Levi Lusko Passion 2020 _ Ten and Two

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you can't be an influence while you're being influenced at the same time Jesus drank and Jesus hey Jesus would that parties and Jesus's you know yes he yes he was but who are the core voices in his life he had all he was really willing to hang out with anyone go to dinner with anyone go to someone's house yeah yes yes just but he had 12 key friends in his life his small group you could say his community that you could say and even from there a greater seventy and even from there a greater 500 and even within the 12 disciples did he not have three best friends Peter James and John who really did life with you you seldom see Jesus doing anything without Peter and James and John around and so I think that's the posture hello should we just do it like Jesus that's like a plan but but let's let's minister everyone loved everyone realize that we're sent out to work and be in this world and live in community and and seek the Peace of the cities that we're living in the schools and the parks and the soccer leaves and your kids gymnastic deal and the whole thing and be around people and be saw and be like hey thank you so much for tuning in to fresh Life TV it is such a privilege to have you with us we're in a series of messages called rumbles trip you know that that you feel when your car drifts on the highway or drifts on the road and all of a sudden you're grabbing something on the ground or tuning the radio and now you're hearing a sound a sound that could save your life keep you from collision keep you from the ditch keep you from damaging your car by coming into contact with the guardrail similarly God has put into our heart and through his voice and through conviction and good friends who speak into our lives those opportunities to course correct before danger if we can lean into this powerful protection we can be prevented from disaster so this really could be one of the most important series you ever really hear if this message blesses you in any way we would love to hear about it shoot me an email to Levi at fresh Life Church and if you want to support this ministry and help bring this message to more people you can partner with us by clicking the donate button at Levi's lusco com thank you so much please enjoy this message from God's Word well we're glad in addition to all our locations to have people at church online podcasts however you're hearing this message thanks for being with us if you have a Bible turn to Ephesians chapter 5 I want to preach a message to you that I'm calling 10:00 and 2:00 10:00 and 2:00 in life which is a highway we've learned you can't drive like a G all right we got both hands on the steering wheel right you got to have handset what is it 10:00 and 2:00 I know I know I know I know they updated it you're not supposed to do that anymore because your airbags will blow your thumbs off but but 10 and 2 is how I learned it's a tenant 2 is how I'll preach it and 9 and 3 just doesn't sound quite as punchy's there's not a zesty you know I'm saying when you just nest on my sermon titles Ephesians 5 what's my title 10 and 2 Ephesians chapter 5 we've been camped out in these verses have you just been loving yourself some Ephesians anybody else been like ma'am my life's been enriched by that's the first three rows that's usually all I get it's fine Ephesians chapter they're loving it in Salt Lake City chapter 5 starting in verse 14 God speaking awake you who sleep arise from the dead and Christ will give you light I don't know we could ever read that too many times really because in in every season of the soul it hits us in a different spot an area where you've fallen asleep at the wheel and you're drifting towards disaster to hear God say awake awake weren't wearing we're in your life do you need to hear it arise from the dead Christ is gonna give you light see then that you walk circumspectly it's careful be careful be careful be careful how you live not as fool's but it's wise redeeming the time because the days are evil therefore do not be unwise but understand what the will of the Lord is and do not be drunk with wine and which is dissipation but be filled with the spirit speaking to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord I'm gonna really spend some time on that next week I hope you'll make plans to be with us it's gonna be a powerful time this entire series I've been chomping at the bit to get to the last message so you want to be here with us next week as we break into some of that stuff giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ submitting to one another in the fear of God and Jesus we just ask that you would speak something fresh to us something just for right now not a word for yesterday we give you the luxury of being God if you want to speak into our tomorrow but we really want you to speak into our present help us to see the things were doing maybe that we shouldn't be doing the things we aren't doing that we should but at the end of the day we just say your will be done you know what we need to hear and we we know we need you and we pray that as we just quiet our hearts for a moment from the craziness of life and busyness and plans and things and work that we would just hear from you and spend time near to you and we'd be changed by it and we ask that if anyone listening to these words right now doesn't know you as Savior you draw them to yourself with your love which we know is what leads us to repentance we ask and pray this in the name of Jesus amen they say that there are critical survival skills that are key to making it through you know wilderness experience and I was surprised to find as I googled and I was looking into it that one of the most important and most often overlooked survival skills has nothing to do with the ability to make a fire with a flint or to purify water distilled from your own urine with a plastic bag over a hole you've dug or you know knowing how to kill in skin and eat a rattlesnake and all the stuff that we see I'm Bear Grylls right that's how you survive that's that's what you do and and and yet as important as food water and shelter is that one of the most important one of the most commonly overlooked mistakes that people make when setting off to go into the wilderness where they feel confident and competent because of their abilities to do some of those and other things that we haven't gotten into reading the stars etc etc knowing which berries are the good berries in which berries are the stoned berries and dead berries you know you can figure that stuff out but one of the most important is in fact telling three people where you're going and when you expect to be back that's James Franco right right telling too soon telling three people where you're going is where I'm gonna be and here's where I plan to come back here's my question when you end up in your life in a dangerous place or spiritually speaking you dropped off the radar you're in a spot that's important where you need rescue does anybody know to come looking for you who in your life is postured to rush to you to know who's positioned in your life to come looking for you and to send in to send in the helicopters that's the question where a series of messages called rumble strip or using these little bumps or these slits these dips that are built into the road carved into the road placed on the road for our protection we're using them as an analogy to talk about what's the equivalent in our lives and we're doing so from this text it tells us wake up wake up you who sleep because that's what those bumps are there to do they're audible and tactile things they're to tell us you're moving in the wrong direction we're asking the question what in our lives tells us when we're drifting towards danger how do we not mate how do we not make foolish decisions of course nobody argues with these things being on the highway maybe a cyclist right that's not a great feeling actually you know in a car it's like a massage on a road bike with skinny tires it's like it'll knock your fillings out of your teeth yes but they put gaps in them for the bikes to get there I've also heard that one community that is really not into rumble strips as the Amish communities on the eastern seaboard because the horse and buggies and they they just don't they don't do well with the wooden wheels I guess I wouldn't know but but here's what I know I know most of us go yeah rumble strips are important that's a good thing agreed why because rumble strips save lives rumble strips save lives they only cost $5,000 per mile to install which when you consider the cost of staggering costs of putting roads in and the upkeep of roads repaving rows it's a pretty small amount of money five thousand dollars per one mile of rumble strips and yet the Department of Transportation estimates that on any stretch of road where they've been installed the fatalities on that road drop by as much as fifty one percent good use of the taxpayer dollars government rumble strip go ahead feel free put those in anytime you see fit right of course every one of us goes yes please puts us in because we know we all have been touched by fatalities on on roads in this country which which it happens that way too much how much well thirty seven thousand lives per year and that number has steadily the last few years been going up actually thirty seven thousand plus lives per year lost on roads and highways in the United States of America the three biggest factors being drunk driving not wearing seatbelts and speeding which is really a terrible thing because all three of those are preventable none of those things have to happen that's not animals jumping right the three biggest factors in the loss of lives on the roads in our day drunk driving not wearing seatbelts and speeding hey listen to me we can do better come on let's be better drivers now none of those things need to creep into our lives we can all make good decisions amen amen so rumble strips save lives but highways and roads aren't the only places where they need to be installed we need them in our lives if we are to redeem the time knowing that the days are evil if we are to as one translation puts it make the most out of time because the days are really evil now when we think about evil days we think about a wicked day and us being tainted or influenced by a dark day that we live in and certainly that is true in a sense but I think there's also a play on words going on why because wickedness and speed are connected if we speak of that car how fast is that car got come on guys you know that cars wicked fast that motorcycles wicked quick right you think about that speed and I think that is partially what Paul's using as his analogy make the most out of time make sure you don't let your life be wasted don't waste your life because your life is wicked fast it's evil how quickly your life will be over Jenny now we're on our date night this week we take a date we bleed date night and it's just been our habit in our marriage part is partially because we just really love being together and partially because of preventative maintenance you know we're not waiting till oh man we're on the rocks we really need some time together no we're we're spending that infusion constantly that drip drip drip drip of time together in sometimes it's elaborate and fancy we just celebrated a big anniversary and and and so we had a you know a more special date night we saw a show on Broadway and that was awesome and and yet the normal is just you know it might just be a movie and man the healthy dinner of popcorn and Milk Duds combined of course I'm not a pagan ever shake those in there it really softens them up makes it better on the teeth my dentist is not in this worship experience so I can I can say that so here's the here's the that the beauty is that we just get that time together this week we're on a bike ride because we're stoked that the weather's been nicer in our part of the country we've just been having great weather and Utah and Wyoming and Oregon in Montana so we're on this bike ride and spirits are high and I don't know how we got on topic but we're sitting there eating and eating some some appetizers that we had order at a restaurant and and somehow she asked me how long you know do you think you'll live I don't know why she asked me that or what she was thinking a little nervous to make sure she ate the food before I did after she asked that but but she she said that how long what's life expectancy I'm like I don't know let's google it so we get on the phone and what it turns out 81 for women and 76 for men so I don't know what you ladies are doing but maybe the all the facial lotions or something like that but but you get five extra years and and so we were then we sat back in both of us we knew we both were doing the math she's a little bit older than me so I I had that working for me but it's only six months and and so I'm like you're gonna have like four and a half years on your hands honey what are you gonna do with it and and and then we started to do the math on all of our friends we're like dang they're old they're there one foot in the grave man there you got 11 years left and we were just thinking through what does that feel like to be so close to to the end of your life but then of course we both to acknowledge that that's that's a great rule of thumb 81 76 - the truth is that none of us are guaranteed anything more than our next breath over the last four years Levi's Lesko has written three best-selling books through the eyes of a lion swipe right and I declare war each of these books targets different yet important topics that will help you live the life of freedom and power that God has planned for you through the eyes of a lion is all about facing impossible 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the podcast learn how to lean into and not fight your conscience and this week we're going to talk about the external rumble strip of the people in our lives how God wants to use the people in your life to help you avoid getting to the end of your life and realize you drifted far from the lane that God intended you to run and how to lean into the voice of the people in your lives to tell you when you're moving in the wrong direction my whole sermon in just one sentence is this when you listen to the right voices you avoid the wrong places when you're listening to the right voices in your life you will avoid the wrong play because those people are God's voice to rhumble in your life and keep you from straying to keep you from listen living foolishly and the definition of foolish living is to live in the present in a way that you believe will not impact your future but the present always impacts the future and the truth is some of us we're living in a way that we're hurtling toward a future that we will not like when we get there but we're foolishly thinking that we can do whatever we want and that won't impact our future the days that are coming ahead let's circle into the verse that that tells us what I'm talking to you about the voices and your left the people in your life they're gonna help you to not waste your life but to live in a way that's circumspect it's verse 21 where Paul in the English standard version puts it this way submitting to one another out of reference for Christ submitting now to one another this is a mechanism that God's put in place to keep us from living foolish foolishly that is to say submitting to each other out of reverence for Christ or as we read in the New King James out of our fear of God now when we talk to us to find our terms when we talk about reverence for Christ or fear of God what are we talking about we're talking about being so in awe of him who he is and what he's done that you're so overcome that you're so thunderstruck that you're so deeply moved on the inside by what Jesus has done for you like what has he done hello he gave you life hello he died on the cross hello rose from the dead gave you a spirit gave you a new name called you a son called you his daughter gave you the fatted calf put a robe on your shoulders a ring on your finger put your name on a table setting in heaven called you to be a part of the greatest thing going that is God's plan to save the world to touch the loss to feed the hungry to clothe the naked to put a bed out for the homeless to put the Bible in two languages it hasn't been translated in yet so people on the other side of the world could know his name he's given you so that you would be that you would be so moved by your reverence for Christ and if by the way that that's like that's pretty good I mean to say you need to spend a little more in the front half of the book of Ephesians where God just expands your vistas as far as what Jesus has done for you the blessings in Christ how deep they are how wide they are how big they are how what it truly means to be a part of Jesus's family but Paul here tells us if that's true for you if you really if you really have that kind of reverence that kind of awe that kind of beautiful terror that idea of wonderful majesty that you know that when we appear before God he's gonna be clothed in light and and and just majestic in all of his ways and you know that the voice of God splits the cedars and divides the flames of fire and causes the deer to give birth and cause stars to come shooting out into the heavens that you know who he is if that's true let's look at the verse again then we should submit to one another your reverence for Christ should cause you to react to his people in a very specific way of submission okay we defined reverence for Christ let's now serve on to find submission what does it mean it means to voluntarily that's so huge voluntarily no one's gonna make you voluntarily no one's gonna force you to live the way God wants you to voluntarily put yourself under the authority of other people within his body to voluntarily put yourself in a place of submission to yield to other people in the body of Christ if you have a reverence for Christ that is what you will do why because the people in your life matter more than you know and that's why we need to Circle up to our first point jot it down the right people we need right people in our lives to a large degree the people in your life are going to determine the outcome and trajectory of your life hear me loud and clear there is almost nothing your goals your dreams your vision your job your hobbies almost nothing in your life will determine the trajectory that your life heads on like the people that you surround yourself with look what proverbs chapter 13 says on the subject become wise by walking with the wise hang with fools and watch your life fall to pieces doesn't say how that fool becomes a fool that's inherent that's that's obvious hang out with fools and you watch what happens to your life it's the same thing that happens to foolish people you're gonna become like and move towards those you hang out with you can't stay wise living life and doing life with foolish people neva tably it's gonna rub off on you this is even true on a psychological neurological level I was listening to a talk by pastor Andy Stanley and he's a good friend and had the chance to preach at his church and just such a touch a legend and he was talking about how studies at Princeton University I had to read someone else talking about that I'm not gonna be reading studies from Princeton guys but he was talking about their studies done and it shows that when you spend time with people in a concentrated fashion you actually neurologically fall into the same wavelengths of brain as them meaning they put electrodes on and have people hanging out together watching a movie or listening to a lecture just doing anything and you actually fall into the same brain patterns same wavelengths neurologically you fall into synchronization with the people that you're around often I was thinking about that as we were worshiping and I was thinking about how our last song before before the sermon we always lock in together every single location and we have one band all across the entire church one click track and and I was just thinking about people at every one of our 12 different locations all of us together clapping well doing our very best to clap to the beat yes yes we know you're here and God loves you too who can't keep a beat to save your life but but we're all falling into the same rhythm as we all make much of Jesus as we all lift up his name we're all becoming like each other and and and the poll of the world is diminishing as our eyes are open once again to the majesty of God we're becoming like each other because we're spending time together my friend pastor Craig Groeschel likes to put it this way and I don't think I could put it better than this show me your friends and I'll show you your future if you show me who you're hanging out with who you're doing life with who are the core relationships in your life I'll know where you're heading because you're gonna drift towards those things we become those that we do life with why because they're gonna be there to rumble certain things and to not rumble certain things and if you're hanging out with the wrong people they're going to rumble the wrong things they'll discourage your desire to serve God discourage the dreams that gods put in your heart the sacrifice that God's gonna call you to we're not we're not told to be like this world we're told to be not conformed to it but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind that's found in this world we're told to be a peculiar people so if the core voice is speaking into your life are not sold out passionate dedicated followers of Jesus they're not going to Rumble things that would be dangerous and detrimental to you but they are going to rumble things that God has told you to do and as you laugh with them as you drink with them as you party with them you're gonna think like them you're gonna value like them you're gonna prioritize like them you become listen to me like those you do life with so you need to choose to do life with the right people now what's the inherit tension into such a statement well aren't we supposed to reach the world that's not very loving to tell people I'm sorry I can't keep hanging out with you like this I can't keep doing this with you like this isn't that gonna ostracize them how am I gonna reach a world that I've abandoned therein lies the tension and the church tends towards Poehler's and the church tends towards you know sides of the pendulum and extremes and someone said that the devil doesn't care which side of the horse you fall off of so long as you don't stay in the saddle and ride and this is an area where we need to acknowledge the tension what's the one side of the attention living in a monastery I don't want to get any cooties everybody go get your burlap sack and follow me right we are not far that's what the Pharisees you laugh but that's what the Pharisees did and the church loves to do this we're forming a church softball league so we don't have to play softball with the heathens you know I'm saying like this is this is that tendency towards everything's Christian I only drink milk from Christian cows I only send my kids to Christian schools I only listen to music that's music right someone time when I see a slowest one time what it felt like to write Christian books and he stopped and said my books don't have a soul books can't be Christian only people can be Christian I'm a Christian I write books but this this mentality of thinking we can make our Christian little existence that is that is completely a trainwreck why because sin comes in even into the monastery why we saw we all smuggle it in into our heart and it's this formalism and this is legalism and this is religiosity which is so icky and so gross and so devastating so that's one extreme what's the other extreme so much like the world that we're doing exactly what the world is doing and now we have nothing to offer the world anymore because you can't be an influence while you're being influenced at the same time and the case for this world Jesus was a friend of sinners yes and Jesus drank and Jesus and Jesus were that parties and Jesus does you know yes he yes he was but who are the core voices in his life he had all he was really willing to hang out with anyone go to dinner with anyone go to someone's house yeah yes yes yes yes but he had 12 key friends in his life his small group you could say his community that you could say and even from there a greater 70 and even from their greater 500 and then you see key friendships he identified like Lazarus and Mary and Martha and others that would follow and support the ministry he he had his community for sure and even within the 12 disciples did he not have three best friends Peter James and John who we really did life with you you seldom see Jesus doing anything without Peter and James and John around and so I think that's the posture hello should we just do it like Jesus says like a plan like but let's let's minister to everyone love everyone realized that we're sent out to work and be in this world and live in community and and seek the Peace of the cities that we're living in in the schools and the parks and the this the soccer leaves and your kids gymnastic deal and the whole thing and be around people and be saw and be light and not stay in the saltshaker but get out into the world and love people in rows we're no better than anybody we just have been saved by somebody and his name is Jesus and he wants us to be in people's lives but also know there's also that pole and if we're not careful we'll let the wrong voices get into the core seats of our soul [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you can't be an influence while you're being influenced at the same time if a Jesus drank and Jesus hey Jesus would that parties and Jesus does you know yes he yes he was but who are the core voices in his life he had all he was really willing to hang out with anyone go to dinner with anyone go to someone's house yes yes yes it's just but he had 12 key friends in his life his small group you could say his community that you could say and even from there a greater 70 and even from there a greater 500 and even within the 12 disciples did he not have three best friends Peter James and John who really did life with you you seldom see Jesus doing anything without Peter and James and John around and so I think that's the posture hello should we just do it like Jesus that's like a plan but but let's let's minister to everyone love everyone realize that we're sent out to work and be in this world and live in community and and seek the Peace of the cities that we're living in in the schools and the parks and the soccer leaves and your kids gymnastic deal and the whole thing and be around people and be saw and be like hey thank you so much for tuning into fresh Life TV it is such a privilege to have you with us we're in a series of messages called rumbles trip you know that that you feel when your car drifts on the highway or drifts on the road and all of a sudden you're grabbing something on the ground or tuning the radio and now you're hearing a sound a sound that could save your life keep you from collision keep you from the ditch keep you from damaging your car by coming into contact with the guardrail similarly God has put into our heart and through his voice and through conviction and good friends who speak into our lives those opportunities to course correct before danger if we can lean into this powerful protection we can be prevented from disaster so this really could be one of the most important series you ever really hear if this message blesses you in any way we would love to hear about it shoot me an email to Levi at fresh Life Church and if you want to support this ministry and help bring this message to more people you can partner with us by clicking the donate button Levi's lusco doc thank you so much please enjoy this message from God's Word and we have one band all across the entire Church one click track and and I was just thinking about people at every one of our 12 different locations all of us together clapping well doing our very best to clap to the beat yes yes we know you're here and God loves you too who can't keep a beat to save your life but but we're all falling into the same rhythm as we all make much of Jesus as we all lift up his name we're all becoming like each other and and and the poll of the world is diminishing as our eyes are open once again to the majesty of God we're becoming like each other because we're spending time together my friend pastor Craig Groeschel likes to put it this way and I don't think I could put it better than this show me your friends and I'll show you your future if you show me who you're hanging out with who you're doing life with who are the core relationships in your life I'll know where you're heading because you're gonna drift towards those things we become like those that we do life with why because they're gonna be there to rumble certain things and to not rumble certain things and if you're hanging out with the wrong people they're going to rumble the wrong things they'll discourage your desire to serve God discourage the dreams that God's put in your heart the sacrifice that God's gonna call you to we're not we're not told to be like this world we're told to be not conformed to it but to be transformed by the renewing of our mind that's found in this world we're told to be a peculiar people so if the core voice is speaking into your life are not sold out passionate dedicated followers of Jesus they're not going to Rumble things that would be dangerous and detrimental to you but they are going to rumble things that God has told you to do and as you laugh with them as you drink with them as you party with them you're gonna think like them you're gonna value like them you're gonna prioritize like them you become listen to me like those you do life with so you need to choose to do life with the right people now what's the inherit tension into such a state well aren't we supposed to reach the world that's not very loving to tell people I'm sorry I can't keep hanging out with you like this I can't keep doing this with you like this isn't that gonna ostracize them how am I gonna reach a world that I've abandoned therein lies the tension and the church tends towards Poehler's and the church tends towards you know sides of the pendulum and extremes and I someone said that the devil doesn't care which side of the horse you fall off of so long as you don't stay in the saddle and ride and this is an area where we need to acknowledge the tension what's the one side of the attention living in a monastery I don't want to get any cooties to everybody go get your burlap sack and follow me right we are not that's what the Pharisees you laugh but that's what the Pharisees did and the church loves to do this we're forming a church softball league so we don't have to play softball with the heathens you know I'm saying like this is this is that tendency towards everything's Christian I only drink milk from Christian cows I only send my kids to Christian schools I only listen to music that's Christian music right someone someone I see a slew this one time what it felt like to write Christian books and he stopped and said my books don't have a soul books can't be Christian only people can be Christian I'm a Christian I write books but this is this mentality of thinking we can make our our Christian little existence that is that is completely a trainwreck why because sin comes in even into the monastery why we all smuggle it in into our heart and it's this formalism and this is legalism and this is religiosity which is so icky and so gross and so devastating so that's one extreme what's the other extreme so much like the world that we're doing exactly what the world is doing and now we have nothing to offer the world anymore because you can't be an influence while you're being influenced at the same time and the the case for this people Jesus was a friend of sinners yes and Jesus drank and Jesus a Jesus for that parties and Jesus says you know yes he was he was but who are the core voices in his life he had all he was really willing to hang out with anyone go to dinner with anyone go to someone's house yes yes yes yes but he had 12 key friends in his life his small group you could say his community that you could say and even from there a greater seventy and even from their greater 500 and then you see key friendships he identified like Lazarus and Mary and Martha and others that would and support the ministry he he had his community for sure and even within the twelve disciples did he not have three best friends Peter James and John who we really did life with you you seldom see Jesus doing anything without Peter and James and John around and so I think that's the posture hello should we just do it like Jesus says like a plan like but let's let's minister to everyone love everyone realized that we're sent out to work and be in this world and live in community and and seek the Peace of the cities that we're living in in the schools and the parks and the soccer leaves and your kids gymnastic deal and the whole thing and be around people and be saw and be light and not stay in the saltshaker but get out into the world and love people and realize we're no better than anybody we just have been saved by somebody and his name is Jesus and he wants us to be in people's lives but also know there's also that pole and if we're not careful we'll let the wrong voices get into the core seats of our soul and speak into and inform the decisions that we're making and then we will end up getting pulled from our mission and then we'll end up making decisions that cause the watching waiting world to go well the church was full of hypocrites anyway and then we're making decisions that put into harm the calling that Jesus wants us to walk out so right people it is incredibly important that you have and the in your ear voices that are gonna light the nose up number operation light the nose up at the right things and encourage the right things as well and when the right voices rumble you here's the second thing right spirit we need to have the right spirit what's the right spirit humility and gratitude when someone in your fresh life group pulls you to the side and says hey cut talked about something you know yeah I just I just noticed that every time we're in conversation your husband's tell a story you're always like correcting him that's not how it was and then you tell it and I just feel like like what could it be like if instead you were like a little more affirming like what could that do you know I mean I'm just wondering how you respond when something like that happens you know your impact team lead at the church on the team that you serve on just says hey I noticed a lot of times you say you're gonna be there and then you're not and everyone's here and you Breeze in late you always have like 17 reasons but we all have lives - and it's just I don't know if you've noticed this but just the way that you you Breeze in late just sends the message to all of us serving on the steam it's not that important or you know you're serving on one of our worship teams and you consistently haven't memorized the songs and and just someone says hey could you maybe focus a little bit this week on working the songs do you see what happens when when you're singing something different than what's on the screen and the person who comes in like wait wait what do I listen to you or do I read it and you and lovingly the correction is given hey this this is important here's the question in those moments if our response is humility we will respond with gratitude hey thanks for saying that that was awkward and hard and I realized that wasn't easy for you to do so thanks for that thanks for giving me that chance to grow thanks for giving me that that that coverage on my life that I didn't see if our response is gratitude and our response is humility guess what we're demonstrating the right spirit but what are we so often do well you know you're not mr. perfect singer yourself awesome well you know you look at you you should talk I've noticed your mayor hold on a second what does the Bible say about that well here's what it says pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall we shouldn't puff ourselves up when someone in our life that we are voluntarily putting ourselves under their authority by being a part of community that we're craving we should all be craving hopefully that kind of critique that kind of coaching that kind of help that will help us get to the next level of our development and not miss out on any of the things that God's called us to do we should have the heart that says thanks for telling me I didn't see it like that and the way you put it that makes sense and then with a humility that God wants us to have we will yield ourselves to that that amazing instruction the fact that they're rumbling some behavior that's holding you back that you're monopolizing conversation or or you know your your kind of cliquish you're only talking to these people whatever it is that someone would speak into your life it's just a chance for you to grow and you can either get bitter you can always you go home and I can't believe that I would say that I mean how do they know they don't know how busy I am it's like hold on a second do I want to grow or not and if so then let's demonstrate the right spirit when the right people speak up in our lives about something we're moving towards something we're veering away from and they're asking those right questions we should as parents want to be the best parents we can be so someone says hey have you been spending time on all of your kids have you been have you been get along with them are you putting the phone down at dinner tip without that kind of input into our lives we should all be craving right spirit and then drop this down we should be asking the right questions the right questions what is this this is questions that will provoke a rumble strip questions that will provoke a rumble strip we should not be relying on the people in our lives our campus pastors the people within the church seeing something before we bring something in our lives to them we should be asking the right questions to get their wisdom and to bring it into our life for situations they may not even be knowing about they may not be aware of because they don't see us at work or they don't see how we we spend our money we should be asking the right question check out this verse from Proverbs on the subject it says counsel what's counsels counsels good advice from the right people counsel in the heart of man is like deep water but a man of understanding will draw it out this is a great verse I was new on staff at a church I was brought on as an intern for a summer and you know it was it was as unglamorous as unglamorous can get mopping and sweeping rushing off to hospitals and funeral homes and setting up for weddings and anything dressing Amla for the typewriter look it up if you don't know what that is it's on Google and and just anything and everything and and a part of it was there was times throughout the internship where I would I would spend some time with the pastor of the church and our first time when he drove me to a Starbucks and we were on a street called Ewbank and I'll never forget he said to me hey there's a verse in Proverbs that says counsel in the heart of man is like deep water but a person of understanding will learn how to draw it out and I want you to understand how this internship is gonna go I'm gonna get time with you and when we have time together I'm not coming up with a syllabus of things I'm gonna teach you I'm gonna rely on you having and asking good questions to get wisdom out of me that puts the onus on you to get as much out of this as your can as you can cuz I'll answer whatever question you're willing to ask but if you ask the right questions you'll draw out the deep wisdom you'll draw out the good water okay so so that bring that now with you into this concept of rumble strip and the people around you that you've identified as the right people over the last four years Levi Lesko has written three best-selling books through the eyes of a lion swipe right and I declare war each of these books targets different yet important topics that will help you live the life of freedom and power that God has planned for you through the eyes of a lion is all about facing impossible pain and finding incredible power through it swipe right exposes the life-and-death power of sex and romance it will equip you to Train today for the relationship you want tomorrow I declare war will help you get out of your own way by giving you four keys you need to win the battle with yourself for a donation of $30 you could receive a bundle of all three of these books get your bundle today by visiting Levi's let's go calm voices godly people in my life and you can have different ones as an author I've author rumbles survived I've people I'm running stuff by I'm grateful to hear what Max Lucado thinks of the new book yes I'm gonna listen with both of my ears to what he has to say about it you see we can install different rumble strips for different seasons and different life basically you want to pick people who you want your future to be like theirs and that's who you want to listen to in subjects okay and so as you've installed these voices in your life you should be drawing out rumbles about things they wouldn't know about unless you ask the right questions what does that mean that means you go to them before you've made your decision that's huge for good counsel you go to them before you've made your decision and you involve them listen to me in the process a lot of times people go for counsel and it's really just a formality because they've already made their mind up they'll come to you and say you know what should I do here and as you as you dig in a little bit you're like oh wait you've already made your decision you've already acted on it you're coming not from my recommendation you're coming from my validation on what you've already decided is gonna be what you're gonna do so you don't want a rumble strip you just want a rubber stamp cool I'll tell you you're going you're going great but but you're not coming for deep water because you've already clearly made your mind up and so one of the things that's really important for me in my life is I'm going to get counseled early early early and involving in the process and not just making my mind up but then texting a few friends are calling a few people too so they can tell me yeah you because that's not what I want I want people who are down in the dirt and down in the weeds and know the issue and know the struggle and I'm walking through it with me don't you see how different that is when you're going to people early on and involving them in the process before you buy the house accept the job and decide you're taking the transfer or whatever else you might be seeking out there counsel on you're getting pretty quiet so I don't think this is helping you there's a good is it all right all right so the right people right spirit right questions then right posture right posture this this has to do with the rumbling that you're meant to do as a part of the community you're not just to receive it there's gonna come days where people are gonna ask you to be there rumble strip and that is that is that is critical let me tell you how that works you go to someone and you say would you please speak into my life when you see something that's out of whack I give you permission I'm asking you if you love me enough would you would you call me out oh no would you ask me where I'm at would you ask me what's going on would you involve me in the process I'm thinking about dating this girl and what do you think well you guys already got married okay no okay great let's talk about I'm a it's a different answer if you've already got them you already got married but if you're saying will I be around and watched the kind of dating play out and if you see one of us this is what Jane I did by the way when we were first starting today we went to someone right away we said if you see it either of us drifting in our relationship with Jesus or drifting in our commitment to serve here in the house would you please call us out on it because we want this relationship to push us towards Jesus and towards serving God and not away from it these are key priorities and so we were involving voices in our lives with the permission to call us out one of the best rumble trips we had was to roommate to almost say about that yeah a lot of Friday nights her roommate got a call hey what are you doing we're coming over we'd like you to be there and she's like I'm the I'm the supervisor aren't I we're like yes we would like to have you there for the pleasure of your company just don't talk to us we'll just be just be there somewhere in the room rumble strip so I'm gonna say rumble strip okay but when people come to you and ask you to rumble them and you see something and you're now called to say something how do you do it you do it with the right posture what's the right posture l.o.v.e love you you you you let all that you do and say be done with love love that can be seen in your eyes love that can be felt love that it is so here's what you want here's what you pray for before you confront someone in love you say God please help them see how much I care about them and how much I want the best for them god help them to be unmistakably clear that I don't think I'm better than them that I'm not relishing the opportunity excited about the prospect of pointing out sin and their life let it not be at all from a place of superiority let it let it be a gentle humility that I with love tell him hey you you asked me to speak this out and by being on this team or by being in this group you're inviting it and and and I just got to put something on my heart to share with you that's hard to take badly when it comes from that spirit look what Paul says on the subject in Galatians 6:1 he says this live creatively friends if someone falls into sin look at this forgivingly restore him saving your critical comments for yourself you might be needing forgiveness before the day is out dang drops Mike walks off the stage right this mentality that says as I come to you I recognize I'm blowing it to about two ways and we all need help I just wanted to put this on your radar and that also means that you're not gossiping about it around town to other people you just going to them and you're you're loving them to wholeness and wellness does not sound like a life-changing game-changing way to handle relationships I think so going to your husband your Jenny is really good about this hey we're gonna have it you can talk about some things probably be a little challenging but but I love you and I noticed this and and that makes it real easy for me to respond well to that I see in her eyes she just wants what's best for us and there's a real sense of that tender humility there and we've even adopted language that allows our kids to help us to see our parenting through their eyes we want that we crave that they've never been our kids before we've never been their parents before we're all in this journey together and we know we're gonna make mistakes all right well that's that's really the message but to tie a bow on it I want to point your attention to a story in the Old Testament that I think sort of really highlights the importance of the right voices in your life some of you might know and if you haven't you'll discover at some point as you read commentaries that the book of Ephesians has an Old Testament parallel and that's the book of Joshua that Ephesians they say is a lot like the book of Joshua now Joshua you know led the children of Israel into the Promised Land that was originally Moses his job but Joshua got to do it why because the children of Israel entered into a 40 year long holding period a 40 year long period wandering in the wilderness because the first opportunity they had to go into the Promised Land under Moses they backed out why did they back out and enter into 40 years of delays because they listened to the wrong voices and ended up in the wrong places the story is in numbers chapter 13 just before they went in they were about to go in they just come from Egypt they were smoking hot out of out of the Red Sea and they're there on a chair but just before they went in Moses took 12 spies one from each of the tribes of Israel and he said go do a recon mission they'd have drones to fly over so they sent people and check it out give her a good report to the people he assumed they'd come back and go dude bro guy the land is awesome let's go that's not what happened because it says in numbers 13 after exploring the land for 40 days the men returned to Moses Aaron and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran they were reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land this was their report to Moses we entered the land you sent us to explore and indeed it is a beautiful bountiful country a land flowing with milk and honey and here's the kind of fruit produces legend has it they brought a giant cluster of grapes a to carry on a giant stick between their shoulders like look how great the fruit is but notice a problem verse 28 but the people living there are powerful and their towns are large and fortified we even saw Giants they're the descendants of an AK the Amalekites live in the Negev the Hittites the Jebusites and the amorite Tsar in the hill country the Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan Valley they're making a case as to why they shouldn't go cuz how hard it's gonna be but verse 30 Caleb he tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses let's go at once to take the land he said we can certainly conquer it but the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed they said we can't go against them they're stronger than we are so they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites saying the land we traveled through an explorer will devour anyone who goes to live there it's the pit of despair all the people we saw were huge we even saw Giants there these descendants of an act next to them we felt like grasshoppers and that's what they thought - so the whole community began weeping aloud and they cried all night they rose their voices in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron if only we had died in Egypt or even here in the wilderness they complained why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle our wives and our little ones will be carried off this plunder wouldn't it be better for us all just to go back to Egypt where we were slaves yeah that'd be great they plotted among themselves let's choose a new leader and go back to Egypt then Moses and Aaron fell down on the ground before the whole community of Israel they're just so shocked and so appalled that this two of the men dough who had explored the land we already met Caleb Joshua the son of nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh they tore their clothing and said to all the people of Israel the land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land and if the Lord is pleased with us he'll bring us safely into that land and give it to us it's rich it's flowing with milk and honey so don't rebel against the Lord don't be afraid of the people of the land they're gonna be helpless prey to us they have no protection because the Lord is with us don't be afraid of them what a great speech but notice the people's reaction they've heard the case from the people who were focused on the Giants and now they've heard the case from the people who are focused on God and they chose in verse 10 the whole community began to talk about stoning Joshua and Caleb so to recap they're standing there at the edge of Ephesians just like we are poised to enter into all the blessings that God's called to give to us and to keep us from losing any of them to keep us from living foolishly God sent a rumble strip into our lives to rumble some things and and to and to be silent some things to encourage us on and that's what they had on that day and 10 spies said no we can't do it ten spies said we can't into the land but only two said go you have ten and you have two ten and two you had some people saying don't go but you had some voices saying to go and they listened to the wrong voices and ended up in the wrong places but the good news is if we will listen to the right voice as we can end up in the right places and God wants you to be prospered he wants you to be blessed he wants you to follow him and to follow his people and the right things will follow you all the days of your life [Music] you you

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Published: Fri Apr 17 2020