The More Blessed Life - Grateful Part 2

Well, hey, good morning and welcome to Real Life Church Man.

It's going to be a good day in the House of the Lord this

morning. Some of you with us in person

are joining us online. Go ahead and stand on your feet.

Put those hands together as we worship.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord on the

mountain. And I'll praise when I'm sure,

and I'll praise when I'm tired, and I'll praise me.

No, no bird, praise me. Surrounded as praise is the

water my enemies drowning. As long as I'm breathing, I've

got a reason to pray and love hold my soul.

It's when I'm feeling, and I'll praise when I don't, and I'll

praise because I know you're still in control.

Thank you, Jesus. It's crazy.

It's awaiting. It's more than a sound.

My praise is the shout that brings Jericho down.

Long as I'm breathing, I've got anything to breath.

Hold my soul.

No, I won't be fighting. My God is alive.

How could I keep inside? Hold my soul.

Today And I'll praise 'cause you're so praise, 'cause you

raid, praise 'cause you rose and defeated the craze.

I'll praise 'cause you're faith, praise 'cause you're true,

praise 'cause there's nobody created in you.

I'll praise 'cause you're sovereign, praise 'cause you

raid, praise 'cause you rose and defeated the grace.

I praise hell is your truth. Praise hell is your truth.

Praise God, there's nobody greater than you.

Praise the Lord, Oh my soul. Pray is the Lord, Oh my soul.

Pray is the Lord, Oh my soul. Hold my soul.

No, I won't be quiet. My party's alive.

How could I keep it inside? Oh, I won't be quiet.

My party's alive. How could I keep it inside?

No, I I won't be quiet. My party's alive.

Praise the Lord, praise. The Lord.

Amen. Give him a shot of praise this

morning and I love Him. The church gets to gather

together and praises to our guys.

It's a little glimpse of what heaven is going to be like.

It is a 24/7 praise party giving God all that he deserves and

it's so blessed to be together. So let's continue to praise him

as I cast my mind to Calvary, where Jesus.

Bled and tied for me, and I see his wounds, his hands, his feet.

My saviour, run that curse in the.

Trees. And his body bow, and drenched

in tears they laid him down in Joseph's too.

The entrance still by heavy stone, Messiah still.

And all the lift up some praise, oh, praise the name of the Lord,

O God, O praise. Days His name forevermore for

endless days we will sing your praise, O Lord, O Lord, our

heart and on the earth at break of time the sun of there and

rose again. No dream of God.

Where's your steed? The light just rose for Christ

our King and incorporate the oh God, oh God raises them.

Oh God, oh God, oh God. There's days we will see our

eyes. Oh Lord, oh

Lord, oh Lord, oh shine. We hope somewhat the blazing sun

shall Pierce the night, and thou will rise among the Saints.

My gaze transfersed on Jesus face, hogging to see its face.

We lift your name, you close your.

Eyes. Can you see his face?

Imagine that moment and. Surrender, just in awe of all

that he's done for us. Shining like the sun.

What a beautiful day it is and his.

Power. His praise, His presence is here

today, so let's lift him up in this place.

Oh God, oh praise his name forever.

Lord, Lord, in these days we will see our praise.

Oh Lord, oh Lord our God, oh praise him, Oh praise our name,

oh Lord our God. We will see more praise, Oh

Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord. Come on, give him some crazy

soon. That's right.

He is so worthy. So worthy, Father.

We know you're here with us this morning, but even more so, God,

we say you're welcome in this place.

Father, would you move in us this morning?

God, maybe in a way you never have before.

Father, let us experience your presence today in this place.

Father, would you rest on us? Today.

God, we love you. It's.

In your name we pray. There's nothing worth more that

will ever come close and who we think can compare.

Here we are living home, your presence, Lord.

Now tasted at sea of the sweetest of us, where my heart

becomes free, and my shame is until it is here in your

presence alone. Holy Spirit you, I will calm

you. Come play to this place and feel

the atmosphere. Your glory, God is.

Would our hearts love to be overcome by your presence, Lord.

It's your presence, Lord. There's nothing worthwhile that

will ever come close. Knows being can compare.

You're our living hope. It's your presence, love.

I've tasted and sing and the sweetest times where my heart

becomes free and my shame is all done.

Yet in your presence, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy

Spirit, our world come comfort of this place and through the

atmosphere your glory. God is what our hearts alone be

overcome by your presence, the Lord Holy Spirit who are welcome

come forward in this place and through the end of Spirit, your

glory. God is what our hearts alone be

overcome by your presence to the Lord.

It's your presence you want to be overcome by Jesus,

overwhelmed by Jesus. When I speak, calm, you're aware

of your presence. Let us experience the glory of

your goodness. Let us speak.

Calm, you're aware of your presence, Let us experience the

glory of your goodness. Let us speak, come more aware of

your presence. Let us experience the glory of

your goodness. Let us be calm, more aware of

your presence. Let us experience the glory of.

Oh, come here, come fly to this place and fill the atmosphere.

Your glory, God is. Would our hearts love to be

overcome by your presence, love. It's your presence, Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit, it's your praises. Let us become more aware of your

praises. Let us experience the glory of

your goodness. Let us become for way of your

presence. Let us experience the glory of

Your goodness. Come on, give him some praise.

Again this morning. He's so worthy of all our praise

this morning. Such a good, good God.

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Hey Real Life Church, we are church on a mission and man,

that mission is to see people who are far from God discover

their real life and purpose in Jesus.

And that looks like a lot of different things.

But most importantly, it's to see the prodigal come home and

to see the lost be found. And man, God has been so good to

us and we see that week in and week out of people saying yes to

Jesus, committing their lives to him and their eternity is

changed forever. Man, That is why we exist to see

people far from God find real life in him.

Man, we are continuing our grateful series this weekend,

man, just taking some intentional time to pause and

slow down in this Thanksgiving season just to recognize man,

the goodness of God and how good he's been in our lives.

I mean, it is just, is so much more than just saying thank you

or having gratitude. Sometimes it's really living

from a posture of gratitude and an overflow of all the good

things that God has done in our lives.

So I'm excited for you to hear the message today.

Would you help me join me in welcoming Diane Petri up to this

stage? She's going to give us a word

today. Come on, make her feel welcome.

Man, good morning, real life. Happy Thanksgiving.

It is an honor to get to share with you this morning just what

God has put on my heart about gratitude and sorry.

Sometimes I have a little bit of hard time getting over the

worship and then trying to get my brain turned back on to get

up here and talk. But I am just very excited to

get to talk with you guys today. So Thanksgiving break 2025, our

kids, the most special part about Thanksgiving really is

getting to get together with family, right?

Family and friends connecting together.

Our children were off school the entire week for Thanksgiving.

And so, you know, they haven't had more snacks and screen time

than should be allowable by law. Probably at this point in their

week, they are ready to get back into some routine.

And when you're on break, every night is movie night, right?

So the kids are in a battle of who gets to pick what movie

we're going to watch because they have definitely gotten to

the age where they cannot agree on what that should be.

So one of the nights, Emery picked a show on Netflix that I

hadn't seen called Crunch Labs. And I was like, OK, this is

different. Not a movie, but I was like,

let's check this out. So Crunch Lab is a show by a

YouTube influencer named Mark Rober.

Raise your hand if you've heard of him before.

Just this second. OK, a few nerds in the house.

I love it. Love it.

I was all along the nerd train with him now.

So don't worry, I'm in your I'm in your camp now.

But Mark Rober is a YouTube. He is a former NASA engineer and

he spends his time now teaching kids about nerdy engineering

stuff. So he's an influencer.

He's an engineer, which just became Emory's dream job because

she didn't know you could put, like math together with YouTube.

So her whole mind is blown. It was awesome.

She's like, we have to watch the show.

So we're watching them do all these different experiments and

robotics things and all this stuff, which I'm like, OK, I can

get into this kind of screen time for the kids.

They're learning. This is cool.

Well, we got several episodes in and there was one that really

kind of caught my attention. So there was a kid that Mark had

heard about who was suffering with leukemia and he became

eligible for the Make a Wish Foundation to get a wish.

And so when this kid found out that he was going to get a wish,

rather than spending it on something for himself, he

decided to take his wish and bless another kid who had the

same kind of cancer that he knew with a four Wheeler because he

found out that this kids four Wheeler had been stolen.

And so Mark Rober heard about this.

He's like, Oh my gosh, we have to do something big for this

kid. Like, how cool is that?

You're suffering with cancer. You have one wish and you're

going to use that to give that to bless somebody else.

That's so cool. He's like, OK, I'm going to call

my buddy Mr. Beast. I'm going to call like this

whole town in California where we're going to do this epic

explosion of a thing and like get all the people together, all

these volunteers just really do this thing a big we're going to

have an epic surprise. And they did.

It was an incredible day. They had all these volunteers.

The whole town got together. It was super cool.

And of course the, you know, cherry on top, the bow on the

present was at the very end. They roll in the exact same four

Wheeler that he had given away to another kid to really say,

you know what, let's just do this awesome.

And it was just really cool. And I was like, man, I was

talking to Sean. I'm like, wouldn't that be the

life? Just to wake up every day and be

like, who are we going to extravagantly bless today?

Like that would be so cool. Just like wake up, like what can

we do to really, you know, give somebody this awesome moment,

this awesome surprise. It was really cool.

But what was really interesting to me about the story is at the

end of it, they're interviewing Mark, they're interviewing Mr.

Beast, all these guys just talking with them.

How was the day? And of course, it was like, man,

Brody, this kid, he had a cool day.

He was so blessed to get all this stuff.

But that wasn't really what anybody said.

What everybody said, who they talked to in that moment was

like, you know what? I feel so blessed that I got to

be a part of giving back in this way.

And I thought it was incredible because of course, that kid was

blessed. Like he had an awesome day,

right? But it was so interesting that

everybody there was like, just to be a part of something like

that, being a part of being able to give back and bless others.

How cool was that, that they felt like they got the blessing.

And I thought that is so interesting.

The kid felt blessed, but the volunteers, the team, all the

donors, all these people felt more blessed by the chance to

make a difference in this kids life.

And you know, as much as I would love to be that life of like I'm

the extravagant 1 giving away and most days I'm a lot more

like Brody where like because of God's goodness in my life, I am

just getting the blessing from him.

I am blessed to be on measure. I have nothing to offer to earn

up to what God has given me. And it made me think it begs the

question if I am so blessed by God already because I really

truly am. I've got an unending grace.

I have all this stuff. Why doesn't the day-to-day of

life feel more grateful? It's so easy to get caught up in

these things that are hang ups and like, oh man, that didn't go

my way and that wasn't quite what I wanted.

Instead of living this day-to-day with just the

gratitude of what God has given. And that question made me think

that this leans perfectly into our Grateful series today

because it's really Grateful is not just saying thank you and

living gratefully is not just a reaction to stuff that happens

or circumstances in your life, but it's truly a revelation.

It's a realization that God has grace in every corner of my life

and I am just blessed to be along for the journey of it.

And once I can see and recognize how much God has done for me,

that is just the beginning of living grateful.

So I want to jump into the scripture today.

I'm going to go to Acts 20. Here we have Jesus spelling out

the recipe for us to say, OK, where does gratitude come from?

How do we live a blessed life? How do we live this idea of

grateful? And so this is Paul.

He's actually saying goodbye to the Ephesian leaders of the

church there where he had spent several years planting churches.

And so we're going to go to verse 35 and it says in

everything I did, this is Paul talking.

I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the

weak. Remembering the words the Lord

Jesus himself said it is more blessed to give than to receive.

That sounds really beautiful until you think about it, right?

Post that up hanging on the wall in the living room.

It's more blessed to give than receive.

But why on earth would Jesus say that?

Because I'll be honest with you, it's pretty good to receive,

right? Like when somebody's like,

here's a gift, you've been wanting this all year and Sean

bought it for me. You know, I like nerdy gifts.

So it's like, what should we do today?

We have a day where the kids are with grandma.

Like I really want to go to this Amish store and what, you know,

weird stuff, but yeah, I know I have got 1 fan in the front row

who loves the Amish store too, but nerdy stuff.

But when somebody really gives you that blessing that you've

been looking for and praying for, that is so good.

It's so good to receive and to get that.

But Jesus isn't saying that here.

And I really think when you're looking at the context of Paul

sharing this with the Ephesians, and we hear this line a lot just

in relation to money, but I think it's more than that.

I think Jesus is not just talking about giving of material

things, financial resources that we have.

He's talking about a condition of our soul and a posture of our

heart as we come before the Lord.

Of course, it's blessed to receive to get that help.

You need that hand up and a hard time to, you know, have somebody

help you out to give money. But it truly is more blessed to

give. And if you've been in a position

where you've been able to give that, to give your time to give

help to someone, to serve someone to meet a need that they

had, it truly is more blessed to give.

And I think of it like this, like you are blessed if someone

gives you $100, but it feels more blessed to give 10 of it

away, right? See somebody in need, say I can

do something. Or if you have $100,000, it

feels more blessed to give 10,000 away to really make a big

difference for somebody who has a need.

I also like to think of it, I tell people when they're joining

the serving team in real life, you know, it's blessed to get to

come to real life and be a part of it.

But when you're jumping into like serve with our kids to be a

life group leader, you will be more blessed by the opportunity

to get to give back and to pour into others.

It makes a huge difference. It's like, you know, you're

blessed to be a part of a, A, but anybody who's done it can

say you are more blessed to be an, a, a sponsor, right?

To get to take of your time and to give back in that way.

Because I think that really what we're seeing here is there's the

the gap between the blessed life and the more blessed life is

spelled one way and it's gratitude.

It's grateful. How do we get to that more

blessed life? So Jesus gives us an example.

Of course, He is so good to do that to help us know how to

live. And so he gives us a picture.

What does it mean to live grateful?

So we're going to open up to Luke 17 and camp here for a few

minutes. Luke 17, we're going to start in

verse 11. You've got your Bibles.

Everyone got your Bibles. Got my Bible.

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Got your Bible. Awesome.

We'll camp here in Luke 17 for a while, so not a ton of flipping.

OK, so starting in verse 11, it says Now on his way to

Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and

Galilee. As he was going into a village,

10 men who had leprosy met him. So leprosy, at the time, this

was a devastating diagnosis to your social life.

There was a lot of laws you had to be outcasted.

Leprosy today is a bacterial condition that affects your

nerves. Most likely in this time it was

just a highly contagious skin disease.

It may not be what we know it is now.

That's me being nerdy for you again with things as well.

But the the big take away is they had to stay on the outside

of town. They couldn't follow Jesus.

They couldn't go in, they couldn't go to the priest.

They were unclean, they were outcast and they had no way of

getting to where they needed to go to get that healing.

And so it says as we continue, they stood at a distance and

they called out in a loud voice because they had to yell from

far away. Jesus Master have pity on us.

So literally begging him as he walked by.

By this point, we're nearing the end of Jesus's earthly ministry.

So the word would have gotten around like, hey, this guy can

heal. This guy has power, he can do

miracles. So I'm sure if they heard Jesus

was walking through, they were like, let's be ready.

This could be our shot, you know, like, let's yell, let's

cry out for help. And so when he saw them, he

said, go and show yourself to the priests.

And as they went, they were cleansed, all ten of them

healed. As they were walking, they all

received a gift from God and they were all hugely blessed.

This would have been a life changing healing for them, a

huge blessing. But here's where it gets

interesting. In verse 15, it says one of

them, when he saw he was healed, came back praising God in a loud

voice. He threw himself at Jesus's feet

and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan.

And Jesus asked, we're not all 10 cleansed.

Keep that question in your mind, 'cause that's a heavy 1.

Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give

praise to God except this foreigner 'cause let's be

honest, if this implies that the other nine were Jews, this one

Samaritan, who would have been the least likely one to even be

able to go to the temple, The least likely one to come to

Jesus, not even in the right frame of place to receive the

healing, is the one who paused and said, wow, wow, I was

healed. I'm going back to say thank you.

And it's can. So then Jesus said to him in

verse 19, rise and go, your faith has made you well.

And the way of that Greek word, it's actually your faith has

saved you, which is incredible. It's all through Luke, every

time somebody has a healing and their soul gets restored and

made whole, it's this word like your faith has saved you.

Your faith has made you well, it's incredible because I can be

real honest. That's a question I don't ever

want Jesus to ask about me. Like, oh, I have blessed you all

greatly. Where's the others who didn't

find the time to come back and be like, thank you, Lord, for

this miracle, for saving my life, for changing me.

It's incredible because it's like, you know, well, weren't

they all cleansed and only this one return, this one foreigner?

I would have really expected everybody to come back and at

least be like, cool Jesus, thanks.

You know, thumbs up, bro. See you at the temple.

But instead it's like, Nope, on my way, I've got my healing.

Life is good. And in this picture, we're

thinking, what is the more blessed life?

And of course, all ten of them were blessed with this healing.

But the one had the more blessed opportunity to come back and to

give thanks because it's more blessed to give.

One of them didn't just get healed, one of them became

whole. And I love that healing of

Jesus. So if we're going to break this

down, what are the four things that he did?

What what is kind of this pattern that Jesus is showing us

of how to have this more blessed life, this grateful life?

And so back in verse 15, we can see all the steps that he did.

And this is a really good recipe for how to live grateful.

It says one of them when he saw he was healed.

And the first step is really this first, we recognize the

healing we've received. We take a step back and say, you

know what, Lord? Oh, what a coincidence.

I had this amount of money show up on my bank account today that

I needed. Oh, what a coincidence.

I ran into that person who can really help me with this thing.

We have to stop explaining away the coincidences of our life

when we need to be giving credit to God who is orchestrating

those moments for us, who is providing for us because He's a

good father. And so the first step to having

this blessed, this more blessed life is to say, let me recognize

I received a gift. Let me recognize that I'm

healed. And then very simply, he came

back. So not only did he recognize he

was healed, because they all did recognize that they had received

healing, but the second thing he did was he came back to the

source of the healing. He actually, in some

translations it says he's turned back.

You see him physically turn around to go back to say, Jesus,

you gave me this gift. I recognize I've been healed.

I have this gift. 3rd it says he was praising God in a loud voice

and threw himself at Jesus's feet.

So he not only gave God the credit for the miracle, but he

gave him the praise for coming to his rescue, for healing him,

for bringing him that wholeness and for saving his soul and last

and he, what does it say? He thanked him.

He gave thanks. How appropriate for this week

that we can give thanks, right? So he recognized he had received

a gift. He gave credit to the gift

giver, and then he gave him praise and thanks as he was

going on his way. And so I think if you want the

more blessed life, that recipe is going to serve all of us very

well when we're looking in to say, how can we get to this

point of more blessed? Look at what you've been given.

I have been given so much blessed beyond measure by God.

There are rooms I should have never had an audience in their

circumstances that have come my way.

There's financial things that have just, you know, magically

worked out in a way in my favor when I've trusted God and

instead of explaining those things away, I need to give the

credit to God to say, man, you have blessed me so, so much.

Every answered prayer request. We give thanks.

We give credit to God every time he gives us things, money,

stuff, possessions, opportunities, talents.

We for those back to the Lord, as I'm going to be real honest

today in a sidebar, that we're all blessed and we might not

always feel that in the day-to-day.

There are seasons when we may feel more stressed or strained.

A lot of that is based on our finances and the hard times and

politics and all the stuff. But if you live here in America,

you are very blessed. I can say that as somebody who's

traveled across the world, we are very, very blessed. 80% of

the world lives on about $10 a day.

In context, a Happy Meal from McDonald's is about 4 bucks.

So if you can buy 2 Happy Meals, you are more blessed, so to

speak. You are blessed beyond 80% of

the world. 50% of the world is living on less than $3 a day.

What we would consider like absolute poverty.

And so if you look at it kind of across the board, if you make

$32,500 a year, you're wealthier than 95% of the world.

We put it in perspective in a big picture like that.

Like I'm super blessed. It's really cold outside.

But today I am going to leave from here with a big woolly

coat, walk out to my car that is climate controlled so I can

comfortably make my way back to my climate controlled house and

push a button that opens up a magic door so I can drive my car

into it. To not have to be, you know, too

affected by the weather around me to listen to 17 streaming

channels to go. There's nothing to watch.

I've got all these things. And then to go to my pantry and

there is nothing to eat in here. Can you believe leave this

place? I have to actually prepare this

food and go to my closet. I have nothing to wear.

It is bursting full of clothes I don't even have enough hangers

for. It's like we are so blessed, but

we let this world tell us otherwise.

We see the things around us and we get to consume all of these

ideas that what we have and what God has given is not enough.

We have more convenience, more comfort, more access, more

opportunity than almost any generation in the history of the

world. And yet, when you look at it

deeply, studies show counselors will tell you we have less joy,

we have less contentment, we have less generosity than we

have ever had in our country. And really, we have less

gratitude than ever before. We are extremely blessed.

So what is that key? How do we get from blessed to

more blessed? God has blessed us so much.

Why don't we feel that gratitude in every day?

And it's been so encouraging because real life is truly in

kind of an unprecedented season of generosity.

And seeing the faithfulness and the generosity of so many

committing to say, I want to be a part of what God is doing here

through our Difference Maker initiative.

So many people jumping on the team to say I want to give back

in this season. I want to serve alongside, I

want to make a difference. It's been incredible.

Even this last week, we had several people donate food and

items that we could go out and bless some families who are in

need. It's truly unprecedented

generosity, but in the same time we look across the country to

say, you know, only 5% of Christians give 80% of those

give less than 2% what they have.

And the way I boil it down is we don't really have a blessed

problem. We have a more blessed problem.

How do we get to our hearts to that more blessed?

It's not a receiving problem. We've received so much, but how

can we release and say, God, I trust you, I want the more

blessed life. So we've got three things for

you. How do we have the more blessed

life? First, here's why this is the

nerdy part. If you're nerdy in the house,

you're gonna love it. My friend Scott.

Cool. Yeah, this is always his

favorite part of when I talk about stuff because he likes

nerdy stuff that I like too. But there is the study of the

science of gratitude. OK, so there are pH DS who have

spent their entire career studying gratitude.

How do we get grateful? One of the leading ones is named

Robert Emmons. He's a leading gratitude

researcher. And he concluded over years and

decades of study that gratitude truly does change our lives.

And it not only changes our lives, it actually changes our

brains. So when you have an opportunity

to both receive and to give, it operates two different pathways

kind of in your neural biochemistry.

It releases both dopamine and serotonin when you give, which

is really interesting because in most cases dopamine is like your

your gift center. Like, oh, I ate that candy, it's

so good. Or I scrolled that thing.

The dopamine like I get something in my dopamine's like

Hooray. Like we did it, we got a gift.

Serotonin is kind of like your mood elevator.

So like where am I like happy sad in the middle, wherever the

serotonin released is pushing up that like happiness.

So Hooray, we got a gift and whoo, our brain is happy like

all connected together because we gave, which is really

interesting when you think about gratitude in that way.

So it not only affects your brain, but that affects your

mood, which changes your life, which it decreases your stress,

it helps you sleep better and improves your relationships.

It's incredible to see that when and not only the gratitude side

of it, but those pathways, when looked at in gratitude, they

found that there was a connection of those two in

gratitude and giving back. So not only has God hardwired

us, that gratefulness improves our brain, improves our mental

health, improves our lives. Giving does the same thing when

we take the opportunity to have the more blessed life to give

back. God has created our body in such

a way that it is a reward system for us.

It boosts who we are. It brings us more joy.

And I think it is awesome when the body does things.

That and when science finally figures out things that God has

already said are true, it's always kind of reassuring, like,

hey, you know what? Our bodies are actually

confirming that God is kind of in the business of all the

things he says to do. What's also interesting is that

he found that our brains assign a higher value to things that we

give than things that we receive.

Which is why all those people in that story say, oh man, it was

so much more blessed to give back to Brody, to give back to

this kid rather than just receiving something on my own.

The value of that becomes higher.

And so the secret sauce of the more blessed life is gratitude.

Science has finally figured out what God has already said One

very famous passage that speaks to the science of gratitude and

the science of how God can affect our mental health and our

outlook is in Philippians 4. So Philippians 4-6 and seven

very famous verse closely ties into this.

So it says do not be anxious about anything, but in every

situation by prayer and petition with what does it say with

Thanksgiving, Present your request to God and the peace of

God, which transcends all understanding will guard your

hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

I love that giving thanks brings peace.

When you have anxiety, you offer to the Lord, you give thanks and

God brings peace. So there's one other nerdy study

to researchers Wong and Brown. They did a study on 300 people.

They divided them up into three different groups, and these were

people who were suffering with severe depression or anxiety, so

needing clinical treatment, like very severely down this road.

300 people, they put them in three groups.

The first group they offered just counseling too, so

counseling every week or whatever the rhythm was.

The second group, they offered that counseling, but they also

added in that they would do have some journaling where they would

process all of the negative experiences they had to try to

find healing in that. And the third group they said

once a week, I want you to write a letter of gratitude to

whomever, to whatever. Once a week write a letter.

And it's they did this for 12 weeks.

So in context of what I'm saying, every single one of

these 300 people were blessed. They all received the

counseling, they all received services.

But those people who were in the third bucket who wrote that

letter of gratitude, interestingly, even if they

didn't deliver it to anybody, just the process of writing down

what they're grateful for and expressing gratitude to somebody

else. They showed a significant

improvement in their mental health over just 12 weeks of

time, which is incredible because a lot of times when

you're that deep into severe depression and anxiety, that is

a rope. I'm sorry.

It's a road. It takes time to dig out of that

pit. And it's incredible to see that

every single one of that last group had significantly better

mental health than their counterparts in the study.

The study concluded kind of in their summary, that gratitude

unshackles us from those toxic emotions.

It helps you even if you don't share it with others.

Meaning that gratitude is powerful for you and it's

powerful for your heart and your mind to receive that.

The benefits they deposit over time and it leaves lasting

effects on your brain chemistry like we talked about.

And so gratitude asks, are you simply receiving a blessing?

Are you giving a blessing? Are you just blessed or more

blessed? And your body, your brain, and

even science have figured out why God made us.

He wired us for gratitude. So that's why Here's a story

about gratitude. In 2012, I had the opportunity

to spend 5 weeks in rural Ghana in a hospital as part of a way

to learn more about international health and some

different diagnosis and things as part of a training program I

was doing. And it was a very rural clinic.

It was kind of right on the border of Burkina Faso.

This hospital actually not a clinic and people would walk for

days and days to come. And we would have clinic every

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, like a sun up to sundown, like busy

clinic day kind of situation. And people would walk and it was

first come, first serve. And so they would come, they

would bring their medical record on their head and walk over to

the clinic sometimes for miles, sometimes for days to come and

be seen to get whatever health ailment they needed taken care

of. So they would come in first,

come first serve and sit for hours and hours.

And the clinic of course is very different than clinic that you

may have been to here. There was a lot of different

languages, ethnicities, people because they came from Burkina

Faso, from Togo, from all over Ghana to come and be seen at the

hospital here. And so I saw a lot of common

things, pneumonia, eczema, high blood pressure, those kind of

things are common. And saw a lot of things that you

would not be familiar with here of severe malaria, deadly snake

bites. We didn't have anti venom at the

time, tuberculosis, meningitis. I even saw a guy with tetanus.

So that's real and it's bad, just in case you didn't know.

And one day at clinic, we're nearing the end of the day.

You always knew in the end of clinic day was coming because

this lovely, lovely man would come by with a cart and bring

around ice cold bottles of Coca-Cola.

So, you know, we didn't have anti venom for snakes, but we

had a Coca-Cola in rural Ghana and the man would come by and it

was so hot and bring you the Coke and you're like, OK, a

couple more hours of clinic, we can do this.

And as was typical for the day, this couple sat down and they

handed me their medical records, which were in English because

that's the language of medical records in Ghana.

And they would speak to the nurse in Manpuri, their language

and kind of express what's going on while I review the chart.

And they were, the nurse started to explain to me, well, they are

coming because last week we cared for their child who had

severe malaria. And I was like, oh, thinking

maybe they're having similar symptoms.

Maybe they're here for treatment today.

They look all right, you know, So I was like, well, tell me

more. What symptoms are they having?

And they talk a little bit more. And then her face kind of goes

flat and she pauses and she looks.

She says, well, last week their child was here in the hospital

and he got cerebral malaria, which is malaria in your brain

got. And he passed away.

And in that moment, I'm like, well, OK, like, wow.

And they had come back, walked to the clinic, waited in line

all day to come and to say thank you for caring for my child.

My kid didn't make it, but you guys did everything you could to

try to help my child. It was in that moment in my life

to see these parents facing the worst, most devastating thing

you can face as a parent expressing their gratitude, to

know this is what gratitude really is.

This is really how you live. Grateful gratitude turns what

you have in your circumstances into enough.

Whether that is the highest mountaintop or the lowest

valley, it's a gratitude for the Lord that makes it enough.

And what these parents knew, they knew that they had received

care. They were blessed to have care.

A lot of people in the region didn't have a hospital to go to.

They wouldn't even have that opportunity.

But they were more blessed to come back and to say thank you.

And that's a word for any of us who've experienced devastating

pain, have experienced loss in a couple of really famous verses

in First Thessalonians, Paul talks about this in First

Thessalonians 516 through 18. These are power packed verses,

but instructions for living a grateful life.

And really it's this is what these parents believed in their

deepest darkest valley when their greatest loss.

It is the moment of opportunity to experience God's greatest

presence. Then first Thessalonians it says

rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all

circumstances for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

What I love about this verse is the word this refers back to all

three of those things. This answers the question, what

is God's will for you? What kind of life does God want

you to have? This kind of life?

He wants you to give praise all the time.

He wants you to be constantly connected to Him in prayer, and

He wants you to give thanks in everything that those parents

taught me, that God's not just in control of the easy stuff.

He's writing a story. And in every circumstance where

we find ourselves, we have the opportunity to give thanks and

to praise God. Every circumstance delivered to

us here on earth is an opportunity to know God more

deeply. It's given to us.

It's kind of like a package sent to us that we can then return to

cinder the gift and the gratitude that he's given to us.

So why can we be grateful? A story about gratitude.

And here's the last piece. What does the more blessed life

look like? The top two places that receive

donations are hospitals and schools.

The reason why is because people have received something.

They've gotten great care, they have gotten a teacher who cared

for them, they've learned a lot, they've perceived, and they want

to give back. And I think as believers, as

Christians, people following Jesus, we should be the most

grateful of all people. Because when you pause and have

that recognition like that one leopard did, of how much we have

received, we can't help but be grateful.

We've received the greatest gift of all from Jesus of

forgiveness, A pardon for our sin.

Every sin I've ever done, the ones that I'll do later today,

the ones I'm probably doing right now and don't know it,

every sin from the east to the West, which means it just keeps

going. You can't separate things

farther than east and West. It's God who came our

righteousness on the cross. He no longer counts anything

against us so that we could be made whole and complete.

He says to us the same thing to that leper, go your faith has

saved you, your faith has made you well.

We have received so much, and I believe God is inviting us to

the more blessed life, to the life of gratitude that gives

back to others. God's inviting us to live the

more blessed life. So here's how Paul summarizes

this Second Corinthians 9/6 through 11.

It says, remember this, whoever sows sparingly will also reap

sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap

generously. I'll pause there because so many

of us are looking for a harvest that we never planted.

If we're planting bitterness, if we're planting negativity, if

we're planting just a control or an unwillingness to let God be

used, I don't know why we expect joy and gratitude and generosity

to spring up out of the ground. What we sow is what we'll reap.

Each of you should then give what you've decided in your

heart to give, not reluctantly. You're under compulsion, for God

loves a cheerful giver. But don't miss this next part,

because God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all

things, at all times, having all you need, you will abound in

every good work. As it's written, they have

freely scattered their gifts to the poor.

Their righteousness endures forever.

And now he who supplies the seed to the sower and bread for food

will also supply and increase your store of seed and will

enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

You'll be enriched in every way. God's already saying you're

blessed, you have received, you are enriched in all the things

so that you can be generous on every occasion.

And through US, your generosity will result in Thanksgiving to

God. This is really what generosity

can be, is a ripple effect because God's already saying,

I've given you so much, you've been so blessed.

And when we take that blessed life and we give back to others,

we give our time, we give our care, we resource, we're there

to walk along somebody in a hard season.

When we provide that gratitude back, then all of a sudden that

person now has received a blessing and now they're living

the blessed life with an opportunity from God to then

move into the more blessed life. It's incredible to see in the

economy of God how he ripples out and will take such a small

moment for me that might mean something to somebody else.

And he uses that. It says right there that on

every occasion through US, your generosity will result in

Thanksgiving to God. And what's most incredible about

this is that when you live the more blessed life, whether it's

on this side of eternity, whether it's in heaven, it says

that there's going to be people in heaven thanking God for you.

They're thanking God for your generosity.

They will be thanking you for being a part of our Difference

Maker initiative. They're going to thank you for

the time that you poured into a little kid and real life kids

and they grew up to be a person of faith who made a difference

in their life. They're going to thank you for

putting a sign in your yard so someone could drive by and lead

somebody to Jesus. There's every little thing that

we do that we give back, God can use, and that's the more blessed

life. Every piece of what we do, every

way that we can give thanks back to God, we can give praise, we

can give of ourselves, God is going to use it.

And the fact that you chose the more blessed life, you chose,

the eternal return on investment, you freely

scattered, God gives back to what He's given to you.

So I want you to picture that moment in Luke 17 one more time.

close your eyes. You can see Jesus on a dusty Rd.

He's walking and 10 lepers are shouting.

They're pleading. Please Lord, have mercy on us,

heal us, save us. And Jesus sees them.

He does go and be well, be whole.

As he continues to walk, just the one with tears in his eyes

falls to his knees praising God. Lord, you're so good.

Thank you. Thank you for making me whole.

Just the one came back to give credit.

Just the one gave praise. Just the one gave thanks.

And it brings us back to those two questions that I don't think

I want. And I know I don't ever want

Jesus to ask his first Didn't I heal you?

And maybe that's you today. Gratitude's been hard in this

season for whatever reason, but Jesus is calling today to say,

didn't I make you whole? Didn't I give you everything

that you have? Come back to me, turn back,

return to me. Because I don't want Jesus to

look at my life and wonder where my gratitude went.

When it says to rejoice always in everything, give thanks.

This is the will of God for Diane's life.

Where's the gratitude? It's here.

It's here when I recognize what Jesus is doing or the other

question Jesus asked, where are the other nine?

It echoes through the centuries to be one of those nine who said

I've gotten so much from Jesus, so much healing, so much faith,

but not to return back. You know, real life's not called

to be A1 leper church. We're only one out of 10 come

back to give praise. Only one out of 10 serve.

Only one out of 10 lean in to make a difference.

We're a more blessed church and it starts today by recognizing

and every breath that we breathe, every blessing we

received, every door that's been opened, it was Jesus.

It's the last question. I want to leave you this.

It's been on my mind thinking about these two questions that

Jesus said to the lepers this What if we've become so content

with the blessed life here on earth that we're going to miss

the more blessed opportunity that Jesus has in front of us?

What if we've become so deep into the blessings of this earth

and the things of this world that we miss the blesser

altogether? To say, Lord, I, I know you.

I know you, but I haven't gone deep with you.

I haven't really known you. I let you save me from my sins.

But God, I want to know you more deeply.

I want to be walking in step with the one who gave the

blessing. And so I think that today is an

opportunity that we all get to come back to Jesus.

For some of us, it's just to walk back, to say, to turn back

and give God the credit for what he's doing in our lives.

It's incredible. And maybe for some of you,

you've never taken that first step to say, Lord, I need to

trust you. I need to be healed.

I need you to save me. So let's pray, God, you're the

one who's given us everything, and now you invite us to respond

to that. God, I think about a first group

of us that today we've been living in a way that's not

grateful. We haven't expressed gratitude

for every season. God, we haven't rejoiced always.

And God, today I think you're inviting us to be the one that

comes back to say, come back to recognize what I've done, to

recognize how much I love you. When we get an opportunity today

to say, God, I need to spend my days, my time giving you the

praise and giving you the thanks that you deserve.

Maybe today is your moment to come back, just like that one

leper. If that's you here today and

you're like, you know what? I need to come back with

gratitude. I need to come back to the Lord

with a grateful life. I need to sow seeds of joy and

gratitude and generosity in my heart so they can rise up in

everything that I do. I want God to do something in my

life today. If that's you, I just invite you

to raise your hand. I'd love to pray for you.

I won't call you out just to say today, God, I'm turning back to

you with gratitude in my heart, with thanks.

I want to give it back to you because I want the more blessed

life today that you look to pray for you today to say, Lord, we

thank you for this beautiful picture of your gratitude, of

our gratitude towards you. God, your grace, I thank you

that we can see your grace in every pocket of every corner of

our lives. God, I pray that you open our

eyes to that so we can recognize you in everything we're doing.

God, that we would lean in and be people who give you credit

and that we would be people who give you the praise and the

Thanksgiving you deserve. God, help us to come back to you

today. Say, God, I love you and I'm

following you. I'm walking in step.

You've healed me, you've saved me, You make me whole.

God, I'm giving it to you with open hands.

I surrender my life. I surrender all you've given me

to give back to you with gratitude and praise.

And there's one more group of people here today.

So you know what? I don't know this Jesus.

Maybe I was walking along a path as a leper outcasted the least

likely. To be here today.

But there's something about this Jesus who brings healing,

something about this wholeness that I need, and something about

having a grateful heart that stems from a healed soul that I

want a piece of today. I feel it rising up in my chest.

If that's you, I feel the goosebumps on my arms to say

today is the day of salvation. Today is the day that I can turn

back not just from myself, God, but turn towards you, turn

towards Jesus, the only Son of the Father who gave himself, who

sacrificed for us to make us whole, to make us heal, to take

our sins. If you need to meet that Jesus

today, this is a place that's safe for you to say.

I want to commit my life to him. If that's you, I'd ask you to

raise your hand. I'd love to pray for you if

today you would say, I need this Jesus.

I need this wholeness. I need this gratitude in my

heart. If that's you, raise your hand.

I'd love to pray for you. And actually, I'd love you to

pray along with me. It's not the prayer that saves

you, but your heart towards following God.

You lift up your hand and you'd say, God, everything I have is

from you. And today I'm coming back with

things. I want to restore the gratitude

in my heart by coming to you. God, today I turn back to you.

You have the forgiveness for my sins.

You have the victory I need in my life.

God, your sacrifice has made me whole.

I trust you and I ask you to come into my life today in Jesus

name. Amen.

Hey, let's give it up for everybody today who has turned

towards Jesus. Who's grateful today?

Amen. Sometimes you forget just the

simplicity of the Gospel, how much Jesus truly loves us and

that foreigner like the least likely person to get it got it

and did not get distracted with all the world and came back to

Jesus and remember what happened.

He got back to Jesus. It said you are made whole.

Like he's completely restored. It's questionable if the other

nine are even saved. That's what blows my mind about

the story. And then I want to say as a

church, like thank you for your gratitude, as a leader, as the

pastor of the church, like we are extremely blessed.

I hope you guys feel blessed because we're living out a lot

of what Diane just talked about today.

Like you're returning to the Lord and following him.

It's just one of the amazing seasons.

But for some of you guys, you actually came back to Lord.

Like you recognize what you already did for you.

Like he has already done the work on the cross.

And some of you today just put your faith in Christ.

And I would encourage you guys, those who called on Jesus to let

us know we don't want you to do this alone really.

You're really not going to make it very far to be honest with

you. I'm going to be praying with you

and encouraging you and building you up and inviting you to the

family, just cheering you on. So if you can't just take that

card as that commit life to Christ.

We truly want to help you every step of the way to become part

of what God has for you. Just the purpose and the

direction and knowing your faith.

And so we'll mail you a book and there's a Bible on the way out

in the red bag, all that things. But I'll encourage you guys to

get baptized as well. There's a lot of people who come

to Christ lately, just God just moving.

But if you start relation with Jesus recently or have not been

baptized by no Jesus, if you're baptized as a child before it

knew Jesus, I would encourage you to get baptized.

We're baptized in the last son of the year is December 28th.

We do something very special. We started this last year.

It's called a end of the year social and it's a 10:00 only.

We have a whole spread of food. I don't know if we're doing a

charcuterie or whatever is that we're doing.

Holly's giving. Yes, she is OK.

We commit to that right now and we're going to she's like OK,

what else you guys want me to say?

We can get it in. We have table.

It's just a big hangout. We celebrate just what all guys

doing and we're going to baptize this year and I'll encourage

you. This is a great moment because

baptism is really a picture of your freedom.

It's I was dead and now I'm alive and sometimes you think

baptism like you're like a good or bad person.

Tell me good like you're a check box Christianity like I'm doing

all the right things. Jesus already do the right

things. Amen.

And we are just letting the world know.

I'm ashamed of that. And I would encourage you to

step in. You can let us know on the card,

there's a blue card on the chair.

If you're interesting and baptized, we will help you with

that as well. We do an awesome like giant tank

here and it's just a lot of fun. But it's really you to step out

in the faith and it's the first act of obedience that God asked

us to do. And so I'd encourage you guys to

jump in with that. And just in this year, like in

this awesome high note, nothing greater than celebrating what

God is already doing in people's lives.

Those come to Christ and so I would say to you guys are newer

today or new today. Thanks for being here.

Hope we love you being here. I hope you felt welcome.

Hope you felt the presence of God.

I hope you are seeing some community.

Just know we love you back next week.

Amen. Real life.

So give it up for everybody's new day love know we love them.

Love me back. I'll be able to follow God with

your walk if you can just let us know that you can today

introduce yourself. There's a on the card.

You can just say I'm new. Bring it to your booth.

Love to give you a gift and just honor you.

I'll be out there as well. Love to connect with you If you

get a chance to meet you yet, I'll be kind of buried back at

our soundboard today, which has been fun.

Come on somebody if it was too loud.

I don't care. I love you, it's all good.

I was going to say it. You know, if you call real life

home, I would encourage you guys all new church also commitment

card. I would say first of all, thank

you to all of you who have committed to our difference

maker for us to find our first permanent space.

It is huge. It's making a difference.

I'm really, really excited. I will let you guys know if you

missed the last few weeks or maybe you haven't committed yet

been praying, thinking or a little nervous about being what

should I do? I would encourage you to be a

part of what God is doing because it's going to be a very

special part of our church and you're going to look back and

say I sowed some seeds and I know a lot of people a little

nervous to step out. I would encourage you, it's a

two year commitment. So you think over the course of

104 weeks, right? You get like, okay, Lord, what

can I do in 104 weeks? You know, because you may not

like I don't have a lot, but Lord, you bless me throughout

those seasons and I can not maybe go to Starbucks or I can

cut back on going out to eat, which cost me about $75 every

time with my family just one time, right?

I could be like, OK, it's 75 months or maybe I got I always

get a tax return, Lord willing. Come on, praise God, Hallelujah.

Maybe the part of that I don't know what it is, but just the

Lord maybe prompted me like I got to play part of the story.

You may feel like you don't have a lot, but it's not about what

you have. It's what what you do what you

have. It's just about honor the Lord.

Amen. It's not about writing a big

check. I mean, it's literally about

like Lauren, be faithful to you and play part of the story.

And I would say there there's room for a church to step into

that a lot of you have, but there's a lot of us that haven't

that encourage you. If you haven't done that, just a

step. It doesn't have to like you're

not have to impress anybody. Don't have to press yourself.

Amen. You just have to say, Lord, what

would it take for me to be faithful to this?

And it just may be a small step and just makes a big difference.

It takes all of us to play a part of story and be honest with

you. I'm already kind of like real

deal of mind of places. I'm actually, I shouldn't tell

you this, but I'm skip tracing some dude this week to find out

who owns this thing. So you can be like, hey man, I'm

just curious. That's going down this week, you

know, and you may just be like, no, it's not for sale.

Or may say maybe it is. I don't you never know.

Amen. So I'm like, you might miss out.

Like if you're like, man, we get somewhere.

You're like, man, I wish we'd just done something, you know,

like play part of the story. And some of us has means and

abilities that just right there we could do something.

Some of us like, I don't know, I have to kind of like cut back a

little bit. I can do it.

I'd encourage you, please make generosity a part of your

worship. Like that one leper, like Diane

talked about it. It would be, it would be just

sad to meet Jesus and Jesus say, where are the others?

Where is the other nine? Like that's such a great point.

Like why didn't they come back? That was the first thing Jesus

said did not heal all of you guys.

Like we can play part of the story.

It's not just generosity, but generosity's worship and play

part of the story. So on the 14th, we're going to

celebrate big. So in two Sundays we are going

to reveal like what God has done through our people and how much

people are committed to this project.

We're going to tell stories. There's so many amazing stories

already to share of teenagers that have ridden thousands of

dollars on cards to adults, the single moms, new givers, people

who barely been coming here for a week and 1/2 or two or two

weeks and have committed. There's so many just amazing

stories. People have been faithful with

the just being here the whole time and saying, I'm going to

step in people just going a little further.

I mean, just a step of faith and it so we're just some of those

stories. Amen and say, what can God do

together? So the 14th is our kind of our

day. Like we're trying to kick this

thing off. Well, right, like maybe I've

stored resources. Maybe it's like this is our best

one time gift kind of Sunday just to kind of kick off this

whole difference maker in a big way and just see what the Lord

can do. So I'd encourage just to be

praying about that. We're really excited about it.

I'll say thank you. I'm very grateful.

I've been probably avoiding the season of a building initiative

for a long time because I've been like, ow scary, right?

But it's also like, Lord, we, we cannot stay here forever.

Like we're blowing air conditioning on us today in this

building. I'm wearing a vest.

This is my first time wearing this vest and by God's grace may

be the last. David, I'm just saying.

But anyway, I would encourage you guys to be faithful.

Lord's giving you. We'll be collecting off here in

a minute. You can see all the ways to

give. We do stocks and stuff.

You're thinking about your end. I will encourage you.

You don't have to give on the difference maker like

consistently every week. Like I had some people I've

talked to. It's like, man, I can't do it

all the week. If it's sporadic income over the

next two years, you kind of take a gander what that is and just

give it as you can. A lot of minds can be pretty

sporadic, Amen. Like you think I'm putting out

$100,000, just my number and give it a weekly.

You're out of your mind, Amen. You don't get too excited next

week when the number doesn't change because I'm working on

it, you know, but just play part of the story.

And if you need help in this season, because I know that a

lot of us are struggling, it's just holidays, bills that you

know, the the great real estate taxes, all the things, right?

Property taxes just reach in the bucket, take out loose cash for

you and your family. Just get help.

If you need something more than that, come find me.

Come find Holly, come find our team.

We'd love to help you and work with you behind the scenes.

So if I come before you, just blessed today, God bless our

church. God, we are grateful for what

you've done for us. God, we just come back to you

and just give thanks. And God, you bring wholeness to

us. So God, we leave here whole.

We leave here complete. We leave here forgiven.

We live. We leave here on mission with

that joy that Diane talked about that is so much better and

receiving but to give God. So we give our lives back to you

God. We are the New Testament

sacrifice God, we lay ourselves down for you.

So God we give you praise with your glory.

God bless the church, pray Jesus name, everybody said Amen.

Man, well, man, what a blessed day in the House of God this

morning. And hey, before you guys go, I

just want to put a couple things on your radar real quick.

The first one is this, man, we would love for you to celebrate

Christmas at Real Life Church with us.

We're going to have two identical gatherings on

Christmas Eve on the 24th right here at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM.

So invite out your family and friends.

It's going to be a beautiful time together.

And the next one is this. We're starting a new series next

week called Here I am to worship and we're really going to dive

in just the power of personal worship and really what it looks

like when we draw near to God really with our whole heart.

And as you leave this week, I want to read the scripture over

you. And just like Diane had

mentioned, the one leper man who remembered and returned to give

thanks to Jesus, may we be people this week that can pause

and reflect and remember all the good things that God has done

for us in return to give him thanks.

So let's check out these verses. The first one, Psalm one, O 3,

two through 4, praise the Lord my soul, and forget not all his

benefits. Who forgives all your sins and

heals all your diseases? Who redeems your life from the

pit? And then Psalm 107, one through

2, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good man.

His love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord

tell their story. Amen.

Well, hey, if you or your family need prayer this morning,

there'll be somebody up here at the front of the stage love to

pray with you and for you this week.

We'd love to see you back next week right here at 9:00 and

10:45. And remember, whoever finds

Jesus discovers real life and purpose.

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