Speaker 1: Have you ever been prideful.
Speaker 2: And so prideful that you could not compromise on something
Speaker 2: even though you should?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Have you ever been in an argument with your spouse
Speaker 2: where you knew you were wrong, but you just couldn't
Speaker 2: admit it? Yes, everybody, raise your hand. Okay, that's why
Speaker 2: James makes a big deal and a big emphasis on humility.
Speaker 1: Colossians three point fifteen says this.
Speaker 2: Let the peace that Christ gives, He's the principiece. You
Speaker 2: want peace in your relationships, Let the peace that Christ
Speaker 2: gives control your thinking, because as members of Christ's body,
Speaker 2: you are called to live in peace. Are you a
Speaker 2: member of Christ's body? What is Christ body? It's the church.
Speaker 2: Are you a member of christ Church? He said, if
Speaker 2: you're in God's family, if you're a believer, if you've
Speaker 2: been born again, if you are in the family of God,
Speaker 2: the flock of God. If you're a member of Christ Church,
Speaker 2: he says, you you you.
Speaker 1: Are called to live in peace.
Speaker 2: I like to ask you to think about somebody you
Speaker 2: may be having a quarrel with right now. Okay, just
Speaker 2: think about somebody that you may be having a quarrel
Speaker 2: with right now, all right, Got that person?
Speaker 1: In mind.
Speaker 2: Now, I want you to think of Jesus Christ sitting
Speaker 2: with you as you talk to them. Remember, fight can
Speaker 2: be physical, but a quarrel is always verbal.
Speaker 1: And as you.
Speaker 2: Talk to them, how would things change? How would things
Speaker 2: change if you visualize Jesus Christ sitting next to you
Speaker 2: and letting Jesus coach you on what to say and
Speaker 2: how to say it and when to say it. Imagine
Speaker 2: yourself sitting there and whoever it is, he or she
Speaker 2: is across from you, and you're in a quarrel about it,
Speaker 2: and then you go, now, Lord, how would you respond
Speaker 2: to that?
Speaker 1: What would you say to that? And tell me what
Speaker 1: I need to say.
Speaker 2: That's what it means to make Jesus the manager of
Speaker 2: your thoughts and your words. Now, of course, if you've
Speaker 2: never opened your life to Jesus Christ, you don't have
Speaker 2: the peace of Christ in your heart.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 2: It's not there because he's not in your heart. So
Speaker 2: his peace is not in your heart. But you can
Speaker 2: get it. You can get it today, You can get
Speaker 2: it right now. It'd be my honor to help you
Speaker 2: invite Christ into your life with his peace.
Speaker 1: And when he comes in.
Speaker 2: And you let him manage your thoughts and your mind
Speaker 2: and your words and your motions.
Speaker 1: It just changes everything.
Speaker 2: So I'd like us to bow our heads right now,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to pray for two different groups. First,
Speaker 2: I want to pray for those of you who you
Speaker 2: know the Lord, but you know you still haven't surrendered
Speaker 2: this area. Would you say, God, I'm fed up with
Speaker 2: being a quarreling person. I don't like the arguments in
Speaker 2: my life. I don't like the conflict in my life.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be a quarreling person anymore, and
Speaker 2: so I want to repent of it. I realize it's
Speaker 2: a big deal. It's a sin. I realize that it
Speaker 2: can cause enormous destruction. I realize that it's caused by
Speaker 2: the conflict in my own life and my battle with you.
Speaker 2: If I want to be my own God, sometimes I
Speaker 2: want to do what I want to do, not what
Speaker 2: you want. So today I want to humble myself before
Speaker 2: you just say that. I want to humble myself, and
Speaker 2: I want to ask you to be the manager of
Speaker 2: my mouth, the manager of my brain, the manager of
Speaker 2: my emotions. I want the peace of Christ to rule
Speaker 2: in my heart. And when I start dropping out of
Speaker 2: that smart brain that you gave me into the emotional brain,
Speaker 2: and I start getting all excited and my words get
Speaker 2: faster and I get louder. Help many just paused to stop,
Speaker 2: to calm down until I can go back up into
Speaker 2: the smarter, clearer thinking, and Lord, help me to treat
Speaker 2: other people the way you would. I'm going to treat
Speaker 2: everybody with respect and a lot a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: slide that doesn't.
Speaker 1: Really even need to be mentioned.
Speaker 2: I'm not the manager of the universe, and so I'm
Speaker 2: turning in my resignation today.
Speaker 1: You are the manager of the universe.
Speaker 2: Now, if you've never opened your life to Christ, why
Speaker 2: don't you just add Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: I want to get to know you.
Speaker 2: And I want to ask you to put your peace
Speaker 2: in my life. I need the peace of Christ in
Speaker 2: my life because I've had a lot of conflict. And
Speaker 2: I ask you to clean out all of the sin
Speaker 2: in my life, and the garbage in my life, and
Speaker 2: the regrets in my life, and just make me a
Speaker 2: new person inside, as you've promised to do. I want
Speaker 2: to be born again. I want to know you in
Speaker 2: a personal way. I don't understand it all, but I
Speaker 2: want to start the journey today, So I humbly ask
Speaker 2: you to accept me into your family and to forgive
Speaker 2: me for the things I've done wrong. And I'm asking
Speaker 2: to guide me the rest.
Speaker 1: Of my life. In your name, I pray Amen.