- Good morning, everyone.
- [Congregation] Good morning.
- We're gonna do something a little bit different today.
This next month, we're celebrating the 500th anniversary
of one of the most significant events in human history.
The Reformation, which you might remember
from way back in college or high school history study
and how everything changed.
The church changed dramatically.
So significant, it's worth taking a weekend
to talk about.
But we're not gonna focus on the history of it
as much as some of you history nerds might like that.
We're gonna focus on what does it mean for us today?
It's so significant,
but the significance still lasts today.
The historical reformation was actually built
on the personal reformation in one man's life.
A man by the name of Martin Luther.
And when you look at what can happen when one life
is reformed in a family, in a community, in a business,
in a country,
you begin to recognize the significance of what can happen
when you and I experience what I'd call
a personal reformation.
And the good news is, Jesus Christ came to give this
to every one of us.
He wants to give us the gift of renewed life,
a reformation of life.
The gift of a new sense of God's grace and goodness
in every day of our lives.
He talks about this in John 10:10.
The first verse that's there in your outline.
That verse says, Jesus says.
So Jesus wants to give you this kind of life.
He's working to give you this kind of life.
We don't get a perfect life until we get to heaven,
but we can have a full life in him.
That's what he's working for every one of us.
The Reformation that happened 500 years ago
happened because the church had a deep need.
The world had intruded into the church
in such a way that the things of the world,
the material things had become much more important
than the things of God.
In the church in that day,
working for or actually even buying your forgiveness
had become a message that was outstripping
the message of God's grace.
And in the church of that day, personal power
had become a lot more important than personal holiness.
So a reformation was needed.
You look at my life, your life today,
you can see some signs when a reformation is needed
in your life today.
Some of the signs are, you're worn out from your week
and it's Monday morning,
that's a sign that you might need
a reformation in your life.
Or your anger fuse is that short.
You're always pegging in irritation,
everything is irritating you.
That's a sign that you might need a reformation.
You're working harder and harder
and getting less and less done.
You dread going to bed.
Because you just know you're gonna lie awake one more night
worrying with anxiety.
Or you can't find the energy to do
even the things you most want to do in life.
Those are all signs that you might need
a personal reformation.
And the truth is, we often need this.
We often need to return to.
To have a reformation of what's most important in our lives.
I've needed this hundreds of times in my life.
Sometimes it seems like you need it almost every day.
So what we're focusing on today
in this how to have a personal reformation
is something all of us need the rest of our lives.
So where do you start?
Here's a prayer to start with.
It's the next verse in your outline.
It's a prayer that David prayed
when he needed a renewal in his life.
Psalm 51:12, he prayed.
That's worth praying together.
So let's read that aloud together as a prayer.
Would you read it with me?
Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
We're gonna look, Pastor Buddy and I
are gonna look today at how you and I can do that.
The Reformation was historically built on five pillars.
In Latin, they're called the five solas.
The word solo means alone.
The things that above anything else,
you gotta stand on in order for this renewal,
this recovery, this reformation to happen in your life.
The same five things that they needed 500 years ago,
are the things you and I need every day of our lives
to experience this renewal.
Now I wanna be real clear from the beginning.
We're not talking about perfection here,
we're talking about reformation,
the reformation that happened in the church 500 years ago,
did it make the church perfect?
No,
there's still no perfect church today
because we are imperfect human beings.
So when we talk about a personal reformation,
we're not talking about you becoming perfect.
What happened 500 years ago
is the church started heading in the right direction.
And we're talking about turning so that we're headed
in the right direction.
Five things in our lives
that can cause that to happen.
Beginning with number one, you stand on grace alone.
That's where you start for this personal reformation.
You stand on grace alone.
Grace alone, the Latin is sola gratia.
I gotta tell you of the top things
I thought I'd never do at Saddleback.
One of them was speak to you in Latin.
I never thought I'd be doing this,
but you never know.
My favorite Latin phrase is Caesar salad.
That's how much Latin I know.
So when we look at these words,
we're looking back into history at what happened back then,
the language they spoke.
But now we gotta take a look at what does it mean
for my life today?
And Ephesians chapter 2:8 talks about that.
Just like you didn't earn your physical birth,
how could you?
It was given to you, life was given to you as a gift.
This verse reminds us, you can't earn a spiritual rebirth.
A spiritual connection with God.
It comes only by the gift of God.
The gift of grace.
And the Greek language, the New Testament was written
in the word gift and the word grace
are actually the same word.
So God's gift is God's grace, and God's grace is God's gift.
It's a gift from beginning to end.
Personal reformation begins when you receive
this gift of grace.
Martin Luther's personal reformation was desperately
needed in his life.
He was a guy who had become a monk,
he was trying to earn God's grace.
And he was going to desperate measures to do it.
One night, he lay out in the snow
all night long naked, trying to cleanse himself of his sins.
He would often beat himself with a whip
trying to beat the sin out of his life.
And as crazy as that sounds to you,
I know that some of you psychologically, inside,
you're beating yourself up.
Hoping that somehow it's gonna get other people to love you.
Maybe even get God to love you.
Hoping that somehow it's gonna make up
for the wrong thing that you did.
If you beat yourself up enough,
if you're as negative as you can be about yourself,
maybe it'll make everything okay.
And it never works, never will.
Cause it's only by God's grace
that we can come to understand and know God's love.
The only way is grace.
So if you've never received that gift of grace,
you can do it right now.
It's simply realizing Jesus gave that gift on the cross.
He died for me so I could be forgiven.
And instead of me trying to make myself okay
in God's sight, I accept the gift.
You can do it in your mind right now.
Jesus, I accept the gift of your grace.
Once you do that, and you have to stand in that grace.
And those of you that maybe made that decision
a long time ago in your life
know that's not always easy.
We tend to slip, we tend to slide away.
We tend to slip into thinking that
what God gave us only by grace
now I have to hold onto somehow by my works.
Or I have to hold onto somehow by how good I am.
The truth of the matter is, it's always grace
from beginning to end.
So if you're trying to make yourself lovable to God
by the good things that you do
or how much you read the Bible
or how many Bible verses you memorized this last week.
None of that is gonna get God to love you any more.
It's all because of his grace.
That's where you stand.
For a personal renewal, you may need to stand again
on God's grace.
You might be feeling like
shaky inside right now.
Like unsure of yourself,
unsure of life, unsure of things.
Unsure of even God's love for you.
When you feel that way,
you step off the shaky ground of how you're feeling.
Cause we're all gonna feel shaky sometimes.
And you step onto God's grace again.
Cause that's where the power is.
That's where the strength is.
You stand on his grace.
First Peter 5:12 says this.
The most famous statement of the Reformation
is when Martin Luther was asked to recant
all of his writings by the religious courts of that day.
And you might remember, he stood before them and he said,
here I stand, I can do no other.
And he stood on what he'd said before.
And what I'm saying to you is,
he made his stand on grace and you and I,
we need to make our stand on the grace of God.
If you've been trying to get God to love you more
by the good things that you do,
stand on his grace.
If you've been trying to earn the salvation
that's purely a gift,
by something that you do, you stand on his grace.
You need a reformation.
You step off the shaky ground
and you stand on the solid ground of his grace.
You are forgiven.
You are accepted.
You are loved.
The only way you can know that is true
is by standing on the grace of God.
That's where personal reformation starts.
Now Buddy's gonna come and talk to us
about the second thing we do.
- So to experience a personal reformation,
you stand on grace alone.
And the second pillar is this.
You might wanna write this down.
You rely on scripture alone.
Rely on scripture alone.
Jesus said he would build his church.
And that the powers of hell would not overcome it.
And Jesus is still building his church today.
One life at a time.
And one of the primary tools that he uses
to build your life is the scripture.
Is the word of God.
The Latin term for this sola
is sola scriptura.
Sola scriptura means that the Bible, the scripture
is the only inerrant infallible authority
for Christian faith in living.
Look at what the Bible says
in second Timothy three.
In other words, the Bible is the standard
by which everything else in life has to be measured.
I wanna show you an illustration of this.
I have a simple tool here that some of you
will be familiar with.
It's called a plumb line.
It's very simple.
it's just a pointed weight and a string.
And a builder will use this
when he's putting a building together.
He'll nail one end of the string to the ceiling
or to a rafter.
And drop this weight all the way to the ground.
And when gravity has done its work,
the inviolable law of gravity,
when it's done its work, that string is perfectly straight.
And when the string is straight,
the builder will say it's true.
In fact, you'll hear them sometimes say,
we need to true that wall up a little bit.
Because the string becomes the standard
by which he then builds that house.
To make sure everything else is straight and true.
If he didn't have a standard of truth,
the integrity of the building is compromised.
In fact, the building itself could collapse
if the walls are not straight.
The Bible is the plumb line
for the Christian life.
The Bible is the standard by which we measure
every thought, every doubt, every hope,
every dream, every idea.
All of it has to be measured to some standard of truth
where we bring it and say,
but how does this stand up to the truth
of the word of God?
You see, what had happened in the days of the Reformers
is that the church began to drift away into error.
Because it had strayed from the standard of scripture alone.
The same thing can happen in a believer's life.
So many Christians will read the Bible
but then they'll also read their horoscopes.
Or the newest new age thinkers.
Or the newest psychology.
Or the newest fad or what is culture doing.
And they'll try to cobble it all together.
If they don't like what the Bible says,
they just look some place else.
Until they finally find somebody or some thing
or some one
who agrees with their preconceived notion
or somehow justifies or rationalizes their behavior.
Well, the problem with all of that
is that eventually, those things clash.
At some point in time,
the word of God and culture collide.
And so you must have already decided ahead of time
what is going to be the standard of truth.
Is it going to be the unchanging word of God?
Or is it going to be the fickleness of culture?
What is your ultimate source of truth and guidance?
Here's what the Bible says about this in Psalm 119.
In other words, how can you stay on the right path
and keep from veering off?
Now does that mean you never make mistakes,
you never do anything wrong?
Of course not.
You'll never be sinless in this life.
But you can sin less.
If you will live your life according to the word of God.
The Bible says this about itself in Hebrews four.
So the Bible is what we call the sword of the spirit.
And it says it is a double edged sword.
And that double edged sword
has two edges, one edge is a deadly edge.
The other edge is a life giving edge.
The life giving edge of scripture
is what performs open heart surgery on us.
It opens us up.
It cuts out the infection of sin.
And the deadly edge of scripture
is what puts to death the lies that we believe.
It puts to death the sinful attitudes
that drive us.
So we have to be willing
to let the word of God, the sword of the spirit
do its life giving work and its deadly work in us.
And when it does, it changes the way you think.
It changes the way you live and act.
It changes your character.
It will set you free
from old lies, from old habits.
From old ways of thinking.
And it will set you free not only from those things,
it will set you free to live
the way God wants you to live.
To live a life of confidence.
A life of strength.
A life of faithfulness and integrity.
A life that is lived for the glory of God.
And that is the sola of sola scriptura.
Now Pastor Tom's coming to bring us the next one.
- So you wanna have a personal reformation, be renewed.
The third thing you and I need in our lives
is to walk by faith alone.
You begin to walk by faith alone.
It's the sola fide, if you wanna write down all the Latin.
That's great.
There's a verse in the Bible
that more than any other was the cause of the Reformation.
Luther was reading it and it grabbed his life,
grabbed his heart.
And it's the next verse in your outline.
Romans 1:17, it says this.
You might in that verse circle that phrase
right in his sight and also circle the word righteous.
And even draw a line between the two.
Because that's what it means to be righteous.
I know we use the term in a lot of ways.
Righteous means a really good person.
Or maybe a person who thinks they're a really good person.
But in the Bible, the word righteous means
to be right in God's sight.
To have a right relationship with God.
Everything's right between me and God.
And that happens only by faith.
If you're right in your sight,
in your own sight, that means you have emotional health.
That's a good thing to have.
If you're right in other people's sight,
that means you have popularity,
which can be good or bad depending.
But if you're right in God's sight,
this verse says you have salvation.
You have life.
The importance of being right in God's sight
is so much more than anything else in life.
Because it's what's gonna last forever.
So the Bible talks about this a lot,
being right in God's sight.
Another verse is Romans 3:22 up on the screen, it says.
So it starts by faith.
Right in his sight.
I can only accept that by faith.
Because I can't have a personal conversation with God
until I get to heaven.
It's only through prayer.
It's only through faith.
When you begin a relationship with God,
you don't get a right in his sight tattoo
where you can look at it all the time and go,
okay, it's okay.
God put that there.
It's only by faith that you can accept this.
That you can know this in your life.
But it's the most important thing about life.
To know that everything's all right between me and God.
You can count on that by faith.
You walk by faith alone.
You start by faith and then you walk in that faith.
The Bible says in second Corinthians 5:7.
Our sight is the way we see things.
Faith is the way God sees things.
So you walk by faith, by his sight.
There's a lot of different ways to do that in life.
If you wanna walk by faith, a great chapter
to get familiar with is Hebrews chapter 11.
It's actually called the faith chapter.
It uses the faith so many times.
It takes examples from all through the Old Testament
talking about how to have faith.
In fact, there's this one four word phrase
that's used 16 different times in this one chapter.
The phrase is, it was by faith.
It was by faith that Moses did this.
It was by faith that Sarah did this.
It was by faith that Abraham did this.
We don't have time to look at all 16 of 'em.
But I just wanna touch on a couple of 'em.
And I'm doing different ones in different services.
Just asking God, really.
To say things that might touch places in your life
right now where you need to have faith.
That chapter says it was by faith
that Isaac gave blessings to his children.
Maybe you're having a tough time with your kids right now.
And you need the faith to give a blessing to your children.
Cause all you wanna really do is curse 'em right now
because of what's happening.
You need the faith to keep being the parent
that you wanna be.
God can give you that faith.
The Bible says it was by faith that Abraham
was able to leave home.
Maybe God's got you in a place where you're
getting ready to move,
or getting ready to move to a different job
or maybe the leaving home is something
your kids just did.
They just went off to college.
It was by faith, you can face that by your own sight,
figure it all out on your own.
Or you can face that by faith.
Faith makes all the difference.
You walk by faith.
When you walk by faith, what are you doing?
You trust in God to tell you what the next step is.
You're asking God, what's the next step?
And then you take the next step one step at a time.
You walk by faith.
Only one step at a time.
It was by faith that the people of Israel
crossed the Red Sea.
Maybe you're facing a Red Sea difficulty in your life.
The situation you never thought you'd face.
And here you are facing it.
How are you gonna make it through?
Faith is the only way to make it through.
You got a 1000 ideas in your mind.
And some of those are things
maybe that God wants you to do.
But you start with faith.
Faith is what's gonna see you through.
I remember,
I remember years back, I was facing a major discouragement.
The door was closing on some dreams for ministry that I had.
And I felt alone.
I felt misunderstood.
And so I decided I wanted to have faith,
but I didn't feel very much faith.
I decided to live in Hebrews chapter 11 for a while
and just let the verses soak in.
Memorization helped me,
I memorized the chapter during that time.
And here's the main thing that God taught me
during that time.
He reminded me that there is no circumstance
that can steal away from me the choice to have faith.
Doesn't matter what happens.
You can choose to have faith.
If somehow it opened up that I got that dream,
I could have faith in the getting and the living
of that dream.
But guess what, I could also have faith
in the discouragement of not getting that dream.
I could choose to have faith no matter what.
And you can choose to have faith
no matter what the difficulty.
No matter what the discouragement.
Because in the end, the most important thing
isn't the dream.
It's not the discouragement.
The most important thing is your faith.
Because that's what's gonna last.
And with a few years behind me,
and maybe some humility that I needed,
I've come to understand that maybe if I'd gotten that dream
then, it would have hurt my faith more than I realized.
Cause I would have started to trust in myself
more than I wanted to.
And maybe, just maybe, it was in the discouragement
that my faith was most built.
So that God can accomplish the dream that he had
for my life.
Not my dream.
His dream.
So whatever you're going through,
you walk by faith.
Faith alone.
That's the way to have a recovery,
a restoration, a renewal in your life.
Now the next thing you and I do,
if we're gonna experience this personal reformation
is you hope in Christ alone.
solas Chritus, you hope you Christ alone.
And when I say hope, I don't mean wish for good things.
I mean be certain that everything's gonna be okay.
Because of Christ alone.
That in the end, he's gonna be holding you
in Christ alone.
I mean what first Peter 1:3 talks about when it says.
So this verse tells you, you can know you can have hope
in any circumstance.
Because that hope is guaranteed
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
A fact that happened.
A power that God wants to give into your life.
With each of these solas that we're looking at,
there's actually something you have to let go of
in order to hold onto this thing alone.
If it's hope alone, that means I can't be holding
onto something else at the same time.
And what usually gets in the way
in most of our lives, of a personal reformation
is trying to hold onto the old thing
and grab the new thing at the same time.
And because of that, cause it's not grace alone,
we're not experiencing grace at all.
So for grace alone, what do I have to let go of?
Have to let go of thinking I can work my way
into God's good graces.
And realize it's just a gift.
And as long as I'm holding onto thinking
I can get that gift by the things that I earn,
I'm never gonna really experience God's grace.
With scripture alone, I have to let go of my version
of the truth.
And that's hard to do.
Cause I like my version of the truth.
I built it up over a lot of years.
Takes a lot of humility
to let go of my version of the truth.
But to really hold onto God's truth,
I gotta let go of my version of the truth.
To experience faith alone,
I gotta let go of the direction I wanna go
and be willing to go any direction God wants me to go.
And to experience Christ alone,
I gotta let go of all the other places
we try to find hope.
I gotta let go.
I remember number of years ago when I was a kid,
we built one of those three rope bridges, you know.
Where you have two ropes on the top
and you got one rope on the bottom.
And you're walking like this across.
Bunch of kids built it.
And bunch of us walked across it.
There was one kid who really didn't wanna walk across.
So we let him go last.
And he was going really slow.
So like a lot of encouraging young boys,
we left him there and went off into the woods.
We knew he'd be fine.
He'll be fine.
Few minutes later, we hear this little voice help, help.
So we go running back to see what's going on with him.
And we run around the corner
and we actually started laughing.
Cause he'd fallen off and he's holding on
to the bottom rope.
With his legs kicking.
His eyes closed yelling, help, help.
And his feet are six inches off the ground.
So you know what we told him to do.
Let go.
Open your eyes and let go.
Some of you, whatever you're holding onto right now,
thinking it's giving you hope,
open your eyes and let go.
Because to experience the solid ground of God's hope
in your life, you gotta let go of that thing.
It's stealing hope from you.
The Bible says in Psalm 33:22.
Let's admit, it's easy to put our hope in other things.
We can see other things,
we can't see God.
It's easy to try to put our hope in other things.
That's why we gotta let go all the time,
have this recovery, this renewal.
It's easier to put your hope in material things.
Especially when you got 'em.
So you come to this place where you realize
I can't find my hope there.
Maybe it's cause you lost those material things.
Or maybe it's because you still have 'em
and you realize they're not giving me
what I want in life.
You let go and you put your hope in Christ alone.
Or you put your hope in a person.
Listen, every person you meet is worthy of your love.
There is no person you're ever gonna meet
except Jesus Christ, who is worthy of your hope.
Cause they're an imperfect person just like you.
Most likely, they're gonna let you down at some point.
Don't put your hope in a person.
Hope in Christ alone.
Or you put your hope in yourself
and you realize, I can't even put my hope there
because I let myself down.
This is true even with spiritual things.
Some of you, all your hope is in that prayer
getting answered.
In the way you want.
In the timing that you need.
I'm here to tell you that even if that prayer doesn't
get answered, and I pray it does with you right now.
But even if that prayer doesn't get answered,
you still have hope in Christ.
Cause that hope is greater than that prayer.
You hope in Christ alone.
You do what the apostle Paul did.
When he needed a personal reformation.
It's the next verse in your outline.
Philippians 3:7 says.
Paul is talking about his personal accomplishments here.
And he had a lot of them.
He'd done a lot of things well in his life.
And he realized, if I'm gonna hope in Christ,
I gotta stop hoping in those accomplishments.
Because he discovered actually that they couldn't
give him hope.
Christ alone.
What do you need to let go of?
What else have you been hoping in?
I need to do this almost every day of my life.
Let go of hoping in the wrong things.
What do you need to let go of?
The personal reformation choice is the choice
to let go of whatever else you'd begun to hope in
and to place your hope in Christ alone.
Now Buddy's gonna come and talk about
the last of these steps of personal reformation.
- So let's review.
You stand on grace alone.
Rely on scripture alone.
You walk in faith alone.
Not by sight.
You hope in Christ alone.
And the fifth pillar, finally,
is this one.
Live for God's glory alone.
Live for God's glory alone.
The Latin phrase was soli Deo Gloria.
For the glory of God alone.
This is what worship is all about.
It's living all of life for the glory of God.
Worship is not just in our words or our songs or rituals.
Or religious activities.
True worship is living all of life.
Your personal life, your family life,
your business life, your social life,
all of life for the glory of God alone.
In fact, here's what the Bible says about this.
In Colossians chapter three it says.
So everything we do
is to be done for the glory of God.
Now, what is the glory of God?
I wanna talk about this for a minute.
There's an important life principle here.
What is the glory of God?
what does it mean when we talk about giving God glory?
And when we talk about the glory of God.
Well, they're two different things.
And it's one of the weaknesses of the English language
that we use the same word to mean two very different things.
In the Bible, in the Old Testament, for example,
when they talk about glory to God.
Or giving glory to God, or to glorify the Lord.
The Hebrew word is the word halal.
Halal.
It's where we get the word hallelujah.
It means to praise.
Or to exalt.
So giving glory to God or saying glory to God is halal.
Praise or exalt.
But when we talk about the glory of God,
it's a different word altogether.
We tend to think of the glory of God
in terms of light.
As in that passage that says
the glory of the Lord shone roundabout them.
We think of it as light or splendor.
But the glory of God is much more than light.
The Hebrew word for the glory of God
is the word kabod, K-A-B-O-D.
Kabod.
And it has not so much to do with light as with weight.
Substance, presence,
with power.
So when we're talking about the glory of God,
it's like the difference between
the sun and sunlight.
Yes, there is the light of the sun,
but the sun is a lot more than just light.
And yes, there is the light of the glory of God,
but the glory of God is much more than just light.
Pastor Rick has a great definition
of the glory of God.
He put it in the Purpose Driven Life.
I want us to look at this here on the screen.
Now why is it important to know the difference
between glory to God and the glory of God?
What difference does it mean?
Why should I even care?
Well actually,
it makes a huge difference.
See, over and over throughout the Old Testament,
we see the phrase the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
We see it over and over again.
The glory of the Lord filled the temple.
I wanna show you just a couple of examples of this.
One from Exodus 40.
And in first Kings eight, the Bible says.
There are many other examples of this in the Old Testament.
But I want us to catch the connection.
Because there's a life principle here.
It's that worship and God's glory go together.
In the Old Testament, God made his glory,
his presence, the weight of his presence,
he made it known in a distinct and an unmistakable way
in his temple.
Now what was the temple?
The temple was the place of worship.
The temple was also the dwelling place of God
on the earth.
That was in the Old Testament.
In the New Testament, what is the temple today?
That's right.
It's you.
It's you.
We are now the temple of God.
God doesn't live in buildings.
He lives in his people.
In fact, here's what the Bible says about that
in Acts chapter 17.
And Paul goes on in first Corinthians six to say this.
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
And again, what is the temple?
It's the place of worship.
And it is the place where God dwells.
See, I believe if you could have asked God
when he was forming Adam out of the dust of the ground.
If you had looked over God's shoulder and said,
what are you making?
He would have said, I'm building a temple.
And it was a temple that he would not occupy
for thousands of years.
Not until the coming of Christ.
And at that moment that we read in the scriptures,
the moment of Jesus' crucifixion,
when the curtain that hung in the temple
that separated God from man.
When that curtain was torn from top to bottom
at the crucifixion, it was not just so that we could get in.
It was so God could get out.
It was God bursting forth.
So that now he dwells not in a building any longer,
now he dwells in people.
He dwells in us.
It was his plan from the very beginning.
Under the old covenant, the Old Testament,
when the people gave glory to God
in the temple with worship,
God filled that temple with his glory.
Under the new covenant,
when you fill this temple,
your life, your person,
when you fill this temple with worship,
you are paving the way for the glory,
the presence of God to rest on your life.
His weightiness, his power,
his substance.
It's a life principle.
That when you glorify God with your life,
you are inviting his glory upon your life.
When you glorify God in your home,
you are inviting his glory to rest on your home.
When you glorify God in your business,
you are inviting the glory of God to rest on your business.
When you glorify God in any relationship,
you are inviting the glory of God into that relationship.
This is what it means to live all of life
soli Deo Gloria, all for the glory of God.
It's not just in your words.
It's not just in religious activities.
It's in how you conduct yourself.
How you interact with people.
How we make choices and decisions.
Doing what God tells us to do.
Where we're doing everything
ultimately for the glory of God.
And to make room for the glory of God
to rest upon our lives.
God wants to rest his glory in your life
and in your home every day.
So glorify him.
Worship him.
Every day.
Worship him in your words.
Worship him through your actions.
Let him be your primary motivation.
Invite him to fill you in a fresh way.
Every day.
With his presence and his power.
Invite him to take his place on the throne of your life
and then make room for him to do that.
By giving him glory, halal.
Praising him through the way you live
so that you're making room for kabod,
the presence, the weightiness, the power of God
in your life.
And as you worship him,
as you live for his glory,
I want you to see what the Bible promises.
This verse from second Corinthians three.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, remember, he's in you.
In other words,
the more you glorify Jesus with your life,
the more you become like Jesus.
And that's what it is.
To live a reformed life.
Where you stand on grace alone.
Knowing that it is only God's kindness and goodness.
Where you rely on scripture alone
to be the plumb line, the standard of truth
that you live by.
Where you walk in faith alone.
Knowing that it's not your works,
it's your faith in Christ alone.
You put your hope in Christ alone.
And that you live all of your life
for the glory of God alone.
Martin Luther's personal reformation
changed the world.
And yours can too.
Let's pray about this,
would you join me?
Let's bow our heads.
Father, we are so thankful
for the great men and women of faith
who've gone before us to point the way.
To give us an example to follow.
We thank you, Lord, for Martin Luther's life.
And the impact he's had on us even today.
Lord, we thank you for the truth of your word.
That shows us that salvation is by grace alone
through faith alone, in Christ alone.
So that we can truly live for the glory of God alone.
Lord, may we be people who are fully committed to that.
To experience
personal reformation.
And in this moment of prayer with our heads bowed
and our eyes closed,
as Pastor Tom said a moment ago,
that maybe you have never surrendered your life
to the grace of God,
that you've been trying to behave yourself into heaven.
Instead of just receiving the gift of God's grace.
I wanna give you the opportunity right now
to open your life to the grace of God,
to place your faith in Christ alone
for your eternal security in him.
So let me just lead you in a prayer
and in the quietness of your own heart and mind,
you can say, Lord, I see now
that it truly is by grace alone,
through faith alone, in Christ alone.
And I do wanna live my life for your glory.
So at this moment,
on this day, I open my life to you.
I ask you to come into my life.
I surrender myself over to you.
I wanna be a man or woman of faith.
A person who lives my life for your glory.
And I pray this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
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