SEP 10 2017

Sea Change Church · Adam Stadtmiller · September 10, 2017
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I'm Pastor Jim. It's always a privilege to read God's Word and I want to offer a very simple 30-second note before we do this. Our brother-in-law, my brother-in-law Jerry, his wife Wendy, Pensacola, Florida, went through Hurricane Katrina. They had three feet of water in their house back then. That was hard times. And as we shared together in the Lord, the sense was, Lord, let hard times bear their proper fruit.

Let them grow us to be better people. Let us have a biblical contentment. So I want to face east and salute my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. They have 10 house guests in their home right now up from southern Florida. Blessed be the name of the Lord. The biblical root for that, of course, in the book of Job. And we turn there this morning. Job, in the midst of hard times, calls out and says, Keep silent. Let me speak.

Then let come to me what may. Why do I put myself in jeopardy and take my life in my hands? Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him. I will surely defend my ways to his face. Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance. For no godless person would dare come before him. So listen carefully to what I say. Let my words ring in your ears. Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.

Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die. Lord, help us in the midst of wondrous times, but also perilous and hard times. Help us to find ourselves, our identity as children of yours. And as Pastor Adam opens the word here, let us find a word for us. Applied by your grace to our lives. We ask in your holy name. Amen. Thank you, Jim.

What a great group of people we have here at this church that are volunteering. And just as each person gets up, the story and who they are is just... I love coming to church here. I just love it. If I wasn't the pastor here, I'd still go here. I just want you to know that. So I never wanted to be at a church I didn't want to go to myself, you know?

There's a lot of pastors out there that come to church every week. I don't know. I'm going to do that again. I've been terrified my whole life of the book of Job. Terrifies me. I don't like reading it. I haven't liked, excuse me. Have not liked reading it because, I don't know if you, it's like you have these, I think, lies from the pit that say, if you pray for patience, watch out.

God's really going to get you. I'm not sure God... I've been waiting for you to pray that. I've just been waiting. Watch what's coming. And I don't think God works that way. I think it is his kindness that leads us to repentance. And I've had to tear down all the old barn wood and go hipster on the scripture and recondition it and put it back up into my little restaurant because that's what we all do right now, right?

Take the old barn wood. We reek. It's now, it's cool to take older things and make them new. I've had to do that with my faith. I've had to take some incredible wood that was given to me by men of the faith, women of the faith, deep theology and life and practical life. And some of it I've had to tear down as the experiences of my life have somewhat given me a different understanding of perhaps what those scriptures mean.

And so I've torn down that old barn wood. And one of the things I've had to tear down is a fearfulness of certain scriptures, a fearfulness of perhaps God himself that God is just out there to get me. He's vindictive. He's paternal in a bad way. And so the book of Job has been one of these books that has kind of terrified me. And whenever I've been on a reading plan and I've gotten to Job, it's like I have this sense of like, oh, you're going to have a bad few months right now or something's coming down the pike.

I don't know if anybody else has that. What is interesting is as God's love has begun to invade my life, as it's begun to teach me how to drown in his love and to know that I'm his beloved, that all of a sudden a fear of a paternal God that walks around with a splintered ruler waiting to give me another wrap on the wrist or on the hands has been replaced by an incredibly loving father.

And has actually begun to reframe this entire faith that I've had. And I found that the wood that I had was good. It was good wood. It was taken from some of the deepest forests of God's consolation and given to me. But it needed to be reconditioned. And so now I look at the book of Job and I have to say that Job is not really a book about suffering, in my opinion.

The book of Job is a book about who God is and God's patience and God's majesty. There is so much wisdom in the book of Job. It has become one of my favorite books. And I know I say that all the time. Like, that's one of my favorite books. Pretty soon, you know, there's 66 of them. Granted, it's not just one book. But I love this book. I absolutely love the Word of God.

It has been such a comfort to me. Next week, Brian Harden, friend of mine, is coming. He reads the Bible every day. It's his 13th year of reading the Bible every day online. He has hundreds of thousands of people that listen to it every day. He loves the Word of God. He's going to be here. It's the largest online Bible reading community in the world.

He will be here at our little church on the corner. Don't miss it. He'll be talking about God's Word. But in this book, in the book of Job, is a book, is a verse that I have found to be core to the corpus of the verses that have created a personal theology. Now, I don't have a personal theology that is separate from the one that was laid down through the tradition of the faith.

But we all have verses that mean something to us. One is, I have not left you to be orphans, is perhaps one of my favorite verses in the scripture, that I am not an orphan. I have a loving God. God's not just a lifeguard. He's a father that comes to rescue me. But in the book of Job is a verse that I think the next generation needs to know. And it's in this scripture, in chapter 13.

And if you look into your scripture again, it's verse 15, and it was from the song we just sung. Job gets to the end, not to the end of all things. He's about halfway through now. But he makes a statement that is so profound, so in the shadow lands of faith, that you cannot understand until you get to that place where you feel that God is about to slay me.

Everything is against me. And he understood that God was in charge of all things. And he makes this statement. He says, though he slay me, yet will I hope in him. Satan makes a really interesting statement earlier in the scripture. He says, you know, you've done this to Job, but skin for skin. And that's just, it's a gross term. I don't know why it's gross, but it is.

And he says, skin for skin. You touch Job's skin, and then he will curse you. Then you'll see God. And God says, okay. He says, have you considered my servant Job? You see, Job had a deep filling that was a reservoir of eternity that when he, when push came to shove in his life, he could reach in and resource the proper contents and material so that when worse came to worse, and it was skin for skin, he could say this.

Though he slay me. Though God take out his sword and crush me. Though God kill me. Though God take away and end my days. Yet I will hope in him. I gotta tell you, if you've got 20 scriptures, and hopefully you have a group of scriptures that are, that you really say, hey, this is, these, these are not only bedrock of the Christian faith. It's not just some little thing you've picked out and proof texted for your own life.

But these are bedrock scriptures. And I want to build my life on them. This is core foundational material. That I don't have to have all the accoutrements to have contentment in life. And so last week, in the first week of the contentment series, which we'll be continuing on in three weeks, we're going to take a break with Brian Hardin. And then we're going to have Pastor Harry, we're going to have Youth Sunday is going to preach in two weeks.

He is a phenomenal young preacher. Come hear him and support our Youth Sunday. Then we'll be back and we'll look at Paul talking about contentment. But we're now have gone from the most blessed man of all time, according to some of the scholars and things that I studied and brought to the table last week. We have perhaps the world's only true trillionaire in Solomon.

Solomon had no lack of relationships with 700 wives of royal birth, 300 concubines. He had ships that would bring him cool things like baboons from Africa and peacocks, anything he wanted. There was no limit. He could have whatever he wanted, when he wanted it, if he saw a woman in Israel, if he saw a piece of land he wanted, whatever he wanted, he could have.

But his magnum opus, as I said last week, was a book about being discontented. And we talked about how do we become content when we have everything and how come a man who had everything, perhaps the most successful, blessed, and the wisest man that ever lived and will ever live, looked and said, it's all meaningless. Four meaninglessness, as you remember.

It was meaningless, meaningless, meaningless, meaningless. Now, if you use quadruple meaningless, you've got a heck of a lot of meaningless going on. We come to Job. And Job was a man who was not happy with his situation. And I would say that he didn't look at them and look at, you know, I'm very happy and filled with all the bad things that are happening.

But the contents of his life allowed him to at least have a contentment to believe in the end of all things that God was in charge. And that allowed him to accept his circumstances. That brings a rich contentment. Contentment is what you are filled with. And we'll look at that in a second. Now, if you go to your notes, in your notes, you're going to see, and I want us to understand contentment.

Now, through the eyes of probably the icon of suffering of all time, of literary suffering. If you look in scriptures, if there was a person and you name the top four people that have suffered or five people that have ever suffered on this earth, Job might top the list. It would be hard to find a rival. But yet, in the end of all things, he was content.

Not happy with his circumstances, but content saying, I can rest knowing that God is in charge. And I just, the one thing he wanted was an audience with God. And he got that. And I have to say that the last three chapters of Job are some of the most provocative in scripture. Where God says, you want me to talk? You want to talk to me? Let's do this thing.

And God, all of a sudden, just does a free verse and starts basically rapping to Job. And start bringing it and talking to Elihu and all these others that had spoken for God. And he says, where were you when I did this and laid the foundations of the earth? And where were you? And pretty soon, Job was like, oh, okay, I get it. I get it. Provocative.

Provocative. But they mean so much more when you read the entirety of the book. And not so worried about, this is about suffering. But this is a revelation of who God is. The book of Job is a revelation. And God has come to reveal himself. So, I challenge you to do a little anti-Netflix binge listening to the Bible or binge reading. And get through the entire book of Job this week.

Just, you know, look. You can watch 27 episodes of whatever you're watching. We can do that. Try that and see how God fills you. Let's look at contentment quickly. First of all, contentment is a verb. It is a thing. It is a happening. It is something that is active. It is not something that just sits. It is a contentment is a verb. And contentment, as we'll see, is not inherent to anyone.

No one is born with contentment. No one is born with the gift of contentment. It says contentment is something that must be developed. That's because it's a verb. It needs to be developed. And let me assert to you that you are either developing contentment in your life right now. Or you are living a life that is developing discontentment. It does not stay stagnant.

It is active. It is a verb. It is active. And so you are doing the things that will lead you towards contentment. Or you are doing things that will lead you towards discontentment. Now here's how you know which direction you're going in. Are you content? Now you know. Okay? I answered it for you. My job is to help us discern the scriptures and sift them.

Like looking for gold up in Big Bear back during the gold rush. And find those nuggets that will lead you perhaps in the opposite direction. That even though things aren't going perhaps the way you want. Or maybe things are. And that will be, once again, a provocative third part of this series. This is when Paul says, you know, I have learned in plenty.

And in want to be content in all situations. And I've always asked the question, why do you need to be content in plenty, Paul? Everyone's content in plenty. As we saw last week, we are not. And so what we see is contentment means this. If you look at contentment, if you break the word down, it means contents. Have you ever thought about that? Contentment has to do with contents.

Now I don't know if you've gone to a wedding lately. But if you have, you will likely see one of these. Okay? This is a mason jar if you're listening online. If I see one more mason. Now I do weddings. I do go to a lot more weddings than any of you. If I see one more mason jar at a wedding, I don't know what I'm going to do. We go down to Scripps.

We take a walk on the beach. And these are very hip and in vogue. And there's probably no other thing. I mean, I think we've exhausted what we can do with mason jars. Okay? Maybe we should just start plumbing things again. You know what I mean? Like start, you know, canning things again. Let's use them for what they're worth. But nonetheless, that is my little diatribe on how sick I am of mason jars.

Nonetheless, very hipster, very cool. No shade on the hipsters, by the way. I love your beards. I love them. I love them. Get some flea and tick while you're at it. Sorry. Don't say that. The thing is, if you look at a jar like this, what it talks, what you look at it is, there's one thing that it can do. It can be filled. Contentment comes from something that fills that does not evaporate.

Now, you can fill this jar with something that will not evaporate. You can fill it with rock. You can fill it with earth. You can fill it with clay. You can fill it with all types of things. But if you fill it with certain things, like perhaps alcohol or water or other things, eventually, even though it is full, it is in the midst of evaporating.

On the scale of contentment and discontentment, it'll look full. It'll feel full. You can even get that little bubble on the top as you try to, you know, you fill it. You ever make your coffee and you've got that little bubble and you've got to kind of sip. And it'll look like almost ready to overflow. But in the midst of all that, it is becoming empty.

This is how it is with contentment. And with Job, the key that we're going to see is that the reason Job was able to be content with his final answer was that he had made a life of filling himself with the right things. Things that were imperishable. Things that would last. Things that would stand. And so, as we saw with Solomon last week, he filled himself with relationships.

But yet, those relationships were not built upon the eternal. And so, they didn't seem to fulfill him. He filled himself with houses. He filled himself with land. He filled himself with gold. A billion dollars a year in gold revenue. And all of it, even though it was full, and people would look at him and say, What a life! Was draining and evaporating as in every moment it was there.

Contentment means to be full and deals with one's contents. What one fills themselves with will greatly determine their level of contentment. So, what are you filling your life with? What are the things that you are filling your life with? I want to say TV ratings, especially the housewives of wherever they're from, of Yuma. How come we never see the housewives of Yuma?

I want to know that. We don't see that. Usually, you find the most discontented people, and those are the people that drive ratings. You will rarely see people on reality TV that are super content. Because it ends up not having the same acidic content that you find with people that are always striving. And so, are the things that you're filling yourself with, do they bring you a peace?

Do they bring you an inner contentment? And Job had made a life of filling himself. And there's two things I want to pull out of the scripture. The first is righteousness. Righteousness has the ability to fill you. Job had filled himself with righteousness. And when Satan comes from prowling, walking around on the earth, and I love that, God says, where have you been?

I've just been walking around on the earth, just roaming around, looking for something to do. Because he can only be in one place at one time. He's not like God. He's limited. He only has so many demons, so much power. We tend to give him, and we're going to be looking a little bit at that as we move towards October. I'm going to be doing a little series on heaven and hell.

Just a couple weeks on that. But he's limited. And God says, have you considered, thanks a lot, God. Have you considered my servant, Job? There's no one as righteous as him. He was filled with righteousness. Righteousness. You fill, I'm going to go ahead in the notes a little bit, but you fill yourself with righteousness by making righteous decisions and doing righteous acts.

That will actually fill the contents of your soul, your emotions, and your mind. We'll see that in just a moment. Job's key. Contentment is a result of filling yourself with the right things. And purging those things that promise to fill, but in the end, only drain. The word of God speaks often about infilling, and shows that what one fills themselves with will eventually overflow.

Let's look at two verses from the New Testament. Romans 15, 13. May the God of hope do what? What's the word there? Fill, fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him. So there is a connection between trust, joy, and peace. And we see that Job said, even though you slay me, I will what? Trust in you. And so we see that there was a filling. He was filled with trust.

And trust is that thing that allows you to have a peace of mind, a peace of soul, and will lead you towards greater contentment. So that you may what? It says you will be filled so that you may what? Overflow. God's stuff, because it is eternal, does not evaporate. He says fill it, and then all of a sudden it will overflow. He didn't say overflow, fill yourself to overflowing.

No, he says just make it full, and then let me go to the business of overflowing what you have. If you fill yourself with the things of God, you will see that they have a kinetic energy to move forward, to grow, because God is always moving forward, always growing, because he is eternal. Here it says, with hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So it is the power of God. All of a sudden, you are changing the motor of your life to fill yourself with the things of God, and then the power of the Holy Spirit takes over and begins to energize your life. I want to say fill yourself. Figure out what are those things. Fill yourself with worship. Fill yourself with prayer. Fill yourself with silence.

They say silence is emptying yourself. I do not believe that silence is emptying yourself. Silence is quieting yourself so that it might be replaced with the peaceful, calm presence of God. There is no empty space. There are no voids with God. God fills every place. And so there's a lot of spiritual paths that say empty yourself, empty yourself, empty yourself.

We don't empty ourselves in as much as we provide room for the Holy Spirit to fill ourselves. Find quietness. Quietness, although there will be a lot of activity at first, if you can settle down and allow God to move into that and change it with the Word of God, these eternal things will fill you. Luke 6, 45. A good man brings good things out of the good that is what?

Stored up in his heart. What are you storing up? Now, Job had a storehouse that he had built. Your heart is a storehouse. What are you filling it with? Are you filling it with Scripture? Are you filling it with hope? Are you filling it with good counsel? All of us go every single day to some wood pile. And we have the fire of our life, the fire of our heart.

And we grab wood. And there's one pile that are the things of God. And often it sits there unused. And there's another pile that says distraction. Or whatever these things are that we lean to that think will bring us contentment. And we take that wood and it burns so quickly. Every day we can harvest from somewhere. And so once again, only you know the answer to this question.

What are you filling yourself with? And are you using the things of God? Because they will ultimately settle your soul. They might encourage you to move out and to do things in the passion of God. But it will be a different type of discontentment. It would be a godly discontentment that says, I want to bring righteousness to this situation. Not, I am so needing of a relationship to soothe my soul.

I am so needing of the next house to purchase. That I'm going to run out. That kind of discontentment. Rather, it will be a discontentment that is fueled by the passionate hunger of God. And then it says, here's this overflowing again that we see. Whatever you fill yourself with will overflow. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. You spend enough time with people, you'll know what they are like.

Because eventually, even the quietest person will speak and their mouth will overflow. Fill yourself with the goodness of God. Fill yourself with grace. If we spend our lives tuning in to what is on TV or what is in the media these days or whatever it is, that is eventually going to fill your heart and overflow. And I've got to say, if you notice yourself being more angry at what's happening in society, and you notice yourself, these emotions are coming out that don't reflect the heart of God.

Remember John 3, 16 says what? For God so what? Loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him will not perish but have what? Everlasting life. You will know when the contents of your heart has changed, when you see something on the news or in society that in the past triggered you to anger, hate, whatever it would be, judgment, when those things no longer trigger you, but all of a sudden it is replaced with God, you need to save these people.

God, my heart breaks for these people. My heart yearns for these people. God, change my, oh, change them, God. Oh, God. They are walking with me. They don't know what they do. Like Jesus on the cross. What was his response? He says, Father, what? Forgive them for they know not what they do. I just want to tell you right now that if your regular response is a discontentment of what's going on in the world and what's going on in the nation and it is accompanied by an anger, by a discontent, by a rage, then I want to say it's very possible that you were on the wrong channel.

That there's another channel of God that says, God, oh, God, save this world. Do we have that heart? And I got to say, I have to fight for that channel. It is so easy to sit on the couch of judgment, discontent, and rage and just keep clicking the channel and feeding into that and feeling a self-righteousness. And it is very hard and it takes an active conditioning of the soul to switch that over and say, God, what's your heart for this people group?

What's your heart for this person who I'm so angry at or this leader or whatever it is? To change that over, it takes activity. I just got to say, you're going to know what your heart's filled with by what comes out in your emotions when you see these things. We want to be like Jesus. I personally want to change my heart to that. I have a heart that is soft, that is full, that exudes righteousness, that I can look at these things.

And the only discontent I have is that they don't know Jesus. That's the right discontentment. Eternal hope will never be fulfilled by temporal things. You'll see in your notes, he's made everything beautiful in his time. He's also set eternity in human hearts. Yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. And I thought this was key to repeat that I said last week.

Why are we discontent? Why will the things of the world never bring us contentment? Because we're built for eternity. We're not built to be temporal people. And so if you are going to have contentment, you are going to have to change the source of your infilling. What are you using to infill? Three things and then we'll be, two things and we'll be out quick.

Number one, Job filled himself with righteousness. Job 1.8. Then the Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job? There's no one like him on the earth. He is blameless. He's upright. A man who fears God and shuns evil. Job 29.14. Job says this, I put on righteousness and it clothed me. My justice was like a robe and a turban. Now I like that verse because I think turbans are cool and no one wears turbans anymore.

But obviously Job did. He wore righteousness. He was clothed. What does the New Testament say about righteousness? We will be what? Clothed in righteousness. Because of our shame. We were naked before God. Because there was no sin. They were naked before God and had no shame. But because of shame, they had to be clothed. And God used animal skins to clothe them.

But in heaven, we will be clothed with what? Righteousness. What you clothe yourself with in righteousness will fill you. And we see the fruit of righteousness will fill you. Now look at this verse, how this ties in to what we just read in Job. Philippians 1.10 and 11. And this is my prayer. That your love may abound. There you go again. That's the exponential growth.

Abounding. Overflowing. Letting God be the motor of your life. More and more in knowledge and profound insight. And that just doesn't come, by the way. You have to harvest that. You have to sit with God and say, God, what is your take on this situation? What are you doing here? So that you can discern what's best. And that you may be pure and blameless on the day of Christ.

Filled. There's that word again. With what? The fruit of righteousness. That comes through Jesus Christ. Through the glory and praise of God. Let me break that down in a little formula for you. My daughter's doing algebra. And she's in fifth grade. And we are reaching about the limit of my ability to help her in math anymore. I don't know if you else have experienced that there.

But I'm sitting there and I'm pretending like I know what I'm doing. And I have to call my 15-year-old to do it. If you want to put this into an equation, it says this. It says that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ. Filled with the fruit of what? Righteousness. So if you clothe yourself with righteousness, which means making righteous decisions.

Doing righteous things. It will fill you. You put it on and it will become an infilling. Now I just said that Job had an infilling, a contentment, because of what he was harvesting that he had filled himself with in his soul. Doing righteous things will fill you. It will bring a sense of contentment. Because you're doing it for the right reasons.

And that righteousness comes through Jesus Christ. To the glory and the praise of God. Your acts before God are key. And deciding how I'm going to live righteously in my neighborhood. This is a congregationally driven church. Church. One of the things we're trying to do is to equip you to go change your corner and change your world. And one of the things in the fall we're going to be focusing on is how do you pastor, how are you pastoring the church that God has given you called your life?

That you have a place, the coffee houses you go, the dry cleaner you go to. We have about seven places we go to on a regular basis. There's probably seven to ten places and you will pretty much spend most of your life, at least in this season, in those places. How has God called you to live there and to pastor that area? And to move into that? How to use acts of righteousness?

So as a congregational church, what we're trying to do is release you to change San Diego and to change the world. We saw that Johanna did that. We didn't have to do an all church plea to go, you know, we're taking the whole church on a missions team to go to, you know, Hurricane Harvey. What we did was we said, hey, take a moment. See where God is calling you.

And then all of a sudden we start hearing the reports back from the congregation. A congregationally driven church where God tells each of you to go and we listen and you go out and change the world. And we try to fuel you with a place of peace, a place of rest where you can come here from God. Circling the tower, coming in for a landing now. Job exhorts his righteousness.

And this is, this kind of throws me off a little bit. Because he says, I've prepared my case. I know I will be vindicated. Can anyone bring charges against me? Now this is before Jesus died on the cross. And I thought, how can I relate to Job? I know that it wouldn't take much to bring charges before me. Thank God they didn't have Facebook when I was in high school.

Anybody else think that? Anybody else my age think that? Thank God there was no social media. I was like 30 by the time, 25 by the time social media came around. Thank you. There's no record of high school. It would be easy to bring charges against me. Job said that you couldn't. And I don't understand how that could be. But he says it. But what I know is no one can bring a charge against us to the throne of God if you were in the grace of Christ.

Because now if you look at Romans 8, 33. It says, who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Do you know before God right now, there is no charge that can be brought against you if you are under the blood of Christ. Yes, we still sin. But we are already forgiven for the sins that we have committed in the past. And you're also forgiven for the ones you'll commit in the future.

Christ died for all sin. This is an interesting point. It doesn't mean that we can't sin. Or that we can't walk in sin. But if Satan goes and says, look at that sin that that believer just did. God will say and look at Christ's record and say, I see them as blameless. Now we still need to confess our sins. And to receive forgiveness. And I have often said this theologically.

I challenge you to, you can challenge me on this. That I don't believe we need to ask forgiveness. We have to receive the forgiveness that has already been paid for. Christ has already paid for your sin. And so we receive the forgiveness. But I no longer have to say, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me. Because he has already forgiven us. But it says we need to receive the forgiveness.

I hope that makes sense. Because he not only died for the sins of the past. He died for eternity. And this scripture says, who can bring a charge against the elect? But, now it doesn't mean that we don't make mistakes. It doesn't mean that we can't be rebuked. It doesn't mean that we don't have conviction. But in the court of heaven, that we can stand before God and that you are righteous.

And the reason I tell you this, is that if you have a bunch of guilt that you've been holding on to. Or you have a bunch of shame, it's time to let that go. Guilt and shame belong in hell with the enemy. And that before God, he has made you righteous. And you are his beloved. And so we can make that statement. And you actually have the ability now to walk in righteousness.

Even though you're not going to be perfect. Even though you will sin. We still can walk in righteousness. Because we're not walking in our righteousness. It's not about me. It's about Christ's righteousness. So why am I holy and spotless before God? Because of the blood of Jesus. You see, it has nothing to do with us. It has nothing to do with me. But it is leaning on the bedrock of the foundation of Christ.

And I encourage you to look into that. And continue to look at Christ's righteousness. And forgiveness of sins. And so who can bring a charge against the elect? Final thing is this. Is that Job filled himself with trust and hope. Trust and faith is a spiritual weapon. That fills and slays discontentment. Let me just... If you have a Twitter account.

Highly encourage you to put this up there. Trust. Trust. Trust. Faith. Our spiritual weapons. Trust and faith. God, I don't know what's happening in this situation. I believe you're going to take care of it. That is the theme of Job's life. I don't know what's happening. I don't know why this is happening. This shouldn't happen. I've had a great life. I've followed God.

I trust Him. It is a spiritual weapon. That will slay discontentment. God, I want this thing. Why haven't I had this? Why hasn't this happened in my life? I trust you. And I'm okay with where I am. Because I trust you. It is a spiritual weapon. And the weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of this world. You know, a lot of times we use the weapons of this world, a trip to wherever, to soothe our discontentment.

We soothe our discontentment with the weapons of this world rather than leaning on the things that will actually fill you. Trust will fill you. Faith. We are saved. Matter of fact, trust and faith has the ability to give you eternal life. Because it says that if you have trust in God and what Jesus did on the cross and faith, that you will be filled with righteousness and it will actually release you into eternal life.

And it slays discontentment. So where are you discontent? Where is that thing that you want? You will pretty much know the thing that you want because you'll search for it on the internet. So, you know, I don't know about you, but the thing that you are looking to fill you, if you look at your browser history, for the most part, look at your browser history.

Mine is cottages in England. Okay? I spend a lot of time. Some people are looking for waves. I don't know. You know, whatever it is, look at your browser history and it will tell you what you're probably trying to fulfill yourself with. Usually it's between 8 and 9.30 at night on the couch before I go to bed. I sit there and in that hour and a half, I look at all the things I think will fulfill me.

My wife sits there and does her crocheting or whatever she does. And we have something on the TV and I'm multitasking and I am somewhere in Cornwall figuring out how can I make that happen. Now, there is no way that's probably going to happen. But I'm always looking for that next thing. Or maybe I'll do this or maybe I'll do that. And you just get some idea, you know.

Maybe you're a cook and you're thinking that restaurant and you're looking at that, you know, restaurants for sale or whatever. You're looking for that thing of contentment. I want to say you want to fill yourself with the things that are eternal. Faith and saying, God, where I am today is okay. God, if you're with me, where I am is okay. And I'm content.

I want to encourage you as we end. You see those scriptures there? I'm going to finish here. To see if you can live 24 hours this week with contentment and saying no to letting your wants consume your mind. Just one day of saying, God, you and where I am right now is enough. Job was a man who was in an incredibly difficult spot. But had the ability to fill the contents of his life.

Because the contents can determine the contentment. And so what you fill yourself with will determine your contentment. Whether eternal or something that evaporates. Amen? Amen?