0:00:00 - 0:00:30 Let's talk a little about speed and intensity of reaction. There's a set of information that you have to come to understand and live in order for the end times to be a blessing to you. You don't yet know or live that information, your choices determine how much Jesus can teach you and how soon he can 0:00:30 - 0:00:57 do that. Uh He said on many occasions, things like I have many things to say to you now, but you're not prepared to hear them. And that's as true today as it was at any other time, if not more. So he reveals these things, all things in response to your heed and your diligence. And so if you find yourself 0:00:56 - 0:01:27 without this or anything you'd like from him, you only have yourself to blame because you are the rate limiting factor. You don't need to endlessly wonder why it is that you receive from God so little or so infrequently. The reason is simple. You take far too long to make the change after you discover 0:01:26 - 0:02:05 an opportunity for improvement. That's it. If heat and diligence is the measurement that dictates the flow of these things, the speed and intensity of your response to invitations for improvement is the, the substrate of that test. It's the track upon which you run if the prize is what he gives. So I 0:02:05 - 0:02:31 wanna give you an example of this because you might balk at my assertion that um this is why you receive so little or so infrequently if you are still going to church after the things that you've been taught about this and the, the evidences you've received through your own experience, or you're just 0:02:31 - 0:03:07 now beginning to contend with all of those reasons. Those evidences this problem, the fact is that these things have been blatantly obvious for a very long time, years, at least at least a decade. Conclusively, if you find yourself in this situation, conclusively, you are running far too slowly. If you 0:03:07 - 0:03:41 require 10 or more years to make a change, that's blatantly obvious and more than sufficiently justified. I assure you you do not have eternal life and you will not have eternal life until or unless you vastly increase the pace at which you react to invitations for improvement, the speed and the intensity 0:03:40 - 0:04:11 . Otherwise, I promise you you will run out of time to do the things that can only be done in this life to receive that outcome in the life to come. You will absolutely die before that happens. You have to develop the ability and willingness to recognize, evaluate and act on punitive truth much faster 0:04:10 - 0:04:35 than you do right now, a note of caution here. This, this is not about outsized reactions. I'm not encouraging you to act beyond your reasons. Uh I don't think you should ever do that. I think there's a very strong case to be made that no one should ever do that. I'm simply encouraging you to do what 0:04:35 - 0:05:01 is reasonable because you're doing less than that much, less than that. Don't run faster than you have strength to run. Just run as fast as you can. We've talked about this before doing your best or running as fast as you can is certainly more than what you think it is and probably different than what 0:05:01 - 0:05:25 you think it is. But I assure you that you're running much slower than as fast as you can. If you don't have a regular pattern of improvement, you are not in the Lord's way. If I were to ask you, what was the last major change in your life that you've made? And you'd say, I don't know, or oh, years ago 0:05:24 - 0:05:52 , I, you are not in the Lord's way. He continuously invites us to make sweeping changes to our lives in the form of improvement. And those sweeping changes are punctuation points along a path that's full of more minor changes. The path of God is a path of constant change because we're drawing nearer 0:05:52 - 0:06:22 to him and his ways are much higher than our ways. He is much better than we are. There are three primary qualities of the Lord's way searching for what is better identifying and letting go of what is worse and recognizing and receiving what is better, which is not the same as looking for it. Do everything 0:00:00 - 0:00:30 Let's talk a little about speed and intensity of reaction. There's a set of information that you have to come to understand and live in order for the end times to be a blessing to you. You don't yet know or live that information, your choices determine how much Jesus can teach you and how soon he can 0:00:30 - 0:00:57 do that. Uh He said on many occasions, things like I have many things to say to you now, but you're not prepared to hear them. And that's as true today as it was at any other time, if not more. So he reveals these things, all things in response to your heed and your diligence. And so if you find yourself 0:00:56 - 0:01:27 without this or anything you'd like from him, you only have yourself to blame because you are the rate limiting factor. You don't need to endlessly wonder why it is that you receive from God so little or so infrequently. The reason is simple. You take far too long to make the change after you discover 0:01:26 - 0:02:05 an opportunity for improvement. That's it. If heat and diligence is the measurement that dictates the flow of these things, the speed and intensity of your response to invitations for improvement is the, the substrate of that test. It's the track upon which you run if the prize is what he gives. So I 0:02:05 - 0:02:31 wanna give you an example of this because you might balk at my assertion that um this is why you receive so little or so infrequently if you are still going to church after the things that you've been taught about this and the, the evidences you've received through your own experience, or you're just 0:02:31 - 0:03:07 now beginning to contend with all of those reasons. Those evidences this problem, the fact is that these things have been blatantly obvious for a very long time, years, at least at least a decade. Conclusively, if you find yourself in this situation, conclusively, you are running far too slowly. If you 0:03:07 - 0:03:41 require 10 or more years to make a change, that's blatantly obvious and more than sufficiently justified. I assure you you do not have eternal life and you will not have eternal life until or unless you vastly increase the pace at which you react to invitations for improvement, the speed and the intensity 0:03:40 - 0:04:11 . Otherwise, I promise you you will run out of time to do the things that can only be done in this life to receive that outcome in the life to come. You will absolutely die before that happens. You have to develop the ability and willingness to recognize, evaluate and act on punitive truth much faster 0:04:10 - 0:04:35 than you do right now, a note of caution here. This, this is not about outsized reactions. I'm not encouraging you to act beyond your reasons. Uh I don't think you should ever do that. I think there's a very strong case to be made that no one should ever do that. I'm simply encouraging you to do what 0:04:35 - 0:05:01 is reasonable because you're doing less than that much, less than that. Don't run faster than you have strength to run. Just run as fast as you can. We've talked about this before doing your best or running as fast as you can is certainly more than what you think it is and probably different than what 0:05:01 - 0:05:25 you think it is. But I assure you that you're running much slower than as fast as you can. If you don't have a regular pattern of improvement, you are not in the Lord's way. If I were to ask you, what was the last major change in your life that you've made? And you'd say, I don't know, or oh, years ago 0:05:24 - 0:05:52 , I, you are not in the Lord's way. He continuously invites us to make sweeping changes to our lives in the form of improvement. And those sweeping changes are punctuation points along a path that's full of more minor changes. The path of God is a path of constant change because we're drawing nearer 0:05:52 - 0:06:22 to him and his ways are much higher than our ways. He is much better than we are. There are three primary qualities of the Lord's way searching for what is better identifying and letting go of what is worse and recognizing and receiving what is better, which is not the same as looking for it. Do everything 0:06:21 - 0:06:39 you have sufficient reason to do, do nothing that doesn't provide sufficient reasons, regularly, inspect your life and remove what does not belong. Embrace what does?