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Choosing the Ultimate Life 0:04 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible, I want you to hold 2 spots for me. 1 in Deuteronomy 30 and the other in John chapter 14. Now if you're joining us for the first time, we're0:15 wrapping up a series called The Ultimate. And the big idea is really simple. Right? Every man, including myself, has limited time, 1 life,0:28 and we all, for the most part, wanna live it to the fullest. We wanna live our best imaginable or ultimate life. But the question is, who gets to define0:40 what an ultimate best imaginable life looks like? Because if you ask culture, there's this mentality which says you only live once. Right? And so the message from0:52 culture is if it feels good, immediately do that. If it sounds good, immediately, do that. If it looks good, immediately, do that. Right? Because you only live once.1:04 Now, that is not a bad thing, but many times what we do is we act on the immediate and we get ourselves into harmful or1:16 unhelpful behaviors, actions because you only live once because we're listening to culture. Now if you listen to Christ, he agrees with the YOLO mentality.1:28 You do only live once, but he would say, if it's good for God, ultimately. If it's good for people, ultimately. If it's good for your1:40 eternity and it goes with you into eternity, do that. Live ultimately. Jesus said, I came that you might have life and1:51 have it to the fullest. So if you're God's man, that's the life you're called to. You're you're not called to live for the immediate, you're called to live your best imaginable life for the ultimate, which2:03 is God, people, and eternity. So you can trust culture or you can trust Christ. Now in this session, we're gonna look at the most powerful factor2:15 that is going to help us live out our ultimate life in God now and is gonna bring us successfully to our ultimate life with God forever.2:28 Right? And to get us thinking in the right direction, I want you to think about getting from point a to point b. Right? Without getting lost. Right?2:39 Navigating yourself, at least for most guys watching this thing, in the digital age, it's pretty simple. Right? You simply activate an app on your phone. You plug2:51 in, an address or a location. You press go, right, on that app and then you just follow the guidance of a friendly3:03 voice and little arrows or directional icons that tell you exactly where to go and it will bring you from point a to point b.3:15 And we almost take it for granted. It's super comforting because it's always there. It's in the palm of our hand or it's in the dash of the car. We are never lost. Right?3:26 But and I think all of us have been in this situation where we lose cell service or we don't have a GPS connection. And you go from being3:38 guided and assured, right, to unguided and unsure. You're on your own, right? Now, here's the connection. As God's man, we're on this journey,3:51 right? This ultimate journey that starts the minute we give ourselves to Christ and God is taking us to destinations and in this life and we need4:03 guidance and we're gonna stop at some destinations here of his will and his way until we get to our ultimate destination, which is forever in eternity with him, but it4:14 requires a navigational tool. Right? And in this session, we're talking about the ultimate tool that will get us to God's4:26 destinations now while we're on Earth and take us successfully to our destination with God forever in eternity. It's supernatural guidance4:38 from a supernatural source beyond ourselves, but that we are connected to. Right? So my question to you is, do you possess it? Is it4:49 activated? And are you listening? Alright? Big questions. So in our time together, it's a mission critical session that's gonna ensure that5:01 you get there now and you get there forever. And so if you have the downloaded message notes, I want you to take those out And I want you to see a leader of God's people.5:14 And he's at a crossroads in his leadership of God's people. And he's essentially bringing them to a fork in the road. And he is challenging5:26 them to either live for the ultimate, live for God, live in him, live out his ways, live for eternity, or they can choose to5:37 live for the immediate. Without God, they can fall find false gods, false sources of meaning, and those false gods basically end up causing those people to5:49 live for themselves, live for the immediate, and those choices will die with them. So let's listen closely and let God speak to us through his word, which is eternal.6:01 And this word, this this prophetic word from a leader of God's people is now gonna come to us. And I want you to listen closely because God is going to speak right now through his6:13 word. Deuteronomy 30 beginning in verse 15. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.6:25 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees, and laws. Then you will6:37 live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient6:49 and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will7:01 not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you7:13 life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God.7:26 Listen to his voice and hold fast to him. Did you hear it? Did you see? The fork in the road. We need to unpack some7:38 of the principles of this challenge of living for the ultimate versus the immediate in God's word. What is God saying? Well, the first thing God wants is God7:50 wants us to choose right now with the end in mind. When you see God's prophet, Moses, speaking to God's people, God's8:02 word, he basically says, hey, you need to choose with the end in mind. You gotta decide. Alright, let's fast forward to the end and at the end of this pass, because of these choices,8:14 is life and prosperity. Or you can live for the immediate. And at the end of that path is death and destruction. And8:26 here's 1 thing that both God knows and Moses as a leader knows. There's the pressure of the immediate. Right? You're in the moment. You have an impulse. Right? You have8:38 a reaction and it speeds us up. Right? It's the pressure of the immediate. Man, you only live once and these voices kick in and these rationalizations kick in and why8:50 not? And it speeds us up and it it prevents us from kind of thinking it through the consequences. Like where is this choice right now going to take9:02 me? And that's true in your relationships, your relationship choices, your moral choices, your sexual choices. A lot of times the pressure of the immediate, right, comes9:13 on you and you don't make the choice with the end in mind, right? So God is being very clear and he's using Moses to tell his people, hey,9:25 you gotta choose today with the end in mind. Secondly, God wants us to live in him so blessing can flow from him.9:38 So there's a clear choice, make it with the end in mind and then you see what that looks like and what the result is if they choose the ultimate life. Living for God,9:49 living for eternity, that looks like walking in obedience to him, keeping his commands. And then there's this conditional word, then. Right? You will live and increase.10:02 Now let's just press the pause button for a second. Think about that. I wanna live fully in God and be in his blessings. I wanna increase. I want my life to grow. I want10:14 my life to expand. I want my opportunities to expand. I want my character to expand. I want my love to expand. I want my joy and my peace to expand. But there's only 1 way to do that.10:26 Right? I have to live in him so those blessings can flow from him. That's why God's word says, hey, walk according to his priorities. Walk in10:38 obedience to him. Keep, hold on to those priorities. Hold on to his word, his decrees, then you will live and increase and the Lord your God will10:49 bless you. Right? Right now, I know I'm talking to some men who need to go from living outside of him to living in him so the blessings can11:01 flow from him. Only a fool would turn down blessings from their creator, blessings from their maker. And all you have to do11:13 is walk in obedience, keep choosing him, keep his commands and decrees, and then your life just kind of starts to expand. I remember my life before knowing11:24 Christ and I wasn't living life in God and I would see these things. I'm like, oh, that'll make me live and increase. Right? No. It made me shrink and decrease and created11:36 bondages. So God, in asking us to choose and to live in him, there's a good reason. Your heavenly Father wants to bless you. The blessings need to flow.11:49 Some of us need to get back in him so the blessings can start flowing from him. Number 3, God warns us that we will be tempted by the temporary.12:01 You notice the language here. It says, but if your heart turns away and you're not obedient and if you are drawn away, right, to bow down to other gods and worship them. So12:13 there is a spiritual battle. There's God and there's Satan. There's the word and there's the world. There's culture and there's Christ, right? And the12:25 2 are in conflict and we feel that tension, right? And 1 is trying to draw us away from the other. And that's where we really need to settle.12:38 And we need to recognize, A, there's a spiritual battle. B, there's a force behind that spiritual battle that wants to draw me away and destroy me. But it doesn't feel like12:49 destruction at the invitation or suggestion. Just feels, well, like a suggestion. Oh, you should do that. That won't hurt anybody. You deserve13:01 that. Right? That's how sophisticated the spiritual battle for your choices is. Sounds like a good justification.13:13 Sounds like a good rationalization. Sounds like a real subtle excuse for you to abandon your ultimate life in God and choose the13:24 immediate self serving life that culture wants you to live. So God warns us that we'll be tempted by the temporary. Fourth, God warns us that13:36 waiting only delays blessing. You notice that the language is this day. Now choose life. And there's an urgency there.13:48 And there's some of us where we're just delaying and what we're delaying is we're delaying God's blessing by waiting. And instead of blessing, we remain in bondage. We remain14:00 in anxiety. We remain in depression. We remain with our relationships fragmented. We fail to repent. And God is saying to us men, this day, not tomorrow,14:12 not even the next minute. This day, I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death. And some of you right now, wherever you are, you need to just in14:24 your mind right now, in your heart, in your spirit, you just need to say, wow, God, I hear you. This is the day. I want to choose life today and repent14:37 of the things that you know in your life are out of sync with God's word and God's way and God's will. Alright? Number 5, God's will14:49 for us is a lifestyle of loyal love and commitment. What I love is that that God's word through God's leader says, now choose life so that you and your15:00 children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. Do you see that that language? Love the Lord your God. Listen to his15:12 voice. Hold fast to him. It sounds like a tight infinite relationship. And the Bible calls that tight infinite intimate15:25 relationship covenant. And we need to understand that. Right? A covenant relationship with God, Right? Which is what all believers have. Right?15:36 It's a forever intimate partnership. But you know, that goes against our cultural training and mindset where things accessorize our lives. They come in in our lives and they15:48 come out of our lives. You know, appliances come into our lives. They break. We throw them in the garbage. We get a new 1. Right? And we we tend to treat, God and people sometimes with that mindset.16:00 Right? With a cultural mindset. It's it's impermanent. Right? It's casual. Right? And it's it's a partnership for a season, but that's not covenant. That's why God16:12 says that choose life and that you may love the Lord your God. Listen to his voice and hold fast to him versus what? Let go of16:24 him. And I know that that's where a lot of men just listening to the sound of my voice right now are. You've let go and guess what? You need to regrip. That's that's that's16:36 key and it's available to us where in certain situations, we've stopped living for eternity and the ultimate. We started living for self in the immediate and we let go of our grip of God. We16:48 didn't hold fast to him. We chose the immediate and now we're in the slimy pit or experiencing the consequences and God literally is reaching out a hand to you and he's saying, grab17:00 my hand. Grab my hand and I will lift you out of the slimy pit, out of that mud and mire that you chose to put yourself in, and I will pull you up and I will set your feet on a17:12 rock and you'll get traction again. Maybe there's hundreds of us today out of the thousands that are watching that just need to do that. Say God right17:24 now I'm taking your hand. I'm holding fast. Others of you, the grip is slipping and you need to you need to re up and and strengthen your grip right now on God. Don't give up. Don't lose17:36 your faith. Keep choosing God because there's real consequences in the letting go versus the holding fast. Now I put below that last fill in, God's will for us is a17:48 lifestyle of loyal love and commitment. The very ending of Deuteronomy, passage. It says, for the Lord is your life. This is verse 31 of18:00 Deuteronomy. For the Lord is your life. So choose with the end in mind. God wants us to live in him so blessing can flow from him. God warns us that we'll be tempted by the temporary.18:12 God warns us that waiting only delays blessing. And God's will for us is a lifestyle of loyal love and commitment for the Lord is your life.18:24 That's the end of the passage. And there's there's the punctuation mark. That's the drop the mic statement. For the Lord is your life.18:38 The question is, is he? Is he truly? Have you fully surrendered? Or have you partially surrendered? Which isn't a surrender at18:49 all. It's the 90 10 Christian life, the 80 20 Christian life. God clearly in this passage wants 10019:01 percent. So question, are you 1 hundo? Are you 100 percent in relationship with God? Are you listening to his voice? Are19:13 you holding fast? If you are, pray and say, God, keep me holding fast. Keep me listening. Keep me loving. If in this moment you're19:25 not, say, God, I'm turning back to you today to tell you this. I'm sorry for choosing the immediate in myself. I today am choosing19:37 the ultimate in choosing you. My commitment now is 100 percent. I am going to love you. I am going to listen to your voice and I'm gonna hold fast to you. So write this down.19:49 Ultimate life means the Lord is my life. Write it down. Ultimate life means the Lord is my life. Alright. So there's God's mind. See, we're all in the same20:01 battle and God is just encouragement. His word has traveled through time to us this morning and I really encourage you as this is our final session in the ultimate, to really spend some20:12 time in what we just talked about. Think it through. Pray it through. Talk it through with God. 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