Watch this if your mind is a mess and you don’t know how to put it in order.
get out of your head that’s a horrible
place to take your orders am I preaching
or am I preaching if every meditation
every loop that starts with self ends in
one of two places and I want you to look
for this in your life this week it’s
either gonna end in scarcity or shame
every sermon that you preach to yourself
and you are always preaching to yourself
in fact Martyn Lloyd-Jones said that our
problem is we spend too much time
listening to ourselves and not enough
time preaching to ourselves
isn’t that what David’s Psalms have
shown us where he would say to his soul
it’s time to go to school bless the Lord
O my soul and all that is within me
bless His Holy name he’s preaching to
himself and so are you but when you
preach to yourself from yourself your
sermon will always lead to scarcity
Brené Brown says that the number one
meditation of many of our hearts is not
enough she says we apply it to time we
apply it to money we apply it to our
talent and the sermon that plays in our
mind if we would ever stop and listen to
it it starts every morning not enough
how much sleep did you get last night
how much money do you make on that job
Graham asked me the other day dad is
fifty six thousand dollars a year a lot
of money I said it is til you make it
that might be the devil’s favorite
sermon not enough not enough not enough
he preached it to the disciples because
they looked at 5,000 men and women and
children and Jesus said feed them and
they said well we don’t have a whole lot
we don’t have a whole lot we
have five loaves and two fish but that’s
not enough because they were starting
with their selves but they were standing
next to the source
I wonder how different the story would
be if you would ask the source instead
of asking yourself check the source
he’s more than enough somebody shout he’s more he’s more y’all don’t ever shout in the
back of the room when I start hollering
like this I know y’all don’t like it
when I holler but this is not a silent
sermon this is a loud sermon somebody
shout he’s more
more than enough every need every
deficiency all my failures his blood is
enough his grace is enough his word is
enough the law of the Lord is pure
reviving the soul but if I start with
myself I end with scarcity it’s a loop
because I start down here and so by the
time I’ve looked around through my day I
end my day feeling depleted I wonder if
you got a new loop I wonder if you got a
new loop and started with the source
instead of starting with yourself I
wonder how the cycle would change if you
started with your source I know it’s
basic but didn’t David start with the
heavens and then move toward his heart
the skies declare the glory of God they
show forth his power day after day and
night after night and day after day and
night after night and all I’ve got to do
to stay in step with God is keep the
beat of heaven happening inside my heart
because there’s always enough in heaven
there’s always enough patience in heaven
there’s always enough provision in
heaven there’s always enough bread in
heaven there’s always enough always
enough always enough my God shall supply
all of your needs according what if
you got in that loop what if you ask God
to fill your empty places you start with
yourself you end in scarcity you start
with yourself you end in shame
cuz I look at myself and I feel like
David David does something weird I think
he wrote this Psalm it’s contested he
might have written it he might have not
written it but let’s give him credit
because this is a song that embodies a
characteristic known as wisdom poetry it
kind of it kind of switches beats in the
middle of the Psalm it’s going on and on
about the skies and the heavens for many
years they thought it was two different
poems put together as they were studying
back and trying to find out how it
was written and when it was written it
was such a sharp break at verse seven
that they thought well maybe this is a
different thing you know we’re talking
about the skies and the sun and the
stars then all of a sudden David makes a
break in verse seven and he starts
talking about the law of the Lord watch
what he says it’s perfect refreshing the
soul look at verse 12 but who can
discern their own errors so he is an
imperfect man looking into a perfect law
he’s looking at what the law is and what
it does and how it brings peace wisdom
and joy but yet he knows that he has
broken the very law that produces the
very things that he wants I don’t think
it’s much of a break because he is
contemplating how the heavens are able
to effortlessly declare the glory of God
but he cannot because I’m stuck in a
cycle called sin and there are secrets
in my heart that no matter how much I
dress them up with the words of my mouth
the meditations of my heart fall short
of the glory of God Paul knew it too he
said what the law was powerless to do in
that it was weakened by the sinful
nature look what God did God started a
new loop see through the law man tried
to reach his way to God but it was a
cycle of shame caused by sin
so I reach and fall short and try and
fall short and repent and fall short and
get up and fall down and reach and fall
short and try and fall short and get up
and fall down and God broke the cycle
for in the fullness of time God sent
forth his son in the likeness of sinful
man to be a sin offering for what the
law was powerless to do in that it was
weakened by the sinful nature God did by
sending his own son in the likeness of
sinful man so that we can say there is
therefore now no condemnation
there is therefore let me give you a new
loop no condemnation no condemnation no
condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus this is the kind of gospel
preaching that got me to the cross this
is the kind of gospel preaching that
will break the chains of shame off of
your life this is the kind of gospel
preaching that you can preach on Monday
morning Tuesday night Wednesday
afternoon you can preach this stuff to
yourself there is therefore now no condemnation why cause I’m in Christ
in other words touch seven people and tell
them I got a new loop I got a new loop
that’s what the gospel gives me a new
meditation and watch this I no longer
live by situation get ready to jump
up I live by revelation I know who he is
I know who I am in him you better touch seven more people tell them I got a revelation
I got a revelation and whatever I go
through I got a revelation of who’s in
the fire with me I know what he did I
know who he is I know who I am in him I’ve got
a new loop I’m losing my voice y’all shout
for me
you get that in your heart you’d be
finishing the devil’s sermons in no time
he might start him but you let grace
finish them yeah yeah yeah the devil will
be scared to talk to you he will because
every failure he brings up is gonna
trigger within your mind a new loop to
realize that grace is greater than my
failure grace is greater it is not the
sermon that I preached to you that
determines the course of your life it’s
the sermon you preach to yourself
it’s what you say to yourself let the
words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable acceptable accept
accept accept what God says about you
reject everything else and live your
life under an open heaven
and the heavens declare the glory of God
and the skies declare his wonder day
after day they pour forth speech and
they don’t need any words to do it it’s
a silent sermon it’s the silent sermon
that determines whether or not you step
out on faith or stay in your comfort
zone it’s the silent sermon you preach
to yourself that determines whether you
continue to live in a place of regret
and resentment or you step forward into
your tomorrow believing that God will
use all things for the good of those who
love him and are called according to his
purpose it’s not this it’s the second
sermon I always thought it was so weird
that the preacher would pray
let the words of my mouth and the
meditations of my heart be acceptable in
your sight but I get it now he was
saying there’s two sermons happening
there’s what I say to you and there’s
what you say to yourself and you’ve got
to learn how to be the coach of your own
soul I wish Dabo Swinney was here he
could help us I was considering hiring a
coach recently for leadership and I
wanted somebody who could help me to
analyze my own leadership and that’s
probably a good thing to do but I was
praying about it and God said be your
own head coach head coach you hear me I
thought about titling this message help
my mind is a mess and I don’t know where
to start to put it in order
that would be more accurate to our real
lives well I decided to call it the silent
sermon instead because I found out that
I have a second self I have the self
that tells me everything that’s wrong
with me and then I have this second self
it’s not really even me
it’s a deposit guaranteeing my
inheritance it’s the Holy Spirit of God
dwelling in me when I say he’s in my
heart I’m not talking about an organ any
more than David is talking about the sun
as being a celestial body he’s talking
about the faithfulness of God in poetic
language it is theology wrapped in
poetry
so when he said the meditations of my
heart I thought I need to be my own head
coach I think that I need to let the God
in me talk to the me in me I think I
need to start letting my second self
talk to my screwed-up self I even
started doing it practically and for me
I have to get out of my head so I have to
write things down because up here is
whoa and I can’t keep it straight it
comes real fast but when I write it down
it helps me to slow down a little bit
and focus slow down it gets that
constant me me me me me me me me me
so that the real me can speak and I
write letters to me from the other me I
know a schizophrenic pastor is not what
you always prayed for I’ma help
somebody though I write on the top of my
page I write down every time I do this
three times a week
Holy Ghost coach’s notes I write it down
and then I talk to myself like I like
myself believe in myself see myself and
know myself because I figure all of
those are characteristics of the God in
me so if I can sit down long enough to
listen to what Elijah heard as a still
small voice see the wind came through
the rocks and Elijah heard nothing I
could preach a good sermon we can sing a
good song you might not get it the fire
blazed high Elijah heard nothing nothing
reassuring the wind blew the fire earth
started shaking Earth Wind and Fire did
an opening act and Elijah wasn’t
impressed but the Hebrew word is
interesting it says God was in the
whisper it was in that silent sermon
that Elijah realized that what he was
running from was already taken care of
it was in that silent sermon that he
realized God had already appointed
someone to put to death those who
threatened his own life it was in that
silent sermon that Elijah realized that
there was already a successor appointed
that his ministry had not been in vain
it was in that silent sermon that he
realized that there was still work to be
done and I can’t stay in this place of
self-pity anymore it’s the silent sermon
the silent sermon I wonder if that’s why
Joshua told the people not to say
anything for the first six days they
walked around the wall
because he knew they would start saying
stuff to talk each other out off going
into the land God had given them sometimes
the best strategy is shut up
I know you’ve always wanted to do this
and you hated touching your neighbour in
church until this point but look at them
and say shut up that’s the strategy shut
up
well y’all liked that a little too much
I’m worried about Rock Hill there might
be a fight in the parking lot and on the
seventh day
you can shout but it’s the shout after
the silence so I write little coach’s
notes to myself no you can’t see them
they’re not for you I don’t talk
to myself like I used to as much anymore
I still do I’ll never forget asking Amy
Corbett do you always walk around
telling yourself what an idiot you are
she said I’ve never done that in my life
oh yeah me neither I was asking for a
friend I said she’s on to something I
realized one time I would beat myself up
if anybody else was talking to me the
way I was talking to me I’d beat myself up
I would beat them up if I was
bigger than them I would beat them up if
they didn’t know any moves I would beat
them up and I’m living in loops of shame
and scarcity and God has really given me
His grace and it’d be life-changing for
you to start some new loops it’d be life
changing for you to pray what Pastor
Mickey prayed it’d be life changing for you
to change your silent sermons listen to
them do they start with me they’re gonna
end in shame do they start with me
they’re gonna end in scarcity but if you
start with the source I bet you’ll find
springs of living water that had been
waiting to well up within you they’re
waiting
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