R1099 Well For Christ, Pt.2

We all could use some encouragement, but will find it together today in the Bible-based teaching of Dr. Don Wilton about well for Christ. That's our topic today well for Christ as we head to Romans chapter 12 and studying The Encouraging Word the Bible itself. Dr. Don Wilton while we do so we want you know that were available for you 24 hours a day on our website. Tewonline.org G is will you find this message and many more from Dr. Wilton that's tewonline.org. And today if you drop by you'll see a remarkable insight from the concept of praying that matters prayers that avails much more about that in the broadcast with the resource available right now on our website@tewonline.org, especially parents and grandparents DEW all online.org now Dr. Don Wilton all about our fellow man all about all about.

We believe that every body we must serve our fellow man. And here in our church. We have bought hundreds of opportunity for every person who has received the grace of God to serve fellow man, Sunday school teachers and discipleship leaders and singing in the choir actions and part of the welcoming committees and an ending so many capacities from driving buses to participating to standing in doorways to being part of security teams to you name it their all their scores and schools and schools in our goal really folks is that as a church that we are facilitating well.

Full Christ all of us must worship together in the fellowship of God's presence in all of us must prepare ourselves to meet the challenges of life and all of us must serve our fellow man and number for all of us must engage the gospel in the world in which we live. All of us worship, prepare, serve and engage last week I lost our people. If you would be willing to tell at least one person a month about Jesus all. If that is problematic and/or would you be willing to invite at least one person to come to church with you where we will tell them. And folks, you know, there were a lot of people who didn't even have those cards.

A lot of people didn't even have an opportunity to sign a lot of people don't have blackberries not you couldn't text 77577 and say I will but evidently a lot of people did over 700 people did at some type in Gideons that God only use 300 to conquer an insurmountable enemy to declare that God is King over 700 people in this fellowship said I can do folks they lots of other ways that people engage their Bible studies at all hours of the day. There are people walking and serving in helping ministry center. There are people who are part of feeding the homeless in clothing that the cold and the needy. There are people doing things every day.

There are people in Beijing. It's not just limited to doing one or two things there is an engagement taking place everywhere. If you want to be well for Christ. You must worship at least once a week. You must prepare and be in a life group at least one you must serve in at least one capacity where all you doing is giving to somebody else and you must engage in at least one zone of your life outside of the church and in and through the church. So what is Paul saying in this passage about willful Christ buddies urging two things he's urging us to consider God's mercy. He's urging us to consider God's mercy and he's urging us to yield our body and how must we yield our bodies.

He tells us how to yield our bodies we use our bodies number one is living sacrifices we you bodies number two as holy vessels we you bodies number three as pleasing to God. And this is how reasonable the bonded act of worship. Now here's the question you're ready for. If we have to yield our bodies as living sacrifices, what are our bodies. What is God them on the bus folks. I want to I want to share something with you that's very close to my heart when God talks about our bodies.

He's talking about you and me individually, and God sees us exactly as we all our bodies are divided into three components, all in the same vessel. We are spirit, mind and body.

And when God expects us to be well for him. I want to be willful Christ.

I want to give myself to Christ and I failed so many times I need help I'll be perfectly honest with you. You and I need help to do this and what God is talking about. He signed it's not just about money.

It's not just about your ability to preach or to sing or to drive a call to go it it it.

It's everything about you. I want you to give me everything when God spoke to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12.

He said Abraham I want you to get up and go. And Abraham have to gather everything that was Hughes. I mean everything, and he have to be totally devoted he had to get up and say everything that I am everything that I have spirit, mind and body. It's all yours. I'm going to capitulate and I'm going to hand over to you everything.

I'm all askew today with you all willing to offer your everything as a living sacrifice to God because when you are not due my friends, God is going to move in and take over and bless you and me in ways that we can't imagine. I want to be perfectly up with you today.

Folks, I want my life to count for something.

There's got to be more to life.

I want real meaning in life. I want to be real purpose in the days that I have on this earth I want my days and my moments to be numbered in the presence of God entered rarely count. And God tells me how to do. I've got to you my spirit, my mind and my body to Christ.

That's what he tells me to do that is so difficult for me to do. It is so difficult.

So, what are our bodies will number one spirit every one of us. God created us as spirit your souls.

That's I love that word, your soul, spirit, when I married couples I very often out all turned to both of them all turned to the potential husband and I'll say to him, your wife. God made this beautiful bride-to-be. She is 100% woman.

She's female and I'll look at the husband and I'll say Tim future husband fiancé I want you to know your number one job as a husband is to reach inside your bride, your wife, and to bring out and to celebrate and to cultivate and nourish, and to provide everything at your disposal to allow and to enable her to be the absolute very best of the soul, spirit that God made her to be that your job as a husband and out future husband and I'll say to him every time you do something that chips away at her soul, spirit the way God made her that little girl that came into this world that is now this beautiful woman that God has given you every time every little word and every little thing that you do chips away her soul, spirit begins to crumble from inside out and you lose what God is trying to say to you and me is he's created our soul spirit and he wants our soul spirit to belong to him.

That is what salvation is Nicodemus came to Jesus and said, what must I do in order to inherit your kingdom to come into heaven and Jesus turned to Nicodemus in John three and verse three and he said no.

Nobody can see into into the kingdom of heaven. Last all so spirit is born again of the spirit of God. This is the first component of our body out the Ephesians. Tonight is by grace you are saved by thought about the gift of God not of works, talking about so nothing what you must receive the finished work of Christ on the cross of you given your spirit. Have you given your heart to Jesus you're listening to Dr. Don Wilton our teacher here on The Encouraging Word. Please don't go away. He'll be back with the rest of today's message in just a moment, but some of you know him as a pastor as a seminary professor as a teacher, but many of you know him as the pastor to Dr. Billy Graham over the last 25 years of Dr. Graham's life very much involved in this family and in his ministry and the concept of evangelism is a root of not only Dr. Billy Graham. But Dr. Don Wilton is you just heard that question. Have you given your heart, spirit to Jesus from Dr. Wilson. You need to know. We love to talk to you about that right now. Just as we would if Dr. Billy Graham were sitting right here. Our phone numbers. 866-899-WORD 866899967 if you like to know more about the relationship. Dr. Graham… Had something to hello everybody my friends know me as Don Wilton foster friend, neighbor, husband, grandpa, and I'm going to tell you people all around the wound just like you know and identify Dr. Billy Brian is that man God reach so many people I had the privilege of knowing Mr. Wright very personal, intimate, both as his friend and as his post.

In fact, for many, I drove up to his Montreat, North Carolina and visited with him every Saturday just like friends do every week.

We sat together and ate together will we discussed politics, friends, places, people, we loft our kids will we everything one could possibly that's why I wrote this wonderful Saturdays with it's all about personal relationship and I pray Saturdays with would be a blessing to you will inspire and will encourage just as Mr. Graham encouraged my heart and changed my life? It's a powerful book can see more details on our website at tewonline.org G. Now let's dive back in today's great teaching a message Caldwell for Christ with Dr. Don Wilton beginning in Romans chapter 12.

So what is present your bodies a living sacrifice. Number one is your spirit number two is your mind. You not only made up of soul spirit you made up of the ability to think God's given you a brain the capacity to make decision to communicate to organize the data of life that is presented to you. God has given to you when your soul spirit. When you have been born again of the spirit of God. God by his spirit comes into that's why Paul says in this passage in Romans 12 and verse two, he says be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so if I'm to make absolutely certain that in the presentation of myself not being as a living sacrifice. I know that my spirit belongs to him. What about my mind Paul said let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, that the moment is that that my ability to think and understand needs to be totally surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. How do I do that how do I make that possible. Will there are so many ways daily devotions, probably one of my greatest difficulties Bechtel to have a daily devotion. Don't you I have to. I almost force myself, but I have a devotion. I'll take my wife and I these laws, we take the day The Encouraging Word Bible God. What we give. It's the number one request that we get through The Encouraging Word. We open the daily encouraging Bible, God's free for the asking. If you want one tell us will give you one we got there wonderful wheel read that devotion and will pray together before I leave for the office. Sometimes if we forget, and we do then we try to make sure we do not, but it just does something well that's just one little Bible studies being in that life group coming to the ladies Bible study on a Tuesday morning. Being in the those different that elk clock group on Tuesday being in in in that small group that folks bring you your mind what you what you're putting in here.

Just listen up you folks. How many of you to digest. This is a private question how many of you honestly genuinely would say to God to guide the first time you open your Bible this week was just a few minutes ago when I said open your Bible to Romans 12, you have an open your Bible this week that just asking you to tell me I'm telling you, there are hundreds of you that if you want the students man are you kidding you rot during a battle that folks like I do.

I want to help you I need you to help me. We need to help each other because folks when I am putting God's word in my heart when I'm when I'm studying these things when I'm I'm subjecting myself these basic disciplines. The devotion the prayer talking to the Lord being in Christian company.

This is what helps me to renew my mind.

Okay, so does the first two components of this body we talking about this. Your spirit that your salvation you belong to Jesus, your mind, your ability to think for the Lord. See when your mind is renewed it means that you can interpret what's happening to.

When you go through that difficult time going to see through God's eyes when you suffer that pain you can understand from God's perspective. When you been laid off from your job and it's hurting so badly.

You are going to be able call on the resource from God's perspective. When you facing that temptation and your mind is being renewed your arrival to be fortified from God's perspective because greater is he that in you then he that's in the world. Yet your drawing on his reserve because you're totally you did to him. But the third component is your body. I mean, it's literally your body. It's this horse God is given to us a spirit and a horse and we are killing the horse listen to what Paul said in first Corinthians chapter 6 in verse 19 he says, do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God. You are not your own. You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body, Lord, I have not honored you with my body. I'm telling you right now. I put more junk in this body than you can shake a stick is better not because my body's dying every day. The clock ticks you dying but what are we doing folks what what good is it if it spirit is intact and mind is sharp but we got no horse to carry it, and there are so many of us badly enough. Paul said in Philippians chapter 1 verse 27. I love this.

He said what ever happens. Whatever happened conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ and pull here is sign you need to be well for Christ. The whole package so you know we all as a church went with with trying so hard to say you know we got a strategy you need, worship, prepare, serve and engage in with providing opportunities.

Yet we are spirit, mind, we we folks when it comes to spirit every Sunday everything.

How many times a bond barred you to give your heart to Jesus and I'm not going to stop.

I want you to know, not because of Don but I want you to know about God's grace every time we meet like this. By God's grace hope that I never forget to say would you give your heart to Jesus. I want to present Jesus to you best friend that you will ever have. I want to invite you to give your heart to Jesus went with trying to do everything to help us with our minds from our little ones. That's what I love about our preschool ministries. Your first Spartanburg wheat was not a babysitting place folks you know that our little ones from the sage on up or talk God's word. You know that they sing about the Lord they learn God's word. They learn to pray wheat we believe folks that are a beautiful mind is a terrible thing to waste. And folks, if we believe in education. I certainly do/support all our great colleges and institutions and how much more so out mind when it comes to spiritual things and God wants my mind to be totally devoted to him that I'm cultivating the mind of Christ. But I'll tell you when it comes down to our body, we are struggling, not folks there a lot of opportunities to get our bodies and by their wonderful fitness sentence programs. You know, we look at things on television we celebrate. But hey, can we just all agree it still continues to be the top one I I just folks. I'm just seeing too many people like me who sign you know I really want more lot.

I really this got to be more II want to be fulfilled in every department.

I want to be well and whole well for Christ and you know, so I began sign a water sport. Sorry about this and he said, I beseech you, by the mercy of God and because of his mercy, that you yield your body. Body body. I thought oh no there he goes again white training. That's not what he's talking about but is he's talking about everything of which my body. This horse I will tell you folks I do for you much better than I did a year ago, cobwebs gone, I'm still not prepared to take off my shirt you're on a Sunday morning doesn't matter what Steve Skinner has to say about me all the people here today who are willing to say you know something folks I want to totally devoted to powerful question and it's our prayer that every time we open God's word.

We hear from the Lord, not just Dr. Milton, our teacher, but we hear from the Lord an opportunity to either change maybe change direction open for already following Christ not yet said yes to Jesus Christ for Dr. Don Wilton teaching from Romans 12 on this wonderful powerful message well for Christ as he moves from the pulpit in the studio. I pray that you would open your heart to what he wants to share with you next. Are you ready to give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ.

I'm so happy to hear that wanted to pray this prayer with me to hear God on the loving very very and I know that the Lord Jesus Christ came died on the cross so that I might be forgiven today.

I repainted my son. I confess my sin.

And I invite you to come into my life by faith in Jesus name I pray. If you pray that pray for me. The first one welcome to the family of God. This is one I hope that you know how much I'm going to be praying how very important call us so we can talk to connect to the right place you can begin this wonderful and just about come back with the final to go to give your life to Jesus Christ our commitment continues to hurt you fresh resources. Dr. has your starting life of Christ read beginning again. Call us at 866899 word 866899967 can also say he would love to hear email Don Dio in@tewonline.org would love to hear your story about how God is working in your life and know that every email encourages and begin the email is Don Dio aaron@tewonline.org and before you get away. We have a moment for closing thoughts and our pastor and chief encourager Dr. Don Wilton you know these are such special times together. I'm so grateful my friends that we can worship together like the encouraging part. I just love I want you to know that you know this ministry goes on 24 hours around the clock all the time.

We want to be involved in your life and we want to continue to pray for you. You can call us at any time you can partner with us all the time through prayer and through you giving me know that you are 100% in age, as we are sharing God's truth without searching will that's what this is all about cleaning done for God is doing a great work and I love you today.

Thank God for you, pray for God bless before we get away know that we are here for you 24 hours a day@twonline.org to pray and encourage you and tomorrow the message my prayer for you Dr. Don Wilton is a powerful and I hope you join us and perhaps invite a friend podcast. The broadcast will be here for you to encourage