🌟 📚 1- THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM, a little bit of wisdom Series ~ CHRIS HODGES (How To Happy! :)

[Music] [Music] it's so good to see all of you here today welcome to week number one of a seven part series that we're beginning today called a little bit of wisdom you're gonna love this one a lot let me take a moment as I always do look into that camera and say hello to all of our locations we are one church that meets in 17 different locations all across the state of Alabama we're starting our 18th by the way this fall in the great City of Mobile Alabama so excited about that let me say hello to the men and women in the Alabama Department of Corrections we're streaming this service at 16 of the 23 locations in our state and we love every one of you guys we're so glad that you're along for the ride there but it's watching online somewhere around the world wherever you are we're so glad you're with us as well grants going to show your love to your church family come on put your hands together come on you can do better than that go get a good hand all right we have a lot to do today I want you to pull the little message note sheet out of your worship guide if you got one of those at the door you may have not seen one of these in a little while we don't do them every Sunday but some of this series we actually offer you the outline sheet of the message that I'll be teaching and I'll even give you a little few I'll fill in the blanks and places for you to take your own notes this is a great series to do that from time to time throughout the year we do book studies book of the Bible studies this is actually our second one we've done this year we actually started the year or in February we started a series of verse by verse through the Song of Solomon and it was actually the study of that book of the Bible that got me interested in this book so I was doing that all toward the end of last year getting ready for that series and I just got interested in the life of Solomon the son of King David who wrote three under the inspiration the Holy Spirit wrote three of the books of the Bible the the proverbs Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon and really I've just been fascinated so much so them actually reading the Proverbs throughout the year this year even in addition to my other Bible readings because there are 31 chapters of the book of proverbs so you can kind of do one a day and it only takes a few minutes and so hopefully I'll be able to read through the Book of Proverbs 12 times this year and even if I miss a day I just whatever day of the month it is I go to that proverb and I'm finding it very very fascinating and here's the verse that convinced me that we needed to do a series just around this book and around this topic because in proverbs chapter 4 verse 7 it says wisdom is and notice the next word in fact I want you to say it out loud every campus come on here we go wisdom is like it's at the top of the list and I thought well my goodness if it's at the top of God's list surely it should be at the top of our series list as well wisdom is supreme therefore go get it find it do whatever you have to do to to get to get wisdom and even if it costs you every penny you have like write that check and get it because it'll all come back to you if you can live a life of wisdom though the Hebrew word literally means skilled living so it's not knowledge it's not what you understand and your brain it's your ability to apply it in such a way that makes your life work in fact there's big differences between knowledge and wisdom not in your notes knowledge constructs the Titanic takes wisdom to avoid icebergs come on I say yeah like so it's one thing to have the boat but I mean you got to steer this thing correctly and the same thing for our lives knowledge builds a house wisdom builds a home so again you may know how to get married or have a family but do you know how to put the whole thing together where it works well God has a lot to say about that here's one here's one more and that is that knowledge understands God wisdom walks with God and that's our deepest hope I don't want you to come to church and just your brain get fuller more full of God's Word and no no we want you to have a relationship with a God who can change your life can I hear a good amen everybody yeah and so that's what we're going here we're gonna allow God to speak in our lives and here's the bait basically the thesis and that is that wisdom comes from God I mean God God is wise he knows it all and he has actually given us a way for us to understand his ways through his word I like what Billy Graham said Bill Graham said knowledge is horizontal so you can go to college you can go to school and you can watch things online you can you can get knowledge but wisdom is vertical you're gonna have to connect with the God of the universe the one who holds it all in the palm of his hands it comes down from above and honestly what really motivated me toward this series is is there's a growing trend in our culture and even in the church of kind of leaning more on human understanding even at the expense sometimes of what people think they can correct God like I know the Bible says this but but we know we're actually this and honestly that will never turn out right for you you try to go if you try to go your own way away from God you won't even need me to convince you it'll catch up to you right and you'll be back is the way I'll say it right because there's a Bible says there's there's there are people who are wise in their own eyes and there's more hope for a fool than for them and so what I want to do today is I want to help us understand the book of Proverbs and then we're going to give you the first a little bit of wisdom so each week each of these seven weeks you will get a little piece of a little a way to remember it a little something and we had a hard time actually thinking like which seven pieces of advice of all the great wisdom in God's Word which one do we did we'll talk about that in just a moment but if I could help you understand the Book of Proverbs 31 chapters of this book the first nine of them is the case for wisdom in fact I really would encourage you guys who want to dig a little deeper you're kind of finding this fascinating like I am just find about 20 minutes it won't take you probably more than that to read just the first nine chapters of the book of Proverbs and it makes a case for wisdom in fact I recommend every man to read chapters five six and seven I mean they'll spare you a lot of heartache just it's appeal for don't go that way don't follow your feelings follow God's wisdom but if you get these 9 chapters that tell you what wisdom is all about it's in chapter 10 that it actually the Proverbs actually begin in other words every line is a different topic so it'll say it'll say something about your money they don't say something out your time it'll say something bout your kids and then something about your marriage and they kind of all stand alone and and they're really not even character a categorized all altogether they're just they're just one saying after another but the first non really help us here's what you're going to notice and that is that in these first nine and and throughout the different proverbs there's several different types that people mentioned and I wanted to start there so you could understand the book a little bit better because there are four different types of people that are mentioned in the book of Proverbs and here's one of them if you're taking notes today and it is the simple but what the Bible calls the simple and I know that can be like one my goodness Lord what are you calling me names for this the simple is somebody that's only not wise because no one total like they just didn't know they're naive they're kind of clueless so only only went there and did that because I didn't know any better in fact it says that in Proverbs 7 says it this way I saw among the simple and I noticed the Hmong and it used the young people because why because they just had to live long enough to know that's not really good for you she's not notice among young people a youth who had no sense come on pair say Amen right there don't do that like write what you want to I know because you understand you understand this sometimes and it happens to all of us there's there's a bit of simple in all of us where we actually think we know best like no no this is the right way and then there's always this group of people usually a group of people around going no don't do it don't go there don't touch it I'm actually dealing with somebody in my life right now who's actually gone way outside of the lines in an area of his marriage and I'm like man don't do it it's gonna bite you it's gonna hurt you in because I think I'm doing the right thing and and honestly I don't know that he's really an evil person he just honestly he may have to find out the hard way that that wasn't the right way to go and you know my team when I told him what I was going to talk about they they mentioned to me that there's a secular artist who honestly I don't I don't know I don't know her like I couldn't pick her out of a crowd of one I mean I don't know right and they said but there's a song that she wrote that really kind of illustrates this and so in the in the words of the great philosopher Taylor Swift everybody all right when you're 15 and somebody tells you they love you you're gonna believe them like come on you're laughing yeah right especially you guys are laughing because I'm like cuz I did that so I told him when I was 15 I love you now didn't love I want something else come on were y'all that right right right and that's insane so there's this whole group on the sidelines going no don't do it he's lying to you and but you're actually you're gonna believe him you're gonna think Oh mommy daddy I have found someone who loves me and I have found my soul mate my soul mate you're right you know they'll go say stuff like that and you're thinking no no if you could just live a little longer and what's the point the point is is that all of us don't need to be making our own decisions that way we have to have people that are lighted and speak in our life the whole goal of our small groups is not to give you something else to do between Sunday's so you don't I don't need anything else to do what I do need it's a few people in my life who know me so well and know what I'm doing that they can say hey uh-uh don't don't don't go there danger Will Robinson just don't go there right you Oh folks left at that the rest of not to google that maybe anyway so alright right because we need people who have our back we need people who are watching for our souls we need people and I'm begging you kids that are here today if you're if you're a student if you're in specially if you're still at home but even if you're 20-something wherever you are in your life please please please you haven't lived long enough to make all those decisions by yourself trust your parents trust your pastors trust somebody get in a group of somebody who knows what you're going through and have some other people helping you in fact when you're going through something difficult you're the last person you should be receiving advice from because it's blunt come on can I get a better amen who those yeah you went down that pack and you figured it out and honestly there's a little simple in all of us don't be offended by that there is there's a little bit of that in all of us several years ago Tammy and I had gone to China to Beijing China to do some leadership training with dr. John Maxwell's organization called equip and so we trained thousands of Chinese leaders and it was phat is a fabulous week but but usually whenever we travel overseas we'll do that kind of work but we always take an extra day to tour if I've never been there before and this was our first time and we both just wanted to see the Great Wall of China and so we we asked the missionaries that were hosting us to take us to the Great Wall but we only had half a day because Tammy and I had to get back to our plane that was leading that evening and drive all the way back to Beijing and do that but they were hosting other people and we that weren't they didn't have to leave so we were gonna have to separate from the group about halfway through the day so we got up there got on the wall had a great time experience that took the pictures we were leaving now and so Tammy and I have our suitcases and we're headed down since they're still hosting people we were just gonna grab a cab and go into the Beijing Airport so we had loaded it up put it in the trunk God in and the missionary comes running out past agrees my best Chinese accent I got patsak recipes come running up you could come see how I need you to come see something and I'm like I'm so sorry man I got to get the airport I gotta I gotta go you know and if you only know anything about me I hate being late I've worked margin into everything I brought you mess in my margin don't be touching my mark like no and so because no no no I insist you come since and I said no brother I said I can't really can't thank you he goes no you have to come here and he said it seriously like that like all right I was so perturbed with him we had to get our stuff out of the taxi we kind of moved our luggage out and I told the cab I going we'll catch to another one and that's the brother what is the deal he goes that wasn't a real cab I what so what do you mean he goes that was a fake cab I said what's a fake cab he says he drives you out into the country beats it to death and steals all your stuff well you're my new best friend right where you don't fit right right because and at that moment I was simple I just did not know and thank God I wasn't the only one making decisions for my life that day the same is true for you and they really the cure the cure for a simple person is having an experience to know that's not a good thing like that won't ever happened to me again in China I'm calling her no no no they don't have that anyway the cure the cure is time you've got to live long enough or have people who have lived long enough around you who can speak into your life and that's literally what a wise person does is he asked people speaking into life here's the second person and that is the Bible talks about the fool so you're gonna see this word a lot the fool and the fool is different from the simple the fool the fool knows what to do and still just decides to do it I know what the label says but I just rather have that in my body right now I I don't mind I'm gonna take my chances I'm gonna say if this will work out and I'm gonna try this and honestly you got you all know some fools around you in fact it may be even a little bit of fool in all of us we we know the right thing to do we're just kind of willing to take our chances on it here's the problem here's the defense of the fool the fool says you say why would you do that and they answer because it's fun it's fun a fool fun's pleasure in wicked schemes you know the bible even says that in the book of hebrews that sin is good it like it feels good for a short season and it invites you some of you guys are in different stages of that process right now and you'll realize if you go outside out of God's Way God was never asking you to do that for his sake he was doing that for your sake and some of you are feeling the sting of that in your life right now but they say nah man this is fun oh I'm gonna do it anyway and I'm gonna tape there was anything that I freaked out about as a parent growing up with my kids being around fools like men I got to help you choose your friends because I'm telling you my son that dude's a fool and a problem with the fool is is that if you're a wise person he who walks with the wise grows wise but if you get around a bunch of fools you're gonna suffer harm that was my own story everything I did wrong everything I tried for the first time I tried because a couple of friends convinced me that it was good for me my first drink my first everything I wouldn't go through the lists all right everything I did for the first time I had these quote-unquote friends and really I was around a companion of fools the kind of the kicker of it all was I was 15 years old a sophomore in Baton Rouge Louisiana and and I I had I had said to my friends about this guy that had a that had really hurt hurt me and hurt another friend of mine and they all said well let's get him back and I said what do you mean getting back and they said how about we do a prank on them and just kidding that's getting and I kind of I don't even remember saying yes all I know is the next thing I know there are four cars 15 guys and a hundred dozen eggs and we were real smart 15 year-olds we were gonna wait till everybody was in bed it was 8 o'clock at night we're fools you know I know so we pull up in front of this house and I'm one of the four drivers of the four cars add a little Volkswagen bug and my eight guys that we've crammed into that with all these dozen eggs piled out could anybody's gonna get a bit of it I'm like I'm like I'm seeing the future it's like going in slow motion and they're just bombarding this house the people come out because they heard it on the roof you think you'd run nowhere I'm there fools they egg the people you know I'm saying right yes and I'm like yeah and they dive in and we take off and we think we get away with it well no the neighbor across the street had written down all the license plate numbers and so I was famous one of those fools a house that night and uh and my dad called son you need to come home and I knew what happened and what happened was since they were all defending my friend every all 14:15 people named my name to the police yes you know I'm saying like and there's these remind these were my friends and are so my family got sued for the damages it said or it said it was a but it was a bad time it really was and so but right in the middle of that a friend not a fool a wise friend invited me to church and that's actually got saved in the middle of the cure of being a fool and the cure the cure and the unfortunate cure for foolishness is tragedy so sometimes it takes a tragic moment a tragedy to happen in order for a lot of us to wake up then the reason why I'm telling you that is I wish it wouldn't you're getting a fair warning right now some of you know like you're you're in the car driving to the house so to speak and you know in your heart you know what guys let's just turn around you know that you know you're headed in the wrong direction and if you don't listen God doesn't create the tragedy God will use the tragedy and he will he'll get a lot of our attention through tragedy in fact some of you are walking through tragedy right now and and it happened right but what needs to happen from this moment on is you need to respond you need you need to you need to let God use that to get your attention say hey it's time how why not now why not today to go ahead and get out my life right in fact let me say it this way every tragedy has a lesson equal in significance to its heartbreak and it does so I'm trying to tell you there's redemption that can happen I don't care how bad the tragedy is let me say it this way your God is they restore earth he'll take the worst moment of your life and turn it around for good if you're letting in fact you'll even use the very thing that was tragic for you to reach other people going in that same area he'll comfort he'll comfort others but the same comfort you have received God will use you let me say it this way there's purpose in your pain and you need to grab hold of that today come on give God praise if you like that's true it really is it's by the way I need to keep moving but which is by the way that's why there's a growth track I know you kind of see it every sunny growth track growth track growth riots on there all the time but the purpose of the growth track is to try to redeem your life back away from the labels and the experiences that the world's given you back to what God wants to do in your life and that's what step two is about today it's a discovery step it's the step where you do a personality and spiritual give profile to redefine your life away from tragic things to redemptive things so you could do something that actually matters with your life and that's why you ought to go here's the third person though the third person in the text you're going to see this name from time to time is the mocker the mocker or you can actually add if you like taking notes add the word scoffer so it'll either use one of those two words depending on which translation you're reading but the marker is if he's the fool on steroids he takes it to a whole nother level right because what he does is saying not only not only am I going to know what's right to do and not do it but I'm gonna criticize others who do they actually try to control people through criticism so you may not even know a mocker personally but you probably met them on social media because they love like trolling whatever and making comments just to mess up your life and for some of you here's a warning you've engaged in the conversation and the Bible says don't do it in fact I'll show you the verse watch this it says whoever corrects a mocker you're just inviting more comments you just like that you didn't help them they did go you that's why you've never seen on the news two sides and then what I'm go you know you're right that's never gonna happen they they don't do that right no they live for debate they live for it and whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse you don't need more abuse in your life but you're inviting it if you participate with these guys do not rebuke mockers they're not gonna change they're gonna hate you and say Chris what in the world do you do about that well the Bible is actually has pretty strong language about a mocker and that is really nobody can help them the cure is the only cure is God God will have to do something and moving their life and maybe you're here today and you kind of feel like you feel fall in that category again I'll give you this fair warning but I also tell you look for God to speak to your life and say it's about time for you to change but the fourth person is the moment want to be right we want to be the wise the wise and the wise isn't the person that's smarter it's not the person who's bent has more education it's not even the person who understands the Bible better it's not somebody who's even lived a whole long time the wise person has one unique quality that I want to pass on to you and I'm hopefully you will embrace it realizing how important and valuable it is to your own life watch it in proverbs 9 9 instruct the wise in other words correct those guys and they will be wiser still they'll go wow thank you for telling me that I really appreciate that teach the righteous and they will add to their learning in other words write it down your notes just somewhere they're teachable they're pliable they haven't put up a defense around their life and saying no I'm not glad anybody speaking to my life and listen to me too many people are valuing their self-reliance and self dependence independence and it's not healthy for you we all need God and others that love God to speak into our lives and they're teachable so if I could summarize all for those this way here's how I would do it correct the simple and they won't get you correct the fool and they will ignore you correct the mocker and they'll hate you but if you correct the wise they will thank you and what I want to do is this in this series is I just want to give you a piece and not my advice but God's advice I want to give you something that I'm promised you listen to me if you'll apply it if you'll just put it in your life you'll come back and you'll say thank you I've had five people this week stop me and say I took your one-year challenge if you've not been around here I always say just give it a year like jump into everything for a year and if you don't if it didn't remarkably changed your life I'll go to another Church with you I see it that way right right but I've never had to right and and because it works God's Way works but you got to put it to the test and apply it much what happens as I told you we are going to give you in these seven weeks we're gonna give you seven wisdom principles and then it's hard to choose that we haven't totally made up our mind on all of them but we have decided for sure the first one because of one verse made it very clear we didn't have to look any further and that is that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of all this so you have to start there the fear of Lord and knowledge of the Holy One is where your whole life will change when you come to a place when you say wow god you're amazing you know way more than I know I'm not even in your league I honor you respect you that's why you came to church today it's like man my life would be a wreck without you I worship you I give you my outlook those kind of people those people like that that's it all begins there that's when wisdom can come into your life because you submitted your life to someone so much bigger and better and wiser than us and he changes your life forever amen everybody's seeing that so some people think the fear of the Lord means to be afraid of God that's not the word at all and I understand that because I grew up kind of afraid of God I grew up in a church where my cuz my preacher was so mad every Sunday like getting on you not know what you did repent get down here repent you know and maybe God will love you you better pray hard you did of that wear it out you know say yes Aaron I can't over to the altar every son I literally put that altar every Sunday like because I knew it I did I'm like old Jesus oh no I can't even look at and that's not your God and it's unfortunate because a lot of people are turned off by church because they have an incorrect view of God your view of God will determine your relationship with God if you see him as harsh she'll have a harsh relationship if you see him as loving you have a loving relationship I saw God my picture of God I had a picture it was Abraham Lincoln you know in the Lincoln Memorial he's giant I'm the size of a toenail and he got a club in his hand like you better not mess up I'll make you a grease spot right now you know what kind of a kind of a deal and that's not your God your God your God is is full of Mercy full of compassion slow to anger you don't even who is a God like our God who forgives everything I did wrong like he knows that we did this week and he still enjoys your praise and worship yeah that's and so when you seem like that like nobody else treats me like you do god that's why I love you the most all right so yeah get the right picture of God and that's one of the things I try so hard to do here at Highlands it's just give especially here in the deep south of people a different picture of God like the accurate picture of God because it changes everything but make no mistake about it it begins all this wisdom in your life change it begins on a fear of the Lord God you're amazing so I'm gonna do the best I can to teach you to fear the Lord in three declarations and I'd love you to jot these down your notes and the first is that God you are awesome like you're you're big you're great there's nothing too difficult for you and even for the places where I don't think you're moving like I think you should you're moving like you should yeah you you are even when you're not doing anything you're doing something you're you're an amazing God and I respect that and I honor that God that you are awesome that's why the song we wrote the song you'll be saying today our team wrote God you do wonderful things I love the first part of that work wonder I don't even know how you did it how'd you do that I wonder like how you're wonderful you're a wonderful amazing and I don't even try to understand like I'm really trying to know you and grow towards you but I'll never get it and all my efforts I'll fall short that's how awesome you are saying in right there everybody it's all he's an amazing God so let the whole earth fear God how how how tell us stand in oh let me tell you nobody you have no idea how much I stand in awe especially when I look at what God has done here my mind is blown I am the most amazin you'll meet some of you guys were really impressed with me thank you thank you but you have no idea that that what has happened here over these 17 years is a miracle of God this past week we had what we called the legacy banquet it's an annual banquet for people who self-identified we didn't pick them they picked us to say hey we want to do strategic giving we want to invest in fact we say this is for people who they not just givers they want to they want to give even more to accelerate the vision to do we know what we are doing but there's a whole list of what we could do if and they just want to hear about it and we don't even ask them to do anything about it we just tell them what we could do if and we do it in the area of our church because there's a bunch of things we still could do in our church right because there's like half of our campuses don't need a building there's that we have our college I've vision therefore the Hollins College we want to put a dream Center in every city where we have a campus so that's the local missions vision so there's some things we could do if we want to plant churches we want to plant 2000 churches we planted 774 today we want to do more like America needs more life in church so we tell him all this right but Tammy and I came to the event and it was there was a supernatural presence of God there everybody was there you know you know what I'm talking about and if you if you want to ask them ask them coming I'm telling you it was it was amazing because we all understood there's no way we could have done this there's no way because I reported on kind of what we already are doing and it was it's May it's awesome and I literally came in I left I actually asked her to drive because I was overwhelmed with the emotion I can't believe this why God did you even choose me I have no I haven't why did you get to my Juju's all of us he's an awesome God that kind of feeling begins wisdom house they said it this way how do you not her do you not know I mean like investors like no no the Lord is from the beginning to the end he's not even in my little timeslot he's the creator of the ends of the earth think about that he he doesn't grow tired or weary and his understanding you can't even begin to get it all Who am I to to make even commentary on God's Word whenever God has already spoken everybody I don't know man I've got god you're amazing you're awesome amen everybody know when you do that then he goes okay great well then I have something I can deposit on the inside of you here's the second word and that is that God is holy holy now look I embrace our style of church I love the contemporary nature of it moving lights you know I mean nowadays most churches have coffee shops we're doing everything we can to make Christianity attractive but make no mistake about it we don't see God contemporarily either it's not like what's up god what big man upstairs I don't think so no he's holy when he walks in the room I'm like yes sir what can I do for you sir and I'll make a public statement right here God owes me nothing go this you know what God can do for me stuff today there's even a bunch of songs I told our Choctaw our team don't even sing the songs that are about us lift up the name of Jesus magnify God just why cuz that ain't about me and he owes me nothing he has already given his son for everything that I'm [Applause] he doesn't owe me happiness he that I mean he knows me nothing he's already paid for all my cities we exalt not me not Highlands we exalt the Lord and we bow low before his feet why for he is holy oh that's that Old Testament mad God no it's not and the New Testament says therefore since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken let us be thankful and worship God except ibly with reverence and all why he can make you a grease spot right now if he wants to he's a consuming fire can I raise the level of respect for God at church the Highlands so while my favorite song right now my favorite song that we're singing right now and that may change but I hang on one and I lead worship my whole life and I play the piano and I so I get on my piano almost every day and the song that I just can't get off my mind is that it's the second song we sang today it's got my heart holy holy there is no one like you there is none beside you open up my eyes come on sing it with me and show me who you are with your if your love to those come on singing every voice holy holy there is like there is no [Music] open up my eyes show me who you are into me with your heart and leave me in your love to those around me thank you Jesus some of y'all think he came up too early it's only the second point what's that brother doing up there I told him to you're doing good my friend now we have a way we do Church some of y'all have gotten the pattern down you need to hang in there God's getting ready to do something in this place today all right I'll hold that thought he's awesome he's holy here's the third one best way I know how to describe this here the Lord God is right like he's right like when you see it one way and God sees then another God's right when you have one emotion and God has another God's right okay I don't know how to say that God's right let every other man be a liar God is right God's right and there's this whole trend right now against well I don't think God's right about this not like this parts of his word but I don't know that I like that one no gods right go listen to culture don't listen to the world around you God's right he's right there's this whole thing moving right now through the church and I'm warning you about it I'm gonna teach you about it so you can recognize it it's happened against been happening since the garden the devil's been challenging God's Word first words out of his mouth did God really say yes he did yes he did he's been challenging the word and that's going on again even among church as well there are just some things I don't think are just consistent you know why is it not consistent well because it can't be explained like what like there's no way a man can live in the belly of a whale for three days well I happen to believe that too that's not possible neither is it possible to walk on dry ground across a Red Sea it's not possible for a virgin to have a baby either it's not possible for Jesus to walk on water it's not possible for a man to get out of the Great Mother grave yeah that improve the bottle strong that proves that God is awesome everybody and he's right he's right come on oh the law of the Lord the Bible is perfect revives your soul if you'll believe that the statutes of the Lord are trustworthy making wise the simple now I want to go there the precepts of the Lord are right giving joy to the heart the commands of the Lord are radiant giving light to the eyes the fear of the Lord is pure enduring forever the ordinances of the Lord are sure altogether righteous they are more precious than gold more pure than pure gold they are sweeter than honey sweeter from the honey it's honey from the honeycomb by them your servant is war don't do it don't do it but if you keep them there is great reward I'm begging you to believe God is right you follow his ways it works so here's the message in a verse fear of the Lord leads to life you're not afraid of him your life's better it brings security bring protection so here's we're gonna do I'm gonna give you this saying but please don't feel that I leave I'm begging you don't leave till we dismiss if you've got to go like it's an emergency go but if it's not trust trust me in this I'll lead let you out on time I promise you but I think God's gonna do something we're gonna sing that song again and I want every voice all of our hearts and watch what God does is you declare it here's your little bit of wisdom number one write it down but don't leave you don't stir when I understand what it means to fear God courage strength protect I can live nothing else intimidates me anymore I can live fearless come on sing it with me holy holy come on man there is no one like you there is none these psycho sing it to heaven open up my eyes and watch show me show me who you are and fill me with your heart and leave me come on I'll build my life upon you [Music] [Music] [Applause] bow your heads in prayer every campus every location again please stay to the very end this is a holy moment God speaking to people there's some of you today you know it deep down inside it's time for you to declare that God is your God I'm not asking you to join this church I'm asking you to make a statement to heaven today that says it's time it's time to stop living my life for me I'm gonna live my life for you God wait I'm doing it's not working out and it's time for me to give you my life everything I'm gonna ask you to do it to the degree that he did it for you he gave his all you give your all everything you know it you ready some of you are Christians and you're away from God you know it and today's your day if that's you at every location if you're watching online this is your moment listen to me this is your moment it might not get any easier than this this might be the best opportunity that you say this prayer in your heart straight to heaven I'll help you in the words God you're my god today I declare that I give you my life Jesus thank you for paying my bill making my sin payment I receive what you did and I declare you as my lord come on tell him that you're my lord I'm gonna follow you serve you submit my life to you Holy Spirit fill me help me to live my life the way I know I should today I give you my life in your name I pray

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Keywords: Love, Church, God, Jesus, How to HAPPY, How to WISDOM, How to everything, How to love, How to live, How to laugh, How to be happy, Eternity, The Holy Spirit, Help me, Help you, Answers, Laughter, Happiness, True Riches, Truly Being ALIVE

Id: abv7nPtB63o

Length: 41min 57sec (2517 seconds)

Published: Thu May 03 2018