WEBVTT 00:00:00.780 --> 00:00:03.137 Israel had things in his heart 00:00:03.137 --> 00:00:06.581 to relate to future generations - 00:00:06.581 --> 00:00:09.204 maybe a prophetic word. 00:00:09.204 --> 00:00:11.361 Is there anything that you are burdened 00:00:11.361 --> 00:00:14.600 to relate to pilgrims that are still here 00:00:14.600 --> 00:00:16.885 or to those pilgrims who are yet to be born 00:00:16.885 --> 00:00:24.244 either physically or spiritually? 00:00:24.244 --> 00:00:26.727 Oh, how do you sum it up, you know? 00:00:26.727 --> 00:00:28.215 You just can't. 00:00:28.215 --> 00:00:31.050 But I'll tell you one thing for sure: 00:00:31.050 --> 00:00:33.192 The Lord is worthy and wonderful. 00:00:33.192 --> 00:00:43.465 Yeah, the Lord is worthy and wonderful. 00:00:43.465 --> 00:00:46.086 In the words of C.T. Studd, 00:00:46.086 --> 00:00:49.270 "If Jesus Christ is God and He died for me, 00:00:49.270 --> 00:00:55.141 there's no sacrifice too great, that I could make for Him." 00:00:55.141 --> 00:01:03.048 It's just hard to sum it up. 00:01:03.048 --> 00:01:04.283 It's hard. 00:01:04.283 --> 00:01:06.952 I wouldn't know really how to answer it. 00:01:06.952 --> 00:01:09.399 But I could say one thing. 00:01:09.399 --> 00:01:13.783 In addition to what I said here tonight 00:01:13.783 --> 00:01:17.755 and the emphasis about 00:01:17.755 --> 00:01:20.185 we're not living for this world. 00:01:20.185 --> 00:01:23.758 We're living for heaven. 00:01:23.758 --> 00:01:26.990 Death to self. All to Christ. 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:30.478 The message of sacrifice. 00:01:30.478 --> 00:01:33.149 And all of that is very true, 00:01:33.149 --> 00:01:36.821 very imminent, very urgent, very real, 00:01:36.821 --> 00:01:38.746 but there is a footnote; 00:01:38.746 --> 00:01:42.475 there is a side note, and that is 00:01:42.475 --> 00:01:46.006 make sure you enjoy the Lord. 00:01:46.006 --> 00:01:47.581 Make sure to enjoy Him. 00:01:47.581 --> 00:01:49.224 I think I feel like somehow, 00:01:49.224 --> 00:01:52.845 I've made the Christian life too hard. 00:01:52.845 --> 00:01:56.576 And you men, you enjoy the wife. 00:01:56.576 --> 00:01:58.977 You enjoy the wife of your youth. 00:01:58.977 --> 00:02:00.523 Proverbs 5. 00:02:00.523 --> 00:02:01.905 Enjoy her. 00:02:01.905 --> 00:02:04.223 And you women, enjoy your men. 00:02:04.223 --> 00:02:05.763 And you enjoy your children. 00:02:05.763 --> 00:02:07.900 You children, enjoy your parents. 00:02:07.900 --> 00:02:10.358 Proverbs is just full of: 00:02:10.358 --> 00:02:12.851 let her who bore you have joy. 00:02:12.851 --> 00:02:14.670 I can't quote it exactly. 00:02:14.670 --> 00:02:16.862 Many verses like that. 00:02:16.862 --> 00:02:20.575 You children wonder, what really should I be doing? 00:02:20.575 --> 00:02:22.249 What great thing can I do? 00:02:22.249 --> 00:02:24.485 I'll tell you what great thing you can do. 00:02:24.485 --> 00:02:26.956 You can bring joy to your parents. 00:02:26.956 --> 00:02:30.138 And that is no small thing. 00:02:30.138 --> 00:02:31.760 You enjoy your meals. 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:33.571 Enjoy them. 00:02:33.571 --> 00:02:38.922 We never did much cooking out. 00:02:38.922 --> 00:02:40.770 We don't have time to cook out. 00:02:40.770 --> 00:02:43.177 We don't have time to heat that thing up. 00:02:43.177 --> 00:02:46.033 Get it on. Get it going. 00:02:46.033 --> 00:02:48.278 But there's something to be said for it. 00:02:48.278 --> 00:02:50.689 Slow down. 00:02:50.689 --> 00:02:52.516 Heat that grill up 00:02:52.516 --> 00:02:54.765 and enjoy your meal together. 00:02:54.765 --> 00:02:57.180 Make every meal to be a holy time. 00:02:57.180 --> 00:03:05.546 Make every meal to be a Bible school. 00:03:05.546 --> 00:03:08.351 Share with one another your experiences, 00:03:08.351 --> 00:03:10.620 parents and children, 00:03:10.620 --> 00:03:12.518 and what you're going through. 00:03:12.518 --> 00:03:15.076 The meal time, the table time, 00:03:15.076 --> 00:03:17.271 it's a tremendous opportunity 00:03:17.271 --> 00:03:20.096 to touch base and share what you saw 00:03:20.096 --> 00:03:24.587 that morning or what happened this afternoon. 00:03:24.587 --> 00:03:26.509 I haven't given enough credit 00:03:26.509 --> 00:03:29.211 to what is it? Mark 6? 00:03:29.211 --> 00:03:30.900 Where the Lord says 00:03:30.900 --> 00:03:33.105 come aside for awhile and rest. 00:03:33.105 --> 00:03:35.413 I have not given that enough credit. 00:03:35.413 --> 00:03:37.473 I mean, the Lord said that. 00:03:37.473 --> 00:03:38.921 He said that. 00:03:38.921 --> 00:03:43.233 And we took some family vacations. 00:03:43.233 --> 00:03:45.711 I'm glad for every one of them we had. 00:03:45.711 --> 00:03:49.578 But if I had it to do again, 00:03:49.578 --> 00:03:51.379 I'd buy a better tent - 00:03:51.379 --> 00:03:53.559 one where you could stand up, 00:03:53.559 --> 00:03:56.035 move around. 00:03:56.035 --> 00:03:58.172 Not just some little bit of a thing 00:03:58.172 --> 00:04:00.619 where you've got to crawl in and dread it at night 00:04:00.619 --> 00:04:02.840 and kick your shoes off in the cold. 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:05.948 And they get wet in the morning. 00:04:05.948 --> 00:04:08.750 When it's time to work, work. 00:04:08.750 --> 00:04:12.107 When it's time to play, play. 00:04:12.107 --> 00:04:15.652 Enjoy your vacations. 00:04:15.652 --> 00:04:17.833 Somebody I think quoted it tonight. 00:04:17.833 --> 00:04:20.128 1 Peter 3: 00:04:20.128 --> 00:04:22.780 "And he who would see good days 00:04:22.780 --> 00:04:24.395 and love life..." 00:04:24.395 --> 00:04:25.868 Peter said that. 00:04:25.868 --> 00:04:28.084 Good days? I thought all these days 00:04:28.084 --> 00:04:29.785 were supposed to be evil. 00:04:29.785 --> 00:04:32.140 You know, this present evil world. 00:04:32.140 --> 00:04:34.287 And love life? I thought you were 00:04:34.287 --> 00:04:35.922 supposed to hate your life. 00:04:35.922 --> 00:04:37.841 But there's a sense in which 00:04:37.841 --> 00:04:39.974 the opposite is true. 00:04:39.974 --> 00:04:43.638 And so enjoy your vacations. 00:04:43.638 --> 00:04:47.543 Take them. Take them. 00:04:47.543 --> 00:04:51.453 Enjoy your work. 00:04:51.453 --> 00:04:53.547 Here I am. 00:04:53.547 --> 00:04:56.747 See? I can barely sit at my desk. 00:04:56.747 --> 00:05:01.731 I can barely read my Bible. 00:05:01.731 --> 00:05:04.172 Don't think that if I get sick ever 00:05:04.172 --> 00:05:05.526 I'm going to have more time 00:05:05.526 --> 00:05:07.418 to read my Bible and pray. 00:05:07.418 --> 00:05:08.407 No way. 00:05:08.407 --> 00:05:10.737 You don't do anything more when you're sick 00:05:10.737 --> 00:05:14.169 except groan. 00:05:14.169 --> 00:05:18.063 So, just enjoy your health. 00:05:18.063 --> 00:05:19.525 I remember Conrad Murrell - 00:05:19.525 --> 00:05:21.623 he came to Kirksville. 00:05:21.623 --> 00:05:24.418 I was still single at the time. 00:05:24.418 --> 00:05:28.768 (incomplete thought) 00:05:28.768 --> 00:05:31.901 No, I take it back. I was still working. 00:05:31.901 --> 00:05:34.282 It was before I'd quit my job. 00:05:34.282 --> 00:05:37.382 And I think I came down to the meeting. 00:05:37.382 --> 00:05:38.692 And I said to Conrad, 00:05:38.692 --> 00:05:43.511 "Is it alright for me to put a T-bone steak in that oven?" 00:05:43.511 --> 00:05:45.397 And he says, "It sure is." 00:05:45.397 --> 00:05:47.169 He says, "You put a steak in there 00:05:47.169 --> 00:05:49.651 and you enjoy it and thank God for it, 00:05:49.651 --> 00:05:51.497 and when He takes it away from you, 00:05:51.497 --> 00:05:56.541 you thank Him for that too." 00:05:56.541 --> 00:05:58.273 And so, enjoy your work. 00:05:58.273 --> 00:06:00.152 Don't look at it as drudgery. 00:06:00.152 --> 00:06:02.826 What a privilege you've got to go to work 00:06:02.826 --> 00:06:05.061 and do something for society 00:06:05.061 --> 00:06:09.898 and for Christ. 00:06:09.898 --> 00:06:13.476 So there's something to be said for that side too. 00:06:13.476 --> 00:06:22.011 Come aside and rest awhile. 00:06:22.011 --> 00:06:24.401 Make memories. 00:06:24.401 --> 00:06:29.142 Look your children in the eye. 00:06:29.142 --> 00:06:32.847 And tell them you love them. 00:06:32.847 --> 00:06:37.122 Let them enjoy you. 00:06:37.122 --> 00:06:41.200 Come on, let them in. 00:06:41.200 --> 00:06:46.576 Tell them you do. 00:06:46.576 --> 00:06:49.645 Enjoy one another. 00:06:49.645 --> 00:06:52.219 You look around the room. 00:06:52.219 --> 00:06:54.259 You look around the church, 00:06:54.259 --> 00:06:58.464 and you can see, well, he's not perfect. 00:06:58.464 --> 00:07:00.891 He's got this fault and that fault. 00:07:00.891 --> 00:07:03.864 But the same for you. 00:07:03.864 --> 00:07:06.870 Enjoy the brethren and the good 00:07:06.870 --> 00:07:10.073 that you do find in them. 00:07:10.073 --> 00:07:12.462 Drop your guard a little. 00:07:12.462 --> 00:07:14.647 Cut them some slack. 00:07:14.647 --> 00:07:18.165 Enjoy your pastor; your pastors. 00:07:18.165 --> 00:07:19.823 Give them a break. 00:07:19.823 --> 00:07:21.937 You know, it says in Hebrews 13 00:07:21.937 --> 00:07:26.722 that they're watching for your souls. 00:07:26.722 --> 00:07:29.915 Let them do it with joy and not with grief. 00:07:29.915 --> 00:07:38.681 Give them a little joy. 00:07:38.681 --> 00:07:40.605 There's a burden there, 00:07:40.605 --> 00:07:45.118 again, that they're carrying that's unique. 00:07:45.118 --> 00:07:47.782 Give them some joy. 00:07:47.782 --> 00:07:49.999 The biggest joy you can give them, of course, 00:07:49.999 --> 00:07:56.351 is to walk with Christ and quit sinning. 00:07:56.351 --> 00:07:58.349 I have no greater joy 00:07:58.349 --> 00:08:02.985 than to see my children walking in the truth. 00:08:02.985 --> 00:08:05.768 I believe that's all.