and
your kids and your modest dress and you know your righteous living and say that's evil
you're trying to impose that upon me and you're trying to change the way we live here that's
evil that's wicked that's old fashioned but you know the Bible tells us that that's what
the world's going to do and you can't allow yourself to try to make excuses for that either
like well I can see why they say that you know I'm you know I get it though I don't
get it I don't get it at all you know sometimes my family and I will go out to a restaurant
or something like that and or go you know to the grocery store or something and I have
five kids I know that's not a lot compared to some of you guys in here you know but you
know it's five kids and it's a sight to behold you know and it's five kids seven and under
so it's just like all these little people you know and so often what people do is we'll
walk to certain places and they'll look at my kids and they'll kind of count and literally
they will count some some people have even counted out loud they'll go then they'll look
at my wife and then they'll look at me you know obviously if Luc can kill it's just like
these people are like this poor woman typical Mexican doing this to this woman that's what
they're thinking yeah you it's like yeah you would be a Mexican wouldn't you I mean for
sure that's what they're thinking because they look at my wife with such like compassion
because they're thinking like this poor woman bore like five children and then they look
at me and they're just like and you know you know they're probably thinking he probably
makes her stay at home yeah I do he probably doesn't even let her work well no no she works
at home yeah but she's a stay she's a keeper of the house she teaches my kids she's a keeper
at home you know well what does she do at home well aside from everything then she's
got my operation going she's cleaning she's cooking she's keeping my operation going she's
keeping me happy because she's my help me and the world is looking at that's evil no
the Bible says that that's good this is good and acceptable in the sight of God for that
to take place you say well you know I really think you should give her a choice yeah I
give her a choice laundry or dishes first which one you want and sometimes when we have
kids I give her a choice what do you want to name them but sometimes I don't I'm like
I'm naming child you know I give her choices amen you know you you pick what chores you
want to do first I mean come on I'm a very gracious boss amen you say well you're just
a male chauvinist oh you sound like someone who's in the world who's speaking evil of
the ways of God because you know from what the Bible says is a man is supposed to provide
for his household and the woman is supposed to be a keeper at home to raise the children
guide the house and not be given over to just feminism and the evils of this world that
tries to pervert and break up the biblical home amen that's God's will you know what
you say well you know I just think Sarah should just really be out there you know doing
her thing or whatever she is doing her thing is just inside the house she's doing her thing
and you know what you have a conversation with my wife she's happy what she's doing it's these
liberal feminist blue-haired freaks out there they try to make themselves portray as though
they're happy but they're actually miserable you know I don't buy into these videos this is supposed
to be a nice sermon but hey we're talking about God's will is being good amen I don't buy into
these videos of these women you know they're in like their 40s or whatever and they're like
no children no husband and I'm super happy then why are you making a video about it why are you
making a video you know most people do videos like that because they're overcompensating
because they're trying to convince themselves but really they're weird cat ladies is what they are
I know we got cat lovers in here but hey the truth hurts sometimes God's will you know obviously
it's not God's will for everyone to get married and some people are content being at home or
excuse me being alone and not married and just serving God and they're content with that and
amen to that okay but the majority of people are meant to get married okay and you know what when
you get married this is the biblical model is the man goes to work he puts bread on the table he
pays the bills he guides his wife and the wife guides the home that's just how it works that is
the biblical model and you say well how are we supposed to live in California that way well how
about you just don't buy a bunch of toys that's a good way to do it you know how about the man
puts away the xbox in the video games that's a couple hundred bucks right there and i don't
know what women buy you know whatever you know stop making so many amazon prime purchases and
you'd be good to go amen and you know i'm never going to be able to convince the world that this
is the right way to do things i'm just reinforcing to myself and to our church what the bible says
and i don't want the world to ever convince my children my wife and the members of my church
that what we're doing is evil it's so bitter it's wrong no it's good it's good inside of the lord
the will of god is good but you know what i don't expect you to know that if you don't read the
bible i don't expect you to know that if your number one priority is not to serve the lord
jesus christ but if you're serving god you're reading the bible you view what i have you view
what the men in our church have and say i want that that's good the bible says in ezekiel 18 25
you don't have to turn there but go to proverbs 26 if you would proverbs 26 i'm going to read to
you from ezekiel 18 25 you can write that passage down and read it later i'm going to quote it to
you ezekiel 18 25 says yet you say the way of the lord is not equal here now oh house of israel
is not my way equal are not your ways unequal so he's basically saying you know the children of
israel looking at the judgments of god and saying that's not fair it's not fair it's unequal and
god is saying of course i'm fair you know look folks to a certain extent to a certain degree
god isn't fair actually if you think about it because if he was fair we'd just all be in hell
if you want to say god's unfair i agree to a certain extent because what we deserve is hell fire
and no mercy no grace that's what we deserve and so he's given us abundantly above all that we can
ask or think the bible tells us and so when people look at guys oh that's that's unequal he's like
i'm equal you're unequal you're the one who is involved in abominable things and idolatry
after all the goodness that god has poured upon the nation of israel they turn their back on god
they're serving false gods they're supposed to be the nation from which salvation comes from
unto them were committed the oracles of god and yet they're serving false gods that's unequal but
you know what you know people today will do the same they'll look at churches like ours beliefs
like ours what the bible says and say well that's not fair it's not fair that you're making your
wife stay at home it's not fair they you know your children should be in the public schools and you
know if your kids are in public schools god bless you but obviously the biblical stance is home
school well you should let them go to a public school so they can why so they can what want to
be you know so the boys can want to be girls and the girls can want to be boys so they can you know
become gay communist is that what i want that's unequal well you should you know they're not
going to have a social life yeah i really want my son to go to a public school so they he can dye
his hair blue you know and want to be castrated i mean it's nonsense my friends that's unequal
but the world's like no the way you're doing it is unequal no my son is getting home school in fact
he has one teacher all to himself all to himself teaching him and you know some moms they get kind
of overwhelmed with that and they think well you know that's just hard that's a lot it's okay you
just need to know a little more than your peabody so just be a little bit ahead of them okay but
you know i don't expect a world who hates the lord jesus christ or doesn't ascribe to biblical
teachings to understand how equal god is you say why well because look at proverbs 26 verse 7
the legs of the lame are not equal so is a parable in the mouth of fools you put a verse
in the mouth of these god-hating reprobates they might as well just be spiritually handicapped
they're not equal they're disabled they can't tell you what the bible says they can't interpret the
word of god for you and they will not appreciate the blessings and the unsearchable riches of
christ of the word of god because they're already unequal themselves they're unrighteous
what am i saying the point that i'm making here is don't allow yourself to be pressured
or to capitulate to the criticisms of this world or other christians who have already
capitulated to this world trying to get you to tone it down a little bit trying to get you to
not be as zealous trying to get you to change your belief systems oh you're just a little too
radical you know you're just getting a little too overly zealous about your religion you're overly
zealous about your beliefs and you know what this comes from not just the world but sometimes it
could come from your own family let's just be honest everyone in here could attest to family
members that they have and they might even be christians who look at us and it's just like
that's just too much you know i'm really happy that you're going down that you found the lord
you know it's great that you found the lord and i'm just so happy about that but you know you worry
me a little bit you just concern me a little bit because of your you just have some weird beliefs
you know and it's just like you show them in the bible they're just like i know it says that but
and so the the response should be you have weird beliefs your beliefs are weird because you say
you're a christian you know it's more embarrassing than an unsafe person some blue-haired liberal
communist hating or criticizing the bible is when a christian says starts criticizing the bible
that's weird why because god's will is always good you should be able to read the bible and not
flinch at anything and just rejoice in the testimonies of the lord that is always good
and you think to yourself well you know i have read some passages that kind of bother me a little
bit and you know it just kind of leaves me unsettled because it just requiring like a
certain standard that i should live by okay then ask god to to renew your mind and say lord i know
this is right but i don't think it's right but it's because i've had bad philosophies vain deceits
false doctrine and i need to change the way i think then you say well how do i know that
i'm interpreting it right well if it says it plainly in the text you know you have to do a
whole lot of interpretation the bible is not like an obscure just an entire book of obscurity some
things are just clearly plainly stated in the bible and if someone just says well you're just
taking that out of context you ask them well give me the context then first of all tell me where
that verse is located in the bible if you're because if someone says you know you're taking
out of context they must know what's the book chapter and verse that it's found in if it's
in the old and new testament but if they can't even tell you that then they don't know what
they're talking about folks the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of god
neither can he know them for their spiritual discern but unfortunately you know some christians
can act like natural people too and not know what the bible says the will of god is always good
never be ashamed of the bible okay and obviously you know there could be instances where christians
can get overly zealous and they just for the sake of controversy just want to tell like their
family members like every controversial belief that they have you know obviously you got you
should have some wisdom about yourself and not be obnoxious there's a lot of obnoxious christians
out there you just you just looking for a fight let me just say this ye all that will live godly
in christ jesus shall suffer persecution if you believe right you do right you don't have to say
anything the trouble just comes to you okay but never be ashamed of the bible when people speak
evil of that way don't capitulate to the pressures of this world to make you think well you guys are
just like a minority group the majority of christians believe this well that makes me think that i'm in
the right group then because don't follow a multitude to do evil and the bible tells us
that there are few that find the right way you understand and so you know if the majority of
christians out there and let me just say this when people say the majority of christians just know
this or adding catholics to that so you know case closed when they say the majority of christians
are referring to the majority of unsaved people who claim or ascribe to christianity so i don't
ascribe to that because you know i got people telling me all the time well you know you have
all these people out here that believe in it and i'm just like so what they're all wrong next
question so what you know jesus had 12 disciples who followed him and he's god he didn't have like
he didn't have multitudes and multitudes following him for the entire length of his
ministry and in fact a lot of his disciples forsook him because he couldn't handle the truth
so numbers doesn't necessarily equal what is right you understand and you never want to fall into
this trap that just because all christians are doing it all christians believe it all christians
ascribe to it that somehow that makes it permissible or right because people tell me
oh you're you're going to tell me that you know you're right and 1.5 billion catholics are wrong
yes correct i know more than those 1.5 billion catholics correct why because the will of god
is good and if they don't believe what the bible says then you have no credibility with me i don't
care how many disciplines you have how much of the eucharist you take how many masses you go to
i don't care the length of the dress on your priest how many followers they got or whatever
it is it means nothing to me it means dung is what it means go back to roman chapter 12 so when
you're living a life of sacrifice unto the lord you are reading the bible you begin to see the
world through a different lens you start realizing man god is good the will of god is good being in
church on sunday is good reading my bible is good hard preaching is good abstaining from fornication
is good faithfulness in marriage is good serving god is good you know being a blessing to others
is good loving the things that god loves and hating the things that god hates is good that's
the conclusion you come to but it's not only good the bible also says that it's acceptable
bible tells us in roman chapter 12 in verse number two again it says be not conformed to this world
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of god now what does that refer into when it says that it's acceptable
well look at romans 11 if you would romans 11 we're going to work our way backwards a little
bit here romans 11 go to verse 33 verse 33 says oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom
and knowledge of god how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who
hath known the mind of the lord who hath been his counselor who hath first given to him and it shall
be recompensed to him again for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory
forever amen now verse number one of romans 12 i beseech you therefore brethren listen to this
by the mercies of god so everything that he's saying up until this point or after this he's
saying do it because god has been merciful to you right and of course in romans 11 he says
you know that his wisdom the depth of his wisdom and knowledge their past finding out who hath first
given to him and it shall be recompensed to him again verse one of romans 12 says that when we do
these things that at the latter and it says it's a reasonable service so what does it mean when the
when the will of god is acceptable means it's reasonable you know when god asks us to serve him
commands us to serve him he's not giving us some crazy task to do and in fact to you it should be
reasonable why because he's been merciful to you it's not like oh man so i gotta serve you now
does this mean i gotta go to church every sunday it's reasonable folks the things that god asks of
us to do it's acceptable it's not like oh man he's he says that we all got to climb mount everest
that's unreasonable that's unacceptable so you know what you you say well what does he have what
does he require of me well you know let's just be practical coming to church is one of them and i'm
obviously looking at a group of people that realize that coming to church is reasonable it's not a
chore and in fact it's not even that hard you say well you know it's hard for me and you know i had
to drive and no the car drove you rode in the car you told the car where to go you exercise your
achilles to press down on the gas to come and i get it you know some people drive i mean i think
the the furthest is like three hours are you guys three hours or two and a half four oh three okay
three hours but you know what even then you know the car the car is the one who's getting them here
but you know you say and let me just say this they go to they come to all three services
so obviously it's acceptable to them it's like well that's just reasonable folks sometimes you
have christians who live like right around the corner they live like right around the corner
and it just seems unreasonable to come back on a sunday night or something like that but you know
what that's a person who obviously is not reading the bible they're not living the life and i'm not
saying that you can't serve god if you only go to one service okay so don't misunderstand what i'm
saying what i'm telling you right now obviously you could serve god if you come to one service
obviously but hold on a second i thought we're supposed to like you know go the second mile
isn't that a principle in the bible and why would we want to go to church less isn't that what the
liberals do aren't liberal churches all about going to church less just have one service you
know and you know don't don't pressure people and you know just one big service or whatever
a 15 20 minute sermon sermonette or whatever and that's it folks it's reasonable and you know what
fundamental baptists in general have just had three services and we don't even have Sunday school
classes so it's reasonable amen hey when god says to read the bible that's reasonable that's not
hard he's like well you know i just never read like a book before and i'm not accustomed to reading
you've read enough facebook and twitter and instagram posts to make up an entire bible
what are you talking about you've watched enough reels to make up both old and new testament and
commentaries on top of that let's just be honest it's reasonable for god to command you to read
the bible and thankfully he doesn't say read the bible by tomorrow he just says read all the
days of your life you know god commands us to love him with all our heart soul mind and strength
that's reasonable and you say well why do you say it's acceptable why are you saying it's reasonable
by the mercies of god you know the apostle paul is essentially saying you know god's been so good to
you he's been so gracious to you he's been merciful to you he gave you salvation and thankfully you
know god doesn't promote a works-based salvation and so if you choose not to serve god if you
choose not to go to church if you choose not to read the bible if you choose not to go so and if
you choose not to do anything with your christian life you're still saved and you know what that
tells me serving god is acceptable for sure then it's reasonable because he doesn't even he doesn't
even do anything to my salvation if i don't do those things he just commanded me to do it because
guess what he wants to reward you he's telling you know if you do these things uh i'll bless you in
your current state your current condition i will improve your quality of life now and i got a fat
paycheck waiting for you when you get to heaven but some christians are like well that's just
unreasonable though no it's not that's like more than what we deserve and so don't allow people
christians other people tell you oh you're just doing too much no i'm doing what is reasonable
you go sewing on sundays you go sewing throughout the week you go to church on bios yeah because
it's reasonable i'm getting paid for this i mean not like at the moment but you know in in the
millennial reign you do get paid for this god blesses a family now god blesses a man now he
blesses a woman now for the labors that they put in this side of eternity the bible tells us be
not deceived god is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap the bible
tells us that let us not be weary and well-doing for induced season we shall reap if we faint not
what does it tell us it's reasonable you know it's reasonable to give the gospel to other people to
get them saved it's reasonable to raise your family for christ oh man but you know to raise
my kids and lead my wife and nurturing the admonition of the lord and that just sounds
like a whole you're just asking a whole lot oh i'm sorry that god wants to bless your marriage
i'm not sorry but you know it's just like oh you you say we should have like a biblical home that's
just a lot of work yeah but it's reasonable though god's not trying to impose something upon you
that is to your detriment he's not trying to make your life a living hell he's not trying to make
you a miserable christian he's actually trying to like make you happy because when you serve god you
actually the result of that is happiness and i'm not saying that's the end all for man i'm just
saying the natural byproduct of serving god is happiness i'm happy i know i look mad when i'm
up here sometimes but believe it or not i'm still happy even when i'm mad go to first john chapter
five if you would first john chapter five now why why is that point important about the will of god
being acceptable you know because there's a lot of christians out there that want to do the least
amount as possible and they look at us and they look at us as like being like oh you guys are
just legalists you know you guys are just legalists look at your services with your ties and your
suits well look at you with your skinny jeans your your caesar borgea haircut look at first john
chapter five verse three for this is the love of god that we keep his commandments listen to this
and his commandments are not grievous you know what that means when we keep god's commandments
it's acceptable it's joyous it rejoices our heart don't we gotta sing the hymns i mean seriously
can we you know now we're like in 2024 we should you know bring some other type of music oh you
mean you mean the faggity ccm is what you're talking about that's is that just that's what
you're talking about that's unreasonable you say why because it's unreasonable to sing the same
chorus seven times we sing choruses like three times with verses in between in order to provide
structure to a song but to sing one verse seven to nine times is unreasonable we heard it the first
time and it's even more unreasonable when you realize how shallow those verses are or choruses
are here i am to worship here i am to worship here i am to no you're not you're being a hypocrite
when are you gonna bring him to smoke and purple lights that would be unreasonable why are we gonna
bring purple lights if that's like a rock concert this is god's house and why are we gonna bring
smoke if you won't be able to see me this is like it's unreasonable you know it's reasonable
tearing down that wall is reasonable so why because we got to make more space hey man
because the house of god is growing oh man we're gonna we're gonna invest all that money into that
wall yeah i'm sorry take a little bit of money from your uh xbox account your video games just
take you know take a couple hundred bucks you spend on a sword that's not even real
take a couple like i don't know the least amount you spend on your video games i don't know like
500 bucks or something like that and invest it into actually something that's worthwhile
something that's reasonable something that is acceptable you know and that's an important
point because i'm sure people are like oh offering we're gonna take don't we take enough offering
no we don't we just literally take one offering every service and it's not like hey i need an
offering because i'm going on vacation i'm looking to buy a jet soon for the glory of god of course
for missions of course you know it's a reasonable request because the church is growing but people
will think that that's unreasonable because of the fact that they're not conformed to the
the mind of christ that realizes that teaches us that ministries grow ministries grow we need
more space and i know you don't like sitting next to that person you're sitting next next to right
now yes even some of you couples uh no i'm just kidding no we need space and so we need to grow
what i'm saying is this is that the will of god is acceptable don't see it as grievous don't see
Don't see it as a chore, don't see it coming to church and singing the hymns and going
to prayer meeting and you know, going soul winning and being a part of the activities
of the church and being blessed and others as a grief.
It's not a grief, it's reasonable, it's acceptable.
And you know what, if all those things were taken away from you, if your health was completely
destroyed and you couldn't even get out of your house, you would miss, you would beg
God that you can make it to at least one prayer meeting.
You would beg God that you can make it to at least one service.
If your voice box was destroyed today, you would beg God in a year span that you wish
you can sing a hymn.
You don't know what you got until it's gone, amen.
If you were just left as like a vegetable that you couldn't move, you couldn't speak,
you couldn't even preach the gospel, you would beg God to at least be able to preach the
gospel to one person.
Why?
Because at the end of the day, you would realize that it was just a reasonable thing.
It's acceptable in the sight of God and it is.
And so, you know, as you live your Christian life, realize, you know, if you ever get this
attitude like, oh man, you're, you know, you need to kind of step back a little bit and
say, you know what?
What I'm doing is acceptable.
You know, if you're complaining about your husband and, oh man, I got to do all these
things for my husband, you know, it's reasonable what you have to do for your husband.
It's acceptable actually.
You got a husband.
How about that?
Got yourself a husband that provides for you, that loves you, he's not perfect, you know,
and he's doing everything he can, you know, it's reasonable for you to do those things.
It's acceptable in the sight of God.
Oh man, my wife, she's just not on board all the time and she just struggles or whatever,
just kind of annoying.
I wish I would have just, you know, been in a different relationship.
I wish I would have made better choices before.
No, what you have is acceptable, it's reasonable.
To love your wife as Christ also loved the church, that's reasonable.
It's acceptable in the sight of God.
It's the acceptable will of God and in fact it's far beyond what we deserve.
First Samuel, you don't have to turn to 12, 24, it says, "Only fear the Lord, serve him
in truth with all your heart, for consider how great things he has done for you."
Fear that.
Every once in a while, we all just need to step back a little bit and just think about
what you got.
Oh man, the wall's coming down, we've got to pay all this money, at least you've got
a church.
At least you've got a growing church.
From what I remember, everyone was praying for a new IFP church in this area.
Not only do you have a fundamental Baptist church to go to, you've got a new IFP church
to go to.
Praise God.
Oh man, we've got to go like, go soul-winding and preach the gospel.
Yeah, and you know, you get to be rewarded for it.
And you know, at least you know how to go soul-winding.
At least you're in a church where they teach you how to go soul-winding.
Oh man, you've got to go fellowship after church, talk to people, and be a blessing
to people.
Yeah, hey, hey, at least you have people here that like you.
There's people here that want to talk to you, and like, they think you're okay, you know?
At least you have a church family.
You know, there's a lot of people out there that don't have church families.
There's people in other countries that don't have fundamental Baptist churches, they don't
have new IP churches, they don't have anything.
They've got like a Lutheran church with a woman pastor or something.
I mean, that sucks.
They've got like a Roman, it's like, where do I go?
Go to a Roman Catholic church where the dude dresses like a woman or go to a Lutheran
church where a woman dresses like a woman but thinks she's a man.
It's like they have zero options.
At least you've got a church.
At least you've got somewhere with people to talk to you.
At least you have people to fellowship with.
At least you have people that love you.
Take advantage of it.
It's reasonable.
It's acceptable in the sight of God.
And then lastly, the will of God is perfect.
Now, what does it mean by perfect?
When it says that you may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
It means it's complete.
It's not just one-sided.
And people need to understand that when it comes to serving God or fulfilling the will
of God, it's not just soul-winning.
It's serving your husband.
It's serving your wife.
It's serving your children.
It's serving your church.
It's a well-rounded will of God.
And it's important for us to master certain things to a certain degree, you know, preaching
the gospel, reading our Bibles.
But at the end of the day, we need to view the will of God as being perfect, entire,
Meaning we serve God in all facets of life.
Meaning that, you know what, you're just not a Christian when you come to church.
You're supposed to be a Christian when you go to work too.
Like behave as a Christian when you go to work too.
Have a good testimony when you go to work.
Why?
Because the will of God is perfect.
It's entire.
You know, when the Bible says that the will of God is perfect, you know, serve the Lord
with your spouse.
Talk to your spouse about the word of God.
Talk to your children about the Bible.
Talk to strangers about the word of God.
Is that the presence of God is in all places at all times.
And he's beholding the good and the bad, the good and the evil.
The will of God is perfect.
It's entire.
We should not want to compartmentalize God and think, well, I'm going to put my best
foot forward when I'm around other Christians.
But when I'm outside of these walls, you know, it's just, you take off the hat or something
like that.
Put on the new hat.
You know, it reminds me of like, um, how many guys ever watch the Andy Griffith show?
Okay.
We've got a couple of Christians in here.
All right.
Good.
There's this one, you know, it's a, he's a sheriff of a small town called Mayberry.
Okay.
And, you know, he gives this speeding ticket to this woman and she's just like, I'm not
going to pay it.
I want to see your judge.
And he's like, well, you know, you can go see the judge if you'd like.
She's like, yeah, go take me to the judge.
So they go to the courthouse.
He sits down and you know, she's like, let me see the judge.
And he's like, all right.
He grabs the sign and turns it around.
He says, justice of the peace, you know, he just like switches it around or something
like that.
I mean, in a spiritual sense, sometimes Christians do that, where it's just like Christian at
First Works Baptist Church, worldly person at my job.
Christian at First Works Baptist Church, you know, just carnal when I'm around my friends.
You just switch that over.
But folks, that's not God's perfect will for your life.
God's perfect will is that you're just a Christian all the time.
Stop being ashamed of the Bible when you're around your family.
You know, you go to a party, let me just say this, you go to a party of your family and
they have beer, you know, you should just leave.
Why?
Because you're a Christian.
That's why.
Well, you know, if I leave, it's going to offend some people.
Yeah, Christianity offends people sometimes.
What kind of example are you setting forth for your family?
What kind of convictions do you have as a Christian when you just tolerate the presence
of sin?
You wouldn't tolerate beer here, so why should you tolerate anywhere else?
Right?
And obviously I'm referring to, you're at some get together and they start pulling out
the beers, they start pulling out the worldly music and all the worldly activities.
Folks, are you a Christian or are you not a Christian?
Well, I see it, I just don't drink it.
So do you fellowship with other people who are drinking though?
I mean, folks, we're supposed to be God's chosen people and I'm not saying to be a holier
than now.
I'm not saying you should be a person who just looks down on people, but there is this
principle of separation that the Bible talks about.
And here's the thing, folks, is that in my experience, the way you can avoid being around
people like that is make friends with people who aren't like that.
Like if your closest friends are just drunkards and weed smokers and just worldly carnal people,
people who are not saved are just worldly people, worldly Christians that don't go
to church, you know, you probably should find yourself some better friends.
I know that, okay, now it's getting quiet, so now I got to spend more time on this.
If the only people you hang around with the most are people who are just godless, don't
esteem the Bible, and obviously when we're at work, we just have to be around certain
people, right?
But the Bible already tells us, gives us that caveat, by the way, okay?
But if you willingly though go to places where they're serving alcohol, people are drinking
before you, they are mocking the things of God or principles of God, you know what?
You're being a bad testimony, especially if they know you're a Christian.
You know, worldly people are always trying to get Christians to just compromise on their
convictions just little by little.
And if you're the Christian, it's just you have no problem sitting at a table with other
people that are knocking some beers or whatever, they've already got you in that point.
I'm sure a lot of them are just like, "See, he's not really serious about the things of
that."
And you know what that leads to?
You picking up a beer yourself and eventually drinking yourself.
That's how it always works.
Be a Christian in all places.
Why are you saying I've got to walk around with a shirt and a tie everywhere I go?
No.
But you know what?
You do have to be an ambassador for Christ everywhere you go, though.
You do realize you're a representative of the Lord Jesus Christ everywhere.
You do realize you're an ambassador for Christ on the freeway, right?
So no flipping people off when they cut you off.
No just reviling them out loud to them that they can hear you.
If you feel like you've got to kind of do it on your own, roll up the windows at least
or something, get it out of your system.
I'm just saying be conscious of the fact that the will of God is perfect.
You serve God in all places.
Do not compartmentalize God.
And this is why it's important to have not just a prayer of time, but a prayer of life.
Because when you have a prayer of life, you pray all places at all times.
And I'm not saying you get on your knees just anywhere, you just pray unto the Lord
in all places.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
The point that I'm making this morning is the fact that God's will is good.
Don't let people speak evil of it.
Don't capitulate to the narrative that people promote when it comes to God's will.
But it's not only good, it's also acceptable.
Don't allow the commandments of God to be grievous unto you.
And look, for you new Christians out there, right now, the will of God is just honey,
it's like T-bone steak, it is delicious, it's gracious, but let me just warn you, okay?
Let me just warn you about something, because it will happen, it happens to all of us.
The newness does wear off, it does wear off, you're going to get bored with my sermons,
I'm glad no one said amen, it was all, I was good, I was good, I saw some of you kind of,
you will get bored with the things of God sometimes, it will become a chore sometimes,
it can be grievous sometimes, so don't have this unrealistic expectation that it's just
always going to be roses and daisies from here on out, but let me just say this, if
you do it right though, if you do it right, it's roses and daisies the majority of the
time.
Well how so?
I've been here for going on 18 years, I'm still excited about the things of God, I'm
still on fire for God, I still love the Lord Jesus Christ, I'm still zealous for the things
of God, you know what, I still rejoice in the word of God when I read it, it still burns
in my heart, I still love souls, I love my church, I'm still excited about the things
of God.
And that's because I'm constantly renewing my mind, making sure that I'm conforming
it so that I always view the will of God as being good, acceptable, and perfect.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your will, we're thankful for your word that displays
your will for us, Lord.
Help us as your people to continuously renew our minds, Lord, that we may not fall into
the pitfalls of the philosophies, the vain deceits, the rudiments of this world that
seek to undermine the Bible, water down the principles of the word of God, and help us
and they try to get us to become lukewarm, Lord, help us to keep our guard up, Lord,
and Lord, some of us in here just need to pray for, sometimes we just need to pray for
zeal, just pray, Lord, make me a zealous Christian again, help me to be zealous for the things
of God, not to be apathetic towards the service of the Lord, towards the Bible, help me to
love the Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength, and I pray, Lord,
that you'd help us to be a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto you, and that we would
not conform to this world, but that we would continuously renew our minds, that we can
prove these things throughout our Christian life.
We love you, we thank you, pray these things in Jesus' name, amen.