A Life That Pleases God | Pastor Jim Cymbala | The Brooklyn Tabernacle

have you ever noticed that when you love someone we were singing before jesus i love you because you care i couldn't imagine if you weren't there did you know something about love is when you love someone you want to help them and make them happy you don't think of yourself when you're in the presence of a loved one you think of how can i make that person happy what do they like i was remembering this morning my mom died a couple years ago she was 104. around her 95th birthday i remember we cut a cake on her and before we set this little modest party up at this apartment she lived right in near the brooklyn bridge we asked her what would you like mom what what would mean the most to you and she said oh if carol would make me noodles and cheese it's a polish dish that my wife has learned to do really well and she loved danish pecan danish how many know what a danish is yeah new yorkers they know what a danish is and then she liked for me to read the bible to her so i read the bible and she liked when people sang around her or him so we would sing why you love someone you want to make them happy right selfish love is the kind where you only want the person for sexual or some other kind of gratification you want to get money out of them so you love them in a kind of twisted way you love them but it's not that pure love where i want to make you happy right and um that's the way love is universally you want to make the other one happy let me mention one other thought did you ever think about this that if life is a line here and you find christ and become a christian at 15 25 30 whenever and now before you die or christ returns you have this long road here of 10 20 40 whatever years my mom i think got saved at 13 or 14. so so imagine how many years she served the lord so what what should have been her goal what should be our goal we are christians we are going to heaven but we're not there yet god could have us there but he doesn't have us there yet so now we're walking with him and like aaliyah said we're supposed to be light and salt but what's a goal in the morning because if you don't have a goal in the morning the day is not going to work out well spiritually or intellectually or whatever so what should be the goal that we have now let's put the two together the bible says we love him because he first loved us so i want to ask you an honest question honest now how many of you really love jesus you love jesus hold your hand up high we're not embarrassed to say that we love jesus so let's put that together with the thought about my mom and about love real love and apply it to this life and we come up with this teaching from the scriptures in many places i've just picked one first thessalonians 4 1. would you look up at the screen at it please it says as for other matters brothers and sisters paul is writing to the church in thessalonica in northern greece we instructed you how to live in order to please god as in fact you are living now we ask and urge you in the lord jesus to do this more and more so just something else jumped out at me here so he's writing to the brothers and sisters and he said well after you got converted we instructed you how to live so that you make god happy not please yourself not even please your friends first please the one who gave his life sent his son to die so after all that god has done for us if we love him paul says i want to tell you how to please him how to make him happy like i learned what would make my mom happy notice he says you're already doing it but i urge you in the lord jesus to do it more and more in other words you can grow in pleasing the lord but notice that's implicit in that is that if you can please the lord that means you can live a day that displeases the lord and i want to reduce this down to just one day because remember your life is just one day please let me share that when god made that so real to me seven or eight years ago it's really helped me in so many ways the only day that you have in your life is today saturday is gone monday it's questionable if we wake up we have another day but right now the only day you can please the lord the only day you can worship the lord the only day you can pray for someone the only day you can witness for someone the only day you can grow in christ the only the only thing you have that we have is today how many see it say amen so we got to get that always down jesus taught us to pray give us this day our daily bread so on a daily basis which is the only life we have on a daily basis we can make it our goal to please the lord make him happy obviously as i said we could make him sad i talked to a man before the service at nine o'clock he has a 23 year old son son is not happy that the man is a believer and the son never had a nice mouth from what i knew but now he's really talking foul and disrespectful to his own father which which you know is so inappropriate his father raised him supported him and now all he has is bad things and nasty things so that hurts his father is that his father is that his son yes but doesn't mean the son makes the father happy life's a little more complicated than that so we can be christians and hurt the lord the bible says don't grieve the holy spirit and that word grieve means don't sadden and vex him and make him unhappy so god is an emotional being and he loves certain things he hates other things and we have it as a goal here paul says to learn how do you please the lord not yourself not your friends not jim symbola but how do you please the lord now there's two other parts to this stay with me not only does the lord say here i want you to learn how to live a life pleasing to me after all i've done for you you know love me back worship me back worship me not only is that true but when you walk in that path to try to please the lord you find out that god's blessings inundate your own life you're trying to please him you're not even thinking of yourself but that's when all the blessings come and satan's big lie is that if you live to please the lord quote live a holy life be like christ whatever terminology you want to use the big lie from way back in genesis the book of genesis is this if you really serve the lord if you try to please him your life's going to be so boring your life's going to be so depressing you're going to lose all your fun you can't really live if you live to please him and that's a lie in fact as you learn to just try to please him peace and joy is running after you like we just sang right your mercy if something was running after us i forgot the lyric what is the lyric [Applause] you're good oh yeah goodness thanks so getting my theology together while i'm preaching here so that's the thing the more you learn to please him then the more it's not like oh i'm pleasing you it's no there's peace and joy and abundance one last thing which no one told me when i was growing up you can get into legalism very easily if you stop there and say oh the lord saved me and now he's watching how i live to see if i please him no the lord says not only live to please me i'll help you to live that way i'll give you the grace to live that way grace in this sense is not just the grace of jesus dying for our sins but the daily grace of god helping us to do things that are not natural to us we're selfish beings i am selfish just all get out but god says no i'll break that selfishness in you and have you live as light and and christ-like and you'll be pleasing me and you'll be blessed it's and i'll help you do it don't try to make a vow and a promise a lot of us have done that turn over a new leaf and all of that and tomorrow i'm going to really be serious god says no just bring me your life and i'll help you live a life pleasing to me that will bring blessing to you how many want to live that kind of life one more time just lift your hand all right pleasing to god so how do you live a life pleasing to god so obviously there's two wills of god for all of us there's the specific will for our lives given our calling where we live what we do and all of that so my wife and i are called to ministry so we're in the ministry someone else is a doctor someone says a lawyer someone else is i.t another person works for the uh drives of us whatever that those are specific callings in life now then there's general things that makes god that brings joy to god's heart for example love one another that's for all of us when you live a day of love you make god happy if your hate and your prejudice and you gossip and slander and all of that that makes god very sad and you'll feel it in yourself you'll miss out on peace and joy a lot of people who just want prayer to get them over it's it's counterproductive because the way they live they're defeating all the things god has wants to do for them comprende no comprende in other words that's just the way they live they're constantly grieving god's spirit and they're weak and they're complaining and they have no joy and they have no peace they're fluctuating why because the way they live they're they're defeating the whole idea of pleasing god okay another way you please god we bring joy to him when we live pure lives the bible says that for all of us this is the will of god for you that you avoid fornication so that you don't live an unclean dirty immoral life you're not sleeping around no matter what the culture says and all of that foolishness are you going to answer to the culture when you die are we going to stand before god we're going to stand before god so we better pick up quick how god feels about these things that's why he gave us the bible we can read and find out those things that are pleasing him so don't lie don't steal because all of these things if we violate them remember satan's big lie no do it let it all hang out you be yourself follow your dream and then you'll be happy it's just the reverse it's when you just live to please him that you're the happy you don't need oxycontin you don't need a uh some weed you don't need anything you don't even need an oreo cookie with some milk you just how many get what i'm talking about can we say amen to that all these false these are all false stimuli that you get to have made a drink i need that why because without that i can't feel the way i want to feel but that temporary feeling is going to go away then i need more etc etc etc but when you're following jesus and just living to please him you could be all alone in a room with just a little glass of water and you're so happy how many have experienced that say amen okay so now i want to bring to you here as i wrap up the meeting three things three ways we can please god which we rarely think of we rarely in the morning pray we might pray lord fill me with love yes lord help me to live a pure life and so on and so forth lord keep me honest today and all that but i want to bring up three other areas that i think we tend many times to displease him which hurts him which is counterproductive for us and the whole thing plus we set a bad example so how many want to learn three new ways to please the lord just say amen enough with the hand raising so number one work the right way do your job tomorrow how about that don't be lazy don't cut corners don't moan and groan you're lucky you have a job you're blessed to have a job okay don't be a malingerer don't put in a half a day's work but take a whole day's pay don't hide behind the union and and do all kinds of tricks well past simple where do you get off saying that oh i never said that listen what the bible says look up at the screen will you slaves here as employees next verse please slaves obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and with sincerity of heart just as you would obey christ hello obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you but as slaves of christ doing the will of god from your heart serve wholeheartedly on your job as if you were serving the lord not people because you know that the lord will reward each one for whatever good they do whether they are slave or free so when you when you work you have to realize that the whole medieval concept of sacred and secular has been broken down by the bible and that's a bad tradition what do i mean by that pastor symbol and carol and the pastors and other pastor hammond we have sacred jobs because we're in the ministry but other jobs are just secular so on sacred jobs pastor bible teacher whatever you better be careful because you're working for the lord but i only work for the mta you know what i'm saying i only work for dwayne reed my job is different no it's not the lord is watching you tomorrow like he's going to watch me when you go into work are you going to work with your whole heart you're going to respect your boss well but if you knew my boss peter says on this same subject even if your boss is harsh you obey him with your whole heart and you put in the best work and if everyone's shirking their responsibility and cutting corners and stealing and lying you have nothing to do with that because you're not working for that boss you're working for jesus christ can we say amen to that i know now that stuns that that's stunning to a lot of us isn't it no no pastor you have to do your job right i just work in the business world no the lord is saying you do an honest day's work that's what pleases me you cut corners you lie you steal from the boss and and all that other stuff you you you are breaking my heart that is not why i put you on earth i put you on earth to be different than everybody else oh i hit a nerve i had a nerve didn't i but lord give me courage and love to continue so you know they took those under cover videos of was it the subway people working the subway they're supposed to be repairing the cars and someone got an undercover camera in and took pictures of guys who for like a year not even work one hour a day but took their pay or other people who dummy up over time because the whole city is a lot for a lot of people it's based on how do i scam the system do you live here by the way any of you live here i'm born to raise brooklyn are there not people scamming the system not wanting to work just any corner that can be cut i'm going to cut it because you like owe me the paycheck no they don't we're blessed if we have a job you know how many people don't have a job you know how many people don't have food to eat you know go around the world you know how many people last night didn't sleep in a bed around the world and what are we complaining about so paul says no you be an example you work for that boss and you put in hard work and if you're self-employed you work hard because the lord never blesses idleness lazy people who give a thousand excuses of what they're going through if you get paid work if you don't want to work then don't eat that's what the bible says if any man doesn't work what he shouldn't eat oh you're warming up good i'm going to continue here i'm only joking is it correct or not if you're a housewife work you're raising children you're a school teacher work give it all no but you see i work you're working for the lord you're not working for them the board of ed is not your boss jesus is your boss and that makes every day that makes every day exciting because i'm working for the lord i can make him happy today or i can ground around and loll around and just go i'm so tired and all of that well wait a minute you're getting a check doesn't the person who give you a check deserves something but more than that the lord look at what it says in colossians goes even further whatever you do work at it with all your heart as working for the lord not for human masters since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the lord as a reward it is the lord christ you are serving i don't think there's five percent of all the christians in the world who believe that the whole thing is a game you're quiet but i know you know it like take public assistance take welfare that's a divine idea to help people who are truly can't live and need help am i right god has mercy on those who can't make it right how many people are scamming that system why because they're lazy they're idle the bible says in the early church mark anyone who's idle and give them a warning after three warnings have nothing to do with them why because they're idle and when you're idle you get in trouble when you're idle you gossip and you talk and you get on your cell phone and you tweet the world but the bible says idleness is a bad thing to do one of the sins of sodom and gomorrah was idleness and fullness of bread they had nothing to do and they just kept eating themselves to death and then that opened up to all the other kinds of sin of sodom and gomorrah so idleness is a terrible thing every minister who's idol and is lazy should be washed out of the ministry how dare take money from people's tithing and you're not going to work hello you know we don't print the money people give their money you're going to take that sacred check and not work hard oh no you can't do that can't do that bible forbids it that breaks god's heart that's why a lot of people are not growing in the lord it's not they don't pray enough they live wrong they're part of the scam they're scamming everybody are you mad with me [Applause] it's the truth but these verses tell us that's like the whole i love that about my my son james he is a hard worker i don't care what job james has to do he's really been a great example of that you're going to go 100 100 in 110 in you know he's not going to let it go until he finishes the job that's just the way he is very good quality that god put in him but uh the whole our culture is like yo what are you doing tomorrow no no i'm hanging out i know but what are you gonna like gonna do no it's like we're just hanging out i know i know but what are you gonna do while you're hanging out is there anything you do like d.o no you know i just be hanging out but when you're hanging out and someone's paying you that's a sin and it breaks god's heart and that goes for all of us everyone in this room no exceptions to grumble and complain when we have a job and food on the table is like close to blasphemy people are starving to death and we have a job and god's blessed us and now we're not going to work at it i know but i'm tired i've been doing this a long time or i just started but i'm limited listen god doesn't ask for skill level he asks for 100 in do it do it with all your heart that's what the bible says we just read it in colossians whatever you do do it with all your heart whatever you do do with all your heart one of the reasons my mother lives so long talk to my wife carol is she always was doing something every day she was 94 years old and she was making pot holders to give to first-time visitors in our church she would make her own christmas cards to send out to people am i right carol she was like why i think that's why she lived so long she just couldn't sit with doing nothing couldn't do it just do something she had kept the list in the bible of a prayer her prayer list of who she prayed for i hope i lived near her in heaven because she was like doing it for the lord so we can tomorrow please the lord or we can make him sad one of the ways you can please the lord is work hard at what you do pay deserves honest work all in favor of that please lift your hand okay i mean that's shameful i know but pastor don't you know how it works they're faking over time they're doing that i don't care what they do i'm working for jesus he's watching all of us so one of the ways to live a life pleasing is work the right way say it work the right way come on my birthday work the right way work the right way work work number two we rarely don't pray and remember if we work the right way god will help us if you're lazy or if you're fallen into bad habits and all of that just bring this to the lord today and say god tomorrow as you let me live another day help me to work for you jesus this was the idea that thomas the campus and some of those other writers had in the 900s or the year 1000 or whatever they said you know what i scrubbed that floor for jesus i got this huge floor i got a scrub and i'm on my hands and knees and other people going sad you yeah they gave you that job and he goes no not sad me see this see this little tile i'm cleaning this for jesus jesus you see see how clean it is jesus for you that makes every day special every tile special or you can grumble oh i gotta do this job or you could do it to the lord how many want to do it to the lord let's put our hands together and just say amen to them and not just when the boss is watching the bible says i remember back when i was in uh sixth grade especially junior high school do you remember those days when the teacher was absent and they sent in a substitute oh yeah come on come on wave your hand at me if you remember substitute we would be like oh yeah come on now come on in here little girl and you teach and he's bright-eyed you know from brooklyn college or wherever they would come in and they had no idea what they were getting into right how many remember those days and i was not such a nice person and my classmates we were just like and she would say i'm going to the principal's office i'll be back in about eight to nine minutes here's your assignment i want you to be writing this down and we goes yes mrs cherub yes and they say whatever and she would leave and the minute she walked down we we would take one guy and make him stand at the door to make sure she was gone and then we would like i just go crazy you know throwing things the racers are flying everybody's going wild you didn't do that theresa you didn't do that no you were good some are sanctified some are not what can i say so anyway we just went wild and then the guy would be the lookout and then he'd say she's coming she's coming everybody yeah yeah she would walk in we'd all be like that class i'm so proud of you you're really at it working the lord says don't do that on your job when the boss is not there you work just as hard you never let up because you're not working for the boss you're working for jesus number two not only work the right way but think the right way because our minds are part of our bodies and we belong to the lord he is the lord of the body and that includes my physical body my mind my emotions everything my mind can please god or not please god i'm talking about the environment of my thoughts i'm talking about the tone of my mind now satan tempts by coming to the mind and this is what temptation is with nasty thoughts or wrong thoughts or hateful thoughts and he can knock on the door that's what temptation is if he doesn't knock on the door with the thought you're not tempted so he's been given permission to do that but we don't have to open the door and ask him in for coffee do i get a witness so don't mistake temptation with indulging wrong thoughts so when the lord sees us thinking the wrong way and having an environment in our mind that so grieves him what we're thinking of we're entertaining unclean thoughts many times that comes from watching unclean things because even when you turn it off the image stays in your mind and suggests thoughts what are you a puritan no i'm trying to be a christian how many are with me say amen so why would the holy spirit in me want to be dealing with that kind of thought life because he does live inside of me i'm talking about entertaining thoughts now sitting down with them over a meal so paul says to prove this paul says in philippians look finally brothers and sisters whatever is true whatever is noble whatever is right whatever is pure whatever is lovely whatever is admirable if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things that's a command look look think about such things don't kill don't steal think about such things what things noble you know what true not lies in your mind noble that means high toned that that means the opposite of cheap that's the opposite of what the tv has the real housewives of wherever oh that will really help your life by the way just watch that and tell me how much it makes you look like christ tell me just fill me in on that it just makes you so much meeker and lovely and pure just all the nonsense in our culture you take that in that's not noble i wouldn't want to think about that i know but it's real i know a lot of things are real i don't want to think about them no but you got to be real no i don't have to think about anything and by the way i want to announce to everyone you have total control over your mind nobody can force anybody any thought to come in and sit there for days or hours nobody can do that not the devil nobody can do that by the grace of god that's what the bible means when it says resist the devil and he'll flee from you how do you risk the you're the devil most times in such in your head no i'm not thinking about that in the name of jesus i'm not dwelling on it i know it happened to me 10 years ago i know he walked out on me and i know he hurt me and i'm bitter but you know what i'm not thinking about that that is not lovely that is not noble that is not pure that is not praiseworthy that will not help me that will not make jesus happy i'm not thinking about it now to keep that kind of thought life you have to not just resist thoughts you got to fill yourself with the word of god and you got a buddy got a bible here what kind of church is this nobody even has a bible oh look this is good our sister's for the real look at this oh wow she she got this bible in 1811. she's been studying it ever since look at this thing no emory good work what's that she stands on the word yeah she's been standing up she's standing on the word all right look at this thing we're gonna have an offering at the end of the meeting for anne marie lockley get a new bible good grief well anyway you got to fill yourself with this because that will fill your thought and your mind with oh yeah the lord is my shepherd i shall not want why don't i meditate on that for 20 minutes instead of texting people why don't i start the day with all things work together for good to them that love god let me think about that not just read it don't have a one minute devotion what kind of how's your mind going to be affected by a one minute devotion but everything else is going to invade you politics and the racialization of everything and anger and and all of that and j lo and era whatever people are talking about right what kind of life is that that's noble that's pure that's going to make me a little more like christ so paul's is saying now think about things that are good things think about no one can force me to think about anything and notice when temptation comes and there's a real battle one of the secrets is to learn how to transfer your thoughts because by redirecting your thoughts you can get away from a really strong temptation thought by just saying jesus help me and then say oh i'm not going to think about that i'm going to remember yesterday past them we'll have that little five-year-old girl come up that was so sweet she gave the word of god light of the world not hid and then you're the salt and just redirect your mind well of course you can no i'm because you hold bad thoughts in you remember as a man thinketh that's exactly it that's why jesus says why the bible is so firm on this whatever holds our minds that's what we're going to be you have angry thoughts you have bitter thoughts you're going to be angry and bitter you have complaining thoughts you got the short end of the stick you no one knows the trouble you've been and that's the way you're going to act this is why many people they come to church they get their mind redirected to the word of god and they leave and they're good for about three hours unfortunately their mind starts to go back to the old chunk and these thoughts can stay forever and sour your disposition am i right or wrong here i told you that story about my my wife's grandmother we both had two grandmothers that we knew and my father's mother was she was a firecracker let's just use that word and carol had one on her dad's side that was firecracker and she was she she got sick and no one could take her in of the family i don't remember how it happened but she came to live with us when we were in queens for two and a half three years and she was already in her 90s then but she was a firecracker oh yeah and she would brood sometimes i loved her she had the greatest sense of humor she once broke her hip fell off with the bed that we were in she went there and how can i say this so she went into this place for rehab and we went to visit her one day and we said where's her grandmother's name where is she why isn't she eating with everyone else no she and this italian guy they eat alone somewhere i went what she was hitting on this guy and she was 93 years old and he was like 95 it was a perfect match you know but here's what happened one day so she could play the keyboard well in fact carol genetic i think has a lot of uh musical skills from that side of the family and her son carol dad was an opera singer very good singer so i would take care of grandma at nights especially when carol had choir practice listen we were held hostage to that woman she lived in our house a couple of years we were hosted in hostage because we set up a special bedroom for her on the ground floor but she demanded carol's attention all the time me i would just say grandma you're bad go to your room and i would just put her in the wheelchair lock it and say you think about the lord you study your word here i guess i couldn't take her that's the truth my wife would tell you am i right carol i'm right so carol would come home from practice and open the door and actually crawl up the steps we had steps in front when you open the front door and grandma was off to the side and she'd take off her shoes this truth and she'd walk up the steps and she'd be halfway up the steps and grandma would yell out i know it's you carol [Applause] oh my goodness but she used to brood and go into moods sometimes that used to surprise me so one day we were talking i said grandma you play the keyboard so nice i'm glad carol got her her musical talent probably through your side when did you start to play she was born in 1899. when did you start to play oh when i was 12 or 13 and i said oh you took lesson well yeah a little bit and i said did you play much like in town did they have places that you could you know play like a symphony hall but she was in a little town in illinois and so i said did you ever get a chance to play she said no there was a hotel that every weekend the town people would come and they had a piano there and you could play i said well did you play did you get to show your skill she went no because priscilla higginbotham she had to play she never gave me a chance [Applause] i said grandma what year was that 1917. [Applause] listen and still thinking about it and that's why she would go spin out on you and get depressed and quiet and and just go off why her mind was filled with bad thoughts not immoral thoughts but just negative whatsoever is true whatever is lovely whatever is pure how many want to dedicate your mind to the lord today lift your hands up just lift them up just lift them up lord we give you our minds we we give you our thought life lord we want to please you by the way we think today and tomorrow we don't want nasty negative stuff in there lord purify our minds fill us your minds with your word so that we can make you happy by the very way we think during the day teach us to think about your goodness and your mercy not the bad things in life the cheap things of the culture lord we prayed in jesus name one last one repeat after me work the right way think the right way last one is talk the right way the way to please god and the way to displease them your mouth my mouth look at the verse up in the front do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth but only what is helpful for building others up oh stop but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs that it may benefit those who listen you're going to open your mouth and use it i'm going to open my mouth i have to realize there's life and death in the tongue i can bring blessing to someone by the way i talk i can hurt somebody by the way i talk and paul is saying now don't talk to please yourself no i gotta let it all out where does that say that in the bible doesn't say that that's freud that's not bible no i gotta let everyone know what i feel where is that in the bible i can't find that if you have a friend or a pastor you need to talk to him we can pray fine but blabbing every discontented feeling you have in inside you is it's not conducive to anything you're supposed to you and i are supposed to talk and we're supposed to think what could i say to help the person in front of me well i don't know that person pastor i know let's just try to ask god what can i say to help them why could be pleasant i could be kind i know but i don't know them i know but the bible says every conversation every word let it be edifying to not you not what you want to say what will help that person what is it one out of 100 christians even believe that or try to practice it we just blab we just talk and if people don't agree with what we're saying we get mad at them but now paul says let your conversation be seasoned with grace in another place and is this constructive will this help the person i'm talking to no i don't think it will then i ain't talking by the grace of god i will shut up you know sometimes god's perfect will is to be quiet and not talk why there's nothing constructive that can be said and we've all failed me the the most we just talk and words hurt more than a punch am i correct or not i was in the as he comes to play um jamal i was in the diner on the corner before the pandemic and there's a waitress there and she's i know her right and so i'm drinking my decaf and i look in the corner and she's crying hysterically sitting instead of waiting on tables so go over to her she knows who i am and the connection to the church and i said rosa what's wrong she goes why can't they just pay the bill i said what happened tell me she said this guy i waited on him and he didn't like something or whatever the food whatever so i give him the bill and and he's walking out and then he just starts using these filthy words she repeated them which she shouldn't have she he said these and then why don't you go back to mexico and she's broken crying she would rather take in a vaccination rather than that that's what words can do you think that guy was thinking about oh what can i say to help her anyone you meet let's say i don't even know the waitress or the waiter at any restaurant i don't have to know them why can't i say something that might help them you don't know what they're going through they could be suicidal their kid could have run away from home their daughter could be pulling her hair out and cutting herself how would you and i know know that so what does it cost to talk nice to people oh i all my life i've been around fake christianity that talks about all the things about god and all that and then with the mouth people just rip each other apart i detest that anybody with me i don't want that how many want to be free from that kind of religion just oh lord amen you miserable [Music] can't stand it and that hurts god it weakens us i've had times in my life where i've misused my mouth and i can actually feel weaker spiritually like i grieve the holy spirit big time i don't want to do that i want to work right think right and talk right now you psalm 19 so let the words of my and the meditations of my we got two in one thinking and talking the words of my mouth the meditation of my heart be acceptable pleasing one translation has so by my meditations i can make god happy by my things i think about i can make god said i can grieve the holy spirit by my words i can make god so happy yes that was a good thing you said i helped you say it but i'm that makes me happy or i could just run and just hurt god hurt me hurt everybody so how many want to start tomorrow or no today we know about tomorrow let's start today how many want to work right think right and talk right by the grace of god with god's help lift up your hand okay [Music] let's pray put your hand on your forehead please the other one put it on your chest god we i pray god that you'll fill our minds and our hearts with pure thoughts good thoughts helpful thoughts kind thoughts noble thoughts keep us from cheap thoughts dirty thoughts angry thoughts resentful thoughts we give you our minds and our hearts today put your hand over your mouth please god we give you our tongues and our mouths by your grace let our conversation be helpful not to us but to the person who's listening help us to not have us as the center but the person that we're talking to as the center please lord and help us to work tomorrow should we wake up help us to work a good day whatever we do housewife whatever our job is help us to do with all of our heart not trying to please people but make you happy lord not just when the boss is looking but all the whole day through lord save us from laziness and idleness start with me lord you said six days we should work one day to rest you laid that down as a principle god this is the way we're to live and then one day when we go home we're not going to work anymore we're going to be with you forever and ever but until then hold us and keep us and we thank you for your goodness every eye still closed if you're here today and someone really did it to you weeks ago months ago or years ago i mean they did it to you broke your heart stuck a knife in your back turned it once or twice they just really hurt you and for the life of you you can't get free from those memories you've got to give your mind now to jesus he heals memories he can take what's sour and make it sweet and i want to just pray for you anyone in that situation just stand where you are pastor your word today was medicine to me from the word of god but i'm struggling with these these hurtful painful memories just stand up where you are yes yes yes [Music] lord you see all those who are standing [Music] let there be a bomb in gilead a sweet ointment that will come and heal hearts that have been broken and cleanse our minds and keep us on the right track in our thinking lord we can't go back we can't think about it because it's not edifying it's not pure it's not good it's not holy it's nothing it's just negative [Music] keep us sweet no matter how sour everyone is around us but we pray this in jesus name and everyone said no one moving everyone stands [Music] all right lift up one hand lift up one hand oh [Music] [Music] i will see of the goodness [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] god everybody happy [Music] dorothy could you just hand me because the bible says count your blessings and it says whenever god does something the bag then was handed to me before the meeting began this is a blessing to my wife and i i want to thank god for it you know what's in here doubles [Applause] does anyone know what doubles are raise your hand if you know what a double is one of the members of the church just walked over i didn't i mean i'm so grateful in everything give thanks am i correct can we just thank god for this person who did this for me i'd like to add one verse whatever you do do it with all your heart if you're gonna bake a cake make the best cake you can make am i correct and give me a piece please god bless you you may turn to each other give someone a hug or a handshake [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh i will sing one more time of the goodness of god [Music] married couples remember go round the country 160. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh where are you going

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Published: Sun Oct 31 2021