Part Eight: Happiness
Rev. Mack Brown Preached on 7/15/2026
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Summary
Rev. Mack Brown explores Psalm 128 to show that true happiness and blessing are found not in possessions, but in the direction of one's walk with God. He encourages listeners that no matter how far they have wandered, God's 'GPS of Grace' is always ready to reroute them back to His path.
Key points
- •The 'blessed life' is defined by posture and direction (fearing God and walking in His ways) rather than material possessions.
- •Small, seemingly insignificant decisions create a 'walk' that determines your ultimate destination; movement is not the same as alignment.
- •Disobedience often stems from the enemy's deception that God is restricting us, when He is actually protecting us.
- •God's grace acts as a 'GPS of Grace,' constantly offering 'rerouting' to those who have wandered off the path.
- •The root of personal obedience produces the fruit of generational blessing, affecting work, home, and community.
Scripture
Blessing
Obedience
Grace
Restoration
Spiritual Growth
Life application
This week, identify one 'small turn' or compromise you have made that is taking you away from God's path, and intentionally 'reroute' by spending time listening to or reading the Word of God to realign your steps.
Reflection questions
- In what areas of your life have you mistaken 'movement' or 'progress' for true alignment with God's will?
- When you hear the phrase 'fear of the Lord,' do you feel terror or a reverent desire to order your life around His wisdom?
- What are the 'fruit' areas in your life (work, family, community) that are currently being affected by your 'root' relationship with God?
- Is there a 'wrong turn' you have made that you feel is too far gone for God to reach? How does the concept of 'GPS Grace' change that perspective?
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0:00strength, hallelujah, somebody lift up a shout of praise. Hallelujah, the joy
0:00of the Lord is our strength on tonight. Hallelujah, Lord, we magnify
0:06you, we glorify you, we give you glory, we give you praise,
0:12we give you honor, we give you everything that we have on
0:17tonight, God. Hallelujah, is anybody glad you laid your burdens down one
0:23day? Hallelujah, praise God for this wonderful praise team. They did a wonderful job
0:29tonight, as always. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Welcome to New Life. Hallelujah, I'm so grateful to be
0:34up before you. Thank God for the opportunity. We give honor to our pastor and
0:40sister B, and their absence, to my wife, to everybody in their respectful places. And
0:46I say praise the Lord to everybody. Halleluja, the Lord is good, the Lord is
0:52merciful, the Lord is gracious. Halleluja, you know, halleluja. It's something about joy. When it
0:57comes to joy, you don't need to be happy to have joy. You don't need
1:02things to be happening in your life to have joy. Everything ain't gotta be right
1:08and worked out for you to have joy. And it's that joy, when you take
1:13time to let that joy overfill in your life, halleluja, that it becomes your strength,
1:19halleluja. Glory be to God. Hallelujah. I'm not going to hold you long tonight. Hallelujah.
1:24I know there's a time limit. Hallelujah. I got 30 pages of notes. Hallelujah. But
1:28we're going to get through it by the help of the Lord tonight. Hallelujah. And
1:33I don't have the tablet on tonight. I just got the old school notes right
1:38here. Hallelujah. Praise God. But tonight we're just continuing on the Keep Climbing series. Halleluja,
1:43and as our pastor and other ministers of the gospel have been doing a wonderful
1:49job expounding, exhorting on the word of God, encouraging our hearts, and tonight my assignment
1:55is Psalms 128, and so if we can get that real quick, we'll read it
2:01together, halleluja, and then we'll proceed. Psalms 128: "Blessed is everyone that fears the
2:07Lord, that walks in His ways. For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands;
2:12happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be
2:18as a fruitful vine by the size of thine house; thy children like olive plants
2:24round about thy table. Behold, that thus shalt the man be blessed that fears the
2:30Lord." The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion, and thou shalt see the good
2:35of Jerusalem all the days of thy lives. Yes, thou shalt see thy children's children,
2:40peace upon them. Israel, I want to go back to the first verse because we'll
2:45be taking a journey there for a moment. We'll be sitting and camping out there
2:49just for a moment. Hallelujah. Because I honestly believe that that first verse is the
2:54root and the following verses, verses 2 through 6, is the fruit. Hallelujah. And so
2:58going back to the first verse, it says, "...blesses everyone that fears the Lord, that
3:03walks in His ways." hallelujah this psalm it describes a blessed life that flows from
3:08fearing god walking in his ways and seeing obedience bear fruit in our work not
3:13only in our work but in our home and in the generations after us my
3:18assignment tonight is simply this to show and share how important it is to stay
3:24on the path but also at the same time i need to tell you and
3:29show you what kind of god we have if we have already left the path
3:35Halleluja.
3:55To help somebody on the other end, oh God, as it comes to me first
4:00on tonight, God. I pray a blessing over this message, oh God. I pray that
4:04you give us ears to hear, oh God, and a heart to receive your word.
4:09In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. And I gotta say it like this, that I'm
4:13not, you may be seated, I'm not delivering this message from the top of the
4:18mountain tonight. I'm not at the top of the mountain, but I'm delivering my perspective.
4:23It's coming from a fellow traveler, a fellow climber. climbing up the mountain that's what
4:28we doing on tonight we're gonna keep climbing hallelujah every destination has a direction
4:34nobody arrives somewhere without taking a road to get there sometimes the difference between
4:39where you wanted to end up and where you actually ended up can be
4:45traced back to one turn one turn it did not look dangerous when you
4:51made it It did not feel significant. You just decided, I'm going this way.
4:57But one turn became another turn. One mile became ten miles. And before you
5:02knew it, you looked up and said, how did I get all the way
5:08over here? Do I have a witness in the house on tonight? And
5:14the frightening thing about being lost is that you can still be moving, you
5:19can still be making progress, you can still be covering distance and be going
5:25in the wrong direction. Because movement is not the same thing as alignment. Progress
5:31is not just about how fast you're moving. Progress is about whether you are moving
5:36in the right direction. And I believe there are people who are exhausted not because
5:41you have not been moving, but because you have been spending your traveling rolls God
5:46never told you to take. And the psalmist comes to teach us that the blessed
5:51life is not simply about what you possess. The blessed life is about the direction
5:57in which you are walking. Psalms 128 sier: "Bless everyone who fears the
6:02Lord, who walks in his ways." Not my ways, not her ways, not his
6:08ways, but his ways. Notice the language. The psalmist did not merely tell us
6:14that a person is blessed. He shows us the road that leads to the
6:20blessing. The blessed life has a direction. The blessed life has a path. The
6:26blessed life has a walk. And when many of us, we think of the
6:32blessed life, Vi tenker immediat av ting som: en større hus,
6:37en bedre bil, mer kvarter, en promosjon, en åpne dår, en ny mulighet.
6:43Og det er ingenting feil med å takke Gud for materiale bryllu, men
6:49biblisk bryllu er dypere enn posisjoner. For om bryllu er kun medisert av
6:54det du har, så bør ingen som lurer på noe, aldri merke bryllu.
7:00Om bryllu er kun kvarter, så bør en person med kvarter automatisk merke
7:06bryllu. If blessing is only comfort, then anybody going through hardship must
7:11somehow be outside of the blessing of God. But the Bible gives us a
7:17deeper picture. The blessed life is not merely about what is in your hand,
7:23it's about who is ordering your steps. It's possible to have things and not
7:28have peace. I know. It's possible to have money and not have joy. I
7:34know. It's possible to look successful on the outside and still be empty
7:40on the inside. I know. It's possible to gain the whole wide world and
7:46sadly lose our souls. So the psalmist begins the blessed life not with possessions,
7:51but he begins it with posture. Because blessed is everyone that fears sin. The
7:57Lord. Now when I say fear the Lord, we're not talking terror, we're not talking
8:02anything that would make us afraid of God, but we talk, makes us run away
8:08from God, but we're talking about a reverence that causes us to order our lives
8:13around God. It is a recognition that God is God, and I am not.
8:19God is God and I am not. His wisdom is higher than mine. His ways
8:25are better than mine. His direction is safer than mine. His will can be trusted
8:30even I do not understand it. The blessed life begins when God is no longer
8:36simply included in my life, but God becomes the one around whom my life is
8:42ordered. And that reverence produces something. The text goes on to say that walks in
8:48his ways. The blessed life requires a walk. In scripture, walking describes the
8:54direction and the pattern of our lives. Believe it or not, our habits
8:59are a walk. Our decisions are a walk. Our relationships are a walk.
9:05Our repeated choices are a walk. The things we continually say yes to become a
9:11walk. The things we continually ignore become a walk. And the direction of our walk
9:17matters because direction determines destination. I believe I said that one more time. Maybe you
9:23ought to say it to your neighbor. Direction determines destination. It's like using a GPS
9:29system. You know we all done used it before when on trips. You can know
9:34where you're trying to go. You can enter the correct destination. You can hear every
9:40direction. You can see the route clear as day. But when the GPS says turn
9:45right and you decide to turn left, you have now moved away from the route
9:50designed to get you to your destination. Now sometimes, most times, the GPS will follow
9:56up and say, rerouting, rerouting, rerouting. It will attempt to
10:01get you back onto the right road, but you can ignore
10:07that direction too. And one wrong turn can become another wrong
10:13turn. You take one step outside of God's will, and one
10:18step becomes two, two steps becomes three, four steps becomes four,
10:24five steps becomes five, and before you know it, you're nowhere
10:30near where you started. You're nowhere near where you started. And
10:36hear me tonight, nobody wakes up and says "I'm going to destroy my
10:41life today." Nobody wakes up and says "I'm going to get off track
10:47today." No one wakes up and says "I'm going to get off course
10:53today." It happens one decision at a time. One compromise, one conversation, one
10:58secret. En engegge, en faktor av disobediense, en ignorerende fornøyning. En
11:04steg blir to, to steg blir tre, tre steg blir fyre, fyre
11:10steg blir fem, og før du vet, du er nærmere der du
11:15var da du begynte. Du er lenge fra der Gud hadde direkte
11:21deg til å gå, hadde Gud placerat deg til å gå.
11:28and i gotta say this here that any time whatever whatever you have to go
11:33outside of the will of god to get you have to stay outside of the
11:38will of god to keep whatever you go out there to get outside of the
11:42will of god in order to keep it you have to stay outside of the
11:47will of god Så, om du må kompromisse, må du
11:53fortsätta kompromisseringa, for å fortsätta det. Om du må løsne
11:59det, må du fortsätta løsninga, for å fortsätta det. Halleluja!
12:05For en steg blir en, to, tre steg blir tre,
12:11tre steg blir fyr, fyrsteg blir fem, fem steg blir
12:16seks, seks steg blir søvn, Sete steg blir åtte. Og
12:22før du vet, er du så fokusert på direkte du valde
12:28å gå i, at du ikke hører at grunden er nede
12:33ditt. Grunden er nede ditt, og nå, og nå du faller.
12:39Glorie til Gud. Nå du faller. Og nå du undrer, hvordan
12:44jeg kom her? Du undrer, hvordan jeg ble den personen? Hvordan
12:50jeg ikke merker hvor jeg begynte? How did I get here? How
12:56did I? And the thing was, you never intended to be here, but you thought
13:01that when you started taking steps that it was going to be easy to just
13:06turn around and go back, but one step became two, two steps became three, and
13:11four steps became four, and five steps became five. Men
13:17når du pratar om det glede livet, du må gå tilbake til begynnelsen.
13:23Du må gå tilbake til skjermen, deres hadde alt de trengte. Gud forberede
13:29alt de trengte i skjermen. I skjermen. I skjermen. Og Gud hadde beri
13:35dem instruktioner om at de ville holde det glede livet. of all the
13:40trees in his garden you can partake of but that one tree in the midst
13:45of the garden don't eat of it don't look at it don't touch it but
13:49the enemy has a way of coming in and convincing you that god is trying
13:53to restrict you when he's really trying to protect you he has a way of
13:57telling you that god is holding something back from you and you are deceived we
14:01get deceived and we start taking one step and one step turns into two and
14:05two turns into three and three turns into four and now we're so far gone
14:10we don't know if we can get back but I'm so glad because there's good
14:15news there's good news glory be to God there is good news because even though
14:20Adam made the wrong decision even though he disobeyed even though he didn't do what
14:25God wanted him to do God came looking for him God came looking for him.
14:31He came and said, "Where are you?" Brother President, he said, "Where art thou?" It
14:36wasn't that he lost track of him. He just wanted Adam to recognize where he
14:41had fallen to. But I'm so glad because God does not abandon a work that
14:46he starts. He doesn't give up on you just because you made a wrong turn.
14:52halleluja
15:14my bed in hell hallelujah psalms 39 and 8 tells me that he is there
15:19he's he's right there that it doesn't matter where i am he's right there hallelujah
15:23because god said i come that you might have life and that you may have
15:28it more abundantly hallelujah i came to give you the blessed life hallelujah and god
15:33is committed because being confident of this very thing that he had that has begun
15:38a good work in us till performing until the day of jesus christ
15:45The day of Jesus Christ. His failure wasn't the final
15:51say. It wasn't the final say. God still had purpose.
15:57God still had work. God still had mercy. God still
16:02had grace. God still had... He knows what is meant
16:08that we are mindful, that he is mindful of us.
16:14Thank God. Thank God. Thank God! They usually have
16:20a song, "What if God was one of us?" We'll throw people
16:25away quickly! But God, who is rich in mercy, the blessed life,
16:31that God says, "I won't leave you where you are. I will
16:37come walk the garden." Walk the garden. And this is so important. I'm still
16:43in verse 1 of Psalms 128, believe it or not. Hallelujah. We're still there because
16:47that's the root. The root. You can't have a blessed family. You can't bless your
16:51community. You can't bless your work. You can't have these fruits if you don't get
16:56the root right. The root has to be right. I have to be right in
17:00order to be a blessing to my family. I gotta be right in order to
17:04be a blessing to those around me, those connected to me. You have to have
17:08the root. Bible goes on to say,
17:14I thank God for Adam in the second Adam. Because the first Adam
17:20disobeyed God. Romans lets us know that by one man's disobedience, sin entered
17:26the world, death entered the world, and hallelujah, we was made sinners. But
17:32by another man's obedience, by his surrendering to God, hallelujah, we were made
17:38righteous. One man. Because the blessed life doesn't stop with one person. It
17:44affects everyone. It affects everyone. Hallelujah. Glory be to God.
17:50But we must be careful how we walk. The Bible lets
17:55us know that we should walk circumspectly. Walk as wise. Because
18:01one step becomes two, two steps becomes three, and three steps
18:07becomes four, and we'll find ourselves lying in the consequences of
18:13a direction God never gave us. But even when we walk
18:18away from God's direction, we do not walk beyond God's reach.
18:26Halleluja! Glorie be to God! God knew when he looked at Adam,
18:31he knew what he had done, he knew why he was hiding,
18:37God knew what was broken, and when he said, "Where are you?"
18:42the question was not for his information. He was trying to give
18:48Adam an invitation to say, "Where are you spiritually? Where are you
18:54emotionally? Where are you in relation to me? Where has your disobedience
18:59brought you? What have you become while trying to live apart from
19:05my direction?" and perhaps god is still asking that question tonight not because he does
19:10not know where we are but because sometimes we have to become honest about where
19:16we are before we can begin the journey back to him where are you tonight
19:21are you walking in his ways have you become distracted have you taken a wrong
19:26turn have you settled somewhere god never directed you to stay have you hidden because
19:31shane convinced you that god no longer wants you Notis dette,
19:37Adam hørte av Gud, men Gud kom og kødde efter Adam.
19:42Adam stopp å gå med Gud, men Gud kom å gå
19:48igjennom skjelden, fordi Gud ikke forløp ham. Gud ikke forløp ham,
19:54men Gud. Nå, la oss gå tilbake til Psalmen 128, fordi
20:00Psalmen ikke stopper på verset 1. Like I said, verse 1 gives us
20:06the root, but verse 2 through 6 shows us the fruit. Blesses everyone that fears
20:11the Lord, that walks in his ways. And then, for thou shalt eat the labor
20:16of thine hands. The blessing reaches your work. Happy shalt thou be, and it shall
20:21be well with thee. The blessing reaches your well-being. Thy wife shall be as a
20:25fruitful vine by the sides of thine house. The blessing reaches your home. Thy children
20:31like olive plants round about thy table, the blessing reaches your children. The Lord shall
20:36bless thee out of Zion, and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem. Yea, thou
20:42shalt see thy children's children. The blessing reaches the community, the blessing reaches generations you
20:47have not even met yet. Do you see the progression? It begins with one person
20:53fearing God and walking in His ways. But it does not end with one person.
20:58A walk with God never stops with you. It affects our work, our home, our
21:03children, our community, our generation. That's why the enemy fights our walk so hard, because
21:08he is not merely fighting where you are today. He is fighting what you could
21:13become through your obedience tomorrow. There are people connected to your yes. There are children
21:19watching you walk and generations that may be affected by decisions you are making right
21:24now. The blessed life is bigger than God just give me something. The blessed life
21:29says God make my life fruitful enough to bless somebody who comes after me.
21:36The blessing flows. It begins with reverence. Seeing God in the right way. Fearing
21:42the Lord. Reverence produces alignment walking in His ways. Alignment produces fruitfulness and thou
21:47shalt eat the labor of thine hands. Fruitfulness reaches the home. Thy children and
21:53thy wife, the home influences the community. Thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem.
21:59Hallelujah. But perhaps you have listened to this message and realized That I
22:05have taken some wrong steps tonight. Maybe one step became two. Maybe two became
22:10ten. Maybe you are no longer close to where you started. Maybe you have
22:16fallen. Maybe you are lying in the consequences of your own decisions. But hear
22:21this clearly. Even where you are, the blessed life is still possible. Not because
22:27the place you are in now is blessed. Not because disobedience does not matter, and
22:33not because God ignores sin, but because God's grace can reach you where your choices
22:37have taken you, and lead you back into his ways. You may have made your
22:42bed there, but God is there. You may have hidden in the garden, but God
22:46is walking through it. You may have stopped walking with him, but he has not
22:51stopped calling you. You may have fallen, but the God who began the work is
22:55not finished. The blessing is not that you never took a wrong step. The blessing
23:01is, hallelujah, the blessing is not that you never took a wrong step, hallelujah. The
23:06blessing is that God did not leave you on the ground. The blessing is not
23:11that you never lost your way, the blessing is that grace kept calling you back.
23:16The blessing is that you never fail, hallelujah, but the blessing is that your fall
23:21does not have to become your final destination. So get up, listen for his voice,
23:26and follow his direction, return to his ways, because the GPS of grace is still
23:31saying, rerouting. The GPS of grace is still saying, rerouting. It's still saying, rerouting.
23:35Hallelujah.
24:09The musicians can come, hallelujah. And today perhaps the question is not what
24:14have you done? But the question is where are you? God came walking
24:20through the garden asking Adam, where are you? And perhaps he is asking
24:26somebody today, where are you? Where are you in your walk? Where are
24:32you in your relationship with God? Where are you compared to where you
24:38used to be? Where are you compared to where God is calling you?
24:44You do not have to hide. You don't have to stay on the
24:49ground. You don't have to keep traveling in the wrong direction simply because
24:55you have already gone a long way. You can turn around. You can come out
25:01of hiding. You can get back up. You can walk in his ways again. Because
25:06Jesus has made a way. The God who started the work is still working. The
25:12God who called you is still calling. And the God who found Adam in the
25:18garden can find you where you are tonight. The God who met the psalmist in
25:23the lowest place of his life can meet you where you are tonight. And the
25:28God who raised Jesus from the dead still has resurrection power for every place in
25:33your life that looks like it's over. So if you wondered, come. If you've fallen,
25:39come. If you have been hiding, come. If you need to get back in alignment
25:44with God, come. If you're tired of walking your own way, come.
25:50Come, because the voice of God is still calling. The
25:55grace of God is still reaching. The way has already
26:01been made. And the GPS of grace is still saying,
26:06rerouting. Rerouting. But God, you don't know what I've done.
26:12Rerouting. But God, you don't know where I've been. Rerouting.
26:18But I've been in the company of the wrong people.
26:23Rerouting. But I'm undone. Rerouting. Lord, I knew better. Rerouting.
26:29Rerouting. Come back to the
26:35way. Come back to his ways. Come back to the walk
26:40because blessed is everyone that fears the Lord and walks in
26:46his ways. The blessed life is still possible. Can we stand
26:51all over the building tonight? The blessed life is still possible.
26:57God said I come that you may have life and that
27:03you may have it more abundantly.
27:08And as I said at the beginning of the message, I wish I could be
27:13at the top of the mountain and tell you and pull you up, but sometimes
27:17we're climbing the mountain together. Life is a journey. Somebody says life is like a
27:22box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get. You have good days, you
27:26have bad days, you have hard days, you have temptation days, you have falling days,
27:31you have rising days. Everyday I don't feel saved, everyday I don't feel on top
27:35of the world, everyday I don't feel like going home, but that joy on the
27:40inside that God provides. Halleluja, when I stop focusing on where I am and I
27:45think about where He brought me from, halleluja, and meditating and talking and speaking about
27:50the goodness of God, I know I would have fainted, but I believe to see
27:54the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Halleluja, and sometimes you
27:59have to fix your eyes on Jesus. Look unto Jesus, who is the author and
28:04the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured
28:08the cross. We're going to have to endure some things. I wish I could tell
28:13you I always had a perfect walk. I wish I could tell you that. I
28:18wish I could testify on the mountaintop, but there have been some valid moments where
28:23I had to... It's okay to know him in the power of his resurrection, but
28:27what about in the fellowship of his suffering? In the fellowship of the lows of
28:32life. Hallelujah. But I found out that's where God reveals himself. I get to see
28:38Him as my Redeemer, I get to see Him as my picker-upper, I
28:44get to see Him as the one, hallelujah, that is yet there when
28:49everybody else walks away. There was two gardens. Adam in his garden, by
28:55his action said, "Not His will, but my will." But Jesus was in
29:01the garden, and He said, "Lord, if it be possible, let this cup
29:07pass." But He ended something that's so powerful, He said, "Not my will,
29:12but Thy will." Anybody glad that he said those words? That not my will,
29:18but thy will be done? Because by one man's obedience, many was made righteous. Now
29:24we have a way back to the Father. Now it doesn't matter what I have
29:29done, the blood has already been sacrificed once and for all, for everyone. Hallelujah. We
29:34let the classified sin, but there's no big sin or little sin. Whatever sin that
29:40you may have fell off into, hallelujah, whatever route you have went into, God is
29:45still reaching, God is still calling, and God is still saying, come, come unto me,
29:50oh, you heavy laden. I'll give you rest. You laboring? You heavy?
29:55I will give you rest. I want to open up this altar tonight. Hallelujah.
30:01Open up this altar tonight for anyone that wants to get closer to God.
30:07Maybe you're doing alright tonight. But maybe you just need to get a closer
30:13walk with thee. And as the praise sings, I'll be the first one on
30:19the altar tonight. Hallelujah. I thank you guys for this opportunity. The blessed life
30:25is still possible, but it's only possible if we fear God.
30:30and walk in His
30:35ways. Praise God. Forgiveness
30:41was bought with the
30:46precious blood of Jesus
30:51Christ. O come to
30:57Father's arms our forgiveness
31:02was the precious blood.
31:08O come to alter
31:13the Father's arms our
31:18life was bought
31:24The precious blood will
31:29come to the Father's
31:34arms are open. Forgiveness
31:39was born with the
31:44precious blood. Come to
31:49the altar. The Father's
31:55arms are open. Life
32:00forgiven was born with
32:05the precious blood. Come
32:10to the altar.
32:15The Father's arms are open wide.
32:21Forgiveness was born with the precious
32:27blood of Jesus Christ. O come
32:33to the altar. The Father's arms
32:38are open wide. Forgiveness was born
32:44with the precious blood of Jesus
32:50Christ. Oh come to
32:56the altar The Father's
33:01arms are open wide
33:07Forgiveness was bought with
33:12the precious blood of
33:18Jesus Oh what a
33:24sight isn't he wonderful
33:29See how Christ is
33:35risen down before For
33:41he is the new
33:46Christ is risen What
33:52a sight isn't he
33:59Christ
34:05is
34:11risen.
34:17Oh,
34:23come
34:29to
34:35the
34:41altar.
34:46The
34:52Father's
34:58arms
35:04are
35:10open
35:16wide.
35:22Forgiveness
35:28was born with the precious blood
35:34of Jesus Christ O come to
35:40the altar Father's arms are open
35:46wide forgiveness was born with the
35:51precious blood of Jesus Christ O
35:57come to the altar thank you
36:03brother mac for that word tonight blessed
36:09is the man who walks in the
36:15ways of the lord it's that simple
36:20it really is that simple but i'm
36:26up here singing about singing just now
36:32and the the thought came to mind
36:38that you may be here right now
36:44and it's like well How do I know
36:49which way are the ways of the Lord? How do I know that this
36:55is the step I take and this is not the step I take? Well,
37:01if you go to the Word, the Word literally says, "Thy Word is a
37:06lamp unto my feet and a light to my path." Anybody got those little
37:12lights you put in the wall sockets of your house so you can see
37:17where you're going at night? That's what the lamp is. You may not see
37:23the destination. I GPS vi kan putte
37:29inn destinationen, men vi kan ikke se destinationen innan vi kommer
37:35dit. Det er direksjoner vi må følge, en steg etter en
37:40steg etter en steg. Mange ganger vil vi vise enden fra
37:46begynnelsen. Vi vil vise exakt hvordan vi kommer dit. Jeg kan
37:52berita deg at om jeg kjente hvordan jeg skulle stå her
37:57i dag, I'd say no way. I am not taking that path. Anybody can testify
38:02that if you knew the path you would have to take to be where you're
38:07standing right now, you would have said no. But aren't you thankful that we have
38:11a God that we can trust? We have the Word of God that we can
38:16trust to follow the right path, to walk in the right ways. So this is
38:20what I want to leave you with an encouragement. If you don't know the way
38:24you're supposed to be taking right now, and you've been asking, praying for direction, and
38:29wanting to know God which way is the right way, Get back in the
38:35word. Get back in the word. It's a daily thing. You may say, "Brother Ryan,
38:41I don't like to read." Can anybody be honest in the house and say, "I
38:47don't like reading?" I honestly thought I'd see a lot more hands than that. I
38:52see Sister Elise over here said, "No, I don't like reading." You want to know
38:58a trick? You got to listen to it. That's honestly, that's what I do. That's
39:04the way I digest the word every day, is I listen to the word. Something
39:10actually, if you didn't know, the word of God was initially spoken. dey
39:16den hava en vare avgjøringen. Det er den vare dey tog den inn, de israelite,
39:21de hebri, de jude, de tog den inn trøg den spåkende ordet. Så, ta bibliskappet
39:27på din telefon, på din vare avgjøring i morgonen, isted av å lyssne til hvaver
39:32musikk eller podkast du lyssner til, ta bibliskappet på. Det er så simpelt. Ta ordet
39:38av Gud. Ikke om du ikke får alle lille ord, du er imersing deg i
39:43ordet av Gud. and the things that you need to hear god will quicken in
39:49that moment you need to hear him it'll be the answer to the direction you've
39:54been asking for just get back in the word of god amen thank you again
39:59brother brown for that awesome word tonight thank you for letting the lord use you
40:04lord jesus i thank you for your spirit that we have felt in this house
40:09i thank you that you manifested your glory i thank you lord that you were
40:14speaking to our hearts God, I pray you go with everyone under the sound of
40:18my voice right now. Be the direction that we need as we leave this place.
40:22Help us, God, to not try to trust in our own selves, but put all
40:26our hope in you, Lord Jesus. I pray, God, that you would help us push
40:30past doubts and push past fears, and learn, God, that we can trust that your
40:34plans are perfect, and you've got good plans for us. You know the right way,
40:38and you will lead us in that way if we just trust you. Lord, go
40:43with us once again. We'll give you thanks and
40:49praise. Give us protection as we leave this place.
40:55And we'll give you praise and glory and honor
41:01for all that you do for us and in
41:07us and through us. In the name of Jesus,
41:13we pray. Amen, amen, amen. Shake somebody's hand. Give
41:19somebody a hug as you leave this place. And
41:25we will see you on Sunday. Quick reminder for
41:31all the men. If you could head out to
41:37the right over here, to the left of the
41:43stage. Help bring in some lockers back at Life
41:49Central.