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Living from the Inside Out: Leadership and Integrity 0:02 Hello men and welcome to the men's global livestream in session 3 in our series through first Timothy. A series that we've entitled from the inside out. And really we've been0:13 looking at Paul's encouragements to his spiritual apprentice Timothy while Timothy has been on assignment. In this letter Paul is explaining how Timothy has been0:25 like a son in the faith to him. He even addresses him that way several times. Paul mentored Timothy for many many years and had started to send him on missionary trips, different0:37 journeys to other churches. And so when Paul got word that there was a group of leaders spreading false teaching, causing division within 1 of the churches that he had planted, he sent0:49 Timothy, to confront and to correct those leaders and to help restore the church. And this is the letter that Timothy received in the middle of that assignment, in1:01 the middle of that experience. And so that kind of sets the tone and reminds us of of what is going on as we encounter the scripture. It helps us to understand the purpose in what the Holy Spirit1:12 spoke to Timothy through Paul and what he's encouraging him to do. And what I want to encourage you in again is this. In whatever context you're experiencing this, we're1:24 gonna look at a handful of the of some of the verses in chapter 3. But in no way are we gonna unpack everything that the Holy Spirit could teach you and I through this part of scripture. So again, here's the1:36 encouragement brothers, spend time in God's word. Make it a rhythm of your life when you get up in the morning, before you pick up that phone, before you check the email, before you look at the market or what1:47 the day has for you. Sit with the Lord Jesus in front of his word and just digest first Timothy 3. Ask God what he's teaching you about himself, what he's revealing to you about you and what he1:59 wants to do in you and through you. In this session, we're gonna be talking a lot about leadership and specifically what is expected for those who2:11 desire to be in positions of leadership within the church. And men in hearing that some of you just leaned back comfortably a bit and thought ah perfect he's not2:23 talking to me. You might be thinking that maybe you're you're new in your faith journey with Jesus. You've only recently come alive to the truth and so you think this isn't where you're at yet. Or2:35 maybe there's some of you who do have a desire to be used in a position of leadership in the church, but you might think to yourself, I'm just not qualified. I've got too much that I need to2:47 learn. I'm just not there yet. Dust, even if I wanted to help out in that way, I'm not capable. Now before you listen to the lies of the enemy, here's my encouragement. Lean in to2:59 today's session. Press in. Open your heart. Open your mind to the Lord and what God wants to speak to you through this passage of scripture because men, all of us wanna3:10 live well. All of us want to live impactful lives. We wanna be used by God to build his kingdom in all of the spaces and places that3:22 he's put us. We wanna be men who lift others up, who make the people around us better. Man, we want our lives to have an impact. We do not simply wanna make an3:34 impression on the people that God has put around us. So let's take these encouragements as if they were written directly to each of us. This is Paul's words were for3:45 you right where you are. Because whether or not you believe it, whether or not you see it, you are leading someone.3:58 Someone is looking to you for leadership. So let's get into it. Okay. Grab your Bible. I'm gonna be reading and teaching from the New Living Translation. This is first Timothy chapter 3 starting in4:10 verse 1. This is a trustworthy saying. If someone aspires to be a church leader, he desires an honorable position. So a church leader must be a man whose4:21 life is above reproach. He must be faithful to his wife. He must exercise self control, live wisely, and have a good reputation. He4:33 must enjoy having guests in his home. He must be able to teach. He must not be a heavy drinker or be violent. He must be gentle not quarrelsome and not love4:45 money. He must manage his own family well, having children who respect and obey him. For if a man cannot manage his own household, how can he takes care of God's church?4:58 Again, let's fight the urge to think that Paul is talking to somebody else, and let's unpack what he's really getting at. Let's take a deep dive into each of these characteristics, and let's start to unpack5:10 practically what these look like as they're lived out in the life of God's man in 20 24. Because the wisdom that's included here is for each of us and the5:21 challenges are mission critical if we want to be building the kingdom of God. Verse 2, it says this. It says, a church leader must be someone whose life is5:33 above reproach. That word above reproach that's used in the original scripture is the Greek expression, anapolymptos. And it simply means this, that he's unblameable.5:46 That their life is above criticism. That there's not someone who could bring a valid claim against them of wrongdoing. And because Paul opens up with5:58 this because this kind of tops the list it stands to reason that it's important. Maybe the most important thing on the following list. And brothers, what Paul is basically saying6:10 is this. He's saying, guys I'm gonna list a bunch of qualities that are gonna define the life of God's man. Especially those in positions of leadership. These are the characteristics, the qualities.6:22 This is what we want to see in any individual who's going to watch his character be reproduced in the lives of others. Right? We need to see the character of Christ in that man first and what he's basically saying is6:33 this. This man's life needs to be legit And he needs to be living the stuff out. You can't you can't be able to accuse him. No 1 can be able to point the finger of blame at6:44 him. Paul is never saying that this man is perfect, is without sin. There was only 1 that lived that way. His name's Jesus. What Paul is saying is that there's not an6:56 ongoing lifestyle of sin. That the man in leadership is not toying around with or playing around the edges of or even tolerating things that run contrary to the7:08 Word of God. What he's saying is nobody could stand up and say, hey, all those characteristics, I can tell you how they don't apply to this man. They don't7:20 describe this man. What Paul is saying about leaders in the church, what has to be true of all of us as God's men is that the things we say we're about,7:32 we must actually be about. Things we say we're about, we must actually be about. What we claim to believe, what we believe, what we think that7:43 we value, the things that we even say are true have to be proven by the way that we live. There has to be a consistency between our ideals and our ordeals.7:55 Remember, from the inside out, those 2 things need to be consistent. There needs to be integrity that we are men who are the same in all situations. We need to see this consistency between the inner8:07 man and the outer man that we experience. The intentions and actions of God's man must point in the same direction. That's what Paul's saying. That's where Paul's starting.8:20 He's saying that God's man has to prove with his life, not his mouth what it is that he truly believes. And then he starts to list those characteristics that define him. Isn't it interesting8:32 that he starts off with faithfulness to his wife? Notice we don't see strength or courage. We we don't see eloquence of8:44 speech or incredible wisdom and intelligence or even charisma. Brothers, we don't see any of the things that the world values most in its leaders, and I absolutely8:57 love it. I love seeing at the top of the list marriage because our culture makes very little of faithfulness, of commitment, the God given institution of marriage. It's9:09 sad. Tragically, brothers, in our culture, marriage isn't a covenant. It's merely a contract. We have9:20 reduced God's beautiful design of marriage and turned it into some type of a casual contractual agreement. Sadly, for many, it's a it's a contract of9:32 convenience. As long as this works out for me, as long as you make me feel good about me, then I'll hang around in this situation. And then you hear men throw around moronic statements like, well,9:44 I deserve to be happy. I deserve what I want insinuating that happiness can be found anywhere but within God's perfect design for marriage. Brothers, we forget9:56 often. God designed us, created us, intended us. He created all life. He built each of us our gifts, our limitations, our10:08 desires. He understands best what is right and what is good. And as God created Adam, he looks at him right away and says, oh boy it's not it's not great that he's alone. I'm10:19 gonna give him a wife. Our God designed marriage period. It's his plan. And so for God's man, we need to see that his marriage has a10:31 top priority in his life. That before his ministry goes out to the world, it begins within his home. From the inside. At the very closest is10:43 his marriage with his bride. Right? God's design for marriage is that we would become holy. I mean, really it's it's the context where so much of our spiritual growth is going to10:55 be occurring. It's where we're gonna develop. It's where we're gonna get a chance to live and love most like Jesus. And God designed it that way. God intended it that way. That's why all the other definitions11:07 and perversions of marriage are such an affront to the truth of God. Because it's basically like telling God that he got this whole thing wrong. It's where we allow culture to redefine11:19 scripture. That's where we see culture taking human happiness and kind of perverting it and then substituting in some type of cohabitation agreement that's not biblical. It's a lie.11:32 Brothers, and we must remember that the quality of our marriage largely is what qualifies us for leadership. It is simply not true that God's man can have an11:44 eroding marriage and a blooming ministry. It's not true. It's not possible. But I have an encouragement for you brothers and a challenge from Paul11:56 in his letter to these church leaders and to us as God's men. Here's the encouragement. It's simple brothers, be faithful. Be faithful. In your marriage, be faithful.12:09 Don't play around. Don't mess around. Not mentally, not physically. Cherish your bride. She is the 1 God entrusted to you. Do you ever think about the fact12:21 that God is your heavenly father and your heavenly father-in-law? Cherish the woman he has given you brothers. Care12:33 for her that she might become holy as we see in scriptures God's intention for us. If you're in a dating relationship right now, be faithful. Be in 1 dating relationship in a way that honors and glorifies the12:44 Lord Jesus. If you're not married yet, be faithful to that future spouse. Begin by honoring them today with how you act, with what you say, with how you treat other people. Do12:56 it all in light of God's plan for you. Be a person who is faithful in marriage. Hold your marriage up high. Paul goes on. He says beyond being13:08 faithful, a faithful husband of 1 wife, he says that God's been is to exercise self control and to live wisely. Well, as opposed to what? What's the other13:20 option? I mean, the answer is obvious. Without self control, foolishly. Paul is saying that that can't be what defines the life of God's man. But if there's13:32 any lie that culture is just spitting at us daily, it's that any form of correction, any type of restraint, anything that tells you you may be13:43 wrong, any challenge to you or your viewpoints is simply unloving, intrusive, and oppressive. Because we should decide what is true for ourselves. We should live according to our desires and our appetites. That's what13:55 defines us. Right? And and the world has just groomed us from childhood to live like children. How do children live according to what they want? Without regard for what is right.14:08 And we've been brought up in that. We've been taught to live without regard, without wisdom. But God's man is called to live counter culturally. A life that's defined by self control.14:21 But where? When? Self control in what context? In all contexts. Scripture is clear about the compounding issues that we see in a life that is14:33 lived without self control. In a life that is governed by emotion and culture. A life that is steered by our feelings or our14:44 desires or what may seem right in a given moment. This is what scripture says about that life. Proverbs 25 28 says, like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self control.14:58 That's a gnarly picture. You have a city whose first line of defense, its outer walls are failing. They're falling through the walls that are meant to15:09 protect the city, to keep the people safe, like self control. And just like a city without walls, a life without self control, that's15:21 the picture. It's the reminder that self control brings security and brings safety. Your self control makes the people around you feel safe. It brings15:33 them comfort, which also means, brothers, that when we lack self control, when we live without self control, we make those around15:45 us feel unsafe. We make them feel exposed, uncared for. This is the practical picture of a city with no walls. In fact, brothers, it's dangerous to live15:57 without self control. And as you read that, as you hear that, you might immediately be tempted to think, oh, man, Dusty. I've got some work to do. There's so many things I need to I need to gain16:09 control or I've got all these bad habits. I've got all this. There's so many things I gotta fix for sure we will have a role in this partnering with God's spirit, but we do not play the largest part. Our lives as16:21 God's men are not simply about the elimination of sin and the white knuckled effort of a righteous life. It's about pursuing Jesus wholeheartedly being with him long enough to become like him.16:33 Listen to this beautiful encouragement self control is not something that you and I will simply will or or struggle towards in our own effort. It's something that the Holy Spirit creates in16:44 us. Second Timothy 1 7 says this, for God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, of love, and self16:56 discipline or self control. Isn't that beautiful? We're also told in Galatians that once the Holy Spirit takes up occupancy in our lives, he begins to change17:08 us from the inside out. He creates in us a new fruit, a new visible representation that the Holy Spirit is changing us. Amongst those fruit are love, joy, peace,17:20 patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. That's the work of the Holy Spirit in us, but he will not do it to17:32 us against our will. We must submit to him. We must submit to the kingship and leadership of Jesus, and he will walk our hearts into self control.17:44 Brothers, simply put, God's man is called to live a life of self control. We are called to be people who live wisely.17:57 But to be very clear, we are not being invited into some restrictive, oppressive, or boring life. That's a lie your enemy wants to convince you18:09 of. We're not called to simply play defense and avoid and walk away from and refrain from and avoid all things earthly this side of heaven. We just have a18:21 different and more accurate idea of what it is that we should engage in. Jesus laid out his hope for us as his18:32 followers, exposing part of his mission in life in John chapter 10 verse 10, where after reminding us that the enemy is only here and is always endeavoring to18:44 steal and kill and destroy. Jesus says about himself that he had a very very different purpose. That he came that people would experience life. Parason.18:56 That's the picture of abundance, overflowing like a coffee cup that's just running over. The devil's aim is the opposite. In all things in your life, the enemy will slither up to you as a19:08 snake. He will wrap himself in the beautiful things of this world and he will offer us poison that looks delicious. How does that sound? Sounds like this. Instead of the loving19:20 care of a committed marriage relationship, the enemy offers the lie of promiscuity. He says more is better rather than the truth that the committed spiritual connection19:32 deeper is always better. Numb the pain the enemy says. You don't have to feel this. It's too much. Drink this. Shoot that. Take the pain away.19:44 Hey. Being unaware is the only way to kind of blissfully drift through this challenging life when our loving father in heaven is telling us, I see you. I know you.19:56 I am mighty to save you. That his hand is on your life. And we're only gonna experience that life when we're awake, when we're fully aware. So stop numbing20:07 ourselves, men. We must choose to live wisely. And the way we do that is this. We must learn to expose the enemy and his lies. That's living wisely. I mean,20:19 simply put, obviously put, we have to learn how to see through the fog. We have to learn how to discern the play that the enemy is running. Right? Misdirection. He's spewing lies20:31 all the time. Scripture says that's his native tongue. That's when he's speaking most consistently with who he is. We need to step into the the life that Jesus Christ offered us in all situations big and20:43 small. We must be men who know the truth so well that spotting the fake becomes easier. And we have to live towards the ultimate truth20:55 that the enemy is only gonna lead us to death. That's the end of every map he offers you. But Jesus came that we would have life abundant.21:07 Brothers, wise living begins by choosing to believe that only Jesus Christ holds real and abundant life, period.21:19 It's the only way that we'll rightly interpret the scripture. Remember we said, culture is telling us that any correction, any restraint is is oppressive and needs to be thrown off. But what if all the corrections?21:32 What if all the instruction? What if all the encouragement that we find in scripture is not your God holding out on you, but rather the all knowing loving21:44 God revealing to us the truth, showing us reality of where real life comes from. I was just up in the mountains in the Sierras on a backpacking trip with my21:55 youngest daughter. Incredible weekend. The the drive up there is is sketchy. Right? It's it's a windy road. You come close to cliffs. There's waterfalls. It's beautiful. And every time you got to22:07 a dangerous spot in the road, You'd notice that there were these big guardrails that held you in place. I never once looked at the guardrail and thought that's ruining my view.22:21 The people who put it there don't think I can drive. They this is so restrictive. I know it's there to save my life. What if all the precepts that God placed in22:32 his word are there to save our lives? Because they are. So let's receive them as if that is their intent. Back22:44 to the text. The next characteristic following our line at first glance might seem out of place. It might seem a little bit like Paul took a hard left. He's talking in22:56 verse 2 describing leaders. He says he must enjoy having guests in his home. What? Wait. So Paul is now equating leadership23:09 with hospitality? Is he serious? I mean is so if I want to lead, I have to throw house parties? I gotta hold potlucks? I mean, this seems disconnected23:21 because surely someone could be a very good leader without having big gatherings at their house or vice versa. Just because somebody's always having parties at the house doesn't mean they're a leader or doesn't mean that23:32 they're qualified to lead. What Paul is really getting at has nothing to do with parties, has nothing to do with gatherings, and it has to do with23:43 the simple truth about leaders in the faith or really anyone who's ever encountered God in a real way. Once we've encountered God in a real way, we want23:55 others to do the same. Once we've experienced God, Paul is just saying that if you've experienced God in a powerful way, you're gonna want that for someone else. You'll have to.24:08 You'll no longer live for yourself but you'll live for Christ to honor what he's done. It's gonna start to drive you to come compel you, to give your life away so that24:20 others might experience what you've experienced. When our lives have been changed by Jesus, the only right and natural response is to want someone24:32 else to experience the same thing. So Paul's putting in the context of opening up your home. If you've experienced community, real, accepting,Guardrails of Faith: Self-Control and Wise Living 24:44 encouraging, loving community, then you're gonna wanna create those spaces for someone else. Man, our culture is divided right now. And maybe what your neighborhood needs is not another flag to show which24:56 candidate you're voting for. Maybe you need to invite your neighbors over for dinner. Show them hospitality. Share a meal with them. Open your home to them. Invite them in.25:08 Hear their story. So much ministry goes on around food. That's why I love that Jesus was always eating. Right? They were accusing him of being a glutton. Jesus loved to enjoy a good meal.25:20 And in that culture it was a big deal. Because to share a table was to accept someone in our culture. I wanna reclaim that for Christians. I want25:32 our tables to be full again with people that don't think like we do yet. And just love them towards Jesus. We wanna25:43 create that space. Right after that it says that the leader must not only be hospitable but he must be able to teach. So as godly men, let's follow this pattern. First, we open up our homes25:55 and then we open up our mouths. Right? We open up our homes and welcome people in and then we open up our mouths and out comes truth. We let guests in. We let neighbors in.26:07 We host out of towners, and then we speak truth. Not like some kind of pushy salesman. Not like we offered him a meal like a timeshare spiel.26:19 But Paul is saying speak truth. He's not saying here that all of you must pursue teaching as a profession. It's not what he's saying. But he's saying we must speak things that are true, that god's man must be equipped,26:30 always ready as Peter says, to give an answer to give a reason for the hope that we're basing our life on. May we become men who speak life intentionally to people around us and brothers we26:42 need to teach our children the word of God. Even if you go to an incredible church, I pray that you go to an incredible church with a great kids program and a plan for students and young adults and high schoolers and26:54 college and everybody, but you are your children's pastor. Teach them to fall in love with God's word. I'm not saying become a Bible answer, man. Go through the scripture together. When they ask you a27:06 question you don't know, tell them. I don't know. Let's look that up together. There's so many resources but become a man who can convey the truth. Amen? What else? Verse27:17 3. He must not be a heavy drinker or be violent. He must be gentle not quarrelsome and not love money. Gauntlet thrown27:30 down. Men? God's man says challenge accepted. There is some real and honest direction for all of us in this statement.27:42 He starts off by saying, hey, those people living lives worthy of emulating or copying are people who do not drink heavily. Notice, let's not say what scripture doesn't say.27:54 He does not say here, therefore all drinking is bad. What he's saying is you cannot give yourself over to drinking. That call is clear throughout all28:06 of scripture. Remember back in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18, do not be drunk with wine. Very clear. Do not be drunk with wine because that will what? Ruin your28:17 life. But listen to what the opposite is. The opposite is not sobriety. It says instead, be filled with the holy spirit. When you read that28:29 in context of where we are, Paul's statement is not simply about alcohol. It's much bigger. It's all about control. Control. It's the same encouragement that Paul was giving the28:41 church in Ephesus. He's not just saying don't drink. He's saying it's much bigger than that. Now brothers for you, if 1 drink will lead to control then for you28:53 do not drink. Paul speaks clearly about this. He also speaks clear about the fact that we should not use our freedom that another would fall to sin and temptation. But he's very very clear. He29:05 says, do not give control of your mind, of your life over to alcohol, but rather let the Holy Spirit do that. In fact, the encouragement in the next29:17 couple of passages are all about letting nothing control our lives except for Jesus Christ himself. Because right after alcohol,29:29 he says don't be violent. Or in other words, don't give control of your body. Don't give control of your mind over to your sinful anger. Scriptures clear about that. Our anger does29:41 not produce the righteousness that God desires for us. Scriptures clear. Our human anger does not produce good things. Don't give control of yourself over to your anger.29:53 Don't give control of yourself over to alcohol. He finishes up by talking about a love of money. Or how about don't give control of your life over to the pursuit of30:05 wealth. Don't submit the direction of your efforts. Never let the true aim of your heart or the the way that you find your identity. He says, don't ever let money be the thing that does that for you. And it's30:17 so hard because it's so tempting and so culturally acceptable too. Even within the church. There's a reason why Jesus talked about money so often.30:30 He was not condemning dollar bills. Money's arbitrary. He was always talking about hearts. Remember brothers, this stuff comes from the inside out. And he wasn't condemning his followers or he wasn't30:41 demonizing the things of this world or calling them into some type of a life of poverty. It was bigger. It was truer. It was deeper. His intention was in love to say this. He was it30:53 was to pull his his friends close and say be careful. I imagine a very somber tone on Jesus' face where he was saying, I've seen. I know what this31:05 stuff will do to your heart, and boys, it'll push me out. Jesus is saying, money money is gonna push me out. We want the same space in your heart. And31:17 to this day, we will be tempted just like the early disciples to give control of our lives, control of our hearts over to money. But what does that practically look like? Because31:29 we hear that and we think I'd never give control of my heart over to money. I wouldn't get up in the morning and pray and say money what should I do today? It's more insidious. It looks like this. We begin to trust in31:40 the things that we own as opposed to trusting to God himself. This money will get me out of my problems. I feel peace because I have some things set aside. We31:52 begin to depend on our own resources or our ability to acquire them. These are the things that will protect me or make me comfortable. We begin to value it32:05 above people, above all things. We will begin to use people to acquire money when the exact opposite should be true.32:18 Ultimately, we would seek to reorganize and reorient our lives around getting it, keeping it, and then ultimately serving it. And in this passage,32:29 Jesus is lovingly reminding us. God is lovingly opening our eyes to the truth that alcohol, anger, the desire for wealth, money, things, all of those things wanna32:41 usurp God's rightful place in our hearts. They all want to sit on the throne. And you know what scripture calls something that tries to do that? When something in our lives32:54 seeks to uproot and unseat Jesus from his proper place, whenever something directs our hearts or our hands, whenever we look to33:06 something else other than God himself, scripture calls that an idol. And I'm sure that sounds weird because we33:18 think of idols as being small ceramic animals with too many arms or human heads and or strange religious objects from some forgotten pagan culture. But unfortunately,33:30 they are far more commonplace, far more shiny, far more desirable, and far more acceptable. Brothers in our heart and in our world today, idolatry may not be an33:42 issue. It may be the issue. Because anytime we look to something to provide for us something that God himself said that he would promise to do for33:54 us, that thing has become an idol. That thing has taken God's place. God says that he is our provider,Idolatry and the Call to True Worship 34:06 that he is the God who provides. Abraham called him Jehovah Jireh in Genesis chapter 22, the God who is our provider. That's a promise from God's word. So whenever I start to34:18 look to something else, my abilities, my company, my stock portfolio, the things that I own, when I start to look at these34:29 things, when I start to look to the government, when I start to look to anything to provide for me, to bring me peace, to take care of me, to do anything that God himself promised to do, I've now placed an34:41 idol on the throne of my heart. That thing has become the object34:47 of my trust and not Jesus.34:48 And as followers of Jesus, we have to fight that. Reminding ourselves daily that it's the Holy Spirit alone that controls us. It's the word of God alone that determines what we34:59 hold as right and true. It's a scripture that teaches us what we should value, what we should pursue, how we should interact with those around us. And in this chapter, we have a list of good and35:11 beautiful things to pursue and a list of things to keep an eye on and honestly to allow the Holy Spirit to search our hearts and reveal to us places that he wants to make us look more like35:23 his son. And I love that the list of encouragements first Timothy 3 isn't just a bunch of ideas. And it's not a chapter that's just full of these ascetic35:35 or overtly religious behaviors that we're supposed to follow. But But as we're starting to see in the series, right, that everything kinda flows out of the inner life of a man,35:48 we really start to see that everything that that we find in this chapter starts to define the true character of a man. The way that as Jesus is making him new inside, it starts to35:59 leak out and affect the way that he lives his life outside. Every everything that we just went through, every everything that Paul pointed out, really, it talks about an issue of the heart first36:13 that then work themselves out and become issues of the hands. Right? Remember, we always say the problems between us and the people in our lives usually begin within us, each of us. And as those36:25 that are following Jesus, we're called to demonstrate a new kind of heart. A heart that reflects the king, that fights flesh, that fights culture. I was surfing yesterday at 1 of my favorite36:37 spots, lower trestles, and it was crowded, and I was getting frustrated. It was hard to get waves to myself and and like an auditory track, the36:49 Lord just reminded me and said, but the son of man did not come to be served but to serve. And I thought, okay. What do you mean by that, Lord? In my37:01 context, the son of man did not come to take ways but to offer them to others. I'm thinking, what? That seems like kind of a stretch of that scripture and God just kept working on my heart. And when you go home, the son37:12 of man did not come to have the dishes cleaned up for him but to clean the dishes for his bride. He did not come to burden those around him. He came to serve and you realize that as God starts to change my heart, it's37:23 gonna have an impact in all of my circles of influence. Everywhere I go will be different because we're not talking about behaviors. We're talking about a new way of being, and that's37:35 always true for god's man. For the follower of Jesus, our doing out here always grows out of our being. Always. The things that we do37:47 will start to grow naturally out of of who we are for good or for ruin. I mean, living from the inside out. Jesus is gonna create new things inside of me. A new37:59 heart, a new nature, a new perspective, a new humility, a new gentleness, a new self control. And out of that fruit, there's gonna be new action. There's38:11 gonna be new ways of interacting with people. It's all new. It's all the spirit. It's not of the flesh. And I pray that as you hear these encouragements from Paul to Timothy that you don't just feel the weight of a38:23 list of things that you're supposed to do. Just remember like we said, God wants us to be first. To be with him. To become like38:35 him. To then imitate him. To see Jesus. To see him in us and then to go and show him to other people. Christ in us changing38:47 us to be more like him so that the people around us encounter Jesus. Lord, we love you. We thank you for the truth of your word.Transformation from the Inside Out 39:00 May we become men who look honestly upon this list and feel the conviction of your holy spirit that doesn't lead us into shame or guilt, but that moves us in repentance towards you to be transformed,39:12 to be made new. Lord, we wanna look more like Jesus in such a way that the people around us ask what is going on. And we can just point them lovingly to39:24 the sun. And it's in the beautiful name of Jesus we pray. Amen. See you next time.Show more In this video 0:00 Living from the Inside Out: Leadership and Integrity24:38 Guardrails of Faith: Self-Control and Wise Living34:05 Idolatry and the Call to True Worship38:54 Transformation from the Inside Out39:30 The Next Adventure: Promised Land Living
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