When You Feel Like You're Losing

I am so excited to share this message with you and I want to be completely candid and honest right as we get started first of all welcome to church home again if you didn't hear Carla and I welcomed me you just joined us we're so glad you're here my name is Judah along with my wife Chelsea we've been leading church home now for several several years we are a church that is passionate about you experiencing the love of God the goodness of God in your home with your loved ones neighbors and friends church home church at home here we are thank you for joining us now the message I'm about to share the sermon I'm about to share at the talk I'm about to share came from the last couple of weeks of being back on social media and so I'm excited to share with you it has spoken to me I took a few days off my phone I literally feel like a better man I feel like a different man they're like the best version of myself so I want to share a little bit of insight I got from the scripture in regards to what we are all facing together in this global pandemic kovat in 19 here we are we are social distancing we are sheltering in place all these terms think about this we didn't even talk in these terms ever before until right now 2020 it is it is beyond description at this point isn't it but anyways jump in with me we're gonna go to first Timothy in chapter 6 if you have a Bible great if you don't it's gonna come up on the screen so that you can join me and read along here's my subject title today Sunday church home here it is when you feel like you're losing what do you do when you feel like you're losing ground you feel like you're not your best self do you feel like your business is struggling during this epidemic do you boo do you feel like your relationships are suffering during this pandemic do you feel like you're going to when things get back to a semblance of what they once were do you have this sensation that you're gonna have a pile of things a list of things to try to catch up on what do you do when you feel like you're losing go with me to first Timothy and chapter six and I'm gonna begin reading right at the end of verse 2 it says this teach and urge these things if anyone teaches a different doctrine does not agree with the healing words of Jesus and the teaching that Accords with godliness that person that teacher that preacher is Paul it is pulled or puffed up I should say with conceit understands nothing he hasn't unhealthy craving for controversy quarrels about words which produce Envy dissension slander evil suspicion and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and depraved of the truth imagining that godliness will be a way to make a quick buck to make money listen to this verse now I think it is so appropriate and so concentrated right now in what we are collectively and globally facing together in this pandemic it says this godliness with contentment is great gain in fact maybe you've heard that phrase before you're not real familiar with scripture but you've heard that phrase godliness with contentment is great gain fascinating statement it goes on now we brought nothing into the world we're gonna take nothing when we leave this world but if we have food and clothing we're going to be content but those who desire to be rich fall into temptation snare many senseless harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction for the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil notice the scripture does not say money is the root of all kind of money that's the root of all kinds of evil it's through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows what do you do when you feel like you're losing nobody wants to lose in life when you feel like you're falling behind when you feel like you're giving up ground in life in career in your relationships in your emotions what do you do when you feel like you're losing that's what we're gonna go let's pray Jesus thank you so much for these minutes in these moments God without you this is gonna be incredibly average and ordinary but if you're actively involved in in in the telling of your story I thank you it will produce perspective change and life change so we asked this we welcome this we thank you for your grace your strength and your love Lord for every single person watching right now in this very moment I pray you would be closer to them more apparent to this individual then you have ever been before show him your love and your grace and your goodness in Jesus name Amen amen amen well yesterday for me personally was not an easy day I wish it was not an easy day for a reasonable reason or for a logical reason or a good reason but the truth is yesterday was a hard day because my wife made one observation of my frame or my body or more specifically my biceps okay now I'm not gonna stand here in front of church home I don't have the biceps of Pastor Steven Furtick I don't have the biceps of pastor Craig Groeschel and I certainly don't have the biceps of pastor Carl Lentz now if you don't know who any of those men are that's fantastic pastor friends and they work out a lot now working out for me is a great concept it's just not something that I practice on a regular basis now I walk I work out spiritually right but I haven't mean this corentin´s not been like oh I'm gonna do a bunch of push-ups now my 15 year old he's been doing he's he's dropping and doing ten push-ups constantly throughout the day he's doing to 300 push-ups today I'm super proud of him and of course about six weeks ago I committed to do them with him it's just slipped my mind okay so the point is this I'm not working out during this Korn team and I hope neither are you like I say that I'm definitely the friend you don't want me is afraid because I'm the friend is like I don't work out today come on let's go hang out let's go to a cafe it's have a coffee it'll be I'm always that to Chelsea baby yoga we need to connect let's just go for a walk and just talk about our love you know so not great at working out true story and I quote yesterday my wife of 20 years starts like this you know babe you look so good for not working out so you kind of kind of take that compliment you're like okay I don't look good but considering I don't do anything to work out she said I look good so you take that compliment you know you guys you know I'm talking about when your spouse is like you you look good for not actually trying it's like kind of turned her and I go hey thanks we were sitting outside trying to get some Sun thanks had my shirt off I don't want to get into the details and she goes you know babe and it was that tone it was that tone I'm telling you Church if you've been married you know I'm talking about you know you know that right it's not a resolve it's a babe right and you know what's about to come you got to prepare yourself 20 years of marriage still not great with confrontation okay here it comes she goes you know babe um your arms I go what about my arm she goes a little skinnier than normal and I would typically your arms just look toned and great but they just look a little skinny you know maybe she doesn't know I'm telling you this story right by the way maybe you should start doing a little more push-ups and I quote you know you could join Zion when he's doing the push-ups in here I'm 41 years old trying to shelter and place ladies and gentlemen just trying to be a good quarantine buddy right a good quarantine spouse that's my goal for life right now to be a spouse that's good in the quarantine right and I am told my muscle mass is losing ground due to this quarantine it's losing ground so have I done push up since that front asian certainly am i I am planning on it yes is there something in your life that this quarantine has you feeling like you're losing ground is something atrophied in your life are you looking around after a few weeks the first week you can't tell but two weeks three weeks four weeks I had somebody say from a distance today I saw them a friend out and about was walking and they said you look pretty skinny for quarantine I'm like that's what we're at now it's like whoa you actually haven't been the rest of us are gaining weight right what do you feel like is losing ground is it your fitness is it your passion is it your morals is it your finances is it your words is it just your overall care and concern for your family how do you see your spouse where are you and if you're normal like me what you're feeling right now is this sense of loss to an extent amazing how many people just an Instagram live or talking online or texting with friends how many of us right now are feeling like we're not doing enough I'm sure you've heard the father you've heard some of the some of the comments online but so many of these a messages the messaging and the storytelling we're hearing online is hey learn a new language during the quarantine paint a new painting learn a new trade teach yourself to piano learn a new language right and I'm like I'm trying to stay married that's my goal for quarantine right like I'm trying to not eat my young I mean I'm trying to parent well right but there's these aspirational have you heard these things during the quarantine become the person you've always wanted to become and I think for the rest of the world we're kind of like cool I'm actually just making sure I get through this day right actually as I'm the PE teacher the principal the food service and the janitorial service I'm just really looking forward to when my kids go to bed tonight like is that it can anyone relate like ow what do you do in a quarantine when you feel like you're losing ground that the truth is it doesn't take a global pandemic to make us feel like sometimes we are just simply not keeping up with the Joneses we're not just keep we're just not keep it up I know when I go on Instagram and I look at someone so much stuff going on you feel like am i doing enough am i helping enough am i giving enough am i supporting charities enough am i aware enough have I prayed for frontline workers enough have I donated enough have I done and this is just for other people let alone what you feel like you should do for you are your biceps getting smaller welcome to the club right now so many of us feel like we're losing ground what do you do when you feel like you're losing I thought about titling this sermon gaining ground thought about titling this sermon how to get ahead what do you do when you feel like all around you you feel like things are getting less in you're losing I'm having fun and I'm making jokes biceps and funny comments from your spouse but the reality is there are so many people right now who are actually literally wondering what will they do for income right now and certainly when this is said and done what will they do you feel like you're losing in life I would like to show you in the next 10 or 15 minutes like to show you a portion of Scripture that will outline and point us to a way that we can be sure that we are experiencing growth were gaining ground and we're actually truly wealthy and we'll talk about that word in a moment what do you do when you feel like you're losing ground here comes this famous passage of Scripture if you hung out with Christians at all lately maybe the Scriptures come up it's come up a few times even online talking to people godliness discontentment is how you get ahead in life right that's pretty amazing statement what you need is godliness and what you eat is contentment and that'll equal you getting ahead you'll get ahead relationally you'll get ahead socially you'll get ahead more specifically emotionally godliness with contentment is great gain now us Christians for those of you that are Christians and Jesus followers and Jesus worshipers you know that we are kind of historically well known for cliche potent statements that oftentimes we don't explain godliness with contentment is great game now if you grew up in church like it I did you hear the word godly and you're like long skirts make your own bread homeschool your kids and hope for Jesus to come home right it's like Jesus to return right it's godly godly is look like God be moral be amazing and so godliness with contentment okay it means that I need to act godly be godly think godly speak godly you know I got to be kind considerate loving selfless emotion you know I got to be godly and then on top of that I need to be present I need to be content I need to be at peace and that'll give me great game so here we go again we turn this turn this endeavor into something that we do on our own I'd like to show you from this passage as Timothy is being written to from the Apostle Paul that Paul is telling Timothy there is a completely different way to function so when practically or financially or relationally or emotionally you feel like you are losing ground there is a sure way to gain ground in this life godliness with contentment is great gain I want to define for you the word godliness that's what's gonna be important for us to properly understand that I'd like to show you that godliness will produce for you a contentment that you and I crave now I've told you this a couple weeks ago Miney star lastly my knee starts to shake and Chelsea knows in our marriage the knees shaking you're you got you you're antsy you feel like you got to go do something you got to get out you got a hey you need to write all of us our proverbial the knee is shakin and we're like man can I find peace can I find ease can I find contentment how do I find it and if you're like me I crave contentment through conditions conditional contentment that's the norm in our world right if things if the conditions are ideal I will have a sense of ease if everything's in place and everything's in order I'll have content well by definition if that's our definition of contentment that's our criteria for contentment then none of us will be able to be condensed content during this pandemic because there are things that are not in their proper place there are things that are not right and not healthy not the way they should be we are in an emergency how do you find contentment in a storm how do you find contentment in an emergency how do you find contentment in a pandemic how do you find contentment when your business is all but gone how do you find contentment when you feel like when this is all said and done you may not have the same friends you may not have the same perspective and you might not have the same ways and avenues of income how do you find contentment Paul says to Timothy the key is godliness the key is godliness what does it mean to be godly I want you to see it like this godliness is to be godly God word God towards godliness is defined like this number one God awareness it's just to be aware god is big this is his planet this is his world this is his story he's the focus he's the center he's the most important now whether or not you and I believe that that is the universal fact I didn't make this world you didn't make this world God made this world he set it in motion and he set in the sky and the sea and the dirt and the mountains and the animals and the lakes and the rivers and the hills and the ants and the Rhinos and the lions and the giraffes and the trees it's all his it's all his godliness God awareness and godliness is also defined as a holy awe in other words you're suddenly aware of God and then you started taking inventory of his creation you started taking inventory of his architecture and you start to go WOW already ever been a dramatic extraordinary Cathedral and in Europe for instance and you stand at the base of this Cathedral and you think to yourself how could any architect think this up how many years did it take to build it that's man-made stuff let alone God me you ever looked at animals you ever looked at mountains we just celebrated a few days ago Earth Day Earth Day is our day for those of us that worship Jesus and follow the Creator it's art it's a celebration of the architecture of our Creator and we are celebrating Earth God loves this planet I love this planet it speaks of his magnitude and his majesty and his glory the Grand Canyon is supposed to make us feel God is grand when you sit in the sand and you look at an ocean that seems to have no end to it it's supposed to speak to us the Bible uses creation as an example it says as far as these is from the West so he separated us from our sins it talks about how God takes our sins and puts them in an ocean of forgetfulness all these things tell us his glory godliness is it all of god it's this Wow God Wow I think we kind of share he said you know I don't know how to get that all I don't know how to be more aware of God I want to say this God awareness comes from God it comes from God do you know you can pray the simplest prayer right now God make me aware of you and he'll hear that he'll answer that prayer in an amazing what we have in Christian communities the practices that have proliferated and we have promoted we don't talk about the Christian practice of solitude and silence and listening listening to creation listening to birds listening to the wind listening to the ocean just stillness solitude disses you go back in church history these were paramount practices in worship godliness godliness is not the clothes you wear and the cuss words you stop using that's wonderful highly recommend all of those things it's not the fact that you don't go over 55 on the freeway and that's a wonderful admirable thing but godliness is a god awareness it's a God awareness godliness plus contentment is great gain now I want to urge you to look up second Timothy and excuse me first Timothy chapter 6 particularly verse 6 look it up in the amplified look it up in the passion translation look it up in the message Bible look it up in the New Living all these different translations for those of you that aware of this if you're overwhelmed by that download the Bible app it has it all there for you and you could look at the different versions because it helps you understand the original Greek that this was in regional language here's what's being said Paul is writing to Timothy and he's saying listen here's how to get ahead here's how to ensure you're gaining ground in life and he starts using words like wealth which speak more to material things in possessions and he speaks of that he says godliness + contentment will help you gain ground in this life you'll make progress you'll grow learn another language is great learn teaching yourself to pianos awesome and I urge you to do whatever it is in your heart to do during this solitude during this unusual global challenge that we find ourselves in what about experiencing great gain in your life you know how to do that godliness and contentment we'll bring you incredible wealth in your soul and the core of your being do you know what contentment is contentment is the result of a god Bob God awareness what's godliness awareness and all awareness and all God's amazing and then here comes this piece and this stillness in in on you that comes from the sufficiency of God for instance what do we mean by that well look at the few verses before Paul says the Timothy Timothy was a preacher he was a teacher he says teach and urge these things teach and urge these things teach and urge these things preach on this pastors preachers anybody watching it I want to urge you here's what Paul says to preach on here's what Paul says to emphasize boy Timothy was going through storms Paul had been through some storms he says teach and urge these things and he says in fact if anybody teaches and urges something else that is different than the healing words of Jesus now listen or teaching that accords with or promotes godliness hold on a second I'm gonna give you the key God awareness comes from God okay the focus of this whole book is God the focus of the world is God the focus of the universe is God right the architecture is a direct arrow to the architect the architecture speaks of the quality it speaks of the character of the architect it's all about God Paul says what we have got to emphasize and communities of faith is the healing words of Jesus that promote God awareness and God aw so actually what we're supposed to do in these minutes and moments when we gather is actually not to make this about you or even your problem or your plight or your challenge although God cares about all those things that the point is what we're to teach and to urge is the healing words of Jesus how does the words of Jesus heal because the message of Jesus is only Jesus can heal our air are wrong our sin our selfishness disease Wars rumors of wars pestilence troublesome activities and continents and countries in the world it all cause it all comes from our greatest disease and that's sin and guess who heals sin guess who heals the shame that comes with sin guess who heals the condemnation that comes with sin only Jesus heal sin only Jesus can make you whole only Jesus can give you a right relationship with God he became sin so that you and I can become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus all of our teaching all of our preaching all of our urging all of our emphasizing needs to go towards the healing story of Jesus which does what it leads us to Wow Wow you get what you go for church now tell you what we're gonna go for it church home we're gonna go for teaching that accords with godliness teaching that leaves you to think less about yourself and more about God the answer is not within yourself the answer is in God and God will come upon you and within you and he will change your life so here's what happens suddenly we get an awareness of God we get an aura of God that's delivered by God and God will speak to us through his word and through his ways and through his creation and you know what it results in it results in an overwhelming sensation that I am sufficient because Jesus is enough for me though I am weak though I am feeble though I am broken and though I err for I am human Jesus has made up the difference he knew no sin so he could become sin he died on the middle cross he predicted that he would beat death three days later he rose up again he appeared to hundreds of followers and then he levitated into the sky he said I'm gonna send my spirit he's gonna be on you and in you and when the time is right I will come again my brothers and sisters this whole world is about one person and his name it's Jesus for Jesus is God and you cannot know God without Jesus how does he heal it's free his healings free that's why it's called gospel it's called good news it'd be average news if I told you you had to do something to get healed that's normal it's good because you'll have to do anything it's already been done you can be forgiven forever and here comes the ahh settling over your life I'm forgiven I'm accepted I'm loved I'm right with God I'm his and here it comes an overwhelming sense I wrote it down all the sudden I've got an inner confidence and I've got an inner peace one translation says this suddenly because you are aware of God and you're in all of God you're free to be yourself with God be yourself with God be yourself with God all the sudden God's amazing God loves me God's forgiven me the Bible says that's wealth that's wealth that's wealth that's well do you know what happens for the rest of the passage would you believe that the opposite of godliness contentment which is great gain do you know what the opposite I'm shocked by this I'm shocked by this the opposite is the love of money things and stuff that's the opposite I've read this over the last couple of weeks as I've back on social media and suddenly I'm comparing and competing and wondering and reading and looking and all the inundation of information and data and am i doing enough am I good enough am i smart enough of my sharp enough do I know what I'm doing I all these events and gatherings and charities and things and I'm like what I'm just sitting at home am i I'm just trying to make sure that I love my wife and I'm mad because she said my biceps were skinny I didn't all of a sudden you feel like well man so many of these people are winning during this endemic I'm doing anything I'm losing all my brothers and sisters it starts right here here's where you start to gain ground even during social distancing in isolation it starts right here God make me aware of you that's why we go to this book not to learn spiritual statistics or to be history buffs we go to this book so he can on us again so he can wow us again wow me again and then it dawned on me you know what stealing my godliness and contentment it's the love of things and stuff he goes on he says if you have food and clothing you should be content with these but by the way wealth defined by Paul to Timothy he says we brought nothing in when we were born none of us had jewelry on you weren't born with jewelry nobody was born with a Rolex you were born naked with nothing and you're gonna leave with nothing so suddenly it's like what do you mean Paul oh the only thing that's truly wealthy the only thing that defines well is what you can take with you is it it dawned on me the last two weeks of unsettledness in my soul do you know what it came from it came from me focusing and groping for things that are temporal that I believe are wealth I got to get that I got to get that I got to get that that's the key that success that's perception that's important that's the opposite of the love of God the love of God is an awareness of God in all of God that leads to a confidence that comes from God and a stillness that you can be yourself and God loves you the way you are you're made just the way you are and you can be that the love of money says you're not enough you need more you'd be happier you'd be better you'd be more recognized you'd be more loved you'd be more appreciative you need to get more and so we all move in to these spaces with cravings and passions this love of money there's no respecting money is fine and you should it's the longing and the craving that you need it that's the problem and do you know what and I promise I'm coming to that do you know what Paul says to Timothy he says for the love of possessions and things and money in other words the obsession with stuff that is not eternal will lead you to many sorrows thought many sorrows plural I thought that's rampant today are you I'm gonna try to be as honest as I can my the only one the last several weeks there's been moments of deep sadness first and foremost for the loss of the most important thing on this planet and that's human life but then just a sadness for what I miss for what I crave what I feel like I need what gets me on seven the middle of the day while I'm home alone with my family and yet I feel like I'm not enough I'm not doing enough and you do this and you do this and then if I get this and if I get that and if I get more and then I'll and then then it says many many sorrows love of God level money Jesus says in Matthew 6 he says both can't exist together it's like oil in water he said you can't love God and love money at the same time he says it like this you'll end up loving one despise in the other let me say like this the proper order is loving God and appreciating money loving God is appreciating money is appreciate what it can do for me and what it can do for others I appreciate it the exact opposite can happen in our life we can love money God I appreciate God yeah God's important yeah what do you appreciate God well appreciate what he does and we reverse it you see how that happens and suddenly it's like you know no God oh yeah I got ah yeah I think God's good but what's my focus what has my emotion what has my attention but has my affection things possessions stuff all the things that I wasn't born with and I won't die with Jesus is a sadness settles in over your life and I think I think to an extent many of us have experienced that sadness there is a no doubt a a painful excruciating recalibration happening to our soul isn't there so Paul says hey you know what to be sad you don't have to be anxious and worried and fearful and all these things these emotions that are overwhelming to you just hey godliness with contentment you'll get ahead in life wait what yeah just aware of God all of God look what Jesus has done look how he's healed you of your sin and your soul Wow do you feel and he's there do you feel a sufficiency I want to urge our church to practice first century third century Christians these are these were normal practice of faith say in declaring loved accepted he's proud godliness with contentment helps you feel like you're getting in you know what my desire is for you and I promise I'm coming to a close my desire for you personally for you for your family your roommates your loved ones your classmates your teammates the people that you're doing life with right now in quarantine is that you would this this all lettuce storms don't last they come and they go and this will go we may see things differently forever for the rest of our life but this too shall pass passion would be whatever happened to you in it then when it passes you will come out with an overwhelming sense that you've gained ground in the deepest part of your zone see God see him in his grandeur and his beauty in his mad love the confidence allow the peace to settle in over your life I'm believing that for you believe in that for your family and I just want to reiterate one more time just before we take some minutes to use music as a connection point that challenge from Paul I'm going to take very seriously as your pastor and I want you to know that and I've said this before to our church home but I want to make a new commitment in this new chapter in this new era of church I am unequivocally committed unashamedly I will not apologize for this we are going to teach and urge the healing words of Jesus and everything that leads people to unawareness and an AW that's what we're going to spend our time this will not merely be an exchange of practical everyday tools to help you in your life my brothers and sisters there is mystery there is enchantment there is the supernatural and there's the spiritual and are the bed rock necessity and essential of the human existence is to know I'm connected to the one who made me so I'm going to teach that's we're gonna edge and my gopher every time we get together as a church I want to remind you is that we would conclude these moments of worship thinking about Jesus then thinking about ourselves that's where the power is that's where the gain is that's where the wealth is and that's where the progress is in your life so god this is my prayer for our whole church right here right now on this Sunday my prayer is make us aware of you make us more aware of you and your love and your forgiveness and your goodness then a disease then policies procedures news updates events show us who you are God use your book use your story use your creation use friends loved ones relatives neighbors to make us aware may that awareness lead to an off and allow us to be in a place of peace and contentment thank you God for the supernatural if you're watching right now and you would like to become a follower of Jesus I want to welcome you to do so it's so exciting it's free he'll heal you he's already made all he's paid the price he's done the work all the provision has been available now it's a permanent been provided by Jesus himself you can be healed you can be forgiven you can have a right relationship with God all because of what he did not because what you or I do you just receive it if you'd like to receive this free gift of forgiveness that only comes through Jesus I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand wherever you are in the world watching this right now the count of 3 1 2 3 that you slip up area God you see every single hand and you see every single soul and heart and I thank you that forgiveness flows freely here at church home and we thank you for that in Jesus name in Jesus name Amen woah hey buddy you guys see it's the subscribe button if you press on it you subscribe to our YouTube channel then you get to watch it and we get to have fun and we get to be friends I love you

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Published: Mon Apr 27 2020