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Roadman: Living by Faith on Life's Journey 0:00 You have a Bible. I want you to hold 2 spots, and only 2. I want you to hold a spot in Hebrews chapter 11, and then Psalm 1 21. In that order, those are our 2 key passages. As0:11 we start a new series called Roadman. And just to kind of get us thinking in the right direction, let's talk about roads. Alright? Every guy listening to0:23 the sound of my voice right now, we're hitting the road. Right? Literally and figuratively, we're going to work. We're doing activities. We got trips of all kinds. Maybe you're on the road0:35 right now listening to the sound of my voice. And that first kind of road is a literal, physical, either paved road or dirt road, some kind of highway, freeway,0:47 byway. You are on a road, and there's a certain excitement with some road trips as opposed to others. Like, you know, the drive to work versus0:59 a road trip with the guys. There's even songs. Right? On the road again. Right? There's a lot of you country guys that are gonna finish that out, but just in case you're like me and you1:11 didn't know the words, on the road again, going places that I've never been, seeing things that I may never see again, and I can't wait, come on, to get1:22 on the road again. So there's literal road that we travel. Alright? Now that's kind of a metaphor, those experiences, literally. Sometimes the road we're traveling is mundane.1:35 Sometimes it's super exciting. The visuals sometimes are super boring. Sometimes the visuals are spectacular, and it's a good metaphor for the next type of1:46 road, which is the road of life. Right? And that road is a metaphysical 1. Right? That speaks to your personal past and the roads that1:58 you've traveled in your past, your past experiences, past choices, past seasons. Right? Your present, the present road that you're traveling right now, filled with probably blessings and2:10 challenges. And then the road that you're gonna travel, future experiences, and that makes up in some the road of life. And that road, past, present, and future, it's2:22 filled with people. It's filled with circumstances. It's it's filled, unfortunately, with trauma and losses and encounters. Right? Victories, defeats,2:34 and all of the emotions and all of the sensations that go with that particular season, that road that you traveled in that period2:46 of time. So there's a literal road, there's the road of life, and then there's the end of the road. And that's the moment where we stop. We stop traveling whatever2:58 road we're on, and we make a transition. You know, maybe if you've watched some of these competitions on TV, there's a panel of judges, and there's round after round after round. But when3:09 somebody's journey in that competition stops, what do those judges say? They say, sorry, Joe. This is the end of the road for you today. Right?3:21 Now the Bible says that you and I, we are road men. What does that mean? It means that we're on this road of life, and we're on a journey,3:33 and at some point, we will get to the end of the road and transition into a new journey with God forever.3:46 Right? So that's what we're gonna study. We're gonna talk about the the joys and challenges of being on your personal journey with God on the road of life,3:58 and then you're gonna get to that end of the road. Alright? But God has some things to say about this road that we're on now. And that's really what we wanna pay attention to. God says that that there's4:10 choices of roads. Right? There's narrow roads and there's broad roads. 1 road leads to life, the other leads to destruction. God says there's going to be obstacles. You're going to be opposed. You're going to4:21 be thwarted. There's going to be difficulties, trials, delays, difficulty. All obstacles on the road to God. Right? But God4:33 says he's gonna be with us in the midst of all that. He also says that the road of life will create unplanned encounters and experiences with people. And4:45 those interactions with people are super important on this road of life that we're traveling. And then, of course, sometimes God takes us off roading.4:57 Right? On some adventure that was totally unplanned, but is totally cool, and we don't know that it's totally cool until we're on the other side of the experience of going off road5:09 with God, and then we look back and we're like, oh my goodness. That was unplanned. I would have never taken that road, but God took me down that road, and I'm so glad that he did. So what we're going to do in part 1,5:20 we're just going to look at what the Bible says about travelers on the road to God. Right? What does what does the Bible say about the road man on his way to God? And then5:32 we're going to look at 4 fears that road men have, right from scripture. Alright? As they travel to God and then God's fore answers. So let's look at that first passage in Hebrews5:44 11, and let's talk about road men and how they travel this road. It's Hebrews 11 verses 13 to 16. Of course, if you're familiar with the5:56 Bible, Hebrews 11 is called the Hall of Faith. It's talking about people who believe, and how they traveled in faith on this journey to6:07 God. So let's read the passage then we'll unpack it, and I think we're gonna find a pretty cool conclusion there, at the end. Alright. It says this in Hebrews 11 13 to 16, all these people, the road6:19 people, were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised. They only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and6:31 strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left,6:43 they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly 1. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be6:55 called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. Alright. So there's there's 4 verbs, 4 present active indicative7:07 verbs. Right? Ones with an I n g ending. 4 words that identify God's roadmen. And the first word that identifies us says all these people were, write this down,7:19 living by faith before the fact. Right? The Bible says they did not receive the things promised, they only saw them and welcomed them from afar. So7:31 people who believe in God believe they're traveling this road of life as a pilgrim, and they are on their relay on their on their way to God. Right? So that's the promised destination. Alright? And they're7:43 committed to it. Alright? There's God. There's a promise of God. And road people who live in faith are living life in that promise every day7:55 with energy and with purpose. They're living in the promise that they will land at the destination with God. The second word that we see is the word admitting. Write this8:07 down. They're admitting their identity as they travel the road of life with their actions. The Bible says, people who say such things show that they are looking for a country8:19 on their own. In other words, their actions show that they are focused and believing in the destination. Right? They're here8:31 on earth, but their focus is on the destination, which is heaven. Right? And their actions now show their focus. Alright? So8:43 all roadmen, you and I, men of faith, men of God, we're traveling the road of life, and we have a promise from God. And we're living by faith in that promise before the fact of experiencing8:54 it. Right? We're welcoming it from a distance, and we're admitting our identity with our actions. Right? We're living in light of that. We're making choices in light of that. The third9:06 word in the passage, is the word looking. Write this down. And they're looking beyond earth to heaven. Kinda is consistent. The dominoes are falling. Right? They get a promise from God, right,9:18 of eternity with him. Right? And then they're admitting with their identity and they're admitting their identity with their actions. Right? We're heavenly men, not earthly men, and so we're living in9:30 light of where we are going, and we're looking beyond this life to the next 1. It's called having an eternal perspective. We live presently with an9:42 eternal perspective in light of our destination. And then the last word in the passage is longing. Write this down. They're longing for better to replace9:54 broken. Right? So living on earth, right, you have an unredeemed, fallen, broken earth, and then you have a perfect10:07 heaven, right, where God is, where there's no sin, there's no evil, there's no injustice. Right? Who wouldn't want better to replace10:18 broken? And that's what we're longing for, aren't you? Especially in today's global moment. I mean, it's like, take me now, Lord. But until that time, I'm here and I'm10:30 traveling this road on earth. Alright? And now here's the cool thing. So all road men, right, we're living by faith before the fact. We're admitting our identity by our10:41 actions. We're looking beyond earth to heaven, and we're longing for better heaven to replace broken where we are now. And we are we are doing that. What's God thinking10:54 as we are living that way on this road to God? Alright? The Bible says, therefore, in the last verse, 16, therefore God is not11:06 ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. Write this down. God is proud and preparing for your arrival. As you live by faith,11:18 as you admit your identity by your actions, as you're looking beyond earth to heaven, and as you're longing for better to replace broken, God is proud, not ashamed to be called their god, because we live that way,11:30 as we're traveling this road on earth to heaven. Right? And he's preparing for our arrival. He's preparing a city for them. Okay? The people11:42 that are living like this. I think that's so cool to know, as you're making daily choices, to love God and to love people11:54 every way you possibly can. That's living by faith. That's showing with your actions who you are. That's looking beyond earth to heaven, and that's longing12:07 for better to replace broken. As we're doing that, men of God and road men traveling to God, what's God thinking? What's he doing? Man, he's proud, and he's preparing12:19 for your arrival. Just let the paint dry on that for a second. Some of you are gutting it out right now. Man, you're you're faith in it. You're not12:31 feeling it. And God wants you to know he's proud of you, not ashamed to be called your God. And guess what? He sees everything. He's Elroy, the God who sees.12:43 And he sees you. He sees the choices that you're making. He sees the sacrifice. He sees the commitment that you are a roadman traveling to God.12:55 And, he's proud, and he's getting ready for you. He's getting ready for you to arrive. And that's that's, an encouragement for all of us. Amen? God's13:07 getting ready for us to arrive. He'll be ready when your time comes and you hit the end of the road. And I don't know where or when that's gonna be, how it's gonna happen, but when that time comes,13:19 it's just so comforting to know that God is ready for my arrival. Why don't you just say that with me? God's ready for my arrival. But between now and then, we are gonna travel13:31 this road in a in a faithful way. Our actions are gonna show our identity. We're gonna have an eternal perspective. We're gonna be focused on the finish, and that's gonna13:43 drive our actions. And man, that longing that we have, that's very real too. Where we're gonna long for better to replace broken. Alright. So13:55 the journey to God is a theme in scripture. It's a big theme in Hebrews chapter 11, and that's where I kind of want to lay the foundation. You and I are14:06 roadmen. We're pilgrims on a journey to God, and this is what the Bible says about how we travel that road. Now, it's a theme, and the14:18 road to God very clearly, as some of you are really feeling today, requires endurance. Sometimes you just if you're like me at all, sometimes when you're on this road14:30 to God and you're trying to stay faithful and you're trying to do the right thing, and you're trying to have, a heavenly mindset on earth, you just wanna give up. I mean,14:42 life is relentless. Jesus said, in this life, you will have tribulation. That means that our plan will get bowling balled. Our comfort will get bowling14:53 balled. Our expectations, our dreams will get bowling balled. Right? Knocked over and knocked out. And when you hit those moments, sometimes you're just15:05 like, really? I mean, some of you are saying that right now, like, really? You feel like giving up. And that's where Psalm 1 21 comes into play. It's15:17 a man literally on the road to meet with God. You see, in the Old Testament, you would worship in Zion or Jerusalem. That was the place where God dwelled in15:29 the temple. Right? The place of his presence. And so in Psalm 1 21, what we see is a guy who is standing in the Jericho Valley, which is15:41 1200 feet below sea level. And as a roadman, he's gotta get on the road. He's gotta hit the road to go be where God is in Zion. Right?15:53 The city of God. And so this is the literal city, Jerusalem, and he's going to worship. And he's got a journey. Now the16:04 Jericho Valley is 1200 feet below sea level. He's gotta get 3500 feet of elevation. Right? He's gotta get to sea level,16:16 and then he's gotta travel through these mountains. And you're gonna hear as we read Psalm 1 21 about this this journey, what his fears are16:28 because God speaks into his fears, and God assuring him so that he makes it into God's presence. And it's gonna speak to us about our journey16:41 to God in the heavenly city, the 1 he's preparing for us. Alright? So let's read Psalm 1 21. Man in the Jericho Valley. Ready? I lift up my eyes to the mountains.16:54 Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip. He who watches over you will not slumber.17:06 Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord watches over you. The Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun17:18 will not harm you by day nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm. He will watch over your life. The Lord will watch over your coming17:30 and going, both now and forevermore. So from this passage, we we glean a few things, and God uses PsalmConquering Four Fears on the Road to Zion 17:42 1 21 to speak directly into the heart of the road man who is on his way to be with God. And the first thing that's addressed is this,17:54 write this down, do not fear the magnitude of what I call you to do. So this guy is standing in the Jericho Valley, and he's called upon to18:06 go worship the Lord, and he's got to take this journey. God's calling him to be with him, and he's got to take this journey, and he's looking18:17 up at the journey to start, and it's like, my eyes I lived up my eyes, and I'm looking at the mountains. Now the mountains mountains in the Bible represent18:29 challenges. Alright? So when you see the word mountains and it's used metaphorically like this, it's synonymous with challenges. There are so many challenges. Right? There's18:41 mountains, plural. There's challenges to overcome. But then he says this, I lift up my eyes to the mountains. Where does my help come from? My help comes from18:53 the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. So having that context for this roadman, 1200 feet below sea19:05 level. He's gotta get to Zion. Huge challenges on that journey. What does he tell himself? Well, I'm gonna need help for this journey. And he says, my help comes from19:17 the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. What's he saying? Okay. Those mountains, those challenges, yes, they are big. This is going to be a19:29 challenge for me, but guess what? My maker is bigger than the mountain. Alright? God says, I'm bigger. Alright? And he has a right view of God,19:41 and when you have the right view of God, that the maker is bigger than the mountain, alright, or the challenge, you can have a right view now of the challenges. So he19:52 reframes the challenge now. My eyes look to the hills. I lift up my eyes to the mountains. Where does my help come from? And then all of a sudden, he starts looking away from the challenge to20:04 God. And he's like, my help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. And you know what, guys? That's what God's saying to many of you right now listening to the sound of my voice. You're experiencing20:17 your eyes are focused on the challenges, on the mountains of life. And like the psalmist, you need to say, hey, I'm acknowledging those. My eyes look to the mountains.20:29 Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. And God wants you to know that the maker of heaven and earth is bigger than the mountain that you're facing. Alright? He's bigger.20:41 He's bigger than that financial problem you've got yourself in it too. He's bigger than the relational challenge that's in front of you. Right? He's bigger than the professional challenge that you have. He's bigger than20:53 the temptation that you are experiencing. He's when you're bigger, you're more than able to help. Right? So the challenge in front of me is only intimidating21:05 if the power behind me is insufficient. But the Bible says right now on your journey of life where you are in a challenge or when you get to a new moment where you face a challenge,21:17 God is bigger. Your life in God reflects your view of God. Your journey with God reflects your view of God. And that's what the Bible is saying to us men. God's word. As21:28 road men, on the way to God, we're gonna encounter some fears. And 1 of them is, this challenge is too great for me. What God's calling me to do right here, it's too much. I can't do it. And God's just going, uh-uh.21:40 I'm bigger. I'm the maker of heaven and earth. Keep going forward. Right? I love that. Right? And it gives you confidence of perspective. We all need21:52 that when facing a challenge. Right? We need to know that the power behind us is bigger than the challenger in front of us, and that's what God's saying. I'm the maker, and I'm bigger than the mountain.22:04 Alright? God says I'm bigger. The second theme in here where God is speaking is this. Write this down. Do not fear misfortune on the way.22:15 Men, on the way to God, you're gonna hit misfortune. And because we know that we live in a fallen, unredeemed, unjust, evil world, that opposes22:28 and thwarts, right, it's the same for the guy on the Jericho road. There was so much misfortune that was out there. Right? There's there's hazardous22:40 steep cliffs. He can fall into all these wadis, these these deep valleys that go down, you know. He's he's wearing sandals, man. He's on a dirt road. It's it's it's slippery.22:52 There's the potential for setback. There's the potential for injuries. There's a potential for fatal falls. And he might even experience some of those things. But23:03 here's the message from God. Right? Right there in Psalm 1 21. Let's read it together. He will not let your foot slip. He who watches over23:15 you will not slumber. Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. Wow. Man, if you're the dude on the Jericho23:27 Road, that's a promise you want. Right? And that promise gives you confidence in the advance. God says, I will anchor you. Right? Write that23:39 down. God says, I will anchor you. Right? He will not let your foot slip. Have you ever been on a hike? You ever been climbing, and you you kinda make a step, and then23:51 there's a slip, but then there's a slip. Right? And if you ever been on a hike or where your your foot grabbed the earth,24:03 right, and the earth and the physics of it didn't let your foot slip all the way, and then you take a tumble. I think all of us have been in a situation like that,24:15 where we started to slip, but then there was some physics, some anchor that just went boom. And we stopped slipping, and we were able to plant and to move on. That is the24:27 picture. He will not let your foot slip. He who watches over you will not slumber. Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. What does that mean? God's got his eye on you.24:39 He's not gonna let you slip. Alright? Now, you might have a misstep. You might have a setback, but setbacks aren't sentences. Right? Doesn't mean24:51 that you don't keep traveling the road to God. Doesn't mean you don't stop doing whatever will show love for God and people. Falls aren't fatal. Right? Proverbs 24 16. It's25:02 not in your notes, but it says a righteous man stumbles 7 times, but rises again. Right? Stumbling on the journey is expected. Big amen there. Big amen from this25:14 guy, man, because I stumble a lot on my road to God. But stumbling or set getting set back, that's not a sentence. Stumbling is expected, the Bible25:26 says. Right? Righteous man falls 7 times. That means God's man. Right? The righteous man, even he falls 7 times. What does 7 times mean? It means a lot. Right? It's like so many25:38 times, but rises again. Rising makes the man of God. Rising makes the road man who makes it successfully to God. Right? He watches over25:50 us. He is going to he sees exactly where you are. Keep pressing forward into God, into God's will, into the next26:02 destination where God is calling you forward on the road to him. A third theme that we see in Psalm 1 21 is this, do not fear26:13 exposure to pressures and unknowns. Right? Pressure and unknowns. Right? Make you feel vulnerable, Right? When you're out in the open. It's a terrain26:26 change. Right? You you can see, like, okay, I'm traveling this narrow dirt, you know, path. There's a there's a long drop to my right. He's gonna anchor me. But then, on the journey, the terrain26:38 changes. Right? And now I'm like in the wide open space. Right? And when you're unprotected, no mountains, no cover, no shade.26:50 Right? You're you're in a terrain change, and you move to the open ground. Look at what Psalm 1 21 says. The Lord watches over you. The Lord is your shade27:01 at your right hand. The sun will not harm you by day nor the moon by night. Right? When you say yes to God for your journey, you start27:13 the journey now, and you're on a journey to him. When you say yes to God, there's there's 2 things that you're not immune to. Alright? Pressure and the unknown. Right? Pressure and27:25 the unknown. The sun in the open. Right? In in this this territory, Jericho Valley, walking to Jerusalem. That's pressure, man. That's27:37 dehydration. That's sweat. That's heat and pressure. Right? And he's gonna experience it. What does God say? The Lord is your27:49 shade. So under the pressure he's gonna get relief. But you gotta turn to the Lord to get the relief. Some of you right now are under huge huge28:00 pressure. And you're you're you're not turning to the Lord. You're turning to yourself. You're turning to your buddies. You're turning to your resourcefulness. And God is saying, stop that. I'm28:13 the shade when you're feeling pressure and vulnerable. I'm gonna be your shade. Turn to me. I'm the shade at your right hand. Right? That means I'm near. I'm28:25 not far. You turn to God, he'll turn to you. But you have to stop trusting yourself or man and start trusting the Lord. Some of you needed28:37 to hear that right now, today, and you're gonna change who you're trusting in. God wants to be your relief. But then there's the unknown. So there's sun by day, the28:49 moon by night. Just darkness. It's the unknowns. It's things that go bump in the night, things you can't control, things that you can't see. And so God's gonna be shade to comfort you from the29:01 sun, but God is going to protect you at night as well. So there's pressure, and you're feeling it, and you can see that, and you need to turn to the Lord29:13 when you're dealing with that pressure. But then there's stuff that you just can't see. Right? That's out there. It's just out there. And you could drive yourself crazy thinking of all the unknowns, but God's just29:24 saying, I got that. You keep going forward in me. I got this. You keep going forward in me. I got that person. You keep going forward in me. I'll take care of them. You keep going29:36 forward in me. Right? Stay on the journey to God. Right? Stay there. So don't fear exposure to pressure and unknowns. God says write29:48 this down. I will comfort and assure you in the midst. Right? But the only way you can experience the Lord's comfort and assurance in the midst is to turn to30:00 him. He's available, and he is watching, and he's ready to act and give you relief from the sun and comfort with the unknowns, but you gotta30:11 trust him, right, on your journey to him. Right? The third thing that we see is do not fear enemies opposing you30:23 on the way to God. God's like saying, hey, don't fear enemies opposing you on the way to me. Alright? Because you're gonna be opposed. Right? You're gonna be opposed by supernatural forces. You're30:35 gonna be opposed by natural circumstances. You're gonna be opposed by the devil. You're gonna be opposed by your own fears and insecurities. There's there's opposition. Right? But guess what? Opposition30:47 calls out faith in the God who's bigger, who's watching, who will anchor you, and who will comfort and assure you. Right? Look at what it says in Psalm 1 21. The Lord30:59 will keep you from all harm. He will watch over your life. The lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. So when the bible says31:11 the lord will keep you from all harm, what does all harm mean? All harm. Now will people harm you? Possibly. But the Lord redeems31:24 everything that happens to us. Because if you love the Lord, the Bible says that God is causing all things to work together for the good of those who love him, to them that are called according to that31:36 purpose. Right? On the road to God. Right? And so he redeems the harm. Some of you today, you've been harmed.31:48 Maybe even harmed by a boss, harmed by a church, harmed by another Christian, harmed by, you know, a friend. I don't know. Maybe physically harmed. You know? But God's gonna31:59 redeem that. God can take that harm and he can redeem it. How do I know that? Because God took the harm of the cross inflicted32:11 upon Jesus. What did he do? He redeemed it resulting in our salvation and our32:23 redemption. The Lord will keep you from all harm. It looked bad, and he got tortured and crucified, but then God redeemed that harm.32:35 Right? God watched over the totality of the moment, not just the event of the harm. And the lord was watching. He was32:47 working. I love when it says in Psalm 1 21, the lord will watch over your coming and going. God's watching over the totality of what's happening to you, not just the event of the harm32:59 or the difficulty or the trial or the mistake. He wants to redeem. He's watching over your coming and your going. See that motion? Came into it. Now we're33:10 we're gonna keep going. I'm not gonna fear enemies opposing me on the way. Alright? God says this. Write this down. I see what you33:22 don't and will take action. It's alright. You stay on that road to me. Stay focused. Right? Stay living by faith. Admit by your actions that33:34 you're a citizen of heaven. Right? Look beyond earth to heaven. Right? Long for better to replace broken. Alright? So there's a33:46 there's a great picture. That's why I love Psalm 1 21, because it's a roadman on the road to Zion, the city of God. And as we we read33:58 in Hebrews 11, that's that's our road. Right? And we're living by faith. Right? We're admitting by our actions that we belong to heaven. Right? On earth. We're making different34:10 choices than people who don't believe. We're looking. We're longing. And God is proud. He's not ashamed to be called our God. And he's preparing a city. Same for this dude.34:22 He's going to the place where God is. And on this journey, he has all these promises. Don't fear the magnitude. Don't fear misfortune. Don't fear exposure to pressure and34:34 the unknowns. Don't fear enemies. I am with you. Right? So how are we gonna wrap this up? I I say we look at the road man's prayer forShow more In this video 0:00 Roadman: Living by Faith on Life's Journey17:36 Conquering Four Fears on the Road to Zion34:44 The Shepherd's Guidance Home
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