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Speaker 6: Hey man, thank you for being here today. We appreciate
Speaker 6: you and we love you very much. I want to
Speaker 6: just encourage us today about maybe recommitting to some of
Speaker 6: our former commitments or or making new commitments, commitments to those.
Speaker 4: Things that are very important to your life.
Speaker 6: Things that are going to cause you to walk in
Speaker 6: a greater freedom, a greater accomplishment, greater joy, and greater victory.
Speaker 4: You see, to walk in these.
Speaker 6: Things, you must be committed to these things. Anything you
Speaker 6: want to accomplish is going to take a commitment. You know,
Speaker 6: sometimes people are afraid of commitment, you know, they don't
Speaker 6: want to be obligated. They don't want to be disappointed.
Speaker 6: Sometimes we like to keep our options open. Maybe there's
Speaker 6: a plan B later on we'd rather choose. But I
Speaker 6: bet every one of us could look over our life
Speaker 6: and we could see through our life that the things
Speaker 6: that we truly committed to, the things that we were
Speaker 6: all in on wholehearted, those are the things we're enjoying
Speaker 6: the most right now. You know, sometimes I've made a commitment,
Speaker 6: but it's been a one foot in, a one foot out.
Speaker 4: Well, I hope it happens.
Speaker 6: It's a wish anyway, That's not the way a commitment
Speaker 6: has to be approached. We have to decide commitment is
Speaker 6: something that is going to cause us to gain in
Speaker 6: the long run.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 6: Commitment means obligation, determination, discipline. See to make a commitment
Speaker 6: is gonna cost you something. You're gonna have to focus
Speaker 6: on it. You're gonna have to have a plan, You're
Speaker 6: gonna have to be determined. In fact, you have to
Speaker 6: serve your commitment. You see, you have to serve your
Speaker 6: commitment for a time, and eventually that commitment will serve you. See,
Speaker 6: that commitment will benefit you eventually. And that's the importance
Speaker 6: of commitment because Commitment causes us to accomplish, and it's
Speaker 6: not always easy. If commitment was easy, everybody would be accomplishing,
Speaker 6: everybody would be walking in victory, everybody would have great relationship,
Speaker 6: wonderful home life, amazing jobs.
Speaker 4: But commitment is what it's going to take, you know.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget.
Speaker 6: When our son Jonathan was just a little boy, I
Speaker 6: really wanted him to play a musical instrument. And so
Speaker 6: I said, Jonathan, this is this is what I think
Speaker 6: you need to do. I believe it's gonna be something
Speaker 6: that you'll always enjoy in your life. And so I said,
Speaker 6: you can play anything you want. You choose, and he said, oh,
Speaker 6: I'll play the guitar. And so as we began to,
Speaker 6: you know, get the lessons prepared, and I began to
Speaker 6: talk to him about practicing. It was so interesting because
Speaker 6: there was always things that tried to interrupt this, and
Speaker 6: I knew as a mother this had to be a
Speaker 6: commitment if he was really going to learn how to
Speaker 6: play well. But there were friends that would come over
Speaker 6: after school about the time we were going out for
Speaker 6: the lesson, things would come up. There was never a
Speaker 6: good time to practice because there was so many other
Speaker 6: things that were trying to interrupt the commitment.
Speaker 4: Have you ever experienced that?
Speaker 6: So I want to tell you something about that commitment.
Speaker 6: Doesn't matter if.
Speaker 4: You're little or if you're older.
Speaker 6: Things will always try to interfere with your commitments.
Speaker 4: If you commit.
Speaker 6: To having a good relationship with your spouse, and you
Speaker 6: commit to keeping your mouth closed in the difficult times,
Speaker 6: I can guarantee you that they're going to say something
Speaker 6: that's going to jeopardize your commitment. You see, it's interesting
Speaker 6: because I'm sure my son thought at one point, my
Speaker 6: mom is trying to punish me.
Speaker 4: She doesn't want me to play with my friends. I'm
Speaker 4: being restrained.
Speaker 6: I'm being restricted because that's sometimes what commitment feels like.
Speaker 6: Because see, it's hard to be committed to something when
Speaker 6: no one else is committed to it. It's hard to
Speaker 6: walk in integrity when no one else is walking in integrity. Listen,
Speaker 6: if they can get away with it, can I get
Speaker 6: away with just a little bit of it? But you see,
Speaker 6: God is asking us to commit to him those important
Speaker 6: areas of our life. It says in proverb sixteen, commit
Speaker 6: to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish
Speaker 6: your plans.
Speaker 4: You see, you can't keep.
Speaker 6: A commitment on your own, but you can keep a
Speaker 6: commitment to a committed God. You see, God was committed
Speaker 6: to us even when there were many interruptions, Even when
Speaker 6: we don't deserve to be committed to, God has committed
Speaker 6: to us, and he's saying, you got those important commitments
Speaker 6: in your life, give them to me, focus on them.
Speaker 6: Believe that I'm going to assist you in those things.
Speaker 6: One version says it like this, It says, commit your
Speaker 6: actions to the Lord and he will direct you. You see,
Speaker 6: commitment is not a wish. Commitment is an action. We
Speaker 6: have to put our plans into action. If God is
Speaker 6: going to help us, if He is going to advance
Speaker 6: us in our commitment, We're gonna have to.
Speaker 4: Take the step of faith. We're gonna have to do
Speaker 4: our research.
Speaker 6: See, everybody wants to have a degree, everybody wants those
Speaker 6: initials behind their name. But it takes commitment, even when
Speaker 6: you don't feel like going to school, even when there's
Speaker 6: other things that are pressing you.
Speaker 4: Don't want to study. It takes commitment. But it's those
Speaker 4: things in life.
Speaker 6: That we're truly committed to that bring us the freedom
Speaker 6: and the joy.
Speaker 4: You see, our son, Jonathan. Now he could have chose
Speaker 4: not to apply himself. He could have chose not to
Speaker 4: commit himself. See the truth is we were both exhausted.
Speaker 4: At first.
Speaker 6: He was tired of hearing me telling to practice, and
Speaker 6: I was tired of telling him to practice. But once
Speaker 6: he committed himself, once he saw the rewards of the commitment,
Speaker 6: the commitment became easier. The serving the commitment eventually began
Speaker 6: to serve him. And that's the way commitment is. Commitment
Speaker 6: feels like a restraint at first, the commitment will eventually
Speaker 6: it will serve your cause. See, I believe that God
Speaker 6: is waiting for us to take the step. He's not
Speaker 6: going to take the step for us. You know, now
Speaker 6: my son can play the guitar. Now he can sing
Speaker 6: with his guitar. Now he can enjoy what the commitment produced.
Speaker 6: Where it may have looked like I was stealing his
Speaker 6: freedom as a mother, he now gets to walk in.
Speaker 4: A greater freedom.
Speaker 6: He gets to experience something he would not have experienced
Speaker 6: if he would not have committed to that. See, I'm
Speaker 6: using this as example because there are many of you
Speaker 6: right now that are on the threshold of a new freedom.
Speaker 4: But you've got to make a commitment.
Speaker 6: You can't put one foot in and one foot out.
Speaker 6: You got to go all in because that's what commitment takes.
Speaker 4: Commitment's going to cost you something. It's not free. It'll
Speaker 4: bring a greater freedom, but it is an investment that
Speaker 4: will pay off in the end.
Speaker 6: If you want people to look at your word and
Speaker 6: believe you and take you at your word and know
Speaker 6: your word is bond, then you have to keep the
Speaker 6: commitments that you speak about. You can't say something and
Speaker 6: then decide you're not going to do it.
Speaker 4: Listen, don't say anything at all, because you know what.
Speaker 6: You can only be committed, truly committed to so many things.
Speaker 6: You can't be committed to everyone. You can't be committed
Speaker 6: to everything. But the things that you decide are important
Speaker 6: in your life. And you're gonna make a commitment, you
Speaker 6: need to go all in with that commitment.
Speaker 4: You need to give it to God, you need to
Speaker 4: recommit it daily. You need to think about the benefits.
Speaker 6: Of your commitment because see, that's what's gonna give you
Speaker 6: the power to continue. See, Jesus came to forgive us
Speaker 6: of our sins, but he also came to empower us
Speaker 6: with his power to keep our commitments, to keep our
Speaker 6: bond to keep strong families. Listen, if you want good relationships,
Speaker 6: you're gonna have to be good to people when they're
Speaker 6: not being good to you. You're gonna have to learn
Speaker 6: to overlooking events. You're gonna have to release bitterness. That's
Speaker 6: gonna take commitment, that's gonna take restraint. But on the
Speaker 6: other side of that costly commitment is an amazing blessing.
Speaker 6: You're gonna get to enjoy relationships, enjoy things that you
Speaker 6: would not have enjoyed before. I was talking to a
Speaker 6: gentleman the other day, and he loves his wife.
Speaker 4: He said, but truly, there are some things that really
Speaker 4: she's not that lovable.
Speaker 6: I love so many things about her, but there are
Speaker 6: those moments, he says, But you know what, I love
Speaker 6: her anyway. And I looked at him and I said,
Speaker 6: that's right. You made a commitment to love her. And
Speaker 6: that's why you're celebrating your twenty fifth anniversary today. Because
Speaker 6: we look at those hard things instead of the good things.
Speaker 6: He decided to look at the good things about her,
Speaker 6: the things he loved about her, not a few of
Speaker 6: those things that were difficult arrangement to us today is
Speaker 6: commit to the Lord, commit those important things to him,
Speaker 6: Renew that commitment on a daily basis. Put actions behind
Speaker 6: that commitment so that God can release his power in
Speaker 6: your life. And I believe there's freedoms that you're going
Speaker 6: to experience that non committed people will never experience.
Speaker 4: Amen.
Speaker 6: Amen, He's an awesome God.
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