Foolproof Reproof [Part 2]

Allegorizing, pastor, Bible teacher and author of his latest book, the power to bless Ross was his mission wanted you to have the experience of God was just and right is a God mercy that he didn't just want to be right if you wanted to be in relationship with you. That's pastor Alan welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life for an old blue light. Excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series. Leakproof is presented and rebuild the church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program.

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This was, he wouldn't let her washes feet and Jesus. The Bible says, knew what he was thinking and said Simon I'm Italian story KK corrected him with a parable. But what's interesting is that if you read the gospel with fresh eyes and stop and think about therefore everything that Jesus knew just start with the 12 disciples, he is fascinating to me. He really didn't correct them that much that he did at times have very pointed direction right what I said to Peter, get behind me Satan and he said to them all, you have little faith, but he he he seldom said I know what you're thinking. I hear what you're saying and it's wrong. In other words, the Lord of the universe. He knows everything and everything that is right and wrong and yet Jesus did not follow those bumbling disciples around and correct their every single step daddy and end of the matter he became known as the friend of sinners, which goes far to explain how his demeanor must've been with sinners because sinners don't want to hang around with someone person does is tell them over and over every wrong thing in their lives. Welcome back to in a moment he was going to delay critical of the religious leaders but to the vast majority of people that he interacted with and to the 12 that he spent three years with. He was surprisingly quiet. In fact Paul, you could arguably say was is full of the Holy Spirit is any manner other than Jesus and have such discernment and such spiritual power. He didn't spend all his time correcting every little thing.

In fact, there's a fascinating story in acts chapter 16 verse 16 it says as there's a slave girl who has us a fortune telling spirit and is demonically inspired and over 70.

She followed Paul and us, crying out, these men are servants of the most high God, who proclaimed US salvation and she kept doing this for many day in the text as Paul having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I command you the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her, and it came out that very hour, but what I want to point out to that verse 18 says, and she kept doing this for many days. For many days.

The apostle Paul knew that there was a young woman who was demonized and he didn't do anything about.

In fact, it was just until finally just got on his nerves so bad that he cast the spirit out what I'm saying is that you can spend your life walking around with a critical spirit always looking for somebody to criticize it.

If you have a lot of discernment in the Holy Spirit you're going to see ravages of evil that are taking place and even the great apostle Paul and Jesus himself did not make their life. One of constantly thinking that correct everybody about everything you need to know yourself and you need to know the other to even begin to know whether a correction should take place in all this is pointing to an important truth that a mentor of mine once emphasized his and taught our congregation is more important. Biblically speaking, spiritually speaking to be in relationship that is to be right now. I got my watercolor teacher while I was making this hideous painting of the gazebo at Lake Susan at Montreat is that she didn't need to come around and convince me that she was right. She wanted to help me and that man she wanted to relate to me where I was, because you came around and she said you know, don't be afraid to put more paint onto the paper and I said, I am afraid I'm afraid of a scaredy-cat and I said, because once you put paint on the watercolor paper you can get off.

I don't like watercolor. There is no white paint. You can cover something up it's on there and you've done it is no grace in watercolor painting and she said don't be afraid of the paint and so I said I'll try not to. She came back around a little while later and there was with my payroll picture scaredy-cat watercolor painting and she didn't say see I told you to use more paint and I here let me show you one of my masterpieces instead she just came around. She said that you continue to do watercolor urge you don't be afraid of the paint relating to Alan Wright will have more teaching from today's series like something is holding you back as if you lack an important scene that could change everything. Is there someone you love to sing stock to help them out what's missing. Blessing on faith filled vision spoken over you can learn how to embrace the practice of blessing to Pastor Alan, writes new blood, which quickly became an enzyme number one bestseller after 370s until now the hardcover book has only been available through retail sales this month right ministries once send you the I thank you for your demo send this not only receive the best-selling book also receive a free session video place in which Pastor Alan teaches how to blast and covers content not video course includes a detailed study guide perfect for personal growth or small group discussion. Make your gift today and discovered the power to blast the gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor our and got work. Today's teaching now continues once again is Pastor Chris shared last week's message was all that was X all self-control a message. I asked him to give you the photos on the grapefruits and in Dr. Chris's life. It very, very, very seldom ever see them lose his control and so very important thing in the proper sense of through the spirit, but he shared in his introduction about some of the kind of pet peeves that make people lose their self-control. What he didn't tell you what he had asked the pastoral staff what are pet peeves were to use them in his sermon, and so I might as well come clean to say that the one that I had share with him became an illustration in his sermon, and that is the where you are driving down the highway. And there's an indication that one of the lanes is going to be closed ahead.

And so you're supposed to get over to the right in anticipation of the lane closing but some people drive down the left lane as fast as they can to try this man in front of some slow moving vehicle with a find a little space in order to get ahead is that of playing by the rules fairly and getting in the right hand lane and the truth be told that one of the most embarrassing and stupid moments of my life was just a few years ago when I went with my daughter Abigail on a college visiting a little trip to several colleges. We are visiting and en route to the first one were driving on the highway left lane can be closed ahead. I get over the right-hand lane in this very slow moving right hand lane and we see SUV is coming up fast on the left trying to do the classic pastoralists were back in front of somebody, but the pickup truck. Two vehicles in front of me pulls over sore in them middle to block the guy and the guy right behind him just as his rear bumper. So there's no way to get in and is left with the question what will I do pastor real and do what he will he break the train and just let the person in their no I would not waste all traffic try to keep this one as you read. It was completely shunned from the whole community was what I would let them in front of everybody by your socks and then was keeping one vehicle from getting online, which made my trip approximately 3.7 second slower. One more vehicle in front of me and said we were so focused on being right is one thing in traffic.

I don't endorse it is silly, especially your license plate reads. Grace to you and what is bothering me that you feel sort of satisfied. Just hearing traffic is another in human relationships throwing what he wants in the end it's not so important that you're right but it's real important that you're in relationship is the deep wisdom it is to your glory to have enough grace to sometimes just overlook an offense is going in traffic.

Let me keep talking to my daughter, but instead I lost 15 minutes of relating to my daughter and taught her how not to drive in traffic in order to be right about one thing, one thing is very clear in the Scriptures, and that is that God has so designed to you as his own, especially when you're in Christ as his trial that if you harbor bitterness and judgment toward some that it will in all likelihood come back to you in Luke chapter 6 recess judge not a newbie not judge condemn not, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you'll be forgiven, it follows with verse 38, which we usually applied to financial stewardship but notice the context is actually here is he speaking about judgment and forgiveness and says give in verse 38 and will be given to you good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you if you so judge that it will come back to you in good measure. You don't violate sowing and reaping.

It just happened.

Nothing will come back to you more quickly than your judgment of others and if you think the goal in life is to be right all the time and prove yourself right and you operate out of the spirit of offense. Jesus essentially says to us, the taking of the offense is worse than the offense itself. When he taught no try to get the speck out of someone else's. I went to log in your own what he saying is so often when you are hypercritical he trying to be right and get one little speck out of someone else's life hears a sin in your life you need to point out that you have taken an offense that is caused bitterness and you and that bitterness according to what God is saying for the plan of our human life is worse than probably the offense that was committed says in Hebrews. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and I have many become defiled.

What you do with all of this when it's complex in every situation might be a little different. How can you even come to a point of knowing how you're supposed to respond. I think if I were to sum based on what Jesus has done for us. It's this the more that you accept, receive, believe and revel in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the more secure you become as a human being because the more that I think about how accepted I am in the beloved. And how my worth in God's plan of the gospel is not measured by my own merits righteousness skills or ability to look good, but instead find myself involved unconditionally and infinitely so that I know who I am is a person who has various faults in an other people may come and go like or dislike, but the rootedness of my life is in the love of Christ. That is mainly an air of the spiritual riches of God.

So there's something that is so reassuring that I become increasingly secure. This is God's plan for you to walk in that security because it is our insecurity that makes us unreliable in correcting others because if I'm insecure and anxious that I may be quick to defend myself in a way that I'm overreacting because I inwardly don't feel secure or if I'm insecure my not have that deep sense of worth inside of me that enables me to know that this is the point I need to stand up and defend my boundaries and define myself for how can you know whether you should just overlook an offense whether you should say no this is a boundary and you do know this really hurt me. How can you know this except that you increasingly have the love of God in your life and what's interesting to me is as I surveyed Jesus and the way he interacted with people. It doesn't doesn't always work doesn't decide what would Jesus do if I did the things that Jesus did, I would get fired.

I mean what Jesus did in some ways overturned the very logic and wisdom that were talking about today because what Jesus said was at the moment you think.

If you would just be quiet about this, Jesus then it would go better for you if you just hadn't talked about destroy this temple, and I'll rebuild it in three days if he hadn't said something so controversial and from the religious leaders they wouldn't remember that all away to the point of his his death on the cross. If you just not healed people on the Sabbath and said things like, on the Lord of the Sabbath. If you not just said to the religious leaders are hypocrites and whitewashed tombs, and full of dead men's bones, and a brood of vipers. If you'd even been slow to speak to the religious leaders they wouldn't want to send them to the Roman authorities put on the cross. He did and and very thin moments that we thought you should speak up for yourself and defend yourself if you let himself become silent even before Pilate even in his bogus trial. The trumped up charges that were leveled against him using what happened was it Jesus overturns even be the conventional wisdom of Proverbs about how one should speak or not speak because his mission was the cross and the cross was his mission.

They wanted you to have experience of the life of God because God was just and right God is full of mercy that he didn't just want to be right you wanted to be in relationship with you and because of what Jesus has done. Anyone who accepts him is in right relationship with God forever.

Let that deep security of Your Pl. in Christ and the continued promptings of the Holy Spirit. The very spirit of Jesus within you become your guide. Know yourself and no others and ask yourself do I just want to be right or do I want to be in relationship and the spirit of God will lead you hope you never have to have lunch with a pastor with a wiry beard who is eating a bean sprouts outlet because I really can't tell you what you ought to do, but God can. And that's the gospel in today's teaching foolproof reproof on the series, foolproof say with this alum is back in the studio just a moment as he shares his boarding good news thought for the day just a bit like something is holding you back if you lack an important seat I could change everything. Is there someone you love hissing stack to help them back child. What's missing blessing on faith filled vision spoken over you can learn how to embrace the practice of blessing to Pastor Alan writes new book, it's a blast, which quickly became an Amazon number one bestseller after 370s until now the hardcover book has only been available through retail sales this month right ministries once to send you the I thank you for your Denilson did this not only receive the best-selling book that you also receive a free session video place in which Pastor Alan teaches how to blast and covers content not the video course includes a detailed study guide perfect for personal growth or small group discussion.

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We will send you a special offer.

We are happy to send this to you as our banks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out and got work that you're the studio Allen your boarding good news thought for the day sandwiches with all that got a situation where you wonder, do I say something to this person do I not think I think of to follow the Lord on but here's what I think only listeners with today is God never shames you may never correct you in a way that demeans you or distances you any correction you ever get from God is the sweet gift.

I think it's also helpful Daniel to think of God the Holy Spirit is the greatest teacher in the world who has all wisdom, and so my invitation.

Every listener is open your heart to all that God would ever have by way of correction for you.

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