1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,380 Welcome to From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:08,540 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:08,540 --> 00:00:10,820 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:10,820 --> 00:00:13,760 faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers too. 5 00:00:14,460 --> 00:00:17,060 This week we have George Burwer with part 6 00:00:17,060 --> 00:00:18,780 one of his message, Discipline. 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,000 Being a disciple, we think about discipline. 8 00:00:22,900 --> 00:00:24,840 I remember when I used to work in 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,620 a camp out in Colorado, and every time 10 00:00:27,620 --> 00:00:30,120 I would mention or someone else would mention 11 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,860 self-discipline, I would hear groans. 12 00:00:33,820 --> 00:00:35,900 Nobody likes self-discipline. 13 00:00:36,620 --> 00:00:40,460 And I'm becoming convinced that it's completely contrary 14 00:00:40,460 --> 00:00:42,100 to our human nature. 15 00:00:42,420 --> 00:00:44,720 We just don't like to be disciplined. 16 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:47,100 We just don't like to do what we're 17 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:47,420 told. 18 00:00:47,740 --> 00:00:49,600 We just don't like to pick up paper. 19 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,480 We don't like to clean up things. 20 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:53,600 It just goes against us. 21 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,980 We just want to go as we feel. 22 00:00:55,980 --> 00:00:57,820 If we feel good, we'll do something. 23 00:00:57,900 --> 00:00:59,440 If we don't feel good, we won't do 24 00:00:59,440 --> 00:00:59,580 it. 25 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,800 We like to be controlled just by our 26 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,080 emotions and our feelings. 27 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,040 But discipline is just the opposite. 28 00:01:08,340 --> 00:01:12,200 Discipline is simply doing what's right, whether we 29 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:13,100 feel like it or not. 30 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,800 A disciple is one who is trained or 31 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:20,220 taught. 32 00:01:22,290 --> 00:01:24,070 And after I read that definition, I begin 33 00:01:24,070 --> 00:01:26,470 to wonder, am I a disciple? 34 00:01:27,190 --> 00:01:28,550 Am I very well trained? 35 00:01:28,770 --> 00:01:29,670 Am I very well taught? 36 00:01:30,310 --> 00:01:32,110 Maybe we should say we're in the process 37 00:01:32,110 --> 00:01:34,970 of becoming disciples of Jesus Christ. 38 00:01:34,970 --> 00:01:37,270 We are in the process of learning. 39 00:01:37,770 --> 00:01:40,130 We are in the process of learning what 40 00:01:40,130 --> 00:01:42,650 it is to have not just self-control, 41 00:01:42,870 --> 00:01:44,310 but spirit control. 42 00:01:44,830 --> 00:01:47,630 Because it's not by might or by power, 43 00:01:47,970 --> 00:01:50,090 but by my spirit, sayeth the Lord. 44 00:01:51,230 --> 00:01:54,350 And certainly discipline is way above us. 45 00:01:54,610 --> 00:01:55,710 It's above me. 46 00:01:57,090 --> 00:01:58,630 And probably I'm going to speak to myself 47 00:01:58,630 --> 00:01:59,950 more than anyone else this morning. 48 00:02:00,570 --> 00:02:02,990 And if it hits you, well, praise God. 49 00:02:03,270 --> 00:02:03,870 Join the crowd. 50 00:02:06,750 --> 00:02:07,810 It's learning, isn't it? 51 00:02:08,650 --> 00:02:10,730 It's learning what God has for us. 52 00:02:10,730 --> 00:02:12,410 And we learn in so many different ways. 53 00:02:12,710 --> 00:02:14,670 We learn from the Word of God. 54 00:02:15,390 --> 00:02:16,510 God teaches us. 55 00:02:17,010 --> 00:02:18,690 And He expects us not only to learn 56 00:02:18,690 --> 00:02:20,190 it in the mind, but to apply it 57 00:02:20,190 --> 00:02:21,510 to the heart and life and to live 58 00:02:21,510 --> 00:02:21,630 it. 59 00:02:22,230 --> 00:02:26,150 Otherwise, it's just knowledge, which profits little. 60 00:02:26,150 --> 00:02:28,190 We learn by experience. 61 00:02:28,530 --> 00:02:30,950 We say experience is the best teacher, or 62 00:02:30,950 --> 00:02:31,930 it's a hard teacher. 63 00:02:32,510 --> 00:02:33,470 It is for me. 64 00:02:33,950 --> 00:02:35,850 But I tell you, it's a convincing teacher. 65 00:02:37,450 --> 00:02:37,930 Experience. 66 00:02:38,750 --> 00:02:41,130 And I believe that God teaches us by 67 00:02:41,130 --> 00:02:41,930 one another, too. 68 00:02:42,530 --> 00:02:44,110 As the Spirit of God brings us in 69 00:02:44,110 --> 00:02:45,530 contact with different people. 70 00:02:45,530 --> 00:02:47,590 And I remember many times in my own 71 00:02:47,590 --> 00:02:50,250 life how perhaps God was beginning to speak 72 00:02:50,250 --> 00:02:51,830 to my heart along a certain area. 73 00:02:52,490 --> 00:02:54,590 And just in the next few days, I 74 00:02:54,590 --> 00:02:56,910 would meet someone else that perhaps was thinking 75 00:02:56,910 --> 00:02:57,970 along the same lines. 76 00:02:58,410 --> 00:03:01,330 And God would just kind of double and 77 00:03:01,330 --> 00:03:04,010 treble the lesson that He was trying to 78 00:03:04,010 --> 00:03:04,490 teach me. 79 00:03:04,930 --> 00:03:06,650 And so we learn from one another. 80 00:03:06,650 --> 00:03:10,090 In fact, I'm not sure just how much 81 00:03:10,090 --> 00:03:12,210 I would know this morning if it hadn't 82 00:03:12,210 --> 00:03:14,010 been for other people who had taught me. 83 00:03:15,570 --> 00:03:16,910 Some of us, you know, are a lot 84 00:03:16,910 --> 00:03:17,990 more privileged than others. 85 00:03:19,470 --> 00:03:21,970 Some of us have had Christian training right 86 00:03:21,970 --> 00:03:23,870 from the cradle upward. 87 00:03:24,630 --> 00:03:26,770 Some of us have had parents, and I'm 88 00:03:26,770 --> 00:03:30,170 speaking for myself, who pray daily and who 89 00:03:30,170 --> 00:03:32,050 want just God's best for your life. 90 00:03:33,290 --> 00:03:35,290 Some of us have had more training. 91 00:03:35,630 --> 00:03:37,930 We've had more opportunities to learn of Jesus 92 00:03:37,930 --> 00:03:38,370 Christ. 93 00:03:39,290 --> 00:03:41,990 And therefore, I believe our responsibility is far 94 00:03:41,990 --> 00:03:44,390 greater than one who has had little. 95 00:03:45,250 --> 00:03:46,550 But we learn from others. 96 00:03:47,110 --> 00:03:48,850 And oh, what a joyous thing this is 97 00:03:48,850 --> 00:03:51,590 that we can have Christian fellowship where we 98 00:03:51,590 --> 00:03:53,070 can learn from one another. 99 00:03:55,030 --> 00:03:57,970 And so we need to take every way 100 00:03:57,970 --> 00:04:00,150 in which God teaches us and learn all 101 00:04:00,150 --> 00:04:01,970 we can from it and apply it. 102 00:04:03,430 --> 00:04:05,110 I'd like to be as practical as possible 103 00:04:05,110 --> 00:04:05,630 this morning. 104 00:04:06,350 --> 00:04:09,830 I'd like to just take discipline in various 105 00:04:09,830 --> 00:04:11,010 realms of our lives. 106 00:04:11,750 --> 00:04:13,330 I'd like to look into the Scripture and 107 00:04:13,330 --> 00:04:15,130 see what the Scripture says about it and 108 00:04:15,130 --> 00:04:16,250 mention some of the principles. 109 00:04:16,890 --> 00:04:18,430 And then if at all possible, I'd like 110 00:04:18,430 --> 00:04:21,430 to apply this to our everyday living, that 111 00:04:21,430 --> 00:04:24,850 we might truly be a disciplined one, a 112 00:04:24,850 --> 00:04:26,490 real disciple of Jesus Christ. 113 00:04:28,150 --> 00:04:31,930 The first area that hits me is discipline 114 00:04:31,930 --> 00:04:35,130 in thought, because this is the whole basis, 115 00:04:35,790 --> 00:04:36,650 our thought life. 116 00:04:37,290 --> 00:04:38,970 And I was amazed as I began to 117 00:04:38,970 --> 00:04:39,770 look at Scripture. 118 00:04:40,150 --> 00:04:41,370 First, I was going to look at all 119 00:04:41,370 --> 00:04:44,490 the Scriptures on thought and on imagination and 120 00:04:44,490 --> 00:04:45,170 on discipline. 121 00:04:45,790 --> 00:04:47,070 And I started to look one look at 122 00:04:47,070 --> 00:04:48,390 the concordance, and I gave up. 123 00:04:48,570 --> 00:04:49,910 And I said, well, Lord, just leave me 124 00:04:49,910 --> 00:04:51,550 to some that will be a blessing. 125 00:04:51,670 --> 00:04:52,770 I'll never get through all these. 126 00:04:52,830 --> 00:04:53,770 It'll take me a couple weeks. 127 00:04:54,770 --> 00:04:57,330 The Scripture is full of talking about the 128 00:04:57,330 --> 00:05:03,090 mind, the heart, the soul, remembrance, not forgetting, 129 00:05:04,050 --> 00:05:10,270 thoughts, imaginations, desires, meditation, all these words which 130 00:05:10,270 --> 00:05:13,530 describe some aspect of our thinking. 131 00:05:14,330 --> 00:05:17,430 And I feel that this is basic, because 132 00:05:17,430 --> 00:05:20,110 if our thoughts are disciplined, our actions will 133 00:05:20,110 --> 00:05:20,590 be disciplined. 134 00:05:21,250 --> 00:05:22,630 Our words will be disciplined. 135 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:27,480 Perhaps we say, well, we speak without thinking. 136 00:05:27,820 --> 00:05:30,000 But somewhere in the past, you have thought 137 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:30,660 what you've said. 138 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:33,640 And so it's discipline in the thought that 139 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,000 affects the rest of our lives. 140 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,680 Sometimes there's an unpleasant picture given of the 141 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:41,660 thought life in Scripture. 142 00:05:42,380 --> 00:05:45,220 I think of a passage in Genesis chapter 143 00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:48,190 6, verse 5. 144 00:05:48,970 --> 00:05:51,110 And the Lord saw that the wickedness of 145 00:05:51,110 --> 00:05:54,090 man was great in the earth, and that 146 00:05:54,090 --> 00:05:57,430 every imagination of the thoughts of his heart 147 00:05:57,430 --> 00:06:00,390 was only evil continually. 148 00:06:01,390 --> 00:06:03,750 This is the natural man. 149 00:06:04,390 --> 00:06:09,590 This is the usual course, that the imagination 150 00:06:09,590 --> 00:06:13,010 of our thoughts and of our hearts is 151 00:06:13,010 --> 00:06:14,350 evil continually. 152 00:06:15,350 --> 00:06:17,290 This is the way we go. 153 00:06:17,850 --> 00:06:20,410 This is the whole pull of our nature, 154 00:06:20,610 --> 00:06:23,510 is down, is to be thinking that which 155 00:06:23,510 --> 00:06:26,570 we know is wrong, is to be thinking 156 00:06:26,570 --> 00:06:28,410 that which we know is evil and is 157 00:06:28,410 --> 00:06:29,450 displeasing to God. 158 00:06:30,710 --> 00:06:34,130 But then God steps in, and He renews 159 00:06:34,130 --> 00:06:34,570 the mind. 160 00:06:35,910 --> 00:06:37,830 And so the mind is a great potential 161 00:06:37,830 --> 00:06:38,630 for good or evil. 162 00:06:40,070 --> 00:06:42,130 And let's face it, we're all faced with 163 00:06:42,130 --> 00:06:42,530 it, aren't we? 164 00:06:43,930 --> 00:06:44,970 We have it every day. 165 00:06:45,610 --> 00:06:48,210 Satan comes in with temptations to think evil. 166 00:06:49,510 --> 00:06:52,350 It may be just plain immoral thoughts. 167 00:06:54,390 --> 00:06:55,930 It may be bitterness. 168 00:06:56,750 --> 00:06:58,310 It may be jealousy. 169 00:06:59,610 --> 00:07:01,170 It may be discouragement. 170 00:07:02,250 --> 00:07:03,770 It may be self-pity. 171 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,380 My problems are bigger than everybody else here. 172 00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:10,100 Surely God knows this. 173 00:07:10,620 --> 00:07:12,240 The other people can't have the problems I 174 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:12,440 do. 175 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,560 And so we feed on it, and we 176 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,580 feed on it, and we feel sorry for 177 00:07:16,580 --> 00:07:17,020 ourselves. 178 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:18,720 And then we want to tell everybody about 179 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:20,160 our problems so they'll sympathize. 180 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,280 And, my, you are going through a rough 181 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:22,680 time. 182 00:07:23,020 --> 00:07:24,420 You know how it does our hearts good 183 00:07:24,420 --> 00:07:26,080 when we hear about people praying for us 184 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,180 because they know we have a lot of 185 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:27,540 problems. 186 00:07:27,940 --> 00:07:29,360 And we just know that, see, we're getting 187 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,320 more and more attention. 188 00:07:30,580 --> 00:07:31,160 Self-pity. 189 00:07:35,470 --> 00:07:37,410 This is the thought life. 190 00:07:37,410 --> 00:07:41,290 And the disciplined thought life says, cut it 191 00:07:41,290 --> 00:07:41,570 out. 192 00:07:43,250 --> 00:07:45,450 Tempted to think about our problems and to 193 00:07:45,450 --> 00:07:46,370 think we have the worst? 194 00:07:47,150 --> 00:07:49,030 Cut it out and think of what Christ 195 00:07:49,030 --> 00:07:49,970 went through for us. 196 00:07:50,450 --> 00:07:52,410 Think about what other people are really going 197 00:07:52,410 --> 00:07:52,670 through. 198 00:07:53,330 --> 00:07:55,610 And consider them before ourselves. 199 00:07:57,450 --> 00:07:58,710 Discipline in the thought life. 200 00:07:59,550 --> 00:08:02,650 Another passage, perhaps, that we could mention as 201 00:08:02,650 --> 00:08:06,450 the remedy to this evil thought is 2 202 00:08:06,450 --> 00:08:09,110 Corinthians 10, verse 5. 203 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:15,440 Perhaps we could start with verse 3. 204 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:17,020 For though we walk in the flesh, we 205 00:08:17,020 --> 00:08:18,640 do not war according to the flesh. 206 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,740 For the weapons of our warfare are not 207 00:08:20,740 --> 00:08:23,640 of the flesh, but mighty before God to 208 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,580 the casting down of strongholds. 209 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:31,419 Casting down imaginations and every high thing that 210 00:08:31,419 --> 00:08:34,299 is exalted against the knowledge of God and 211 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:38,799 bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience 212 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:40,220 of Christ. 213 00:08:41,380 --> 00:08:43,240 This, it seems to me, is the remedy. 214 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:48,100 Instead of evil thoughts, bringing every thought into 215 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:49,360 captivity to Christ. 216 00:08:49,780 --> 00:08:52,240 Because if the thought is controlled by Christ, 217 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:53,260 it can't be evil. 218 00:08:54,660 --> 00:08:56,540 And if the thought of jealousy comes up, 219 00:08:56,620 --> 00:09:00,860 if it's brought in captivity to Christ, then 220 00:09:00,860 --> 00:09:01,580 it goes away. 221 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:02,840 It has to. 222 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,660 Because Christ and evil don't mix. 223 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,500 And Jesus Christ and a rotten mind don't 224 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:09,860 mix. 225 00:09:11,020 --> 00:09:11,920 They can't. 226 00:09:12,820 --> 00:09:16,060 And so, Paul says, bring every thought into 227 00:09:16,060 --> 00:09:17,960 the obedience of Christ. 228 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,020 Thinking the way he would have us think. 229 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,060 It's so easy to have a worldly mind. 230 00:09:26,820 --> 00:09:29,620 Or perhaps not worldly in the usual fundamental 231 00:09:29,620 --> 00:09:32,320 sense, but worldly because it's just the human 232 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:33,440 way of looking at things. 233 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,300 We don't look at things by faith, we 234 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:37,780 look at them by sight, don't we? 235 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:38,560 That's worldly. 236 00:09:42,690 --> 00:09:45,470 We look at things, what are other people 237 00:09:45,470 --> 00:09:45,990 going to say? 238 00:09:46,450 --> 00:09:48,910 Instead of what will God think about it? 239 00:09:50,350 --> 00:09:53,010 I find it so easy just to begin 240 00:09:53,010 --> 00:09:55,750 regarding all my work just in a very 241 00:09:55,750 --> 00:09:56,510 human way. 242 00:09:57,670 --> 00:10:00,070 Instead of, well now, how does God want 243 00:10:00,070 --> 00:10:00,550 this done? 244 00:10:01,630 --> 00:10:03,470 But you see, if it's human in a 245 00:10:03,470 --> 00:10:05,350 sense, it's actually worldly. 246 00:10:05,870 --> 00:10:07,170 It's not of God, it's not of the 247 00:10:07,170 --> 00:10:08,950 Spirit, therefore it must be fleshly. 248 00:10:09,490 --> 00:10:11,210 It's of the whole human nature. 249 00:10:12,930 --> 00:10:15,190 And so we need to cast down every 250 00:10:15,190 --> 00:10:15,830 imagination. 251 00:10:15,830 --> 00:10:18,470 And this is where I feel discipline comes 252 00:10:18,470 --> 00:10:18,730 in. 253 00:10:18,950 --> 00:10:20,830 It's an act of the will that says 254 00:10:20,830 --> 00:10:21,350 no! 255 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:25,180 And it tears it out. 256 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:27,800 And it comes to Jesus Christ for cleansing. 257 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:30,700 And for purifying. 258 00:10:33,930 --> 00:10:35,590 And that He might control our thoughts. 259 00:10:36,370 --> 00:10:39,570 He says, casting down the imaginations. 260 00:10:41,010 --> 00:10:42,890 It's not so bad if they just start 261 00:10:42,890 --> 00:10:43,330 to come. 262 00:10:43,830 --> 00:10:46,810 But it's that, keep thinking about them, that's 263 00:10:46,810 --> 00:10:47,470 what hurts. 264 00:10:48,410 --> 00:10:49,930 That's where the sin comes in. 265 00:10:51,810 --> 00:10:54,890 Just the first thought, we're all tempted, aren't 266 00:10:54,890 --> 00:10:55,090 we? 267 00:10:56,010 --> 00:10:57,930 But it's the second and third and fourth 268 00:10:57,930 --> 00:10:58,410 and fifth. 269 00:10:59,090 --> 00:11:01,310 For several days, perhaps, or even for several 270 00:11:01,310 --> 00:11:03,850 moments, this is where the sin comes in. 271 00:11:04,390 --> 00:11:06,630 Even the root of anger that comes up. 272 00:11:07,910 --> 00:11:10,030 It may, the temptation may come to be 273 00:11:10,030 --> 00:11:10,370 angry. 274 00:11:11,450 --> 00:11:14,230 But if you feed on it, it becomes 275 00:11:14,230 --> 00:11:16,070 bitterness, it becomes hatred. 276 00:11:16,810 --> 00:11:18,410 And that's the same as being a murderer. 277 00:11:18,990 --> 00:11:20,430 And that's where the sin comes in. 278 00:11:21,250 --> 00:11:23,250 And so the very first sign of it, 279 00:11:23,490 --> 00:11:24,690 it needs to be cast down. 280 00:11:25,210 --> 00:11:28,970 Every imagination, that which exalts itself against God. 281 00:11:29,090 --> 00:11:29,890 And it can be anything. 282 00:11:31,930 --> 00:11:32,950 It can be a job. 283 00:11:35,750 --> 00:11:36,570 It can be eating. 284 00:11:37,390 --> 00:11:38,490 It can be sport. 285 00:11:39,070 --> 00:11:40,870 It doesn't matter what it is, but it 286 00:11:40,870 --> 00:11:44,390 can begin to take too much place from 287 00:11:44,390 --> 00:11:44,790 God. 288 00:11:45,550 --> 00:11:47,630 And we need to cast down every imagination, 289 00:11:47,910 --> 00:11:50,990 everything that exalts itself against God. 290 00:11:50,990 --> 00:11:53,210 And of course, this is the basic sin, 291 00:11:53,310 --> 00:11:53,750 isn't it? 292 00:11:54,030 --> 00:11:56,930 Lucifer, I want to be like the Most 293 00:11:56,930 --> 00:11:57,530 High God. 294 00:11:57,910 --> 00:11:59,030 He was cast out of heaven. 295 00:12:00,470 --> 00:12:03,330 All these kind of imaginations are from Satan. 296 00:12:04,090 --> 00:12:05,970 And even as Satan was cast out of 297 00:12:05,970 --> 00:12:07,810 heaven, so they need to be cast out 298 00:12:07,810 --> 00:12:08,770 of our minds. 299 00:12:08,810 --> 00:12:11,010 In the power of the Spirit of God. 300 00:12:14,170 --> 00:12:17,210 Isaiah 26.3, we have a great promise 301 00:12:17,210 --> 00:12:17,730 of peace. 302 00:12:18,270 --> 00:12:20,090 Thou will keep him in perfect peace. 303 00:12:20,090 --> 00:12:21,670 Note the condition. 304 00:12:22,390 --> 00:12:26,530 Whose mind is stayed on thee, because he 305 00:12:26,530 --> 00:12:27,410 trusteth in thee. 306 00:12:28,190 --> 00:12:29,310 And this is the condition. 307 00:12:29,870 --> 00:12:32,310 Unless the mind is stayed on the Lord 308 00:12:32,310 --> 00:12:34,450 Jesus Christ, it is not at peace. 309 00:12:35,430 --> 00:12:36,950 It's being tossed to and fro. 310 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:41,130 Conflicts, doubts, all kinds of temptations. 311 00:12:41,650 --> 00:12:44,170 But if it's stayed on Christ, it's just 312 00:12:44,170 --> 00:12:46,370 another way of saying, looking unto Jesus. 313 00:12:47,630 --> 00:12:49,850 Which causes a person to run a race 314 00:12:49,850 --> 00:12:50,430 that is steadfast. 315 00:12:51,390 --> 00:12:52,470 And to run it with endurance. 316 00:12:53,330 --> 00:12:54,910 And to lay aside every weight and every 317 00:12:54,910 --> 00:12:55,230 sin. 318 00:12:56,790 --> 00:12:58,690 Stay your mind on Jesus Christ. 319 00:12:59,010 --> 00:12:59,950 Look unto Jesus. 320 00:13:01,130 --> 00:13:02,670 This is what we need to do with 321 00:13:02,670 --> 00:13:03,210 our minds. 322 00:13:03,890 --> 00:13:04,410 Discipline. 323 00:13:05,330 --> 00:13:07,970 Disciplining our thoughts to be stayed on Him. 324 00:13:09,510 --> 00:13:11,430 I think meditation comes in here. 325 00:13:13,050 --> 00:13:16,110 I found that memorizing Scripture is a great 326 00:13:16,110 --> 00:13:18,610 way of keeping the mind disciplined. 327 00:13:19,670 --> 00:13:21,430 And I have to confess that in recent 328 00:13:21,430 --> 00:13:24,370 weeks, I haven't been doing so much memorizing 329 00:13:24,370 --> 00:13:24,910 of Scripture. 330 00:13:26,450 --> 00:13:29,330 In all how we need to discipline ourselves 331 00:13:29,330 --> 00:13:29,850 to memorize. 332 00:13:30,230 --> 00:13:31,690 Even if it is hard to memorize. 333 00:13:32,510 --> 00:13:34,830 I remember Krista Fisher, when we worked back 334 00:13:34,830 --> 00:13:35,970 at 30 Middleton Road. 335 00:13:36,970 --> 00:13:38,770 She sat at the typewriter and above her 336 00:13:38,770 --> 00:13:40,890 typewriter, she'd put a new Scripture text every 337 00:13:40,890 --> 00:13:41,130 day. 338 00:13:41,130 --> 00:13:42,910 Or maybe one or two or three of 339 00:13:42,910 --> 00:13:43,350 them. 340 00:13:43,610 --> 00:13:45,970 And every spare moment she had, she'd look 341 00:13:45,970 --> 00:13:48,410 up and she'd be reading and meditating on 342 00:13:48,410 --> 00:13:50,130 that verse until she memorized it. 343 00:13:52,610 --> 00:13:54,250 But usually we get a spare moment and 344 00:13:54,250 --> 00:13:56,410 we just kind of let it slide idly 345 00:13:56,410 --> 00:13:56,770 by. 346 00:13:57,210 --> 00:13:59,130 While we're waiting at the bus stop for 347 00:13:59,130 --> 00:13:59,590 a bus. 348 00:14:00,350 --> 00:14:02,110 Maybe nobody else is there so you can't 349 00:14:02,110 --> 00:14:03,510 talk to anybody, you can't give out a 350 00:14:03,510 --> 00:14:03,810 tract. 351 00:14:04,330 --> 00:14:06,010 But then to pull out a New Testament 352 00:14:06,010 --> 00:14:07,930 and memorize a word of Scripture. 353 00:14:09,490 --> 00:14:12,330 To fill our minds, to occupy our minds 354 00:14:12,330 --> 00:14:13,590 with that which is good. 355 00:14:13,650 --> 00:14:15,090 It's not enough just to have a clean 356 00:14:15,090 --> 00:14:16,390 mind that's still empty. 357 00:14:17,250 --> 00:14:18,870 Because if you clean out the mind and 358 00:14:18,870 --> 00:14:20,850 it's empty, then pretty soon all sorts of 359 00:14:20,850 --> 00:14:22,050 other things will come in and you'll have 360 00:14:22,050 --> 00:14:23,370 seven devils instead of one. 361 00:14:23,770 --> 00:14:25,810 It's got to be filled up with that 362 00:14:25,810 --> 00:14:27,810 which is truth, with that which is good, 363 00:14:28,050 --> 00:14:29,070 with that which is pure. 364 00:14:29,670 --> 00:14:33,210 Whatsoever things are pure, lovely, of good report, 365 00:14:33,710 --> 00:14:36,950 honest, think on these things. 366 00:14:38,190 --> 00:14:39,810 And if it doesn't measure up to that 367 00:14:39,810 --> 00:14:41,930 standard that Paul laid down in Philippians 4, 368 00:14:42,530 --> 00:14:45,070 don't think on these things. 369 00:14:46,770 --> 00:14:48,690 Meditate, and it's a discipline. 370 00:14:49,630 --> 00:14:52,170 It's a discipline because I find that my 371 00:14:52,170 --> 00:14:53,810 mind just likes to do nothing. 372 00:14:56,170 --> 00:14:58,910 I don't like to think, I don't like 373 00:14:58,910 --> 00:14:59,390 to plan. 374 00:14:59,690 --> 00:15:01,090 I get going for a while and then 375 00:15:01,090 --> 00:15:02,290 about the middle of the day when I 376 00:15:02,290 --> 00:15:06,010 get sleepy and tired, I don't want to 377 00:15:06,010 --> 00:15:07,230 think of what I should say in the 378 00:15:07,230 --> 00:15:07,690 next letter. 379 00:15:08,370 --> 00:15:09,590 I just don't like to. 380 00:15:09,690 --> 00:15:10,330 It's lazy. 381 00:15:11,390 --> 00:15:13,410 And it's a discipline to say, think. 382 00:15:14,610 --> 00:15:17,250 Or maybe in that time pray and ask 383 00:15:17,250 --> 00:15:18,990 God to discipline you to think. 384 00:15:19,870 --> 00:15:21,270 But in the idle moment to let the 385 00:15:21,270 --> 00:15:22,590 mind, the thoughts wander. 386 00:15:23,230 --> 00:15:24,630 You know another thing that's come to me 387 00:15:24,630 --> 00:15:29,130 is being very sentimental. 388 00:15:31,350 --> 00:15:33,170 I think this is what homesickness is. 389 00:15:34,850 --> 00:15:37,790 Sometimes I go for four years without seeing 390 00:15:37,790 --> 00:15:39,090 my parents and every once in a while 391 00:15:39,090 --> 00:15:40,590 I get a hankering for my old life 392 00:15:40,590 --> 00:15:41,530 out in West Africa. 393 00:15:42,070 --> 00:15:43,910 Especially when it's a cold winter and I 394 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:45,610 thought of the 90 degree weather out there. 395 00:15:46,270 --> 00:15:48,350 And the beautiful sunshine and getting that nicely 396 00:15:48,350 --> 00:15:49,890 baked feeling when you get out in the 397 00:15:49,890 --> 00:15:50,130 sun. 398 00:15:51,710 --> 00:15:53,610 And so my mind begins to wander and 399 00:15:53,610 --> 00:15:55,750 I just go back to boyhood days and 400 00:15:55,750 --> 00:15:57,550 I think of, I didn't have any problems 401 00:15:57,550 --> 00:15:58,070 then hardly. 402 00:15:58,630 --> 00:16:01,150 And I just get carried away. 403 00:16:01,770 --> 00:16:03,870 And yet how foolish it is, it's unrealistic, 404 00:16:03,930 --> 00:16:04,890 I can't go back there. 405 00:16:05,630 --> 00:16:07,090 It doesn't do me a bit of good. 406 00:16:08,090 --> 00:16:10,330 About five or ten or maybe minutes later 407 00:16:10,330 --> 00:16:11,730 or maybe an hour later I come back 408 00:16:11,730 --> 00:16:13,230 to reality and have to face up to 409 00:16:13,230 --> 00:16:13,730 it all again. 410 00:16:14,750 --> 00:16:16,390 And it's just a waste of time, isn't 411 00:16:16,390 --> 00:16:16,690 it? 412 00:16:17,410 --> 00:16:19,530 To have all these little fluffy airy feelings 413 00:16:19,530 --> 00:16:20,730 about the past. 414 00:16:20,970 --> 00:16:23,510 Or wanting to be somewhere where we aren't. 415 00:16:24,030 --> 00:16:26,230 Or sometimes I'm thinking here in England, well 416 00:16:26,230 --> 00:16:27,150 I wonder what it would be like to 417 00:16:27,150 --> 00:16:28,830 be slugging it out with those there in 418 00:16:28,830 --> 00:16:29,590 the Muslim world. 419 00:16:31,170 --> 00:16:33,110 What it would be like just to be 420 00:16:33,110 --> 00:16:33,850 with some of those brothers. 421 00:16:33,930 --> 00:16:35,130 And I begin to think of some brother 422 00:16:35,130 --> 00:16:36,870 and oh I have a great love and 423 00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:38,530 I just love to be with them in 424 00:16:38,530 --> 00:16:39,270 fellowship again. 425 00:16:41,490 --> 00:16:43,270 And it's good to have that bond of 426 00:16:43,270 --> 00:16:43,550 unity. 427 00:16:44,330 --> 00:16:47,330 But sometimes it becomes just vain imagination. 428 00:16:47,990 --> 00:16:49,090 And it's a waste of time. 429 00:16:50,710 --> 00:16:52,590 Instead of seeing things as God does. 430 00:16:53,470 --> 00:16:54,970 And oh how we need to discipline our 431 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:56,950 minds so they just don't wander all over 432 00:16:56,950 --> 00:16:57,450 the place. 433 00:16:57,930 --> 00:16:59,850 Doing nothing, going nowhere. 434 00:17:01,030 --> 00:17:02,850 I'd rather that we might discipline our thoughts. 435 00:17:03,450 --> 00:17:06,750 And discipline our whole lives towards one purpose. 436 00:17:07,310 --> 00:17:09,690 To know the Lord Jesus Christ and to 437 00:17:09,690 --> 00:17:10,410 do His will. 438 00:17:13,060 --> 00:17:14,960 Of course we could talk about worry too. 439 00:17:17,589 --> 00:17:19,250 Good passage is Matthew six. 440 00:17:19,829 --> 00:17:21,270 In case you've never read it before. 441 00:17:22,050 --> 00:17:23,450 I think it'd be good to read it 442 00:17:23,450 --> 00:17:24,069 again anyway. 443 00:17:26,829 --> 00:17:28,850 Because worry is in the mind, isn't it? 444 00:17:29,950 --> 00:17:31,430 It may affect the body. 445 00:17:31,990 --> 00:17:34,230 It may affect how you feel. 446 00:17:34,230 --> 00:17:36,370 But worry is all in the mind. 447 00:17:36,770 --> 00:17:38,390 And most of the time worry isn't even, 448 00:17:38,930 --> 00:17:39,950 it's not even reality. 449 00:17:40,370 --> 00:17:42,490 You're worrying about something that's in the future 450 00:17:42,490 --> 00:17:44,570 that you're not sure how it's going to 451 00:17:44,570 --> 00:17:45,010 turn out. 452 00:17:45,610 --> 00:17:47,730 And it doesn't, it doesn't help a bit. 453 00:17:48,310 --> 00:17:49,950 It doesn't do one thing for you. 454 00:17:50,290 --> 00:17:51,710 As we've heard before. 455 00:17:52,230 --> 00:17:54,090 But let's remind ourselves what the Lord Jesus 456 00:17:54,090 --> 00:17:54,810 Christ said. 457 00:17:56,370 --> 00:17:57,570 Verse twenty-five. 458 00:17:57,570 --> 00:17:59,910 Read twenty-four. 459 00:18:27,570 --> 00:18:29,830 Neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. 460 00:18:29,950 --> 00:18:31,690 And your heavenly Father feedeth them. 461 00:18:32,310 --> 00:18:34,550 Are not ye of much more value than 462 00:18:34,550 --> 00:18:34,830 they? 463 00:18:35,530 --> 00:18:37,410 And which of you by being anxious can 464 00:18:37,410 --> 00:18:39,210 add one cubit unto the measure of his 465 00:18:39,210 --> 00:18:39,510 life? 466 00:18:40,350 --> 00:18:42,330 I suppose all you fellows were like me. 467 00:18:43,630 --> 00:18:45,210 And one time or another you were shorter 468 00:18:45,210 --> 00:18:46,130 than everybody else. 469 00:18:46,270 --> 00:18:47,090 Well I still am. 470 00:18:48,150 --> 00:18:50,510 But I used to, my brother's about five, 471 00:18:50,610 --> 00:18:51,850 six inches taller than I am. 472 00:18:52,210 --> 00:18:54,630 And every couple weeks when we measured against 473 00:18:54,630 --> 00:18:56,190 the bedroom wall of my mother. 474 00:18:57,630 --> 00:19:00,010 I was here and his mark was up 475 00:19:00,010 --> 00:19:00,310 here. 476 00:19:00,630 --> 00:19:01,650 Always above me. 477 00:19:01,810 --> 00:19:03,150 And I wanted to be tall like my 478 00:19:03,150 --> 00:19:03,390 brother. 479 00:19:04,490 --> 00:19:06,190 But all the thinking about it didn't do 480 00:19:06,190 --> 00:19:06,730 a bit of good. 481 00:19:07,910 --> 00:19:10,230 And even exercise, I don't think that helped 482 00:19:10,230 --> 00:19:10,670 any either. 483 00:19:12,190 --> 00:19:14,090 It just, it just doesn't help. 484 00:19:14,550 --> 00:19:15,390 It doesn't do anything. 485 00:19:17,210 --> 00:19:19,270 And why are you anxious concerning Raymond? 486 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:22,660 You know I found the real problem. 487 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,360 When I used to have a lot of 488 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:24,800 clothes. 489 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,780 It took me five or ten minutes in 490 00:19:26,780 --> 00:19:28,580 the morning trying to make up my mind 491 00:19:28,580 --> 00:19:29,620 which shirt to put on. 492 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:34,440 It's so much simpler when you just have 493 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,260 one or two changes. 494 00:19:38,260 --> 00:19:39,600 It simplifies life. 495 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:43,920 It's bad here in England but it's even 496 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:44,740 worse in the States. 497 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:46,780 I remember working in the camp and for 498 00:19:46,780 --> 00:19:47,340 one week. 499 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,040 I remember a girl coming that had twenty 500 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,080 blouses for one week. 501 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:52,480 She changed three times a day. 502 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,840 Of course she was catering to the fellows 503 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:55,160 but. 504 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:56,760 Think of it. 505 00:19:57,340 --> 00:19:58,800 The decisions that would have to be made 506 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,280 to change twenty times in one week. 507 00:20:05,510 --> 00:20:07,070 And decisions are what's hard to make. 508 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:10,860 Well, Raymond. 509 00:20:11,780 --> 00:20:13,360 Consider the lilies of the field. 510 00:20:14,740 --> 00:20:17,180 How they grow, they toil not, neither do 511 00:20:17,180 --> 00:20:17,780 they spin. 512 00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:20,120 Yet I say unto you that even Solomon 513 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:21,980 in all his glory was not arrayed like 514 00:20:21,980 --> 00:20:22,540 one of these. 515 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,100 But if God does so clothe the grass 516 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:25,700 of the field. 517 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Which today is and tomorrow is cast in 518 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:28,340 the oven. 519 00:20:28,740 --> 00:20:31,600 Shall he not much more clothe you, O 520 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:32,560 ye of little faith? 521 00:20:34,180 --> 00:20:38,260 An anxiety about dress and what we're going 522 00:20:38,260 --> 00:20:40,340 to wear is not a faith. 523 00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:42,720 And if it's not a faith, it's sin. 524 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,420 Now we've been told we're to be neat. 525 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,620 But one can be neat without spending half 526 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:52,960 the day trying to get a wardrobe together. 527 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,820 Some people just when they go to pack. 528 00:20:56,140 --> 00:20:58,480 It takes them a week to get prepared. 529 00:20:58,480 --> 00:20:59,680 Even some of the girls here. 530 00:21:00,220 --> 00:21:04,200 I'm used to just telling them, well, you're 531 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,060 going for this weekend. 532 00:21:05,380 --> 00:21:07,200 But they want to know in advance by 533 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:07,900 two or three days. 534 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,220 So they can plan what they have to 535 00:21:09,220 --> 00:21:10,460 be ironed and what has to be washed 536 00:21:10,460 --> 00:21:11,100 and so forth. 537 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:13,940 In some ways this is good. 538 00:21:14,260 --> 00:21:17,240 But it shows how occupied we get with 539 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:17,860 what we wear. 540 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,120 And how much time we can spend just 541 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:22,100 on ordinary living. 542 00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:23,440 Which should be the minimum. 543 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:25,280 And of course we could say the same 544 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:25,760 for food. 545 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:28,520 Now, I enjoy good food. 546 00:21:29,140 --> 00:21:30,500 But I don't see that it makes much 547 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:32,180 difference if the radish is whore or if 548 00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:33,880 it's peeled in a nice little tulip type 549 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:34,140 thing. 550 00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:38,420 And yet I know some ladies that will 551 00:21:38,420 --> 00:21:38,980 spend hours. 552 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:41,680 I've been in their homes. 553 00:21:41,780 --> 00:21:43,820 They spend hours preparing a meal that's go 554 00:21:43,820 --> 00:21:44,900 down in a half hour. 555 00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:45,860 And that's it. 556 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,140 Well, we need to be realistic, don't we? 557 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:51,100 About our time. 558 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,280 And about just plain ordinary living. 559 00:21:58,260 --> 00:21:59,020 Thirty-one. 560 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,900 Be not therefore anxious saying what shall we 561 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:03,100 eat or what shall we drink. 562 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,380 Or wherewithal shall we be clothed. 563 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,060 We serve tea and coffee and you have 564 00:22:07,060 --> 00:22:08,140 to make up your mind whether it's going 565 00:22:08,140 --> 00:22:09,240 to be tea or coffee you're going to 566 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:09,440 drink. 567 00:22:09,980 --> 00:22:11,520 For me, I just like plain old cold 568 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:11,840 water. 569 00:22:12,380 --> 00:22:14,660 But most people don't go for that quite 570 00:22:14,660 --> 00:22:15,120 so much. 571 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,560 I'm still trying to convince the Britishers that 572 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,040 cold water is good for them. 573 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:21,680 But they're having a hard time. 574 00:22:21,780 --> 00:22:24,140 They like their tea and coffee or something 575 00:22:24,140 --> 00:22:24,540 else. 576 00:22:25,380 --> 00:22:28,340 For after all these things do the Gentiles 577 00:22:28,340 --> 00:22:28,720 seek. 578 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,980 For your Heavenly Father knoweth. 579 00:22:42,260 --> 00:22:43,780 Well, that came in, didn't it? 580 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,040 For your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have 581 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,280 need of all these things. 582 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:51,800 And so what does it matter if I 583 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:52,920 can't get my cold water? 584 00:22:53,380 --> 00:22:55,080 I'll drink whatever's available. 585 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,600 But seek ye first his kingdom and his 586 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,540 righteousness and all these things shall be added 587 00:23:06,540 --> 00:23:07,120 unto you. 588 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:09,520 Now this is a promise from the word 589 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:10,120 of God. 590 00:23:10,620 --> 00:23:13,680 That if we seek him first, the food, 591 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,060 our raiment, whatever we really need will be 592 00:23:17,060 --> 00:23:18,380 added unto us. 593 00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:21,720 And if we don't rest on that then 594 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,560 we're just disregarding what he said. 595 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,520 Don't worry. 596 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,400 Be anxious for nothing. 597 00:23:29,340 --> 00:23:31,500 And I tell you sometimes there are things 598 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:33,440 that humanly speaking there's something to be anxious 599 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:33,860 about. 600 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,880 But God tells us be anxious for nothing. 601 00:23:38,540 --> 00:23:40,260 And I found that most of the time 602 00:23:40,260 --> 00:23:42,540 we're worried about something that's coming in the 603 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:43,880 future and we're not sure how it's going 604 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:44,260 to come out. 605 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,100 We don't worry too much about the past, 606 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:46,960 it's already happened. 607 00:23:47,620 --> 00:23:49,560 And the present, well we're actually in that. 608 00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:51,620 But it's something in the future. 609 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,000 And many times there's something that's come up 610 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,860 in my life and I know that it's 611 00:23:57,860 --> 00:23:59,040 going to be hard to do it. 612 00:23:59,780 --> 00:24:02,500 Maybe it's a situation and I know that 613 00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:05,300 I have to tell that person to do 614 00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:06,820 something that I know they aren't going to 615 00:24:06,820 --> 00:24:07,080 like. 616 00:24:07,580 --> 00:24:08,940 And this is difficult. 617 00:24:12,390 --> 00:24:13,850 And I can begin to worry, well just 618 00:24:13,850 --> 00:24:15,150 how are they going to react? 619 00:24:15,730 --> 00:24:16,890 Will I lose their friendship? 620 00:24:18,190 --> 00:24:20,090 But God says don't worry about it. 621 00:24:21,350 --> 00:24:22,950 Because you can't change it anyway. 622 00:24:24,090 --> 00:24:25,870 And we're always worrying about something that we 623 00:24:25,870 --> 00:24:27,750 can have no influence over really. 624 00:24:28,830 --> 00:24:30,290 And usually when we get to it it's 625 00:24:30,290 --> 00:24:31,290 not nearly as bad. 626 00:24:31,570 --> 00:24:32,970 For instance when I think of chopping my 627 00:24:32,970 --> 00:24:34,290 finger off I don't like the thought of 628 00:24:34,290 --> 00:24:34,470 it. 629 00:24:35,630 --> 00:24:37,330 And I could worry about it if I 630 00:24:37,330 --> 00:24:38,670 knew that five minutes from now I was 631 00:24:38,670 --> 00:24:39,630 going to have to take a hatchet and 632 00:24:39,630 --> 00:24:40,490 chop my finger off. 633 00:24:41,070 --> 00:24:42,190 I would get disturbed. 634 00:24:42,530 --> 00:24:44,370 And sometimes when I think of martyrdom I 635 00:24:44,370 --> 00:24:46,130 think of different ways people torture you. 636 00:24:46,410 --> 00:24:47,730 I can get bothered by it. 637 00:24:48,130 --> 00:24:49,610 And think what if I had to go 638 00:24:49,610 --> 00:24:51,130 through this certain physical torture. 639 00:24:51,790 --> 00:24:53,370 But then when the moment comes and you 640 00:24:53,370 --> 00:24:54,970 do chop your finger off it's just over 641 00:24:54,970 --> 00:24:55,530 like that. 642 00:24:55,570 --> 00:24:57,530 And then you go about getting it repaired. 643 00:24:59,830 --> 00:25:02,510 But it's usually not nearly as bad as 644 00:25:02,510 --> 00:25:06,270 your mind imagines, there's that word again, imagination, 645 00:25:06,510 --> 00:25:07,690 imagines it to be. 646 00:25:09,050 --> 00:25:10,970 Usually the real thing is not nearly so 647 00:25:10,970 --> 00:25:13,830 bad as the real thing. 648 00:25:13,970 --> 00:25:15,590 Of course sometimes we can imagine something that's 649 00:25:15,590 --> 00:25:16,790 going to be very wonderful too. 650 00:25:17,470 --> 00:25:19,330 And we can get so wrapped up in 651 00:25:19,330 --> 00:25:21,370 how wonderful something's going to be and then 652 00:25:21,370 --> 00:25:22,690 when we get there it falls flat. 653 00:25:23,450 --> 00:25:25,430 Maybe that's happened to you at this conference. 654 00:25:26,290 --> 00:25:28,070 Maybe your hopes were so built up that 655 00:25:28,070 --> 00:25:29,530 God was going to take one or two 656 00:25:29,530 --> 00:25:31,250 people and they were going to give such 657 00:25:31,250 --> 00:25:33,470 wonderful messages that you just had to get 658 00:25:33,470 --> 00:25:33,810 blessed. 659 00:25:34,410 --> 00:25:36,470 And therefore you depended on some great speaker 660 00:25:36,470 --> 00:25:38,610 coming along and you've been disappointed. 661 00:25:46,790 --> 00:25:48,390 Because if we're going to receive a real 662 00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:49,810 blessing it's got to be God who gives 663 00:25:49,810 --> 00:25:50,330 it to us. 664 00:25:51,070 --> 00:25:52,390 He uses men, yes. 665 00:25:52,890 --> 00:25:54,650 But it's amazing what kind of men he 666 00:25:54,650 --> 00:25:55,190 does use. 667 00:26:01,190 --> 00:26:02,070 Don't worry. 668 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,060 I guess we'd save ourselves a lot of 669 00:26:07,060 --> 00:26:10,460 anxiety, we'd save ourselves perhaps some ulcers. 670 00:26:11,660 --> 00:26:14,560 We'd relieve the situation in our mental institutions, 671 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,080 a lot of other places if we could 672 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,520 learn this lesson not to worry. 673 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,080 I sometimes find myself doing it. 674 00:26:21,340 --> 00:26:23,280 I praise God I have some friends that 675 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,940 they can come along and they see if 676 00:26:24,940 --> 00:26:25,800 I'm worrying or not. 677 00:26:26,220 --> 00:26:27,660 And they say, are you worried? 678 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,360 Get back to reality. 679 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:33,820 And it's good, it's good to have brothers 680 00:26:33,820 --> 00:26:35,560 and sisters that are honest enough with you 681 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,040 and they tell you when something's wrong with 682 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:37,500 you. 683 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,380 And know how we need to do this, 684 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:41,060 to exhort one another. 685 00:26:45,570 --> 00:26:48,450 Because God says don't worry about something, that 686 00:26:48,450 --> 00:26:49,870 doesn't mean you're not to ever think about 687 00:26:49,870 --> 00:26:50,150 it. 688 00:26:51,470 --> 00:26:54,090 Because in the same breath that Jesus would 689 00:26:54,090 --> 00:26:56,830 say don't worry, don't be anxious about these 690 00:26:56,830 --> 00:26:57,150 things. 691 00:26:57,610 --> 00:26:59,890 He also tells us to take care. 692 00:27:01,350 --> 00:27:03,950 And he says I put you in remembrance 693 00:27:03,950 --> 00:27:05,070 of these things. 694 00:27:05,610 --> 00:27:09,250 For instance over in 1 Timothy 4.15. 695 00:27:13,330 --> 00:27:16,510 After exhorting Timothy along certain lines to let 696 00:27:16,510 --> 00:27:18,670 no man despise his youth but rather be 697 00:27:18,670 --> 00:27:19,270 an example. 698 00:27:19,990 --> 00:27:21,410 And to be a learner and to really 699 00:27:21,410 --> 00:27:23,410 give heed to reading and exhortation. 700 00:27:23,950 --> 00:27:26,710 Notice he says in verse 15, be diligent. 701 00:27:27,570 --> 00:27:29,450 You can't be diligent without thinking. 702 00:27:30,230 --> 00:27:31,670 Be diligent in these things. 703 00:27:32,110 --> 00:27:34,570 Give thyself wholly to them that thy progress 704 00:27:34,570 --> 00:27:36,050 may be manifest unto all. 705 00:27:36,050 --> 00:27:39,410 And in other places we read about study 706 00:27:39,410 --> 00:27:41,890 or be diligent to show yourself approved unto 707 00:27:41,890 --> 00:27:42,310 God. 708 00:27:43,130 --> 00:27:45,070 And give all diligence to add to your 709 00:27:45,070 --> 00:27:48,730 faith, virtue, brotherly kindness, love. 710 00:27:49,290 --> 00:27:52,530 And so the scripture talks about actually giving 711 00:27:52,530 --> 00:27:53,470 thought to something. 712 00:27:54,690 --> 00:27:59,930 And many times we are reminded to remember 713 00:27:59,930 --> 00:28:00,350 something. 714 00:28:00,510 --> 00:28:02,290 Remember now thy creator in the days of 715 00:28:02,290 --> 00:28:02,710 thy youth. 716 00:28:02,710 --> 00:28:05,350 And Peter mentions in his first epistle I 717 00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:05,630 believe. 718 00:28:06,410 --> 00:28:08,430 I put you in remembrance of these things. 719 00:28:08,650 --> 00:28:10,110 I remind you of them. 720 00:28:10,590 --> 00:28:12,830 And so over and over again we have 721 00:28:12,830 --> 00:28:14,350 the same things stated. 722 00:28:14,730 --> 00:28:16,350 In the Old Testament we were commanded to 723 00:28:16,350 --> 00:28:18,250 love God with all our heart, soul, strength 724 00:28:18,250 --> 00:28:18,670 and mind. 725 00:28:19,050 --> 00:28:20,010 And our neighbors ourselves. 726 00:28:20,550 --> 00:28:22,590 It's recorded another three or four times in 727 00:28:22,590 --> 00:28:22,890 scripture. 728 00:28:23,330 --> 00:28:24,470 To remind us. 729 00:28:24,830 --> 00:28:26,570 And we are to remember. 730 00:28:26,570 --> 00:28:29,130 We are not to worry about something. 731 00:28:29,430 --> 00:28:32,210 But we are to remember the things that 732 00:28:32,210 --> 00:28:33,050 God has taught us. 733 00:28:33,710 --> 00:28:36,030 And we are to give thought to something. 734 00:28:37,490 --> 00:28:39,150 Not in a worrying sense. 735 00:28:39,550 --> 00:28:41,630 But thinking with God. 736 00:28:42,170 --> 00:28:44,010 Depending on him to give us wisdom. 737 00:28:44,130 --> 00:28:46,590 If we lack wisdom, ask of God in 738 00:28:46,590 --> 00:28:46,890 faith. 739 00:28:47,690 --> 00:28:48,530 And he will give it. 740 00:28:50,590 --> 00:28:52,610 Perhaps I could give this illustration. 741 00:28:53,370 --> 00:28:56,430 I don't want you to worry about dirty 742 00:28:56,430 --> 00:28:58,290 plates left all over the campground. 743 00:28:59,090 --> 00:29:01,010 But it would certainly be nice if you 744 00:29:01,010 --> 00:29:02,050 would remember them. 745 00:29:02,570 --> 00:29:03,750 To take them where they are to be 746 00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:04,150 washed. 747 00:29:06,210 --> 00:29:07,310 Don't worry about it. 748 00:29:07,390 --> 00:29:08,470 But just remember it. 749 00:29:09,350 --> 00:29:11,650 And then get on with the more important 750 00:29:11,650 --> 00:29:12,010 things. 751 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,600 Don't worry about if the line is getting 752 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:18,340 too long. 753 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:20,840 Outside the washroom. 754 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,000 Or outside the dining hall. 755 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:25,180 But remember. 756 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,600 To redeem the time while you are there 757 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:28,960 in line. 758 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,520 And use it to really fellowship with one 759 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:32,780 another. 760 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,020 And to make the time profitable. 761 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:38,120 And of course to be sensible and don't 762 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,500 all crowd into the doorway. 763 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,340 So that all the lines get muddled up. 764 00:29:43,470 --> 00:29:44,870 Don't worry but remember. 765 00:29:45,690 --> 00:29:48,170 The things God wants to teach us. 766 00:29:48,530 --> 00:29:49,530 And has taught us. 767 00:29:53,090 --> 00:29:55,450 One more thought along this matter of the 768 00:29:55,450 --> 00:29:55,810 mind. 769 00:29:55,810 --> 00:29:58,250 In Romans 12, 1 and 2. 770 00:29:58,430 --> 00:30:01,570 We read about the presenting of our bodies. 771 00:30:01,690 --> 00:30:03,230 A living sacrifice. 772 00:30:04,150 --> 00:30:05,910 But he goes on in the second verse. 773 00:30:06,610 --> 00:30:09,250 To mention another aspect. 774 00:30:10,250 --> 00:30:11,110 And he says. 775 00:30:11,330 --> 00:30:14,390 And be not fashioned according to this world. 776 00:30:14,870 --> 00:30:18,450 But be ye transformed by the renewing of 777 00:30:18,450 --> 00:30:18,950 your mind. 778 00:30:19,710 --> 00:30:20,790 And this is what we need. 779 00:30:21,150 --> 00:30:22,950 We need our minds renewed. 780 00:30:23,410 --> 00:30:25,790 We need our whole attitude toward life renewed. 781 00:30:25,810 --> 00:30:30,270 We need our thinking renewed. 782 00:30:31,010 --> 00:30:32,950 And Ephesians 4 tells the same thing. 783 00:30:33,070 --> 00:30:35,710 That we should be renewed in the spirit 784 00:30:35,710 --> 00:30:36,430 of our mind. 785 00:30:37,270 --> 00:30:38,850 And this is the answer to it all. 786 00:30:39,190 --> 00:30:41,030 This is the answer to a disciplined mind. 787 00:30:41,430 --> 00:30:42,030 Get a new one. 788 00:30:43,650 --> 00:30:44,770 Instead of ours. 789 00:30:44,950 --> 00:30:46,470 Get the Lord Jesus Christ mind. 790 00:30:47,530 --> 00:30:49,770 Instead of I, Christ. 791 00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:53,530 Renewed in our mind. 792 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,280 I remember when I was in Montana. 793 00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:00,640 I keep mentioning different places. 794 00:31:00,980 --> 00:31:03,020 You probably know that I traveled around a 795 00:31:03,020 --> 00:31:03,360 little bit. 796 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,180 The Lord keeps shifting me here and there. 797 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,260 But when I was out in Montana a 798 00:31:07,260 --> 00:31:07,860 couple of summers. 799 00:31:08,620 --> 00:31:11,560 The Lord taught me this lesson about the 800 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:11,820 thought. 801 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,040 And how basic it is. 802 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:14,960 If you sow a thought. 803 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:17,760 You reap an action. 804 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,120 And if you sow an action. 805 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:22,820 You reap a habit. 806 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,900 If you sow a habit. 807 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:27,540 You reap a life. 808 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:29,820 If you sow a life. 809 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:31,320 You reap an eternity. 810 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:34,860 And it starts with a thought. 811 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,280 And unless God comes in and arrests that 812 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:40,340 whole order. 813 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:41,720 He can't stop it at the habit. 814 00:31:42,060 --> 00:31:43,500 He can't even stop it at the life 815 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:44,340 and change the life. 816 00:31:45,020 --> 00:31:47,020 We praise God that he can stop it 817 00:31:47,020 --> 00:31:47,400 anywhere. 818 00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:48,860 Except in eternity. 819 00:31:49,420 --> 00:31:50,280 And then it's too late. 820 00:31:50,740 --> 00:31:52,380 But remember it starts with a thought. 821 00:31:57,020 --> 00:31:59,320 Another area that's very important. 822 00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:01,800 And very closely linked together with this. 823 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:02,460 Is the tongue. 824 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,180 James chapter 3. 825 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:09,000 Discipline of the tongue. 826 00:32:10,980 --> 00:32:13,640 Americans seem to have a great desire to 827 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,240 talk a lot. 828 00:32:16,850 --> 00:32:18,250 I find it easy to talk. 829 00:32:18,830 --> 00:32:22,390 If I'm not careful I get carried away. 830 00:32:23,150 --> 00:32:24,770 You know how we need to be disciplined 831 00:32:24,770 --> 00:32:26,090 in what we say. 832 00:32:27,170 --> 00:32:28,890 It's not wrong to talk a lot. 833 00:32:28,970 --> 00:32:30,810 But it is wrong to talk a lot 834 00:32:30,810 --> 00:32:31,370 about nothing. 835 00:32:35,980 --> 00:32:37,860 For in many things we all stumble. 836 00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:39,980 It's true enough. 837 00:32:40,660 --> 00:32:42,600 If any stumbleth not in word. 838 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,060 The same is a perfect man. 839 00:32:44,980 --> 00:32:47,180 Able to bridle the whole body also. 840 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,040 Now if we put the horses bridles into 841 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:50,600 their mouths. 842 00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:51,600 That they may obey us. 843 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,400 We turn about their whole body also. 844 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,100 Behold the ships also though they are so 845 00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:56,440 great. 846 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,820 And are driven by rough winds. 847 00:32:58,340 --> 00:33:00,180 Are yet turned about by a very small 848 00:33:00,180 --> 00:33:00,560 rudder. 849 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,760 Whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. 850 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,780 So the tongue also is a little member. 851 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,600 Behold how much wood is kindled by how 852 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:08,340 small a fire. 853 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:09,840 And the tongue is a fire. 854 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:12,540 The world of iniquity among our members is 855 00:33:12,540 --> 00:33:12,980 the tongue. 856 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,920 Which defileth the whole body. 857 00:33:15,380 --> 00:33:17,160 And setteth on fire the wheel of nature. 858 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,680 And is set on fire by hell. 859 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:22,580 For every kind of beast and birds or 860 00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:23,340 creeping things. 861 00:33:23,380 --> 00:33:24,620 And things in the sea is tame. 862 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,580 And hath been tamed by mankind. 863 00:33:27,260 --> 00:33:29,440 But the tongue can no man tame. 864 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,180 It is a restless evil. 865 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,060 It is full of deadly poison. 866 00:33:33,740 --> 00:33:35,280 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father. 867 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,060 And therewith curse we men. 868 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,060 Who are made after the likeness of God. 869 00:33:39,580 --> 00:33:41,560 Out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing 870 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:42,200 and cursing. 871 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,520 My brethren these things ought not so to 872 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:44,700 be. 873 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,660 Yes the unregenerate man may curse God. 874 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:50,980 But not many of us would dare to 875 00:33:50,980 --> 00:33:51,800 curse God really. 876 00:33:52,940 --> 00:33:55,240 But instead would just talk behind everybody else's 877 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:55,540 back. 878 00:33:55,620 --> 00:33:56,720 And just run him into the ground. 879 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,180 And yet from the same tongue we praise 880 00:34:00,180 --> 00:34:01,100 God one moment. 881 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,420 And we tear a fellow brother down. 882 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:04,660 Behind his back. 883 00:34:05,660 --> 00:34:07,199 Now if you tear him down to his 884 00:34:07,199 --> 00:34:08,320 face it's a different thing. 885 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:10,780 If you're saying to his face. 886 00:34:11,460 --> 00:34:13,600 Perhaps pointing out something you feel is wrong 887 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,340 in his life. 888 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:16,400 That's scriptural. 889 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,460 That's done in the spirit of love. 890 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:19,860 To exhort one another. 891 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,320 But when you say something behind their back. 892 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:24,639 That you wouldn't say to his face. 893 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:26,440 Or at least you wouldn't say unless you 894 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:27,560 absolutely forced to. 895 00:34:30,530 --> 00:34:31,290 Then it's wrong. 896 00:34:31,969 --> 00:34:32,870 The tongue. 897 00:34:36,350 --> 00:34:39,050 It's bad enough to complain inwardly isn't it? 898 00:34:39,830 --> 00:34:40,909 It's bad enough to. 899 00:34:42,170 --> 00:34:44,050 To murmur and complain. 900 00:34:44,610 --> 00:34:46,969 Within ourselves so that nobody else knows about 901 00:34:46,969 --> 00:34:47,090 it. 902 00:34:47,909 --> 00:34:48,750 But if you start. 903 00:34:49,389 --> 00:34:50,730 Voicing your complaints. 904 00:34:51,389 --> 00:34:53,810 Then it influences someone else and they voice 905 00:34:53,810 --> 00:34:54,530 their complaints. 906 00:34:54,830 --> 00:34:56,750 And that's joined together with your complaints. 907 00:34:56,950 --> 00:34:57,830 And they get greater. 908 00:34:57,830 --> 00:35:00,230 And your complaints are far worse by the 909 00:35:00,230 --> 00:35:01,490 time you finish discussing them. 910 00:35:01,770 --> 00:35:02,850 Than they were to start with. 911 00:35:03,950 --> 00:35:05,530 And this works in a crowd. 912 00:35:05,850 --> 00:35:07,510 Because we influence one another. 913 00:35:08,690 --> 00:35:10,350 And this is what happens usually in a 914 00:35:10,350 --> 00:35:10,670 mob. 915 00:35:11,050 --> 00:35:13,950 When some mob action has started off. 916 00:35:14,250 --> 00:35:15,950 One person says go get them. 917 00:35:16,690 --> 00:35:18,130 And off they are to lynch somebody. 918 00:35:18,610 --> 00:35:20,030 But just one person saying that. 919 00:35:20,110 --> 00:35:21,530 It stirs everybody else up. 920 00:35:22,030 --> 00:35:23,510 If he had said that just to one 921 00:35:23,510 --> 00:35:25,130 other person sitting down in their living room. 922 00:35:25,550 --> 00:35:26,550 They would have laughed it off. 923 00:35:26,550 --> 00:35:28,550 But in a crowd you see. 924 00:35:28,630 --> 00:35:29,910 It influences them. 925 00:35:30,710 --> 00:35:32,290 And perhaps you're standing over there by the 926 00:35:32,290 --> 00:35:32,850 dining hall. 927 00:35:33,070 --> 00:35:35,230 And you may make just one little word 928 00:35:35,230 --> 00:35:36,350 about the food. 929 00:35:36,930 --> 00:35:38,990 Maybe it isn't quite as good as you 930 00:35:38,990 --> 00:35:39,410 expected. 931 00:35:39,550 --> 00:35:40,770 Or what you would like. 932 00:35:42,750 --> 00:35:44,390 But this will influence someone else. 933 00:35:44,510 --> 00:35:44,710 And they say. 934 00:35:45,250 --> 00:35:47,230 Boy that's right I hadn't thought about that. 935 00:35:47,370 --> 00:35:49,130 Those beans are a little burnt after all. 936 00:35:49,510 --> 00:35:50,370 What have we been eating? 937 00:35:50,510 --> 00:35:50,850 Beans? 938 00:35:51,090 --> 00:35:51,510 Tomatoes? 939 00:35:53,330 --> 00:35:54,470 And so we. 940 00:35:55,290 --> 00:35:56,230 Our complaints. 941 00:35:56,690 --> 00:35:57,890 Add to each others. 942 00:35:58,690 --> 00:35:59,850 And they get worse. 943 00:36:01,450 --> 00:36:03,410 That's why if we have a complaint. 944 00:36:04,250 --> 00:36:05,450 Voice it to God. 945 00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:07,230 And not to one another. 946 00:36:08,070 --> 00:36:10,230 Or if it is something that can be 947 00:36:10,230 --> 00:36:10,610 corrected. 948 00:36:11,650 --> 00:36:13,330 Voice it to the person in charge. 949 00:36:14,890 --> 00:36:16,010 And then if he doesn't take it. 950 00:36:16,110 --> 00:36:17,530 Then perhaps you can voice it to everybody. 951 00:36:18,250 --> 00:36:19,410 But how easy it is. 952 00:36:19,890 --> 00:36:21,630 Just to talk behind a person's back. 953 00:36:21,910 --> 00:36:22,930 And I find this. 954 00:36:24,490 --> 00:36:27,050 Sometimes we're thinking about people who have applied. 955 00:36:27,250 --> 00:36:29,790 This of course applies to some of you. 956 00:36:30,170 --> 00:36:31,670 And we receive their applications. 957 00:36:33,150 --> 00:36:34,610 And we're looking at them. 958 00:36:34,850 --> 00:36:36,030 And to be quite honest. 959 00:36:36,710 --> 00:36:38,130 I look through them with a soul. 960 00:36:38,490 --> 00:36:39,730 Well more than one purpose. 961 00:36:39,830 --> 00:36:40,670 But one of the purposes. 962 00:36:41,150 --> 00:36:42,710 Is to try and find anything. 963 00:36:43,090 --> 00:36:45,370 That kind of flashes a red light. 964 00:36:45,650 --> 00:36:46,850 And I want to know more about that 965 00:36:46,850 --> 00:36:47,190 person. 966 00:36:48,470 --> 00:36:50,110 Now maybe all of you are really. 967 00:36:51,010 --> 00:36:51,910 You really mean business. 968 00:36:52,930 --> 00:36:54,150 People can write in and they want to 969 00:36:54,150 --> 00:36:54,510 apply. 970 00:36:54,850 --> 00:36:57,070 And well it's hard telling what their background's 971 00:36:57,070 --> 00:36:57,270 been. 972 00:36:58,090 --> 00:36:59,610 And we need to find this out. 973 00:37:00,010 --> 00:37:01,670 Because all we have is one little sheet 974 00:37:01,670 --> 00:37:02,090 of paper. 975 00:37:02,490 --> 00:37:04,490 With a few questions at the first part. 976 00:37:04,850 --> 00:37:06,350 And a little testimony on the back. 977 00:37:06,490 --> 00:37:07,730 Have you ever tried to figure out what 978 00:37:07,730 --> 00:37:09,010 a person's like from that much? 979 00:37:10,230 --> 00:37:11,230 It's pretty difficult. 980 00:37:11,550 --> 00:37:13,830 But I find that perhaps we see the 981 00:37:13,830 --> 00:37:14,390 picture there. 982 00:37:14,810 --> 00:37:17,010 Now sometimes the picture doesn't always glorify the 983 00:37:17,010 --> 00:37:17,330 person. 984 00:37:17,910 --> 00:37:19,410 Or perhaps we see something else. 985 00:37:19,550 --> 00:37:21,450 And I can find myself beginning to talk 986 00:37:21,450 --> 00:37:22,030 about someone else. 987 00:37:22,930 --> 00:37:23,610 Well look at this. 988 00:37:23,690 --> 00:37:24,990 I kind of question about that. 989 00:37:25,350 --> 00:37:28,670 And pretty soon we're so talking about what 990 00:37:28,670 --> 00:37:29,890 we think might be wrong. 991 00:37:30,490 --> 00:37:32,110 That we overlook the whole other part. 992 00:37:32,530 --> 00:37:33,970 And instead of taking that and writing to 993 00:37:33,970 --> 00:37:34,350 the person. 994 00:37:34,590 --> 00:37:35,890 And trying to get it straightened out. 995 00:37:36,230 --> 00:37:37,390 We can just talk about it. 996 00:37:37,730 --> 00:37:39,150 Or we can talk about one another. 997 00:37:39,650 --> 00:37:41,710 And in running the camp here I've found 998 00:37:41,710 --> 00:37:42,110 myself. 999 00:37:42,290 --> 00:37:43,850 I've got to think of well where would 1000 00:37:43,850 --> 00:37:45,130 these people fit in the best? 1001 00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:49,530 Because I must evaluate the kind of work 1002 00:37:49,530 --> 00:37:49,910 they're doing. 1003 00:37:49,910 --> 00:37:51,890 And where I feel by God's grace they 1004 00:37:51,890 --> 00:37:52,950 could be used the most. 1005 00:37:53,590 --> 00:37:55,870 But I can find I'm tempted to talk 1006 00:37:55,870 --> 00:37:57,330 about their failures. 1007 00:37:57,530 --> 00:37:58,450 And their weak points. 1008 00:37:58,870 --> 00:38:00,070 And end up where they don't have any 1009 00:38:00,070 --> 00:38:00,690 strong points. 1010 00:38:00,770 --> 00:38:01,750 And I don't know where to use them. 1011 00:38:03,370 --> 00:38:05,230 You've been listening to From the Pulpit in 1012 00:38:05,230 --> 00:38:06,330 Classic Sermons Series. 1013 00:38:06,710 --> 00:38:08,710 This week you heard George Verwer with Part 1014 00:38:08,710 --> 00:38:10,290 1 of his message Discipline. 1015 00:38:10,610 --> 00:38:12,190 Tune in next week to hear Part 2 1016 00:38:12,190 --> 00:38:14,250 on From the Pulpit in Classic Sermons.