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If you 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.880 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.600 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:54.760 put God's very best in your life. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.559 Oh God, bless you. Always enjoyed to coming into your home. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.080 We always come with good news because I know this, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.720 when you seek after God, he rewards those that seek 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.080 after Him. So thanks for tuning in today, and I 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.440 believe that you're going to be encouraged enough lifted. And 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.560 if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.799 by and visit us at our new facility. I promise 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.240 you will make you feel right at home, and you'll 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.480 feel a warm welcome here at Lakewood. But thanks for 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.000 tuning in today. And I like to start each week 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.600 with something kind of funny. And I heard about this lady. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.640 She's surprised a burglar in her kitchen one night, and 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.880 she was alone and unarmed, and all she could think 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.240 to do was quote a scripture, and so she just 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.919 screamed out Acts two thirty eight, and all of a sudden, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.640 the burglar froze in his tracks. And a few moments 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.160 the police arrived. And then we're amazed at how a 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.680 woman with no weapon could do this. And they asked 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.359 the burglar, what was it about that scripture that had 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:50.480 such an effect on you? 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.520 He said, scripture? What scripture? I thought? She said, she 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.120 had an axe and two thirty eights. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.640 All right, hold up your Bible and say it with 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.000 me today. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.840 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.200 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.959 I will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:18.360 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:24.240 never be the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.520 ever living seed of the Word of God. I'll never 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.240 be the same, never, never, never, I'll never. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:32.680 Be the same. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.080 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.119 to you today about not being negative and critical towards yourself. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.000 We all have weaknesses, we all have areas that we 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.560 need to improve in. But as long as we're pressing forward, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.120 and as long as we're getting up each day and 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.480 doing our very best, then we can be assured that 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.240 God is pleased with us. He may not be pleased 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.520 with every decision we make, but He is pleased with us. 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.640 And God wants us to feel good about ourselves. He 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:09.360 wants us to be secure, to have healthy self images. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.000 But so many people. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.080 Today go around with a poor, defeated mentality. They focus 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.560 on their faults and weaknesses when they make mistakes. They're 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.000 very hard and critical on themselves. They end up going 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.440 around guilty and condemned with this old nag and feeling 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.120 on the inside you're not what you're supposed to be. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.159 You don't measure up, You've blown it too many times. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.600 No God knew that we were not going to be perfect. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.880 He knew we were going to all have weaknesses. And 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.039 one of the worst things that you could ever do 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.600 is to go through life being against yourself. And this 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.760 is a major problem today. Many people have a war 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:50.480 going on on the inside. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.559 They don't really like who they are. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.680 Well, I'm slow, I'm undisciplined, I'm unattractive, I'm impatient. They 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.640 focus on their weaknesses is the root cause of much 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.840 of their difficulties. They can't get along in relationships, they 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.520 are insecure, they don't enjoy their life, and it's simply 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.680 because they are not at peace with who they are. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.440 And Jesus said here in Matthew twenty two, verse thirty nine, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.960 to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Notice the 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:26.200 first prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.680 And if you don't have a healthy respect. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.599 For who you are, and if you don't learn to 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.760 accept yourself faulse in all, then you'll never be able 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.320 to properly love other people. And this is destroying many 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.360 relationships today. I know people they think their spouse is 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.839 the reason they can't get along, or they're sure that 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.240 it's their coworker, but the fact is they've got a 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.480 civil war on the inside. They don't like their looks, 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.440 they don't like where they are in life. They're upset 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.440 because they haven't broken a bad habit, and now all 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:03.160 this poison spills out into these other relationships. But understand, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.560 you can't give away what you don't have. If you 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.680 don't love yourself, you're not going to be able to 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.200 love others. If you're its strife on the inside, feeling 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.400 wrong about yourself, feeling unattractive, feeling condemned. 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.320 Then that's all you can give away. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.080 But on the other hand, if you'll recognize that God 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.920 is still working on you and in spite of your 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.240 flaws and weaknesses, you'll learn to accept yourself, then you 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.839 can give that love away and have healthy relationships. And 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.479 some of you today this could save your marriage, it 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.920 could change your relationship. You think everybody else is the problem, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.400 but you've got to come to peace with who you are. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.400 And please recognize, if you're negative towards. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.640 Yourself, it's not only affecting you. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.400 It's going to affect your relationship with others, and it's 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.680 going to affect your relationship with God. And that's why 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.719 it's so important that you feel good about who you are. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.080 You may have some faults, you may have some things 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.880 you wish you could change about yourself. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:04.880 Well, join the crowd. We all do. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.520 You've got to lighten up and quit being so hard 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.040 on yourself. I've found a lot of times we would 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.600 never criticize another person. We wouldn't say to our neighbor, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.960 you're slow, you're an attractive you're undisciplined. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:18.720 I don't like you. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.480 We never say that to them, but we don't have 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.360 any problem saying it to ourself. But understand, when you 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:30.200 criticize yourself, you are criticizing God's very own creation. We 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.720 you say, Joel Man, I'm so impatient and I can't 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.640 control my temper. I get upset so easily. Well, the 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.000 good news is God is still working on you. You're 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.320 not a finished product. And what I'm saying today is 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.080 it's okay to like yourself while God is in the 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.760 process of changing you. I don't know one person that's 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.960 arrived just yet. I don't know one person that doesn't 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.840 need to change in some area of their life. As 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.120 long as we're negative and critical toward ourselves, we just 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.280 slow down the process. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:00.360 We just make it worse. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.160 And I'm not talking today about living a sloppy life. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.640 I'm not talking about having a flippant attitude towards sin 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.920 and toward our mistakes. I'm talking about people that are 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.280 striving for excellence, people that really have a heart to 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.080 please God, like I know you do. And if that's you, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.400 then you don't have to go around condemned. You don't 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.720 have to go around with this heaveness because you still 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.040 struggle in some areas when you make mistakes. You just 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.520 simply go to God and say, God, I'm sorry, I repent, 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.200 help me to do better next time, and then let 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.360 it go. Don't go around beating yourself up for two 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.200 weeks or two months or two years. Shake it off 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.120 and move on. We all have areas to improve in. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.840 It's like this lady I heard about. She said, God, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.559 so far, I've done great today. I haven't lied, cheated, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.760 or stolen. I haven't been negative, critical or judgmental. But God, 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.160 I'm going to really need your help today because I'm 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:59.160 about to get out of bed. But I see too 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.640 many people. They are so down on themselves. Well, I'm 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.839 so overweighted, I've blown my diet. I'm not as good 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.640 a parent as I should be. I don't spend enough 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.800 time with my children. I'm so undisciplined, and even cleaned 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:12.840 my house last week. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.320 Don't quit dwelling on that junk. The enemy is called 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.240 the accuser of the brethren. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.480 There is nothing that he would love any more than 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.880 for you to go through life with that nagging feeling 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.680 on the inside. Something's wrong with you. God's not pleased 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.080 you don't measure up. Don't fall into that trap. You 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.040 got to know you are the apple of God's eye 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.120 Before you were ever even born. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:37.120 God knew you. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.240 The scripture says He has already approved. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.439 And accepted you. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.559 You notice it doesn't say God approves you as long 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.520 as you live a perfect life. Doesn't say God approves 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.679 you as long as you don't have any weaknesses. No, 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.600 it says God approves you unconditionally, just like you are. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.200 The fact is, it's not because of what you have 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.760 or haven't done. It's because of who you are. You 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.040 are a child of the Most High God. My question 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.800 to you today is, if God approves you, why don't 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.840 you start approving yourself. Why don't you shake off that 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.840 old guilt and condemnation, shake off what you're not, shake 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.439 off what you didn't measure up to, and start feeling. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:18.480 Good about who you are. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.080 Well, Joe, I don't know if I believe that we're 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.760 just poor old sinners. No, we used to be poor 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.560 old sinners. But when we came to Christ, he washed 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.800 away our sins. He made us new creatures. Now we 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.000 are no longer poor old sinners. We are sons and 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.199 daughters of the Most High God. Instead of just crawling 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.840 around the floor with that poor old me mentality, why 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.560 don't you step up to the dinner table. God's got 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.360 a beautiful banquet prepared for you. He's got an abundant life, 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.360 no matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.120 no matter how many things you struggle with. Right now, 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.480 please understand, you are not a weak worm of the dust. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.600 You've got royal blood flowing through your veins. You have 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.839 been destined to live in victory. And you may not 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.439 be all you want to be today, but at least 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.320 you can look back and say, thank God, I'm not 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.760 what I used to be. And see, friends, the enemy 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.200 doesn't like you here in the fact that you have 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.160 been made righteous. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.280 He wants you to have a sin consciousness. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.120 But God wants you to have a righteousness consciousness. In 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.559 other words, you've got to quit thinking about your mistakes, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.520 quit thinking about what you're not, quit thinking about how 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.160 you don't measure up. You need to start dwelling on 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.600 the fact that you've been chosen, you've been set apart, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.640 you've been approved, you've been accepted, you have been made righteous. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.800 The scripture says in Ephesians six fourteen, to put on 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.960 the breastplate of God's approval. That means every morning, no 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.280 matter how we feel, we need to get out of 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.679 bed and just boldly declare, Father, I thank you that 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.079 you have approved me, thank you that you are pleased 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.240 with me, thank you that I am forgiven. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.320 I know that I am a friend of God. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.680 See, we need to do that every single morning. Doesn't 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.120 happen automatically. Just like we put on our clothes. You 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.400 need to put on the breastplate of God's approval. You're 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:17.760 talking about getting rid of guilt, condemnation, inferiority, unworthiness, nothing. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.320 They'll do it like that and all through the day, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:21.720 everywhere you go. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.440 You need to just imagine right across your chest, in 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:29.160 big bold letters, it says, approved by Almighty God, those 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.640 old condemning voices come back. Well, you're not this, You're 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.839 not that. You blew it over here, or you need 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.240 to take a good look in the mirror. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.720 Approved by Almighty God. I think about even as a parent. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.719 I know my children aren't perfect, they have weaknesses, they 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:44.559 make mistakes. 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.000 But I also know that they're growing, they're learning. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.120 And if you were to ask me if I was 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.840 pleased with my children, the first thing I would do 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.160 is not make a list of all their faults. I 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.280 wouldn't think about all they've done wrong last week. Now, 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.560 I'd tell you without even thinking to yes, I'm pleased 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.560 with them. They are great children. I tell you everything 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.920 I like about it. I'm tell you they're loving, caring, fun, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.319 good looking, attractive, talented. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.600 I mean, they're just like their father. And what's so 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.160 funny about that? But that's exactly the way God sees you. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.960 He's not focused on your faults. He's not keeping a 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.200 list of your shortcomings. God is not looking at everything 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.720 you've done wrong. He's looking at what you're doing right. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.160 He's looking at the fact that you chose to take 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.800 time to come today. He's looking at the fact that 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.319 you're kind and courteous to people. He's looking at the 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.200 fact that you have a desire to know him. Now, 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.720 I'm asking you to get in agreement with God and 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.240 start feeling good about who you are. You may have 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.000 some areas you need to improve in, but you're growing, 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.840 You're making progress, and I want you to be free 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.839 from all this heaviness that tries to. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:54.560 Burden you down. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.760 I found the enemy will always tell you you're never doing enough. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.600 You're not working hard enough, You're not being a good 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.040 enough parent. You gave, but you didn't give enough. You 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.640 came to church, but you were late. You ate pretty 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.800 good yesterday that you shouldn't even that last dessert. I 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.480 don't quit believe in his lies. You have a thousand 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.800 good qualities about you to every one negative quality. Well, Joel, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.600 I'm just so impatient. Well maybe that's true. But have 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.040 you ever thought about the fact you're always on time, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.480 you're persistent, you're determined. Well, I don't think I'm as 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.760 good a mom as I should be. Well, maybe not, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.080 But have you ever noticed your children are doing great 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:33.600 in school? 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.200 Your children never miss a meal. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.800 Well, I'm not a very good husband, Joe, Yeah, but 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.000 you never miss a house payment, You provide a great 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.200 living for your family. Well, I've made a lot of 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.960 mistakes in the past. Yeah, but you chose to come today. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.160 You chose to watch today. That's a pretty great choice. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.240 Why don't you take off your old rags a condemnation. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.640 Why don't you take off those old rags of condemnation 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.640 and start putting on your robe of righteousness, put on 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.480 the breastplate of God's approval. Friends, I want you to 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.600 feel good about yourself. I know that when you are 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:14.160 positive toward yourself, you are in agreement with God. Well, Joe, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.840 what about that mistake I made last week? What about 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.560 that time I failed last year? Listen, the moment you repented, 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.800 God not only forgave you, He forgot about it. He 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.800 doesn't even remember it anymore. Now, why don't you quit 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.680 bringing up what God has already forgotten? Why don't you 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.920 let it go and start feeling. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.200 Good about who you are? 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.120 See so many times we think God is keeping that 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.280 list of all of our mistakes. You can see him 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.360 up there in heaven. Whoops, they fail there. Let me 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.480 get that down. And oh I heard that comment. Gave 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.560 will make a special note of that one. Look, they 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.400 came to church, but they were late. Let's just give 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.760 him half credit. Now, that's not the way our God is. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.960 God is for you. God is on your side. He 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.440 is the best friend that you could ever even have. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.600 The great news is God is not looking at what 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.680 you've done wrong. He's looking at what you're doing right. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.960 He's not focused on what you are. He's focused on 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.720 what you can become. I love the story of the 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.600 prodigal Son. This young man left home and he spent 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.000 all of his money just wasting. He was living a 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.840 very wild wife, making terrible decisions. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.000 If God would want anybody to feel bad about himself, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.040 surely it would be him. He had just totally blown. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.920 If anybody should have a weak worm of the dust 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.280 mentality and feel like a failure, you'd. 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.440 Think it would be this young man. Do you know 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:35.080 the story? 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:39.080 When he decided to come back home, his father saw 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.120 him a long way off, and this father, who represents 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.080 God in the story, took off running to his son. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.120 That's the only picture we have of God running in 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.800 the Bible. What's God running to one of the great 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.600 saints of old? Is he running to the apostle Paul? 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.160 Is he running to one of his disciples. Now God 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.960 is running to a young man that has faults and weaknesses. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.440 He's running to a young man that's made mistakes. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.760 And the father said, go get the best rod, go 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.320 kill the fatted cat. We're going to have a party. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.159 My son has made it home. And a lot of 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.240 times today, you know, it doesn't make a lot of sense, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.360 we think, you know, what he deserves, judgment, he's guilty, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.920 he's wrong. But God was not looking at what he 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.080 was doing wrong. God looked at the fact that at 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.840 least he was trying. That young man, no doubt, made 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.000 a thousand poor choices, but God was focused on that 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.879 one good choice. And it's sad to say, but a 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.800 lot of people today would have just written him off. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.080 He deserves to feel bad about himself, he deserves to 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.359 wall around in the pit. But thank God, that's not 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.600 the way how God is. I remember one time years ago, 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.280 my father went to a high school football game with 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.240 a friend of ours named Jesse, and Jesse was so 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.919 proud of his son, Jeff. Jeff played on the defensive 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.440 side and so he very rarely would get to touch 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.960 the ball. But during this game, there was a short 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.560 punt and Jeff caught the ball and he took a 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.919 half a step this way and a half a step 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.720 this way, and then about ten guys clobbered him. I mean, 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.760 he didn't move one inch forward. It was just here here, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.480 and then he was done. And my father was feeling 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.399 kind of bad for Jesse up there. But about that time, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.879 Jesse punched Daddy and he said, hey, pastor, did you 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:24.920 see those two good moves? See, only a father can 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.119 see the two good moves rather than the fact that 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.040 his son just got tackled by everybody but the cheerleaders. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:37.119 That's exactly how God sees us. He's not looking at 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.680 the fact that we got knocked down. He's not looking 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:40.200 at all the. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.159 Mistakes we've made. God sees you two good moves. 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.120 I'm asking you today to start feeling good about who 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:47.600 you are. 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.440 You may have some weaknesses. 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.160 You may not control your temper like you know you should, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.320 or maybe you slip and say some things that you 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.400 wish you had enough, But you don't have to live 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:57.560 guilty and condemned. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.840 Once you repent, and once. 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.000 You get up every day and just do your very best, 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.080 you can be assured God is pleased with you. He's 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.639 in the process of changing you. And that's why I 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.040 can get up every morning and even though I'm not perfect, 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.520 even though I make mistakes, I can just boldly say God, 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.080 I know you approve me, and I feel good about 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.880 who I am. Listen, when you do that, you give 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.879 the enemy a nervous breakdown. He wants you to go 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.560 around guilty, condemned, inferior, feeling. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.000 Wrong on the inside. That's why he constantly bombards us 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:31.520 with all these accusations. 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.720 Well, you're too impatient, you're too rude, you're not a 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.560 good enough parent. You need to put your shoulders back, 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.480 hold your head up high. You've already been approved and 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.560 accepted by Almighty God. And you may have a lot 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.280 wrong with you, but let me tell you, you have 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.040 a lot right with you. You may have a long way 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:49.800 to go, but you need to take a look back 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.280 at how far you've already come. For some of you, 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:57.760 you've come a long way. Baby, God is pleased with you. Well, 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.440 you say, jege, you're making it too easy having people 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.560 a license to sin. No, you don't need a license. 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.880 If you want to sin, you can sin. I sin 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:07.960 all I want to. The good news is I don't 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.040 want to I want to live a life that's pleasing 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.320 to God. I want to live a life of excellence 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:17.040 and integrity. And I'm asking you today to quit thinking 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:18.760 about everything that's wrong with you. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.320 Quit taking an inventory of what you're not. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.200 The Scripture says in Hebrews to look away from everything 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.760 that distracts. Do you know if you over analyze yourself 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:32.159 and you're constantly picking yourself apart, then you're going to 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.919 go around depressed and defeated. You've got to look away 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.840 from that. Know that you're changing, Know that you're making progress, 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.680 and it's a process. Doesn't happen overnight. The Bible says, 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.399 God changes us little by little. When you said, Joel, 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.520 I got all these weaknesses, man, if you only knew me, now, listen, 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.639 if you didn't have any weaknesses, you wouldn't even need God. 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:55.520 If we didn't have any weaknesses, we could do everything 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:56.480 in our own strength. 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.560 I think about the apostle Paul. He wrote over half 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:00.480 the new Estimate. 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.280 Yet he said the things I want to do I 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.359 don't do, and the things I know I shouldn't do, 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:06.320 I end up doing. 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.120 He was saying, I'm not perfect. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.480 Same things we struggle with weakness is shortcomings. 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:12.919 Here's the good news. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.200 God's power shows up the greatest in our weaknesses. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.399 When we are weak, he is strong. You've got to 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.280 just learn to lean on God. 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.960 Instead of being negative and critical towards yourself. Just say God, 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.080 I'm leaning on you. I'm asking you to help me 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:30.280 to beat this bad habit. 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:30.960 God. 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.200 I know I'm weak in this area, but I'm asking 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.720 you to help me have a better opinion about myself. 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.199 See in your weaknesses, whatever they may be. Instead of 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.960 getting all down on yourself, just ask God to help 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.120 you and you'll see his power show. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:45.040 Up like never before. 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.159 And I really believe God allows us all to have 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.880 some weaknesses so that we'll always have to trust him. 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:54.920 And So if you're sitting around today waiting to feel 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:57.679 good about yourself, until you get rid of everything you 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.560 struggle with and until you feel like you're perfect, you're 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.520 gonna be sitting around your whole lifetime. Well, Joel, I'd 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.000 feel good about myself if I could drop twenty pounds, 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.840 feel good about myself, if i'd be a little more patient, 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.879 if i'd be a little more understanding. Now I'm asking 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:13.720 you to start feeling good about yourself. 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:14.359 Right now. 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.359 You're not perfect, but I know you're trying. And God 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.520 looks at your heart, he sees the inside. He is 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.000 changing us little by little. We're all at different stages, 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:26.639 and our attitude should be God. I know I have 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.400 these areas I need to improve in, but I'm doing 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:32.280 my best. And God, I also know that you have 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.240 already accepted and approved me. So I'm gonna start accepting 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:37.880 myself and I'm making. 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:40.240 Up my mind. I'm gonna go through this day feeling 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:41.280 good about me. 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:45.240 And when those old condemning thoughts come back telling you, yeh, 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:48.280 but you're still struggling this area, you can answer back, yes, 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.439 that's true, but I know that I'm changing. Yeah, but 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.200 you lost your temper yesterday. You blew it. That's true, 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:55.080 but I repented. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:56.400 Now I know I'm forgiving. 0:22:56.960 --> 0:22:58.719 Well, you didn't get as much done at work this 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:00.920 week as you should have made not but I did 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:04.000 my best, So I feel good about me. See, you 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:08.320 cannot allow these condemning voices to take root and set 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:10.480 the direction for your life. If you do, it's gonna 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:12.840 ruin your whole day. I know a lot of people 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:15.920 they just swallow that junk and they get in agreement 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:18.159 with it. Yeah, man, I'm a failure. I can't do 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:21.600 anything right. Don't have what it takes. No, get rid 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:23.919 of that junk and keep your life moving in a 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:24.840 positive direction. 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:26.399 I heard about this man. 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:28.960 He and his small son were out taking a walk 0:23:29.000 --> 0:23:31.200 through the mountains one day, and all of a sudden, 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.000 this little boy slipped, and he slid about twenty or 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.080 thirty yards down the mountain side, and finally he grabbed 0:23:37.119 --> 0:23:40.800 onto this bush and he screamed out, somebody helped me, 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:45.320 and this voice boomed back, somebody helped me. Looked kind 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:47.560 of confused, kind of frustrated. He said, who are you? 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:51.399 The voice shouted back, who are you? He got kind 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:55.080 of aggravated. He said, you're a coward. The voice shouted back, 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:58.280 you're a coward. He said, you're a fool. The voice 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.160 shouted back, you're a fool. About that time, his dad 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:01.880 got down there and. 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:04.159 He looked up. He said, Dad, who is that? And 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:05.200 his dad kind of laughed. 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:08.359 He said, son, that's called an echo, but it's also 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:11.359 called life. He said, son, let me show you something. 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:15.160 The dad shouted out, you're a winner. The voice shouted back, 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:18.080 you're a winner. Dad, And shouted out, You've got what 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:20.800 it takes. The voice boom back. You've got what it takes. 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:24.120 Dad shouted out, you can make it. The voice shouted out, 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:24.840 you can make it. 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:28.640 He said, son, That's exactly how it is in life. 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:31.800 Whatever you send out is always going to come back 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:37.720 to you. Let me ask you this today, what are 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:42.800 you sending out about yourself? Man, I'm a failure, I'm unattractive, 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:46.280 I'm undisciplined, I got a terrible temper. Nobody likes to 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:48.560 be around me. Or you need to start sending out 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:52.800 I'm approved, I'm accepted, I'm the righteousness of God. I 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:56.640 am creative, i am talented. I am more than a conqueror. 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:00.760 Make sure that you're sending out good things about yourself. 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:04.119 I was thinking about when Jesus was baptized. He came 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:06.520 up out of the water and a voice boomed out 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:09.760 of the heavens, and God said, this is my beloved 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:13.760 son in whom I am well pleased. I believe God 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:16.320 is saying that to every one of you today. He 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.560 is well pleased with you. You say, Joel, God couldn't. 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:20.760 Say that to me. 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:23.399 You don't know the life I've lived. You don't know 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:26.080 the things I struggle with right now. Now listen to 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:28.879 me clearly. Let this sink deep down onto the inside. 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:32.840 God is pleased with you. He has already accepted and 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:35.800 approved you. And know he may not be pleased with 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:39.119 every decision you make, but God is pleased with you. 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:43.440 What a tragedy to go through life being against yourself. 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:46.240 Don't fall into that trap. You may have areas you 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:49.240 need to improve in, but don't let that stop you 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:52.840 from feeling good about who you are right now. I 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:56.080 found a lot of times we condemn ourselves so much. 0:25:56.200 --> 0:25:59.280 The enemy doesn't have to. We're always thinking about our 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:03.080 mistakes and what we're not and how we haven't measured up. 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.960 Why don't you let all that go. You're growing, you're changing. 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:10.679 God is pleased with you right now, and it's okay 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:13.800 to feel good about who you are. Some of you, 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:16.760 this is the whole reason that you're not enjoying your life. 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:20.119 You've got this war going on on the inside. But 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:22.880 if you can't get along with yourself, you'll not only 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.359 not get along with others, but you won't be able 0:26:25.400 --> 0:26:29.240 to have a proper relationship with Almighty God. You know 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:31.159 as well as I do. If you don't think that 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:33.919 God is pleased with you, then you won't go to 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:36.760 God boldly. You'll go around with a weak worm of 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:40.280 the dust mentality. I made all these mistakes, and I've 0:26:40.280 --> 0:26:42.920 got all these weaknesses, and God, I know you could 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:46.560 never bless me. Think about how that must make God feel. 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:49.880 Here we are His sons and daughters. We've been chosen, 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:53.520 we've been approved, We've been accepted so many times. We 0:26:53.560 --> 0:26:56.439 believe these lies and we go around with this poor, 0:26:56.440 --> 0:26:57.560 defeated mentality. 0:26:58.119 --> 0:27:02.320 Please understand God is pleased with you. Right now now. 0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:04.679 I want to challenge you again today to get up 0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:08.600 every morning and put on that breastplate of God's approval. 0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:11.879 Put your shoulders back. Quit thinking about what you're not. 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:15.080 Make the most of this day. Friends, you are a 0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:18.639 child of the most High God. Don't waste another minute 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:19.600 going around. 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:20.800 Feeling bad about yourself. 0:27:21.280 --> 0:27:24.280 You may have some weaknesses, you may have some shortcomings, 0:27:24.600 --> 0:27:27.360 but the good news is God is still working on you. 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:31.280 Quit over analyzing yourself, quit picking yourself apart, and just 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:33.520 get up every day and do your very very. 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:35.679 Best knowing that God is changing you. 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:39.040 My prayer today is that every one of you is 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:41.520 going to go out of here feeling good about who 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:41.920 you are. 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:43.800 That you're going to be free from. 0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:47.240 These burdens of guilt and condemnation, low self esteem. 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:48.360 Now I know this. 0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:51.320 If you will get in agreement with God and be 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:55.479 positive towards yourself, then God promises he will change you 0:27:55.520 --> 0:27:58.400 from glory to glory. 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