I'm Acting Brand New // Human-ology // Dr. Dharius Daniels

Hey family, Pastor Daryus here and first of all I want to thank you for tapping into this YouTube channel. Listen, whether it is an accident or whether you are a regular, I want to thank you for being here and I believe this is going to add some value to you.

Hey um I'm teaching a message right now um called I'm acting brand new. And it is really a message that I think for some is going to challenge and change the way you see spiritual growth. Cuz spiritual growth isn't just getting to a certain place. It's becoming a certain person.

It's not even just getting management of my sin. It's becoming more like my master. And I believe this message is going to help you with that. Um, if you are really serious about not just uh spiritual formation, but life formation. I also want to extend an invitation to you to something my wife and I are doing.

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I want you to register for that and enjoy the message. We're so grateful to be in God's house today. And if you're here for the first time, my name is Pastor Daryus and I've got the privilege of being lead pastor here. Hopefully, you feel welcome. you feel the presence of God and uh we're grateful to have you with us today.

Um I teach in series and so I take a book of the Bible, a theme of the Bible or a character in the Bible, we explore what the Bible has to say about it and uh we apply it to our day-to-day lives. And I'm starting a new series on today that we're going to be in in several weeks.

And uh I want to for several weeks. And so I want to read a verse of scripture found in 2 Corinthians chapter number two beginning at verse number uh 2 Corinthians chapter number 5 beginning at verse number 17. Here's my prayer target for those of you who will be praying uh over this series with us.

Uh two things. One, that there would be this awakening, this newfound awareness of what God's goal is in spiritual growth. That there would be a reset. that that we would be open to God reintroducing the idea and the concept of spiritual growth to us and then two that as a result of that awakening that there would be this acceleration in our growth.

How many you know God is an accelerator? I said how many you know God is an accelerator. He can get you further faster. And so that's let's just be praying over that. In 2 Corinthians chapter number uh 5:1 17 says therefore if anyone is in Christ he's a new creation.

Old things have passed away and behold, all things have become new. I'm going to stop the reading of scripture there and tag this title to this text. We're talking from this subject. I'm acting brand new. Clap your hands. 12:30. Come on, give Jesus a hand clap of praise.

If you love his word, I want to start this sermon with a statement that will serve as an anchor for everything I'm going to attempt to articulate over the next several weeks. For my notetakers, this axiom will be will appear on the screens. Here it is. If you don't know where you're going, then you won't know when you're actually getting there. >> And this truth, family, does not just apply to transportation in a car.

It also applies to our transformation in Christ. And unfortunately, this is a reality that many believers are wrestling with. They are embarking, listening to me, on a journey of spiritual formation without a biblical explanation of what spiritual formation actually means. Therefore, many well-intended, well-meaning, sincere saints are confusing what they call spiritual growth with what God calls spiritual growth. and they have reduced their spiritual formation to simply managing their sin instead of becoming like their savior. >> This in turn produces what I've affectionately entitled, watch this, Christianity light. >> You got it, Christianity light. an expression of the Christian faith that settles for some things being different >> when what God promises is all things being new. >> And I don't know about you, but I want the real thing. >> I don't know about you, but I don't want to settle for part of what's been promised by God.

I want to experience all of what has been promised by God. I refuse to reduce myself to experiencing a modicum of what Jesus died to give me when I have the opportunity to experience an abundance of what Jesus died to give me. And this is the essence of what Paul is trying to address here in this second letter to a group of believers situated in a city in Greece called Corinth.

Second Corinthians is Paul's second correspondence to a group of believers who are situated in a city in Greece called Corenth. And I want to give you some clarification on the context of Corenth so you can understand the content of this letter. Corinth is located similarly to Miami. >> So I want you to think about Miami water vibes. >> Got me? >> It's got the diversity of New York. >> Location of Miami.

Diversity of New York. >> Got me? >> We were in New York a couple weeks ago for a change night and I walked one block, I get anything I wanted to eat. I I walked one block, I felt like it was in Jamaica. I walked another block, I felt like it's like incredible diversity.

Watch this. With the ethical freedom of Vegas. >> I know. So, the location of Miami, you feel me? The diversity of New York, >> the ethical freedom of Vegas, >> and in Acts 18, Paul goes on a missionary missionary journey there, stays there 18 months building up a discipling community, a plants the gospel in the soil of Corinth.

And out of the soil of Corinth comes this community of faith, these Christians called Corinthians. >> So, as you can imagine, being a Christian in a context that's got the location of Miami, >> the diversity of New York and the ethical freedom of Vegas can be a bit complicated. >> Are y'all hearing me?

I said, "Are you hearing me?" >> And this Corinthian congregation is one of the most complicated congregations in the New Testament uh uh narrative. They are they they they are saved. Watch this. But they're still being shaped. They are found, but they're still being formed. They've been gathered by God, but they're still growing in God because their environment is actually working against their development.

Their environment is actually working against their development. So they're dealing with this tension of being in Corinth but trying to be shaped like Christ. And so Corinth is pulling them in one way and Christ is pulling them in another way. And they're dealing with this tension because they are new to this movement and this way of life called Christianity.

And so this external tension in terms of Corinth pulling them one way. It's is pulling against this internal tension with Christ pulling them another way. But because they're new to the faith, they're confused about the tension they're feeling. Can I really be changed >> if what I'm feeling is complicated? >> Cuz I grew up in Corinth.

So I've had some experiences in Corenth. So I got some memories about Corinth. And the memories produced some appetites for Corinth. And so I'm wrestling with the new spiritual appetite for Christ. Yet I'm still dealing with the residue of the reality of my context here in Corinth. I feel conflicted and I'm confused.

So Paul, who is still providing what we would call apostolic oversight to this congregation, writes this letter to try to aid and assist them in their spiritual development. They are wrestling with this reality. The values of Corenth are conflicting with the values of Christ. and they conflicted. And before you judge these people in Corinth, before you dismiss these people in Corinth, before you throw out these religious this religious rhetoric and these pompous platitudes that they need to get a prayer life and they need to get in the word and they need to turn their face down.

You need to know Corinth is not just an area. Corinth can represent an era. And so, so your age range can be a Corinth because there are values that your generation has that might not be aligned with Christ. Come on. Am I making sense? Yeah. The the the the So, so it's not just an area, it can be an error.

And the truth of the matter is many of us, whether we are aware of it or not, are dealing with some of this Corinian conflict. And Paul, who is a good apostolic overseer, loves his people enough. I love because you know you got a good spiritual leader when he assists you and aggravates you at the same time.

I mean, did you hear what I said? It's like you helping me and bothering me at the same time. I'm telling you to bother it, but it's really bothering me a little bit, but I need to be bothered. I come here to be bothered as long as you're bothering me with the Bible.

Anyway, Paul, he he he's trying to aid and assist them >> in this conflict that they're dealing with because because the the values of Corenth conflicting with the values of Christ. >> So Paul in an attempt to assist them with their evolution in this second letter, he makes this statement in chapter 5:1 17.

He says, "Okay, if any person is in Christ, >> you're a new creation." >> Now, I want to watch. Watch what he says. Old things have passed away. >> Look at the Bible now. >> All things have become new. >> He said, "Old pass, but all is new."

Some stuff removes, some stuff remains and it gets redeemed. >> That statement alone, he is resetting their understanding of spiritual formation. Let me say it again. He said, "If anyone is in Christ, >> old things have passed away." >> Got me? >> Okay. All things have become new. >> So some things are removed. >> That falls in the old things category. >> Some things remain. >> They just become new. >> One more time. >> If any person is in Christ, >> they are a new creation.

And here's what the new creation looks like. >> Some old things will pass away. >> So these old things, he's referring to perspectives, ways of doing things, patterns and practices >> that are influenced by Corenth. The way Corinth has shaped you to see things, behave, and do things. >> He says some of those things need to be passed away.

But all things >> all things are becoming new. So this is important. So this this begs us to deeply explore this word new creation because if I could see if he said all things have passed away, he didn't say all things have passed away. He just said some old things. >> He said but all things will be new.

So, some things need to be removed. Other things need to be need to remain cuz I'm going to redeem and repurpose and restore them. So, here's what he's saying. He's saying, "Listen, Corinthians, I know you're feeling some tension, but here's what I want you to understand. In Christ, you are a new creation.

And this new creation doesn't mean you're something other than human. This new creation means you're a different type of human. So the things as a human that you inherited from Adam >> in the garden of Eden >> need to pass away. In in other words, Paul is resetting their understanding of spiritual formation and he is suggesting to us family that spiritual formation is not the escaping of humanity.

It is the evolution of humanity. God the Father sends Jesus the Son not to show us how to be a God, but to show us how to be a godly human. God does not want little gods. God wants big humans. God is not after demigods. God is after disciples.

And since the Garden of Eden, one of the one of the attempts of the enemy has always been to influence humans to pursue godness instead of godliness. In the Garden of Eden, if you look at the conversation that preceded the temptation, you will see the enemy's communication when his presentation of the fruit.

What he said of the tree, here's what he says. HE SAYS, "GOD KNOWS if you eat from the tree, >> you will be like God. And so they eat in an in an ATTEMPT TO BE LIKE GOD, UNAWARE, according to Genesis 1:26, they're already made in God's image and God's likeness.

And the enemy will exploit your ignorance on who you are. >> I'm going to say that one more time. The devil, Come on. See, it's one thing for for God to know who you are. It's another thing for you to know who you are. And when you don't know who you are, the enemy will use illegitimate means to attempt to get you to BECOME SOMETHING GOD'S ALREADY MADE YOU.

God's like, "You don't have to be me. I don't want you to be me. You can't be me. I want you to be like me, but I already TOLD YOU YOU WERE LIKE ME, BUT you don't believe me. >> I told you in chapter one you were like me.

God doesn't want little gods. >> God wants big humans. And you cannot get spiritual growth right if you get this wrong. >> Everything you understand about spiritual growth will be wrong if you don't get this right. And here is where many well-meaning, well-intended believers get tripped up. that if if when I say that I agree with that seventh century Christian monk Max Maximus confessor when he said Christianity is an entirely different way of being human it causes some people to go into shock and they say I can't believe that you said that God wants me to be a human yes he doesn't want any other god gods. >> And when and when an entity and individual named Lucifer tried to be one, >> he made it very clear.

Am I making sense? But but I think some of this some of this some of this constrnation that comes when I say something like that is a result of confusion. When I say humanity, people often confuse Christians at least confuse humanity with what the Bible calls the flesh.

Yep. >> And and the person that that uses this term the flesh, the Apostle Paul, is the same person that writes this letter to believers in in Corinth. He wrote another letter to believers in Rome. And he is he better than me cuz this is not me. I would not do this.

He much better than me. Paul I I respect Paul. Paul Paul I guess he thought the Romans were safe. He thought the saints were safe. So he was way he was very transparent. This is what Paul says about himself when he's writing to believers in Rome. This is what he says.

He clarifies what the flesh is. It's not humanity. Watch what Paul says. Paul says in Romans chapter 7, Romans 7:15, he says, HE'S TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF. NOW, for what I am doing, I don't understand. Now, I thought this was a 12:30 service. This is Paul talking about himself.

He said, >> he says, "What I'm doing, I don't understand. Am I in the book? >> Okay. He says what I will to do >> like what I want to do, >> what I'm attempting to will myself into doing, >> that's not what I'm practicing. >> Are y'all okay? >> Am I confusing or am I just reading the book? >> Okay.

But what I hate >> that I do Now, some of you wonder where's the growth in that. The growth is in the hate. >> Cuz there was a day he would do it and he wouldn't hate it. There was a day he would do it and he wouldn't be convicted.

THERE WAS A DAY HE would do it and he wouldn't be directed. Sometimes the growth is in the hate. He says, "But what I hate, I do. >> If then I do what I will not to do, I agree that the law is good. But now it is no longer I who does it, but sin, referring to a nature, that dwells in me.

For I know, listen to this, that in me that is in my flesh. Nothing good dwells. For to will is present with me, >> but how to perform what is good, I do not find. See, I don't know if y'all can handle this kind of transparency. Most Christians can't, you know, but I I could I could go further and and I could take you to a point where it almost feels like he's at a point of exasperation with himself >> where he literally says, "Oh, wretched man that I am.

Watch this. He gets tired of himself. >> So, y'all not ready for this? He He Have you ever been tired of you? Now, next week I'm teaching a message called I'm tired of y'all. But but have you ever have you ever >> been tired of you? >> He says, "Oh, wretched man that I am, >> who will deliver me? from this body of death. >> When he uses the word flesh, he associates it with the sin nature, doesn't he? >> So you got sin which is like this nature, this this inherent disposition that we have.

We inherit it from Adam to operate in a way that's against the uh divine design. And then there's sins which are the when we act on that impulse. And so what Paul calls here uh uh uh um sin, when he says sin, I don't do it's a sin that's in me.

He's talking about this sin nature that he possesses and he associates that with what he calls the flesh. So the flesh for Paul is not the meat on my bones. >> He's not demonizing my humanity. >> He is referring to a nature that exists in my humanity that's fighting for influence.

And if I consistently yield the influence of my humanity to the impulses of the flesh, there's a word he uses when he writes the first letter to Corinthians. It's called 1 Corinthians in the Bible. That's the first letter in 1 Corinthians chapter 3. When he greets them, he says, "I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but as carnal."

And that word carnal refers to the flesh. It says, "I am saved, but I am still governed." and guided by the influences and the the practices of that fleshly nature. So here's the point for Paul. The meat on my bones, my humanity is not the flesh. The flesh is a nature that wants to pull me away from THE WAY GOD DESIGNED FOR ME TO handle my humanity.

And when you you cannot get spiritual growth right, if you get this part wrong, If you get this part wrong, you will have Christianity light. >> Not that you're not saved, but it'll be Christianity light. Because when you don't get this part right, are y'all okay? >> You'll be trying to outgrow the wrong thing.

Spiritual formation helps outgrow the influence of the flesh. >> It's not God's intention for you to outgrow the reality of your humanity. >> Cuz the flesh is what's evil, not my humanity. My humanity is a divine human distinction. It is what makes me not God. And this is why you SHOULD PURSUE GODLINESS, NOT GODLINESS.

Because watch this. When you pursue godliness, not godliness, you pick up God weight. >> And you weren't built to carry God weight. >> Did you hear what I just said? Okay. What's picking up God weight? So God, watch this. Godliness means God may give me some answers. >> Godess means I've got all answers.

So when the people you love have problems and you always FEEL THE PRESSURE TO have an answer, >> you have stepped out of godliness, now you stepped into godness cuz God is the only one that's omnisient. I'm not sometimes I don't know why this happened, but I'm going to sit here with you and we're going to cry together and we're going to pray together.

We're going to believe God together. When a person tries to be everywhere at the same time for everybody always, that's not godliness. That's godness. It's called omniresence. You can't get spiritual growth right if you're getting this part wrong. And many people have assumed God way. And so what's happened is we have reattached ourselves and reincarcerated ourselves to an expression of religion that Jesus actually came to rescue you from. >> You have reattached yourself to a Old Testament yoke. >> That Jesus in Matthew chapter number 11 extends an invitation for us to be free from.

Come unto me. I wish I had a voice. I My God, come unto me. Is that what he says? All ye, everybody who who's weary and burdened and I will give you rest. >> He's not talking to people who need a nap. >> That's not the context of the conversation.

He's not saying, "Come to me. I'm going to give you a nap." >> The next verse, HE SAYS, "TAKE my yoke upon you." >> Is that what he says? Now, what is a yoke? A yoke was an apparatus. You would put on like two animals to teal the ground so you could use the yoke to guide the animals.

Remember Jesus was a rabbi. So for a rabbi, his yoke was a set of teachings. And Jesus is saying what that apparatus would do to guide the animals. My teaching should guide your life. And he says your problem is you under the wrong yoke. But if you come to me, I'm going to put my yoke upon you.

And I want my teachings to guide the way you live your life. For I'm gentle. So people who people who assume THAT SPIRITUAL AFFECTION FOR God means living a spiritually abrasive life have reattached THEMSELVES TO AN OLD TESTAMENT YOKE. HE SAYS, "I'M GENTLE. I am Am I in the book?" and humble in heart, >> and you will find rest >> for your soul. >> He says, "Learn from me.

I want to >> learn from me." God the Father sent Jesus the Son >> not to show you how to be a God, >> but to show you how to be a godly human. >> And Jesus the Son is saying, "Let me teach you that. And if we don't get this part right, we can't if we get this part right, we're always going to get spiritual formation wrong.

And you'll end up repenting of the wrong things. >> Cuz you'll conflate humanity >> with flesh. >> Humans get hungry, >> but the flesh turns hunger into greed. >> Humans get tired. The flesh turns fatigue into neglect. >> Humans feel hurt, but the flesh will turn pain into bitterness.

Humans experience success, but the flesh will turn success into pride. Humans have desires, but the flesh will distort desire and turn it into lust. Humans want security, but the flesh will turn security into control. Humans experience fear, BUT THE FLESH TURNS FEAR INTO ANXIETY and paralysis. And when people don't understand this, instead of repenting from greed, neglect, bitterness, pride, lust, control, and paralysis, they're repenting because they're hungry, tired, hurt, successful, have desires, want security, AND EXPERIENCE FEAR.

I WILL NOT REPENT BECAUSE I'M TIRED. I WILL NOT REPENT BECAUSE I'M HURT. I'M A HUMAN. >> I'm not trying to outgrow hurt. I'm trying to learn >> how to manage >> my Judas's >> the way Jesus >> managed his >> So spiritual formation isn't the removal of my humanity.

It is the redeeming and restoring of my humanity >> as God intended. >> And God wants you and I not just to experience some different things but to become a new creation. >> The question becomes, how do we do it? Well, Paul answers it in the text. Give me 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Y'all not tired, are you? I'm almost done. Here it is. Paul answers it. He answers in the text. If anyone is in Christ, >> he's a new creation. >> Yes, sir. >> That's it. >> In Christ. >> So Christ is the only one >> that exists that shows me humanity as God intended.

See, I don't have to be in Christ to have a different life. I have to be in Christ to have a new create to be a new creation. >> Y'all missed it. >> See, are y'all y'all going to be honest? >> Are y'all ready to be honest? >> If you're intellectually honest, all of us know people who have a different life who who never became disciples.

They just became more disciplined. >> Some people change some things not because they ran into Christ, they ran into consequence. I don't hear anybody talking to me. You can change some things in your life without Christ, but you cannot change the way you live your life in terms of humanity as God intended without Christ. >> And I don't want some things different. >> I want brand new.

Am I talking to anybody that wants brand new? I want brand new joy. I want brand new peace. I want brand new relationships. I want a brand new perspective. I want brand new. And that's what spiritual formation does. And this is what Paul's trying to get Corinthians to see.

Cuz Corinth was such a just wild place. >> Their obsession was just simply managing their sin. >> And and Paul's trying to get them to see, you know, Corinth shaped you in a lot more ways than that. >> Corinth taught you how to handle conflict. Corinth taught you how to do business. >> Corinth taught you how to have tough conversations.

Corinth. Am I making sense? >> And and so and so Paul's trying he's he's trying to help them see, hey, don't don't just settle don't just settle for doing some things differently >> when becoming a new creation is actually possible. How do we do is it's in Christ.

So So pastor, what do you mean practically? Okay, four things then we need to be brand new. It's right here in the text. It's in Christ. Number one, we need we need the person of Jesus. Listen to this. The first thing you and I need to act brand new is the person of Jesus.

Watch this. Jesus is our example, but he is also God's avenue for salvation. And when when you hear salvation, we taught on this last week, I want you to think not singular, I want you to think plural BECAUSE SALVATION IS ACTUALLY A BENEFIT package that includes benefits like justification. >> And if I had time, I would explain to you what Paul meant when he used the word justification.

It's a legal term >> that speaks to exoneration. >> The expungement of a record. >> It is a legal declaration that you and I are not guilty. >> It is your DNA is all over the crime scene. The investigators can tie your date AND LOCATION TO THE CRIME, BUT SOMEHOW BLOOD GOT SPILLED ALL OVER THE CRIME SCENE.

AND BECAUSE BLOOD IS SPILLED ALL OVER THE CRIME SCENE, THE EVIDENCE IS NO LONGER THERE TO CONVICT YOU. SO THE DECLARATION is not guilty. I've been justified. So you think I'm going to come in here in the 12:30 and be quiet when I think about Jesus and what he forgave me for and covered me through and walked me through.

You think I'm not going to have a praise? I'm not praising God because I've been good to God. I'm praising God cuz God's been good to me. Somebody take about 13 seconds and praise him cuz he erased the evidence. It's justification. It's sanctification. It's regeneration. It's it's a benefit package. >> But but regeneration, being born again, is what actually gives you the capacity >> to carry out what Christ commands. >> It is the restoration of your capacity for humanity as God intended.

It's seen in Matthew 14 25. It says in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went to them walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled and they said, "It's a ghost." And they cried out for fear. >> Here's a question.

Out of everything they thought it could be, why did they say it's a ghost? It's cuz they never seen a human do it. Salvation gives you the capacity for being the kind of human God's called you to be. Did you hear what I just said? Yeah. They thought it was a ghost cuz they didn't know a human could do that.

And when you and I access and experience salvation as God intended, you and I become examples and pictures of possibility to other people of what is possible for humanity when it is submitted to divine design. And the crisis for many believers is they have unconsciously settled for low expectations and underutilization of their salvation.

So, they're settling for the shores when they could be walking on the sea. Everything I'm going to teach you this in this series, I'm going to talk about frustration. I'm talk about relational frustration and being disappointed in people without dishonoring people. I'm going to talk about I got bills to pay.

I'm going to talk I'm going to explore Jesus's humanity, but none of it works. You won't have the capacity to put into practice anything I teach without Jesus. Number two, we not only need the the person of Jesus to be brand new, we need the principles of Jesus. >> Jesus modeled for us the power of a principal life.

Somebody say principle. >> In other words, his life was guided and governed by principles that were predetermined, not passions that he felt in the moment. >> So in Matt, did you hear what I just said? Because if you don't make decisions by principle before time, >> you'll make decisions by passion in real time. >> So in Matthew chapter 4, after Jesus's public baptism, he's led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

And the Bible says each time he is presented with a temptation, he responds with a principle. So, you make decisions in your time of strength to protect yourself from yourself in your time of weakness. >> I'm not going to bother this, but the Bible says he was tempted.

Temptation means there's a desire. >> If you don't want it, you're not tempted. >> How much of this can y'all handle? >> So, he goes without food for 40 days. He's hungry. >> Because the absence of a thing over time can produce an appetite for it. >> But you can't make a decision on what you're going to do when you get hungry while you're hungry.

You got to make a DECISION ON HOW YOU'RE GOING TO HANDLE HUNGER BEFORE YOU GET HUNGRY. Because when you get in the wilderness, stones start looking like bread. Somebody caught it. Somebody caught it. When you get in the wilderness, stones start looking like bread. I'm going to say it one more time.

When you get in the wilderness, people Okay, never. Never. People you will never date, OPPORTUNITIES YOU WILL NEVER TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, DOORS YOU WILL NEVER WALK THROUGH. START LOOKING ATTRACTIVE WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY. And then you full. You're like, "Why did I ever What was wrong with me? I'm confused on what I saw in you.

I I'm embarrassed. >> Principal life. You decide to be a person of honor before you get dishonored. You decide to be a person of respect before you get disrespected. You decide to be a person of generosity before they take advantage of your generosity. And some Christians problems because they don't understand a principle centered life.

So the problem is that their goals are too high. Their standards too low. >> Brand new. I need the person of Jesus. I need the principles of Jesus. Three, I need the pace of Jesus. >> I'm going tell you something. It's hard to be a good person with a bad pace. >> Uhoh.

Now, very often when Jesus's pace is discussed, something very important is missed. Jesus, the pace of Jesus's life was driven not by demand. It was driven by discernment. Look at pastor. The more gifted you are, the more opportunities you will have. >> The more opportunities you have, the more discernment you need.

Unique gifting complicates your life. >> To whomsoever much is given, >> much is required. This is what comes with it. >> The more gifted you are, >> the more opportunities you have. >> And the more opportunities you have, >> the more discernment you need. Cuz now you got all these doors >> and you got to discern. >> Did you hear what I just said? >> This is why this is why the Bible speaks to the importance of developing character in any area before you acquire abundance.

Because abundance complicates things. If you only got one door, it's not a whole lot to pray about, is it? But if you got 12 doors, >> and so here's what you'll see with Jesus. You'll see. You won't see. You won't just see Christian. I think sometimes there's this reductionist view of the pace of Jesus.

Like Jesus did not live in certain seasons with urgency. >> In certain seasons, he's moving. Yeah. >> Like he would say stuff like, "I got to work the works of him who sent me while it's day. For when night comes, no man can work." I'm in one of those seasons.

I got to get it. >> In John chapter number four, he's working so feverishly. The disciples, look at verse 31. John 4:31. The disciples have to urge him, eat. >> He's working so hard, he forgetting to eat. >> So you see these seasons WHERE HE'S DISCERNING THIS SEASON DEMANDS URGENCY.

I got to get it. This the season to get active. >> This is Come on here. He deserves it. But then you'll see these seasons like in Mark 1:35 it says, "Now in the morning having risen long before daylight, he went out and departed to a solitary place.

And there he prayed and Simon who was there uh Simon and those who were there searched for him. But when they found him, they said to him, "Everyone's looking for you." He said, "Let's go to the next town." >> Give me verse 37. cuz they didn't believe me. >> Everyone's looking for you.

Let's go to the next town. >> Everybody looking for you. Let's go to the next town. >> He didn't allow the urgency of others to override the intentionality of his assignment. >> Cuz Pace is able to discern the difference between who want you and who need you. You looking for me, but you can't have me in this season.

I got to go. >> Play Tario. Let's go. They looking for you. We're going to the next town. >> Pace. It's discernment. >> So when So when someone's always frantic, >> they out of pace. And when they can't discern urgency, >> they out of pace. >> I need the pace of Jesus driven by discernment, not by demand. >> And then number three, number four, I need the power of Jesus. >> This is a commitment.

If I'm going to be a human as God intended, a commitment to rely on the same power that enabled Jesus to live the kind of life he lived >> to assist me. It is recognizing that willpower can't do this. willpower trying to trying to work in the flesh.

You can't do it. You can't just wake up tomorrow and say, "I'mma stop going off on people. Good luck." Y'all seen online. Day one of not going off on people. Day two are not going off on people. Day one are not going off on people. Day one are not going off on people.

Day one are not You can't do it. But all of Jesus's work, he attributes to the spirit. Born by the spirit, baptized by the spirit, led by the spirit, filled with the spirit, and then tells the disciples, "In order for you to do what I'm calling you to do, don't just take my teaching.

You spent three years with me teaching you, but don't move until you get power from on high." Three years worth of sermons. And he said, "Don't do a thing until you get power." >> You know what he calls him? >> The helper. >> You know that Greek word is paracletos. >> A military term. >> One who is called to come alongside and help.

Come on here. You got it. Come on here. You can do it. >> Come on. I can't engage in the practices of Jesus without the power of Jesus. >> I need the person. I need the principles. I need the pace and I need the power. >> It's the only way I can become brand new.

Not something other than human, >> but a human the way God intended. And all this month and next part of next, we're going to explore the humanity of Jesus and how he managed his so that you and I can be equipped to manage ours. You disrespect me, I'mma be offended.

You steal from me, I'm going to be angry. You hurt somebody I love, it'll be a problem. That's human to feel it. >> What Jesus will teach >> is how to handle what you feel >> in a healthy way. So, are you angry? Yes. Paul says, "Be angry, but >> don't allow the anger to push you to sin."

The Lord's going to be with us on this journey. Going to be a great time. All right. May the Lord bless you. May he keep you. May he cause his face of favor to shine upon you. May he be gracious to you. May he protect you. May he provide for you. and may he grant you peace.

This is my prayer for your life in Jesus name. Amen. We love you. We'll see you next week. Hey, I hope you enjoyed that message and I pray that if it blesses you, you'll send it to someone else. Take care. God bless.