David Platt Sermon

We watched another sermon from David Platt and it was really awesome. I really love his messages and they really speak to me, even though its a lot of what his book says. To be 100% honest with myself I have to say that I do want salvation without sacrifice. It's so much easier to conform to this world and follow the ways of the world. But Christianity is hard its never going to be easy. Does anybody else grow weary at times from this whole "fight" analogy we have in scripture? I know there are days when my heart is weary of the fight. I want to give in to my pride, my selfishness, and my thoughts and not fight. I simply share with you the days of weariness will come. But just as I type my weary whimpering, my heart in the depth of it knows that in my weakness He is strong His burden is light. Fighting the good fight will make you weary. but weariness should never make you stop fighting. It means that I keep fighting in the morning as the Lord awakens my heart to His world, instead of snoozing for 20 more minutes. It means that we keep fighting when the world says it;s not a big deal to dress the trendy way, instead we stay trendily-modest with our fashion to directly link us to our security in the Lord. It means that we fight for souls, not grades or esteem or titles. We fight to bring glory to the Lord that has granted us access to eternity with Him. Oh my sweet friends, have you had a weary year this year? Is your fight knocked out of you from the messages the world has written on your heart? The Ultimate Trainer wants to train us each day, each moment in this fight! To have true salvation I want to give up everything. I do. I want to and I need the Lord in order to change my selfish desires. I want CHRIST to be the center of my life. I want to do everything for him. A song by Charlie Hall says, "Everything was made in You Jesus, Breath of every living thing, Everyone was made for You. You hold everything together, You hold everything together. Christ be the center of our lives, Be the place we fix our eyes, Be the center of our lives. We lift our eyes to heaven, We wrap our lives around your life, We lift our eyes to heaven, to You" If you havent heard it you should for sure look it up its one my favorites!! Being dead to ourselves means that CHRIST makes all the decesions in our life. that He is first and number one and that we give everything to Him to decide. A life doing this would be a life after Christ's. A life of imitation and a life of humility and love. God's first commandment requires us to be obsessed with Him alone. When we obsess over worldly things we fail to focus on what matters. Our obsessions are discovered by where we spend our time and money. A lot of the questions this asks I answered in my other blog talking about Radical about a month or so ago.  Christ is my SUPREME JOY.