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Living the Ultimate Life Through Discipline 0:04 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible, I want you to hold 2 spots. 1 in Jeremiah chapter 2, and the other in First Corinthians chapter 9. And if you don't have your Bible with you, don't worry about0:16 it. You can look at the downloaded notes and we're even going to put, the verses that we're going to be reading on the screen. If you're joining us for the first time, we're in a series called The Ultimate. And the big0:27 idea for this series is super simple. All right? We have limited time, you and I. We have 1 life and we want to live it to the fullest. I think every man wants that0:39 and agrees with that. The problem with wanting to live the ultimate life, living it to the fullest is what does that mean? What does it look like? Well, that depends on who you0:51 ask. If you ask culture, you'll hear, hey, you only live once. If it feels good to you, if it looks good to you, if1:03 it sounds good, go ahead and do that and do it now. The message is live for the immediate. Now, that's if you ask culture. But if you ask Christ, if you're a man of1:14 God and you ask Christ, hey, I have limited time, 1 life, I wanna live it to the fullest, he'll say, that's right. You do only live once and that time is short1:27 but here's your filter. If it's good for God, if it's good for people and if it's good for your eternity, that's a different filter than what culture is saying in1:39 terms of how you discipline your choices. And so in this session what we wanna look at is just another factor that weights us toward living1:50 for the ultimate and living for Christ versus living for the immediate and listening to culture. And to get us thinking in the right direction, I want you to think about a mom and a2:02 teenage son and the teenage son is going out with his friends and he's running through the living room and maybe she's at the kitchen and he's running out and he gets out the front door to go get in the car with his2:14 friends and she runs to the door and she shouts, Make good choices. What is she doing? What does she know? Well, she knows that he's now2:25 in the arena of the world. She knows that he's gonna be put under pressure. She knows that he can in the moment choose what's immediate and maybe not2:37 healthy or, he can choose values, he can choose a right way to go, even choose his faith, right? Now you and I are not2:49 teenage boys. We're sons who grew up. And as men who grow up, our decision making patterns develop. We adopt values3:01 that inform our decisions, right? Our moral and spiritual compass gets tested. We get tempted, right? But here's the difference now. The difference now is3:13 that the weight of our choices are much heavier. We're as men, not islands, right, grown men, we don't make decisions in a vacuum. In fact, there are family,3:25 there are friends, there are business partners, there are children, there are spouses, there are sons, there are daughters and the spirals of their relationships going forward that are3:37 impacted by some of the decisions that we make. And I confess that most of the time I don't think about that and probably neither do you,3:49 that there's a potential blast zone related to 1 good choice or 1 bad choice that ripples out and can radiate 1 of 2 things. It can radiate4:01 blessing on the people around you or it can radiate chaos. And if you're like me, I would love to have some of those moments4:13 back, right? And that's why the challenge for us as God's men is to remain in this short life, and we have to look at it like that because that's what God says. He says it's like a4:25 vapor, is to remain ultimately disciplined in our choices. And we know how hard it is to4:37 sort of establish spiritual integrity. We gotta make consistent choices over time and under pressure to develop spiritual integrity. And man, sometimes I know for myself that's taken4:48 years, decades to build that foundation, to be disciplined over the course of years, but then guys, and we see it happening all the time in 15:00 moment. It's like all that integrity goes away under pressure in 1 moment. We get sloppy. We lose our center.5:13 We choose the immediate and the whole foundation crumbles. And so that's why God says, yeah, life is short, it's a vapor. But he also says that we can5:25 live ultimately for God, for good, for people and for our personal eternity to the end by staying spiritually disciplined.5:38 And, yeah, we can make good choices. Now the Bible reveals men of God who started strong and over the course of their life, they built a lifestyle and they built a set of disciplines in there that kept them5:50 faithful, right, faithful to the end. But then the Bible also reveals other men who started strong, but then they started to slide with6:01 from that ultimate eternal God and good and people mindset into living for the immediate and taking their cues from culture. Right? And I'm6:13 glad that God has those stories, all right? Because if it was just the guys who made it through and they did great, yeah, you can learn from that. But you know, I learn a lot from studying my own mistakes6:25 and that's why I'm glad God puts the mistakes of his many. He's not afraid of showing the problems of his people or the mistakes of his people because this their stories are in here for us, right?6:37 So that we can study them, so that either we can see those tendencies in ourselves, recognize them, or even avoid, the pattern of slide so that we can6:49 make it to the end, Right? On the back of the mistakes of others, we don't have to make those same mistakes. So I want us to, with our first passage of scripture, just listen to God7:00 himself describe what he sees happening with his men. And we see this in Jeremiah chapter 2. Now I want you to listen in to7:13 where they were, but then where they went. God says this in Jeremiah chapter 2 verses 7 through 14. He says, and when I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its bounty and7:24 goodness, you defiled my land and corrupted the possession I had promised you. The priests did not ask, where is the Lord?7:36 Those who taught my word ignored me. The rulers turned against me. The prophets spoke in the name of Baal, wasting their time on worthless idols. Therefore,7:48 I will bring my case against you, says the Lord. I will even bring charges against your children's children in the years to come. Go west and look in the land of Cyprus. Go east and search through8:00 the land of Kedar. Has anyone ever heard of anything as strange as this? Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones? Even though they are8:12 not gods at all. Yet my people have exchanged their glorious god for worthless idols. The heavens are shocked at such a8:24 thing and shrink back in horror and dismay, says the lord. For my people have done 2 evil things. They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water,8:36 and they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all. Wow. What a picture. Right? You have8:47 God, a community of His people, a community of His men, right? And they start strong. They get to know Him, they experience His miracles, they're delivered by Him,8:59 they get to know His ways and His word and they start to trust his promises and they listen to his promise. And then they get to this place, right, in their relationship with God, a place of abundance, a9:11 place of blessing. God says it's a place of bounty and goodness and then there's this transition. It's just like they start losing spiritual altitude, right? And let's look at9:23 that and let's study this and let's see if maybe we can recognize some tendencies that might be happening in ourselves or just observe and avoid this9:34 process that gets God's people living for the immediate versus the ultimate. The transition from the ultimate to the immediate involves, write this down, sliding from the pure to the impure. You9:46 notice the language in this passage. God says, you went into a place of bounty and goodness, right, a place of purity. And then he says, you defiled my land and corrupted the9:58 possession I had promised you, right? And the way we should think about this is where we just begin to add a little10:10 impurity to a pure relationship with God. Where we sort of give ourselves permission to say, you know what? 95 percent of my life, you know, it's God, it's Jesus, it's Bible, it's, you know,10:21 it's love him, it's worship, it's also. But there's just this little part of that which is impure. Now, we may think, that's not a big deal. But ask a10:33 wife if just, you know, a 1 night stand on the side, just once, 1 night, If that defiles her relationship with her husband or maybe, you know, think about a tall10:45 glass of water. Glug, glug, glug, glug, fill it up. Right? It's got like 80 ounces. Then just take a little dropper. Just put 1 drop10:57 of cyanide or poison in there. You're gonna drink that water. It only takes a little impurity to defile or make impure the whole11:09 thing and that's how the slide begins. We just kinda allow for some impurity, some compromise, some little foothold11:21 to get a place in our lives and we let it stay. Now I know I'm talking to a lot of guys out there. It's just, hey, I'm the 95 5 guy, but guess what?11:33 The way God looks at it, it's like just a little. Now that's not living for the ultimate. You've lost a little bit of get that discipline back. Call that what it is,11:45 impure and be like God. He says, you'll be holy because I'm holy, Alright? And make the effort. Right? Second, we see the transition from ultimate to the immediate involves sliding11:56 from acknowledging God to ignoring him. There's this progression in the passage and it's a it goes like this, those who taught my word ignored me. That was step 1.12:08 Then the guys teaching the word, they influence the influencers, the rulers, then the rulers turn against them. And then the men of God, the prophets, they start talking like they don't even belong to12:20 God. And it's this weird thing of moving from, yeah, I'm fully identified with God to we don't talk about him anymore, right? And it's an internal thing,12:32 it's a decision, And then it moves to an external behavior. Right? And, and it's this domino effect. But it starts with12:44 just like, not not in this part of my life. Maybe over here but not over there. Right? Where functionally in certain parts of12:56 their lives, they were committed and obedient to God but then they let that little impurity in and then all of a sudden in that area where they wanted to, behave the way they wanted,13:08 they became functional atheists. And as a researcher of men and Christian men in particular, I see the same thing happening with us That we can believe that the Bible is true, attend Bible studies,13:20 go to church, do these different things that represent a lifestyle that's committed to the ultimate. But then in these other areas, it's like God's a buzzkill And we just don't talk about him13:32 there. We don't we just ignore him there, we don't bring him up, we don't let his influence come into that area of our life. Right? Ignoring, turning, and then turning against, and then acting13:44 out the ignoring and the inner turning against. All right? That's part of the slide. Third thing we observe is the transition from the ultimate to the immediate involves sliding from redeeming time to13:56 wasting time. This is huge. Right? So as the impurity gets in, as sort of the the the compartmentalization starts and culture starts to influence14:07 over God, they start investing more time and energy into these other sources of perceived meaning, right? Other14:19 religions, other practices, other habits that are outside of their relationship with the 1 true God. And God assigns a value to that14:31 and it's this. In fact, he he says things like worthless or you're wasting your time. You ever said that to somebody? It's just like you're doing stuff, you you think it's gonna14:43 give you something, but you're wasting your time. You think you're gonna get an outcome out of it, but you're wasting your time. I know I'm speaking to many hundreds of men out there who are watching this. And you know14:54 you're investing in something that is outside of God or a habit or an attitude or a relationship. And God is saying right now, you are wasting15:07 your time. It's worthless because I'm not celebrating that part of your life. I can't celebrate it because it's sin. And that's what was15:18 going on here. Idolatry is sin. It's anytime you put something in place of God or anytime you elevate yourself or something else over God's person15:30 and God's will. So that's the next part of the slide. They go from redeeming time and living ultimately now and they get into the land and it's all good, but then the slow slide. They start wasting their time on godless15:42 things. Fourth, we see the slide involves moving from the 1 true God to lesser gods. God describes it like they're trading in a car. It's15:54 like they trade in, you know, a really nice, nice car for a junker, for a jalopy. He says, has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones16:06 even though they are not gods at all? So God's standing back watching his people make this awful exchange of him16:18 for these other pursuits and these other identities and these other values and these other beliefs and these other behaviors and just going, wow, this is strange.16:30 Why would you do that? I mean, because they're deceived. God has been assigned a lower value because of the impurity. It's been polluted. He's been ignored. He's been turned against.16:43 Time has been invested in overtime. It's It's like a ship that starts to tack over time. The longer time goes on the wrong course, the further away the boat gets. And that's16:54 what's happened with God's people. They've exchanged the 1 true God for lesser gods, all right? Let's look at the next thing the slide involves. It involves sliding from owning17:06 my faith to leasing it, okay? God says, you abandoned me, right? It's like God didn't abandon them. He owns them as his people. He's17:18 committed to them. He's committed to the relationship and as we read the Bible we see just how committed God is to his people. He says, I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. I'm still committed. They, on the17:28 other hand, the sliders, the ones who started strong but then began the slide, right? They're like, no, we're in a lease. Maybe with an option to buy, right? You17:40 know the mentality of that owning versus leasing? I mean, just think about it. You know, car dealers tell me this all the time. You know, the people who lease cars, man, they don't care how they treat the car. The people17:51 who own it, man, they maintain it a little bit better. They care about it. Why? Because they own it. But see, it's convenient to lease your faith if you18:03 wanna do what you wanna do. So you own it here but you lease it there. Right? Well, let's just move over to the lease. You know, it's it's optional. I can break a contract any kind of anytime I want. Might have to pay a18:13 little price but I can get out of it. Right? Question. Are you owning your faith? Do you own it? Right? With that same mentality of18:25 care, concern, diligence, it's yours because God has not disowned you. But or do you lease it? Is it a convenience thing? Is it a comfort thing? Do I turn into a leaser18:37 when it gets uncomfortable or or when I won't be accepted or when it's unpopular, right? So that's how the slide we find ourselves leasing18:49 our faith, abandoning God, when it's convenient or comfortable or when we want what we want. And then the last part of the slide from the ultimate to the immediate involves sliding from what truly19:00 matters to what doesn't matter. And that's that whole picture. When God says at the end of this passage, they abandoned me, the fountain of living water, right? That's a continuous source.19:13 It's, has an infinite supply. It's always there. And he says, and they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all. You ever said that? Well,19:25 that argument doesn't hold any water. Right? It's just leaking. So all that energy, all that investment into this way of life that's outside of God,19:37 into immediate things, culture, cultural practices, idolatry, self gratification, materialism, hedonism, narcissism, whatever it is. And we look to19:49 that to to fill us up and then it just never it never fills us up. Right? It just leaks right out the bottom. We dug it for ourselves. We tried to put in a cistern and the key to20:01 having a cistern that holds something in that day water is that you put plaster in and it's not supposed to leak. But God says that if you try to move from the ultimate life20:13 over to the immediate mentality, right, living for culture, living in response to culture, your feelings, Right? Impulses. While you have a relationship with him, right? It's20:25 not gonna work because this this is cracked. Right? This will not hold meaning for you. And some of you are at that point right now. You kind of realize it's like, man, I keep investing this and I don't get back. I go to20:37 draw from it again or nothing there. I keep investing in it. Right? That's a sign that you're on a slide from living for the ultimate to the immediate. Now, what is God's heart and mind with20:49 respect to this, gosh, this this turn, this abandonment, this slide, right? Well, in verse 21 of the same chapter, God says this, I21:01 was the 1 who planted you, choosing a vine of purest stock, the very best. How did you grow into this corrupt, wild vine? In21:13 other words, how did you go from living for me to living for yourself? You know, well, it's easy to see that somewhere along the way, they let their guard down. They gave themselves permission. They21:24 got sloppy. They they they got un disciplined. And I know there's just there's a lot of guys watching. Your athletes, your coaches, you played sports. You know, when you get undisciplined from the fundamentals, you get21:36 sloppy. Right? Play looks sloppy. And that's pretty much what happened here. These guys decided, hey, it's okay to take a vacation for my identity as as God's man. I'm giving myself,21:48 permission, right? And, and and and that's not true for every man in the bible. Some men slide and do that, some don't. But you see, there's a difference22:00 between those who do and don't. And it's discipline. Like they've disciplined themselves. No, I can't give myself permission to take a vacation from my identity because that22:12 is a slide and a slippery slope. Trust me, over the past 30 years of doing men's ministry, I have gotten so many emails and so many letters and so many testimonies of guys22:23 who decided in a moment, hey, I can be undisciplined just for a little bit. I mean, I'm not hurting anybody. Right? And that was the beginning of the end because there was such a big blast22:35 zone of chaos that erupted in their lives. And maybe maybe maybe that's you. Maybe the bomb has gone off and you've made a choice. Well, I'm here to tell you22:48 that you're listening to the sound of my voice and you're watching me because God's telling you, alright, there's no other way around it. Take responsibility and let's start being disciplined today. And that's our22:59 next section, right? The common denominator for men who live and think ultimately is that they're ultimately very disciplined. And I wanted to define the word discipline, right? It's23:11 a noun and it means control that's gained by enforcing a prescribed pattern of thinking and behaving. Listen to this, training23:23 that corrects, that molds, that perfects the mental, physical or spiritual faculties or moral practices. And if you have the downloaded notes,23:35 I want you to circle a prescribed pattern. You know, in the Bible, imitation is invited. Jesus would say to people, come follow me and I will23:47 make you fishers of men. After the invitation, he says the process is imitation. There's a prescribed pattern, follow my way of life and that's how you can live the ultimate life. Paul23:59 says, you've seen my pattern. Alright. Follow my pattern. He invites men to follow a prescribed pattern of a way to be and a way to believe and a way to behave.24:11 Very important. What's that? That's discipline. Right? A disciplined way to be, a disciplined way to believe, and a disciplined way to behave. And the Bible encourages24:23 us to think about our walk with God kind of as a race with a prize and to discipline ourself like that athlete so that we can win. It talks24:35 about that very famous passage, 1 Corinthians 9 verses 24 to 27. Alright, let's read that. Paul says, don't you realize that in a race everyone runs24:46 but only 1 person gets the prize? So run to win. All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will24:58 fade away but we, God's men, do it for an eternal prize. So I, God's men, run with purpose in every step. I'm not shadow boxing.25:11 I discipline my body like an athlete training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others, I myself might be25:22 disqualified. Alright? So let's look now at what disciplined thinking, that's what we just read, looks like as God's man. And then after we look at what disciplined25:34 thinking looks like as God's man, then we'll see what disciplined living looks like. And we're gonna see that this is very doable. But let's look at the thinking part because we are what25:46 we think and we do what we think. So we gotta start with, gosh, how do we think about limited time, 1 life, and living it for what's good for God, what's good for my personal eternity. Alright. Well gleaning25:58 from the passage we see, that disciplined thinking as God's man says, if I value the prize, that's the first thought. I If I value the prize,26:10 okay, I gotta see my life as headed toward a finish and at the finish, I get a prize. Okay? The quality of my eternity,26:22 that's a prize. That's important. Okay? Jesus promises rewards. The Bible promises rewards for staying disciplined on earth. Right? For the hope of26:34 reward in eternity. Alright? So if I value faithfulness before God, if I value no regrets when I meet God face to face, if I value the26:46 quality, having a quality eternity, if I value investing now to get rewards in heaven. What they are I don't know, but Jesus promises them. If I value the prize, write that26:58 down and then I'll fill in the second line. I accept the pain. If I value the prize, I accept the pain. In other words, put it another way, the price I pay on27:10 earth of discipline is worth the prize in heaven. Paul is emphasizing, hey, you know these athletes, you know, that that I'm talking about here, they do it for a price that doesn't last but27:22 we, God's men, we do it for an eternal prize. Just think about that. The God who made this place in 7 days, the guy who27:34 causes Earth to hang, dangle in space, 3 spots perfectly from the sun, perfectly tilted for perfect chemical components, the moon controls the tide. Yeah, that God. He's got prizes27:46 for us and they're individual to you. Wow. Think about that, man. Just let it sink in and let it motivate you. So let's follow the right thinking, right? If I value the prize,27:58 I accept the pain that comes or the price to get the prize. And then what follows is this, I train my choices. Write that down. So now, okay, that's28:10 worth it. It's gonna cost me. Okay. What choices now? What yeses and noes do I need to adjust? What yeses and noes do I need to train? And it's gonna28:21 cost me but if I train my yeses and noes, I know it's gonna cost me here but it's gonna get me a reward here. Right? So if I value the prize, I accept the pain,28:33 I train my choices and then because we're thinking like this, write this down, I fear the alternative. Look at what Paul says. He says, so I run with purpose in every28:45 step. Circle that. I'm not just shadow boxing. In other words, I'm not throwing punches that don't land. I'm throwing punches that land. Boom. They hit. They hit the mark. They hit the mark. They count.28:57 Right? You know in a boxing match how they have punches thrown versus punches landed. Man, Paul's just like, I wanna land my punches. I wanna land my choices. My choices are my punches. Okay? And then29:09 he says, I discipline my body like an athlete training it to do what I should otherwise, and here's the alternative, otherwise I fear that after preaching to others, I myself might be disqualified.29:22 Wow. Right. There's a Now when you get d q'd for for not doing something that you could have done, there's a lot of regret there. Right? Listen, as29:34 your brother in Christ, as your friend, as someone who's fighting the same fight, you know what? I want my punches to land. I want my I want my choices to land every day from the29:45 minute I wake up, to how I serve my wife, to how I lead my children, to how I am as a coworker. I wanna glorify God in everything that I do because I want my punch count29:58 not to have a bunch of swings and misses so that when I land in front of Jesus, I'm gonna experience as little regret as possible. So that's what30:09 disciplined thinking as God's man involves. Hey, man. I value the prize. Because I value it, I'm gonna pay the price to win the prize. I'm gonna trade my choices now. I'm adjust my yeses and noes. Man, I don't30:21 want the alternative. Okay? Now, what about the living part? Okay. That's how we're thinking. But what about the living part? What does it actually look like? Alright.30:33 In everyday life as God's man. Well, it talks about that in first Timothy chapter 4. And we're gonna read a passage from that. It's on the first page of your notes then it follows into30:45 the next page. Says this, this is advice to God's men. It says, stay clear of silly stories that get dressed up as religion. Exercise daily in30:57 God. No spiritual flabbiness, please. Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so. Making you31:09 fit both today and forever. You can count on this. Take it to heart. That is why we've thrown ourselves into this venture so totally. We31:21 are banking on the living God, savior of all men and women, especially believers. Right? Get the word out. Teach these things and don't let31:33 anyone put you down because you're young. Teach believers with your life by word, by demeanor, by love, by faith, by integrity. State your post reading scripture,31:45 giving counsel, teaching, and that special gift of ministry you were given when the leaders of the church laid their hands on you and prayed. Keep that dusted off and in use. Wow.31:57 Okay. So let's unpack. We went through the disciplined thinking but what's the disciplined living now? Now how, what choices am I training myself around? What do I gotta do on a32:09 consistent basis, all right? Well disciplined living is God's man involves, write this down, well defined boundaries, well defined boundaries. And you notice in the passage32:21 Paul is saying it's a war of distraction, all right? And he says stay clear of these theologies, these movements, these silly stories that that32:32 kinda get dressed up like religion. It's a distraction. Right? Don't don't get taken off course. Don't get pushed off your mark. You gotta keep some predetermined32:45 boundaries, right? Decide your yeses and your noes but don't get distracted. Secondly, disciplined living as God's man involves well defined priorities,32:57 Right? So if if I have good boundaries, that's gonna keep this out, but then I still gotta live, I still gotta put my energy into stuff. And Paul just makes it really simple. He says33:08 exercise daily in God. I don't know if you have a workout routine, I do, but, that has a result. Right? And it's consistent. And, sometimes I slip, you know, go on vacation or whatever, but I resume it33:20 and I gotta get discipline. I exercise daily in God and I try to live a disciplined life. Listen, in God. Right? That's the important33:32 thing. And there's a question. How's your daily, right? Daily life in God. And then are you living a disciplined life or lifestyle in God? In other words, as I show up to my day,33:44 am I making choices with, gosh, I'm gonna say yes to whatever shows love for God and people and no to what harms those 2 objectives in my life. That's a disciplined life in God.33:55 Number 3, disciplined living as God's man involves a well defined view of God. In this passage, Paul tells us what he knows is true about34:07 God, that he's a living God, that he's the savior of us all. It's it's a God sized vision of who he is and that big view of God34:19 results in big discipline. Did you hear me? Letting God stay who he is, let him letting him be the creator, the potter, the vine, the shepherd. Right?34:31 Everything that the Bible says he is, when you have a big view of God and you let him be who he is, man, that has a net effect in how you live your life now based on your view of34:42 God. Right? But the opposite is true too. If you have a cloudy definition of who God is, you're not sure, don't expect high discipline34:54 from a low view of God. Alright. The 2 go together. So keep God who he is, who this book says he is, affirm that, declare that, worship that God, watch your discipline35:06 go up. So well defined boundaries, priorities, view of God. Next, a well defined message. Right? Paul had trained Timothy in how to35:18 share the truth of God's word, salvation, and how to, encourage and equip God's people. And and Paul was35:29 adamant. He says this multiple places. It's like preach the word, get the word out, right? Give away, in essence, the very life you wanna keep. And that's that's 1 of the blessings of35:41 doing this live stream. I know that every Thursday, I gotta get behind this camera and in the chair and I'm with thousands of dudes every Thursday and I gotta get it right. And the process of getting to35:53 now, it's a little work, right? But giving it away with you right here, just this relationship that we have right here, when you give it away, it helps you36:05 keep the life that you want. And and my encouragement to you just on that thought, you have downloaded notes, make copies of those downloaded notes or just make your36:17 own copies. It's God's word. It's there for free. Please, please, please reteach it to your high school boys. Reteach it to your family.36:29 Reteach it to your men's group. Why? Because when you reteach something, it helps you keep what you're teaching about. So when I when I teach about having well36:41 defined boundaries, priorities, view of God, message, and I'm giving it away, I'm keeping it more as I give it away. Alright. Fifth, disciplined living as God's man involves a well defined36:52 self perception. You know, there's a lot of guys, who pre qualify themselves. Paul is talking to Tim and he says, don't let anyone put you down because37:04 you're young. And that's not the only criteria, it's not the only negative self perception that he might have had. But I know a ton of guys who basically pre qualify themselves, when they go to minister. It's like,37:16 well I'm too old, I'm too young, I don't know if the bible, you know, forget about that. Right? He says don't don't let anyone look down on you because you're you're young, but be an example.37:28 Best teaching modem ever. Modeling. Says, Timothy, don't worry about that perception of yourself that you're too young. Instead,37:41 focus on being an example. Right? By your life, by your word, by your demeanor, by your love, by your faith, by your integrity. Let them37:53 see how you live in a disciplined way that you have a lifestyle. And that's the message. Guys, the world is confused38:05 because we do way too much of this and not enough living by example. Dads, your kids, they don't care what you say. Right? They care what you do. Every38:17 day, day in day out, 3 65, year after year, are you consistent? Do people that you're trying to win to Christ, are you consistent in your service38:28 of them, your availability of them, who you are, what you talk about? Is there a consistency in your example? That's the best witness ever because it gives you a38:40 foundation then because of the integrity of your consistency, to talk about Jesus because you're the real deal. I remember being in college, graduating. It was graduation day,38:52 I'm in my cap and gown, and 1 of the younger members of my fraternity who was an atheist, he said, on that day, because we weren't gonna see each other anymore. We're at my fraternity with all our39:04 parents and we're having a little party and he just pulled me aside and he just said, hey, Kenny. I know that we we don't talk a lot, but he goes, I've seen a lot of Christians. And he goes, during my39:16 time here, you're the only 1 who lives out what he says he believes. And I was just like, what? I mean, I know who I am, but he was watching. You know?39:28 Guys, what the world needs now is guys who are consistent where our self perception, no matter we don't we're we're we don't have to we could be young, weShow more In this video 0:00 Living the Ultimate Life Through DisciplineComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
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