"God's Spokesmen" - Pastor Wayne Cordeiro - New Hope Classics

Aloha I'm Wayne Cordeiro thank you for joining us we hope you are blessed by this video and the others that are on this channel we'd love to stay connected with you so please leave a comment and click the subscribe and notification buttons so you won't miss any of our upcoming videos there's a team of people working behind the scenes to produce these resources to help you grow in your walk with Jesus and if these videos have blessed you would you consider partnering with us there are a couple of ways that you can do exactly that first share this video with those that you know who need to hear God's Word and second would you prayerfully consider giving to this ministry so we can keep these resources free for others your donation makes a difference please click on the link in the description below for more information my prayer is that God will stir your heart today he wants to give you a future and a hope so do we god bless you and Allah would you take out your notes and let's see how you fared and I know that you got it down so let's go for it here we go he has granted to us his precious and magnificent promises in order that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust all right all four of us did well catch our way toward God help him now help them okay all right ready with all your gustl ready to go he is granted to us as precious and magnificent promises in order that bye bye yeah yeah they're putting that on that's a cheat sheet you call it all right but do you become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust 2nd Peter 1:4 1:4 one for all right give yourselves a hand well we're going to give you another chance because the next scripture for next week is right under it let's try this as God speaks about spokesman and some of the requirements because sometimes God gives a promise that has an assignment attached to it as one that was given to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 1519 and the salient phrase in that is if you extract the precious from the worthless you'll become my spokesman or the wisdom to discern and how to speak let's read it together Jeremiah 1519 go thus says the Lord if you return then I will restore you before me you will stand and if you extract the precious from the worthless you will become my Jeremiah was in trouble and with him all of Israel problem is he was gone going going down with the ship hadn't always been that way he see under the reign of David it was the Golden Age the people of Israel were doing wonderfully and then the affluent reign of Solomon now Solomon's son Rehoboam took them down the wrong road and there was a civil war ten tribes went with the north they were called Israel only two stayed with the King Rehoboam called that Judah nineteen Kings later Israel is about to vanish forever eight of the kings either committed suicide or assassinated by their own family and kin and then the king of Assyria swept down in 722 BC and took them captive and to never hear from them again you might hear about the lost tribes of Israel that's since 722 was dispersed and vaporized now Judah on the other hand 20 Kings later had only 8 good Kings and the last of the good Kings Josiah Josiah was a great king but then after him four of his sons took it from bad to worse oh they started taking them down the wrong road started worshipping other gods then it was right in the midst of that that God saw that soon king nebuchadnezzar was about to sweep down from babylon and take them into the babylonian captivity it was right during that time that God spoke to Jeremiah and said Jeremiah I need a spokesman because if they don't repent and return then the consequences of their own sin will disperse them into the Babylonian captivity and he could see that in the future and so he said please tell them please tell them to turn from their sins and turn back to the Lord so they wouldn't have to run into their own consequences now when God sort of emphasizes the consequences of our sin and he rushes in to speak us speak to us about our sin it isn't because he wants to rain on our parade God isn't some stoic God's stringent god that says if they send just wacom no no no God isn't some bigoted kind of God why do you think God is so concerned about sin because he knows that sin will arrest or rest from us our futures because the wages of sin is death and it causes us to miss the future that the Lord has for us and God knows that he could see King Nebuchadnezzar ready to sweep down and destroy all of Judah and so he says I need a spokesman to turn them back to me and God rushes in why is he so concerned about sin because he loves us so much and he knows that we were not created to do well in sin just as if your hand wasn't created to do well in a vat of hydrochloric acid so when you stick it in you'll pull out a stump and the rest is gone God didn't create our arm to do well in certain environments and the same is true with sin and we've all seen the devastating effects of sin on families and on relationships and churches and futures and so God saw that coming he said I need a spokesman not to courier the wrath of God or that I'm ashamed of you or your bad bad bad no no no God says I need a spokesman because I love them and I don't want them to go over the edge thousands of cars are stolen in California each year but this one car theft brought state attention he see a man was going up to his cabin up in the hills and he had a little rat problem and so he wanted to get rid of the rats so he took some crackers and laced it with poison rat poison liquid rat poison had dried and he stuck it back in the cracker box he added in the front seat it's about to leave when he forgot something he went out to get it and a thief saw it as an opportunity jumped in the car and took off not knowing that next to him was crackers laced with poison so the man called the Police Department and on all the police blotters and all-points bulletin looking for this car on the television stations News special reports would come out and the police were hunting this guy down going after them like they've never gone after a thief before why because they wanted to punish him and yell at him and and and demean him no they were going after him like crazy because they were trying to save his life and God said to Jeremiah I need you to go in there because I can see what's about to happen and tell them to return oh but Zedekiah at the time said that Jeremiah don't tell me we need to turn back to God do you see Zedekiah was pretty antagonistic towards God didn't want to have anything to do with him there's an atheist about about that time and he just he said don't tell me about this and he was actually going after other gods didn't believe in the truth decided to go after the others he's an idol worshiper and and Jeremiah said turn back to God because your slave you're enslaved to these gods Zedeck I said come on don't tell me I'm a slave listen I can do whatever I want I'm still in power I'm still fine you know a lot of times we think we're free but we're in captivity and it's just that the physical effects of that haven't hit us yet but we're in slavery that's why Jesus said in John 8:32 you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free all the Pharisees and Sadducees stood by and said don't tell us we're gonna be free free from what we are sons of Abraham we have a higher pedigree than most of you so don't tell me the truth will set us free cuz we don't need freedom we are free we've never been enslaved to anybody John 8:34 Jesus replies and said he who sins makes himself a slave of sin and you need to be set free see they didn't know they were slaves but they were and a lot of times we're just doing our own thing thinking we're free when we're really enslaved and that's what Jeremiah came in to tell the people of Israel I was in Oregon watching a fly fisherman and he cast out his line and catch a trout reel that thing and put it in his basket to eat and then he'd throw his fly out and go after another one and they would take off zhuzh not that would go I went over there and said how are you catching so many fish I looked at his fly box he must have had a hundred two hundred flies of different sizes shapes colors feathers all kinds and he says I find the fly that the fish are biting on I throw it out and when I catch oh man I can't she said just then he caught another one and Xu's that fish took off down the river and he smiled and he said I love this I said what he's playing with the fish let him run and then he reeled it in and it got a little closer took off and he said run baby run he just followed it and then he brought it in and I said well when do you bring it in he said when I'm tired of playing with it and then he reels it in and he eats it and I thought in my mind you're just like the devil cuz he's seeing the devil's fly box he's got one with your name on it you see because he knows what you bite on he knows what your weak points are he studied you he knows he's plotted you out for some people their weak point is greed or their weak point is is a sexual try store or abusing drugs or needing notoriety because they're insecure or maybe just a burst of anger or maybe it's something else but whatever it is he knows and he's got a fly just for you because he studied you and that's your weak point he throws one out and he lets it float right by and you look around anything mm-hmm this baby looks good no but nobody's looking that was good and then you think huh I shouldn't have oh look but nothing's changed I'm still me oh and we just swim off just swim the only thing is there's a funny sound following us and then another fly goes by oh I ate one before and nothing happened to me I'm still free and so we get the nut and let the one down and we get another and we just swim around mmm well we don't know is about ten suji's are coming out our mouths as we're swimming around and when the devil is tired of playing with you he sets the hook and it gets into our guts and it sinks deep and you know that feeling when you think what am i doing and all of a sudden you start bleeding on the inside and there's a pain deep within and you can't help yourself because you're going over the edge and you cry out to God God I don't know how to get this stuff out without ripping my guts out I don't know how to get free without tearing up my insides I don't know what to do well I want you to know that there's only one who can deliver you from that only one and his name is Jesus Christ and when you receive him in your heart he says if you know the truth the truth will set you free and if the son sets you free you will be free indeed because you see when you receive Jesus Christ into your life he's the only one that can deliver you because deliverance starts from the inside not the outside healing starts inside out freedom starts inside out and that's why when you receive Christ it's the most eternal decision that you'll ever make if you've never made that decision please do so today there's no greater decision you'll ever make in your life but it was at that time where Israel thought it was free but there was a sound following her and Jeremiah was asked to be a spokesperson for God to deliver his heart no not God's wrath no not God's anger God's heart of compassion to Israel and so Jeremiah went in to speak to them but you know they must not have listened because in 587 BC Nebuchadnezzar came and swept them away they came back for a brief time under under nehemiah but they were sketchy at best because the Romans then came in and then they didn't become a nation again till after World War two but even that from the very beginning they never came back as a solid nation ever because Israel was gone just Judah it was a sad history filled with strife and that's why God needed spokespersons to go in and turn them so that they would see that the healer and the deliverer was making himself available they didn't know not only to be called Jeremiah I believe that there's people even in our community in the same way say I don't know how to deliver myself from this without ripping my guts out I know that I've done wrong I just don't know what to do I think I'm finished I think that's it I was having devotions the other day and a lady came to me she was about 87 years old she sat down she said can I bother you for a moment so I said sure she said I'm 87 years old and I used to go to church and I remember an evangelist came to the church and she said he had us he asked if we would like to receive the Lord and people raise their hands and stood up and I didn't and she said and I know that was my last chance and I just don't know I just needed to confess that to somebody but I know I missed it well then you know I had the privilege of saying to her that wasn't your last chance the devil might tell you it's your last chance but the Lord says that he will be with you until the end of the age so I said to her no the fact that you're sitting in front of me tells me that your heart is ready to receive Jesus Christ would you like to do that and she said oh I would I would I got to pray with her last week to receive the Lord 87 years old at the Kahala Mall she got up she was crying and crying and walking away and I walked her there for a while and it was such a joyous occasion to have been used as a spokesperson forgot you see God isn't just asking Jeremiah to do that he's asking us if we would say yes and if the Lord would ask you what do you think shall we say yes yeah let's do well then he say well where do we start how do we build some qualities to be a spokesperson for God would you write in your notes number one the first is stay near to God's heart just start by staying near to God's heart because you won't know what to say unless you're hanging out with him stay near to God's heart because you see there's going to be children that are strained they don't need reprimand a religious reprimand they need a spokesperson and you need to stay near to God's heart a husband or a wife that's ready to call it quits they need a spokesperson not catchy Church phrases a co-worker in trouble a loved one says he or she has cancer they don't need just nice colloquialisms or religious words they need a spokesperson how do you do that you start by staying near to God's heart that's what happened with Peter and John in the book of Acts let's read about them go now as they observe the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men they were marveling and began to recognize them as having been with underlying those last few words having been with Jesus he said you can't hang around people too long without picking up some of their characteristics and that true that's why the scripture says be careful of the friends that you choose because bad company can corrupt good morals and it can go you just you hang around someone for a while you pick up traits it's some time ago and things last year baywatch was shooting a special series up on the North Shore one of the people that fly back and forth between LA and here is part of our congregation well he's a stunt double for David Hasselhoff and so he said hey Wayne we're gonna be shooting some stuff and I'm coming into town why don't you come and hang out with us I said oh yeah and so I went up there and and had lunch with David Hasselhoff and and all right outside of his trailer he has his weights you know so that right before he goes on the camera and it is like all of these celebrities all of these glamour people just step right out of a magazine you know right onto the beach and and they were everywhere so I had lunch with them I talked with them met a bunch of them but you know the funny thing is like by that afternoon I felt myself walking around like this [Laughter] my voice even changed huh are you doing you know until I saw myself in the mirror thought oh I better get back to ministry you know but isn't that true you just kind of pick up traits and on the other hand it could be working for the good also in Hilo and we pioneered we had a wonderful friend and was an elder in my life Knoll Campbell and he would he came for about six years and just helped us pioneer until he retired and moved back to Washington but he would always say I sure love you in such genuine ways I sure love you and I remember once you know Anna not just once but many times I just preached the worst sermons I just tank on some messages and I walk out of church with my tail between my legs and he eats see me on the side and he'd say I sure love you but you don't when he retired and let I found myself saying that I sure love you and you know it's good because you hang around people we're good traits rub off on you but you know I don't know of anyone I'd rather hang around with and have his traits rub off on me than other than Jesus Christ that his heart would rub off on me that his words that his life would become more engaged with interwoven with mine and my prayer is that one day people is just be obvious to people that not only me but every single one of us they would look at us and say you hang out a lot with Jesus don't you I can tell oh that would be a great great thing to hear what a compliment we said well how do you hang out with Jesus I mean how do you walk with the Lord I hear preachers always saying you're gonna walk with the Lord walk with God I'm how do you walk with him he just kind of Walker on with a glazed in knee rising I'm walking with Jesus you know why do you do that what's real easy the first is would you write in the first bullet there stay consistent in your devotions be consistent in daily devotions would you write that and be consistent in daily devotions because you see a spokesperson for God has got to hear his voice often and when I'm reading the Word of God and I do it consistently what happens is I say oh that's how you responded to that problem huh ah that's how you think about those that are hurting ah that's how you would respond to that interrogation that's what you think that's what you would say and I read that over hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times and then what happens is when I come into that very same situation I find myself thinking more like he would think rather than I would think I find myself responding more as he responded because as his word comes through my mind and I read it again and again it changes the pattern of my thinking or it transforms my mind or what the scripture says it renews the spirit of my mind and it gives us not a humanistic mind but the mind of Christ it develops in you by being consistent so a spokesperson has to be hearing God in fact let's read the scripture together in Matthew 10 go what I tell you in the darkness speak in the light and what you hear whispered in your ear proclaim upon the housetops you see he's saying this if I am hearing nothing in the darkness what in the world am I gonna speak when I get in the light and if I'm not hearing him whisper anything into my ear what in the world am I gonna proclaim on the housetops so if we're gonna be spokespersons we've got to be consistent in our devotion so that God is speaking to us and and then our words become more like his words and remember this his words always build up his words always motivate his words are always grounded in love and they always give life and when your words become more like his it will would you write in their next bullet it defines us as disciples it'll define us as a disciple because the words that you give will bring life it'll take weariness away and give life in exchange let's read what Isaiah 50 in verse 4 tells us go the Lord God has given me the tongue of disciples that I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word did you know that people get weary how many of you say yeah I get weary once in a while raise your hand sure even in good things in fact the Bible says do not grow weary in well-doing and he wouldn't say that if it were not a possibility but indeed because it is he recognizes that even those that do well will get weary in it get weary as a parent get weary in ministry get weary doing good sure and so the Bible says that there's people out there weary and he's looking for spokespersons who will sustain a weary one with the word with just a word a spokesperson for God's heart I remember him when that happened to me I was about 34 years old we were pastoring in Hilo and things went from bad to worse I don't know I I think I was burning the candle at both ends now I was just really weary and it's at when you're at your lowest isn't that when it's the most opportune time for the devil to strike that's when those flies start floating by and you know I was really tired really worn and then all of a sudden one of my top staff guys just left in a huff angry and then another one would leave and then I started getting letters that people were discouraged about church they didn't like the church and I got in one letter and it wasn't the worst letter of all but it's just a letter that I just didn't want to receive and it was like it was a straw that broke the camel's back and my heart I didn't tell anybody in my heart I said that's it I can leave this I can make more bucks somewhere else in the marketplace I don't need to take this stuff I'm finishing in my heart you know how you just say that's it in your heart that's it I'm done nobody knew that but in my heart I was about finished well the very next day a lady from the church came and said Wayne I want to give something to you and I said what do you want you know cuz I knew just one's gonna give me some work hassle she said I don't want anything I want to give you something so I'm sorry I said I said yeah what is that she said it's just a word from the Lord I was praying for you because it's the Lord laid you on my heart last night I just have a scripture for you it's Jeremiah 17 16 and it says this but as for me I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after thee now nobody knew that I was ready to bail out as a shepherd but she was a spokesperson and delivered that but as for me I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after thee and you know that one word turned the whole tide of my life I don't know maybe I'm in the ministry yet today because of a spokesperson who was near the heart of God had his word and delivered it so us a weary one could be sustained with a word I don't know how many weary ones there are out there but I I can bet there's a bunch and you know what they don't need any religious cliches they need spokespersons will you be one cuz God is recruiting them yet today we say well when where do I start though I mean cuz I don't know all these scriptures and I don't know all of that stuff where let me tell you a great place to start here it is this is the easiest would you write it number two choose to be here it is just a start choose to be constructive with your words choose to be constructive with your words because we all know that you can be destructive with words as well constructive in fact that's exactly what proverb says let's read it together death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit would you circle death and life and underline are in the power of the tongue you see there's either death or life and your words will deliver either and you got to choose you won't fall into it you must choose to be constructive because it's so easy to be destructive I remember when Anna and I wanted our kitchen expanded a little bit and so a contractor came over and one of the men in our church and said well we have to break this wall out over here so the next day he came with a friend of his and they brought sledgehammers now we had just wallpaper in the kitchen and he said well this is gonna have to go out and they were just crashing this wall down and they were having such a blast they started laughing oh this is fun foosh they're a little warped but uh you know and I thought words can be like that words are like a sledge hammer no planning no thinking we just start swinging away and all of a sudden we look around and there's a pile of rubble relational rubble friendships are in rubble marriages are in rubble we swing away with our words and when we do we tear people down did you know that words are one of the single most important tools in our lives that God has given to us I mean you can recall with me in Genesis there was a thing called Babel and and they were building the Tower of Babel and they were trying to build a city up into heaven the only thing was they were really proud about it there was an arrogance there and God decided because there's so much arrogance he was gonna stop the project just stop in order to stop the project God didn't take away their hammers and saws in order to stop the project think about it God took away their word God took away their ability to communicate why because God knows that the most important tools we have are words but we must choose is it words to deliver death or life it's in the power of the tongue and those who will be spokespersons start off by choosing choosing to be people who are constructed with their words and that's why Ephesians 4 says this let's read it in our notes go do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs please circle building others up see that's constructive words oh I know we have heard that phrase sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me that is false words do hurt I have heard words break a child's heart words can break a husband's dreams words can destroy a wife's love but at the same time you've seen this where words can just assure in a sense of healing and restoring of relationships with just a phrase I'm sorry genuinely spoken will you please forgive me and that which was once antagonistic turns to wholeness and healing I've seen it bring in a sense of confidence into a young adolescent girl when a dad steps into her room and says honey I sure love you you are beautiful and there's a sense of wholeness that comes to an awkward adolescent girls like words but you've got to choose for them to be constructive and I think many times we've had our lives healed or strengthened by just a few well gen-y well-placed genuine words probably came from a coach a minister grandparent dad and mom a friend maybe even a teacher as was the case of Miss Leonard I want to read you the story of this teacher out of this well-known tremendous phenomenal book here that day it's it's a story called a whisper test it's about Miss Leonard and the girl who experienced this situation writes it and she says this I grew up knowing that I was different why because I was born with a cleft palate and when I started school my classmates made it very clear to me that I didn't look like it like didn't look like the others and when my schoolmates asked me what happened to your lip I would always tell them that I fell and cut it on a piece of glass somehow it seemed more acceptable to have suffered an accident than to be born different I was convinced that no one outside my family could ever love me there was however a teacher in the second grade whom we all adored miss Leonard she was short round and happy she was a sparkling lady every year we would take a hearing test miss Leonard gave the test to everyone in the class she would have you stand up against the wall and cover one ear and she'd whispers something whilst being seated at her desk and we would have to repeat it back she'd whisper things like the sky is blue or do you have new shoes and we'd have to repeat it back what was my turn she knew what I had gone through and I stood against the wall with one ear covered and waited for the words that God must have put in Miss Leonard's mouth seven words that changed my life because with a smile she looked at me and Miss Leonard said in a whisper I wish you were my little girl I didn't know what to say and even if I did I wouldn't have been able to say anything I tried repeating it but I was crying too hard so she repeated it again I wish you were my little girl I guess by my tears she knew that I had heard and on that day I passed the greatest test of all knowing that I was chosen by God and I was loved by somebody words words that can change a person's life and when you choose to be constructive with your words you're someone who has made the cut to be a spokesperson for the kingdom of God they say Oh Wayne you know what if you have to speak words of correction or or something just see it's not right I mean you just kind of not say anything let me give you a tip that will help you in your communication and and it's a simple decision that you can make this week to improve your communication would you write in your bullet there learn to ask questions learn to ask questions know not make statements because statements have a tendency to put people on the defense but when you ask questions appropriately it opens the door for dialogue it opens the door for learning for discussion but when you make a statement it's a judgment it's a conclusion and that's it let's read what the scripture says in proverbs 18 go he who gives an answer before he hears it is folly and shame to him you see what God is saying is ask questions because you know if there's anyone that was a master of questions it was Jesus wasn't it who do men say that I am do we pay taxes bring me a coin whose inscription is on it Caesars render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's hey who gives you this authority to cast out these people selling Birds and and sheep and these money changers well I'll tell you whose authority by which I do these things if you'll answer this one question for me the baptism of the ministry of John was it from heaven or men he was a master at asking questions and we need to learn that because it's so easy to see someone doing something that we think is wrong due to our perspective we say bless stupid but look what he's doing look at her why is she doing that what dumb isn't it hey you shouldn't do that hey you should why'd you say that why'd you do that instead of instead of that ass learn to ask questions you know I thought I heard but I'm probably wrong could you clarify for me why could you tell me about could you help me to understand and then what it does it keeps defenses down and increases communication it keeps relationships clean the once a statement is made that's it you got to choose sides just the other day two days ago I got a call three days ago I got a call and this lady left an anonymous phone message on my phone and I wear a shirt there's a guy on it over here that has a lalala hat and he's in a hammock and he's playing in Huckel le and he's kind of laid-back like this and she called and she left this anonymous message she says I don't think it's very nice for you to wear a shirt with a scantily clad lady and her leg is pointing towards the people it offends me and it offends my friends click look that's it no the issue isn't with my shirt it's with your eyesight's you know I thought what and I thought you know I may be ugly but I'm not stupid to be in front of a church that goes on television and I have a scantily clad woman with her leg pointing towards a camera now I would catch that don't you think and if I didn't catch it my wife will catch it did I was thinking in that funny I think it would have been better if a question were asked you know I can't quite make out that print on the shirt could you tell me what it is if I said oh it's a scantily clad lady with her leg hanging out okay you can take a shot at that point but if the question were asked oh no it's a guy in La Jolla hat he's playing ukuleles in a hammock oh oh great well I thought it was different but oh great no problem no problem you know how much trouble it would have saved that person you can see when you are near God and when you allow God's Word to come in you you and you can you keep your words constructive as best as you can and learn to ask questions you know what it does would you write in in your notes what it does is this it helps you to develop a life that's marked by wisdom did you write that down it'll help you to develop a life that's marked by wisdom you see that seeing situations in life from God's perspective let's read Jeremiah 1519 go if you extract the precious from the worthless you will become my spokesman in other words if you know what's not only right and wrong but wise and unwise you see the first level that we grow in is learning to discern wise from unwise rather right from wrong that's the first step well that's right that's wrong that's wrong that's right now you don't want to keep struggling you know like oh I really want to steal that I don't know if I should but I love who I don't know is that wrong or not I don't know stealing Oh No now if you're struggling with that you got to work on that a little bit work on that but I bet that's not kind of where we struggle the most because I bet most of us kind of have that pretty much down then you graduate into the next level of faith or life and that's not what's right or wrong but what's wise and what's unwise that's where you're gonna spend the most of your life and it's either right or wrong is what's wise or unwise friend of mine called me and said Wayne and getting a divorce why so well there's a lady at my office that that wanted some advice so I we got in my car and I was gonna take her to lunch and talk about it but instead does she said let's just pull over here to this park and we parked in this little park on the side and she began sharing with me our hearts through a story and all her sobs and and I guess I gave her some advice that was pretty good cuz she gotten excited she leaned over and gave me a big kiss and at that moment my wife drove by I'm in trouble what do I do that's the first thing I says recognize and you're pretty stupid and I said the second is repent like crazy well there's a happy ending to the story he is married still loves his wife and everything worked out fine but you see wasn't necessarily a wrong thing that he was doing he was really trying his best but it wasn't wise they'll be in a park with a woman that's not your wife this is just not wise there's certain things you've got to understand it's not right or wrong she's not wise like when you're going through security at the airport don't joke with those people that's not wise I found that out one hour later they let you go and it's not wise to say to your wife I don't think your diet is working I mean there's gonna be a lot of things in life where there's going to be worthless and precious all mixed up and you're gonna hear something he say not that guy said something and I'm just not touching that with a ten-foot pole but I think I'll I'll respond to this but I could respond to this you know it's sort of like someone would say you should know better but anyway you should have done this what do you mean I should know better well no you don't pick on that that's worthless you let that thing go flush that deep and you take listen yeah I should know this and thank you for helping me you've got to be able to extract the precious from the worthless and when you do wisdom will be a part of your life it'll mark your life and you'll become a spokesman for God because there's gonna be a lot of things come at you with the worthless and the precious mixed in can you extract the precious from the worthless and let the worthless go don't even touch it just leave it just leave it let it go and then work on the precious if not you're gonna get into a vicious cycle isn't that right have you seen these vicious cycles you said what well you called me no I didn't I didn't mean yes you did you meant that I did yeah yeah yeah you did I heard you and we start going under this vicious cycle that that has nothing to do with the situation God is saying get some wisdom on that and let the worthless go heard about a vicious cycle recently there was an elderly man running around a football track and just kind of doing a slow jog and in the middle of the football track the football players were practicing and they were doing wind sprints back and forth back and forth and the old man thought you know hey listen these kids can do sprints the least I can do as long as they're doing wind sprints I can at least just jock and so he said as they're doing that I'm gonna do this and so jogging sprinting jogging sprinting and so finally this man says oh man I can't keep this up these kids are in shape so he just finally quit oh and then when he quit they stopped sprinting just then one of the football players ran over and so excuse me sir so thank you for stopping jogging and the old man said whoa why he said because the coach said as long as that old man is running we're doing wind sprints vicious cycles and our words can get us trapped in that and when your life is marked by wisdom you'll learn to extract the precious from the worthless now you have to develop that's like a skill I mean the next scripture says this doing wickedness is like sport to a fool and so is wisdom to a man of understanding in other words you've got to develop the skills of wisdom it's a skill it's like a sports a skill and you develop that and when you do you'll become someone ready to be a spokesman for God how many of you would say Lord if you invited me to do that man I'd like to take you up on the offer what do you think shall we do it let's do it amen let's stand together

Channel: NewHopeOahu

Views: 1,474

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: qualities, daily devotions, promise, heart, God's word, life, New Hope Oahu, Pastor Wayne Cordeiro, Wayne Cordeiro, Honolulu, Classics, Hawaii

Id: k9blEhexrig

Length: 47min 54sec (2874 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 11 2019