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come on in, Let’s start here. What’s your what’s your self narrative? Getting out of bed this morning, the alarm clock, you’re like here we go again, or you’re like here we go again. I mean, what’s your self narrative? Are you just constantly thinking like fearful thoughts? Are you like scared? The sky is falling self narrative? Are you uneasy, shaken, nervous about what’s gonna happen if uncertainty about your past or the future? Is that yourself narrative? You’re you’re, what you’re telling yourself is your day or your week been filled with anxious thoughts, dreadful thoughts about our society and our culture, what’s happening in our country and what’s happening in your career and your future. The Tory the stories. We tell ourselves how we talk to ourselves about ourselves, define our life, there’s a there’s a your self narrative really has a trajectory to what is happening and what will happen in your life, you’re like, wait a second, I thought this was a bible church, it is going somewhere. So hang with me. And so your self talk this conversation that’s happening in your mind every single day has consequences. You can think of yourself as the hero of the story you’re writing, you can think of yourself as the victim of the story, you’re writing, you think of yourself as a healer in the story, healing your friends and your family, but when you understand this self narrative that is occurring in between your ears, you can start changing it and when you unlock the self narrative, it unlocks not only your past unlocks your future potential as a follower of christ today is the last sermon series of our summer of psalms where we’ve been kind of looking at these different psalms about emotions and thoughts and feelings and how to process life the good parts of life and the bad parts of life, but today’s psalm psalm 18. This covers this, this whole book of psalms and a great summary, an amazing topic addressing the emotions and feelings and the thought life we have as christians. So let’s pray, we’re about to embark on of quoting God is a very heavy thing and I don’t want to do it wrong. So let’s pray, let’s pray God, I thank you for today, thank you for the word of God and saw maintain I said just give us wisdom as we learn to navigate this narrative in our heads, supposed to give us wisdom to think rightly of ourselves and of you and of others. I said just give us an understanding of psalm 18, help us to really understand what David is writing about Lord as it just really lead us in our time today. We need you to make this time worthwhile unlock our minds and unlock the mind of David and the mind of one of the authors of the bible and how to think correctly about life that we’re living. Give us wisdom and help in jesus name, we pray Amen. Okay, so solemn 18 is on page 2 58 in your house bible, grab that, pull it out and you can take that home if you don’t own a bible, it’s one of the longer psalms. It’s not a short one. There’s four long psalms in the bible psalm 18 1, 18 being the longest. It’d take me six minutes to read this psalm if I went straight through it. Um, it’s, it’s a chunk, it’s 50 verses and there’s four lines in each verse. It’s a lot. But I believe the word of God is powerful and alive and we need to make sure we look at the word of God as we go through the bible. And so this song is written by David. Uh, and he really does model self talk in an incredible way for us. That’s incredibly valuable to our lives. David is described as a man after God’s own heart, who was one of the most influential kings in Israel’s history. He was a warrior who was an artistic poet, singing man and he also knew how to kill people. You get what I’m saying. He was a leader and he had family problems. He had all kinds of things. He process…

Hey, good morning, Good morning church. It’s good to be here with you. Um, I got through my whole message for service and I didn’t tell anybody who I was or introduced myself at all. So Ryan levy came up to me afterwards. They’re like, hey man, you really blew it. No, it’s like you didn’t tell anybody who we are. So, um, my name is Zane, if you have not met me, Hello, I’d love to, to meet you. Um, I work with the college ministry here. Um, so it’s a blast. I, I tell people, I get all the perks of being a college student without any of the homework or in the school, I just hang around and so, um, yeah, it’s fun and it’s good to be here with you. I’m thankful for the pastors and the elders for inviting me to, to teach on songs. I think psalms has been just such an encouraging um, series that we’ve been going through, I don’t, I don’t know about, uh, for you guys, but it’s just been incredible. Um, I feel like psalms is such an intimate, an intimate part of scripture. Um, and it, and it feels like, you know, they said uh, week after week that most of them have been pinned by King David and that’s true for this one. We’re gonna be in psalms 33 if you want to sort of get their psalms 33. Um, but it feels like I almost like stumbled upon, you know, David’s journal or something and I’m like reading through these intimate moments that he’s having with God, you know, these prayers, sort of day in and day out times where he’s, you know, he’s really sorrowful, he’s going through some really difficult things. He’s crying out to God times where he’s rejoicing and happy and things are going well and he’s going with God, but it’s like, almost like this journal, right? And I know that that, um not every song was written that way. You know, some of them are actually songs that people sang and they were corporate things, but it feels like that when I’m reading it, I’m like, wow, this guy’s relationship with God is just, um, this is something that I want, you know, I want to have this sort of intimacy in the good and the bad. I can go to God, and and that’s a priority for me. And I think for most of us, especially if you’re a believer in the room, I think we would admit that that’s a big priority in in our lives, right? And in your life that you want to have a connection or relationship with God, it’s a it’s a priority that you have. And, and every sort of week you set out like, okay, I’m, you know, I’m gonna do this thing, and that’s why I think a lot of you, that’s why you’re here this morning, right? And that’s why you maybe join a community group, you’re involved, or um, you’re trying to meet with other people and read scriptures together, because you’re like, this is a huge priority in my life. Um but I think at least for me sometimes when, you know, I leave church, or, you know, monday rolls around, or Tuesday rolls around, that biggest priority in my life, it starts to kind of slip through the cracks, I don’t know if that’s true for you, um but it’s like, monday rolls around and, and things just start flying at me, you know, stresses of life or things, and I’m handling all this stuff and it’s a long day and I get to the end of the day and it’s like, I gotta have some me time, you know, I got to wind down a little bit de stress, and, and then I go to bed and then I wake up the next day and it’s like the same thing happened and then boom, it’s sunday and I’m here, and I’m like, oh, what, what just happened the whole week went by and, and I haven’t done anything with my relationship with God, I think that’s that’s been true for me, I’ll be honest, I don’t know if that’s true for you, Maybe you guys are super in the world every day and that’s awesome, I want to learn from you. Um but I think that’s true, we have this priority, but it sort of sli…

come on in. Thank you. Um, I see uh, you all had to come and see what your friends are up to because the instagram and algorithms were showing you a bunch of ads and people that weren’t even your friends. No, no, the joke flopped. Well there’s difficult times in being a pastor and humor is a difficult topic for me. I never tend to figure it out. But there’s good times and difficult times and there’s times of peace in your life and there’s hard times in your life. There’s times of ease and times of war. I just, I understand that. And so psalms 20 is looking at a difficult time in the passage of that we’re looking at today, it’s known as a royal wartime benediction. I’m calling this sermon battlefield benediction battlefield benediction. So I think it’s fitting that we open up a word of prayer as we jump into this message today. God I thank you for psalms 20. I just enjoyed looking at it, studying it, digging into it. Lord. I just uh, we just enjoy you enjoy the word of God. And I said, just really help help us to really wrestle the text today. Help us to do business with you today. I pray that you would encourage and instruct convict challenge exhorts. I pray you would let the word of God convict the people of God in the way that only the word of God can I pray? I would get out of the way that we would get out of the way and we’d really do business. A few as individuals. Lord. As people We would really wrestle with this passage today and see what you’re calling us to do as a response of being here in this room and spending 30 minutes looking at this passage, I said, just really do what only your word of God can do, instruct and change lives. We pray this in jesus name. Amen. Okay, So psalms 20 is written by David. So who is David? David is the second king of Israel. And basically, David made a career of high stakes situations. Let’s say David was clutch. His middle name was clutch. He just always came through as needed. Uh, specific high stakes situations. We’re talking about our foreign military war into different, you know, military campaigns seems like every single summer. He led massive yearly campaigns into enemy territory to secure the borders and the terrain of the nation of Israel. And David was the goat of military leaders and was known in and out of Israel for his military might. His battlefield leadership and his victories. He was a genius general and he led many biblical battles. He was a gutsy leader, a savvy leader and a courageous leader. It said about Saul, he killed his predecessor killed his thousands. But David killed his 10 thousands. David was a dangerous man to be reckoned with. This is one of the oldest David in psalms that he wrote. So what is the benediction? So that’s who wrote it. What is the benediction. Benediction is a prayer blessing over people. It’s a practice we adapted about nine adopted about nine months ago as a church. It’s just the idea is that a picture of benevolent father figure praying for God’s blessing over a group of believers as we go and follow and respond to the word that was preached to us. That’s the concept behind the benediction. You see benedictions all throughout the bible today. Psalm 20 is a benediction before David and the armies of Israel go into battle and it’s an amazing and inspiring song. So what’s it about psalms 20 and psalm 21 could have easily been together at one time. There’s things of thanksgiving intercession and pleading for a nation asking God to intervene on their behalf. And it’s speculated that’s prayed on the eve or the morning of a very important critical battle in Israel’s history, which I’ll get to later. These first few verses, these first five verses that really talks about the voices of people praying for God to move on their behalf. It’s the we you…

All right, good morning, welcome. You guys make your way in. My name is Shane. I’m one of the pastors here, one of the bi vocational guys. Uh today we are continuing in our psalm series and usually we’re working through a book of the bible chapter by chapter uh today though is not like that, our recent series is not like that. So if you’re new and you’re just hopping in, we’re on psalm 14, so it’s kind of a standalone, more of a topical type of sermon today. So thank you for being here, we love having you. And today we’re gonna talk about some 14, like I said, it’s not exactly the easiest, it’s probably not one of the uh psalms that people, you know, can readily just be like, yeah psalm 90 psalm 23 people are usually like what psalm 14, what’s what’s that one? And so as you’ll see, uh it’s a tough one, but but there’s a lot of truth in it of course, and we want to draw that out. And so today, as we look, we see just the context of it is David is the author, he’s writing to his people, but it’s addressed to the chief musician, the choirmaster. And there’s a lot of things we know about David about his life, about different situations in his life, whether it’s before he was king as a shepherd being anointed Saul in his relationship and then as it becomes king, his mighty battles and what issues with his son and his son pursuing him and all this, we know a lot about David, but we don’t actually know a lot about this psalm in the context of when it was written during which scenario the next part is is it doesn’t really matter. Doesn’t change, it doesn’t change the context. It doesn’t change the meaning of it. So, what it does talk about though is pretty clear. That song was going to talk about a fool topic. The main topic is that of a fool. And so thinking about being a fool and doing foolish things. It kind of made me reminisce a little bit about all the foolish things I’ve done. I don’t have a great memory and I can still create a very long list of foolish things I’ve done. So I’m guessing you have been able to sit out there and do the same, right? There’s some image right here, You know, your 12. That is a great idea. When you’re 12. Probably done a few things. It’s like, yeah, that’s done that. But In light of those situations, looking back, you know, they always say hindsight is 2020. Yeah, true. But I bet you the facts were still there. That that’s not a good idea when it was happening, right? It’s not like, Oh, I didn’t know. And you usually have two types of friends. One guys like, I don’t know, man, you could get hurt. All right. The other bodies like, what are you talking about? You know how cool that’d be. Go do it. You should do this just egging you on. Right? So I’m convinced that the wisdom, the knowledge, the facts is not the problem, right? We still make foolish choices in light of all those things being right in front of us. And that happens even today. Younger, older, the facts are readily available most of the time. Now the bible is replete with information on one. How to be wise and how to make prudent decisions. And it’s also both implicitly and explicitly uh, just labeled with how not to be a fool, not how, how to not make bad decisions, how to make wise decisions and not be a man or woman of indiscretion that those can be kind of funny examples. But David is not talking about that as he pins this and he talks about a fool. He’s not talking about just some common, you know, poor decision that we make. Oh, man, I went out and I spend too much money on a credit card. Now. I gotta take months and months to pay that thing off. Right, That’s, there’s some consequences there. Or I stayed away too late playing video games. I missed my alarm. I’m falling asleep at work, yep. That’s not a good decision either. There’s a l…

Good morning, Good morning, Welcome. It’s great to see you. My name is mike, one of the pastors on staff here at Solar Church. I’m just a little distracted, a little flustered this morning and no one ever get that way at times. You’re like, I’m, my pregame ritual is not there right now. And so you’re just kind of trying to find your sea legs as you go into this thing. I was under the impression that our, our donut crew of people were both all on vacation this week. So I drove my, my three kids to north walmart to pick up the massive amount of donuts we consume on sunday morning and one of y’all beat me to the punch and got it before I did. So this is great. And so, uh, I feel like I had three kids in the car for me though and that was not normal for my sunday morning routine. And so I feel like I’ve been trying to catch up since. Welcome. I’m mike when the pastors on staff today with the privilege of looking at moses, looking at the character, the man, the myth, the legend moses. We see him throughout the bible moses is um, moses is one of my favorite characters in the bible and he wrote one song in the book of psalms moses. The self proclaimed humblest man that has ever lived. The humblest man that has ever lived. If you look at me two, numbers 12 3. It says now moses was very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth and you’re like, wait a second. That’s me. You you’re the most humblest person that’s ever lived. Maybe that’s when moses lived. He was the most humblest man who ever lived. Um, but who is moses? Some of you know who moses is? You have a friend named moses others. You have no idea who moses is and the pastor’s quoting humility and you’re confused. And so moses wrote the first five books of the bible genesis, Exodus leviticus numbers and Deuteronomy. Those five books, composed 100 and 25,000, 139 words. If you compare the math of that with the 611,000 words that are in the bible moses wrote 20% of the bible and he wrote one song, the oldest psalm in the book of psalms. One psalm psalm 90. The song we’re gonna look at today. So let’s pray and let’s get grounded and ask God to bless our day and bless our time in the word and use the work of moses and his life to instruct and convict our hearts. Let’s pray God. I thank you for these men and these women and what you’re doing in their lives. So thank you for the work you’re doing in their lives. God I pray. We would find our grounding in you. I pray. We would be convicted by the words of moses, by the reflections of moses in this psalm 90. I ask that you just really uh instruct us, encourage us correct us. Lord, I pray that people would hear you and your word and I would say out of the way and they would just see you and appreciate you and love you and worship you more results of spending a chunk of time focusing our thoughts quieting our spirit and just trying to focus on you and learn about you so that we might live for you. We commit this time to you in jesus name amen. So if you, if you miss the background on this chapter 90, you will miss a significant amount of meaning. So I’m about to embark into one of the longest introductions of my pasture probably. But if we miss this background you it will not ring as powerful as if I don’t. And so okay so the people of God starts as a nation of a nation of Israel starts with Abraham. Abraham had a son named Jacob. Jacob had 12 sons. One of their name was joseph joseph and the 12 brothers in a series of unfortunate events that we’re not gonna cover find themselves in Egypt. With 12 brothers and the bible says they came to Egypt and they were fruitful and multiplied, which is bible speak for they had babies like crazy. And so those 12 brothers in their family after 400 years passing That small family un…

Amen Amen. Well, good morning church, let’s uh let’s bring it on in. I love how friendly everyone is. Um it’s a great joy to be with you all this morning, my name is Alex if I haven’t met you yet, I’m on staff here at our church. I lead or co lead the college ministry christian challenge here at sewer. The pastors Mike, Shayne, Ben and dan have asked me this morning uh, to preach, they’ve given me and trusted me with the great responsibility of preaching God’s word and it is a mighty task um that I’m I’m humbled to receive. Every time I I prepare to preach, I God graciously reminds me of the depth of my own inadequacy and every time I’m just overwhelmed by how incapable I am. But I, but I know how how capable and how good God is. So I don’t have anything to offer you today apart from what God graciously speaks through me and through his word. So let’s go to him in prayer and just ask that he would bless our time together this morning, jesus. We look to you this morning, we know that you are good and faithful and right in all of your ways Lord, you are a good and gracious king and jesus, we pray that you would set our hearts upon you that you would glorify yourself this morning, that all the glory would be to your name. God, would you bless this gathering of your people in jesus name. Amen Amen Amen. So church today is a big day as Mike was talking about. We we no longer have a church or excuse me, we no longer have a house in our parking lot. We still have a church. We still have a church. Okay, But we no longer have a house in our parking lot are our parking lot size has increased and as he said now we have even more opportunity for more people to come and to hear the gospel clearly. And so I’m encouraged by that recent development. I hope you are too. But I want to use that that house as an illustration because that empty, boarded up house is finally gone. Um, but there was a lot that had to go on behind the scenes in order to make that happen. There were dozens upon dozens of phone calls that had to be made. There were hours and hours of communication. Uh much city government red tape that had to be worked through, much of which was unexpected. Pastor Mike had to present an extensive strategic plan to the city council chambers historic committee, I think I got that name right. And there are at least five false alarms that the house is just about to be torn down just to come to find out that in fact it wasn’t and it was gonna take even longer. So I only know all of this because mike has just been passing on all this information to me over the, over the past couple of months. But here’s my point in sharing that that before, something amazing like that happens in public, like a house in your parking lot being torn down. Um a lot has to happen behind the scenes first. And is that not also true of the people of God? That as you read the bible, you read of so many people, you read so many true stories, true events. There’s so many people who did great things for God in public, but they first walked closely and consistently with him in private and I would argue that for you and I today it’s no different for us than it was thousands of years ago. That in order for us to please God, we must first walk with him in private. That pleasing God is private before it is public. And so what does it look like to live before God? In a way that’s pleasing to him? I think, I think we all want to know that we all want to grow in our faithfulness to God and how we live our lives for his pleasure and not for our own. And I think some one on one is going to teach us great things about this today, So go ahead and turn to psalm 101. There are plenty of bibles on the chairs around you if you don’t have one. And as you’re doing that, I just want to encour…

Happy fourth of july weekend. Good morning. I’m thankful for the opportunity to spend a few moments of you looking at God’s word, I’m gonna share a short story and if I do my job right, I’ll tie it together here. Later in the sermon, this passage today reminded me of my trash this week. I have a have a street I live on and the lady that lives behind me, she’s this retired, sweet dear ex teacher of music and she’s been teaching my kids all sorts of musical instruments. And so she eventually noticed by smelling that a possum died in one of her huge flower beds she has in her backyard. And so she asked that I would dispose of said possum. It was already a week plus old dead. And so I grabbed my shovel that I hardly ever used and I carried it over and I scooped up the possum and I put it in the black trash actually had, I tied it, I spun it and I carried it back to my trash and I threw it in my trash. This is day zero of my trash. My trash can is usually clean. I sprayed out once in a while. Um and it’s, it’s immaculate trash can. Um and so I threw the dead possum in the very bottom of trash and what about my day Week Plus All Dead Possum. Day one you know, some flies, my kids seven, they threw some trash in on top of the possum heap week. Day two, we added some more trash. Day three, you can smell, you know, little width of dead carcasses floating around the house on either side. Day four, Day five, you can smell a strong width of carcass rotting. Day seven I drug that can out to the curb and I was concerned the trash man would not take it. I didn’t take a photo because I thought that’s cruel. I’m gonna explain and describe what it was until I see concerned faces and I’ll stop. But the dead possum remains have produced fluid. Black fluid which made its way out of that sack into the bottom where there’s this pool of hair and fluid and maggots and flies, I’d say a couple 100 maggots and a couple 100 flies. It was insane. It was disgusting, gross revolting. It was like take a breath and throw something else in and close the lid. It was rough. And so I was texting and I’m like anne is everything okay with our trash? Did he take it? You know? And he said he looked concerned, but he took the trash. So I’m gonna pause there, We’re gonna pray. But that that reminds me of my passage I’ve signed this morning, I’ll come back to it. But let’s pray God, thank you for the word of God, I thank you that you are writing stories in our lives and the greatest and grandest story you’re you’re sharing is your story of redemption of all of mankind. I thank you for this word of God. We get we get a hold in our hands. Thank you for the main theme of this story is jesus, the main authors a tent as God’s rescue plan for salvation of men and women on this planet. I just thank you for the great story of writing our lives where we all come nearer to you. You instruct us with, with the Word of God, encourage us with the Word of God humble us with the Word of God helps us submit to the word of God. Help us to yield to the word of God helps to be encouraged refresh and some of us need to kick in the butt. Others need a hug from the Word of God. I pray your word with your spirit to do your work in the grand story of these men and women’s lives. You’re writing, We pray this in jesus name Amen. Today we’re kicking off a new series at our church. We value the bible. And so a quick little shout out to your bible. Your bible consists of 66 books in your bible and they’re written over 40 different authors of men of various diverse backgrounds. Uh profits, priest, tax collectors, I. R. S. Agents, fishermen, shepherds, doctors, Kings, military leaders, musicians, politicians Over 1500 years, several different continents, multiple different countries wrote the word of God a…

Good morning, Welcome on this beautiful, amazing summer morning. My name’s Ben Nandor Pastor here at our church. We’re finishing the last commandments In our 10 commandments series. So today we’re looking at the 10th commandment which is do not covet. Do not covet coveting happens when someone really wants something and wants that thing that somebody else has. Okay, so it relates to a desire, a desire for something. And most often this happens in our hearts. As we look around, we look around, we’re like, oh I want that, I want that, I like that. And it’s this desire. Now, sometimes it can lead to action and breaking other commandments that are listed in the 10 commandments. Like do not commit adultery or do not steal. Now, let me give you an example In 2019 at a Carolina hurricanes hockey game right after the game. There’s a crowd of people standing around in the arena and one guy was holding a waffle cone ice cream cone. Okay, and talking with a friend and there was a guy standing behind him looking at that ice cream cone and then um, you know, he’s, you can just see, he’s like, man, I want, I want to, I want that ice cream killed, want a taste of that ice cream, I want a bite of that ice cream counter. And so this coveting welled up within him and he, you could see he had a deep desire. Most people just go there like, oh ice cream. Yeah, I’ll go to the vendor and I’ll go buy an ice cream cone. Right? This ice cream cone was there and it was in one of those holders, you know that has drip protection, whatever. So this guy allowed his covetousness to turn into action and he proceeded to grab the ice cream cone, take a big bite and then he tried to put it back in the holder, but by then the guy had noticed that, wait, wait, where’s my ice cream cone? And so then he just turns and walks off and steals the guys ice cream. Now, how do we know this happened? We have video proof and I have the clip here. So Fox Sports was taping us game segment, postgame segment. They managed to catch it on camera and we will see it right now one thing’s for sure. You never know what you’ll see on live tv. People have stuck around and watched the Carolina hurricanes. Postgame show last night witnessed a cold crime play out. Watch the guy there in the white jack. You ink grabs the other guy’s ice cream cone, then takes a lick. We are living in a society people. The thief tried to put it back but the other guy turned around quickly and was up to the Hijinks. So the fan made his getaway through the crowd with The ice cream cost $15. I mean that’s crazy, right? You know, and just as crazy as that is though, there are all kinds of things that and desires that well up within us that are crazy and we covet things that we don’t have. We, we can look at things that are friends or neighbors or coworkers have and we want them and we desire what they have. And and some things that we desire is just kind of crazy in the moment, right? Things like ice cream. And I witnessed this recently, We went to Disney and I witnessed this all over the place. Um, and and Disney, they’ve got it down to a science for capitalizing on these desires. But you’re walking around the park and you see these crazy hats, you know, big goofy ears or I saw this one hat has had this Disney bird, you know, like on top of this baseball hat, it’s like, It’s just crazy, you know, so, so people are wearing all these hats and they see people wearing the hats like, oh that I want that hat because we’re in Disney, right? So they shell out $25 to wear this hat. And then if I showed up on Sunday morning here wearing that hat, you guys to think I’m crazy, right? Like why are you wearing a hat with this giant bird sticking out of it? You know? So they’ve got this down to a science, but they’re capitalizin…

commandments. This is commandment number nine this morning. It will be addressing the topic of lying. Lying, lying. Ah this is good. That’s a good one. So let’s pray before we jump into this. This topic this morning just helped collect our thoughts. Lord, I thank you for the word of God and how it’s alive and active. Sharper than any double edged sword. Lord, I thank you that it’s able to do business in the heart of the believer and the unbeliever Lord, I pray that you would instruct you. Encourage you correct? I pray that you would do business in our hearts. God, I pray. The word of God would be alive in our lives and our hearts. Lord, I prayed people would hear from you in your word this morning and we’d seek to be changed and transformed by the bible. Today we commit our lives to you in jesus name. We pray Amen. Let’s read it together. Exodus 20 verse 16 it says this. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. So obviously this isn’t just allocated to your physical neighbors. You can lie to other people, but not your name. This is obviously everyone. Okay. And this is a legal understanding of this. But as we will see this morning, it’s way more compounded, multifaceted than just the legal context of lying in court. I was at Disney with a friend and they had a generous offer. They said they would pay for me and my wife and at the time our three kids to go to Disney with them. I was like, that’s very generous. And we were down there and we were checking into Disney and like your thumbprint. So they know what your thumb looks like, and then you’re doing all this stuff to check into Disney. And then he turns to me and he says, hey, that one son of yours, uh tell him to say he’s this age, I’m like, but he’s not that age, He’s like, come on, tell him to say he’s that age to save me some money. I’m like, I don’t remember how I said it or what I said, but I didn’t want to instruct my kid to lie. So he got mad. He said, fine, you paid for everyone if you’ve been to Disney before. That’s quite the swing on a budget line item on your some of your eyebrows went out, I get expensive. I know this was a while ago, but still lying. Has its a real world. It’s a real, it’s a real topic being addressed in all of our lives uh since youth, I don’t think there’s any parents here that had to teach their kids how to lie. But since youth we’ve been addressing lying among young people. Read it. Read an article that said, what are some uh you know what’s the worst song lyric nursery rhyme you remember listening to as a kid, What’s the worst lyric song nursery rhyme you remember listening to as a kid. So in the year 1841, there was this nursery Rhyme. It says liar liar pants on fire, sitting on a telephone wire. Yeah. You follow me here felt when you’re there, cut your hair, okay? And stick your head in boiling water. Okay, Okay. But listen, that’s nothing christians. We outdid this our christian nursery rhyme. This is dark. This is a christian nursery rhyme. I remember from my youth and the first service, only a handful recognized this. So maybe I was an interesting church, but I want you to kind of smile at me or raise your hand. If you remember this nursery rhyme from the christian version of the christian nursery revelations, revelations, 21-8, liars go to hell, liars. Go to hell. Burn, Burn burn. Mm. Are we judging us yet? Are you judging? So we’ve been addressing this from little kids to big kids. We’ve been addressing the topic of lying and I propose to you as we go through this, You know, do liars, go to hell. I propose you liars. Go to church. And as we go through this, you’ll see, uh it’s it’s like all the other Eight Commandments we’ve gone through. It’s not as simple as you …

Good morning, Welcome to our church. My name is Mike, one of the four pastors here at this church. It’s an honor to be a few. Today. We’re looking at the eighth commandment. You’ve probably heard your mom with the eighth commandment. You remember your mom? She would say in the second book of Mom, chapter 24 verse seven, Thou shalt not try me was your mom? That was that was another woman. Um, okay. But today, seriously, we look at the eighth commandment. Let’s look at it together. The eighth commandment. Exodus. 20 verse 15. It says you shall not steel. Steel. Okay, so imagine a world where there was no stealing. You wouldn’t have to carry these things around. These things are a trophy to our humanity and how we steal from each other, How we still and we don’t trust people, we have to lock up buildings, work cars. Right? These things remember these awkward things in your skinny jeans guys, these awkward things that you have to carry around in your purse that get lost that are weapons in the parking lot in case things go down, right, Keys. Yeah, that’s an idea. You learn things at church. So imagine a world where we didn’t have to steal anything at a college roommate, Shane, who left his keys in his car when we got out of the car. He was giving me a ride. I was bumming rides for years. Um, he’s from small town Nebraska. We got out of the car and like you left your kids, man. He’s like, oh, that’s fine. I did it all growing up. And I’m like, well, this isn’t, this isn’t a small town Nebraska. He’s like, it’s fine. And I’m like, what? They didn’t steal your car in Madison? And he’s like, well, if they did they take it somewhere and bring it back. It’s like, oh, that’s great. I’m like, this is I don’t know how things work in Omaha’s, but in Denver, where I grew up that wouldn’t fly. And so Shane hopefully left his keys not in his car this morning, but stealing. It’s just imagine a world where that was your reality. You didn’t have to have keys to get into your car, You could leave your house unlocked, you can leave the church unlocked, you can leave your work unlocked and people were trustworthy to not take advantage of each other. Imagine that wonderful world that we don’t live in. Amen. Alright, so 86% of adults when surveyed, which are the 10 commandments, They’re confident they kept 86% of adults claim that they keep the eighth commandment, 86% of people probably might have came this morning thinking I’m good on this one. I’m gonna come on church this week, 86% adults think they keep the eighth commandment. So before we jump into the eighth commandment, let’s pray, will you bow your heads with me to close your eyes and try to focus our thoughts and our minds on what God might be doing in your heart this morning. Let’s pray. Thank you for this morning. Thank you for the Bible. Thank you for these 10 commandments we’ve been looking at for Coming up on 10 weeks here. I ask that you would let your work do what your work does, your word do what your word does and you do work in our lives. Let the word of God speak instruct convict. Rebuke correct, encourage our souls today. I pray to be the bible and the scripture that instructs our souls today. Okay, I’ll get out of the way. We’ll get out of the way and we would listen so that we might obey what we hear today. I commit this time to you Lord in jesus name. We pray amen. Alright, so we do steal theft, thieving, stealing is knitted into the fabric of our society as people. It’s what happens as people. So how we steal. There’s many not obvious ways that we are engaged in stealing as a society, as a culture. We still So let’s work through our list. Here. I got for you. Number one is we steal from our employees. We cheat them on pay. We cheat them on benefits. We can be cheap and we can che…