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Welcome back. Day three. In John, chapter two, verse five, says this and his mother, that's the mother of Jesus, said to the servants do whatever he tells you. I think this is the best advice in the entire Bible. That John, chapter two, verse five, is the singular best advice in the whole Bible. If you are a believer or a follower of Jesus, then here's what it means to be a disciple Just do whatever he tells you to do. Now, if you'll do this, I'm telling you you will always do the right thing. Maybe not the easiest thing, maybe not the cheapest thing, but you will always do the right thing. Do whatever he tells you to do.

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Well, a legitimate follow-up question is going to be this Well, how do I know what he is telling me to do? Well, my friend Adam Flint, who's one of the pastors here at 1122,. He created an acronym that spells out gospel, to help us understand the will of God in our life. And so the G stands for gospel, the thing that you think God is calling you to do. How does that align with the advancement of the gospel? Because God is never going to ask you to do something that is out of line with the advancement of the gospel, the O is others. Sometimes the way God tells us what to do in this case, Mary looks at the servants who she has gathered around and that Jesus is going to speak out loud and the servants are going to hear him very clearly and directly. Well, how in the world do we hear the voice of God? Well, sometimes you hear it through the voice of other people, like maybe through sermons or maybe through some of your foxhole guys. So if you've prayed and you think that there's a thing that God is calling you to do, then one of the things I would highly encourage you to do is lay that before some other people that you trust maybe elders at your church, pastors at your church or some of your mat carriers and foxhole guys and see what they think. Do they confirm what God is calling you to do? So that's G gospel O, others.

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The S is scripture. The primary way you're going to hear the commands of God, for him to tell you to do something, is through the Bible itself, and God is never going to tell you to do something specifically. That contradicts what he has told us to do generally. So sometimes I've heard guys come up to me and be like yep, God told me to divorce my wife because he wants me to be happy. I don't know who you're listening to. That's the voice of a demon. That is not the voice of God, because the Bible says that God hates divorce and God does not want you to get divorced so that you can be happy. That is not how that works whatsoever. There are some legitimate ways that you can be out of that covenant, but God's not telling you that your happiness is one of those.

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So, whatever it is that you think God is telling you, make sure it aligns with Scripture, because all Scripture is God-breathed and revealed by God and it is useful, and God is not a liar. He's not going to tell you to do one thing personally and tell us something different in Scripture. Also, as you are figuring out what Jesus is telling you to do, there are some commands that are common to all of us in the scriptures, like go and make disciples, like forgive, like tithe, like love, do these things. So the G is gospel, the O is others, the S is scripture, the P is prayer. We've already talked about it this week.

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If you don't know what God's plan for your life is, then you need to pray and say God, I know, generally speaking, the great commandment to love you and love others and the great commission to therefore go and make disciples is your plan for me. But, God, specifically, what are you calling me to do now? If you have a decision before you, I would encourage you to pray, guess and go To consider bringing this before the Lord and bathe it in prayer. And then sometimes you just got to guess and you got to go and trust God, with the consequences. So how do you know what he's telling you to do? G gospel, O, others S scripture, P, prayer, E. Sometimes it's your experience.

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Part of the way I know that God is calling me to continue to preach is because of my previous experience preaching the pastor whose church I was attending when I felt called into ministry. I went up to him and said I think I'm being called into full-time ministry. What should I do? And he said I want you to intern at our church because God will always confirm what he calls. And so the way that we know what he's telling us to do is through the gospel, through others, through scripture, through prayer, through our experience.

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And the last one is this the L is for love when Paul tells men to stand firm and act like men. Then he says let everything you do be done in love. And so, whatever it is that Jesus tells you to do, it is going to be in alignment with the gospel, supported and surrounded by others that love and hear jesus. It's going to align with the scripture. Be bathed in prayer. It'll be proved out by your experience and let it be driven by love. Now, men, may you do whatever it is that he tells you to do, amen.

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