Pastor Paul Chappell: A Purpose to Keep

take your Bibles this morning if you would please in turn to the book of Colossians chapter 3 and thank God for a song about surrender and of course we're not complete without the Lord completing us and I do want to mention a couple of things while you're finding the book of Colossians chapter 3 today in the lobby we have some things that I'd like to recommend for your new year I don't know why but seems like this week I have had more people call me or email me and say pastor Chapel brother Chapel what are some things that you read last year or that you're reading it seems like a lot of folks are getting lined out for the new year for some goals and maybe some things to read and I want to mention to our church family a couple of things that I want to recommend first of all a brand new devotional that just came in about a week or two ago for the new year and we've been shipping these to churches all over the country but I want our church family to have opportunity to receive this this morning it's entitled trust and obey this is a daily devotional guide and look at use whatever you want to use how many of you subscribe to the daily and the word online devotional that we send out let me see all right so many of you do that if you don't do that jot that down daily in the word org and you can subscribe to something that'll come to your computer or you can put this big book right here somewhere in your house where you'll see it every day and there's 365 devotionals here and we've written one for every day with a scripture reading schedule and this is something just to help you stay in the word for the new year you know some people they may be little New Year's resolutions and and certainly a resolution can be something that isn't a great impact if you don't have an intrinsic value behind it if you don't have a transformational reason but if you have in your heart a great desire to draw close to the Lord and if there's a conviction in your heart that a Christian should spend time in the Word of God then resolutions absolutely work and I want to encourage you this would be a help to you if you have a desire to spend some time daily with Jesus and it's a new devotional entitled trust in obey then something that I'm gonna go back through myself and some material that we put together a few years ago is a book in title stewarding life and this is a great book on finding priorities setting goals stewarding your life your your testimony your friendships your finances your health it's all about taking this next year and giving it to the Lord Jesus Christ completely and I would really recommend this along with it we have a companion guide out in the lobby this morning called the stewarding life planner the stewarding life planner has also one page per day where you review the roles of your life you pray over each role specifically you jot down what scriptures you read you write down what you're thankful for that day there's about 50 pages to explain this journal and then the rest of it are pages to use throughout the year if you've never journaled in the New Year if you've never been in the habit of writing some of your roles goals and daily thoughts as the Lord leads you through Scripture let me encourage you to stop by the table and these are some great resources to help you start the new year well let's stand together I hope you will stop by and receive those in the back there and I know there's some staff there ready to help you with those on the way out now I don't know if we have a camera that can help me get this up on the screen but I just wanted to show this you guys got this I don't know how good you can zoom in or not and if you can read it it's kind of written in cursive here I picked this up at the Cracker Barrel in Glendale Arizona I took my parents there to lunch the other day and my mom of course has Alzheimer's she wasn't really sure who I was but one thing with Alzheimer's she really still loves is pancakes whipped cream and boysenberry syrup and so I figured that out and she just she eats every bit of it she loves that but this little sign I just brought it just for you this morning because I know how it is this is the sunday between right this is what it says can I get an amen and I thought you know that's pretty good so I think I might for the new year just put it right here how's that sound all right can I get an amen so so if you guys aren't with me during this sermon I'm pulling it out all right I'm gonna pull it out and if you see it like this that means come on let's get with the program all right can I get an amen alright that helps out if you're a visitor Amen means we agree and we like to agree around here when it comes to the Bible so hopefully hopefully we'll stay right right in tune and I got to pull this little shelf up here just a little bit and so let me get that a little bit closer we're gonna do some housecleaning this morning all right goli Colossians chapter 3 and we're going to read beginning in verse number 16 a familiar verse and in fact we preached some from this earlier in the year but I want to preach from 16 and 17 and I would like to preach this morning on the subject a purpose for the new year just a purpose to keep for the new year Colossians 3:16 and 17 let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord and whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him let's read verse 17 together ready begin and whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him all right let's pray together Lord thank you for the wonderful opportunity you give us to worship you on the first day of the week and Lord this is the first day of the last week of 2018 and we just want to thank you for bringing us through this year for giving us Grace and strength and we pray that you would bless the new year Lord that you would give us grace and wisdom as we approach it and that we would not waste a day of it but that we would live all of this new year with the purpose we see in these verses this morning and I pray and ask these things in Jesus name amen you may be seated well how many of you have ever seen the show hoarders let me see you never seen the show hoarders all right all right how many of you are hoarders let me see where you are all right I thought so I've been by your house you've got three cars on the front lawn we picked you out real easily and so this is that time of year for me when I kind of get into a weird mood Terry says I get weird during this time between Christmas and New Year because I like to get organized for the new year it's just kind of the way I am and I start looking at things and trying to figure out do I really need that and you know is this something that that you really need to keep because you know for example if you if you have to go through things in your closet if you if you have 40 ties but you only were 12 of them you know you really ought to look at that once a while and sometimes I bequeath them to Bible College students you know and share the wealth a little bit and try to get organized as best I can in fact I kind of brought some things with me to church today because I've been struggling with this a little bit and I took it all off the shelf already I brought some things that maybe you could help me with I just every every year and I mean right now for you to go to my house you'd find that I have a little office area where I study and try to keep organized everything's out of the closet in there and all over the floor my closet at home everything's out and the shelves there in the bathroom or I have different items of Cologne and deodorant so forth I pulled it all out in the shampoo and everything and when Terry walked by yesterday and she saw everything out of the closet she just rolled her eyes and I know what she was thinking here we go again here we go again but you know I just I just get in that mood to get organized so I just thought I'd get some help from me because there's just things that you find that you're not really sure for example I found this thing in the closet how many of you remember the palm five how many remember that how many of you ever had any of you have one of these this is kind of like before the cell phone you try to and I was looking at this and I was really trying to bait it and I I pulled it down off the shelves and I was trying to debate do I really need this or not I don't think I do I haven't used it in probably 15 years a battery doesn't work but I thought I'd better bring in church because somebody in here might say pastor that thing's worth $5,000 those are hard to get ahold of you know don't do these thing with it act we actually had one of the very early Apple computers we actually had one of those and and now it was not mine personally but it was it was something that the church had given to us and and we have no idea where it is now and the guy that gave it actually called said you guys still have that I found out it's worth a lot of money and I think we threw it away during uh between Christmas and New Year's but anyways this is say this is a palm five so I'm kind of trying to figure out what to do with it I'm not gonna throw it away right now because if somebody comes up to me and says and that's worth a lot of money hey I'll sell it we'll give it at the March banquet for the children's building that here's something else though I'm trying to figure out this is a proven performance superior ink cartridge for a very old printer that we no longer own it's kind of a dilemma when you see something you know you paid money for you don't even have the perimeter anymore they probably don't make the printer anymore but you look at something like that and you're just not a hundred percent sure of exactly what to do then you know you look at something like this this is a cheque book holder and here's the thing how many of you are like me you rarely use cheques and you definitely don't have plastic vinyl checkbook holders anymore so that one's probably definitely going in the garbage here's another kind of a little bit of a dilemma that I just every year for twenty years I've looked at this thing every single year this is my seven dwarfs hi guys can we get a close-up of this I think folks need to appreciate this just for a minute get a good angle on it here let me turn the tie here seven doors there there's one of the dwarfs right there and the reason I struggle with this particular issue is because the girls loved it when they were growing up now we said dad we're the seven dwarfs tie and every year I'm going through the ties one up I don't need that one that's that color doesn't work then I see that and I think of Christine and I always think you know Christine loved that tie and one day I know she's 34 but one day I'm gonna take her on a date and I'm gonna wear this tie just for Christine she probably never has thought of it since she was 10 you know but but it it anyways you know it's kind of what does it come an emotional baggage issue maybe so not throw that away or not now here here is my seventh grade letter for football you know hey lettering for football is a big deal let's be honest about that you know and so but you know really what do you do with that except keep it on a shelf some of these men are keep it keep it oh yeah some others are going wear it dude you know I understand that but every time I see these things I'm going you really then here's my here's my my ninth grade Liberty Christian school football letter now really expected some more amens right about this part of the message right here and and some of you are with me you're looking at that and you're going I don't really know that that's really really needed pastor that you need to keep that stuff and I'm I'm kind of with you on that and because you look at some of this and you kind of go you know I'm not sure that that's gonna be real helpful to go through that every time I go through the file or every time I'm looking at the at the shelf I don't know if you need to be reminded that you lettered in seventh grade football unless you're just such a loser that that was your one thing in life that you did you know maybe put that front and center frame that baby I don't know but I do know this that in the spiritual realm there comes a time for each of us to take inventory of our hearts and there comes a time for each of us to say Lord search my heart try me and show me and essentially what we say to the Lord is Lord what do you want to take out of my heart as that which is unnecessary or maybe in some closets even something that is sinful and Lord what is it that you want me to give prominence in my heart what is it that you want me to keep in my heart so today we're going to take just a few moments and we're going to do some inventory because we don't want to enter the new year just carrying a lot of junk we don't want to enter the new year without doing a spiritual inventory of what is the purpose behind these things that we keep and what are the things that we should take along with us on the journey of this new year now the Bible says in verse number 16 very clearly let the word of Christ dwell let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom so I want to propose to you this morning that as you're going through stuff that you're not going to give time or attention to and as you're considering what will you give time and attention to that by all means that you pull God's Word off and you determine I'm gonna take God's Word out of this pile of stuff and I am going to give God's Word priority and preeminence in my life this year I am going to let God's Word have its rightful prominent place in my life this new year when I was given my first Bible I was maybe 5 or 6 and there was a little note that the Sunday school teacher inscribed in the Bible and the note was simply this sin will keep you from this book or this book will keep you from sin in other words make the Bible the priority in the new year now notice the phrase here in verse 16 it says let the word of Christ and so I want you to know that this word is an infallible word it is the word of Christ it refers to the revelation that he brought into the world through the scripture it is not the word of man which is very fallible it is the word of Christ which is perfect proverbs says every word of the Lord is pure he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him the Bible says sanctify them through thy truth thy Word is truth now there's a lot of books in my library thousands and thousands of them and there are many books that I have read once and some that I have read maybe 12 or 15 times through but there are some books that frankly as I look at them they're just taking space on the shelf and in fact every one of those books I could probably do without but there is one book that I cannot live without and that is God's Word and as a Christian we must say lord help me not not to let the stuff of life crowd out your word help me not to put sports and tech and all the other interest of life and help me not to let those things crowd out the Word of God which should have a very prominent place in my life it's an infallible word but it must also be an indwelling word it says let the word of Christ dwell this is to be a constant dwelling in other words I thank God that you're here today on a Sunday morning and we've got a great service plan tonight and we have a philosophy around here three to thrive and Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night we've got good food spiritually in every one of these services but you're gonna need even more than that you're going to need to dwell in God's Word on a daily basis so having the scriptures in your heart it may be that you take one of these daily devotionals and I'm always amazed that when I read God's Word in the morning normally through the day there's just something that comes into my life and God's Word is so applicable I've got to let it dwell in my heart and so the actual teaching Henry Ironside said the actual teaching of Christ whether personally here on earth or by the spirit since he has ascended to heaven is to dwell in full measure in every believer this should be our goal and this should be our desire in the new year Deuteronomy 17 in verse 18 says this and it shall be this was written to the kings of Israel and it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of his law and these statutes to do them that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turned not aside from the and to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of Israel now God actually said to the Jews and to the Kings he said I want you literally to write a copy of my law I want you as the king to write out the copy of my law I want you to know it by the way one of the best ways to really let God's Word dwell in your heart is to write out in a journal what you have read and what you have learned some people actually write out verses of the Bible many of them as a part of their devotional life and I don't know if you're this way or not but but when I type certain things I have a certain amount of retention but I seem to do better when I actually cursive ly write out something that I'm studying it helps me to retain that knowledge now folks whatever you have to do to let the Word of God dwell in you then I want to encourage you to read to write to hear it however you learn best let God's Word dwell in your heart and I think of so many who have false teachings and they meditate on them and it is so ruinous to them spiritually i i think of saddam hussein years ago who literally had a copy of the Koran written in his own blood and there's actually a museum and baghdad i think they're trying to figure out what to do with it i mean this man literally took blood from his own body and had a copy of the Koran written out with his blood and what i want to say to you is that if men and women with such damnable beliefs and doctrines and a book that is degrading to the doctrine of Christ and never mentions the word loved one time if someone would take their own blood and transcribe that how about if we put a little sweat into studying to know the Word of God and knowing the love of God and the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ God says let it dwell in you Acts chapter 17 and verse 11 the Bible says these were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and search the Scriptures daily whether those things were so the Berean Christians they searched the scriptures they spent time in the Word of God George Mueller said the vigor of our spiritual life will be an exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and in our thoughts how many of you remember this verse from the Book of Psalms Psalm chapter one and verse two the Bible says but his delight is in the what law of the Lord and in his law doth he what meditate both day and night I get tickled with these kind of new-age teachers these crystal gazers and they want to talk about meditating and they've heard some guy from India you know some guru talking about meditating and sitting around on a rock and singing mmm like that you know listen medication is fine so long as the object is the Lord Jesus Christ the Word of God meditation is nothing new to us as Christians God says I want you to read my word then I want you to meditate on it I want you to think about it I want you to let it sink down into your heart and in your life you know I think about the way that folks are so involved many of us with using technology and in many ways it's a blessing and the cell phones and the emails and the texting and and sometimes it's hard even to keep up with and and it can actually form a sort of compulsive behavior if we're not careful just spending a lot of time checking stuff that may or may not be important stuff that you know you you probably weren't checking five years ago in this information age there's just so much pouring out and and I wonder and I came across a little heart achill and I thought it really gave an analogy regarding the cell phone and the Word of God the article said I wonder what would happen if we treat our Bibles like our cell phones what if we carried it around in our purses and pockets but what if we flip through it several times a day what if we turn back to get it if we forgot it what if we used it to receive messages from the text what if we treated it like we couldn't live without it what if we gave it to kids as gifts what if we used it when we traveled what if we used it in case of emergency this is something to make you think this morning how is your relationship with the Bible with God's Word are you giving it the priority that it deserves most of us give that phone a priority but God says let your word dwell in let my word dwell in you richly just checking all right so it got a little quiet there yeah look quiet let my word dwell in you richly so there must be a constant Welling and then there must be an abundant Welling notice this here it says that my word dwell in you and then notice that word richly it's to be an extravagance you see the average Facebook user in America spending between an hour and two hours a day just checking out lots of times just really weird stuff weird people weird comments angry comments sometimes there's some good stuff I know but my point is this if we see folks spending an hour or two hours looking at just stuff on Facebook how about this year spending time looking into his face just saying I got to get this back in proportion and I find it's easy to tell the teenagers they're addicted but sometimes we as adults you know in fact I've already determined we're gonna come into our first staff meeting with our pastoral staff this Friday I've already got a little basket prepare don't tell them that what I'm gonna do and this is what I'm gonna do for our first staff meeting of the new year I'm gonna say that basket right over there for your laptops and your phones we're actually gonna look at each other while we talk today how many of you would say that would be good for your family dinner time - right what I'm saying is factory night the other night we're at a restaurant and having some wonton soup we're sitting there having our soup and we were talking about some things that we our phones we're having a good conversation and and I said honey look at the table next to us there were four adults at the table all four of them were looking at their phones not looking at each other not talking to each other it appeared to be a grandparent maybe a grandchild maybe the parents of the child and all of them looking at the phones I'm just advocating this this morning that we need to take time in his book in the new year let God's Word well in us let God's Word be the priority and so we need a word to guide this year we need a word to guide I want you to notice secondly we need a name to honor we need a name to honor now in verse number 16 the Bible tells us to let the word of Christ dwell but notice in verse 17 and whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus now I believe we serve a God in heaven who wants to bless the people of this church this morning I believe he wants to bless us in many various ways but I know that he is jealous for his own glory and honor and he's not going to bless those who don't bless him and so God says whatever you do I want you to do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ now I want you to think about this this morning notice this phrase here whatsoever you do would you say that with me today whatsoever you do say it again whatsoever you do whatsoever you do whatever you do I want you to do it in the name and for the honor of the Lord Jesus Christ now perhaps some of us could think about our roles this morning some of you are a husband or a wife some of you are a mother or a father some of you would say I'm a grandparent some of all of us Lord willing would say I'm a Christian some perhaps need to be able to say that before the end of this service some would say I'm an engineer some would say I'm an officer some would say I'm a nurse some would say I am a contractor whatever it is and I want to challenge you that whatever your roles are and whatever you do in those roles this year that you have this viewpoint of life I want to do everything I do this year for the name and for the honor of the Lord Jesus Christ I want this to be all about the Lord Jesus Christ I want to bring honor and glory to his name and so that's the next thought I want you to realize that everything we do this year is for the name and the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and I want us to say Lord be glorified in my life I want Jesus Christ to be known in my life I want people to know that when I receive a promotion I want people to know that when I am blessed that it's all because of Jesus Christ and that I'm doing all of it for Jesus Christ I'm glad that the boss is happy but I didn't do it primarily for the boss I did it for Jesus and I'm glad that my wife is seeing an improvement in our marriage but I'm not doing it for her I'm doing it for Jesus Christ and I'm glad that my husband sees that my spirit is different but I'm not doing it for my husband because my husband might discourage me in the new year but jesus never discourages me so whatever I do in the new year I'm gonna do it for the Lord Jesus Christ and so let me challenge you first of all to honor Christ this year in all that you do everything that we do 1st Corinthians 10 and 31 whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever you do do it all to the glory of God now in our family we tried to teach our children to honor their family name and yet how much more should they give honor to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and I'm saying today that every one of us should have this goal Lord I want you to be glorified through my life in the new year I want you to be pleased you know you can dishonor your family name in just a quick moment of failure but something even greater than this is when we dishonor the name of the Lord we don't want to bring dishonor to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in the new year and so whatever you do in word the things that you say indeed the actions of the new year that we have this purpose Lord I want to honor you in fact again it says that we should honor Christ in all things honor Christ and honor Christ in all things whatever ye do in your word that is what you say let your speech be always seasoned with grace in your deed that is what you do the Bible says in James 1 in verse 22 be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves Robert Moffatt said we'll have all eternity to celebrate our victories but only one short hour before sunset to win them folks life is but a vapor we have just a short time to honor Jesus Christ we can high-five when we get to heaven but let's spend time now honoring the Lord Jesus Christ first John 1 in chapter 3 and verse 18 my little children let us not love in Word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth and so I want to challenge you this year make a priority list and I want you first of all to say I need a word to guide me this year I need God's word to guide me this year and I have a name to honor this year and that is the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and there's a lot of other stuff in my closet a lot of other stuff in my life but it pales in significance some of it I'll keep some of it I'll throw away but what am I going to give preeminence to this year and that will be God's Word dwelling in my heart the name of Jesus Christ magnified through my life they noticed thirdly this morning we need to recognize and purpose that we have a God to thank and here I want to speak about gratitude notice if you would in verse 17 and whatsoever you do do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him would you say that last portion of verse 17 ready begin giving thanks to God and the Father by him giving thanks to God and the Father by him I want to challenge you this morning to purpose in your life in the new year to live a life of gratitude to first to live a life of gratitude that you would say I'm going to keep gratitude as a priority in my life I'll see if I can get this up here to stay still I don't have a thing on the back of it let's see here now if I just preach real gingerly that's gonna work out just fine this morning gratitude now notice the Bible is clear in verse 17 giving thanks to God folks I think one of the greatest sins of Christians in America today is ingratitude I think it's one of the reasons we complain we're depressed I think it's one of the reasons we struggle so oftentimes gratitude is something that we need to have a better perspective on I was thinking about this past Sunday night I went over and I was fellowshipping December 23rd with some of the folks in our Spanish department and they they have over there around the ground around Christmas and different holidays and birthdays they get to have pinatas we don't have pinatas and so I figured out that they have pinatas and so I asked our spanish pastor i said hey are you guys doing pinatas on Sunday night I said because I want to come over and smack one of those things you know and so I went over there and I got to hit the pinata first you don't got the candy going for the kids and we were having a good time and and I was just fellowshipping with some of the folks and and I hear about prayer requests from people in different departments of our church but I don't always get to meet them and and speak to those in the Spanish as much and there was a lady that came up to me iris Oriana and she was wearing a scarf her hair completely gone from chemo and she's she's battling breast cancer that has metastasized and she just she came up and I thought she was going to come and ask for prayer and certainly we've been praying for her in our staff meetings and I've been praying for all this week but she didn't come to ask me for prayer she came to say how thankful she is to the Lord for her salvation and for Lancaster Baptist Church and I just kind of stood there I didn't really know what to say you know because sometimes in a given 12 months you deal with people who complain about a parking lot they didn't get their parking spot or their kid didn't get a junior-high letter in football that's just gonna cause him stress when he's 57 anyways what does he do with it and we deal with all this stuff and here's someone who's really in the throes of a difficult battle with cancer giving thanks and I'm telling you when I stand in the presence of some of our church members I feel like just a little baby Christian sometimes to see God in their lives and to hear the gratitude from her mouth I think about John Tanner Terry and I spent yesterday with their family and just praying with John's parents and with John and his wife Jesse very rare aggressive cancer he needs our prayers and he just gave thanks to the Lord the whole time we were there he gave thanks to the Lord a young Highway Patrol officer few months ago a picture of health today in a great battle pray for him I think folks sometimes we forget to give thanks to the Lord for the fact that we could get out of bed today we forget to give thanks to the Lord that we have the freedoms and the privileges and the opportunity to sing and we could go on and on the Bible says to give thanks to God for the Lord Jesus Christ and for these blessings he says first of all I want you to have a response of gratitude this is the fifth reference to Thanksgiving in the book of Colossians God says I want you to give thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light in other words give thanks to the God who saved you if you are a Christian this morning you and I deserve one thing and that is a one-way ticket to hell and we were on our way to hell and we were without hope and we were without God and yet God in His love and in his rib mercy he saved us and he's given us hope and he's given us a home in heaven and that ought to cause us every day to give thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ that he has made us to be a partaker of this heavenly promise and then not only should there be a response of gratitude but there should be an access of mercy and what I mean here is the Bible says in verse number 17 did you catch this phrase giving thanks to God and the Father notice this little phrase by him we give thanks to God buying or through the access of the Lord Jesus Christ how many of you know that Jesus is the high priest that's why cat that's why Baptists do not go into a confessional booth and tell the priests like a Catholic might do we don't tell the priest our prayers so that he can get them up to God we go to God directly through the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is our high priest so that little phrase there by him indicates that we are getting our prayers up to God via or by way of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Bible says there is one god and there is one mediator between God and men and it is the god man if you will Jesus Christ he is our mediator and so we respond in gratitude and we say thank you Lord for the great things you have done in my life Hudson Taylor was the founder of the China Inland Mission and he had a plaque on his wall in China he was a great missionary and in this plaque he had two Hebrew words one was the word a benissa one was the name Jehovah Jireh the first word means hitherto hath the Lord helped us and the second one was the Lord will provide one looked back hitherto hath the Lord helped us evany zur and the other one Jehovah Jireh God will provide and I want to tell you something that you can look back this morning over 2018 and you can say Evan easer God has provided and I want to tell you you can look at head in the New Year and you can say Jehovah Jireh God will provide in the new year and this has caused to give thanks to the Lord for all that he has done now the new year is God's gift to you what you do with it is your gift to God the new year if you cross over into 2019 in just a few days that's God's gift to you here's another year of life that's God's gift to you what you do with it that's your gift to God and your gift to God is these are going to amount to a box of junk or it's gonna amount to heavenly priorities because we can purpose this morning and we can say Lord this year I'm gonna let your word dwell in me I'm gonna make a priority of your word Lord this year everything that I do I'm doing it for you everything that I do is for the glory of Jesus Christ I want you to get glory from my life and Lord this year I'm gonna thank you and praise you for breath for the ability for the privilege to serve you I'm gonna make this a purpose in my life I'm not gonna be mr. grumbly anymore I'm not gonna be miss complainer anymore I'm gonna give you thanks for the good good things you have done in my life here's a purpose for the new year the Bible dwelling in me all friend do you understand you need a word to guide you do you understand we have a name to exalt and glorify and do you understand we have a God to give thanks to take this purpose put them high on your priority list and don't let the tech and the games and the other things of life and all of the little hobbies that you so enjoy and talk about don't let those things crowd these things out make Jesus the priority in your new year

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Published: Mon Dec 31 2018