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This message emphasizes that a life of true significance and impact is measured not by worldly achievements but by the manner, message, and motto of one's life, drawing inspiration from the Apostle Paul's example.
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Adrien Rogers was a motivator an
encourager and a leader of the faith he
was also passionate about presenting
scriptural application to Everyday Life
circumstances and you'll hear that in
today's message now let's join Adrien
Rogers now would you take your Bibles
and turn to Acts chapter 20 we're
continuing our Series in the book of
Acts entitled that oldtime
religion and so we're trying not
necessarily to modernize our church
actually we're trying to get our church
back to the first century because that
oldtime religion is also the new time
religion and that new time religion
therefore is the alltime religion and
that alltime religion ought to be the
anytime religion and the anytime
religion ought to be the every time
religion we want to find out really how
we to live and operate in these last
last days now we're going to read here
in Acts 20 beginning in verse
36 and the scene is a very poignant
scene the Apostle Paul is revisiting the
mission field and he comes to myus and
there he gathers with him the Ephesian
elders and he has a time walking with
him down memory lane they talk about the
good times that they had together how
God had blessed blessed and poured out his
his
blessings Paul rehearsed it all and then
here's what happened in verse 36 and
when he had thus spoken he kneeled down
and prayed with them all and they all
wept sore and fell on Paul's neck and
kissed him Sorrowing most of all for The
Words which he spake that they should
see his face no more and they
accompanied him to the ship now use your
imagination I mean dear friend they were
one in the bonds of Love they had been
through so many prayer meetings
Evangelistic Crusades together they'd
seen so many victories in Jesus their
hearts were so melted together and now
they're having a prayer meeting they're
all on their knees and God moves into
that prayer meeting and there's such a
sweet spirit and then as they get to
praying they realize this is the last
prayer meeting on Earth they'll ever
have with Paul the Apostle and they
began to weep and they're not just a few te
te
they are convulsing the Bible says they
wept sore and then they began to hug O
Paul's neck the Bible says they just
fell on his neck and they're weeping and
squeezing him and just hugging him
because they know never again on this
Earth will they see Paul and then they
walk down to the warf where the ship is
there and Paul gets on that ship and it
as it begins to sail they're just
standing there just boohoo and just just
weeping because Paul is leaving their
dear dear friend
and he's going to be sorely missed now
question for
you when you're gone are you going to be
missed I mean other than by your family
are you going to be
missed will it make any
difference by the way you are
going you are
going I mean you may move out of this
city but you're going either by Rapture
or you're going by death but we're all
going we're all going and the question
is when you go what difference will it
make is your life going to have any kind
of an
impact I heard of a man who had surgery
and he woke up in the recovery room and
all of the windows were covered with
curtains the blinds were drawn he called
the nurse he said nurse open the window
I want to see outside who closed the
lines anyway she said just calm down she
said I close them said there's a big
fire across the street and I didn't want
you to wake up and think the operation
success some of
us are going to wake up and find out
that our entire life was not a
success we wasted our
life we're going to go out into to
Eternity with a wasted life and by the
way when you go you're going to leave
behind you all that you
have and you're going to take with you
are and I wonder really what you will
take with you you know the world when
the world measures a man the world
measures a man by
brains or by
bucks how do you measure a man I mean
what really counts I I was on an
airplane I was reading an article about
the Guinness World Book of Records what
people do to make an impact on society
and I read about one man over in France
his name is Michael
latio you know what his claim to fame is eating
eating
glass and eating metal he grinds it up
and eats it mixes it in with his
sweeties or whatever he
eats and that's what he eats and since uh
true he ate a a a a supermarket
days he ate six
a Cessna light
airplane now can you imagine this fellow
reporting into
Jesus my son what did you do when you
were down there on
Earth Lord I ate an
what really
matters how do you measure a
life how do you measure a
man well if you will look back in this
20th chapter of the book of Acts you're
going to find three things about the
Apostle Paul that I think are the
measure of the man how do you measure a
man well first of all you measure him by
the manner of his life begin with with
me in verse
17 and from myus he sent to Ephesus and
called the Elders of the church and when
they were come to him he said unto them
ye know from the first day that I came
into Asia after what
Manner I have been with you in all
seasons serving the Lord with all
humility of
mind and with many tears and temptations
which befell me by the lying in weight
of the Jews now what was the manner of
his life well first of all his life was
a life of humility look in verse 19
serving the Lord with all
humility I thought about this as I
prepared this message and I'm prepared
to say and I believe it with all of my
heart that nobody has a life worth
living nobody has a life that can be
called a great life there is no true
greatness without truth true
humility without true humility serving
the lord he says with all humility and
what is humility humility is not putting
yourself down humility is not saying
that you are no good because that is not
true about you
friend as Chris said saying Jesus Paid
too great a price for you to say that
you're no good I'll tell you who you are
friend you're a child of God if you're
saved I'll tell you who you are you're a
prince and a king he hath made us a
kingdom of priest you're a holy
priest I'll tell you who you are if you're
you're
saved Jesus is not ashamed to call you
his brother so you're next Ain to the
Holy Trinity don't get the idea that
humility is not loving yourself for the
Bible says we're to love others as we
love ourselves and if you don't love you
I'm afraid of
you because you don't know how to love me
me
we're to love others as we love
ourselves what is humility it's not
degrading yourself it's not putting
yourself down let me tell you what
humility is humility is that honest
estimation of yourself that says about
you what God says about you and it
results primarily in serving notice in
that verse he says serving the Lord with
all humility look at the word serving
the word serving is the verb form of the
noun Doos which means
bondslave do you know what the mark of
humility is your
service serving
others a humble person is a person who
serves other people serving the Lord
with all humility when God measures a
man's life he does not measure the man's
life by how many servants the man has
but by how many men the man
serves serving the lord
with all
humility now folks there are a lot of
you whose life is going to amount to a
little more than a zero with the edges
trimmed off and I'll tell you why you've
never learned to
serve you come to church on Sunday
morning you sit sour and soak but you don't
don't
serve you need to find a place of
service in this church and in this
community and in your home and you need
to say Lord God make me a servant
Because unless you're a servant you're
not going to be truly missed when you're
gone now listen Not only was there a
life of humility but there was also a
Life Of Heartache because he says in
verse 19 serving the Lord with all
humility and tears the Apostle Paul had
a broken heart the Apostle Paul was a
compassionate man the Apostle Paul knew
how to weep he knew how to enter into
the sorrows and the hurts of other
people that's the way to be missed you
live for self and self alone and you try
to isolate yourself from the the cares
and the toils and the problems of this
world you're not going to be missed but
you show me a person who knows how to
sympathize a person who knows how to
empathize a person who has the
compassion of the Lord Jesus Christ in
his heart and in his life I want to ask
you a
question do the things that break the
Heart of Jesus Break Your
Heart do you know how to
weep when's the last time you shed a
tear over some soul that was mortgaged
to the devil now when you read about the
ministry of Paul you don't read about him
him
weeping the only way you know about it
is he told you here I believe most of
the time he wept in private I can say
for my own life I I shed far more tears
in my study than I do in my pull pit but
I'm telling you dear friend that Jesus
was a man of tears and Paul was a man of
tears and Jeremiah was a man of tears
and we ought to be people of Tears is
the Apostle Paul said I serve the Lord
with humility I serve the Lord with
heartache and then he said I serve the
Lord with hardships he speaks there in
verse 19 of the many trials uh that
befell me King James uses the word
Temptations but it literally means
trials it literally means that there
were people who disliked him there were
people who opposed him there were people
who literally bodily physically harmed
him because of the stand that he took
for the Lord Jesus Jesus Christ there is
no way no way that you can have a life
that will count and make an impression
on this world without making some
enemies no way and dear friend unless
you are willing for those three things
to be in your life humility heartache and
and
hardship you're not going to have the
kind of life that Paul
had and it's not going to be the kind of
a life that counts well you say I don't
want that kind of life well maybe you
don't maybe you just want to be all
wrapped up in your little self but I'm
going to tell you dear friend when
you're gone it's not going to make much
difference nobody in this world would
say that's the way to have a great life
I don't believe that the Hollywood muls
would say that's the way to have a great
life humility heartache and hardship
nobody wants that do they no they think
the great life is something else but
dear friend I want to tell you that is a
great life that is a that is the manner
of his life Paul said you know the
manner of my life that was the measure
of his life
life now let me say Not only was his
life measured by the manner of it but
also his life was measured by the
message of it because you
see not only do we live a certain way
but we say a certain thing that is we're
to leave behind us a message every one
of us will be known for something when we're
we're
gone they will think about us
you know what I want them to think about
when they think about
me the gospel of
Christ I want them to say that man's
life was
centered in the only message that really
matters now notice the Apostle Paul Paul
says in verse 20 he says and how I kept
back nothing that was profitable unto
you but have showed you and taught you
publicly and from house to house that is
in in every place testifying both to the
Jews and also to the Greeks every person
repentance toward God and Faith toward
our Lord Jesus Christ that was the
capsulatus toward God and Faith toward
our Lord Jesus Christ Paul was known
primarily as a gospel preacher it was a
narrow message he didn't stutter he
didn't stammer he didn't equivocate he
kept on preaching that message that was
the content of it I want you to notice
the conviction of it notice in verse 22
and now behold I go Bound in the spirit
unto Jerusalem not knowing the things
that shall befall me there except that
the holy ghost witnesseth that in every
witnesseth in every city saying that
bonds and afflictions abide me Paul says
I'm going back to Jerusalem the spirit
of God wants me to go I'm Bound in the
spirit that is I know it's God will for
me to go and I know when I get there I'm
going to heartache and trouble bonds and
afflictions abide me but now watch verse
24 look but none of these things move me
that is I don't get stampeded by any of
these things neither count I my life
dear unto myself so that I might finish
my course with joy and the ministry
which I have received of the Lord Jesus
Christ to testify the gospel of the
grace of God you want a life that
counts dear friend you're going to have
to have a message that has the right
content and the right
conviction Paul said I'm Bound in the
spirit he said none of these things move
me you're not going to stop
me Paul had a bulog grip on certain
things are you that way do you know
what's wrong with the average
Baptist he has opinions and not convictions
convictions
amen Paul had convictions he said I'm
Bound in the spirit I'm going to finish
my course with joy I will do it now he
said I know what I'm going to it
eventually led to his
death but Paul would rather die with a
conviction than live with a
compromise how about you most of us had
far rather live with a
compromise than to die with a conviction
but you can understand why Paul was the
man that he was and how this shames me
as I think of the content of his message
as I think of the conviction of his
message but then I think of the
confidence of his message Paul died
confidently notice notice what he says
here in verse 25 and now behold I know
that ye all among whom I have gone
preaching the kingdom of God shall see
my face no more wherefore I take you to
record this day that I am pure from the
blood of all men for I have not shun to
declare unto you all the counsel of God
praise God Paul was confident Paul said
you're not going to see me
anymore I'm going on to heaven but said
I'm going to tell you one thing I am
pure from the blood of all men what did
he mean by that I'm pure from the blood
of all men well you know Ezekiel said
that we're like Watchman upon a wall and
if we see the enemy coming and we do not
warn the people inside the city about
the enemy they're going to
die but their blood will be required at our
our
hands you see he's talking here about
Soul winning if we don't tell our
friends our neighbors our brothers our
sisters about the Lord Jesus Christ they
die and go to hell their blood's on our
hands let me illustrate suppose your
child got sick with a a nameless disease
that disease was gnawing await his life
and you knew that your child was going
to die Di and then suppose you met a
doctor and that doctor prescribed a
particular medicine for your child and
your child radically dramatically got
well and then suppose an epidemic of
that same disease broke out in your city
and you knew the name of that doctor and
you knew that that doctor could
prescribe the medicine that would save
the lives of those
children and you did nothing to tell
anyone and those children died would not
their blood be on your hands now friend
listen if we know the only message that
this world needs and we don't tell it to
me we are guilty of high treason against
Heaven's King and we're going to meet
the Lord with bloody hands the Apostle
Paul knew that before long he was going
to have to report to the Lord and he
said I am pure I am free from the blood
of all men I am not going to face my
Lord with bloody hands now listen folks
listen some of you some of us are going
to face the Lord with blood on our hands
Souls that that we should have witnessed
to that have died and gone to hell and
it's our fault it's our fault Paul had a
confidence about his message he said I
have not shunn to declare unto you the
whole counsel of God I'm free from the
blood of all men I wonder how many can
say that I see the Apostle Paul he's in
his cell the time for his execution has
come a Burly guard comes to the cell
door Paul
come where are we going where going to
The Chopping Block
Paul we're going to execute you
Paul he comes with a chain to bind Paul
Paul says you don't need to put that
chain on me I can walk it's all right
don't worry let's go and so the guard
takes Paul and they begin to walk down
toward the Tyber River there to the
execution place that river that will
soon drink the blood of the great
Apostle there he goes the greatest
Christian who ever lived can you see him
a little old humpback Jew hobbling along
his body bent broken scarred from the
whippings the stonings the imprisonments
being pickled in the Mediterranean Sea
little grayhead squinny eyes he's
walking along the guard says do I hear
music are you are you humming he said oh
yeah I didn't know you were listening to
me just a little song that we love to
sing it will be worth it all when we
seees Jesus guard says you're you're a
strange one and and and and they bring
him down there and and the Executioner
says well tie him to The Chopping Block
he says you don't need to tie me it's
all right and he kneels down and puts
his neck on The Chopping
Block they say aren't you afraid Paul oh
he said I've done this before you can't
oh well he says I Die daily and so they
they put his head on The Chopping Block
any last words Paul oh yes I'm glad you
asked here are my last words Jesus
Christ is Lord amen the axe
Falls and his head rolls over into the
basket the next scene is heaven he's
looking into the face of
Jesus and he says Lord
Jesus you know I wasn't
strong I was
ugly I didn't have a good voice but
but
faith I finished my
course Lord I fought a good
fight Lord these hands are pure from the
blood of all men how'd you like to meet
the Lord that way many of us are going
to meet the Lord with bloody hands and I
believe the Lord Jesus would say to him
well done thou good and faithful servant
enter thou into to the joy of thy Lord
thank you Paul for being true to me my
friend that's the measure of a life
listen not only the manner of the life
but the message of the life I want to
mention a third thing I believe that
made them miss the Apostle Paul so much
here's the way you measure a man by the
manner of his life you measure a man by
the message of his
life and then you measure a man by the
motto of his
life Every Man Has a motto for his
life maybe he's put it into words maybe
he hasn't but there's something that
impels him there's something that
motivates him there's something that
drives him there's something that
constrains him here was Paul's
constraint look if you will beginning in verse
verse
33 I have coveted no man's silver our
gold are apparel yay ye yourselves know
that these hands have ministered un my
necessities and to them that were with
me and I have showed you all things how
that so laboring ye ought to support the
weak and to remember the words of the
Lord Jesus how he
said it is more
blessed to
give than to receive and folks if that's
not yet underlined in your Bible please
underline it remembering the words of
the Lord Jesus how he said said it is
more blessed to
give than receive this was the motto of
Paul's life remembering the words of
Jesus it is more blessed to
give than to
receive the Apostle Paul was a great man
because he spent life not primarily as a
receiver but as a
giver therefore his life was
blessed life is divided the people in
life are divided into two
givers the takers eat better the givers sleep
sleep
better listen de friend he is more
blessed more blessed to
give than to
die all you're going to take with
you is what you've given away
a friend what you spent is gone
spend will be left for
forever it is more blessed to give than
receive and I want you to see what that
motto did for him I want you to see what
that that philosophy did to him number
one it freed him from covetousness look
if you will in verse 33 I have coveted
no man's silver or gold or apparel one
of the Ten Commandments is Thou shalt not
covet the Bible says that covetousness is
idolatry what is wrong with paramutual
gambling you were given a brochure when
you came in talking about wagering
gambling horse racing we're going to
be this month in an horrendous battle
here in our city what is wrong with
gambling gambling is built primarily
upon the principle of covetousness which
is wanting what somebody else has
getting that into your
possession let me tell you why gambling
is wrong I want to put it in a simple
sentence I want you to get it get it big
get it plain get it straight why is
gambling wrong gambling is wrong because
it is built on this
principle gambling is
profit and
pleasure at the cost of someone else's
loss and
pain did you understand that gambling is
profit and pleasure at the cost of
somebody else's loss and pain remember
this if you don't remember anything else
no one can can win at gambling without
someone else
losing did you understand that it's so
simple people say what's wrong with it
you are trying to get what belongs to
somebody else without a fair exchange
that's what's wrong it is based on
covetousness when you win in gambling
you lower yourself and you victimize your
your
neighbor Paul said I remember the words
of the Lord Jesus it's more blessed to
give than receive
therefore I've coveted nothing that
belongs to someone else it freed him from
from
covetousness but not only did it free
him from covetousness it freed him from
idleness look if you will in verse 34 Ye
Ye yourselves know that these hands he
held up his hands have ministered unto
my Necessities that is I work for my
needs and to them that were with me and
I have showed you all things how that so
laboring you ought to support the weak
now what does Paul say Paul said there
are people who are weak there are people
who can't work there are people have
needs and Paul said I worked so that I
might help the
needy now the Bible
says that if a man won't work neither
should he eat but there's some people
who can't
work and those of us who can work need to
to
work to help those who are weak let me
tell you something else about paramutual
gambling what's so wrong with
it it victimizes those who can least
afford to be victimized they say well
it's a form of voluntary tax it's a
regressive tax it is the poor it is the
needy who consistently spend the greater
part of their
gambling it it it produces no wealth it
is only a transfer of wealth primarily
from the hands of the poor and the needy
into the hands of the more wealthy there
are some people who will make money on paramutual
paramutual
gambling but not
many and not the
needy and the spirit of Jesus is it's
more blessed to give than to
receive if you want to help needy people
don't build a racetrack give them
something because in the name of Jesus
give and help but don't
hurt don't build a system based on Greed
what was the motto of Paul's
life more blessed to give than receive
it saved him from
covetousness it saved him from idleness
and friend it saved him from
selfishness nobody nobody has a great
life that lives a selfish life nobody
the Apostle Paul lived a life of giving
not taking of helping not hurting of
loving and lifting and
caring in World War II in a Polish
Village the Nazis came into that Village
accused all of the Jews in that Village
of crimes against the state brought them
out of their houses brought them out to
a particular
field and made them dig a
ditch that would later become their
grave then they stripped them of all of their
their
clothing they lined those polish Jews up
against a wall they got their machine
guns and began to mow them down just
just bullet after bullet flying into
that quivering flesh and the people fell
like cordwood head over uh heels into the
the
grave a little 10-year-old boy naked was
standing there with his mother and his
daddy the bullets just ripped their
bodies open and the blood splattered
everywhere and as they fell this little
boy fell also but he was not touched by
one bullet he fell in the grave and lay
still they assumed he was dead because
he was splattered with
blood and they began to push the dirt
over these people and buried that little
10-year-old boy
alive his face was in such a position
that he caught a pocket of
air and there was uh the ground was not
packed that
hard and he could actually breathe under the
the
ground lying on the mutilated bodies of
his loved
ones after several
hours it was now dark he began to dig
out of his own
grave and clawed and dug his way to the
surface actually dug his way out of his grave
grave
he was
naked clotted with blood clotted with
dirt he went to the house of a of a
neighbor and knocked on the door and
when the woman came she saw that little
caked with the remains of his
grave she recognized him as one of the Jewish
Jewish
boys and knew that he'd been Marked for
Death she screamed at him go away
and slammed the door in his
face the little boy dragged himself to
another door and knocked on the door and
beg for
help and the same thing happened the
woman in Terror said
away he went to one third
door knocked on the door and when the
woman open the door she looked at him
and her face
froze but before she could say anything
he said to
her don't you recognize [Music]
[Music]
me I am the
love she broke and wept and said come
in come in at the risk of her own life
she sheltered that 10-year-old
Child Jesus
said in as much as you have done it unto
the least of one of these my brethren
you've done it unto
me there's no easy way to have a great
life I'm telling you dear friend it is
more blessed to give than it is to
receive and there some of us when we're
gone we're not going to be missed but
there others when we're gone they're
going to weep sorely those who know the
things that count and primarily you
measure man's
life you measure the man by the manner
of his life the message of his life the
motto of his life is more blessed to
give than to receive and I want to
remind you one more time my friend when you
you
die you're going to leave behind all
that you
have and you're going to take with you
pray
father as I look at the life of the Apostle
Apostle
Paul and I realize Lord truly it was a
life that has impacted
eternity I pray God that you'd help me
in some
measure to live the same kind of a
life help us Lord and Lord I pray now
for those who not Sav that today they'll
come to know Jesus in his name
amen if you would like to learn more
about how you can know Jesus or deepen
your relationship with him simply click
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