Giving to Yourself

Dr. Tony Evans says that's one of the first steps for lost people who want to be found in your life you will discover you this is the alternative with Dr. Tony Hopper speaker senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative stocks on 401(k)s are plenty of ways to invest but not all investments are financial today. Dr. Evans will talk about the investment.

God wants us to make in ourselves and the kind of return. He expects let's join him.

People with things about themselves with their looks like the stage that Randall how things are working out how we look, we enter into camouflage phase. When we cover our reality. Now the job helping us the camouflage gets us to buy products that help us look like low to give a better appearance companies today to answer your image or protect your brand. The public perception of who you will because the reality is if we were fully exposed as to who we really were. For many, it would not be a pretty picture. What we do is we pretend that one of the greatest places to pretend his church enough praise the Lord enough saying another praise you hand and not flip the pages in the Bible enough you might give the impression that you and God have gotten hooked up you and God on good terms when the mirror really revealed where we were with God outside of this house, it could reveal that there is a big gap between what we display on Sunday. What's really happening. So what we do. We we play the religious game and we we let the world to find our identity for we flip magazines that tell us we all look pretty like being spoke and get a skinny, we we watch TV shows that that that give off an impression, commercials, even if you can't afford it. You got, I beseech you therefore, brethren, Romans 12 verse one that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable in the God which is your spiritual service of worship. Verse two says be not conformed to this world but be transformed in the renewing of your mind that you will prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

He says God wants you and God you have no claim you can have God and the world about the world we do find it as anything that leaves God out of the equation of God out of the equation.

You are worldly, even if you are in church welding.

This is not personal location is a perspective that God is included in the total of my life. He's not a Sunday morning special is not a place I visit a person. I occasionally reference is the point of reference of all of my life is the payoff for that commitment.

If God gets to you. There is a payoff at the end of verse two, he says, and you will prove the will of God.

That is, God will be at work in your life in such a way that he will express his will for you to you in you and through you and God's will is his purpose for your life is a lot of people don't know who they are because they don't know why. When you know you hear helps you know who you got good news. Jesus said when you find yourself and lose yourself 7C fall to the ground and dies, it shall nowise have life the way you find you is to lose, you will discover you now know that that makes sense because Madison Avenue will explain it like that you define who you are by this where this high, not with these people do this have been smart to drive this live here and you are somebody. God says your self can be and I will locate you for you the first person saying give me all of you present your bodies a living sacrifice and get world.

None of you but don't let it lay claim to be in the world but not of it. In other words, don't let it dictate your value system. Don't let it dictate your orientation now that you will now begin to see the will of God being worked out in your life and you will discover you not because you are looking for you, but God will locate you and tell you that he says in verse three, through the grace given to me. I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than you think, but to think as to have sound judgment as God is allotted to each one of us a measure of bowling bowling. You have a bowling alley on the alley a gunners you control the got a ball down on the right side. You can throw got a ball down on the left side which means you're not in the lane you can think of yourself in one of two ways you can go on. Gotta on the backside of the gun.

He says you can think to yourself, says because when God's working in you when you commit yourself to God. Don't get the big UA all that and a bag of chips when God starts to do something in your life.

Don't get the wrong perspective because that's the role I got a ball. That's the think more highly of yourself, then you ought to on your best day euro sinners saved by grace. The other daughter is something too low of yourself wrong. Nothing.

Nobody never going to be anybody told me I'm not going to be anybody you walk around with this pitiful self image jewelry self to last thing God recognizes created save you every game to be is to insult the creator nobody. When God says you are so valuable to me.

I became a man, dad to give you eternal life, and you walk around talk about your nobody knows all about the mess that would let folks think that's the problem when listening to the wrong word.

Says I want you to think Saul reminded the Greek word there was never sold, sober minded. The.

The new American Standard sound judgment.

The world had to do with somebody who was drunk and sober when a person is there not thinking straight so they can't walk straight face stammered words, they drive crooked and that is because their judgment has been give you the world to find you, you will become a drunk Christian and not all a little laying out because you becoming toxic came in with the wrong definition of use the wrong definition of success. Use the wrong definition of humility comply.

Humility is not like it's not true when it is true humility sliding his thinking more of yourself and the Col. was just promoted to Col. and he's an Army Col. Mansell. You know he's feeling guilty smell of himself. He pretty pretty up on himself, Col. Matt got a knock on his door in his new office about it was knocking. He said yes says it's private. Johnson may I come in sir.

He said just a minute private picked up the phone while the phone to his ear and spoke very loudly.

Yes, Mr. Pres., I know, Mr. Pres., I understand Mr. Pres.

Yes, I'll be right there to see you, Mr. Pres. Okay any real soon.

As Pres., thank you. Click Mr. Johnson. Now you may come in Johnson private Johnson Watson introduces himself. The Col. says I'm sorry that you write that my conversation with the president, but what can I do for you private. Johnson always, I just I just came look up the phone thinking more of yourself and you are so what people do is they wind up they wind up pretending they wind up going to the motions and that's why people want to hang out with folks who have a name so they can piggyback and I know him. The beautiful thing about full surrender is to be who you will you get old you are. If God intended you to be somebody else gave you your old and it cannot be duplicated by almost 7 billion people in the world because God intended you to be you but we get so bad the world that we can never knowing knowing we were supposed to be covered big by everyone else. God wants to do a big Jim wants to give you but he can't give you until you give you you you. And so we got a generation of people who don't know Dr. Evans will come back with a little name-calling from God when he continues her message just a moment. There's a lot more ahead in Tony's current message series return on investment.

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But if you or me because we've not given ourselves to God. We will never recognize how will always walk around trying to look like a model trying to deinstall letting the world tell us we probably should look what we should wait, wait, we should live what we should drive giving us false definitions of success. Why would God show you stick with why does God want you to know you and you can only know you if you fully bother him.

He tells you he says in verse four for just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

He says I will show you you you can benefit somebody else. The reason God once you give yo to him so he can show you you and really wants to show you your first three to benefit somebody else will come the church so I can get less. I can get God to do so from that God will deliver right as long as you recognize you're not a knowledge it can only be about you you members that watch this now God's spiritual know to how you relate to others, some of your spiritual know related to how you relate. But the real one another.

The script all over the Scripture in the New Testament is because God's going to do with you based on how you relate to others, so if you're not letting you cut what he wants to do for you and that's why you have to understand this is part of a bigger connection that growls you remember the Adams family. Don't you go all over the place. It was good but it will disconnection the groans, because they know in relationship. First of all, giving all to God.

But as a result of that, you know your members of one another and that's why the principal given and will be given back to you what you want God to do for you. Somebody else so that you know you know is not only about you only child situation.

It's our father who art in heaven, not my daddy only and he said nothing shows your humility more than women. God uses your own security that you go to get to you because you give yourself fully to God.

The benefit somebody else.

When a Christian gets so stuck up only about. We have cut off God because he says you are members of one it's bigger than you know the Chiefs in the Godhead into the Bible is pride. The story of the two ducks in the fraud to Dr. Fox had crossed upon the palms get dry, but the frog probably couldn't get across the pond was too big.

He couldn't get across productivity. Vinegar fly across the front of the stick over there so don't want if you grab one of us to conduct the mistakes I grab it with my mouth. Both of you fly in sync and you can carry me across the pond and we can keep our fellowship as we crossed upon the ducks thought that was a great idea, one that took this into the stick that in the specs the frog put his mouth in the middle and they were taking him across the father looked up the wall. I've never seen in my life that was a great idea. I wonder whose idea that was the project will probably do try, have a good view of ourselves. We want to have taken view of ourselves, which is why he calls it a measure of faith. The measure of faith and at the end of verse three means a biblical view that you can trust God with what you just make up stuff you want to have a divinely prescribed masterpiece so that is how that benefits others, nothing will ensure growth in God.

Like giving yourself fully to God was wanting to understand who you really are verse three connecting benefits .5. Now he says you off. You are connecting them away God intended.

And then it gets expressed. Finally, in verse six. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given us.

Each of us is to exercise them accordingly in order to improve the lives of others. He calls that gifting biblical word for gifting seat when you give everything to God.

God shows you who you already showed you walk, you can benefit other than that he gives you the capacity for the benefit everybody in here has been given something by God. You may not know what it is yet what you have been given this supernatural capacity to benefit the people of God, and the program of God and the kingdom of God for the glory of God through your gifting. Whatever you do for a job you are good you're trying to become good go to work and say well it is sloppy or sloppy. That's just who I am. Idea is to be to maximize your capacity. The problem is will maximize things from in downtown and give God junk for the kingdom will maximize things from money, but we will maximize things. What is he says give me all of you out so you will actually benefit others, you benefit through the thing that you let the program the plan, and if you never made that full commitment to God by way of a real-life relationship with Christ is@20of.org today and follow the link that says Jesus.

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