EP 23: SCC Savor, Month 6, Days 7-13

Chris: Well, welcome back to the SCC Saver Podcast. I'm one of your co-hosts, Alan Smith, and I'm with my friend, associate pastor, family pastor, friend and brother in Christ. Chris Solomon. the anticipation. Weren't you just a minute ago telling me that it's biblical to hate surprises? Dude, anticipation trumps surprises every day of the week, all day long. So what do you think about kind of the Old Testament? Like the whole point is like it's anticipating something greater. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's it's anticipation is way better than surprises. Like I I I gen genuinely dislike being surprised. Okay. Like I know actually my wife has been planning some kind of surprise for me this summer. I don't know when it's coming or what it is. Uh-huh. And I'm just like annoyed by it. Like and I love her that she's like she loves me enough to plan a surprise for me. But I'd much rather just be like, I know something good is coming and I can't wait for it. And that's just like the whole Bible. It's like the Lord keeps promising something better is coming. And the people of God are just like, We are waiting for that day. We're looking forward to it. And so so I you can't help I mean I I'm not seeing your point of why these surprises are anti biblical. I mean, isn't isn't Christ kind of a surprise in a way? Yeah, I mean, that's true. But But anyway, you can hate surprises all you want. I think anticipation is a is a better thing. Okay. What is what does Claire think about surprises? She loves them. If she's planning one, she likes them. I don't know, man. We we've all this I'm I'm like thrown off at At this point in our marriage, because we've always been like super practical. We've always been like, okay, what do you want for Christmas? Tell me exactly what you want. Okay. That way we don't waste our money. We give each other like helpful gifts that we're actually excited about that we're looking forward to. Yeah. That we're anticipating is coming. Uh-huh. So this is a new gear for me. I've never experienced this. We'll see what happens. Okay. The surprise. Right now I'm anticipating. Marriage is surprising. It is. This is a new turn. I'm also anticipating. This upcoming fall, something I already know that's happening. Right. What is that? I'm going in September to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes. H. IO. Take on Texas, the Longhorns, horns down. Horns down. And and it's gonna be a Buckeye takeover in Austin. I'm going to visit my sister and watch the Buckeyes wind. Are you gonna go nuts? I'm a I'm a buck nut. You're a buck now. I was gonna say but Ohio State fan I'm we have a lot of Ohio people in Midwest, but they probably don't get that. Like when I said are you gonna go nuts was a lot funnier than they actually realized. Right. Yeah. So you're gonna go nuts. because it's not a surprise, but you're anticipating something good. I can't I mean all summer long I get to look forward to it. And then when I'm there, I'm just would it be surprise if the buckeyes lost? Yeah, obviously. So would it be a ruined trip? No. No. Go get to see my sister. It'd be great. Good. Well, anyway Let's talk about anticipation a little bit. anticipation in the old testament is actually maybe that's a theme that you could talk about when you talk about the old testament general. Anticipation. And then in the New Testament, anticipation fulfilled. Yeah. So what we see and we're hopping into our month six, days seven through thirteen, first Kings nine through twenty two. So we finish that book. We're gonna talk about Psalm one nineteen, forty one, to the end of Psalm one nineteen and one of four. We're gonna talk about the Gospel of Luke, chapter two through four, and then Ephesians three, fourteen, through the end of the book, and chapter six. So let's talk about first Kings. What has been going on thus far is we're seeing Solomon's glory. Last episode we talked a lot about Solomon's glory. and we talked about that anticipation theme of like, hey, Solomon's Glory, his wisdom. He's rising. He's kind of kind of this ideal king like figure who has all this glory, all this wisdom, all this grandeur. He builds the temple, right? He's got the covenant. he's obeying the covenant that God has made with his people, with Israel. and then such that Israel's rising to the point where they're attracting the nations. Yeah. They're they're supposed to be a light to the nations, the nations are coming to them to see the glory of God. Yeah, exactly right. They're like, you know, of course the New Testament talks about the the city set on a hill. Right. Right. So this is Israel at this moment, under Solomon's kingship and under his rule. but then we take a dark turn. so they're coming they're they're a light to the nations, but then Solomon declines. and he declines for a specific reason. and Chris, what was the reason why Solomon declines? Yeah. Actually going back to the anticipation idea, you know, since Moses' time. There was the people of God have been anticipating that they would have a kingdom and there would be a king who would rule over the kingdom. And in Deuteronomy seventeen, God's word says that when you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it, and then say, I will set a king over me, like the nations that are around me, you may indeed set a king over you, whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is your not your brother. Only this is what the king must do. He must not acquire many horses for himself, or cause people to return to Egypt to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, you shall never return that way again. And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire many. For himself excessive silver and gold. That's Deuteronomy seventeen. Yeah. And when we get to chapter eleven of First Kings, what's happening? Solomon does exactly all of that. Right. Acquires for himself many goods and acquires for himself many wives. Infamously, everyone knows. that Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned away his heart because Solomon, he had many wives, he went after the false gods. He went after idolatrous worship and he apostatized. as in he wasn't like the heart of David his father who was a kingly man who also fell. But Solomon now does exactly what Deuteronomy forbids. And then what happens is the Lord raises up adversaries to bring about his demise for that very reason, for s forsaking the law of Moses. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, and you see that with Solomon, you know He he did some amazing things in the front and built the temple and and it says that his heart was not wholly true to the Lord. Mm-hmm. So so you know, he's not like David, and he does turn aside, but but you see that he's not wholly turned aside from the Lord. Yeah. And so but yeah, it's it this is what happens. His eyes have been taken off the Lord and have been turned to the left and to the right, and they've been distracted and It's just how easy it is to be devoted to the Lord and then how quickly you can get off of of fixing your eyes on Him and being wholly devoted to Him. Yeah, but I think what's encouraging, even with Solomon, who's now breaking God's law and is going to be cursed, at the same time, the Lord says, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David, my servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen. So you see God keep his covenant and his faithful promises to say, No, I'm still gonna keep one, one tribe. and but then we see right after this is the splitting of the kingdom. And so this is a big point in Israel's history was the splitting of the kingdom. Yes, sin sin has consequences. Sin has consequences. That's right. So so Solomon, his sin brings consequence to God's people. Right. And thus the leaders of the of Israel go, the people of God go, the people Follow him into his sin. And and and I love the way that chapter twelve, verse fifteen talks about this. It says, So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord spoke by Elijah Elijah the Sholanite to Jeroboam the son of Nebot. So there's this tension together of God's sovereignty and also The responsibility of us that we are held responsible of our sin before the Lord and it has consequences in here. It breaks the people of God into two two nations. Yep. Yeah, let's talk about the two nations just just briefly a little bit. So we have we have the northern tribe of Israel, southern tribe of Judah. And if you know the rest of the story, how how it plays out is all the northern kings are bad. every single so every single one of them is bad. But then in the southern in the southern tribe. we actually have some some good kings which we're introduced to one at the end of kings, But yeah, so we see all these northern kings sealed into their apostasy, which is what happens is Jeroboam sealed them into their apostasy and that they would have no good kings, consequences for their sin. Yeah, I think you know He sinned and he made the people of Israel to sin. Yeah. And that's sort of what happens in the northern kingdom. And one thing that I kind of picked up on as I was reading this section is is they wanted worship to be convenient. Like it's good. They didn't want to have to travel all the way down there. And they they they wanted to have, you know, places to worship in their own, like near them. They wanted it to be easy and and not to cost them anything. Yeah, true. And and the heart of worship is that we're giving over everything to the Lord no matter what it costs us. We we there's nothing we want more than to worship the Lord. And it doesn't matter if it costs us our convenience or we have to sacrifice that. And and I think like we wanted to talk a little bit about how this fits in even the entire book of first Kings and what we're seeing here, how it fits in with our five currents. Yeah. And so we were we were talking about offline before we started, just about how how we think about savoring God. Mm-hmm. And the antithesis of that in the book of first Kings. So so tell me what you think about Yeah. What we see in the Northern Kingdom. Yeah, exactly. In the Northern Kingdom, the very antithesis would be idolatry, to take your eyes off of the one true God, the one living God, and turn your eyes towards other gods. So when you turn you know, and I th I think idolatry looks a little bit different to than today. Most people aren't, at least in the church. Right. Christians aren't. Go going and worshiping idols in the Western. In yeah, in the Western church. But they are going to worship other things, whether it be money, fame, power, success, all those things. The idols of the heart. The idols of the heart. They they don't they turn from savoring God to savoring these things and it steers you off track. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. And I think so what's so prominent in the book of First Kings, with all these kings that that are disobeying God, it's that they're disobeying his word. Mm-hmm. The the prophets come and they're like, hey. Bro, turn back, listen to the voice of the Lord. They're like, remember Deuteronomy 17 when it told you not to do this? Yeah. And and it's it requires sort of a a humbling of the king to be like, I need the Lord and his voice to to govern, to guide, to lead me. And and so that's that's savoring God. Yeah. Right. Savoring God is I want God, I want his way, I want his word. And and what happens when you don't savor God? Well, look at the destruction and consequences that happens in in in the nation of Israel in first kings. Yeah, and that's a great point. and then Jehosaphat, who we're introduced to our first good king, does that. He goes, No, we need to go back to the Lord and hear his instruction. And so that's the contrast of like, hey, we got Jehoshaphat who who reigns in J in Judah, and he goes back and says, No, we need to hear what the Lord says and walk according to his ways, and then he actually ends up being a good king. So you're right, you see. Jehosaphat, who does look to the Lord, and then the apostasy of Israel in the northern when they take their eyes off of the Lord, how they go into their apostasy. It's good. Well, speaking of the word, you know, we're move on moving on from kind of first kings there. Psalm 119 is all about God's word. the whole psalm was just beautiful. Last episode we actually talked about, hey, if you've kind of lost your delight for the word, read through and pray through this psalm. Lord, renew. my heart. Help me to know that it is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. and so yeah, well someone tame is just beautiful talks about the word of God and why we just love the word so much, why we love his decrees, his precepts, what he's commanded, because it's good. He says in 89, forever, O Lord, your word is firmly fixed in heavens. Your faithfulness endures to all generations. You have established the earth and it stands fast. It reminds us of God's promises, and that's actually something as I was reading Through Psalm 119 and praying was just my soul longs for your salvation. I hope in your word. My eyes long for your promise. The promises of God are written in his word. They're on the heart of him. He's not forsaken them. They're never changing. There are so many things that change in a life. In the us in a life that is filled with so much uncertainty and doubt, God's word is certain and it promises salvation for all those who are in Christ. And so yeah, we just uphold hold the word a little bit. And you want to talk a little bit about man, how does the the Bible's talk about itself affect our daily lives. Yeah. Well, and even just as you were talking right now, I just thinking about like how as you're reading, it's it's as much of a prayer as anything because it it's it's just like how when we read our membership commitment at our members' meetings, that it's an aspirational document. It's like a prayer. Yeah. It's like Yeah, it's great. You know, like Lord, this is what we want to be about as a church. It's good. And as you read Psalm one nineteen, you're you're like, this is what I want my heart And my mind to believe and to feel. And just as you were reading those things. And I was meditating on Psalm on Psalm 119 on on verses one three to one five. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth? I mean, look that's true, but also Lord make that true. Yeah, that's Yeah, that's good. Though your precepts I get through your pre precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. Yeah. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. And Psalm 119, it's emblematic of why we do ministry the way we do here at San Diego Community Church. Tell me a little bit more about that. It's like, why do we do anything? Why do we do youth ministry the way we do youth ministry? Why we do why do we do our Sunday morning services? Why do we do adult Bible classes? Why do we do anything the way we do? And it's governed and guided by God's word. Yeah, that's good. And and so we just we just firmly believe. That that it's safe and it's good and it's sweet to be grounded, to be, to be everything to be led by God's word. We want to worship God the way he's called us to worship him. And and we want these these statements to be true. We want his word to be sweet to us and we want his word to help us to hate every false way. Yeah, it's good. Going back to the kings, what happens when they loved his word? They they they they prospered in God's land the way he called them to. Yeah. What happened when they rejected God's word? They started following the false way instead of hating it. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, God's word really adjusts our palate. Yeah. Right? When you taste the the word that's sweeter than driven of the honey honeycomb, you start to hate to hate every false way. Everything else tastes like garbage. Yeah. It's like when you go on like a you know, you go on one of those diets where you're like, Okay, I'm not gonna have any sugar for thirty days or whatever. Yeah. And then you taste like fake sugar and you're like, that's disgusting. It's na yeah, it's like you eat like a cosmic brown and you're this tastes like plastic. The same thing happens, right? When you read scripture, it's like, yeah. It it helps us to see, the thing that we've been like chewing on, it's actually nasty. Yeah, it's actually nasty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, regarding, you know, how the word affects our ministry and just life. one of my seminary professors said, you better resolve in your heart right now your view of scripture and the word if you're gonna commit your life to this. Right. I'm just like that's so good. But that's not just true for people who are gonna teach the word. That's true of every single Christian. You better resolve in your heart your view of God's word to live your life. Yeah. Yeah. Amen. I I think it's just no matter who you are or where you are, you have to keep reminding yourself that it's the word that does the work. It's the word that does the work. Because we're constantly being tempted to think that it's something else that works. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Trust that the Holy Spirit, his breathed out word is working in your heart and he is changing you through it. It's good. Speaking of the word, the word of God made flesh. Now, of course, that's John's language. but the gospel writer, Luke, is gonna talk about the word, the word incarnate in the word f made flesh. Of course, that's Jesus Christ. And and what we've been picking up in Luke is the promises of the Messiah, right? Anticipation. We were talking about this thread of anticipation. Well, the anticipation of a messiah who's here. And so Luke is picking this up. and one of the major things about about Luke that we see is it's written not as Jewish and it's written a lot towards Gentiles. We're seeing that, hey, this promised Messiah is for everyone, for the nations. Where do you see that? Like what makes you think that? So Jesus he's he's presented at at the temple, and then you have a genealogy that takes him all the way back to Adam. Mm-hmm to the first human, this the son of Adam, the son of God. And this is this beautiful genealogy. It goes through all these different people and when Jesus began his ministry, and then now he takes them all the way back to Adam, the fulfillment of humanity, the second Adam, who is Jesus. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You know, in the book of Matthew, the book of genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. And here in Luke, he goes all the way back to creation. the son of Adam, the son of God. Mm-hmm. And so there's certainly a going to be a Gentile angle on this book. And and I think that all throughout the book we're seeing that Jesus is gonna in especially in Luke spend time with the far out, the outcast, the least likely, the unexpected. Yeah, let's talk a little bit about again, kind of a more Gentile angle or an out outcast, outskirt people. And this is exactly why Jesus came, because he's gonna be the king. Remember kings and first kings, none of those kings were gonna do it. So God had to send a better king who is this king who's gonna bring in this new kingdom. and actually he says that I came with to bring good news, to preach good news. This is why he came, to preach it to all the people. he says, I baptize you with water. This is John the Baptist, but he who is mighter than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to undy, he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit in fire. And then he's baptized with the Holy Spirit. And then he says, This is my beloved son with whom I'm well pleased. So God the Father inaugurates Jesus' ministry here and proclaims it and ratifies it. And then we get into the fulfillment of Jesus's ministry, or sorry, the beginning of Jesus' ministry, which says In 17 in chapter 4, 17, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written. And this is Isaiah 61. It's a quotation. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering the sight of the blind to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. So Bro, yeah. Don't forget the next section. He rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant. And he sat down and he said, Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. Yeah. And then he said, Podcast over. Mike. Mike down. Yeah. It's crazy. Like he read the scripture and he's like, This is about me. Yeah. And I'm here. And it's and it starts with me. Yeah. Yeah. The Jesus drop. Yeah. The inauguration. He's like, It it's it. I'm him. I'm here right now. Look at me. This is the kingdom. This is this this is what what God has sent me to do. Yeah. And and it shows, I think all of scripture shows that Jesus is the greatest prophet, he's the greatest priest, and he's the greatest king. Yeah, that's exactly right. And and it shows here especially that he's the prophet. He's the one he's the messenger sent from God to proclaim, right? Mm-hmm. He he opens up the the scroll of the prophecy and he interprets and he says, Yeah, let me proclaim to you what God's kingdom is all all about. And it and it starts with me. Mm-hmm. So he's the true prophet. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, that's beautiful. Yeah, he's the true prophet and he came to preach the good news. And the book of Luke, i out of this chapter four, the whole book of Luke, one of the major themes of Luke is all about salvation. And it's all about what God is doing to bring people back to himself. That's why one of the verses that everybody knows from Luke is in chapter nineteen, where where Jesus says The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Yeah. I mean, talk about the five currents at SCC. Yeah, that's great. Seek the lost current number four. Seek the lost, right? Yeah. The whole the whole book of Luke, starting in chapter four when he begins his ministry all the way through, Jesus has come to seek the lost, right? And and we imitate our savior. We we are as as his children are being sent out to seek the lost and to to help proclaim. that message that he he started proclaiming when he first walked the earth. Yeah, that's great. Jesus came to seek and save the lost and s set the captives free. And then moving forward to that, to the book of Ephesians, and now we're seeing the word, the message of this kingdom, it's advancing, it's it's being proclaimed. And as we've been studying the book of Ephesians, we've been talking about a huge theme, which is unity in Christ, which where there's union with Christ, God's salvation, union with Christ. and then we see This huge section, which we're gonna talk a lot about, which is the unity in the body of Christ and spiritual maturity and what it looks like for the church to be unified in Christ. Yeah. And just before we get talking about, I think this book is super i theological, but it's also crazy practical, which we're gonna talk about. But but one of the just big overarching things about Ephesians that maybe y'all talked about last week is that the first three chapters. You know, there's hardly any commands. Right. Yeah, there's one, I think one command in the first three chapters. And then it's it's all gospel. It's all this is what God has done in Christ. Yep. This is what he's done to seek and save the lost. Yeah. And this is what he's done to break down barriers, right? To bring my people together. And then he's like, now that God has done this, this is what you're to look like. Yeah. And it starts in chapter four with maintain. Yeah. It's not go earn your salvation. It's now that you've been saved. Maintain the unity that you've been that you've been given by Jesus. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And he and here and here's what he wants, Paul for the church at Ephesus. Rather, he says, you know, he actually he talks about he gives apostles, prophets, evangels, shepherds, and teachers to equip the saint for the work of ministry for the building up of the body of Christ. Right. So we have the body of Christ, and he says that they're supposed to grow up in every way into him who is ahead, into Christ, from whom the whole body joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, which each part is working properly, makes the body grow so it builds its up self up in love. And the church, when it's unified, is a it's like a steamboat engine of love and holiness for the glory of Christ. Choo choo yeah. Tell me, tell me, man, you know, we talked a little bit about this. Just tell me what your thoughts are. On unity and diversity. Yeah. Because in the beginning of chapter four, it's all about maintaining the unity Jesus bought. But then as it works its way through, that that unity is it's demonstrated in diversity and all the different parts doing what what they're supposed to be doing. Yeah. Yeah. Each person has a different function, different gift, different personalities, different upbringing, different story, different testimony. But there's one unifier, and it's the gospel of Jesus Christ. And when it comes to Together, it's it's it's a beautiful picture of the unity that Christ has purchased. So tell me, like let's just get really practical. Like in your life, what sort of like giftings do you feel like the Lord's given you uniquely that the body suffers if you don't if you don't live those out in the church? Yeah, that's a good question. I think one of the biggest things that And and and yeah, and to follow up, how does that support the unity and not like fracture the unity? Yeah, that's great. I think Early, early, earliest on right when I got saved as a freshman in college when I was 18, 19 years old. I was really I just loved to tell people about Jesus. Like everyone I could talk to on my college campus, on my team, I would just tell about Christ. And I remember there this one with one Easter Sunday at church, we had like had like twenty five guys from my team come. It was like I know I had like two or three. but like, hey, I had like one like twenty-five people come and hear the gospel of Christ. so yeah, I'd just say like, hey, like bringing evangelism, sp gift of evangelism, and bringing that into the people, bringing people into the fold so that it can be nurtured and and loved in in Christ. So yeah, I I would just say I think think that. Yeah. Tell me like yeah, how how does this passage sort of like how should our church think about unity and diversity? Yeah. Yeah, I think our our church should recognize I I think what I'll talk about a temptation first. I think there's so much temptation to compare yourself one another so much. man, they just they they're super gifted in evangelism. Yeah. Man, I'm the worst. Like I'm the worst evangelist. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I would say don't be tempted about, hey, I'm not as good as them, it's not as good as them, but praise God for their gifts and then see where the Lord has really gifted you and then use them and in fan into flame those gifts and and recognize that hey they have a different function different role so I would say I would say that is praise God for other gifts and then recognize your gifts ask other believers hey where are you some giftings that you're seeing in me and how can I use this to serve the body, serve the church. Right. Yeah. So so watch out for the temptation to compare. but then also the the positive the challenge to the church is like anybody at SEC who's reading Ephesians four should think What am I doing? What what what gift am I bringing to serve the church, to build up the church in Christ, to help see the church grow into maturity? Yeah. And how how am I using the gifts the Lord's given me to bring unity to the church? How would you encourage our church to to think about unity and diversity and bringing their to to fulfill the the mission of the church, which is to proclaim Christ to all the nations and to build us up in love and holiness? I would just say get in the game. Yeah. Like Jeremy said that before, get in the game, get your jersey like dirty. You know, like it it's easy to sit around and be like, I wish this would happen or that would happen. But if you see a need, just like fill it, you know? Get in the game and fill see a need, fill a need. Yeah, that's right. You don't have to wait for the coach to call on you. Right. You can just this is not you're not gonna get a p two minute penalty for getting on the ice when you're not supposed to. You can just run out run out there and get in the game. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, I think And I think Ephesians is is a cool book because it it tells us, it spells this out specifically, like chapter four through six. It gets nitty-gritty. Like you know use your words to build up, right? Like maintain unity by not letting corrupting talk come out of your mouth. Yeah. Right. but only for such as building up as it fits occasion. Yeah. Yeah. You what's what's really good in in five when again he's talking about this practice. Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children and walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us. A fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. You know, this is just really cool because it's like be an imitator of God. And so how you do that is you have to know who God is. You have to see what he's done. You to keep your nose in scripture and be like, man, this is what God has done for us. This is how Christ has loved us, and he gave himself up as an offering. And the New Testament very clearly offers this picture. That we are living sacrifices. So it's like, hey, you yourself are the sacrifice. You know, we're not bringing bulls rams and herds. It's you. You sacrifice yourself, second current sacrifice self, of our church to build up the body. Mm-hmm. And I love that too, because it avoids moralism. Like we're so tempted to just be like, What do I need to do? What should or shouldn't I do? And give me the checklist so that can be in a spiritual good list. And Ephesians is such a good heart check for like why are you doing what you're doing? And is it is the should or should not as the ought coming from the fact that you love Jesus and you love the gospel of Jesus? And because everything we do or don't do should be grounded in the gospel. That's exactly right. You want to so maybe even to to walk walk all the way back of like, hey, how would you encourage someone? Look, look, look to Christ. Just see what he's done for you and you can't help but respond. And God, I want to give you my life and love you and love others. Yeah. And I think also just remembering that this is like, you know, obviously our many of the people in our church know this. It's a journey. And you look at Ephesians and you're like, you could be easy to be convicted and be like, I'm not doing any of this. Like my life doesn't look like this. The putting off and the putting on. Like I wish my life looked more like the the putting on than. The putting off list that it does right now. But it's a journey and it's a process and it takes time. And we all want to be walking in a way that's in step with the spirit. And I think that's what's actually cool, but the end of chapter five. So I want to talk about that with you. Is what does it mean to walk in step with the spirit? What does it mean to be filled with the spirit? Right. Yeah. What does that look like? Yeah. So look at verse 19 in chapter five. Be filled with the spirit. Addressing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart. Wow, Pastor Bobby's about to be stoked. He's like, what does it mean to be filled with the spirit? It means sing loud and come be in the choir. Join the choir. Uh-huh. Join the choir. You want to be filled with the spirit? Join the choir. Let's get after music ministry. Uh-huh. Hey, mature Christians and and f mature followers of the Lord, spirit-filled Christians. They love to sing and they want to make God their song. Yeah. And and then further, what does it mean to be a spirit filled Christian? Like what does it look like to be filled with the Spirit? Verse 20. Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. So there's two aspects of that, right? The idea of gratitude and then submission. Yeah. Yeah. Gratitude being having a joyful spirit, a thankful spirit, and then submission to one another for the greater good of others. Like others good should be on our mind constantly. Tell me, man, what does it look like for you or what does it look like in the church to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ? Yeah. Yeah, I think most simply you could just say putting others' needs above yourself. Meaning like you can take like, hey, you see a brother or sister in need. It's just like, hey, how can I serve you? How can I love you? Some just just practical things of like, man, I think one of the big actually one of the biggest things that kind of changed the way I even thought about Sunday worship when I come to church is I started praying, Lord, keep my eyes on others. Help me to focus on you and focus on others when I come here. Help me to come in here to build up. So yeah, I just think think practically like that. So this is current number three. To sacrifice. Strengthen one another. yeah. Both. Two and three. Sacrifice yourself. In order to strengthen to strengthen one another. In order to strengthen one another, you gotta sacrifice yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Yeah. That's good. When you revere Christ, when when you behold Jesus and his willingness to give up everything, that he who was rich became poor so that we might become rich. When when you look at the gospel. Than than submitting to other people's preferences. It just becomes small. Yeah. Amen. Well. We did we cover all the currents? We covered all the currents, dude. I'm like soaked right now. This room's gonna fill up with water and we're not gonna be able to record. So we should probably hit the end on the podcast before we before we drown. There we go. No surprise endings though. No surprises. Only anticipation. Only anticipation. Well, if I hope you're anticipating listening to these podcasts and anticipating your Bible reading the next morning or evening or whatever you do it, keep staying on the on track with your reading. Keep anticipating to hear from the Lord and for him to change and transform you in trusting that he will change you when you read his word Man. This has been another episode of the SEC Saver Podcast. Till next time.