1 00:00:00,710 --> 00:00:03,150 Welcome to from the pulpit and classic sermons 2 00:00:03,150 --> 00:00:05,310 each week We bring you a different message 3 00:00:05,310 --> 00:00:07,210 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:07,210 --> 00:00:09,970 Christian faith and powerful sermons for modern preachers, 5 00:00:10,190 --> 00:00:12,930 too This week we have George Ferber with 6 00:00:12,930 --> 00:00:22,500 this message discipline Discipline I Remember 7 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:23,960 when I used to work in a camp 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,140 out in Colorado And every time I would 9 00:00:27,140 --> 00:00:29,780 mention or someone else and would mention Self 10 00:00:29,780 --> 00:00:34,040 -discipline I would hear groans nobody likes self 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,280 -discipline And I'm becoming convinced that it's completely 12 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:42,320 contrary to our human nature We just don't 13 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:43,480 like to be disciplined. 14 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,840 We just don't like to do what we're 15 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:46,180 told. 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,340 We just don't like to pick up paper 17 00:00:48,340 --> 00:00:50,220 We don't like to clean up things. 18 00:00:50,380 --> 00:00:53,380 It just goes against us We just want 19 00:00:53,380 --> 00:00:55,680 to go as we feel we feel good. 20 00:00:55,780 --> 00:00:57,480 We'll do something if we don't feel good 21 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:58,400 We won't do it. 22 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:00,540 We'd like to be controlled just by our 23 00:01:00,540 --> 00:01:05,160 emotions and our feelings but discipline is Just 24 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:10,040 the opposite Discipline is simply doing what's right 25 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:15,620 whether we feel like it or not A 26 00:01:15,620 --> 00:01:18,960 disciple is one who is trained or taught 27 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,800 And after I read that definition I begin 28 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,260 to wonder Am I a disciple? 29 00:01:25,820 --> 00:01:27,900 Am I very well trained am I very 30 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:30,360 well taught Maybe we should say we're in 31 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,720 the process of becoming disciples of Jesus Christ. 32 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:37,000 We are in the process of learning We're 33 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,180 in the process of learning what it is 34 00:01:39,180 --> 00:01:42,500 to have not just self-control but spirit 35 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:45,940 control Because it's not by might or by 36 00:01:45,940 --> 00:01:48,840 power, but by my spirit sayeth the Lord 37 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:53,140 And certainly discipline is way above us. 38 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,860 It's above me And probably I'm gonna speak 39 00:01:56,860 --> 00:01:58,700 to myself more than anyone else this morning 40 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:01,700 and if it hits you well, praise God 41 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:06,530 join the crowd It's learning, isn't it? 42 00:02:07,470 --> 00:02:09,650 It's learning what God has for us and 43 00:02:09,650 --> 00:02:11,170 we learn in so many different ways. 44 00:02:11,330 --> 00:02:14,470 We learn from the Word of God God 45 00:02:14,470 --> 00:02:17,010 teaches us and he expects us not only 46 00:02:17,010 --> 00:02:18,470 to learn it in the mind But to 47 00:02:18,470 --> 00:02:19,950 apply it to the heart and life and 48 00:02:19,950 --> 00:02:20,510 to live it. 49 00:02:21,030 --> 00:02:25,770 Otherwise, it's just knowledge Which profits little we 50 00:02:25,770 --> 00:02:28,530 learn by experience we say experience is the 51 00:02:28,530 --> 00:02:31,610 best teacher or it's a hard teacher It 52 00:02:31,610 --> 00:02:33,470 is for me, but I tell you it's 53 00:02:33,470 --> 00:02:38,070 a convincing teacher Experience and I believe that 54 00:02:38,070 --> 00:02:41,430 God teaches us by one another too as 55 00:02:41,430 --> 00:02:43,230 the Spirit of God brings us in contact 56 00:02:43,230 --> 00:02:45,990 with different people and I remember many times 57 00:02:45,990 --> 00:02:48,250 my own life how Perhaps God is beginning 58 00:02:48,250 --> 00:02:50,170 to speak to my heart along a certain 59 00:02:50,170 --> 00:02:52,930 area and just in the next few days 60 00:02:52,950 --> 00:02:55,390 I would meet someone else that perhaps was 61 00:02:55,390 --> 00:02:57,670 thinking along the same lines and God would 62 00:02:57,670 --> 00:03:01,830 just kind of Double and treble the lesson 63 00:03:01,830 --> 00:03:03,870 that he was trying to teach me and 64 00:03:03,870 --> 00:03:06,590 so we learn from one another in fact 65 00:03:07,490 --> 00:03:09,110 I'm not sure just how much I would 66 00:03:09,110 --> 00:03:11,350 know this morning if it hadn't been for 67 00:03:11,350 --> 00:03:14,930 other people who had taught me Some of 68 00:03:14,930 --> 00:03:16,270 us, you know are a lot more privileged 69 00:03:16,270 --> 00:03:20,030 than others Some of us have had Christian 70 00:03:20,030 --> 00:03:23,890 training right from the cradle upward Some of 71 00:03:23,890 --> 00:03:25,990 us have had parents and I'm speaking for 72 00:03:25,990 --> 00:03:29,370 myself who pray daily and who want just 73 00:03:29,370 --> 00:03:32,810 God's best for your life Some of us 74 00:03:32,810 --> 00:03:35,610 have had more training we've had more opportunities 75 00:03:35,610 --> 00:03:38,630 to learn of Jesus Christ And therefore I 76 00:03:38,630 --> 00:03:42,190 believe our responsibility is far greater than one 77 00:03:42,190 --> 00:03:44,950 who has had little But we learn from 78 00:03:44,950 --> 00:03:47,510 others and oh what a joyous thing This 79 00:03:47,510 --> 00:03:50,170 is that we can have Christian fellowship where 80 00:03:50,170 --> 00:03:54,140 we can learn from one another and so 81 00:03:54,140 --> 00:03:57,040 we need to take every Way in which 82 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,200 God teaches us and learn all we can 83 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,780 from and apply I'd like to be as 84 00:04:02,780 --> 00:04:06,080 practical as possible this morning I'd like to 85 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,180 to just take discipline in various realms of 86 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:11,500 our lives I'd like to look into the 87 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:13,420 scripture and see what the scripture says about 88 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:15,720 it and mention some of the principles And 89 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,360 then if at all possible, I'd like to 90 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,140 to apply this to our everyday living that 91 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:23,520 we might truly be a Disciplined one a 92 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,960 real disciple of Jesus Christ The first the 93 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,960 first area that hits me is discipline in 94 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,700 thought Because this is the whole basis our 95 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:37,220 thought life and I was amazed as I 96 00:04:37,220 --> 00:04:39,280 began to look at scripture I was first 97 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:40,260 I was going to look at all the 98 00:04:40,260 --> 00:04:43,420 scriptures on thought and on imagination and on 99 00:04:43,420 --> 00:04:45,700 discipline And I started to look one look 100 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:47,380 at the concordance and I gave up and 101 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:48,840 I said well Lord Just leave me to 102 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:50,320 to some that will be a blessing. 103 00:04:50,420 --> 00:04:51,820 I'll never get through all these it take 104 00:04:51,820 --> 00:04:54,940 me a couple weeks The scripture is full 105 00:04:54,940 --> 00:04:58,160 of talking about the mind the heart the 106 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:07,780 soul Remembrance not forgetting thoughts imaginations desires meditation 107 00:05:07,780 --> 00:05:11,760 all these words which describe Some aspect of 108 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,900 our thinking And I'm I feel that this 109 00:05:14,900 --> 00:05:17,720 is basic because if our thoughts are disciplined 110 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,840 our actions will be disciplined Our words will 111 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:25,580 be disciplined Perhaps we say well we speak 112 00:05:25,580 --> 00:05:28,100 without thinking but somewhere in the past you 113 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:31,360 have thought what you've said And so it's 114 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,580 discipline in the thought that affects the rest 115 00:05:33,580 --> 00:05:38,140 of our lives Sometimes there's an unpleasant picture 116 00:05:38,140 --> 00:05:41,540 given of the thought life in scripture I 117 00:05:41,540 --> 00:05:45,000 think of a passage in Genesis chapter 6 118 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,160 verse 5 and the Lord saw that the 119 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,600 wickedness of man was great in the earth 120 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,660 and that every Imagination of the thoughts of 121 00:05:55,660 --> 00:06:01,400 his heart was only evil continually This is 122 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,520 the natural man. 123 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:08,320 This is the usual course That the imagination 124 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,740 of our thoughts and of our heart is 125 00:06:11,740 --> 00:06:16,060 evil continually This is the way we go 126 00:06:16,060 --> 00:06:19,120 This is the whole pull of our nature 127 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,240 is down is to be thinking that which 128 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,320 we know is wrong Is to be thinking 129 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,140 that which we know is evil and is 130 00:06:27,140 --> 00:06:31,180 displeasing to God But then God steps in 131 00:06:31,180 --> 00:06:35,480 and he renews the mind And so the 132 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,140 mind is a great potential for good or 133 00:06:37,140 --> 00:06:40,740 evil And let's face it we're all faced 134 00:06:40,740 --> 00:06:43,440 with it, aren't we We have it every 135 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,620 day Satan comes in with temptations to think 136 00:06:46,620 --> 00:06:51,100 evil It may be just plain immoral thoughts. 137 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:54,720 It may be bitterness. 138 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,960 It may be jealousy It may be discouragement 139 00:07:01,060 --> 00:07:05,930 It may be self-pity My problems are 140 00:07:05,930 --> 00:07:08,530 bigger than everybody else here Surely God knows 141 00:07:08,530 --> 00:07:10,730 this the other people can't have the problems 142 00:07:10,730 --> 00:07:13,010 I do and so we feed on it 143 00:07:13,010 --> 00:07:14,710 and we feed on it and we feel 144 00:07:14,710 --> 00:07:16,710 sorry for ourselves And then we want to 145 00:07:16,710 --> 00:07:18,910 tell everybody about our problems So they'll sympathize 146 00:07:18,910 --> 00:07:21,030 and my you are going through a rough 147 00:07:21,030 --> 00:07:22,990 time you know how it does our hearts 148 00:07:22,990 --> 00:07:24,710 good when we hear about people praying for 149 00:07:24,710 --> 00:07:25,790 us because they know we have a lot 150 00:07:25,790 --> 00:07:27,770 of Problems and we just know that see 151 00:07:27,770 --> 00:07:29,930 we're getting more and more attention self-pity 152 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,620 This is the thought life in the discipline 153 00:07:37,620 --> 00:07:42,680 thought life says cut it out Tempted to 154 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,520 think about our problems and to think we 155 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,120 have the worst Cut it out and think 156 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,420 of what Christ went through for us Think 157 00:07:49,420 --> 00:07:51,380 about what other people are really going to 158 00:07:51,380 --> 00:07:56,980 and consider them before ourselves Discipline in the 159 00:07:56,980 --> 00:08:00,260 thought life Another passage perhaps that we could 160 00:08:00,260 --> 00:08:04,220 mention as the remedy to this Evil thoughts 161 00:08:04,220 --> 00:08:13,170 is 2nd Corinthians 10 verse 5 Perhaps we 162 00:08:13,170 --> 00:08:14,730 could start with verse 3 for though we 163 00:08:14,730 --> 00:08:16,430 walk in the flesh We do not war 164 00:08:16,430 --> 00:08:18,510 according to the flesh for the weapons of 165 00:08:18,510 --> 00:08:20,530 our warfare are not of the flesh But 166 00:08:20,530 --> 00:08:23,350 mighty before God to the casting down of 167 00:08:23,350 --> 00:08:29,510 strongholds casting down imaginations and Every high thing 168 00:08:29,510 --> 00:08:32,409 that is exalted against the knowledge of God 169 00:08:32,409 --> 00:08:37,070 and bringing every thought into captivity to the 170 00:08:37,070 --> 00:08:41,429 obedience of Christ This it seems to me 171 00:08:41,429 --> 00:08:45,610 as the remedy instead of evil thoughts Bringing 172 00:08:45,610 --> 00:08:49,190 every thought into captivity to Christ because if 173 00:08:49,190 --> 00:08:51,590 the thought is controlled by Christ, it can't 174 00:08:51,590 --> 00:08:54,730 be evil And if the thought of jealousy 175 00:08:54,730 --> 00:08:57,190 comes up if it's brought in captivity to 176 00:08:57,190 --> 00:09:01,590 Christ Then it goes away it has to 177 00:09:01,590 --> 00:09:06,450 because Christ and evil don't mix and Jesus 178 00:09:06,450 --> 00:09:10,610 Christ and a rotten mind don't mix They 179 00:09:10,610 --> 00:09:14,230 can't and so Paul says bring every thought 180 00:09:14,230 --> 00:09:18,490 into the obedience of Christ Thinking the way 181 00:09:18,490 --> 00:09:21,590 he would have us think It's so easy 182 00:09:21,590 --> 00:09:26,630 to have a worldly mind Or perhaps not 183 00:09:26,630 --> 00:09:29,650 worldly in the usual fundamental sense, but worldly 184 00:09:29,650 --> 00:09:31,690 because it's just the human way of looking 185 00:09:31,690 --> 00:09:34,550 at things We don't look at things by 186 00:09:34,550 --> 00:09:34,890 faith. 187 00:09:34,970 --> 00:09:36,070 We look at them by sight. 188 00:09:36,150 --> 00:09:36,530 Don't worry. 189 00:09:36,730 --> 00:09:37,290 That's worldly. 190 00:09:41,390 --> 00:09:44,210 We look at things What are other people 191 00:09:44,210 --> 00:09:46,970 going to say instead of what will God 192 00:09:46,970 --> 00:09:47,690 think about it? 193 00:09:49,070 --> 00:09:51,110 I Find it's so easy just to be 194 00:09:51,110 --> 00:09:54,230 to begin regarding all my work just in 195 00:09:54,230 --> 00:09:57,490 a very human way Instead of well now, 196 00:09:57,670 --> 00:09:59,290 how does God want this done? 197 00:10:00,290 --> 00:10:02,190 But you see if it's human in a 198 00:10:02,190 --> 00:10:04,090 sense, it's actually worldly. 199 00:10:04,370 --> 00:10:05,350 It's not of God. 200 00:10:05,430 --> 00:10:07,050 It's not of the Spirit Therefore it must 201 00:10:07,050 --> 00:10:07,710 be fleshly. 202 00:10:08,170 --> 00:10:11,970 It's of the whole human nature And so 203 00:10:11,970 --> 00:10:15,510 we need to cast down every imagination and 204 00:10:15,510 --> 00:10:17,470 this is why I feel discipline comes in 205 00:10:17,470 --> 00:10:19,570 It's an act of the will that says 206 00:10:19,570 --> 00:10:25,000 no And it tears it out and comes 207 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,500 to Jesus Christ for cleansing And for purifying 208 00:10:32,310 --> 00:10:35,270 And that he might control our thoughts he 209 00:10:35,270 --> 00:10:40,570 says casting down the imaginations It's not so 210 00:10:40,570 --> 00:10:42,770 bad if they just start to come but 211 00:10:42,770 --> 00:10:45,250 it's that Keep thinking about them. 212 00:10:45,270 --> 00:10:48,450 That's what hurts That's where the sin comes 213 00:10:48,450 --> 00:10:53,390 in Just the first thought we're all tempted 214 00:10:53,390 --> 00:10:53,850 aren't we? 215 00:10:54,810 --> 00:10:56,670 But it's the second and third and fourth 216 00:10:56,670 --> 00:10:59,510 and fifth for several days perhaps or even 217 00:10:59,510 --> 00:11:02,070 for several moments This is where the sin 218 00:11:02,070 --> 00:11:04,830 comes in Even the root of anger that 219 00:11:04,830 --> 00:11:08,490 comes up It may the temptation may come 220 00:11:08,490 --> 00:11:11,670 to be angry But if you feed on 221 00:11:11,670 --> 00:11:16,150 it Becomes bitterness becomes hatred and that's the 222 00:11:16,150 --> 00:11:18,290 same as being a murderer and that's where 223 00:11:18,290 --> 00:11:20,950 the sin comes in And so the very 224 00:11:20,950 --> 00:11:22,730 first sign of it it needs to be 225 00:11:22,730 --> 00:11:27,030 passed down Every imagination that which exalts itself 226 00:11:27,030 --> 00:11:31,080 against God and it can be anything Can 227 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:36,640 be a job It can be eating Can 228 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,500 be sport Doesn't matter what it is, but 229 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:42,160 it can begin to take too much plates 230 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,440 from God And we need to cast down 231 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,800 every imagination everything that exalts itself Against God 232 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:51,960 and of course, this is the basic sin, 233 00:11:52,060 --> 00:11:53,260 isn't it Lucifer? 234 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,900 I want to be like the Most High 235 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:56,300 God. 236 00:11:56,420 --> 00:11:59,980 He was cast out of heaven All these 237 00:11:59,980 --> 00:12:03,380 kind of imaginations are from Satan and even 238 00:12:03,380 --> 00:12:05,560 as Satan was cast out of heaven So 239 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:06,800 they need to be cast out of our 240 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,420 minds in the power of the Spirit of 241 00:12:09,420 --> 00:12:15,560 God Isaiah 26 3 We have a great 242 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:18,000 promise of peace thou will keep him in 243 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,600 perfect peace Note the condition whose mind is 244 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,140 stayed on thee Because he trusteth in thee 245 00:12:26,140 --> 00:12:29,720 and this is a condition unless the mind 246 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,300 is stayed on the Lord Jesus Christ It 247 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:35,300 is not at peace It's being tossed to 248 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:39,920 and fro conflicts doubts all kinds of temptations, 249 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,900 but if it stayed on Christ It's just 250 00:12:42,900 --> 00:12:45,060 another way of saying looking on to Jesus 251 00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:48,600 which causes a person to run a race 252 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,780 that is steadfast and to run it with 253 00:12:50,780 --> 00:12:53,440 endurance and To lay aside every weight and 254 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,420 every sin Stay your mind on Jesus Christ 255 00:12:57,420 --> 00:13:00,980 look unto Jesus This is what we need 256 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:04,840 to do with our minds discipline Disciplining our 257 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:06,720 thoughts to be stayed on him. 258 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,700 I Think meditation comes in here I've found 259 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:16,140 that memorizing scripture is a great way of 260 00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:19,020 keeping the mind disciplined And I have to 261 00:13:19,020 --> 00:13:20,560 confess that in recent weeks. 262 00:13:21,020 --> 00:13:23,320 I haven't been doing so much memorizing of 263 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,640 scripture In all how we need to Discipline 264 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,900 ourselves to memorize even if it is hard 265 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:30,480 to memorize. 266 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,580 I remember Krista Fisher when we worked back 267 00:13:33,580 --> 00:13:36,520 at 30 Middleton Road She sat at the 268 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,500 typewriter and above her typewriter She'd put a 269 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:40,920 new scripture text every day or maybe one 270 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:42,900 or two or three of them and every 271 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:45,220 spare moment She had she'd look up and 272 00:13:45,220 --> 00:13:47,600 she'd be reading and meditating on that verse 273 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:52,220 until she memorized But usually we get a 274 00:13:52,220 --> 00:13:53,960 spare moment and and we just kind of 275 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,680 let it slide idly by While we're waiting 276 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:59,340 at the bus stop for a bus Maybe 277 00:13:59,340 --> 00:14:01,100 nobody else is there so you can't talk 278 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:02,580 to anybody You can't give out a track, 279 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:04,740 but then to pull out a New Testament 280 00:14:04,740 --> 00:14:09,100 and memorize a word of scripture To Fill 281 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:11,800 our minds to occupy our mind with that 282 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:12,340 which is good. 283 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:13,840 It's not enough just to have a clean 284 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:14,220 mind. 285 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,120 That's still empty Because if you clean out 286 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:18,700 the mind and it's empty then pretty soon 287 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:20,420 all sorts of other things will come in 288 00:14:20,420 --> 00:14:22,120 and you'll have seven Devils instead of one 289 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,560 it's got to be filled up with that 290 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:26,540 Which is truth with that which is good 291 00:14:26,540 --> 00:14:29,300 with that which is pure Whatsoever things are 292 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:34,020 pure lovely of good report honest think on 293 00:14:35,340 --> 00:14:38,280 These things And if it doesn't measure up 294 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:39,940 to that standard that Paul laid down in 295 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:46,320 Philippians 4 don't think on these things Meditate 296 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,740 and it's a discipline It's a discipline because 297 00:14:49,740 --> 00:14:51,880 I find that my mind just likes to 298 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:56,220 to do nothing Yeah, I don't like to 299 00:14:56,220 --> 00:14:58,820 think I don't like to plan I get 300 00:14:58,820 --> 00:15:00,240 going for a while and then about the 301 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,520 middle of the day when I get sleepy 302 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:05,120 and tired I Don't want to think of 303 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:06,420 what I should say in the next letter. 304 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:09,080 I just don't like to it is lazy 305 00:15:09,860 --> 00:15:13,780 And it's a discipline to say think Or 306 00:15:13,780 --> 00:15:16,300 maybe in that time pray and ask God 307 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:19,020 to discipline you to think But in the 308 00:15:19,020 --> 00:15:20,920 idle moment to let the mind the thoughts 309 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,160 wander, you know, another thing that's come to 310 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:30,710 me is Being very sentimental I think this 311 00:15:30,710 --> 00:15:34,910 is what homesickness is Sometimes I go for 312 00:15:34,910 --> 00:15:37,470 four years without seeing my parents and every 313 00:15:37,470 --> 00:15:38,890 once while I get a hankering for my 314 00:15:38,890 --> 00:15:41,410 old life out in West Africa especially when 315 00:15:41,410 --> 00:15:42,870 it was a cold winter and I thought 316 00:15:42,870 --> 00:15:44,550 of the 90-degree weather out there and 317 00:15:45,190 --> 00:15:47,490 The beautiful sunshine and getting that nicely baked 318 00:15:47,490 --> 00:15:48,870 feeling when you get out in the Sun 319 00:15:50,230 --> 00:15:52,350 and so my mind begins to wander and 320 00:15:52,350 --> 00:15:54,470 I just go back to boyhood days and 321 00:15:54,470 --> 00:15:56,790 I think of have any problems then hardly 322 00:15:56,790 --> 00:16:01,110 and I Just get carried away And yet 323 00:16:01,110 --> 00:16:02,590 how foolish it's unrealistic. 324 00:16:02,610 --> 00:16:05,090 I can't go back there It doesn't do 325 00:16:05,090 --> 00:16:07,590 me a bit of good About five or 326 00:16:07,590 --> 00:16:09,530 ten or maybe minutes later or maybe an 327 00:16:09,530 --> 00:16:11,190 hour later I come back to reality and 328 00:16:11,190 --> 00:16:12,490 have to face up to it all again 329 00:16:13,490 --> 00:16:15,130 And it's just a waste of time, isn't 330 00:16:15,130 --> 00:16:15,810 it? 331 00:16:16,170 --> 00:16:18,250 To have all these little fluffy airy feelings 332 00:16:18,250 --> 00:16:21,470 about the past or wanting to be somewhere 333 00:16:21,470 --> 00:16:23,910 where we aren't And or sometimes I'm thinking 334 00:16:23,910 --> 00:16:25,470 here in England Well, I wonder what it'd 335 00:16:25,470 --> 00:16:26,990 be like to be slugging it out with 336 00:16:26,990 --> 00:16:30,590 those there in the Muslim world What it 337 00:16:30,590 --> 00:16:32,050 would be like just to to be with 338 00:16:32,050 --> 00:16:33,250 some of those brothers I begin to think 339 00:16:33,250 --> 00:16:34,850 of some brother and you know I have 340 00:16:34,850 --> 00:16:36,730 a great love and I just love to 341 00:16:36,730 --> 00:16:40,930 be with them in fellowship again And it's 342 00:16:40,930 --> 00:16:43,210 good to have that bond of unity, but 343 00:16:43,210 --> 00:16:47,050 sometimes it becomes just vain imagination and it's 344 00:16:47,050 --> 00:16:50,570 a waste of time Instead of seeing things 345 00:16:50,570 --> 00:16:53,050 as God You know how we need to 346 00:16:53,050 --> 00:16:55,250 discipline our minds so they just don't wander 347 00:16:55,250 --> 00:16:58,610 all over the place doing nothing going nowhere 348 00:16:59,190 --> 00:17:01,630 But rather that we might discipline our thoughts 349 00:17:01,630 --> 00:17:05,470 and discipline our whole lives Towards one purpose 350 00:17:05,470 --> 00:17:08,430 to know the Lord Jesus Christ and to 351 00:17:08,430 --> 00:17:12,920 do his way Of course, we could talk 352 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:18,770 about worry too Good passages Matthew 6 in 353 00:17:18,770 --> 00:17:19,990 case you've never read it before. 354 00:17:20,670 --> 00:17:22,170 I Think it'd be good to read it 355 00:17:22,170 --> 00:17:22,430 again. 356 00:17:22,470 --> 00:17:27,440 Anyway Because worry is in the mind, isn't 357 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:27,680 it? 358 00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:31,460 It may affect the body it may affect 359 00:17:31,460 --> 00:17:34,680 How you feel but worry is all in 360 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:36,620 the mind and most of the time worry 361 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:39,800 isn't even it's not even reality You're worrying 362 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:41,720 about something that's in the future that you're 363 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,800 not sure how it's going to turn out 364 00:17:44,340 --> 00:17:46,440 And it doesn't it doesn't help a bit 365 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,560 It doesn't do one thing for you as 366 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,260 we've heard before but let's remind ourselves what 367 00:17:52,260 --> 00:17:56,700 the Lord Jesus Christ said Verse 25 therefore 368 00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:59,380 I say unto you read 24 No man 369 00:17:59,380 --> 00:18:01,260 can serve two masters for either he will 370 00:18:01,260 --> 00:18:03,020 hate the one and love the other or 371 00:18:03,020 --> 00:18:05,120 else He will hold to one and despise 372 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,300 the other you cannot serve God and mammon 373 00:18:07,860 --> 00:18:11,360 Mammon is worried Therefore I say unto you 374 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:13,940 be not anxious for your life What you 375 00:18:13,940 --> 00:18:16,220 shall eat or what you shall drink nor 376 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:18,040 yet for your body what you shall put 377 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,200 on is Not the life more than the 378 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,600 food and the body than the raiment Behold 379 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,380 the birds of the heaven that they sow 380 00:18:25,380 --> 00:18:27,920 not neither do they reap nor gather into 381 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,280 barns and your heavenly father feedeth them Are 382 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:33,580 not ye of much more value than they 383 00:18:33,580 --> 00:18:36,140 and which of you by being anxious can 384 00:18:36,140 --> 00:18:37,940 add one cubit unto the measure of his 385 00:18:37,940 --> 00:18:38,240 life? 386 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,040 I suppose all you fellows were like me 387 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,960 and One time or another you were shorter 388 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:44,880 than everybody else. 389 00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:47,940 Well, I still am but I used to 390 00:18:47,940 --> 00:18:50,260 my brother's about five six inches taller than 391 00:18:50,260 --> 00:18:52,740 I am and Every couple weeks when we 392 00:18:52,740 --> 00:18:54,920 measured against the bedroom wall of my mother 393 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,760 I Was here and his mark was up 394 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,060 here always above me and I wanted to 395 00:19:01,060 --> 00:19:04,020 be tall like my brother but all the 396 00:19:04,020 --> 00:19:05,260 thinking about it didn't do a bit of 397 00:19:05,260 --> 00:19:08,040 good and Even exercises. 398 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,340 I don't think that helped any either It 399 00:19:11,340 --> 00:19:13,840 does it just doesn't help it doesn't do 400 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:18,040 anything And why are you anxious concerning Raymond, 401 00:19:19,570 --> 00:19:21,610 you know, I found the real problem when 402 00:19:21,610 --> 00:19:23,550 I used to have A lot of clothes. 403 00:19:23,890 --> 00:19:25,530 It took me five or ten minutes in 404 00:19:25,530 --> 00:19:27,330 the morning trying to make up my mind 405 00:19:27,330 --> 00:19:31,930 which shirt to put on It's so much 406 00:19:31,930 --> 00:19:34,270 simpler when you just have one or two 407 00:19:34,270 --> 00:19:41,980 changes It simplifies life It's bad here in 408 00:19:41,980 --> 00:19:43,480 England, but it's even worse in the States. 409 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,500 I remember working in the camp and for 410 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:48,180 one week I remember a girl coming they 411 00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:49,820 had 20 blouses for one week. 412 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,460 She changed three times a day of course, 413 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:55,160 she was catering to the fellows, but think 414 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,220 of it the decisions that would have to 415 00:19:57,220 --> 00:19:58,800 be made to change 20 times in one 416 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:05,820 week and Decisions are what's hard to make 417 00:20:07,450 --> 00:20:12,150 well Raymond consider the lilies of the field 418 00:20:13,450 --> 00:20:15,930 How they grow they toil not neither do 419 00:20:15,930 --> 00:20:18,170 they spin Yet I say unto you that 420 00:20:18,170 --> 00:20:20,110 even Solomon and all his glory was not 421 00:20:20,110 --> 00:20:22,510 arrayed like one of these But if God 422 00:20:22,510 --> 00:20:24,450 does so clothed the grass of the field 423 00:20:24,450 --> 00:20:26,750 which today is and tomorrow is cast in 424 00:20:26,750 --> 00:20:29,530 the oven shall he not much more clothed 425 00:20:29,530 --> 00:20:34,050 you all ye of little faith an Anxiety 426 00:20:34,050 --> 00:20:37,450 about Dress and what we're going to wear 427 00:20:37,450 --> 00:20:40,070 is not a faith and if it's not 428 00:20:40,070 --> 00:20:43,410 a faith, it's sin Now we've been told 429 00:20:43,410 --> 00:20:47,010 we're to be neat But one can be 430 00:20:47,010 --> 00:20:50,270 neat Without spending half the day trying to 431 00:20:50,270 --> 00:20:53,790 get a wardrobe together Some people just when 432 00:20:53,790 --> 00:20:55,830 they go to pack it takes them it 433 00:20:55,830 --> 00:20:57,430 takes them a week to get prepared even 434 00:20:57,430 --> 00:20:59,790 some of the girls here I'm used to 435 00:20:59,790 --> 00:21:02,930 I'm used to just Telling them well, you're 436 00:21:02,930 --> 00:21:04,990 going for this weekend But they want to 437 00:21:04,990 --> 00:21:06,630 know in advance by two or three days 438 00:21:06,630 --> 00:21:07,950 so they can plan what they have to 439 00:21:07,950 --> 00:21:09,210 be iron and what has to Be washed 440 00:21:09,210 --> 00:21:12,430 and so forth In some ways this is 441 00:21:12,430 --> 00:21:15,310 good but it shows how occupied we get 442 00:21:15,310 --> 00:21:17,870 with what we wear and how much time 443 00:21:17,870 --> 00:21:21,490 we can spend just on Ordinary living which 444 00:21:21,490 --> 00:21:23,350 should be the minimum and of course we 445 00:21:23,350 --> 00:21:26,330 could say the same for food Now I 446 00:21:26,330 --> 00:21:28,730 enjoy good food But I don't see that 447 00:21:28,730 --> 00:21:30,390 it makes much difference if the radish is 448 00:21:30,390 --> 00:21:31,970 whore if it's peeled in a nice little 449 00:21:31,970 --> 00:21:36,470 tulip type thing And yet I know some 450 00:21:36,470 --> 00:21:40,050 ladies that will spend hours I've been in 451 00:21:40,050 --> 00:21:40,430 their homes. 452 00:21:40,550 --> 00:21:42,150 They spend hours preparing a meal. 453 00:21:42,290 --> 00:21:44,170 Let's go down in a half hour, and 454 00:21:44,170 --> 00:21:47,290 that's it Well, we need to be realistic 455 00:21:47,290 --> 00:21:47,830 don't we? 456 00:21:48,730 --> 00:21:52,630 About our time and about just plain ordinary 457 00:21:52,630 --> 00:22:00,290 living 31 be not therefore anxious saying what 458 00:22:00,290 --> 00:22:01,830 shall we eat or what shall we drink 459 00:22:01,830 --> 00:22:04,130 or wherewithal shall we be clothed? 460 00:22:04,310 --> 00:22:05,810 We serve tea and coffee and you have 461 00:22:05,810 --> 00:22:06,870 to make up your mind whether it's going 462 00:22:06,870 --> 00:22:07,990 to be tea or coffee You're going to 463 00:22:07,990 --> 00:22:09,010 drink for me. 464 00:22:09,110 --> 00:22:11,310 I just like plain old cold water, but 465 00:22:11,310 --> 00:22:13,630 most people don't go for that quite so 466 00:22:13,630 --> 00:22:16,110 much I'm still trying to convince the Britishers 467 00:22:16,110 --> 00:22:18,870 that cold water is good for them But 468 00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:21,030 I'm having a hard time they like their 469 00:22:21,030 --> 00:22:24,910 tea and coffee or something else For after 470 00:22:24,910 --> 00:22:28,330 all these things do the Gentiles speak for 471 00:22:28,330 --> 00:22:41,050 your heavenly father knoweth Well 472 00:22:41,050 --> 00:22:45,410 that came in didn't it For your heavenly 473 00:22:45,410 --> 00:22:47,410 father knoweth that you have need of all 474 00:22:47,410 --> 00:22:50,250 these things And so what does it matter 475 00:22:50,250 --> 00:22:51,690 if I can't get my cold water? 476 00:22:51,890 --> 00:22:59,690 I'll drink whatever is available But seek ye 477 00:22:59,690 --> 00:23:03,950 first his kingdom and His righteousness and all 478 00:23:03,950 --> 00:23:06,290 these things shall be added unto you now 479 00:23:06,290 --> 00:23:08,450 This is a promise from the Word of 480 00:23:08,450 --> 00:23:11,950 God that if we seek him first The 481 00:23:11,950 --> 00:23:15,410 food our raiment, whatever we really need will 482 00:23:15,410 --> 00:23:19,490 be added unto us And if we don't 483 00:23:19,490 --> 00:23:21,810 rest on that then we're just disregarding what 484 00:23:21,810 --> 00:23:27,190 he said Don't worry be anxious for nothing 485 00:23:27,890 --> 00:23:30,250 And I tell you sometimes there are things 486 00:23:30,250 --> 00:23:32,190 that humanly speaking is something to be anxious 487 00:23:32,190 --> 00:23:36,290 about But God tells us be anxious for 488 00:23:36,290 --> 00:23:38,650 nothing and I found that most of the 489 00:23:38,650 --> 00:23:41,170 time we're worried about something That's coming in 490 00:23:41,170 --> 00:23:42,510 the future and we're not sure how it's 491 00:23:42,510 --> 00:23:43,010 going to come out. 492 00:23:43,150 --> 00:23:44,830 We don't worry too much about the past 493 00:23:44,830 --> 00:23:47,050 It's already happened in the present. 494 00:23:47,190 --> 00:23:49,710 Well, we're actually in that but it's something 495 00:23:49,710 --> 00:23:54,270 in the future and many times There's something 496 00:23:54,270 --> 00:23:55,510 that's come up in my life and I 497 00:23:55,510 --> 00:23:57,410 know that it's going to be hard to 498 00:23:57,410 --> 00:24:00,850 do it Maybe it's a situation and I 499 00:24:00,850 --> 00:24:02,650 know that I have to tell that person 500 00:24:03,390 --> 00:24:05,190 to do something that I know they aren't 501 00:24:05,190 --> 00:24:07,690 going to like and and this is difficult 502 00:24:07,690 --> 00:24:12,230 and I can begin to worry. 503 00:24:12,290 --> 00:24:13,890 Well, just how are they going to react? 504 00:24:14,470 --> 00:24:15,670 Will I lose their friendship? 505 00:24:16,970 --> 00:24:20,490 But God says don't worry about it Because 506 00:24:20,490 --> 00:24:23,310 you can't change it anyway, and we're always 507 00:24:23,310 --> 00:24:25,430 worried about something that we can have no 508 00:24:25,430 --> 00:24:28,650 influence over really And usually when we get 509 00:24:28,650 --> 00:24:30,390 to it, it's not nearly as bad for 510 00:24:30,390 --> 00:24:31,950 instance when I think of chopping my finger 511 00:24:31,950 --> 00:24:33,210 off I don't like the thought of it 512 00:24:34,350 --> 00:24:35,910 And I could I could worry about if 513 00:24:35,910 --> 00:24:37,270 I knew that five minutes from now I 514 00:24:37,270 --> 00:24:38,250 was going to have to take a hatchet 515 00:24:38,250 --> 00:24:40,490 and chop my finger off I would get 516 00:24:40,490 --> 00:24:42,550 disturbed and sometimes I when I think of 517 00:24:42,550 --> 00:24:44,690 martyrdom I think of different ways people torture 518 00:24:44,690 --> 00:24:46,450 you I can get bothered by it. 519 00:24:46,570 --> 00:24:48,130 I think what if what if I had 520 00:24:48,130 --> 00:24:49,890 to go through this certain physical torture? 521 00:24:50,630 --> 00:24:52,110 But then when the moment comes and you 522 00:24:52,110 --> 00:24:53,710 do chop your finger off It's just over 523 00:24:53,710 --> 00:24:55,790 like that and then you go about getting 524 00:24:55,790 --> 00:25:00,190 it repaired But It's usually not nearly as 525 00:25:00,190 --> 00:25:03,990 bad as your mind imagines there's that word 526 00:25:03,990 --> 00:25:08,350 again imagination imagines it to be usually the 527 00:25:08,350 --> 00:25:10,270 real thing is not nearly so bad as 528 00:25:11,610 --> 00:25:13,570 The real thing, of course, sometimes we can 529 00:25:13,570 --> 00:25:15,230 imagine something is going to be very wonderful, 530 00:25:15,410 --> 00:25:17,950 too And we can get so wrapped up 531 00:25:17,950 --> 00:25:19,970 in how wonderful something's going to be and 532 00:25:19,970 --> 00:25:21,430 then when we get there it falls flat 533 00:25:22,190 --> 00:25:24,250 Maybe that's happened to you at this conference 534 00:25:24,810 --> 00:25:26,790 Maybe your hopes were so built up that 535 00:25:26,790 --> 00:25:28,270 God was going to take one or two 536 00:25:28,270 --> 00:25:29,970 people and they were going to give such 537 00:25:29,970 --> 00:25:32,190 wonderful Messages that you just had to get 538 00:25:32,190 --> 00:25:34,910 blessed and therefore you depended on some great 539 00:25:34,910 --> 00:25:45,690 speaker coming along and you've been disappointed Because 540 00:25:45,690 --> 00:25:47,330 if we're going to receive a real thing, 541 00:25:47,390 --> 00:25:48,670 it's got to be God he gives it 542 00:25:48,670 --> 00:25:50,730 to us He uses men. 543 00:25:50,830 --> 00:25:53,270 Yes, but it's amazing what kind of men 544 00:25:53,270 --> 00:26:04,160 he does use I Guess 545 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,400 we'd save ourselves a lot of a lot 546 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:07,160 of anxiety. 547 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,280 We'd save ourselves perhaps some ulcers We'd relieve 548 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,680 the situation in our mental institutions a lot 549 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,240 of other places if we could learn this 550 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,260 lesson not to worry. 551 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:20,600 I Sometimes find myself doing it I praise 552 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,540 God I have some friends that they can 553 00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:24,140 come along and they see if I'm worrying 554 00:26:24,140 --> 00:26:26,400 or not and they say Are you worried? 555 00:26:28,580 --> 00:26:31,840 Get back to reality and it's good It's 556 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,460 good to have brothers and sisters that are 557 00:26:33,460 --> 00:26:34,820 honest enough with you and they tell you 558 00:26:34,820 --> 00:26:37,260 when something's wrong with you You know how 559 00:26:37,260 --> 00:26:39,480 we need to do this to exhort one 560 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:46,900 another Because God says don't worry about something 561 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:48,400 that doesn't mean you're not to ever think 562 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,300 about it Because in the same breath that 563 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:54,900 Jesus would say don't worry don't be anxious 564 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:57,980 about these things He also tells us to 565 00:26:57,980 --> 00:27:01,940 take care And he says I put you 566 00:27:01,940 --> 00:27:05,120 in remembrance of these things for instance over 567 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:19,090 in first Timothy 4 15 After 568 00:27:19,630 --> 00:27:22,550 Exhorting Timothy along certain lines to let no 569 00:27:22,550 --> 00:27:24,570 man despise his youth But rather be an 570 00:27:24,570 --> 00:27:26,990 example and to be a learner and to 571 00:27:26,990 --> 00:27:29,990 really give heed to reading an exhortation Notice 572 00:27:29,990 --> 00:27:33,790 he says in verse 15 be diligent You 573 00:27:33,790 --> 00:27:36,890 can't be diligent without thinking Be diligent in 574 00:27:36,890 --> 00:27:39,650 these things give thyself wholly to them that 575 00:27:39,650 --> 00:27:42,650 thy progress may be manifest unto all And 576 00:27:42,650 --> 00:27:45,390 in other places we read about study or 577 00:27:45,390 --> 00:27:48,130 be diligent to show yourself approved unto God 578 00:27:48,130 --> 00:27:50,850 And give all diligence to add to your 579 00:27:50,850 --> 00:27:55,610 faith Virtue brotherly kindness love and so the 580 00:27:55,610 --> 00:27:59,270 scripture talks about actually giving thought to something 581 00:28:00,050 --> 00:28:05,710 in many times We are reminded to Remember 582 00:28:05,710 --> 00:28:07,910 something remember now thy creator in the days 583 00:28:07,910 --> 00:28:10,250 of thy youth and Peter mentions in his 584 00:28:10,250 --> 00:28:12,910 first epistle I believe I put you in 585 00:28:12,910 --> 00:28:15,650 remembrance of these things I remind you of 586 00:28:15,650 --> 00:28:18,390 them and so over and over again We 587 00:28:18,390 --> 00:28:20,910 have the same things stated in the Old 588 00:28:20,910 --> 00:28:22,770 Testament We were commanded to love God with 589 00:28:22,770 --> 00:28:24,910 all our heart soul strength and mind and 590 00:28:24,910 --> 00:28:27,590 our neighbors ourself It's recorded another three or 591 00:28:27,590 --> 00:28:30,890 four times in Scripture to remind us and 592 00:28:30,890 --> 00:28:34,230 we are to remember We're not to worry 593 00:28:34,230 --> 00:28:37,830 about something but were to remember The things 594 00:28:37,830 --> 00:28:40,110 that God has taught us and were to 595 00:28:40,110 --> 00:28:44,490 give thought to something Not in a worrying 596 00:28:44,490 --> 00:28:49,050 sense, but thinking with God Depending on him 597 00:28:49,050 --> 00:28:50,550 to give us wisdom if we lack wisdom 598 00:28:50,550 --> 00:28:53,950 ask of God in faith, and he will 599 00:28:53,950 --> 00:28:58,390 give Perhaps I could give this illustration. 600 00:28:59,230 --> 00:29:02,190 I Don't want you to worry about dirty 601 00:29:02,190 --> 00:29:05,510 plates left all over the campground But it 602 00:29:05,510 --> 00:29:07,490 would certainly be nice if you would remember 603 00:29:07,490 --> 00:29:09,530 them to take them where they're to be 604 00:29:09,530 --> 00:29:13,850 washed Don't worry about it, but just remember 605 00:29:14,950 --> 00:29:17,410 And then get on with the more important 606 00:29:17,410 --> 00:29:17,770 thing. 607 00:29:20,130 --> 00:29:23,630 Don't worry about If the lines getting too 608 00:29:23,630 --> 00:29:28,410 long Outside the washroom or outside the dining 609 00:29:28,410 --> 00:29:34,090 hall but remember To redeem the time while 610 00:29:34,090 --> 00:29:37,290 you're there in line And use it to 611 00:29:37,290 --> 00:29:39,950 really fellowship with one another and to make 612 00:29:39,950 --> 00:29:43,190 the time profitable And of course to be 613 00:29:43,190 --> 00:29:45,570 sensible don't all crowd into the doorway so 614 00:29:45,570 --> 00:29:49,560 that all the lines get muddled up don't 615 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,440 worry but remember The things God wants to 616 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:59,370 teach us and has taught us One more 617 00:29:59,370 --> 00:30:02,710 thought along this matter of the mind In 618 00:30:02,710 --> 00:30:05,210 Romans 12 1 and 2 we read about 619 00:30:05,210 --> 00:30:08,850 the presenting of our bodies a living sacrifice 620 00:30:09,570 --> 00:30:11,670 But he goes on in the second verse 621 00:30:12,270 --> 00:30:17,090 To mention another aspect And he says and 622 00:30:17,090 --> 00:30:20,990 be not fashioned according to this world But 623 00:30:20,990 --> 00:30:24,730 be transformed by the renewing of your mind 624 00:30:24,730 --> 00:30:26,570 And this is what we need. 625 00:30:26,710 --> 00:30:28,730 We need our minds renewed. 626 00:30:29,050 --> 00:30:31,690 We need our whole attitude toward life renewed 627 00:30:32,530 --> 00:30:37,790 we need our thinking Renewed in Ephesians 4 628 00:30:37,790 --> 00:30:39,610 tells the same thing to be that we 629 00:30:39,610 --> 00:30:41,910 should be renewed in the spirit of our 630 00:30:41,910 --> 00:30:44,410 mind and This is the answer to it 631 00:30:44,410 --> 00:30:44,650 all. 632 00:30:44,810 --> 00:30:46,810 This is the answer to a disciplined mind 633 00:30:46,810 --> 00:30:50,910 get a new one Instead of ours get 634 00:30:50,910 --> 00:30:54,370 the Lord Jesus Christ mind instead of I 635 00:30:54,990 --> 00:31:03,130 Christ renewed in our mind I Remember when 636 00:31:03,130 --> 00:31:05,970 I was in Montana, I Keep mentioned different 637 00:31:05,970 --> 00:31:06,450 places. 638 00:31:06,770 --> 00:31:08,950 You probably know that Traveled around a little 639 00:31:08,950 --> 00:31:10,970 bit Lord keeps shifting me here and there 640 00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:13,050 but when I was out in Montana a 641 00:31:13,050 --> 00:31:16,570 couple summers the Lord Taught me this lesson 642 00:31:16,570 --> 00:31:18,830 about the thought and how basic it is 643 00:31:19,370 --> 00:31:23,210 If you saw a thought You reap an 644 00:31:23,210 --> 00:31:28,010 action And if you saw an action you 645 00:31:28,010 --> 00:31:31,670 reap a habit If you saw a habit 646 00:31:31,670 --> 00:31:35,590 you reap a life you saw a life 647 00:31:35,590 --> 00:31:40,210 you reap an eternity and it starts with 648 00:31:40,210 --> 00:31:44,030 the thought and Unless God comes in and 649 00:31:44,030 --> 00:31:46,110 arrests that whole order. 650 00:31:46,290 --> 00:31:47,930 He can't stop it at the habit He 651 00:31:47,930 --> 00:31:49,410 can't even stop it at the life and 652 00:31:49,410 --> 00:31:51,770 change the life We praise God that he 653 00:31:51,770 --> 00:31:55,370 can stop at anywhere except in eternity and 654 00:31:55,370 --> 00:31:57,570 then it's too late But remember it starts 655 00:31:57,570 --> 00:32:05,090 with the thought Another area that's very important 656 00:32:05,090 --> 00:32:07,750 and very closely linked together with this is 657 00:32:07,750 --> 00:32:14,510 the tongue James chapter 3 Discipline of the 658 00:32:14,510 --> 00:32:19,150 tongue Americans seem to have a great desire 659 00:32:19,150 --> 00:32:20,330 to talk a lot. 660 00:32:22,310 --> 00:32:24,870 I find it easy to talk if I'm 661 00:32:24,870 --> 00:32:29,230 not careful I Get carried away, you know 662 00:32:29,230 --> 00:32:31,370 how we need to be disciplined in what 663 00:32:31,370 --> 00:32:34,510 we say It's not wrong to talk a 664 00:32:34,510 --> 00:32:36,470 lot, but it is wrong to talk a 665 00:32:36,470 --> 00:32:42,900 lot about nothing for in many things we 666 00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:47,720 all stumble Sure enough if any stumbleth not 667 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,820 in word the same is a perfect man 668 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,220 Able to bridle the whole body also Now 669 00:32:54,220 --> 00:32:56,000 if we put the horses bridles into their 670 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,960 mouths that they may obey us we turn 671 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,800 about their whole body also Behold the ships 672 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,540 also though They are so great and are 673 00:33:02,540 --> 00:33:05,020 driven by rough winds are yet turned about 674 00:33:05,020 --> 00:33:07,480 by a very small rudder Whether the impulse 675 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,500 of the steersman will it so the tongue 676 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:12,320 also is a little member Behold how much 677 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,100 wood is kindled by how small a fire 678 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:16,600 and the tongue is a fire the world 679 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,760 of iniquity among our members is the tongue 680 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,540 which defied us the whole body and Sets 681 00:33:21,540 --> 00:33:23,080 it on fire the wheel of nature and 682 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,640 is set on fire by hell For every 683 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,100 kind of beasts and birds or creeping things 684 00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:30,920 and things in the sea is tamed and 685 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,960 half been tamed by mankind But the tongue 686 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,520 can no man tame it is a restless 687 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,800 evil It is full of deadly poison Therewith 688 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,600 bless we the Lord and father and therefore 689 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,780 therewith curse We men who are made after 690 00:33:43,780 --> 00:33:45,980 the likeness of God out of the same 691 00:33:45,980 --> 00:33:48,860 mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing My brethren 692 00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:52,500 these things ought not so to be Yes, 693 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,700 the unregenerate man may curse God but not 694 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,320 many of us would dare to curse God 695 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,320 with me But instead we'll just talk behind 696 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,000 everybody else's back and just run him into 697 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,300 the ground And yet from the same tongue 698 00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:08,020 we praise God one moment and we tear 699 00:34:08,020 --> 00:34:11,900 a fellow brother down behind his back Now 700 00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:13,239 if you tear him down to his face, 701 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,020 it's a different thing If you're saying to 702 00:34:16,020 --> 00:34:18,940 his face Perhaps pointing out something you feel 703 00:34:18,940 --> 00:34:22,199 is wrong in his life That's scriptural. 704 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,760 That's done in the spirit of love to 705 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,179 exhort one another but when you say something 706 00:34:27,179 --> 00:34:29,860 behind their back That you wouldn't say to 707 00:34:29,860 --> 00:34:31,840 his face or at least you wouldn't say 708 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:37,070 unless you absolutely forced you then it's wrong 709 00:34:37,750 --> 00:34:44,469 The tongue it's bad enough to complain inwardly, 710 00:34:44,570 --> 00:34:45,370 isn't it? 711 00:34:45,489 --> 00:34:49,810 It's bad enough to To murmur and complain 712 00:34:50,409 --> 00:34:52,750 Within ourselves so that nobody else knows about 713 00:34:52,750 --> 00:34:56,510 it But if you start voicing your complaints 714 00:34:57,150 --> 00:34:59,570 then it influences someone else and they voice 715 00:34:59,570 --> 00:35:02,050 their complaints and that's joined together with your 716 00:35:02,050 --> 00:35:04,970 complaints and they get greater and your complaints 717 00:35:04,970 --> 00:35:06,510 are far worse by the time you finish 718 00:35:06,510 --> 00:35:08,630 discussing them than they were to start with 719 00:35:08,630 --> 00:35:12,190 and This works in a crowd because we 720 00:35:12,190 --> 00:35:15,430 influence one another And this is what happens 721 00:35:15,430 --> 00:35:18,510 usually in a mob when when some mob 722 00:35:18,510 --> 00:35:21,330 action is started off One person says go 723 00:35:21,330 --> 00:35:23,570 get him and off they are to lynch 724 00:35:23,570 --> 00:35:26,030 somebody But just one person saying that it 725 00:35:26,030 --> 00:35:28,630 stirs everybody else up If he had said 726 00:35:28,630 --> 00:35:30,330 that just to one other person sitting down 727 00:35:30,330 --> 00:35:32,090 their living room I would have laughed it 728 00:35:32,090 --> 00:35:34,090 off but you know in a crowd you 729 00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:37,370 see it influences them and Perhaps you're standing 730 00:35:37,370 --> 00:35:39,090 over there by the dining hall and you 731 00:35:39,090 --> 00:35:41,810 may make just one little word about the 732 00:35:41,810 --> 00:35:44,330 food Maybe it isn't quite as good as 733 00:35:44,330 --> 00:35:48,870 you expected or what you would like But 734 00:35:48,870 --> 00:35:50,650 this will influence someone else and is it 735 00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:52,470 boy, you know, that's right I hadn't thought 736 00:35:52,470 --> 00:35:54,030 about that and those beans are a little 737 00:35:54,030 --> 00:35:55,970 burnt after all or what have we been 738 00:35:55,970 --> 00:36:02,010 eating beans tomatoes and so we Our complaints 739 00:36:02,010 --> 00:36:05,610 add to each other and they get worse 740 00:36:07,190 --> 00:36:10,470 That's why if we have a complaint Voice 741 00:36:10,470 --> 00:36:12,990 it to God and not to one another 742 00:36:12,990 --> 00:36:15,990 or if it is something that can be 743 00:36:15,990 --> 00:36:19,230 corrected Voice it to the person in charge 744 00:36:20,290 --> 00:36:21,950 And then if he doesn't take it then 745 00:36:21,950 --> 00:36:24,190 perhaps you can voice it to everybody But 746 00:36:24,190 --> 00:36:26,590 how easy it is just to talk behind 747 00:36:26,590 --> 00:36:30,750 a person's back and I find this Sometimes 748 00:36:30,750 --> 00:36:33,150 we're thinking about people who have applied this 749 00:36:33,150 --> 00:36:36,090 of course applies to some of you and 750 00:36:36,090 --> 00:36:40,210 we receive their applications and We're looking at 751 00:36:40,210 --> 00:36:41,810 them and to be quite honest. 752 00:36:42,130 --> 00:36:44,430 I look through them with the soul well 753 00:36:44,430 --> 00:36:46,090 more than one purpose, but one of the 754 00:36:46,090 --> 00:36:49,070 purposes is to try and find anything that 755 00:36:49,070 --> 00:36:51,630 kind of Flashes a red light and I 756 00:36:51,630 --> 00:36:54,670 want to know more about that person now 757 00:36:54,670 --> 00:36:57,150 maybe all of you are really you really 758 00:36:57,150 --> 00:36:59,370 mean business, but some people can write in 759 00:36:59,370 --> 00:37:01,550 and they want to apply and Well, it's 760 00:37:01,550 --> 00:37:04,230 hard telling what their backgrounds been and we 761 00:37:04,230 --> 00:37:06,410 need to find this out because all we 762 00:37:06,410 --> 00:37:08,650 have is one little sheet of paper With 763 00:37:08,650 --> 00:37:10,810 a few questions at the first part and 764 00:37:10,810 --> 00:37:12,450 a little testimony on the back Have you 765 00:37:12,450 --> 00:37:14,010 ever tried to figure out what a person's 766 00:37:14,010 --> 00:37:14,790 like from that much? 767 00:37:15,950 --> 00:37:18,950 It's pretty difficult, but I find that perhaps 768 00:37:18,950 --> 00:37:21,350 we see the picture there now Sometimes the 769 00:37:21,350 --> 00:37:24,210 picture doesn't always glorify the person or perhaps 770 00:37:24,210 --> 00:37:25,970 we see something else and I can find 771 00:37:25,970 --> 00:37:28,990 myself beginning to talk about someone else Look 772 00:37:28,990 --> 00:37:29,370 at this. 773 00:37:29,430 --> 00:37:31,470 I kind of question about that and pretty 774 00:37:31,470 --> 00:37:31,710 soon. 775 00:37:31,870 --> 00:37:35,090 We're so Talking about what we think might 776 00:37:35,090 --> 00:37:37,530 be wrong That we overlook the whole other 777 00:37:37,530 --> 00:37:39,590 part and instead of taking that and writing 778 00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:41,090 to the person and trying to get it 779 00:37:41,090 --> 00:37:43,390 straightened out We can just talk about it 780 00:37:43,390 --> 00:37:45,530 or we can talk about one another and 781 00:37:45,530 --> 00:37:47,050 it in running the camp here. 782 00:37:47,130 --> 00:37:48,950 I found myself I've got to think of 783 00:37:48,950 --> 00:37:50,590 well, where would these people fit in the 784 00:37:50,590 --> 00:37:50,890 best? 785 00:37:52,210 --> 00:37:55,290 Because I must Evaluate the kind of work 786 00:37:55,290 --> 00:37:57,250 they're doing it where I feel by God's 787 00:37:57,250 --> 00:37:57,450 grace. 788 00:37:57,570 --> 00:37:59,550 They could be used the most But I 789 00:37:59,550 --> 00:38:02,670 can find I'm tempted to talk about their 790 00:38:02,670 --> 00:38:05,070 failures and their weak point and end up 791 00:38:05,070 --> 00:38:06,590 where they don't have any strong points I 792 00:38:06,590 --> 00:38:10,600 don't know where to use them You've been 793 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,240 listening to the from the pulpit and classic 794 00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:14,880 sermon series this week you heard George Verber 795 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,140 with his message discipline Tune in next week 796 00:38:18,140 --> 00:38:20,500 to hear Hans Wattvogel ask are you a 797 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,200 living epistle on from the pulpit and classic 798 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:23,700 sermons?