Man-pleaser or God-pleaser?

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let's keep worshiping through some prayer God we just want to thank you

for the morning it is so great to have the freedom to worship you this morning

we praise you for who you are in our lives we praise you for who you are in

this world and God we just want to be a part of what you're doing so thank you

this morning that you are praiseworthy and we want to give this morning

dedicated to you and celebrate you and then God as we hear your word this

morning help our hearts to change and be shaped by what we hear you're living an

active word in our lives in your name we pray amen you may have a seat good

morning my name is Brian and I get to serve on the pastoral staff here and

Katie is with us she's our kids director this morning well every morning but I

just wanted to share with you a few things coming up I can't believe we're

in the summertime right yeah we got some good weather to go along with that's

great a couple of things to point out to you we got some summer schedules coming

up the setup and teardown has changed a little bit these are just a couple

highlights for you if you can keep up with the moving screen don't don't look

if you get motion sickness but we've got a service opportunity come on July 4th

I'll tell you more about that but then the church picnic on August 18th so just

a few things to mark your calendar with and what did I say yeah 16th it was just

moving so fast I couldn't it looked like an eight but yeah so mark your

calendar take a snapshot of that you can find all this information on Church

Center as well we'll move on to the next one and I want to share with you an

opportunity that we have coming up tomorrow is our Dunes youth camp they

leave tomorrow noon so make sure you show up before noon at our Lacey campus

with your youth we have a ton I think I heard the number 40 youth are gonna go

to this camp and this is I think number year number three we'll go with three

because no one corrected me year number three it's a great retreat for our youth

to connect with each other connect with God and take their faith seriously so

that'd be praying for them throughout the week and our leaders as well but

again tomorrow we leave at noon so what time you gonna be there 1159 no yeah

sure 1030 you can or 1130 1030 work all right good got that for tomorrow the

next one we have to share with you is a service opportunity coming up I told you

about this 4th of July we've got a great event here in DuPont that we're gonna be

a part of we're gonna have a booth and with some games and activities and we

just need some people to help staff that and be present it's really great to set

up a booth and have games and activities but we really want to highlight the

presence that our people have in our community if you're available on the 4th

of July it's a Saturday this year so you can't tell me oh I got to work I

can't be there but if you want to be helping out with our team that'd be

great we also got an invite from the city of DuPont to help with some traffic

directing so if you want to be a part of that and can help out great check on

Church Center or let Pastor Mark or myself know and we'll get you plugged in

we good all right what's next what a season it has been for so many families

and people celebrating some great accomplishments and so I know for our

super that's a super meaningful year I've had a lot of youth over the years

graduate and I just wanted to recognize our graduates whether it's high school

or a college degree or something are there any graduates that we have here

today and if there are would you mind standing up for us oh yeah I really like

that guy that's my son and he's graduating he graduated this year he

headed off to college in the fall and so we just wanted to I want to pray over

our graduates and either you that haven't the family aren't here today but

just pray over that such a huge accomplishment huge milestone and I

don't want to gloss over it for anybody that is out there pursuing for their

education I got thank you for walking with us through education and the value

of learning and growing and may the students that are graduating dedicate

themselves to serving you and may this be a milestone in their lives that they

can move forward on build from and launch out into the season to grow

expand develop but really bring honor to you with what the opportunity you've

given to them so thank you for walking with our graduates thanks for walking

with my graduate we just praise you for the hard work that you have walked them

through and we send them out and commission them to continue their

education and continue their pursuits and dedicate them to you thank you in

your name we pray amen we also are in the season of celebrating some other

folks today happy Father's Day okay all right well I was going to ask the kids

what the special day is but you kind of already said it but kids what's today

yeah we love our dads we love our dad so much and if you have been here the last

few years you probably know what's coming but we always give our dads root

beer on Father's Day so before people run up here I'd like to give some

instruction okay even if there's like five kids in your family your dad's

still just gonna get one root beer we've had we've had dads with armfuls of root

beers before so as a family figure out which kid is going to come up or all the

kids can come up but grab one root beer for your dad now we do have some dads

here today and their kids aren't with them and so I hope that those dads will

be brave enough to raise their hand so kids who don't have a dad with them to

give a root beer to can still give a root beer to a different dad and if I

see you and I know you're a dad and you're not raising your hand I will

probably like point you out awkwardly so just raise your hand if you're a dad we

have coolers up here with root beer on ice and dads you can drink it during

church you don't have to save it so we should be hearing lots of cans being

popped open or bottles being popped open all right kids you can come up in a calm

orderly way oh also if you're an adult and your dad is with you please come get

a root beer if you're a teenager you better come up and get a root beer for

your dad I see people not coming up get a root beer for your dad if you don't

have a dad with you find someone else who has root beer Luke and Matthew's dad

is not raising his hand someone give one to Luke and Matthew's dad Jeremy is a

dad okay Luke and Matthew's dad I'm going to bring you one if you're not

gonna raise your hand oh good job good job Seth wait where are you going seth

Seth okay I want to make sure everybody got one if they're a dad okay also if

your dad isn't here with you today get your dad a root beer okay so we will be

dismissing in a couple of minutes as we get everyone back to their seats I do

have a little request if you happen to be a junior helper and you're here today

we could really use your help in Kidman because we're all doing projects for

dads so particularly in preschool where I will be I would love a helper okay kids

you are dismissed first through fifth lines up in the hall preschool lines up

by the door all right again happy Father's Day oh yeah we've got a special

guest with us this morning our lead pastor Kevin Pitts is here to share God's

Word with us this morning so I trust you will open your hearts and minds to him

he's gonna share this morning from Galatians one other update for you is

after church today we're gonna clear out this gym and we're gonna take all of our

equipment and everything to the cafeteria so if you're available to stick around

afterwards and help us make that migration we can call it a migration yeah

that'd be great but fill your coffee cup grab a donut eat your eat your root beer

video operator could you would you could you please switch over to the

other input for me

all right looks like the kids have exited as Brian said my name is Kevin

Pitts stoked to be here with you guys this morning and I always feel bad when

when we do one of these three teaches because I don't get to say hi to you

before or after so just know I would want to I would want to love you in

person but you can have you can have Brian afterwards and hopefully that's

enough it's enough for me Brian all right let's just jump right into the

text we're in a series in the book of Galatians sermon number two and we're

gonna look at chapter 1 verses 10 to 24 finish out chapter 1 today so I'm gonna

read right through the text of course our big idea for the whole sermon series

is Christ lives in me but I'll tell you the big idea for today's text after we

read you guys ready you guys are quiet you guys ready let's do this thing all

right Galatians chapter 1 verses 10 to 24 for am I now seeking the approval of

Galatians 1:10–24

man or of God or am I trying to please man if I were still trying to please man

I would not be a servant of Christ for I would have you know brothers that the

gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel for I did not receive it

from any man nor was I taught it but I received it through a revelation of

Jesus Christ for you have heard of my former life in Judaism how I persecuted

the Church of God violently and tried to destroy it and I was advancing in my

Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people so extremely zealous was I for

the traditions of my father's but when he who had set me apart before I was

born and who called me by his grace was pleased to reveal his son to me in order

that I might preach him among the Gentiles I did not immediately consult

with anyone nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me but

I went away into Arabia and returned again to Damascus then after three years

I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him 15 days but I saw

none of the other Apostles except James the Lord's brother in what I am writing

to you before God I do not lie then I went into the regions of Syria and

Cilicia and I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are

in Christ they only were hearing it said he who used to persecute us is now

preaching the faith he once tried to destroy and they glorified God because

of me kind of an interesting text upon first read you're like okay what's this

gonna be all about a lot about him traveling here and there not talking to

people talking to other people what it what is going on here well let me catch

you up in case you missed the first week of the Galatians study Paul's writing a

letter to several churches in this whole region called Galatians there's several

major cities at least four where he had gone on his first missionary journey and

he planted these churches he'd shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with them

that all of the Old Testament was fulfilled in Jesus Christ Messiah and

that he came and lived a perfect life that he was killed as a criminal that he

then was raised on the third day and that by believing in faith in Jesus

Christ and this person and in his work we could be saved from our sins and we

could have that great exchange of our sin for his perfection of what we

deserved for what he deserved and that God makes that available to us through

faith so this gospel well I call it the gospel of grace because that's one of

Paul's favorite words and I'll tell you what it's my favorite word as well because

grace means undeserved favor unmerited unearned blessings and so grace is what

we all need to depend on in order to have a relationship with God because we

don't deserve a relationship with God and we cannot earn a relationship with

God and that's the beauty is that Jesus Christ can and did that's what we

celebrate when we come together and sing songs of celebration it's what we

pray about so what we think about we should be obsessed with the gospel of

grace so Paul he began his letter by saying he was astonished that they had

begun drifting off the foundation of grace so there was a problem in the

Galatian churches where some folks some teachers self-proclaimed came in and

they began to distort or even pervert the gospel of grace by saying grace is

great and all but make sure you also do these works or you're not saved now

that's not the gospel of grace that's not good news at all he said they're

preaching to you another gospel which which there isn't another one because if

it's dependent upon me to have any part of my salvation I'm gonna fail it can't

be up to me because I'm so flawed and so frail it's got to be up to the grace

of God and it's got to be me putting my faith in him so this other gospel was

being preached among the Galatians we'll talk about some of the specifics but

what they were doing is they were tight they were making it Christianity plus

Judaism and so we'll call them the Judaizers throughout this study they

were trying to kind of make Christianity more Jewish was this is the isn't the

point at all so likely what has taken place is that in the Galatian churches

there was probably some resistance there's probably some godly men some

godly women who are hearing these guys pollute and distort the gospel and go

and that's not what I remember Paul saying no no no actually Paul says

something very different than that and so there was probably some resistance so

what are these Judaizers do but resort to the classic strategy of character

assassination well if these guys are gonna quote Paul we're just gonna have

to make them think less of Paul we're gonna have to attack his character and

his message and if we kill the messenger maybe we can kill the message

of the gospel of grace so there's probably a few things based on what we

kind of see in Galatians that that their strategies were to to again assassinate

his character first of all hey Paul's just out for glory he's a glory hound

you know it's all about himself so you really can't trust what he says that's

one of the accusations they likely lobbied at him second is this Paul's

just twisting things that he heard from other men from the other Apostles he he

wasn't even with Jesus during his earthly ministry you can't trust what he

said he's just run the coattails of the other Apostles and thirdly probably this

one honestly this salvation by grace thing it's just too easy I mean he's

trying to gain a following by telling people it's easy as you can't trust what

Paul says so what Paul is trying to establish at the very beginning of his

book here is that he got the gospel straight from the source straight from

Jesus and that Jesus is the only person that he's aiming to please with his

ministry and I think this is a very good message for all of us because he's

answering the question am I a man pleaser or am I a God pleaser it's a

question we must all ask ourselves regularly because it is so easy to slip

into man-pleasing rather than God-pleasing as it's Father's Day well

first of all do we have anybody that is old enough to remember when Saturday

Night Live was funny okay okay does anyone remember deep thoughts by Jack

Handy yes this is ridiculous deep thoughts by this guy and this is nature

scene and his soothing voice comes over well one of my favorites is this one it

takes a big man to cry but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man deep

thoughts by Jack Handy and the segment was over and you're like what that's

awful who says that you know well I bring that up because I think that the

world has a very interesting idea of what it means to be a man about what

manhood is and what it isn't but I think that the Bible actually has a different

way to describe what manhood is and what it is not so all of my application

points today are going to be about what a real man is like and obviously he's

not a man pleaser but a God pleaser but don't worry ladies I'm just doing this

for the guys to puff up their egos it applies to you too so just insert a real

woman you're gonna be fine don't tell the guys all right here we go so let's

kind of go deeper and figure out what Paul is trying to say to us first of

all I want to point out this word he says am I now seeking the approval of

man or of God why does he say now I think there's a couple of reasons Mark

pointed out last week that verse 10 is what we call kind of a hinge verse we

preached it last week at the end of our sermon and we're preaching it this week

at the beginning of sermon because it swings both ways like one of those big

kitchen doors that you know hinges that way so last week he was just referring

to what he had said previously was he said something fairly politically

incorrect definitely something that would not make him popular with other

people he said that these people that are preaching this distorted gospel damn

them to hell in those strong words to like the curse words of his day he said

they should be damned to hell that's what they need to go they need to go to

hell it's that egregious what they're doing to the gospel so he's just said

this really inflammatory statement and again he's drilling these guys so think

about that is that something that somebody was hoping to become popular

would say no damn those guys to hell no it's a very that's not a way to make

friends and influence people it's a way to make enemies and yet he doesn't care

because he knows that he's right he knows that he means it's the right thing

to say so he's kind of referring back with that now but he's also looking to

hopefully his reputation carrying him forward he should he again these folks

should know him he had planted these churches he was he was in their homes he

was at the at their kids soccer games football I mean he was he was in their

lives you know and he's hoping that his reputation as a man that doesn't seek

popularity but seeks the Lord God will help him in other words I was never

about man's approval when I was with you before do you think I'm that now so

reputation I think is a really important thing and a real man Lord willing has a

good reputation however a real man does not seek popularity and there's a

difference there there's a huge difference it's much like the the word

encouragement versus the word flattery I hope that I'm an encouraging person

that's something I aim to be I try to get specific specific about those things

and and I even reached out on Facebook and praised my dad for some specific

things in his life and his fatherhood that I admire and he wrote back he's

like I wish I wish I could live up to what you think of me and I said I think

you've already lived up to it dad I'm not a flatterer because what a flatterer

does is they make stuff up that they don't necessarily believe in order to

gain popularity in order to gain something from that person an

encourager is truthful and is real and sincere well again a reputation is

something that Lord willing you can look at somebody's life a godly man a godly

woman and you can see a pattern of behavior yeah they might mess up from

time to time but the pattern of behavior I see I don't think this is what Paul's

doing I don't think he's a man pleaser I think he's a god pleaser and hopefully

they have specific examples from his life but he's not looking for popularity

he's not looking for the most people to like him he's not flattering people he's

not he's not false so real man doesn't seek popularity he also gives himself

the sweet title in our opening verse he says if I were trying to please man I'll

tell you what I definitely wouldn't be a servant of Christ this word servant is

literally translated as bond slave again if you're if you're trying to be a man

pleaser if you're trying to be popular with people would you take the role of

slave no you would try to get influence you try to get position and power and

money and fame and all those things but he says that's not even who I am at all

I'm a bond slave now a bond slave in that day is a really interesting person

this is not somebody whose debt made them go into slavery this is not

somebody that was sold like property in that evil evil kind of slavery that we

know it has existed for most of history no this is somebody that said man you

are such a good person you're a landowner and you've got things to do at

your house can I voluntarily live for you and work for you and serve you as my

master and I know you're such a good master that you're gonna take care of my

needs and have my best in mind I voluntarily submit myself under your

authority he says I did that with Jesus Christ I didn't try to go up and say

yeah Jesus you and I we're gonna do this together no I came under Jesus Christ

and I submitted to him he says I'm a bond servant and a real man I'm telling

you this is submissive as little as we think of the word submissive when we

think of manhood we absolutely should because you're gonna submit to someone

or something we're all we all have to there's no way we can go through life

without submissive submitting but you have a choice in your life spiritually

speaking and that is to either submit to pleasing man including just pleasing

ourselves because I'm a man as well or we can submit to pleasing God and I

promise you one is slavery like how could you ever do enough how can you

ever be good enough how can you really have everybody like you it's impossible

and one is freedom one is life one is sweet and wonderful submission and

that's what that's what we see in this thought of a bond slave as we submit to

God because he's just so easy to submit to you he's so wonderful he's such a

good creator and father and we love him and so we submit this is what a real

real man does in the following verses he's like listen the gospel was preached

to me it's not man's gospel it's not man's gospel they didn't come from any

man I didn't learn it from any man because it again that was kind of that

second accusation that's probably being thrown at Paul he says no I got it from

direct revelation of Jesus Christ he spoke to me now what would man's gospel

look like well apparently what it looks like is this performance based thing is

you better be good enough you better do these things you got to get circumcised

you gotta you know follow the Holy Days you got to do the Sabbath just right you

got it you got it you got it you gotta and that's no gospel at all that's not

good news at all so it was about doing and the real gospel is about being Paul

says no only God's revelation holds weight and I'm not I'm not here to talk

about man's gospel and the cool thing is so so Paul had the gospel through a

direct revelation revelation from Jesus Christ but you realize don't you that

you also have direct revelation from Jesus Christ himself don't you stand up

in there as a stand up and hold up what you're showing to everybody there it is

there it is we have the full counsel of God's Word God's direct revelation we

can know who he is we can know what pleases him and we can know how to be

saved and that's their faith in Jesus Christ not by works now the works should

follow but that's a whole different discussion we're not on that today today

we're on our soteriology do you guys learn that fancy word and in DuPont

yeah soteriology what's the gospel say about being saved it's gonna be really

solid in that so here's the next thing we have the revelation of God so a real

man refuses to compromise on the revelation of God we look at a God's

Word we read it we study it we know it and we don't compromise which is not

going to be popular today you probably already know this fact because the Bible

calls sin some things that our friends and families wants to do are compelled

to participate in and want us to rubber stamp as good

and we can't we don't do that hatefully ever as our sin is just as gross as

every other sin but we can't just affirm something that God says real man can't

compromise we should do it lovingly lovingly leveling lovingly in

relationship with grace we don't compromise and it wasn't always the case

for Paul he's gonna share some of his story to show this sharp contrast

between what he was before Christ because again we all before Christ

miserable wretches dead there's no chance for us this he's like listen man

you've heard of my former life but look at my highlighted words here my former

life how I persecuted and I was advancing beyond my own age I was so

zealous real men are not self-promoting but Paul realizes that's what he was it

was all about himself in the old days it was all about proving that he was even

better than the other guys his age yeah I was advancing far beyond those other

guys I was the most zealous I was a good Jew I encourage you to read Paul's

story in the book of Acts Acts chapter 7 is where he's first introduced and he's

Acts 7 · chapter mention

standing by while Stephen the very first Christian martyr is killed in approval

holding the jackets of the guys who are stoning him chapter 9 kind of goes into

his conversion story when he met literally met Jesus Christ and Jesus

Christ said from above from with the voice of God why are you persecuting me

and he's like wait who my person who it's like it's me Jesus and he realizes

oh my goodness I've been wrong this whole time Jesus is God I'm persecuting

the Christians on what am I doing and there's this radical conversion to his

life read it in Acts chapter 9 and if you want to in chapter 22 and 26 he kind

Acts 9 · chapter mention

of recounts it again and you get a few more details so do some of that study on

your own but praise God it all changed for Paul instead of being self-promoting

it says but but when God oh my goodness but when God like these are amazing

statements when we get to these kinds of butts the subject of the verb changes

now to God sets Paul apart God calls him by his grace God was pleased to reveal

his son to him God was the one who called Paul to preach the gospel of

grace to the Gentiles and so Paul is just fixated on and in love with both

the sovereignty of God and the grace of God and I'd say that's what all real men

do we bow to the sovereignty of God for Paul he confesses been the one who set

me apart before I was born that's how sovereign God is and he knew I would be

persecuting he knew I would be jailing he knew I would be beating and yes even

killing Christians and yet God God knew my story and he chose me before I was

even born and Paul just loves that and he's also just obsessed with the concept

of grace that God called him in grace again he did nothing to deserve it he

did the exact opposite of deserving it and yet God loved him enough and called

him so we should be obsessed with and fixate on and worship the grace of God

with every breath that we have we think we can't take any credit just as Paul

can't take any credit but God was pleased to reveal his son to you and we

should praise him for it Paul was saved by God and he was also

saved for God's mission okay he says he was saved in order that he could preach

him among the Gentiles that was that was his specific call as most of the

other Apostles they were preaching the gospel to Jews who already had kind of a

background information of there was a Messiah coming and what that Messiah

would look like and all these kinds of things some of God's law they had a

little bit of background Paul's going out and he's been called by Jesus to

speak to everybody else that didn't have all that knowledge and all that

understanding realizing they could be grafted in and that they could be saved

as well it's not just for the Jewish nation and the thing is the real man

devotes himself to God's mission even today you have a calling I have a

calling when Jesus left earth he gave the Great Commission he said go and make

disciples of all nations baptizing them in in the name of the Father and of the

Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey all that I've commanded and

I'm with you always even to the end of the age Jesus gave every believer a

mission field too and it's unique because it's your sphere of influence

your family and your neighborhood in your workplace in your school they're

not my family I don't know those people they won't listen to me why would they

they listen to you and God has called you to them and so we realize that we go

okay my whole life is a little bit different now yeah golf is fun but I'm

golfing this afternoon what am I gonna be doing for the kingdom I hope I get

paired with somebody regular Kevin hopes he doesn't get paired with somebody he

doesn't know I'd really like to just be with my friends so that when I shank the

ball I'm less embarrassed okay but but but Christian Kevin gets paired with a

couple two days ago and Christian Kevin gets to share Jesus with him invite him

to church and that's it's a whole new mission for me it's a whole different

way of looking at life that's just one example again he says he hammers on this

point I didn't go try to get everybody else's approval of whether I got the

message right because I knew I got it straight from Jesus so I didn't need the

approval of the other Apostles that's not what matters I again that's what

the false teachers were trying to say about him so he didn't he didn't say I

need to spend time getting to know other men and make sure I'm teaching the same

thing as then he said no I need to know the source and a real man's most

important relationship is with God a man's most important relationship is

with God I got to perform a wedding yesterday for a special day for Ethan

who go to the Lacey campus and just a great couple it was on a lake it's

somebody's piece of property and perfect weather it was such a wonderful time but

one of the things I tried to hammer home with them is that that a cord of three

strands is not easily broken it's this cord of three strands that your

relationship has got to have God at the center and we think man oh well if if my

wife isn't my whole world then that she's gonna get less of me if I go

towards God it's like no it's more like a triangle and as you both go up towards

God you're getting closer together at the same time and your marriage is

richer and more special you as a father as a mother you're getting closer to

your children and you're being a better parent every relationship in life

improves when he's the number one but we can't make idols of good things like our

marriage or kids and instead neglect God look how he describes his time in

Arabia which is where he said he went he went there for three years now we have

to kind of imagine and piece together from his different books from the book

of Acts and all that kind of stuff what this time was like but what I believe it

was like is that this was sort of a compensation for Paul missing out on the

ministry of Jesus when you know in person because the other apostles they

were his disciples and they got how many years three years doing ministry with

Jesus and Paul gets what three years in Arabia and so he's in prayer he's in

meditation he's got the scriptures and he's starting he's got new spiritual eyes

on through Holy Spirit and he can see the Old Testament go oh my word that's

Jesus oh that's pointed Jesus oh my goodness this and everything's new and

everything's great and so he's just reveling in the gospel of grace he's

hearing from Jesus so Paul asserts that Jesus is a direct mentor and the voice

of Jesus spoke to him so there's no middleman that the message didn't get

muddled and a real man spends time with Jesus period make time for Jesus if you

don't spend time with your wife you're not gonna have a very good marriage you

don't spend time with your kids you're not gonna have a very good influence on

their life you don't spend time with Jesus you're sure not gonna give him

much lordship in your life much control and you're gonna suffer you will not

regret spending as much time as possible with Jesus and then we got these

interesting statements in verse 19 he's like okay I did go to Jerusalem once I

know somebody's gonna accuse me oh you went to Jerusalem you did see the

Apostles I know you did he said it was a visit I visited with Cephas for about

15 days I don't think I saw any other disciple oh yeah except for James the

brother Jesus I saw him and then he in the parentheses that's kind of the the

Greek version of swearing yourself in in court it's court speak do you need to go

Jeremy you know promise to tell the truth the whole truth not the truth but

I do it's that kind of statement I and what I'm writing to you I do not lie

he's pledging it here so then he goes with this he says when I was in the

regions of Syria and Cilicia or I'm sorry when I was in Jerusalem nobody

knew who I was I'm not known there because again he's continuing to

understore this the fact that he's not seeking man's approval he's not in a

popularity contest where he's hoping that all the Jews are like oh that's

Paul he's our guy he's our guy he says I was unknown in Judea but guess who was

known they glorified God because of me they heard the story what God did in my

life and they glorified God so it wasn't about me being known it was about God

being known and really that's what life is all about a real man realizes his

whole life is about giving God glory and pointing people to him giving him

attention giving him praise it's putting a spotlight on everything that

God does and everything that he can do he's the one that makes death in the

life he's the one that did that for Paul he did it for me and so I want to spend

the rest of my life highlighting the work of God and not the work of Kevin

when God gets the glory the universe is right friends the things are just right

that's the way it's supposed to be and I definitely want God to be glorified

because of me in my life this is the type of sermon that as I meditated on it

all week long and think about preaching it dozens and dozens and dozens of times

as I think of am I a man pleaser a God pleaser Holy Spirit just like points out

something okay I'm a man pleaser there aren't I 30 minutes goes by I'm in

another situation and just over and over and over and over God's just

convicting me and convicting me and convicting me and so even though this is

kind of the part of the sermon where we're normally you know we would we

would give you a few examples of how you can apply this to your life and and try

to challenge you to think through those things I want to do something just a

little bit different I want you to have a window into what my last week has been

like I want you to write and in Expo Inc or or a Sharpie put them on notepads

and put them all over your house and on your car am I a God pleaser I'm a man

pleaser do something to bring your attention back to this concept over and

over and over maybe you pray for every meal and so part of your prayer is Lord

reveal to me what where I'm being in a man pleaser reveal to me I need to see

it give him permission the Bible promises will be pray a prayer

according to his will he will answer it and it is according to his will for us

to examine this in our hearts so pray today try to pray every day this week

God reveal it to me because there's way too many examples of where it could be

from personal experience and conviction Lord reveal to us we we give you

permission we bow our knee and submission to you and we want

desperately to live our lives as God pleasers so we we beg you to reveal

those areas and give us the courage and the strength to the power of Holy Spirit

to to vanquish those things to repent of them as sin and to come to you and have

you be the only one that we worship and the only one that we're trying to please

we love you and we thank you that your word is so penetrating and so we're just

we're ready for a week of growth all for your glory all for your attention we

love you so much in the name of Jesus we pray the communion tables will be ready

for you guys if you'd like to take communion while we sing a couple more

songs and kind of respond to what God's doing in our hearts just encourage you

to go by yourself a family member if you're a believer in Jesus Christ you're

invited you don't have to be a member of our church or any specific church just

just a member of God's family not everybody takes communion every week

either so if you don't go nobody's gonna think you're weird so let's worship

Jesus again let's give him permission and expect that he's gonna answer that

prayer reveal things to us

he who was before there was line walked across the pages of time he who made it

be behold him he who heard humanity's cry left his throne to wake as a child

he became like the least of us behold him Jesus son of God

my sigh the lamb the roaring oh

who died with sins and saints healed the blind the lost and the lame even now he is in our midst

behold him he who chose a criminal's end bared no blood to settle our debt

Mary death as he rose to the light behold him Jesus son of God Messiah the lamb the roaring lion

oh be still and behold him Jesus Alpha and Omega our God the risen Savior oh be still and behold him

holy holy holy is the Lord God almighty worthy worthy worthy to receive

oh praise holy holy holy is the Lord God almighty worthy worthy worthy to receive

oh praise holy holy holy is the Lord God almighty worthy worthy worthy to receive

praise let's sing Jesus

Jesus son of God Messiah the lamb the roaring lion oh be still and behold him Jesus Alpha and Omega

our God the risen Savior oh be still and behold him

behold him

so

well I've heard a thousand stories of what they think your life but I've heard the tender whisper

of love in the dead of night and you tell me that you're pleased and that I'm never alone

you're good good fun it's who you are it's who you are it's who you are and I'm loved by you

it's who I am it's who I am it's who I am

and I've seen many searching for answers far and wide but I know

we're all searching for answers only you provide because you know just what we need before we

say a word you're a good good father it's who you are it's who you are

it's who you are and I'm loved by you it's who I am it's who I am

it's who you are it's who you are it's who you are and I'm loved by you

it's who I am it's who I am

you are perfect in all of your ways

you are perfect in all of your ways

to the world you're so perfect you are perfect in all of your ways

love so undeniable I can hardly speak

peace so unexplainable I can hardly think

as you've gone me deeper still as you've gone me

deeper still as you've gone me deeper still into love

love love you're through goodbye

it's who you are it's who you are

it's who you are and I'm led by you

it's who I am it's who I am

it's who I am you're through goodbye

it's who you are it's who you are

it's who you are and I'm led by you

it's who I am it's who I am

it's who I am

you are perfect in all of your ways

you are perfect in all of your ways

you are perfect in all of your ways

to the world

this is with the voices

you are perfect in all of your ways

you are perfect in all of your ways

you are perfect in all of your ways

to us

one more time

you are perfect in all of your ways

you are perfect in all of your ways

you are perfect in all of your ways

to us

to us

we stand and lift up our hands

for the joy of the Lord is our strength

we bow down and worship him now

how great, how awesome we see

together we sing

the Lord is our Lord

God Almighty

the earth is filled with his glory

holy is the Lord

God Almighty

the earth is filled with his glory

the earth is filled with his glory

we stand and lift up our hands

for the joy of the Lord is our strength

we bow down and worship him now

how great, how awesome we see

together we sing

everyone sing

holy is the Lord

God Almighty

the earth is filled with his glory

holy is the Lord

God Almighty

the earth is filled with his glory

the earth is filled with his glory

it's rising up all around

it's the anthem of the Lord's kingdom

it's rising up all around

it's the anthem of the Lord's kingdom

together we sing

everyone sing

holy is the Lord

God Almighty

the earth is filled with his glory

holy is the Lord

God Almighty

the earth is filled with his glory

the earth is filled with his glory

holy, holy is the Lord

God Almighty

holy, holy

holy, holy is the Lord

God Almighty

holy, holy

holy, holy is the Lord

God Almighty

holy, holy

just yell louder

hey quick announcement for you

the next four weeks we're going to be

like I said we're going to be in the cafeteria

it's down the hall to the left

a little more to the left and then the cafeteria

so we'll be in there for the next four weeks of our summer

as the school district refinishes this floor and everything

and so if you could help us today

move all of our gear into that area

that would be fantastic

and we'll be there for the four weeks

and then after that

with any luck we'll be back here

after that for four more weeks

thank you for worshipping together

it is great to be together as a family

we have a few more root beers left over here

in this white cooler

so please get them out of here

alright have a great day

thank you

there's a sweaty drummer over there

will you stay with me

when I forget you're there

will you still love me

when my love lingers elsewhere

I hear you softly speaking

secrets dark and close

words that softly linger

with sweet repose

and I will never leave you

leave you waiting round

cause I'm the one who's been waiting

for you to turn around

how can I contain you

when you contain everything

the house of my soul

is far too small

but still I must say

I hear you softly speaking

secrets dark and close

words that softly linger

with sweet repose

and I will never leave you

leave you waiting round

cause I'm the one who's been waiting

for you to turn around

for you to turn around

for you to turn around

enclosed by you

enclosed I see

I am in you

you are in me

you are in me

you are in me

everlasting one

nothing else compares to knowing you

to knowing you

you're the living God

and my soul longs to be with you

to be with you

Lord your love is like a waterfall

Lord your love is like a flowing stream

and whenever I'm feeling dry

I come to the river

I come to the river of life

I come to the river of life

you are worthy Lord

of every song that I could sing

that I could sing

and my heart cries out

God I need you more than anything

than anything

cause your love is like a waterfall

and your love is like a flowing stream

and whenever I'm feeling dry

I come to the river

I come to the river of life

I come to the river of life

as the deer pass over the waters

so my soul longs after you

as the deer pass over the waters

so my soul longs after you

as the deer pass over the waters

so my soul longs after you

as the deer pass over the waters

so my soul longs after you

as the deer pass over the waters

so my soul longs after you

as the deer pass over the waters

Clothed alone in my powerless maze

I stand on the edge of the abyss

look at the sky and shake my face

what am I gonna do if you don't even exist

I place my hand in the handle

cause I don't wanna go back to where I'm from

I place my hand in the handle

cause I don't wanna go back to where I'm from

even though my faith is so small

a distant echo when I fall

but I am saved, I'm yours today

I won't go back to my old ways

so I'll come on over

so I'll come on over

so I'll come on over

so I'll come on over

I place my hand in the handle

cause I don't wanna go back

I place my hand in the handle

cause I don't wanna go back to where I'm from

I place my hand in the handle

cause I don't wanna go back to where I'm from

I place my hand in the handle

cause I don't wanna go back to where I'm from