example i'm setting some possible past speak in a says my example and i got a question for you is he talking about his example walking with christ is that what he's talking about can you say that can you say a neighbor a coworker a student a grocery clerk or a gas attendant i want you to walk like i walk with jesus can you say like me to trick question did he say be like me or do you say far my example the reason i asked that is because pas not say you have to have the same personality  example of following christ and so we all can have all personalities we all can ever own callings and in the midst of that we would do things differently but i reflect in christ and a perfect example of that there's somebody as the or they may be going to challenge more absolutely but if somebody has the calling of being a giver they probably don't do a whole lot of talking to you about how you're living your life where they do it is  sorry but your toes are sticking out of her chew and i could pick somebody else's bad habit too by the way the picketing one was a perfect example so if somebody has the car to talk about jesus shared about jesus is not a great calling t jesus let me tell you we're past talking about not to do so we're driving down the road we just look for people off the street just whoever we see and we share something with them would give them food or maybe so drive down the road and we get out of the a guy sitting down to the curb and he looks like he's discouraged when something is going on with them and they get out we start to share this guy start sharing with a guy and he starts talking about jesus can set you free does could deliver you he's a little reefer judges can set you free and he looks the guy says do you have a cigarette or cigarette from you is if you turn about jesus set you free should you be asking for somebody else a cigarette let me tell you this  minute about the smoking jesus set you free should give enough money at least the buyer cigarettes so if you are free to share money to buy your cigarettes ok this is what he does that was the message she's giving it's a mixed message cake that you want to put another sin i can but i don't need to i think you got the point where you got the point is that we reflect christ now let me tell you this get context if you get context if you look at philippi and are christian jews are trying to take christian gentiles and get them into the law and so he says watch out he says beware he says beware of doors who would want to put you back into bondage those who want to put you back into the law if you take our culture today what he said is be wary of those who are christians who tell you have to address do this do this in a certain way and if your knight don't really love jesus if you enters a certain color you don't love jesus if you wear a certain kind of outfit you don't love jesus if you eat certain foods you don't love jesus if you go to a movie theater or love jesus they put all these rumors upon you the same be wary of dollars and he says if anybody could be that person it could be that was the right day you're supposed to get circumcised if you're jews he said i was all those things that he said i count on are in vanity a car are useless so if you are going to follow example yes what we can do we can be on a pedestal say i'm better than you let me tell you that i've had people do that to me i've turned around to take people out and start the next you know they're not talking about jesus you know where they're talking about themselves how good they part time about forgiving those other things that lay behind so if we follow jesus this don't get caught up in our past this to god get caught up in the guilt and the shame and i guy can never use me because i've done this  he turns around he says i'm learning to die to self i want to come for i'm to the death of jesus experience and others i want to die to self i want that old man to die at that sinful nature to die i want those bad habits to die i'm go call those bad habits in that are sin i want that to die in my life i don't want that to be part of my life and so out of it there should be that we look at our life and we say you know rod there's certain things i just don't want to do anymore glory but here's what he says this is amazing he says i come from to jesus death so i can experience his resurrection power do you want resurrection power in your life do you want victory over do you want to be a person that walks a better life then what do you have to do you have to die does that mean literal death does god want us to say ok i want you to die know all but what he's talking about is that that bad behavior he wants to die those habits that he wants to die so that example would be if you know there's something in your life that has a hold of you you're saying i want that to go away and i know that if i have that go away i have a resurrection power in my life was the resurrection power you know the resurrection power is whatever you died to whatever you gave up guess what you have power over it now there's a resurrection power so if i if i am a person of this roxanne stubbornness i just i'm just stubborn i don't i don't want to do it people ask me to do anybody ever been that person anybody been a person that they dead has been non compliant at times sometimes don't do what you're supposed to do anybody been that person ok great app and when you died that is you become resurrection power because what happens you're more compliant you go a lamb with us is there power in that absolutely and i'll give you an example because i have children i'm a i'm a i'm going to dress the children and you that i was talking about them i talk about all of you because roger of god but if mom says if you clean up your room then we're going to do this anybody been a parent anybody been a child when man says clamp your room and we will do we'll go and do this is a something good that's going to happen here's mom say if you clear be a room we're going to do is put you in the closet you know all the mom says she can put you in the room but put you in the room when mom says to clean up the room there's going to be something good that happens and you clean your room what do you experience the experience goodness and you feel good don't we when we do something that's right and we have the right more don't we feel good about it room and to be able to did know that mommy lives at the end and end and is happy with what you're doing what about knowing that god loves you then god is happy with what you're doing do you know what happens it starts to become a lifestyle and  becomes a lifestyle what happens i start being a certain way without even thinking about it i become transformed i become changed and i have a son and is that i want to do what i do so the example tonight i will be talking about praise he should come because i only get ten minutes five to ten minutes if you don't believe in good god does miracles watch me share in only five to ten minutes but in ten minutes i have to talk about praise and when there isn't a talk about is the fact that praise part of praise is not just giving the praise of their lives per praises our bodies given glory to how we live the life that we live and out of it what happens is that i start to do something i say i'm a praise god i'm a put this flesh that doesn't want to praise god i'm a purchase put his flesh under them or praise god whether through my lips or through my actions you know you were experienced if you've learn about praise you know what happens when you when you start to learn about praise you start to give god praise is that you learn about resurrection power guess what you learn when i'm depressed and i'm bummed out and i'm discouraged i praise god and what happens when i praise god i feel better right the boss of the i was the praises of his people so let me give an example of that is that i turn around and i'm in the midst of it in the midst of sickness and i'm in pain all kinds of pain and how me know when you get in pain you get depressed you get discouraged all those things are going on in the midst of it and all of a sudden you say you know what i'm a put on some praise music and a person worship music and you put that you do devils you take my life but i'm going to be with jesus when you do there's something that happens or resurrection power this goes the next verse for many walk of whom i've often told you i tell you even weeping that the enemy is the cross of christ paul is saying to our doors who are against the message of the gospel and if you read the context the context these were people who claim to be christians if you read the context he says they're against the cross of says many of the law against the gospel now paul says that he is the example of fat all because he's following christ and he says there's others that are following christ an example was like them and he says the others will walk in the opposite which one do you want to be which group do you want to be and guess what we all get a choice do you want to be a person that reflects the cross of jesus christ do you want to be a person that reflects the love of christ you w person that reflects the joy of christ do you want to be a person that reflects the patience of christ you want to be a person reflects those self control of christ or do you want to be the person that's rocket against the message of the cross guess who gets the choice we do camp are saying you have a choice right now you can fathom the rock that i'm walking that others are rocking are you can follow the rock of those or against the cross you get a choice in the matter next verse whose end is destruction what happens if you're rocking against jesus destruction comes your life you're fighting against god was going to happen destruction is going to happen well that's not true i see people living for the devil all the time they're not destroyed but do you know what their heart condition is do you know what their mine is do you think that every person who seeks after money is happy do you think every rich person is happy  statistics or the method to win the lottery take their life they win the lottery they take their life so having money doesn't make you happy chasing money  now i know you use a spiritual you never want to descend where maybe you didn't willfully want to sin but did you see them and if you say you didn't sin then we need to put you on the cros anymore but they hang around at the crack house they're not going to do sensitive don't want to do drugs anymore do you think that they don't are pretty stupid but you know  what i really died so why do i use my example all the time i really don't want to over eat an ice cream i don't want all the sugar in my body and i want all the fat in my body just not healthy did a lot of ice cream so if i say that then i have to do something about it right one way i do it because i'm weak and i are probably saying i'm weak to step out of the twelve steps is i don't buy ice out of it as i don't put in the house i don't feed that appetite for ice cream by putting in the how if i think more about what god has for me in heaven how probably not of want to embrace some of the things that's on earth so some days make our life and so there's days that we do that make us happy that make us feel good there's nothing wrong with them as long as they don't become gods the americans all the time said we don't have false gods christian said all the time we don't gods let me tell you something oh august august i know i can get away with this she's already smiling shelley knows what i'm going to do because i have permission permission i could do a day off but if you have to rush wrestling in that state o'clock or nine o'clock ten o'clock at night whatever time it is pass all you raised her and she's she's out there if you have to and if you say you got shut down pretty early she's never done this shutdown for early so i go to wrestling that is a god isn't it now you picked i mean we picked up pat raise your hand if you want me to pick on you said tells us how to do all we know the bible tells us that there are certain things we shouldn't do it will tell you what things we should do the bible will give us answers it gives us solutions it gives us this is a road map empower me to do it and it's going to give me a better life do you believe that k this will give me a better life oh that means then if i just read this bible a fabulous says it's going to give me a better life so that means my life is is going to be perfect and no troubles will come my way did i say that i said it gives you a better right i did say that i was going to make a life of nice and simple and easy everything else what is the better life the better life if you're a christian what is the better life the better life is to have the holy spirit dwelling in you in such a way that there's an overflowing power of the holy spirit are you there are no eighteen in here in your life in such a way that when they throw stones at you to kill you you say go for it i'm not going to deny jesus that is the better life to ridge you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in r churches our vision is loving god loving people loving right now that's a vision for a church to love god to love people love life let me tell you something that if you love god and love people you will love life you know why some people don't love life they don't love god i just love you with all my heart thank you jesus so you've done so much for me that i just love you that what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love through our yard what can i do you love me how can i love you you know god is going to answer love people that's what he's going to say he's going to say love me because you already love him anybody know that the greatest commandment love the lord thy god with all your heart soul mind and the second greatest commandment is what love others as yourself so loving god leads to loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do he says i want you to love this person over here i want you to love this person over here i want you to do this for this person here almost are you start loving people start loving gun you don't  there's a fire let me tell you if you say i don't have a fire in me why don't i have a fire even when i'm not excited about life you're probably not loving god loving people try it just try it if you if you think life is kind of boring to start saying god  people and let me tell you you will be able to love people the way god has you to love him unless you start loving god alone i am my life and i'm a deadbeat human being i'm a deadbeat christian i'm the most boring christian there is god change me people so that's a vision you have been listening to there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in period committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty ninth street in period next to the southwest courthouse