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The Call to Discipleship and Truth 0:01 Well, hello and welcome to the men's global live stream. My name is Dusty Davis with Everyman Ministries and we're stoked. We're stoked to be kicking off 20 25, with you. Now whether you're watching this or listening0:13 to this by yourself, with a group of close forever brothers or with all the men in your church, I want you to do a couple things. Grab a Bible and make sure you download this session's notes. The link is right on the0:24 screen. You can also find it in the description for this video, and it's probably in the email that you received. But the fill ins are gonna have notes for you and they're gonna have all of the passages of scripture that0:34 we go over in today's session. So you're gonna wanna print that out before we get started. 20 24 was an incredible year of very exciting growth and discipleship here at Everyman Ministries and we're0:46 already sprinting into 20 25 with some very exciting new opportunities for you to get involved with. I wanna share a couple of them with you because here at Everyman, we have a passion for providing community and0:58 promoting growth for every man. And today we've got a unique and a new opportunity for you to step into. Everyman Ministry Discipleship Cohorts. At the end of 20 24, we1:09 launched a brand new initiative in partnership with Promised Land Living in order to offer you a life changing discipleship encounter. It's a season of journeying1:22 along with other brothers, with other forever brothers into the type of promised land living that Jesus Christ offers. So I'd encourage you, step in. Jump1:33 into the journey, of that process that's gonna walk you through identifying wrong ways of thinking, places that lies from the enemy have wrapped themselves around your heart keeping you from that abundant1:45 life that Jesus has for you. And if you wanna take a serious and significant step forward in your pursuit of Jesus this year, sign up for the next cohort. We have a cohort launching1:57 February fourth and you can sign up on the link on the screen. There are still some spots available and the best part is it's on Zoom. I'm a part of a discipleship cohort right now with brothers from across the2:09 country. My partner is in Tennessee. And so you'll meet incredible brothers from across the country as you follow after Jesus together. So click the link and sign up for Mark's cohorts. It's at2:21 the bottom of the screen. You will be glad that you did. Alright. Grab your bibles, grab your notes, and let's go. For many men,2:33 following Jesus is a somewhat confusing invitation. I mean especially today in 20 25. How do I follow a man, who's been dead for over 2000 years? How can I follow someone that I2:45 can't even see? And then practically, if I am to follow, what does that look like? Is that reading the bible? Praying? Going to church? Is it more?2:58 And beyond these obvious challenges of of following Jesus today, it seems like there are certain cultural disconnects that make even the idea of following somebody a challenge.3:09 As a culture, at least here in the US, we are a very incredibly overly independent and self reliant people. Following just isn't3:21 something that we value. I mean, heck, when you're in middle school, you wanna insult somebody, call them a follower. Take away their originality. Take away their value in middle school social3:33 structure. Right? We don't value followers if we're honest. What we value, what we desire to be is is leaders. We want followers.3:46 And so right away, following runs counter to kind of both our flesh and and what society has told us to value. But it also runs counter to what we've seen in our cultural experience, not just what society3:57 values, but but what we've seen. What's been a part of our lives. Because we elevate, we celebrate the self made man. Right? We YouTube projects around the house rather than ever4:09 asking a professional or a friend or an expert for help or information. We'll aimlessly stroll the aisles of Loews for hours rather than stopping and4:20 asking someone to lead us to the place we wanna go. But when Jesus walks the earth, the thinking was much different. The temperature culturally was much4:32 different. So Jesus invited his disciples not just to believe in him or agree with him, but rather to follow him. Or or maybe more appropriately, he invited them to4:44 apprentice themselves to him during a time in that culture when that behavior was commonplace. Jesus invited the disciples and you and I into4:56 imitating his entire way of being. He invited us into the rhythms that govern his life. And at the time that the scripture was written that type of behavior was seen5:08 everywhere because young boys would apprentice themselves to a rabbi, to a a teacher in order to follow him, to to live with him, to listen to him, to watch5:19 and observe him, to encounter him. All the while being shaped and taught by him. Not just reserved for the classroom, Not exclusively for their weekly online5:31 rabbinical zoom session. Every single day. Moment by moment. In 20 25, this type of behavior to apprentice and disciple and follow5:42 after Jesus seems confusing at best and impossible at worst. Because we just don't have a framework for apprenticeship. Most of us were never apprenticed for anything.5:55 And as soon as we start thinking about apprenticing ourselves to Jesus, the excuses start to bubble up. I don't have time. I don't even have a vision for what that looks like. And then I got all the cultural stuff we6:06 were just talking about. And we've even been trained, unfortunately, that spiritual discipleship looks like showing up hungry and being fed once a week, kinda6:18 passively receiving the word and then heading back out to do life as as we see fit on our own without without life for them to follow, without behaviors to emulate.6:30 And beyond kind of the Sunday experience that most of us have, we kinda throw on top of this the myriad of of well meaning bible teachers and preachers who have either subtly or overtly led us to believe that6:42 our life in Christ that following after him, is is less about learning from him and more about doing things for him. We've unfortunately associated following6:54 Jesus with very intense personal effort. We've wrongly been taught that discipline equals discipleship. That to please God, it's all about doing the right thing.7:06 But what if that wasn't God's intention when he invited us to follow him? What if that was never his purpose? What if the Christian life is far more than simply memorizing7:18 wrote prayers or deciding what the right thing to do is in every situation? What if following Jesus is less about what we're to avoid and much more about what we're to7:29 pursue? In every area of our lives, what if the aim of our life as Christ followers is much less about rules that govern our behavior and more about a life giving7:41 relationship with Jesus that we encounter through a series of life rhythms that Jesus modeled for us. Because that's how Jesus lived. Right?7:52 On display, on purpose, and that's his desire for each of us as his son, as his men. Not to follow a list of antiquated rules meant to restrain us, but to imitate a8:04 very clear set of life rhythms meant to invigorate us, to give us life. And so logic serves. If we want the life that Jesus lived, a life of truth,8:16 of community, of reflection, a life filled with adventure, of dangerous goodness, if we want the life Jesus lived, then we have to adopt the lifestyle that Jesus lived.8:28 Because nowhere in scripture did Jesus just invite people into a cerebral experience, into just an understanding. He doesn't just appeal to us to to think differently or or just believe8:40 an idea. His invitation is more encompassing. Jesus said, follow me. And it was much more radical than simply going where he went.8:53 In that earth shaking invitation, those 2 words, follow me. Jesus was saying, physically come with me. Go where I'm gonna go. Organize your life the way that I do. But he was also9:04 saying, value the things that I value. Let me tell you what to exchange your life for. Let me tell you how to care for people. Don't listen to culture about who is worthy of your care.9:17 By saying follow me, Jesus was saying, listen to the way I talk. Watch the way that I act, and then do likewise. Follow after me. And9:29 in following after Jesus, Jesus knew that we would become more like him, or maybe more accurately put, he would make us more like him. In9:41 Matthew chapter 4, Jesus calls the first disciples. He calls out to 2 brothers and invites them on the adventure of a lifetime. Goes to 2 fishermen9:53 and invites them into a life of transformation. He says, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Look at that10:05 simple invitation. In it, Jesus reveals this rhythm of life. Your role boys, follow me, and I will make you into something completely new. Take10:17 your profession, your fishermen's give that to me. I will give you new purpose. Your role is to follow and I will change you. Remember, what Jesus modeled for us10:29 is meant for us. So he invited the disciples the same way he invites us. He says, walk away from everything you're holding on to. Everything you value, everything you desire, everything you think is true,10:41 everything you want, everything that you're pursuing, let go of that. And instead, just just come after me. Make me the singular purpose of your life. We're gonna swim upstream a10:53 little bit here boys, but I'll always be with you. I'll always be in front of you. So Jesus gave them new purpose. And in doing so, he began to kind of challenge,11:05 the preset societal plans for their life, which was work, fish, make money, have kids, die. Jesus said, I wanna break that cycle. I wanna infuse some new rhythms. I want11:17 to invite you into an adventure. And Jesus laid out what this life is gonna look like. In John 10 10, Jesus kinda lays out his resume, his mission statement, his purpose. He says, the enemy,11:29 he comes to steal and kill and destroy. That's the thief's purpose. My purpose? I wanna give you a rich and satisfying life. Jesus lays out 2 roads, 2 destinations,11:42 2 types of life revealed. And whether or not this has been your personal experience, we have to remember this. 100 percent of the time, the life our enemy11:54 offers leads to death. Period. Anything that is not in line with the teachings of Jesus will never lead us somewhere neutral. It12:06 leads us towards Christ and life or away from Christ and death. There's not a third option. 1 life 1 path rather leading to life, 1 leading to death12:18 today. I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life12:30 so that your descendants might live, it says in Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 19. So we're faced with this reality, right? What Christ model for us is meant for us. So we wanna look at those12:42 those patterns, That way that Jesus lived, that rhythm of life that wasn't about rules. It wasn't about a list of expectations or to dos or tasks. It was a flow.12:54 Christ moved through his time on earth intentionally, beautifully, but purposefully and powerfully. He was not aimless or drifting. And the rhythms of Christ's life13:06 are meant for us to witness and then imitate. For us to see and study and understand with the express intention of applying it to our13:18 own lives. Our faith in Jesus shouldn't just be something that informs, our beliefs. The inner man, you know, our attitudes and our emotions, it must govern13:30 our actions. But there's a lot of voices calling us to follow them. Because the way of Christ is not the only way we can choose. It's always been this way. There's always been confiding13:42 voices, lesser gods, lowercase g gods. And speaking of the people of Athens, whose lives unfortunately, look a lot like ours. There were a lot of voices. There were13:54 a lot of other things calling for their worship. The amount of idols that Paul saw, discouraged his heart. And so Paul started to speak about the abundant life that God promised. Paul14:06 started to call them back to a life of truly following Christ in describing the way that that life should look. Paul says, in Christ, in Jesus, we live and move and have our14:17 being. That's that's a far higher calling than just what it is that we believe. Everything, our life, our movements, our being, it's all in him. And if you look at those words, there's some14:29 motion there. There's both obedience and then there's response. It's it's a life that invites us into this rhythm of life. Jesus14:41 lived a spirit empowered life. And the truth of his calling and his purpose directed everything he did. Like we said, he wasn't aimless, but he was always interruptible. People were always14:53 on his mind. He prioritized him yet always before him stood his purpose, the cross. So as we enter this series, the questions that we're gonna seek to answer for ourselves is can we follow15:05 Jesus's example of imitating these daily life rhythms today in 20 25? I mean, to what extent can the way of Jesus permeate everything I15:17 do? How can it shape how I think, and how I speak, and how we spend our time brothers? In essence, can the way of Christ shape who we are, and who we're15:28 becoming? Because as we move through the rhythms that Jesus modeled for us, we're gonna unpack 4 key movements. 4 rhythms that we see daily in the life of15:40 Christ. 4 rhythms that I believe if we adopt in our own lives this year, if we allow these to guide our days that they will give purpose to the months15:52 and years that we've been allotted on this earth. And we're gonna look at rhythms of work. What it looks like to be God's man as we're out on the road, rhythms of community and gathering. Rhythms16:04 of reflection and Sabbath beginning with the rhythm of connecting with Christ's truth daily. But before we unpack this rhythm of life that16:16 directed Christ's daily life, We have to challenge our thinking about Jesus because far too many men think far too little of Jesus. And I know that sounds16:28 blasphemous and crazy, and it should. And very few people would expressly say, I think lowly of Jesus. But when you look at how people seek Jesus, and how people want,16:40 his heart and his mind on things. Sure. We're okay with what Christ has to say about the afterlife, about heaven, and about hell. But far too many people are far more comfortable trusting politicians,16:52 or podcasters, or celebrities on today's most important topics. Again, sure. We'll listen to Christ as he talks about the eternal. But far too many men17:04 ignore his thoughts on politics or money. Possessions, racial justice, sexuality, immigration, gender, mental health, so on and so on. If we're to follow Jesus,17:17 we must choose to follow Jesus's truth, inserting his opinions into our lives in every single arena. And we must do so willingly and personally.17:30 Because this adventure of following Jesus and becoming his apprentice about becoming his disciple is not something that someone can do for you. No 1 can disciple you. And that might sounds crazy17:42 because many of you might be thinking, Dusty, I've been discipled before. I've been discipled by this ministry. Every man ministry has discipled me. I've been discipled by a a godly coach or a teacher or my pastor.17:54 These men have been used powerfully in your life. But the decision to disciple yourself, to apprentice yourself to Jesus is deeply18:05 personal and is a proactive decision. No 1 can disciple you to Christ anymore than anyone can be patient for you, or be generous for you, or kind18:17 for you. God's placed people in your lives who can answer questions, who can encourage you, who can pray for you, who can teach you. But you must choose to18:29 follow Jesus. As men of God, we must decide and purpose to disciple ourselves to Jesus every day.18:42 Because if someone else can us, then really the burden of responsibility falls on them. Our spiritual formation becomes someone else's job, someone else's responsibility. Remember, God has surrounded us with godly18:53 men. Praise him for that. They are beneficial in your walk. But let's recapture the mindset that the early church had. The early church, it wasn't a a consensus decision to fall after19:05 Jesus. It was a gathering of people who had each purposed in their own heart to follow Jesus. Acts chapter 2 verse 42 says this about the early church. All of the believers19:18 devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and a fellowship, to sharing in meals including the Lord's supper and a prayer. Notice that each 1 devoted19:29 themselves to imitating the life rhythms that Jesus modeled and the truth remains today. Each of us must choose to accept Christ's invitation to discipleship19:42 in every area of our lives. We wanna be men who follow Jesus, not just men who identify as Christian. You know the term Christian is only used19:54 3 times in the bible? And the first time in Antioch, it it was more of a slur. The term disciple is used 269 times.20:06 Now you tell me. Was Jesus looking for Christians or disciples? For fans or for followers? See, fans celebrate and appreciate someone.20:18 Followers, they follow. Fans are merely people who like the idea of Christ or agree with him. But we want to be with Jesus in order to20:29 become like Jesus. Now, I don't wanna blur the lines between belief and works. I don't wanna go down that slippery slope where we're we're gonna start talking about20:41 earning our salvation through apprenticing ourselves to Jesus. When James so famously spoke about our faith, I think he's often been misheard and unfortunately misquoted. I20:53 think that many well meaning bible teachers have used that scripture to scare people into a life of thinking that they can earn or that they should earn or that they can earn their21:04 salvation. But remember, Paul told us to work out our salvation, you know, in the holy gym getting strong. He never says work for our salvation.21:16 James chapter 2 verse 14, we read this. What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith, but don't show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? He closed that thought in verse21:28 17 by saying, see you see faith by itself isn't enough, unless it produces good deeds. It's dead and useless. James is not saying that works21:39 create faith. He's saying works reveal what faith you have. This is not about earning. It's about putting on21:51 display our love for Jesus. I can't tell my wife I love her and treat her terribly every day. I can't say she's important to me and ignore her. My actions are proving that my22:03 words are hollow. We can't claim that Jesus is Lord and not follow him. Now, I know that many of you are are are feeling the very same way I often22:15 feel when I think about following Jesus. I think I don't know where to start. I don't know where I should start. The disciples that were invited to go along with Jesus were similarly22:27 confused. In John chapter 14, Jesus is having a conversation with them, and his clarification to them, I think provides some clarification for us. These are the people who said, I'm22:38 in, I wanna follow you Jesus. And Jesus says, well, you guys know where we're going. And I love it because Thomas responds with the heart that reflects my own heart off and he says, we don't know, Lord.22:50 Thomas says, we have no idea where you're going. How can we know the way? Isn't that great? So honest. Thomas just says, look, what my heart said, Jesus, I wanna be your23:02 follower. I wanna be God's man. I wanna be your disciple. I just have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing. And what I love about the response and we need to grab this for ourselves today, brothers,23:14 is that Jesus doesn't invite them to attend the class. Although there is so much benefit in learning and studying and understanding, he doesn't just give them a list of key scriptures to memorize. Though it's clearly23:26 there is power in God's word. Jesus spoke the word to the devil. He doesn't just give them wrote prayers to recite. Although we're supposed to be fervent in our prayers, he doesn't just give them activities. What I love23:37 is that Jesus says, the way, it's me. I'm it. Pursue me. The next verse, John chapter 14 verse 6, Jesus told them,23:49 I am the way, the truth, and the life. No 1 comes to the father but through me. See, Jesus hinges the entire thing on himself. The entire24:01 invitation to follow him, he says, I am the way, but I'm also the destination. I'm the truth, and I'm the life you're gonna experience on it. Jesus is the roadmap. He is24:13 the way of life. Wherever he is, there's life. But there's also truth. And that's the first rhythm that we need to build into our daily discipleship of24:24 Jesus is a daily connection with the truth of Jesus Christ for god's man. Our day must begin by being with Jesus in order to connect with what is true.24:37 In the morning, God's man must intentionally connect with Christ in order to anchor our hearts, to anchor our minds, to anchor our24:49 day in the unshakable truth of God's word. For for God's man, reading the Bible is not a neat idea. It's not a box that25:01 we're supposed to check off of our spiritual to do's. It's not a quick app hit in between meetings. And if that's been your approach to scripture, I'm sorry. If that's if that's what's been pressed on25:13 you, if you are sitting there and thinking the bible reading it every day seems daunting, it seems like something I'm supposed to do or something I ought to do. Do. That mindset alone might be25:25 what's keeping you from truly encountering God and his Holy Spirit when you read the scripture. Because like a hungry man set before a feast of food,25:37 god's man comes to god's word expecting to be satisfied. The life rhythm of reading god's word is is not some picture of a man who kinda25:48 casually approaches god's word. No. We come before the word expecting things, and this is reflected in our heart posture towards the Bible. Look what James says. James says, but if you look26:00 carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, And if you do what it says and you don't forget what you've heard, then God will bless you. That that word that is translated26:12 as carefully or intently in your in your passage here is the Greek word, and it means to bend beside or to to lean over to get a better look. It's a picture of a man26:24 stopping, changing his position, adjusting his life in order to see something better. That's the posture that we have to approach God's word with. We bend.26:36 We move. We adjust our day. We set our alarm half an hour earlier. We push off golf. We push back surf. Although, Lord, please help it be on the days when the surf is not good. But we adjust our very26:47 lives in order to give the scripture the positioning that it deserves. But we don't just adjust our schedules. We adjust our hearts. Which26:59 means we submit what we believe is true. What culture tells us is true. We sit under the careful teaching and judgment of the scripture. See, we don't bring the book up to27:11 our level. There's not that picture of of us moving the book so that it fits us or the parts of the scripture that we don't like that don't line up with our life's decision. We we kinda bend so that it fits. Now27:23 this is a picture of god's man pliably sitting before God's word allowing it to inform us. And we start our day this way in order to get27:35 the right view of who God is so that our life trajectory is proper. So that the things that I think are in line with God's heart, ultimately the things that I do will also be in line with his heart. Psalm 34 says,27:47 delight yourselves in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. This does not mean obey God so you get what you want. That's prosperity gospel. That's that's junk. What this is saying is27:59 when you delight yourself in me, when you prioritize me, when you come and sit before me every day by reading this book, I'm gonna change your heart. I'm gonna change your desires so that the28:11 things that you want are in line with the things that I want. I will change you and you'll begin pursuing the things that I want. That's what God's saying to us is his sons. When we28:23 read God's word, we change. It changes us. It promises to do that. It was so cool that that verse in James that we read about how we approach the scripture, the end result28:35 and and the goal of the scripture. It does not say, so god man sits before the scripture in order to be condemned. He peers carefully into the scripture to find out just how terrible he is, or or how far28:47 off he is, just how far he missed the mark. No. It says that we are looking into this law that sets us free. The rhythm of connecting with God's truth in the28:59 morning is all about freedom. Freedom from the shackles of lies, from the bondage created by untruth, and there's the rub.29:10 Because if I was your enemy, I would want you to think wrongly about this book. I would twist the freedom that Jesus offers so much that in the end, you would wrongly think that29:22 this book is a mental prison. I try to convince you that you're free now. Apart from it, in your own thoughts, making your own decisions, living according to your own plan. I29:34 try to convince you that this book is a shackle, that this book is a weight. When the truth is, the freest man on earth is the man29:46 walking in accordance with the word of God. But the rhythm of daily connecting with what is true with the words of Christ is more important now29:58 than ever. I don't know if you've noticed. Truth has come under fire in recent years. We have AI creating pictures that seem real. Truth is now even subjective.30:10 We have phrases like your truth, my truth. These phrases are commonplace. Facts have become fiction. Fiction and opinion have become fact. I mean30:22 opinion reigns supreme. And in our hyper individualistic culture, right, we believe the most unloving thing you can do is disagree with someone, and so we're all left to navigate the world based on what we30:34 feel is true. What we desire to be true. In those days, Israel had no king. All the30:46 people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes. This was the time of judges. A time when Israel was very confused, and life was a30:57 mess. And I wonder how many Christians are practically living without a king. Practically, entering their days. Right? Without the kingship,31:10 the direction, the governance of Jesus and his truth in their lives. As God's men, we have to choose this life rhythm. And we choose it based on reality31:22 that every day we're gonna walk out the door and be presented with things that are true and with things that are not true. And we're gonna be forced to discern what is true. Jesus said,31:34 I am. He said, I am the truth. I am not a truth. I don't own my truth. Jesus said, I am the ultimate truth. And so the enemy traffics in lies.31:46 And so our morning connection with God's word and his truth becomes this life giving rhythm of encountering his truth, so that I can discern what is untrue. So it begs a question brothers.31:59 How are your mornings going for you? More specifically, does your morning time of connecting with what is actually true, is it32:11 leading you into a place where you are becoming who you desire to be? Look at the trajectory. Right? Is your daily time in god's truth or the absence of32:23 your daily time in god's truth leading you further and further into who it is that Jesus actually created you to be? Is it leading you towards people and love and towards his purposes? Because the manner in which truth32:35 is getting into our lives will always dictate the success we have in both identifying and battling those lies that are gonna come at us, that are gonna flood our minds the rest of the32:46 day. And so we start to see scripture reading for what it actually is. It's a chance to fasten ourself to the anchor of God's truth. And so our morning set the tone for our32:58 day, and ultimately the trajectory for our life. It's it's the beginning of our daily apprenticeship to Jesus. This decision first and above all, to submit33:10 ourselves and seek Christ's mind on things. And the results reveal themselves by what is going on in our hearts. Really the proof is the direction of our lives. The discipleship33:22 rhythms in our lives, Right? The places that we've set aside to be transformed are perfectly designed to create in us the type of faith we are seeing come to fruition.33:35 Right? The type of faith that we have is is the perfect result of these rhythms. So where is it that you go for truth? God's word? And if not God's33:47 word first, what is forming you? Ask yourself, who gets to decide what is true for you? Instagram? Joe Rogan? Fox News? Your friends?33:59 Your own desires? And the quietness of the morning before the day has kind of created its own inertia, this is our greatest opportunity to hear from34:10 God by reading his word. In our morning routine, God whispers to us. Right in that morning space, we bump into who God really is, and he reminds us of who we34:22 really are. And Jesus modeled this for us. Remember, what he modeled for us is meant for us. The God man himself saw that the beginning of his day was a time to be with his father to34:34 remain on track. Mark 1 35 says, before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up, went to an isolated place to pray. There's intentionality there. He got up early before the34:46 day began. And we must do the same guys before our minds get going, before the calendar heats up and gets full. Right? We need to imitate Jesus.34:57 When his heart and mind were ready to be formed and transformed by his father, he intentionally sought the voice of God. We have to do the same. We have this unique window35:09 to connect with what's true in the morning and allow Christ to set the trajectory for our day. The day is gonna come at us as strong as an ocean current, as a tidal pull.35:21 As a surfer, I know what it's like to fight a strong tide. Me and 1 of my best friends Shane, and my sons, and my nephew Porter, we're all surfing on Christmas Eve. And the current was very very strong.35:33 It just reminds you of how small and insignificant, or how much time you should be spending in the gym, in my case. But you just you have no strength to overcome the tidal pull. You're watching the ocean, the current is35:45 so strong. I Once I'm in the ocean, I'm gonna get swept away. But I decide where and how I enter the water. And if the surf's breaking35:56 here and the tides pulling south, I know I'm gonna walk about a hundred yards north. So that that current puts me where I wanna be. We don't know what untruth is gonna come our way during the day.36:08 When we step into the tide of culture, the speed of our days, what's gonna come our way, but we do control how we enter the water. When our day begins in the36:20 word of God, when his truth gets to get in first, it's like walking past that current. It's like seeing the lies for what they are and recognizing that we're gonna go where God called us36:32 to go. We're gonna enter where he showed us to enter so that we're gonna be anchored in his truth. The time we spend in God's word every morning will set the trajectory and the tone for how we encounter36:44 our entire day. And our goal is engaging scripture not just to gain a lot of biblical knowledge and trivia, but rather it's the daily development of a biblical36:57 worldview. It's to put on the Jesus glasses so that everything I see for the rest of the day has to go through the filter of what he says is true, what he says is important. And if our hearts and minds aren't anchored in37:09 what God says is true, and what God says is worthy of exchanging our lives for, if those rhythms don't govern our minutes, we're we're just gonna respond to whatever is current,37:21 whatever is popular, or whatever is urgent. Right? The loudest voice will get our hearts. But when the day starts in God's word, he transforms our37:33 minds. Right? The very way that we think is altered. Listen to this encouragement in Romans chapter 12 verse 2 says, don't copy the behavior and customs of this world. Don't enter37:45 the water and the currents where they do. Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way that you think. Then you'll learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing37:57 and perfect. The reticular activating system, the RAS, is a bundle of nerves that sits in your brain stem. In in short, this is the birthplace of habits and life rhythms.38:09 Physically, medically. Behavior, consciousness, even motivation kinda comes out of this place in our brain. And every day, it's being shaped.38:20 Every day, it's trained and reinforced by what goes into our minds, and then how we perceive it and apply it. And so our mornings in scripture become places38:32 where this type of thinking can be altered, where patterns can be created. Copy the customs of this world or let God's truth transform us. Physically, we're38:44 being transformed. It's not locked in place. It's daily being trained. So allow the Lord to tell you whether what you think or feel is true.38:56 We might have to reevaluate that. Whenever what we want or we we believe presses up against something in God's word and is shown to be untrue, we have an option. Actually,39:08 I have 2 options. Receive the truth for what it is and alter our desires or alter our view of God's word. So that we can continue in sin. We reject39:20 it or we accept it. But remember, as god's men, we bend so that the book fits. We bend to get a better view of it. We're presented with god's truth and we let it alter39:32 us. We let it change us. We go against those arguments. Remember second Corinthians 10 5, we demolish every argument and pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of Christ. That includes in ourselves. ThisShow more In this video 0:00 The Call to Discipleship and Truth50:33 The Inner Journey and Promised Land Living
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