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  BEING OF ONE MIND
  by Randy Krahn
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of maintaining a deep
love for Jesus above all else, highlighting the dangers of losing our
first love and getting distracted by external factors like doctrines,
church work, or pride. It stresses the need to repent, surrender to God,
and focus on a genuine, childlike love for Jesus, rather than just
outward religious practices. The message also touches on the
significance of looking to Jesus for salvation and transformation,
acknowledging our need for His grace and mercy in our lives.

Topics: "First Love", "Genuine Relationship with Jesus"
Scripture References: Galatians 3:13, Hebrews 12:2, Revelation 2:4, John 8:36, Hebrews 11:6, Philippians 3:10, Genesis 32:24

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of maintaining a deep love for
Jesus above all else, highlighting the dangers of losing our first love
and getting distracted by external factors like doctrines, church work,
or pride. It stresses the need to repent, surrender to God, and focus on
a genuine, childlike love for Jesus, rather than just outward religious
practices. The message also touches on the significance of looking to
Jesus for salvation and transformation, acknowledging our need for His
grace and mercy in our lives.

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Good morning. Lord, just open up the scriptures to us and I pray that
the words that would be spoken wouldn't come from my head, but would
come from the Spirit. May you administer to each one, Lord, in a special
way, Lord, that we would know you more and our love for you would grow.

Pray for those not with us, that you would be with them, you would
encourage them, you would remove discouragement from them, that they
would look to you and be radiant in Jesus' name. This morning I was
spending some time reading and I'd remember that I got a text early in
the week from a fella that used to fellowship with us. He lives in
another town now near Alberta.

We've got a lot of people come and go from our fellowship over the last
20 years, stay for a season and then they get a job somewhere or they
leave for different reasons and move on. Sometimes it's peaceable, most
of the time it's hurtful, painful. It's kind of like watching children
leave home.

You're hoping that you can bless them on their way out, but sometimes
it's kind of hurtful. And then I thought, oh, I didn't respond to that
brother's text and I kept coming back to mine. I thought, well, I need
to spend some time.

I need to text this brother. And I text this brother and immediately
when I texted him, he says, I was just thinking about you. That's how
the Holy Spirit works.

The Holy Spirit is global. It's not, you know, just working here. You're
not just working in some other place.

He's all over the place and he's able to prompt us if we have his heart,
if we have the heart of the Father, if we have the heart of the same
spirit, kindred spirit. You cannot see someone for many years. I haven't
seen this brother for many years, but immediately there's fellowship.

Because our fellowship isn't in, oh, you know, we both all like trucks
or, oh, you know, we both are in construction or we can relate, we're
businessmen. Our fellowship is in the Son. That's where true fellowship
is, in Jesus.

And we can find that common denominator of grace and humility. I was
reading something this morning that says God is opposed to the proud.
You know, we've had some different people even we're dealing with some
people in our fellowship who are proud.

You try to help them, give them some advice. They swear to you or they
tell you how they experience you and you can't help them. And if we're
like that with the Lord, God cannot help you.

He's opposed to you. He's opposed to the proud. But when after we go
through some things and we find ourselves licking the pavement and we
get real low, all of a sudden he's there to help us.

All of a sudden he's able to lift us up when we get our eyes off of
ourself, off of our rights, off of our doctrine, off of all these
things. I'm not saying doctrine is not important, but I'm saying we get
our eyes off of dotting I's and crossing T's and we get our eyes just on
Jesus. Then he can help us.

You can have all the doctrine all piled up like one Saul of Tarsus did
and all of a sudden he had to go into the wilderness for a period of
time to go and relearn all that doctrine. And all of a sudden it became
real to him. Spent his lifetime devoted to it and he missed Jesus.

And that's what Danny shared. This church doing all the right things and
missing Jesus somehow. And Danny shared about losing your first love.

The scripture actually says you left your first love. I came home, we
were out with the family and my son was sitting on the couch there and I
see he left his phone in one spot, he left his earbuds in one spot, and
he left his wallet there next to the fireplace. I said, you left that
thing there, he's gonna lose it.

And he's sitting there and I'm talking to him and he's busy doing
something and I said, you know your wallet and your stuff is there,
right? Just so you know it's there. He said, I don't want you to lose
it. He left it there.

And some of us we've left our first love. We've gotten distracted with
other things that are good things. Maybe it's in seeking out the right
doctrine, maybe proper theology, maybe in our discernment, maybe in our
church work, maybe in our serving.

We're doing all the right things and somehow we've missed our love for
Jesus. Better to just have that simple childlike love for Jesus and all
the other things, if that's the only thing, because that's the thing
that matters. To love the Lord your God with all your heart.

Doctrine is important, teaching is important. It says by it you'll save
yourself and them that hear you. But loving Jesus, that's the first
thing.

And if we lose that or we leave that, then all your church work will
amount to a zero. He says repent or I'll come quickly and remove your
lamp stand. Some say well that's your witness.

It is your witness. It's more than that. Imagine inviting everybody to
your church and you sit in the dark.

It's like a blind man leading a bunch of blind men. I talked about
listening to 50 characteristics of a Pharisee from Zach. We revisited
that this week and we listened to the first I think 18 or so.

We had to shut it off. Our wagon was loaded. He said you'll see, you
might see a Pharisee and he's a blind man leading 50 blind men.

He said don't follow him. He said you'll never see it but just picture
it for a moment. That's someone who loses their first love.

You can have all your doctrines right. You can have all your ducks in a
row. You can have it all figured out.

You can have lots of discernment. You can even have the gifts working.
But if the lampstand has been removed.

Try going to work with the lights out in the warehouse and see how much
work you get done. Not much. Not much gets done.

Jesus is the light of the world. City on a hill can't be hidden. People
aren't gonna come to your Jesus because you have all your doctrines
right.

Because all the bones are put together properly in the body. They're
gonna come to Jesus because they see the love of Jesus in you. That's
what's gonna attract them.

All the teaching and preaching we do up at the creek. I don't know how
much they remember. There's seeds planted.

But they remember the love. They remember if you're glowing. They
remember if it's working for you.

That's what Sean remembered when he saw my brother. He didn't remember
the CD. He threw the thing in the garbage.

What he remembered was the love. He remembered that he was glowing.
There was something different about the guy.

And that's what we need. In him is life. And that life is the light of
man.

And he says we're not to walk in darkness. We lie and don't practice the
truth. If we walk in the light as Jesus is in the light.

He is the light of the world. And if that light is in us then we will be
lights. Light in a dark place.

So wherever we go we can be a witness. A testimony of Jesus Christ. And
ready to give an answer of what? Why are you so radiant this morning?
Why are you so joyful? It's Jesus.

I remember Duncan Campbell saying in one of his testimonies his daughter
was 16 years old and she came. He heard her singing up while he was
having a devotion or whatever he was doing. And he heard her singing
about Jesus.

And she was just singing. And it was just flooding his heart with joy to
see his daughter just joyful with Jesus. And she saw him and said why
are you so joyful this morning? Oh I've just spent an hour with Jesus.

I've spent an hour with Jesus. That's where our life is. Maybe we don't
have time to do all the reading.

We don't have time to do all the studying or getting into our
concordances. But do you have time to just come and spend time with the
one who gave his life for you? So as we go, we share the testimony of
Jesus Christ with perishing people. Our faces need to be radiant.

Not ashamed. We have to have confidence. Otherwise we'll put a bowl on
our head.

And a city on the hill can't be hidden. You don't light a lamp and put a
bowl on the head. What kind of testimony is that? We have to have
confidence.

Our confidence is that as he is so are we in the world. We need him to
do something in us so that we have confidence. And if we live by rules
and religion, we do not have confidence.

I'll read something in 1 Corinthians chapter 1. Paul comes to talk to
the Corinthians. I'll start in verse 10. Now I plead with you brethren
in the name of Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing.

That you all have the same mind. That there be no divisions among you.
That you be perfectly joined together in mind and in judgment.

Why is that important? You say well you know we're all unique and we're
all individually uniquely made. But we're all to speak the same thing.
We're all to have the same mind.

We're all to have the same discernment. The same spirit. Because that is
where our fellowship is.

If we have the right spirit, our fellowship is in Jesus. If we're all
talking different things, we're gonna be confused. And it can happen in
a fellowship that we get caught up because of pride.

A lot of times because of knowledge. Knowledge can puff up. Love builds
up.

We need knowledge. It's important to have knowledge. But you know what?
If I have to choose one thing, if I have to choose knowledge or I have
to choose to love for Jesus, I'm gonna take love for Jesus every time.

When I first came to Jesus I didn't know anything. All I knew is I was
this horrible person and he had no business loving me. Because I was
this evil.

And I just remember that he called me. That he chose me when I was a
young boy. When I used to play piano and the tears would run down my
face.

And now I'd become somebody in this world. And I'd behaved so terribly
and become worthless to God. So I thought.

And while I was yet a sinner, I got a revelation that he died for me.
Not just for me but for you. He died for the ungodly.

And then I came to him. And then there was a reminder. Remember, you
never chose me.

I chose you. And I appointed you that you go and bear fruit. And that
your fruit lasts.

Because that's what gives me glory. You know and I just purposed it in
my life that I wanted to live my life for Jesus. And it's been a
journey.

And I've, because of the lack of knowledge, I've made some bad
decisions. But you know what? God drew me back to the simple gospel of
loving Jesus with all heart. Of just coming to simple childlike faith.

And just not leaving that first love. Just remembering that in him we
move and breathe and have our being in Jesus. There were divisions in
the church in Corinth.

He said, Chloe's household, there's people who talk to me that there's
contentions. Because some people say I follow Paul. And other people say
I follow Apollos.

And other people say I follow Peter. And some people say hey I'm
following Jesus. Everyone's at a different place in their spiritual
walk.

Everybody has a different spiritual father. Paul said that he was a
spiritual father to many of them. You know if you were born, someone
gave birth to you.

You can deny that you have a father or you have a mother. But they gave
birth to you. They raised you up as best they knew how.

They might have made a mess of it. But they can't change the fact. And
if you got born again through somebody's testimony, you can't change the
fact that they're a spiritual father to you or spiritual mother.

Paul says I was among you as his nursing mother. Gentle. And how do you
want me to come to you? That way? Or do you want me to come and deal
with you straight? How do you want it? And he says that he was a
spiritual father to them.

Well yes the scripture says you shouldn't call anyone father. That
doesn't change the fact that someone is your father. It's not the title
that we honor.

But it's respect that we give to someone who prayed for us. Perhaps
someone who made sacrifice for us and got up in the morning and went to
work and put food on our plate. Someone who put some clothes on our
back.

You can say well my father was horrible. But you know what? He's still
your father. And there's a scripture that says we're to honor our father
and mother which is the first commandment with promise that you might
live long in the land.

You don't get snuffed out early. And it's important that we understand
these things. That some people where they're at they say hey Peter's my
father.

Or you know what? Because he laid his life down for me. He come to visit
me when I was at this place and that place. And he poured his love into
me.

Hey I follow Peter. If Peter says it that's what I'm gonna do. Another
person says I follow Paul because you know what? Paul's a spiritual
father to me.

Another guy says I follow Paulist because you know what? Paulist was
laboring in my life. And he poured into my life. And I'm telling you if
there's a church split here I'm going with a Paulist.

And then another brother has a revelation says hey listen we're
following Jesus here. These are good brothers who led you. They might be
your spiritual father but Jesus is our heavenly father.

He's the one who we ought to follow and gather around. This shouldn't
bring division. It should unite us together that we would all speak the
same thing.

We'd all have the same mind. We would have the same love one toward
another. We wouldn't allow these things to divide us because we're all
in different places.

We all do things a little differently. And we're all born again through
a different people. Someone brought the Word of God to you.

Someone led you to Christ. Don't despise them. They might not have the
same teaching as you.

Say thank you Lord you brought that person. The person that brought
Jesus in my life was a prosperity preacher. I got born again in that and
the Lord brought me out of that.

I don't want to despise what God did through that person because I found
Jesus through that testimony. May the Lord have mercy on us. So he goes
on from there.

But I wanted to read something. Sometimes we despise our parents. We
despise our spiritual people who have brought Christ to us.

I want to take you to an Old Testament passage Deuteronomy chapter 21 I
think it is. It says in verse 18 Deuteronomy 21 18. If a man has a
stubborn or a rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother.

You know what I think of? I think of Moses in the wilderness. I think of
Korah, Dathan, Abiram, these rebels. Hear now you rebels.

These guys were people that God had called. Who had given them a
stewardship of the Levitical priesthood. There were 250 priests there.

They were called. They were chosen. They had an inheritance.

But you know what they did? They disrespected God and they disrespected
Moses. Here's a scripture that says touch not my anointed do my prophets
no harm. Moses was a prophet.

We have to be careful how we speak about people that God has put in
authority. Even if we find fault with the way they're doing things even
we see things a little differently or maybe we even have more light. We
have to do things in the right way.

I believe that. He says if a man has a stubborn or rebellious son who
will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and who
when they have chastened him they've disciplined him the best they knew
how. The boy still won't listen.

The girl still won't listen. Then the father and mother should take hold
of him and bring him to the elders of the city to the gate of his city
and they shall say to the elders of the city this son of ours is
stubborn and rebellious. He doesn't listen.

He's doing his own thing. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton
and he's a drunk.

He's bringing shame on the family. Then all the men of the city shall
stone that boy to death with stones. So you shall put away the evil from
among you and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.

Can you imagine if that happened to you or it happened to me? There was
no one more rebellious than me and if they were following the old
Levitical law and my parents were done with me they finally had enough
of me. I used to get the beats like something fierce. Three, four days a
week I'd be disciplined because I was disobedient.

They did the best they knew how and they just bring me to the gate of
the city with the elders and they say you know what we're done with this
boy. You deal with him. They call everybody in town.

Everybody gets a big rock from the gravel pit and they start smashing
them with stones. They get some good fear and all the other rebellious
boys that are not listening to their parents you say hey you know what
you better just be careful because you know what we don't want to bring
you to the city. We don't want to bring you to the gate.

When I was growing up and I was rebellious my grandfather would say hey
boy he says you're going to keep up like that we're going to take you to
Siberia. I didn't know getting out of Siberia. He came from Russia.

When the men they would gather the men they take them to work camps they
go to Siberia. Very few people came out of Siberia and so I always got
fear because he was telling me stories about Siberia and the men that
were taken there and he says you're going to be rebellious boy or you're
going to go to Siberia. I put some good fear in for my grandfather.

Fear is a good thing and if it's used properly just like the law is a
good thing if it's used lawfully. We don't want to live by the law. We
want to be redeemed from the law and that's what Jesus did.

I want to read about that. Go back in 1 Corinthians. Well rather we look
at Galatians in chapter 3. Galatians.

Ephesians. It's after 2 Corinthians. Galatians chapter 3. Let's look at
verse 8. For the scripture foreseeing that God would justify Gentiles of
which we are by faith he preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand
saying in you all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.

So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. So
our righteousness is by faith in Jesus Christ and the promise is to
Abraham and to his seed which is one which is Jesus. And so if we
believe on Jesus we shall be saved.

Whoever calls on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. But
he goes on from there and he says but as many as are of the works of the
law are under a curse. Now I just want to talk a little bit of what Dan
shared.

We can do all the right things not from faith not from love from a good
conscience and from sincere faith but out of duty out of works because
it's the right thing to do because we have all the doctrines we know
it's right like Dan shared it's good to submit to your husband you'll do
it but you won't like it one bit but to do it from love it's a total
different deal to obey from the heart that form of teaching to love from
a pure heart from a good conscience from sincere faith he goes on from
there he says for as many as are of the works of the law are under a
curse and he goes on to say for it is written cursed is everyone who
does not continue in everything that is written in the book of the law
to do them but we know that faith came before the law and the law was
added 430 years later because men were rebellious and were doing their
own thing and so they needed a knowledge of sin remember we said it's
good to have knowledge but it's better to have love to love God and to
obey God because you love him not because you have to or you're going to
get punished or you're going to get sent to Siberia or you're going to
be stoned no but because he first loved us and gave his life for us and
not only that what does it say here but that no one is justified by the
law and the sight of God is evident for the just shall live by faith if
any man shrinks back it says in hebrews in chapter 11 i believe at the
end my soul or 10 my soul has no pleasure in him but we're not of those
that shrink back when are you going to shrink back when you're looking
back you're going to go sideways but when you're looking ahead fixing
your eyes on Jesus we're going to continue on in the faith we're going
to press on in the faith maybe you've backslid maybe you've fallen back
maybe you've tried to be a good person and it hasn't worked there's a
curse on you you've got to get the curse off how do you get the curse
off in the old testament i was reading and we're going to come back to
this but i want to turn there in numbers in verse chapter 21 and verse 4
now as they journeyed from mount hor this is the children of israel
they'd come out of egypt they were in the way by the red sea numbers
chapter 21 verse 4 they go around the land of edom and the soul of the
people came very discouraged on the way now when discouragement comes
into your spirit sin's not far away if you were hoping for something you
were hoping something was going to come through for you you're hoping
something was going to work out your way you're going to get accepted
into this thing or you're going to do this thing or then all of a sudden
discouragement comes sin's crouching at the door don't let
discouragement swamp you and take you back to your old life so this is
what happened they became discouraged on the way in the wilderness and
the people spoke against god and they spoke against moses why have you
brought us up out of egypt to die in the wilderness for there is no food
no water and our soul loathes this useless worthless bread this manner
why did you bring us here where are you actually taking us we're
discouraged by this whole thing we don't like this thing that's going on
we thought we were going to a land flowing with milk and honey we're not
there yet and i don't think we're ever going to get there why did you
bring us out of egypt he's angry they're angry with god they're angry
with moses they hate the bread this loathsome manner they have no water
they have no food you want to know what happened to them now the lord
sent fiery serpents among the people and bit the people may as well say
they bit them in the face the serpents just bit them all these sheep and
you know what happened many of the people in israel died you want to
know why because they sinned against the lord they grumbled against the
lord they were not thankful and it can happen today we can get in a
place in a spiritual headspace where discouragement comes and then next
thing you know we're not thankful we're grumbling you know we don't have
this we don't have that say this is not working out that didn't work out
you know what in the world we're doing here anyways what this not next
thing you know we start speaking against god we start speaking against
the people in our life who are who are guiding us spiritually and next
thing you know god allows serpents to come and bite us even bite us in
the face i got this article this week about that and many people die not
a few people many people die therefore the people came to moses now
they're sorry oh man we're getting bitten we sinned we've spoken against
the lord we've spoken against you now they're confessing we're gossiping
about you pray to the lord for us we're sorry we we said evil of you now
pray for us that we don't die pray that he takes away the serpents from
us so moses prayed for the people it's like one of those plagues that
was in egypt the thing come on them the thing that they feared came on
them then the lord spoke to moses he says this is what you do he said
make a fiery serpent set it on a pole and it shall be that everyone
who's bitten when he looks upon it shall live and moses made a bronze
serpent and he put it on a pole so it was if the serpent had bitten
anyone when he looked at the bronze serpent he lived now back in
galatians 3 this is a picture of jesus we can say all kinds of things
about what happens if we get bitten by the serpent but you know what if
we look unto jesus if we cry out to jesus to have mercy on us he will
save us he will help us you get into discouragement you get into despair
get your eyes off of your circumstances and stop grumbling about
everything that's going wrong and start thanking jesus like like dan
shared earlier he said just start remembering some of those good times
some of those small things where he did great things and just say thank
you lord oh where would i be without you where would i be everything's
passing away but you but you're there i still have you lord and he goes
on from there and he says speaking about verse 11 that no one should be
justified in the sight of god through the law for the judge shall live
by faith yet the law is not of faith because it says the man who does
those things shall live by them keeping of rules regulations dotting
eyes crossing keys trying to be perfect in the sight of men but not in
the sight of god because the law only deals with the outer man rules
only deal with the circumcision of the outer man it doesn't deal with
the heart which is rebellious which is proud and which wants to even
boast and how good we do things compared to other people and god is
opposed to us in that place and we think that we're cleaning ourselves
up and making ourselves acceptable to god maybe to people but not to god
and having this revelation that we need to have a love for god that
comes from a pure heart from a good conscience and from sincere faith
even if the outward things haven't taken place yet circumcision isn't
cutting off the rock or it is cutting off the rod on the outside and but
it doesn't deal with the inside only christ can be with the inside and
the message of the cross deals with the inside it's foolishness to those
who are perishing but us who believe it's the power of god and it's the
wisdom of god the cross deals with the sin nature the cross deals with
the flesh it deals with our pride we have to die to what we're held by
and if we get in that place where we get bitten in the face by a serpent
or we get bitten in the leg or in the foot the serpent strikes us on the
heel he goes on to say that christ having redeemed us from the curse of
the law having become a curse for us for it is written cursed is
everyone who hangs on a tree that the blessing of abraham might come
upon the gentiles in christ jesus that we might receive the promise of
the spirit through faith jesus took the curse for us when we grumbled
and we got into despair and we got into that headspace that was bad and
we did things that we're ashamed of we can't right the ship but we can
repent and we can say lord what shall we do pray for us that none of
these things come upon us like that simon the sorcerer said repent and
look to jesus have mercy on me son of david i remember this brother that
called me he got back into a prominent position up in the oil field he
went into places he shouldn't have been he left fellowship and he got
into a bad way and he started using drugs again when we met him he was
just free from crack it was on heavy depression pills trying to cope and
that guy became so gloriously born again his name is danny and that guy
he got a gift of prophecy and he would prophesy accuracy but the thing
is his heart became proud and he started to look down on other people
who are not doing things the right way and we all can be subject to that
and what happened was he got bitten by a serpent and that thing led him
on a path so that he ended up back in the place where he was before he
knew christ and he texted me this morning he said i was at seven
treatment centers and if you share this morning tell them that all the
psychology all the sociology all the all the doctors all their wisdom
and all those things only deal with the outer person but jesus christ
deals with the inner man and he said encourage the people to look to
jesus don't trust in the wisdom of men but in the power of god the cross
deals with the whole man and when he changes the heart he changes the
outer man bit by bit so eagerly we wait for the hope of righteousness
which is by faith in christ let's look to jesus let's stop trying to dot
i's and cross t's and try to look good to men but rather let's humble
ourselves under the heavy hand of god so he can lift us up so if then
we've been buried with him in baptism we want to be lifted up with him
jesus said if i be lifted up i'll draw all men to myself jesus having
become a curse he took the curse he took the fall that bronze serpent
that was lifted up in the wilderness it's a picture of christ you know
what the people did they made that thing into an idol today you know my
son he plays on a ball team and the guys they'll have a cross on their
neck or they'll do this thing becomes an idol it's an idol we gather
around the cross nobody's willing to get on it are you willing to die to
what you're held by willing to lay it down give it all up or are you
just going to try and keep it under control that's circumcision that's
the law for sure trying to control circumstances by what you're willing
or not willing to surrender to christ but from love's sake when you
realize you were a dead man apart from jesus and now you died and your
life is hidden with christ and god and what do you owe him and anything
short of that is religion you can do all the right things of all the
right doctrines but you know what you left your first love there's
nothing i wouldn't do for jesus when i got born again nothing i would do
whatever you need to have that encounter with christ you get so
gloriously born again but there's nothing you wouldn't do or give up or
go places to go for jesus i remember he brought me something and i said
i just drop it and go that's a bond servant of christ that's what we
want to be and we can lose that but we can leave it get preoccupied with
other things you know we used to have a guy come to our place he'd come
in and we try to have fellowship and he'd go to the mantle he'd pick up
something shiny and he'd hold it in his hand and then he'd go put that
down he'd go over to the thing he'd hold that in his hand and he'd go
all over the place and whatever was shiny whatever was colorful whatever
was looked precious he would go and hold that thing in his hand like why
are you doing this i'm just unconsciously doing this thing we do that we
say we'll have fellowship with christ but yet wherever we're going we're
always picking up something shiny and it's drawing us away from christ
we think we're having fellowship but our heart is for all these other
things you may have those things but do they have your heart and you're
slave to whom you obey it's like the tail wagging the dog you ever seen
a dog chasing his tail just absolutely exhausts himself passes out pants
like crazy gets up again chases it again thinking he's going to catch it
you won't catch it you'll tire yourself out trying to catch it until you
look up or acknowledge i'm a dog hey jesus i'm a dog i want to become a
son dogs go back to their vomit sows pigs having been washed go back to
their mud not so with sons if the sun makes you free you're free indeed
a slave doesn't abide in the house forever johnny but a son jesus says
come to me to be free he became a curse for you so you don't have to be
one we can't change our past you know what we can look to him and he can
make all things new i love that verse from your wedding sir you make
everything beautiful at this time we need his patience you know sean
says he hasn't met his kids yet there's a reason for it sean's not ready
he's not ready the relationship will be impure he'll try and please them
in the flesh when sean's ready they'll be ready i believe that when
sean's ready he'll make it beautiful we're not hindered by him he's not
slow he's waiting on us he's waiting on us because if it's going to
hinder us spiritually as much as he wants to bless us with it if it'll
take us back to some place you know better to enter heaven with one hand
than go to hell with two better to enter heaven with two eyes than go to
hell or enter heaven with one eye than go to hell with two sometimes we
become crippled i think of jacob and i'll finish here that he was a
deceiver a supplanter swindled his brother god knew all these things it
was written and then he gets swindled by laban and now he has to face
his esau how many of you have an esau that you have to face yet in your
lifetime i've faced a lot of mine you know people that you've cheated
people that you've wronged things he's putting off you don't want to
deal with jacob has to face his esau and he just absolutely he's trying
to figure out a way to send gifts and divide up his company and next
thing you know he's by himself he's wrestling with god and he thinks
it's somebody attacking him in the night and he finds he's fighting the
lord and he said bless me or i die that went from pushing off the lord
to pulling him in close and bless me or i die and he touches him in the
hip and jacob comes out of that meeting walking with a limp and we go
when we fast forward into hebrews in chapter 11 at the end of his life
we see jacob written in there as a man of faith leaning on his staff one
bad leg blessing his grandsons we want to finish our race even if we
have to walk with a limp and get there whatever it's going to take as
long as we get there and the lord knows you see someone who's come to
know their god they walk with a limp they're not strong with horse's
legs anymore they've wrestled with god and they've prevailed and god has
been able to subdue them through the cocoon of his dealings as brother
warnock shares and to make us beautiful in his own way in his own time
to be conformed into the image of jesus christ being conformed into the
likeness of his resurrection having been partakers in the fellowship of
his sufferings to know him all that you would know him in jesus name
amen

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/vZDZzTbskGA.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/randy-krahn/being-of-one-mind/
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