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world doing more and trying
harder causes us to perform in order to
earn our keep to keep our spot and to
earn God’s
love uh expectations that we place on
ourselves the real issue isn’t sin but
it is whether you’re trying hard
enough trying harder to
receive the affirmation and the love
that God has already made available for
his
people calling all believers represent
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today we are
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Chang I remember when we started the uh
record company Arrow here and everyone
was saying you’ve got to meet this list
of people they gave me a short list of
everybody that you need to go to and
meet and you need to you know get in
front of them and because it’s all about
relationship who you know and who uh
knows you and things that you can
develop between the two of you and
things that would help to enhance and
expand the company so in my mind I’m
thinking oh man I don’t even know any of
these people God I I I’m just at a loss
it’s just about to fail before even
takes off oh goodness gracious and so
you
know I prayed about it because I
realized that okay Lord if this happens
this relationship and these people that
I’m supposed to me it’s going to have to
be by your grace and by your favor and I
remember one of the persons and Ben you
could ATT tested this was Bobby Jones
and someone had said you got to meet Dr
Bobby Jones He is you know got the
number one rated cable TV show on BET
and you got to go through Bobby if you
want to have a successful record if you
want to have a successful label and I
said well I don’t know anybody and I’m
not just going to show up on somebody’s
doorstep so it was um God’s doing that
all of a sudden we were at an event and
God allows him to sit right down in
front of me found out his wife Miss
Ethel is a member for the church and I’m
thinking
wow
Lord is something about just
resting and not
striving and calling and pleading and
plucking and all these things to try to
follow the rules of what man says needs
to happen in order for you to experience
success to experience success and I just
remember chasing that hit record so many
artists deal with that just trying to
get a number
one
record trying to be successful at
Radio what is a good radio single that
you have to get the right producer you
got to get the right songwriter it’s got
to be this length it’s got to have all
this on it and you know what
we have to really understand that God
wants to be
involved and he wants to intervene in
every area of our life because you can
spend I spent my
wheels trying to
arrange for this artist to work with
this producer and this person to write
this song in order to meet the
expectations of what success is so
that’s what we’re looking at the
measures and the mechanisms that we
place on ourselves in rule keeping and
instances where God wants us to be free
from
complications free of the
demands he says here I’m free of the
expectations of
everyone think of
that I have vol voluntarily become a
servant voluntarily that’s a key
word of his own valtion and will he laid
down to become a
servant to any and
all in order to reach a wide range of
people
religious nonreligious think of that not
just the religious people
cuz you know so many times we’re just
focused on one but you know what Jesus
is concerned about the
all what are we doing to reach the all
he says meticulous those who are
meticulous how many you know it’s some
meticulous
folks Morales Loos living immoralist the
defeated the demoralized whoever
I didn’t take on their way of life I
kept my bearings in Christ but I entered
their world and
tried to
experience things from their point of
view because you know what when we are
only concerned about the rules we’re
seeing it from our point of view but God
wants us to see things from other
people’s point of view I’ve become just
about every sort of servant there is in
my attempt to lead those I meet into a
God saved
life I did all this because of the
message I did it all
because of the
message and so we want to look at this
area of Our
Lives because we create internal mental
lists of all the things that good moms
good wives good Fathers good parents
good Christians do and measure ourselves
how close we are able to follow these
practices and be the best person that
these things have described for us to be
and instead of the worst that we
desperately hope to
avoid so you have to ask yourself what
rules that you’ve told yourself to
follow and that you have align yourself
with
amen what
expectations now let’s look at a couple
of these let me just go down this list
because I want us
to understand that
if we’re not ever into a place of
receiving the rhythm of Grace the
unforced rhythm of Grace and we’ll get
into a place of living under the law
expectations can hurt or
help
expectations let’s go to number
two pressure us so that we feel guilt
hopelessness and overwhelmed like I said
just not me being able to meet those
expectations and you know what the enemy
opens up the door to self condemnation
guilt hopelessness and
overwhelmed look at number
three expectation demand to be met
leaving us either exhausted or
elated let’s keep going expectations
never letting us rest until they are
satisfied expectations Rob relationships
and can leave us
disconnected
expectations are
extremely self focused if our
expectation is not from God and his word
and the hope that we look towards him in
receiving and so we must take our
expectations to Jesus and ask ourselves
these questions let me ask you these
questions what expectations are making
you feel exhausted and
overwhelmed how can you practically let
them
go what does love require of
you and
lastly what does
freedom look like right now is that
helping
you let’s let’s go a little further here
turn over to um Galatians more of this
rule keeping that we place on our
s the rules I’m telling y’all this rule
thing is serious I didn’t realize it was
so serious until I came to church I’m
like do I need to go back to the world
cuz y’all are serious about these
rules giving honor to God who is the
head of all my life I got to say that
before I say
anything I just
do
what Lord help us Jesus look at look at
this y’all know what I’m talking
about my goodness Galatians 3 11 and
12 my
God the obvious impossibility of
carrying out such a moral program should
make it plain that no one to Su
can sustain a relationship with God that
way the
person who
believes or let’s see the person who
lives in right relationship with
God does it by embracing what God
arranges for him
doing things for
God doing things for God is the opposite
of entering into what God does for
you habc had it right the person who
believes God is set right by God and
that’s the real
life listen to this rule keeping
somebody say rule keeping rule keeping
that’s what we’re talking about
crazy expectations rule
keeping rule keeping does not naturally
involve evolve into living by
faith but only perpetuates itself in
more and more rule keeping my
goodness a fact observed in scripture
the one who does these
things rule keeping continues to live by
them now skip down further to verse 21
same chapter verse 21 let’s look at this
if such is the case is the
law than an anti- promise a negation of
God’s will for us not at all its purpose
was to make obvious to
everyone that we are in ourselves out of
relationship with
God and therefore to show us the
futility
of devising some religious system for
getting by our own efforts what we can
only get by waiting in faith for God to
complete his promise because there’s a
lot of emphasis on our own self-effort
and we’ve been taught about that and I
won’t belabor that point but we
understand here concerning uh the need
to get by from our own efforts what we
can only only get by waiting in faith it
it requires us waiting in faith but you
know what we have our time table we have
our length of time that we want a lot to
us certain things but you know what
we’ve got to learn how to wait on God
his time when he wants to do what he
wants to do how he wants to do it how
many you know that’s the best way that’s
the shest
way that’s the Eternal way
and so it says for if any kind of rule
keeping had power to create life in us
we would certainly have gotten it by
this
time oh my goodness thank you
Lord and so you know this area of crazy
expectations is so so very key so very
key to our lives and I
am so
thankful that we can Shine the Light on
this
area uh because if not you will drive
yourself
crazy trying to do the
things and spin your wheels to try to
accomplish the things in and of your own
ability When God
says come to
me let me show you
let me reveal it unto
you let
me take away the
strife and the
striving and the
busyness so that the word can bring
forth a harvest in our
life so we’re talking about something
very simple this morning I didn’t come
to get deep and go to the Greek and back
to the Hebrew and back to the Greek
and we’ll do that another time
okay I just want you to take a moment
and just look on the
inside and recognize the things that God
wants to do and uh
retire man-made
success and the success that the world
deems in impressionable
amen look over at Philippians chapter 3
Philippians chapter 3:
7-9 is this helping you this
morning yes indeed I am so
learning we are growing
together and walking this
area of Life out so that we can please
the
father because it can become so much
easier and less cumbersome when
we enter into the rest he says his
burden is easy and what his yoke is
light uh what we want to do is look at
Philippians chapter 3 and then we’re
going to look at the message translation
on verse 7 through n the very
credentials these people are waving
around as something special
my
God you
hear their resume of all the things that
they have
accomplished and you think Lord I’m just
a
failure I just need to throw in the
towel he says the very
credentials these people are waving
around as something special he says I’m
tearing up and throwing out with the
trash but you know that’s what impresses
us my God your discography is just so
amazing he says I throw it out with the
trash and I tear it
up only if we could start thinking and
seeing like God and the right writes
here along with everything else I used
to take credit
for and why because of
Christ yes all the things I once thought
were so important are gone from my
life compared to the high privilege of
knowing
Christ my
goodness the high privilege of knowing
Christ CA think on
that that should be our highest
privilege our aim our desire our
ambition our focus our motor our Drive
our motive our motivation is like he
says here of knowing
Christ instead of all these crazy
expectations to get the
accolades and the
affirmation of other
people and determining it to become our
value oh I’m somebody now
because I have done X Y and Z but God
says I valued you because of
Jesus see your value in me see your
value in the word not in your doing but
in your
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being he says I once thought they were
so important are gone from my life
compared to the high privilege of
knowing Christ Jesus as my master
firsthand not secondhand not what
grandma said and what my parents said he
says firstand knowledge everything I
once thought I had going for
me is insignificant dog
young I won’t even say the slang y’all
know what we
mean insignificant dog
dung I’ve dumped it all dumped it
all how many you know we got to renew
our
minds I’ve dumped it all in the trash so
that I can Embrace Christ and be
embraced by
him
I didn’t want some petty inferior brand
of
righteousness that comes a petty
inferior brand of
righteousness and that’s what religion
does it’s Petty it’s inferior it treats
one person this way and treats others
the other way and it uh exalts one and
demeans the other he says that’s Petty
because in the eyes of God we’re all
equal he says keeping a list of rules
keeping a list of rules now you know you
probably don’t have it written down
anywhere but it might be your system
your mechanism it might be how you show
up in life the rules keeping a list of
rules when I could get the robust con
mind that comes from
trusting
Christ trusting
Christ God’s
righteousness God’s
righteousness and so these are things
that we must get a hold of doing more
and trying
harder causes us to perform in order to
earn our keep to keep our spot and to
earn God’s
love uh expectations that we place on
ourselves the real issue isn’t sin but
it is whether you’re trying hard
enough trying harder to
receive the affirmation and the love
that God has already made available for
his
people willpower
self-effort emphasizing the key to
happiness and love and staying in good
graces in
order to stop doing the problem behavior
and start doing what is right and so
it’s important that we understand what
has already been done and what is
already been made available through the
word of God and that our righteousness
becomes available because of Jesus’s
righteousness and so this morning we’re
talking about these areas of promises in
many instances that we place on
ourselves and so child of God I want you
to understand today you don’t need to
try
harder you can sit down on the
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inside knowing your God knows exactly
what you need and he is working hard on
your behalf
sit down on the
inside you can take your
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