[PASTOR JEREMY MATTEK] No
storm of life can you
knock you down with Jesus
as your foundation.
Find out what it means to
build your life on the
rock of Jesus.
[MUSIC]
[PASTOR MARK JESKE]
You know, if you
decide that you're going
to live in Florida, then
you ought to be living in
a house that's built
differently from the way
they're built in the
northcentral states.
In the northcentral
states, there are a lot of
wooden houses and the
ceiling, the roof joists
and rafters, are nailed
into the plate of the rail
at the top of the side
walls of that second
story.
They're just nailed down;
called toenailing.
They nail sort of at a 45
degree angle.
And the roofs stay on
because of the weight.
Roofs are heavy.
You know, not only do they
have the frame lumber but
then there's the decking
that goes onto it, the
particle board, or
sometimes plywood, and
then the shingles on top
of that is a load of
weight and that keeps the
roof sitting down.
If you live in a place
that's vulnerable to
hurricanes - and
hurricanes do happen - the
craziest thing happens
with roofs in Florida.
The same thing that
happens to the airplane -
next time you take a plane
ride - the reason why your
plane gets up in the air
is properties of air
called - of the physics of
air - called lift; that
when air is blowing past a
plane wing, the plane wing
rises up.
The same thing happens to
roofs, especially of nice,
tidy, rectangular
buildings.
I happened to be in
Orlando some years ago
right after Hurricane Rita
went through central
Florida and I would say
two-thirds of the houses
in the week following had
blue plastic tarps hanging
over them because there
was roof damage.
Also, if you are going to
decide to live in Florida,
make sure you have
Hurricane shutters on the
outsides of your house.
They can be nice and
decorative, but when the
storm is coming, you bring
those babies together.
And the third thing is use
concrete, if possible, and
even more than that,
reinforced concrete.
The concrete should have
steel rebar in it, which
is metal rods that
reinforce the concrete.
In fact, have them
sticking up out of the
foundation and build your
house around that so your
house stays sitting on its
foundation.
Or what could happen to
you is that whole thing
could go down.
Now we're here today not
to discuss building
techniques in tropical
climates where you're
close to saltwater, close
to the Caribbean or to the
Atlantic.
What we are here to talk
about is some words from
Jesus about how to plan
and build your personal
life and your family life
and for those of you
blessed to be married,
especially your married
life.
But Jesus chose to use the
metaphor of construction
techniques to have you
wrap your arms around how
to go about this; what to
do about this.
How to think about this?
Why it matters?
Why it's important?
What happens if you do it
right?
What happens if you don't
do it right?
And if Jesus said it, that
automatically makes it
important and needs to be
up high on our priority
list.
So our Bible study today
is going to be another one
of my anxiety series;
things I worry about,
things I stay up worrying
about.
Today, I'd like to talk to
you about building the
vibe, building the
relationship, in your
home.
And this is true if you're
single; if you're single,
you have relatives.
You have a home.
Even if they're not all
living under the same
roof, managing your family
relationships is not on
autopilot; you have to
choose how you are going
to manage those
relationships, realizing
that while you might not
have storms against you
like the hurricanes that
come blowing off the Gulf
of Mexico, but you will
have an evil enemy in
hells who's going to try
to destroy you and your
family.
Be awake.
Be alert and be listening.
Jesus has some help for
us.
I'd like to invite you to
take your Bible and turn
to Matthew 7.
If you're alert, you hear
Matthew 7 and you think,
"Oh, that would be the end
of the Sermon on the
Mount," and you'd be
absolutely correct.
Three lengthy chapters;
one of Jesus' longest
discourses or speeches, a
substantial amount of what
he said on a sloped area
north and west of the Sea
of Galilee on one occasion
was recorded for us,
possibly Matthew himself
was an eyewitness and
ear-witness and wrote as
fast as his little hands
could take notes and we
have the benefit; three
chapters of steady talk
from Jesus.
And there's something you
need to understand about
the Sermon on the Mount.
It is based on an
assumption.
The assumption is that
everybody reading it is a
believer because there's
no instruction in the
Sermon on the Mount on how
to become a Christian; the
conversion process of how
God's power takes an
unbeliever and converts
her or converts him into
being a believer.
There's nothing about the
blood atonement, by the
way in which Jesus Christ
offered his life as a
payment for the sins of
the world.
Those are assumed that you
know that stuff already.
What Jesus is doing in
these three chapters is
essentially the same thing
that his half-brother
James did in his little
letter towards the end of
the New Testament.
In five chapters, James,
and in three chapters,
Jesus, give us straight up
right in your face, in
your grill talk about how
to live the way God wants
you to live.
And in fact, he's going to
get rather strongly worded
about it.
Like if you blow me off,
if you diss me and what
I'm saying, don't expect
to enter the kingdom of
heaven.
Whoa!
That might mess with your
head a little bit because
you maybe have been led to
think that you are
forgiven of your sins and
made a candidate for
heaven by faith alone, not
by your works, which is so
true.
However, that in and of
itself, can be a dangerous
statement if you don't
attach along with it the
fact that real faith, true
faith, always shows itself
in your life with deeds
that are appropriate for
someone who really is a
child of God.
If the Spirit of the Lord
is living in your heart,
you can automatically
expect that there are
going to be deeds that
show your faith.
You can't have the one
without the other; you
can't have authentic faith
without Christian deeds.
Or that your faith is just
hypocrisy and gas; you're
just a poser.
You're just a faker.
You're a hypocrite.
On the other hand, there
can be no such thing as
deeds acceptable to God
that are not also washed
and cleansed by the blood
of Christ for even our
best deeds are flawed with
selfishness and strange
and sometimes selfish
motives and so even our
better moments need to be
washed by Jesus and they
are.
But what Jesus is going to
say to us is a powerful
warning against laziness,
spiritual laziness, that
says, "Well, I've been
baptized so all my sins
are washed away.
I came to faith.
I now am a believer in
Christ and so I can coast
into heaven.
I'm just going to skate
home.
And since everything's
forgiven, I can look any
way I want.
I can enjoy myself, no
rules, no limits.
I don't have to fear the
devil anymore.
I'm not scared of dying.
I don't have to fear hell.
I don't have to fear
judgment.
I'm all clear and I can
live any way I want."
Because you've been
forgiven doesn't give you
license to go do it again.
If you've been forgiven,
that should change your
hard heart into saying,
"My wife was gracious
enough to forgive me.
I'm going to make her feel
like the queen of my
life," not, "I'm now free
and clear to do it again."
Now that's what Jesus is
getting at.
At the end of Matthew 7 -
have you found by the spot
by now?
I want you to go to verse
21 and, you know,
sometimes this is an
antidote, I think, to that
notion or that picture of
Jesus in your head as kind
of like a spiritual
Mr. Rodgers; that he's
kind of like this - just
kind of gentle kind of
guy.
You know, he never gets
anybody too upset and he
just likes to be happy in
his neighborhood and talks
about turning the other
cheek, you know, and being
sweet to everybody and
saying some hard words
that you can learn how to
say.
But he also talks like
this.
"Not everyone who says to
me, 'Lord, Lord,' will
enter the kingdom of
heaven.'" Anybody can talk
religion.
Anybody can say the name
of Jesus.
But he can sniff out who
are the hypocrites, who's
faking; he knows.
You and I can partly tell
people who are lying, but
we don't know for sure.
We can fool each other, we
can fool our other people,
we can even fool
ourselves.
Jesus will know right away
who are the fakers.
Just because you might
have used religious
language in your life does
not make you one of God's
children.
This is a sharply-worded
rebuke to those who think
that faith in our
Christian life can be
disconnected.
"Only he who does the will
of my Father who is in
heaven.
Many will say to me on
that day, 'Lord, Lord,'"
on that day - you know
what day he's talking
about, right?
Judgment Day.
"'Lord, Lord, didn't we
prophecy in your name and
in your name drive out
demons?'"
Well, the devil can
counterfeit anything he
wants; the devil has
amazing power.
"Didn't we perform many
miracles?'
Then I will tell you
plainly, 'I never knew
you.
Away from me, you
evildoers.'" And you know,
those are the ugliest,
most horrible five words
in anybody's language
because if Jesus on
Judgment Day says, "Away
from me," that is your
last chance.
That is the last time you
will the voice of God and
you will be cast into
outer darkness; a place of
weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
Gnashing of teeth is when
you grind your teeth and
say to yourself over and
over, "You are such an
idiot." And the
self-rebuke never stops.
The hatred and loathing,
the resentment, the
blaming never stops.
The Bible describes hell
as the complete absence of
God; the complete absence
of anything good.
That's what at stakes
here; this is a big deal.
The attitude you choose
towards what God has
revealed in his word.
Jesus says, "Therefore
everyone who hears these
words of mine," - this is
now the wrap up to three
lengthy chapters; chapters
I hope you have read by
the way.
Have you heard the words
of the Sermon on the
Mount?
Have you read Matthew 5,
6, and 7?
"Everyone who hears these
words of mine and puts
them into practice is like
a wise man who builds his
house with," rebar in his
concrete.
Who puts steel rafter
straps on his roof and who
put storm shutters on his
windows.
Well, I actually made up
that last part; that's
like what you would do if
you lived in Florida.
Jesus said, "Who buildt
his house on a rock"
instead of on a swamp.
Jesus says the way in
which you live your life
and the disciplines of
building it the right way
really matter because
storms will come and blow
your life apart if you
don't do it right as
you're building it.
"The rain came down, the
streams rose," like a
storm surge.
"The winds blew," 185
miles an hour, "and beat
against that house; yet it
did not fall, because it
had its foundation that
was on the rock.
Everyone else," excuse me,
"Everyone who hears these
words of mine and does not
put them into practice is
like a fool who builds his
house on sand.
The rain came down, the
streams rose, the winds
blew and beat against the
house and it fell with a
great crash." The end.
That's how the Sermon on
the Mount ends.
Boom.
And everybody's sitting
there going [Audience:
Laughter].
It's kind of a sobering
ending.
Aren't you just - they
tell us at the seminary
and sermon class, always
end on an upbeat.
Jesus clearly skipped
classes that day that
[Audience: Laughter].
He ends with a fist, a
fist shaking.
Whew!
Jeepers.
Do you believe him?
He's telling you something
you need to hear and that
is that obedience matters.
Faith matters, but
obedience matters along
with it.
This is based on the idea
- build your house around
the idea of your Creator.
God isn't asking to be let
into your life; he's let
you into his world.
You're just noticing it.
Organize your life around
the idea, "I've been
created.
I've been made.
I didn't make myself.
I was designed.
I have a master blueprint
for me.
And even though my body
may get old and saggy and
weak and frail, I've got
DNA that's got the ideal
snapshot, the picture, of
how I look in my prime.
And when I wake up from
the dead, that's what I'm
going to look like." No
more glasses, no more
toupee, no more prosthetic
limbs, no more replacement
organs.
I'm going to come back 100
percent.
My design, my blueprint,
is perfect.
That's the perfect me
that's going to live in
heaven.
I've been built for
fellowship with God.
I'm built to be part of
his world.
I'm built to interact with
my daddy in heaven and we
ran away but I've been
converted and brought
back.
The Spirit of the Lord
brought me back to
reconnect me with my
Father in heaven.
I've been washed by the
blood of Jesus.
He gives me such value.
In Colossians 3, St. Paul
is explaining to you how
do you build your life to
last?
How do you build on the
rock?
How do you build with
steel straps holding your
roof on so that your roof
won't blow off when the
troubles of life come?
Realize you are holy and
dearly loved.
Everybody wants to be
chosen; nobody wants to be
rejected.
Who wants rejection?
I can't stand it.
I run from it.
I fear it.
God gives me the feeling
that I am somebody.
God gives you the sense of
being worth something;
that he not only made you,
he remade you.
He poured out the blood of
his son with his anger at
our evil and sin and he
punished him instead of
you.
What does that say about
how valuable you are to
your heavenly Father?
What does that say how
badly Jesus wants to spend
eternity with you?
He wants you with him in
his house.
He's not going to just
enjoy heaven all by
himself; he wants you
there to share it with
him.
He wants to enjoy you and
wants you to enjoy him.
The Spirit of the Lord
reveals his wisdom to you
so that you've got
something in your head
other than fresh air.
And he gives you a spine
and a backbone so that you
can choose to live God's
way instead of following
the whispers and lies that
the devil is putting at
you to massage your
appetites, feed your
resentments, keep you
angry, keep you cranky,
keep you self-pitying,
keeping you self-centered
and egotistical, keep you
bragging and smug or keep
you - or worse, the
opposite of smugness and
bragging - keeping you so
insecure and feeling so
shaky and anxious all the
time that you don't like
yourself.
In fact, you hate
yourself.
Every time the devil gets
a human being to hate
herself or hate himself,
he's laughing in hell:
"Got another one!
And she's going to wreck a
lot of other lives because
she doesn't even like
herself." God gives you
the ability to like
yourself.
Now organize your life
around God's vision of you
and everything changes.
Jesus says, "Everyone who
hears my words." That's
job one.
Are you listening to
Jesus?
To build your house on the
rock means you're
listening to the word.
Nobody can do that for
you.
Only you can open up your
ears.
Only you can open up your
heart.
Jesus won't - can't even
and won't even - do that
for you.
He did it once to convert
you.
Now you must choose to be
in the word.
You must choose to go to
church.
You must choose to crack
your Bible.
Nobody else can do it for
you.
Whoever "hears my word."
Choose to hear the word.
It's life or death.
Don't wait until Judgment
Day to see if cracking
your Bible is a good plan.
By then, it will be too
late.
The day of your death,
which could be this
afternoon, will be too
late.
"Hear the words of mine
and put them into
practice." Do you - for
instance - do you know the
Ten Commandments, which is
God's pretty amazing,
concise, summary of his
will for humanity.
Do you?
Do you?
Could you say all 12 of
them?
[Audience: Laughter] Do
your children know them?
Yes?
Could your children sit
down if they're, let's
say, second grade or
older, could they sit down
and say or write them out
for you?
Yes?
No?
Uh-oh.
How can you obey what you
don't even know?
Why don't they know them?
Maybe they've not been
hearing?
Take this seriously!
This is a big deal.
If you want to build your
house on the rock to last,
it means remembering who
you are.
You were created for
fellowship with God.
You know, a bachelor named
Paul, wrote what I think
is some of the best family
advice I have ever heard
and I think about it all
the time and keep working
at myself to try to tune
myself up more with what
he said.
He's a bachelor but he
knows more about marriage
than I ever had.
He had no children, and
yet, he knows more about
parenting, I think, than I
ever did, thanks to what
the Spirit revealed.
But in Colossians 3 are
amazing words.
I referenced the first
sentence for you already
to remember that you're
holy and dearly loved.
You can like yourself
because God likes you.
You are holy and pure in
God's eyes because your
debts have all been paid
off.
You're free and clear.
That heavy weight of
condemnation has been
lifted off of you.
You're somebody now so
live like somebody and act
like somebody!
And Paul gave five
powerful words and these
are my takeaways for you
how to build your
relationships in your home
and within your family
along these five lines.
Take just these five and
you're going to be amazed
at how much better your
life is.
Number one is to show
compassion to the people
around you.
That means you're -
compassion is from two
Latin words that mean to
suffer along with
somebody.
You're willing to bear
someone else's pain.
Man, I don't like to do
that; I'll tell you
straight up with you right
now, I don't like to do
that.
That's work.
I've got enough mess in my
life, I don't need any of
your mess in my life.
I've got plenty of my own;
I've got plenty to spare.
But do it anyway.
After all, did not Jesus
Christ bear up your
sorrows?
Didn't he carry your
infirmities, bear the blow
given to you?
In other words, treat
other people the way Jesus
treats you.
Compassion means you've
got time for other
people's problems in your
family and you'll listen
and carry it.
That means husbands - and
here, chief of sinners,
right here, number one,
I'm sinner number one in
this regard - but that
means husbands, when you
say to your wives, "How
are you doing, honey?
How was your day?"
That means stop what
you're doing so she can
tell you instead of hoping
for a one-word answer
like, "Fine." What if she
really wants to tell you?
Compassion means you will
carry her frustration on
your heart and care about
what's hurting her.
Second - an awesome
example - is kindness.
Kindness means you treat
somebody better than he or
she deserves.
Kindness means you're nice
to people who aren't very
nice to you.
Kindness means you don't
retaliate and play revenge
games; you don't count up
score and decide what each
other has coming or what
he or she deserves in your
home.
Kindness means you are
nicer to people than they
are to you and, man,
that's hard, isn't it?
Just do it.
That is how you build your
house upon a rock and what
you will find is that
kindness, instead of
wrecking the trading game,
the business of your
relationships, that
kindness actually releases
kindness in other people.
The third thing that Paul
gave us to work on is
humility.
It's cultivating the
attitude of a servant;
taking the risk that by
meeting someone else's
needs, your needs will get
met.
Taking the risk of being
used as a doormat or taken
advantage of.
Taking the risk of
enabling bad behavior
because you are going to
show somebody kindness and
meet their needs and make
their happiness and
well-being even more
important than your own.
Got a ways to go on that
myself; I'm not there yet.
I'm working on it.
Keep me accountable, okay?
Don't let me get away with
bad behavior.
The fourth thing, excuse
me, that Paul mentions is
gentleness.
Watch your mouth.
Be careful what comes out
of your mouth.
Angry words that you throw
out there, you may say a
day later, "Hey, you know,
I didn't mean what I said
yesterday." And you might
just think, "Oh, it never
happened.
You know, I didn't mean
it." Angry, hard, accusing
words that you say will
stick like arrows in
people's backs and they
can't ever pull them out.
If you - if a woman makes
her man feel small and
stupid, he will never be
sure if she respects him
ever again.
Ever, ever again.
A husband who makes his
wife feel ugly will never
- she never again can
trust that he thinks she's
pretty.
Be careful of what comes
out of your mouth.
Keep your voice soft and
do not allow
misunderstandings to turn
into arguments or fights.
The fifth one is patience.
Cut each other some slack
in your home.
Parents, you know you need
to cut your kids slack.
They're working on their
game; they're coming up.
They'll be alright.
They just need some time.
But you know what?
Grownups need some slack,
too.
Husbands and wives are
working on their game and
it's harder than it looks.
Marriage is more fun than
it looks.
It's also - I'm here to
tell you - it's harder
than it looks.
Chief of the reasons being
me because I bring sin
into the relationship but
then, so does my partner,
and so do those of you who
are married, so does your
partner.
Patience means you're
going to cut each other
some slack because God's
pounding on us with his
hammer on the end going,
"Bam!
Bam, Mark!
Bam, your head is hard!
Man, bam, bam, bam!"
And you've got to wait
until you're like
straightened out a little
bit.
It takes time.
We're works in progress
and patience means, "Okay,
you disappointed me today
but tomorrow's going to be
better," and choose to
believe in that better
tomorrow.
And in this way, that
person will cut you some
slack.
"And above," over all
these virtues, put on
love, Paul says, and
forgive as the Lord
forgave you." In other
words, in summary, treat
each other, and especially
the people in your home,
the way God in Christ has
chosen to treat you.
That's a pretty good
guideline and that's what
Jesus means when he says,
"First, hear my words.
Listen to the game plan
and then do it.
Obedience matters.
Do it." And in this way,
you will build a structure
that Satan will have a
hard time blowing over
when he and his nasty
breath come and try to
knock your life down and
blow it apart.
This is good news for
God's people because there
is hope for us all.
We have the washing of
forgiveness for our
millions of mistakes and
the way we've been doing
things but, hey, as long
as you're still standing,
Satan hasn't won yet and
that means it's time to
retrofit our homes and our
houses and the way we act
but there's time.
So today is the first day
of the rebuild of your
home and as you have heard
what Jesus says and what
the Scripture says through
the words of St. Paul, now
is your chance not just to
hear it, but blessed are
those who hear the word of
God and do it.
Amen.
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[PASTOR JEREMY MATTEK]
Thank you, Pastor
Jeske.
We all certainly know how
it feels to be out of
control in life.
Life can be very chaotic
for any number of reasons.
The assurance that Jesus
is the solid ground
underneath our feet is -
well, it's a message that
gives us encouragement any
day.
I'll be back with you to
pray in just a little bit.
[PROMOTION] Hi, my name is
Jason Nelson.
I've had the privilege of
writing many Grace
Moment's devotions and
several books for Time of
Grace.
My recent book is
entitled, "Keeping the
Last Promise." And in it,
I share some very personal
lessons I've learned about
addiction and recovery.
So I wrote this book for
two reasons.
One, is to provide some
camaraderie.
If you know somebody who
is battling to be
unpossessed by drugs or
alcohol, you are not alone
and you don't need to feel
ashamed.
I also wrote this book to
sketch out a little
framework for hope.
We found hope that enabled
our loved one to begin to
put his life back
together.
And recovering people need
the power of God's grace
in their lives and when
they have that, they have
the ability to keep their
last promise to remain
sober for one more day.
Thanks so much for your
gift to help connect more
people to God's amazing
grace.
[PASTOR JEREMY MATTEK] We
hope you've been
encouraged by today's
message.
You know that there's a
way that you can encourage
us?
We'd love to hear your
stories about how this
ministry has touched your
life.
Would you please consider
sharing them with us?
Let's pray.
Lord Jesus, We're so
grateful for your
reliability.
You are reliable for us
through the many, many
storms of life.
As you have been reliable
for us, giving us
strength, help us also to
be reliable for others who
are going through their
own storms in life.
In your name we pray,
Amen.
I'm Pastor Jeremy Mattek
with Time of Grace and it
all starts now.
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