in Hebrews chapter number 10 and let's start reading in verse 23 it says let us hold fast
the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised and let us consider
one another to provoke unto love and to good works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as he see the day
approaching it's a great passage here and it's a very familiar passage if you have spent any time
in church this is usually passage people turn to to talk about the importance of going to church
and the importance of not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together but i actually want to point
out a different phrase in this verse here specifically in verse number 25 it says not
forsaking the assembling of ourselves together notice as the manner of some is and i think what
the bible is highlighting here is that these people they have a negative habit of skipping
church even negative habit of skipping out on fellowship with god's people and i think that if
we all examined our lives because we're sinners every single person in here probably has some
bad habits and us as christians part of being mature as a christian is recognizing where you
fall short and trying to improve on those areas not just thinking you've arrived in every area
of life and so it's important for us to work on creating good habits so this evening i want to
preach a very very practical sermon that i hope can help you guys and that is things you should
do every day things you should do every day i'm the type of person where i really like lists
checklists organization so you know if i would have heard a sermon like this a long time ago
i feel like it would have helped me maybe it could help you and so number one go to psalm one things
you should do every day you know i'm not gonna i'm not gonna count church in this sermon because
you don't go to church every single day but what is something we should do every single day well
number one and the most important thing is reading your bible you know us as christians we should
read our bibles every single day and this is a very good metric to see where you're out in your
spiritual walk you know if you're starting to notice that you're not reading your bible every
single day that is a backslidden state and you should work on building a habit of reading the
bible every single day why look at psalm 1 very famous psalm here verse 1 blessed is the man
that walketh not in the council of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth
in the seat of the scornful but notice verse 2 but his delight is in the law of the lord what
is that that's the bible and in his law doth he notice meditate day and night and he shall be like
a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also
shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper this isn't just something that i'm making
up out of nowhere the bible saying that the habit of a person that is blessed by god is the type of
person that meditates in his word day and night so he's not even reading the bible every day
he's actually reading the bible every day and every night and you know this bible was given to me uh
when my wife and i got married we each got a bible and my father-in-law pastor thompson in the very
beginning of of the bible he wrote a note in here having to do with this let's see if i can find it
real quick this wasn't in my sermon but i'm just remembering this yeah on the front this is what
he said dylan awes our first son-in-law read it day and night i wonder where he was getting
this admonition from he's getting it from psalm chapter one why because if you want to be blessed
by the lord you need to be meditating in god's word day and night bible says that a person that
does this is like a tree planted by the rivers of water you know a tree that's planted by the
rivers of water is going to be very strong it's going to have really deep roots you know what
it's going to be steadfast unmovable always abounding that you know that type of tree it
makes me think of the christian that's going to be steadfast the christian that's going to stick
and stay in their marriage the christian that's going to stick and stay in church is going to be
the christian that's meditating in his word day and night there is not such a thing as a christian
that serves god for 10 20 30 40 years and that is not reading their bible it just doesn't exist
so if you have it as a goal in your life to be in this christian race for the long run
you must read the bible every single day go to deuteronomy chapter 17 deuteronomy chapter 17
now you know the bible doesn't tell us exactly how much you should be reading you know all of us have
different reading plans and that's fine we don't all have to read the bible the same amount but
here's what you should be doing you for sure should be reading the bible every single day
deuteronomy 17 verse 14 when thou art come unto the land which the lord thy god giveth thee
and shalt possess it and shalt dwell therein and shalt say i will set a king over me like as all
the nations that are about me thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee whom the lord thy
god shall choose one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee thou mayest not
set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother but he shall not multiply horses to himself
nor cause the people to return to egypt to the end that he should multiply horses for as much
as the lord hath said unto you ye shall henceforth return no more that way neither shall he multiply
wives to himself that his heart turn not away neither shall he greatly multiply to himself
silver and gold so all these things so far have been qualities that a king should have but the
most important one is verse 18 and it shall be when he siteth upon the throne of his kingdom
that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests
the levites so notice the king was supposed to literally by hand write an entire copy of the law
of god that's an incredible amount of work that's an incredible amount of time and dedication
in high school one of the classes that i went to we had to hand write the u.s constitution and the
declaration of independence and it took forever and that's like this much compared to what your
bible is you know the bible is sitting in your lap and it's this high i mean the constitution
declaration is tiny and it took me forever to do and here the king is supposed to literally write
out a whole copy of the word of god you know that shows us that god is telling the king here that
this should be something that's very important this should be a huge part of his life and notice
what it says in verse 19 and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his
life what's the sermon things you should do every day what was the king supposed to do read the law
of god all the days of his life not just when he's feeling spiritual not just on sunday not just on
easter or on christmas every single day of his life the king was supposed to be disciplined and
say you know what this is important i need to put time into reading the word of god and notice the
result it says that he may learn to fear the lord his god to keep all the words of this law
and these statutes to do them you know the people that are actually spiritual in this world and the
people that actually fear god are the ones that know this book and are the ones that read this
book every day you know it's always funny when you go out soul winning and you meet someone and
they they say that they're spiritual and they sometimes they'll say that like i'm spiritual
but yet when you talk to them you can tell that they never read the bible they know nothing about
salvation they know nothing about doctrine and you know what that really tells me is this person
actually doesn't fear god and you could you could tell in someone's life if they fear god
and it's by how much they're reading the bible how much they're doing the bible let's keep reading
it says in verse 20 that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside
from the commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in
his kingdom he and his children in the midst of israel so notice by reading the word every day
there's a couple things that's going to happen to this king number one is he's not going to be
lifted up with pride and if you read the bible every single day you'll realize how jacked up
you are and i realize how jacked up i am and you know the bible says that if any man thinks that
he knows something he knoweth not yet what he ought to know and so even if you do know a lot
of bible when you read this whole book you realize okay i may know some things but there's a lot that
i don't understand there's a lot that i don't know and you just if the more you read the bible the
more you recognize that but also another thing happens it says that he won't turn aside from
the commandment to the right hand or to the left that he may prolong his days and it talks about
he and his children in the midst of israel another really important reason to read your bible every
single day is that it's going to guide you in this life it's going to be a light unto your feet
it's going to be your guiding light in this life and here's the thing especially if you're a king
and you're leading a nation how much more do you need the wisdom of god's word to be guiding you
well here's the thing parents have a very important treasure entrusted to them and that's
their children and if moms and dads want to be making good decisions as parents what do they need
to do they need to be reading their bible every single day go to second timothy chapter three
while you turn to second timothy three i'll read for you matthew 6 11 jesus said this
give us this day our daily bread and bread in the word of god often represents the word of god
and notice jesus says give us this day our daily bread what does this go to show that we need to
read our bible every day things you should do every day second timothy 3 16 all scripture
is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for
instruction in righteousness you know we need that in our lives i know i need that in my life
i need to read the word of god why so that it could reprove me so that i could say hey you're
doing something wrong and so that it could correct me and say this is actually what's right and so
that it could instruct me and tell me hey this is actually how you get it right i mean us as just
carnal people we would be flying blind in so many areas of our life if we didn't have the word of
god and people think they're so smart but you're not and if you're successful in life it's because
you're following the principles of the bible it's not like you created those principles
in fact i love reading books about leadership i read this by uh jaco willink he had one about
discipline and about leadership it was a really good book but every principle that he was
describing in the book was literally just from the bible whether he realizes that or not is a
different story but the bible has all the wisdom you could possibly get in this universe and so
while I'm for reading lots of other books and getting education really where you should be
spending your most time and what you should do every single day is read the bible go to
acts chapter 17 acts chapter 17 I'll keep proving this to you acts 17 11 chapter 17 verse 11 these
were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind
and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so so again we see another example of
people reading the bible every single day and why were they doing that they were searching in the
scriptures whether the things that they heard preached were actually correct you know the
preacher's job is to get up and take the word of god and expound it to people and apply it to
people's life but the bible teaches that if you're listening to preaching what your job is is judging
you're supposed to be judging when you're listening to preaching and you're supposed to be
judging in your mind not do i like this person not oh is what this person said nice it's is what this
person's saying biblical is what this person's saying true and could you imagine the difference
of a world we would live in if christians today actually went to church but not just went to
church but actually heard the things that are preached and checked it for themselves in the
bible man we would have a lot less false doctrine in this world you know it wouldn't exist in this
world the pre-trib rapture would not exist because you have to be a theologian to not be able to
understand after the tribulation only theologians can be that dumb people in the pew are smart
people in the pew could read their bible and have the spirit of god leading them and they need not
that some man should teach them no the holy ghost can lead them to that truth by reading the bible
and so oftentimes though people get a complacent mentality and they trust their preacher and that's
good you should have an open heart willing to hear what the preacher has to say but that works
for you fine when you're listening to a good preacher but what happens when you're not listening
to a good preacher and here's the thing about human nature is that pretty much everyone that
goes to church thinks they're listening to a good preacher otherwise they'd probably be at a different
church you know i'm sure like i said i i'm going to keep bringing this guy up bo ballard because
i think he needs to be brought up but if this guy when he was preaching at this church i'm sure that
the people here listening to him for the most part thought this is a good guy but what we should
always do is check with the word of god not just trust someone and it doesn't matter if it's your
favorite preacher your favorite pastor if you're visiting another church someday or if you have to
move to a different city someday and go to a different church you need to be in your bible
every single day so that you could check what's being preached with the bible go to luke chapter
22 i'll read for you psalm 119 verse 9 says wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way
by taking heed thereto according to thy word with my whole heart have i sought thee oh let me not
wander from thy commandments thy word have i hid in mine heart that i might not sin against thee
you know this the psalmist here is talking about how he sought the lord with his whole heart
and if we were to apply that to bible reading you can't really say that you're seeking god
with your whole heart when you just read the bible when you feel like it or read the bible
when you're motivated read the bible once a week no seeking god with your whole heart is waking up
in the morning opening this book praying for god to open your eyes and to help you to understand
it and to apply it to your life that's the person that's actually seeking god with their whole heart
so you know when it comes to reading your bible every single day for some people it's really
beneficial to choose a place a physical location where they read the bible every single day and
this is how habits are formed oftentimes people have habits where they go to a certain place and
it triggers a certain memory or idea or action in their head and that could be used for good or
for bad so you know i would encourage you if you don't already have this habit in your life is to
choose a place where every single day you read the word of god also choose a time you know if
you have a schedule where you're able to make very um for lack of a better word scheduled life
schedule a time every single day that you read the bible and how much you read is up to you people
are different at different levels spiritually but you know ideally you'd read a little bit in the
morning and a little bit at night at least you know because that's what psalm one describes the
man that's blessed by god as doing and you know if you don't have a bible plan i've made several
and i could help you with those just ask me and i'd be happy to give you one so number one things
you should do every single day read the bible number two things you should do every single day
is pray to the lord look at luke 22 verse 39 it says this and he came out is jesus and went
notice this phrase as he was want that phrase means as was his custom as was his habit to the
mount of olives and his disciples also followed him when he was at the place he said to them pray
that you enter not into temptation and when you read the gospels jesus christ he had a habit in
his life of praying to the lord every single day and notice what he tells his disciples to pray for
and of course this is right before the garden of gethsemane but he's telling them to pray that they
enter not into temptation and this is a good thing to pray every single day in your life honestly
because we're living in a really wicked world we're living in a world that's filled with sin and
that's getting worse and worse generally speaking and you know it might be a good idea for you to
just pray to the lord every day that we would not be led into temptation that we would be steadfast
that we would be strong christians go to matthew chapter number six matthew chapter number six
so notice that was jesus's habit that was his custom as he was want matthew chapter six we get
the famous pattern prayer from the lord jesus christ himself in verse nine says this after this
manner therefore pray ye our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy
will be done in earth as it is in heaven notice this give us this day our daily bread that's
reading the bible and notice this and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors so one of the
things that jesus in his example prayer is he exhorts them to pray to be forgiven of their debts
and in my mind this makes me think of our sins toward god and you think well how often should i
ask the lord to forgive me of my debts well how often do you have debts how you know how often
should i ask the lord to forgive me of my sin well it's like do you sin every single day then
you should probably pray and ask for forgiveness every single day not to be saved like the catholics
think you know we talked to this lady out soul winning today and she said that you can get to
heaven if you repent of your sins and if you ask for forgiveness wrong that's not how you get saved
but you know that is how you can have a good fellowship and good relationship with your
heavenly father just like if your children disobeyed you you would want them to apologize and
ask for forgiveness for what they did wrong well how often are we indebted to god pretty much
every single day every single day how often do we sin every single day so we should pray every
single day go to first thessalonians chapter number five first thessalonians chapter number five
now the reason i think some people don't pray every single day is because i think a lot of
preachers have done a big disservice to christians by over spiritualizing prayer and acting like
prayer has to be this one two three hour long process where you're laying down on a bed of nails
and you're not eating food and you're you know withholding yourself from any pleasure in life
and you've got to be alone with god every morning at 3 a.m on the dot and you know if you don't do
that you're not right with god look that type of preaching is garbage if you look at the bible
yes there's examples of long prayers of course first king's chapter 8 is the longest one that
i could think of where king solomon's dedicating the temple but you know what that's few and far
between most of life and most of the prayers in the bible are very short constant prayers you know
so you have a need in your life you just pray real quick you ask god because here's the thing
if every time you pray it has to be that some there's some hour long ordeal your chances are
you're just not going to pray that often you know chances are you're going to get busy you're going
to forget about it and so it's real easy if you just have this mentality of hey it's okay to
pray short prayers that's okay that doesn't make you less spiritual and you know someone
texts you in the signal group hey i've got this prayer request just right there say a quick prayer
for them doesn't have to be an hour long but just go to the father pray for that person and that
makes it a lot easier to pray every single day there's this holier than thou hyper spiritual
preaching out there where you've got to wake up at 4 a.m and spend an hour with god but let's be
honest 99.999 percent of people are never going to do that and i would way rather preach to people
that just pray when the thought comes into your mind pray when a need comes you know you see a
crash on the side of the road pray real quick for that person you know you hear sirens pray that
people will be okay like just pray all the time short prayers i think that's a way more effective
way to pray a lot i told you go to 1st Thessalonians 5 look at verse 16 it says rejoice evermore pray
without ceasing and i think this is describing what i'm talking about this isn't saying you're
just literally you know head bowed eyes closed at all times for your whole life no what it's
saying is that you're just always in a mindset of prayer you're ready to pray to moments notice
you never go through a season of life where you've just left off praying completely
no rather you're just praying without ceasing and here's another thing you could pray for look at
verse 18 in everything give thanks for this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you
you know one area of prayer that i feel like americans need to change big time is that of
thanking god this is a very spoiled nation this is a nation that has so many blessings that we
just take for granted and every time i go to another country i come back and just realize
how amazing our life is here in the united states and how great god has been to us and it just blows
my mind how much people complain about the littlest most insignificant things you know you need to make
it a habit in your life that when you pray to god you should thank him for something thank him every
single day because i've been preaching a lot about this lately we have a lot to be thankful for
god has really blessed us we have an awesome area that we live in we have a great church we have
great prosperity in this nation we have freedom to preach the gospel we have the second amendment
you know thank god for those things let us always give thanks to the lord go to aphesians chapter
number six aphesians chapter number six say i don't know what to pray for just thank god just
pray and thank god and say amen you don't even always have to ask him for something
maybe sometimes you can just go to him just to thank him for what he's already given you
aphesians chapter number six look at verse 16 above all taking the shield of faith wherewith
ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation
and the sword of the spirit which is the word of god praying always with all prayer and supplication
in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints and
for me that utterance may be given unto me that i may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery
of the gospel notice this person is praying always pray every single day you know one of the things
that we should be praying for is we should be praying for soul winners specifically because
he's saying hey pray for me that utterance may be given unto me that i may open my mouth boldly this
world needs a lot more soul winners you know we need to pray for more laborers like jesus told us to
because we could do a lot more as a church if we had more soul winners and we should pray that god
would give people boldness to become a soul winner if they're not a soul winner yet or if someone's
just a silent partner we should pray that utterance would be given to that person that someday maybe
they could graduate to being a talker you know these are good things to pray for go to james
chapter number five you know there's really no excuse to not pray to the lord every single day
because there's always plenty to pray for plenty and you know back when i was commuting between
vancouver and portland i was working in the city of portland i made it my daily habit that i would
just pray every day on the way to work because i've got nothing else going on it's early in
the morning i'm alone and to me that was a good time for me to do that so if you have a commute
to work you know maybe that's the time of day where you decide to pray you know maybe you decide
to pray when you're in the shower or maybe you decide to pray you know whenever but sometimes
that could help having a habit to do it every single day look at verse 13 it says is any among
you afflicted let him pray so you know if you know someone in your life or in this church that's
going through afflictions going through health problems you know that's a good reason to pray
you know recently we had a young baby on our prayer list that has been in the hospital for
a really long time the scott family and you know that's a good family to pray for right there when
someone's afflicted is any mary let him sing psalms is any sick among you let him call for
the elders of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the lord
you know if someone's sick rather than your very first reaction to be to make that doctor's
appointment or to take that pill you know your knee-jerk reaction should always be to go to god
in prayer because jesus is truly the great physician and any sickness any problem jesus
can heal if he wants to you know there's a lot of diseases that the medical field would look at
and say it's incurable you know if jesus wanted to move in that person's life it could be cured
and someone could be dealing with something that they think in their life hey this will never be
cured and then jesus can just cure them and isn't that great when that happens and look at verse um
number 15 it says and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the lord shall raise him up
and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him and of course i just want to say
this too i'm not against going to the doctor don't take me out of context there there's a time and a
place to go to the doctor there's a time and place to take medicine i'm not one of these people that
think if you break your leg you should just rub some cayenne pepper on it or some essential oils
and you think that you're fine okay there's time and a place for it but i love verse 16 it says
confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that you may be healed the effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much meaning that when a righteous man or a righteous
woman prays to the lord that can make things happen that can make change in this world you
know we don't believe in the calvinist doctrine that god is some puppet master controlling
everything even in the lord's prayer in the model prayer that he gave he said lord let thy will be
done on in heaven as it is in earth and guess what that means that means that god's will does not
automatically happen otherwise why would jesus be telling us to pray for it see what i'm saying
there if god was up in heaven controlling everything we would not have to pray for god's
will to be done why do we pray for god's will to be done because we could actually change things
with our prayer and so whatever the need is you know the appropriate response is to go to lord
in prayer go back to chapter four of the same book you're in james four look at verse two it says
ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not
because ye ask not you know there's a lot of things in this world where people don't have
simply because they don't pray for it and one of the applications that's coming to mind right now
is single guys in the new ifb that have made it past 25 30 they're into their 30s now and they
still don't have a wife it makes me think do you not have because you haven't asked because i'll
be honest when i was single i would pray almost every single day for god to lead me to a godly
woman and for god to prepare me to be a leader and someone that's even worth marrying and that god
would you know help me find that person i prayed that prayer probably every single day when i was
single and so if you're a single guy and you're desiring to get married you should be praying
that prayer every single day because oftentimes you have not because you ask not and don't be
surprised if you're 30 years old and you don't you're not married yet if you haven't been asking
god for that blessing. Go to Proverbs chapter number one Proverbs chapter number one what should
you do every single day? You should read your bible every single day. What should you do every
single day? You should pray every single day. Number three something you should do every single
day is learn learn. Let's look at the bible here in Proverbs one five it says this a wise man will
hear and will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.
You know of course god wants us to be wise men and wise women in here and how is it that you become
wise according to the bible a wise person will hear that's reading the bible that's listening
to preaching and you know what else it's increasing in learning and today we have
an epidemic of people that are not interested in learning they're not interested in reading
anything anymore they're not interested in challenging their mind but you know a wise
person continues to learn and it doesn't matter how old you are it doesn't matter if you're a
child it doesn't matter if you're 80 years old wise people continuously learn look at verse 22
how long you simple ones will you love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and
notice and fools hate knowledge the bible says that a fool hates knowledge and what would a
person's life look like if they're a fool that hates knowledge it's probably someone that never
reads anything it's probably someone that scrolls on tiktok endlessly they doom scroll like we talked
about a few weeks ago that's someone that hates knowledge that's someone that's living like a fool
look at verse 23 turn you at my reproof behold i will pour out my spirit unto you i will make known
my words unto you because i have called and you refused i have stretched out my hand and no man
regarded but you have said it not all my counsel and would none of my reproof so the foolish person
didn't want to listen to anything that god said verse 26 i also will laugh at your calamity i will
mock when your fear cometh you know this is a part of the bible it's often ignored the fact that when
fools despise knowledge and when fools don't want to listen to the counsel of the lord and the
reproof of the lord and their life gets jacked up as a result of that god in heaven will laugh at
them and god in heaven will literally mock them look at verse 27 when your fear cometh as desolation
and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you then shall
they call upon me but i will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me why
verse 29 for that they hated knowledge and so notice there's two people described in this
passage the wise man who he hears the word of god he attains to wise counsels he's increasing
in his learning and that person's blessed that person's wise then the person that's a fool that
doesn't want to listen to what the bible says and their life is completely destroyed god mocks them
and what's the reason for it they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the lord they would
none of my counsel they despised all my reproof therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their
own way and be filled with their own devices for the turning away of the simple shall slay them
and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them you know when it's talking about eating of their
own way and being filled with their own devices people's lives are being destroyed because they
didn't take counsel to god's word they didn't listen you know what makes me think of is homeless
people in the united states of america you want to know why someone is homeless in the united
states of america 99.9 percent of the time is because they hate knowledge is because they
didn't want to hear the reproof of the bible they didn't want to accept any of the principles that
the bible teaches like i don't know getting a job working hard not being a derelict and the reason
why they have such a crappy life why they're sleeping on a dirty street why they're out in
the weather and in the elements is because they hated knowledge you know what god's attitude
towards derelict home people is he'd laugh at them he would mock them and so many christians
today have a bleeding heart where they see a homeless person they say let me give that person
money you know what god's attitude would be if god was driving down the street if the lord
jesus christ was driving down the street and saw a homeless person he rolled down his windows say
start laughing at them that's the god of the bible that's the jesus of the bible he'd start
mocking them and making fun of them not pandering to them not think feeling sorry for them and
here's the thing when it comes to getting knowledge learning every single day what you don't know will
hurt you i hate this phrase so much ignorance is bliss that is a stupid phrase that is not true
the fact that you don't know something is not bliss what you don't know will hurt you and
that applies to spiritual areas that applies to carnal areas you know the wise person realizes
hey there's a lot i don't know i don't know what i don't know but i'm gonna learn as much as i can
why because what i don't know will hurt me and here we see that and in the bible elsewhere the
bible says my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge so their lack of knowledge them not
knowing stuff destroyed them according to the bible so what you don't know does hurt you go
to proverbs five flip the page or proverbs chapter four verse five flip the page there
look at verse five it says get wisdom get understanding forget it not neither decline
from the words of my mouth forsake her not and she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep
thee wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding
exalt her and she shall promote thee she shall bring thee to honor when thou dost embrace her
she shall give to thine head an ornament of grace a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee the
bible saying with all thy getting get wisdom and understanding you know what that means that means
prioritization of learning that's what that means with all thy getting meaning with all the things
that you can spend your time doing with all the places you can invest your energy whether that's
into work or just people invest their time and energy into sports and fun and vacations all that
thing the bible says with all thy getting get wisdom get understanding prioritize that in your
life and so what's an application of that you should learn every single day what are we talking
about tonight things you should do every day and readers truly are leaders when you know if you
know a leader in your life i can almost guarantee you that that person reads a lot whether that's the
bible or just other stuff you name it a business leader a pastor just think of any leader in your
mind i guarantee you that person reads a lot go to proverbs 18 proverbs 18 proverbs 18 verse 15
says the heart of the prudent getteth knowledge in the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge what is
someone that's prudent someone that's wise or judicious in practical affairs discreet or
circumspect bible says the heart of the prudent getteth knowledge and so a prudent person you
know what they would do they would learn every single day look at verse one of the same chapter
through desire a man having separated himself seeketh and intermittent with notice this all wisdom
all wisdom you know some people have an attitude and and i wouldn't say this is a majority view
but there's a there's a minority in christianity that has kind of a holier than now attitude
where they would say that the only thing you should ever read is the bible and if you're
reading anything else you're wasting your time it's vain or it's it's always wrong to take
any college class about any subject but look what the bible saying a wise person says through
desire a man having separated himself seeketh and intermittent with what all wisdom and you know
solomon's a good example of that he knew a lot he wrote tons of proverbs he wrote proverbs about
trees and about animals and like he knew everything about everything it seemed like
and he was a very very wise man what is a fool like verse two a fool have no delight in understanding
but that his heart may discover itself you know i think of this a fool have no delight in learning
a fool have no delight in reading you know what is the application for when it comes to learn
something every day i think you should read every single day and you know i've talked about this a
lot and if you're annoyed by it i'm not sorry you should be reading every single day why because our
country is becoming a country of idiots and fools and people that believe stupid ideas and people
that don't know anything about history or anything about how the world works and it's because a lot
of people have completely stopped reading and so while i'm for reading the bible of course that
was point one it was point one for a reason i would never tell someone replace your bible reading
with reading a random book no what i'm saying is read a lot of bible and in addition to that
read other books why because we want to be people that have understanding we want to be people that
have wisdom we want to be people that learn every single day you know we want to be people like
daniel go to daniel chapter number one daniel chapter number one daniel is a great example
of someone that's very well educated very wise in the bible the book of daniel describes this
situation in verse 17 it says as for these four children god gave them knowledge and skill and
all learning and wisdom and daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams now at the end of the
days that the king had said he should bring them in then the prince of the eunuchs brought before
brought them in before nebuchadnezzar and the king communed with them and among them all was found
none like daniel hananiah michael and azeriah therefore stood they before the king and in all
matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them he found them 10 times better
than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm and you know reading is kind of
like a secret weapon to where if you're a person that actually spends a lot of time reading the
bible understanding the bible learning the bible and you spend a lot of time just reading books
and learning about just a vast array of subjects you will be 10 times better than the average
person you really will you know young people that haven't yet gone into the workforce if you spend
a lot of time reading the bible reading lots of other things getting a lot of knowledge getting
a lot of skill you will be 10 times better than the kid that spent his whole life doing nothing
playing video games and just walking into a job interview you will be literally 10 times better
you know someone someone that is this to the extreme in a good way is pastor steven anderson
that guy knows a ton about a lot of stuff i mean he's he's fluent in like six or seven languages
i think he reads the bible every day in hebrew and in greek and he he knows the king james issue
front to back and you know what pastor steven anderson is 10 times better than the average
pastor in america why because he's read the bible a ton why because he's also read a ton of other
stuff as well he doesn't have this attitude where oh you should only ever read the bible if you
ever read anything else in the bible it's vain and worldly no he reads a ton in a lot of areas
and because of that you can see hey this guy's 10 times better than your average pastor in america
probably more so go to first corinthians six first corinthians chapter number six so things you should
do every day read the bible every day pray every day learn every single day number four something
you should do every single day is take care of your physical body take care of your physical body
you know i told you this is going to be a very practical sermon this is something that you should
do every single day by the way you want to be 10 times better than the average american just invest
a little bit of time every single day into this area and you'll be 10 times better than the
average american look at first corinthians 619 says this we read this this morning it's in the
context of fornication actually but notice it says what know you not that your body is the temple of
the holy ghost which is in you which you have of god and you're not your own for ye are bought
with a price notice this phrase i like this phrase therefore glorify god in your body and in your
spirit which are gods the bible teaches that we should glorify god in our bodies and of course one
of the ways we can glorify god with our bodies is by abstaining from sin right the context of this
passage is in regards to fornication and so one way you could glorify god is simply by abstaining
from fornication fleeing from fornication turn the page to first corinthians 9 verse corinthians 9
verse 27 says but i keep under my body he's being disciplined with his physical body and bring it
into subjection lest but that by any means when i have preached to others i myself should be a
castaway what is the apostle paul saying he's saying i am taking control of my physical body
i'm going to be disciplined with my physical body i'm not going to just let my physical body do
whatever it wants to do and sin in any way it wants to sin otherwise i while i'm preaching to
others would become a castaway what is a castaway it's basically when god is casting you away from
your position so the apostle paul is being used greatly as an apostle as an evangelist but if the
apostle paul just went out committing fornication god would cast him away from that and find someone
else to do the job and you know the same thing goes for us as christians if we're not disciplined
with our bodies and glorifying god in our bodies by abstaining from serious sins god will cast us
away too here's an example of some ways people sin with their body i'll read for you leviticus
1928 says you shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you
i am the lord you know one way we could take care of our physical body is by not cutting ourselves
like the heathen and not printing tattoos all over our body you know that's not glorifying god with
your body when you go get a bunch of weird tattoos all over and i don't know who lied to you but
tattoos never have looked cool there's never been a single tattoo that i thought man that's awesome
man that looks really cool tattoos always look bad they always look trashy and you know it used
to be in america that if you had a tattoo you were barred from certain jobs it used to be you
could not be a police officer if you had tattoos but now because our nation's becoming so ungodly
you know the standards for all these jobs like well you just can't have any eyelid tattoos that
say f the police you know it's okay if you got a sleeve it's fine you know if you could wear a long
sleeve shirt in a in a turtleneck so we don't see your neck tattoos as long as it doesn't say like
f the cops or something then it's fine but you know what i think all tattoos are trashy and all
tattoos are not taking care of your body it's not glorifying god with your body i'll read for you
this actually you're already in first crenthians so go to first crenthians 11 first crenthians 11
14 says doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him
but if a woman have long hair it is a glory for her for her hair is given her for recovering
here's one way you could take care of your bodies and glorify god in your body is by cutting your
hair men by simply grooming and being a civilized human being that doesn't let your hair grow out
like you look so like some sort of tribal you know freak any of these people have the tattoos
they've got the long hair i'm just thinking like is this like 500 bc africa like where am i right
now i thought this was the united states of america yet some people think this is a cool
trend like look at me i've got a bone in my nose i've got long hair i've got tattoos all over my
body there's nothing cool about it it's not taking care of your body go to first timothy chapter 4
you know another way that you should invest into taking care of your body every single day is by
getting physical exercise look at first timothy 4 8 it says this for bodily exercise profiteth
little but godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is
and of that which is to come this verse right here is is abused by a lot of old ife preachers
pretty much every you know biscuit and gravy eating fat old independent fundamental baptist
pastor this is like their favorite verse in the whole bible and what do they focus on bodily
exercise profiteth little bodily exercise profiteth little and they go and preach about how it's so
vain to work out it's a waste of time and pass the chicken and pass the biscuits and all this stuff
but here's what the bible is actually saying the bible is saying that bodily exercise is profitable
but it's profitable little in in comparison to spiritual things why because spiritual things
has benefit in the life that is now and in the life to come but bodily exercise is still profitable
and just like these weird holier than thou christians that thinks it's sinful to read
anything other than the bible and it's vain and it's a waste of your time to read a book that's
not the bible you have these people that think oh it's so vain to work out why aren't you soul
winning you know you shouldn't be lifting weights you should be praying why are you lifting weights
you should be fasting it's like no dude physical exercise does profit and just shut your little
soy boy mouth because you need that profit i could see it in your body in your physical body it's
not very glorifying to god right now and these fat old independent baptist pastors that are supposed
to be the example to the flock i'm not impressed by how out of shape you are i'm not impressed by
it bodily exercise profits little now here's the thing let me give these holier than thou people
a very spiritual reason why you should exercise and there are spiritual reasons of why you should
exercise number one is that if you exercise and if you're healthy you will live a longer life
and you'll be able to serve god for a longer amount of time so while these pastors like to get up and
pontificate about how vain exercise is and how they hate it's anathema unto them well guess what
those of us that don't hate it are actually going to live longer and be able to serve god a lot
longer than these people because heart disease is one of the biggest killers of the united states
and people die early deaths because they didn't take care of their physical body and fathers die
and their kids grow up without their dad and mothers die and kids grow up without their mom
because their parents didn't take this seriously and they die an early age because of this issue
it's a serious issue not only that but just by being physically active and here's the thing i'm
not saying being an olympic olympic athlete or something i'm saying just being healthy just being
mobile just having some stamina to live life you know that should be the goal of working out it's
not necessarily should be some sort of bodybuilder you know that i do think is vain trying to see how
low you could get your body fat so that you could stand half naked in front of a bunch of judges
with oil all over your body no i'm not really interested that's pretty weird if you ask me
but if you are healthy and you exercise to the level where you're just fit you're healthy you'll
be more effective of a soul winner is that not a spiritual reason to stay fit you know i want to
be a soul winner in my 20s up till the day i die and by physically exercising i'm hoping to increase
my longevity to be able to be more effective of a soul winner plus you go to those apartment
complexes where it's three or four stories high you know if you're super out of shape you won't
really be that effective of a soul winner you know you knock on the door you're like
if i were to die today you know what i mean it's like in your mind you're thinking about your own
death because you're so out of shape it's like look don't i'm not saying be an olympic athlete
i'm not saying spend four hours a day exercising but us as god's people need to realize that it is
important to be physically healthy and you should invest into your physical health every single day
and the bar in america has gotten so low that i think a lot of us have just forgotten what normal
is because normal in america is out of shape normal in america is unhealthy normal in america
is dying at a young age from heart problems and look that shouldn't be normal amongst
god's people we should be the example in this area you know i'm not talking about women that
pop out babies every single year okay god bless you i understand but men men in their 20s being
out of shape there's no excuse for that there's no excuse for a healthy man to not be in shape
that is just simply laziness is what that is and you know you as a man you're supposed to be the
protector of your home how are you supposed to protect your home when you weigh 120 pounds
as a man you know that's just it's not good go to if you would genesis chapter number two and i saw
this video i wasn't aware of this until this week there's this video of president john f kennedy in
the 1960s talking about how he's concerned about the physical fitness levels in the united states
i saw another video where he said the saddest thing that could happen is having a fat child
which was hilarious that he said that you know that wouldn't be politically correct today i was
coming from a democrat okay he would not be a democrat today but you know he's talking about
how a nation is only as strong as its people and that's the same of christianity as well you know
the kingdom of god is only as strong as its people spiritually but also physically to an extent too
like we talked about soul winning and we should be the example in this area you know john f kennedy
didn't want our nation to be fat and slovenly and lazy and out of shape because that affects
our nation's ability to protect itself that affects our nation's ability to produce you know goods in
this world it affects everything and so i i like that he was concerned about that in the 60s i
wonder what he would think about that right now in the 2020s where it's a lot worse so we talked
about reading your bible praying learning getting physical exercise taking care of your physical
body the last thing that i think you should do every single day is spend time with your family
spend time with your family now there granted there is not a verse in the bible that says
thou shalt spend time with your family every single day so a little bit of this is my opinion
but i do think that there's some principles in the bible that backs up what i'm saying here first
that being of genesis 2 look at verse 24 therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and
shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh you know the bible describes that when you
get married you are becoming one flesh with another person and so the lesson there is that
god wants us to realize that humanly speaking the most important human relationship that we have on
this earth is that of husband and wife and it's such a close relationship that the bible says that
god has made us one flesh and so to me that indicates that that's a relationship that we
should be putting a lot of time effort energy into and so i think you should spend time with
your spouse every day spend time with your spouse every day i'll read for you aphesians 525 it says
husbands love your wives even as christ also loved the church gave himself for it you know
the admonition in the bible for men is to love our wives and one of the simplest ways of expressing
love is simply by spending time with them women want their husbands to spend time with them this
is what they desire this is what they like this is like their favorite thing in the whole world
and it doesn't even necessarily matter as much what you're doing they just want your time guys
and us as men sometimes that's hard because a lot of men are just hard chargers that wake up in the
morning and they they've got a task list and they want to just work at it so hard until they go to
sleep at night but you know you want to make sure that you're being balanced that you're not
overworking yourself to where the point you're neglecting your wife because that is easy to do
oftentimes in this world go to Deuteronomy chapter 6 while I read for you Titus 2 3 the Bible says
the aged women likewise that they be in behavior as becoming as becomeeth holiness not false accusers
not given to much wine teachers of good things that they may teach the young women to be sober
to love their husbands to love their children you know let's change gears and talk a little bit about
the ladies of the home the bible saying that the elder women should instruct and teach the younger
women to do a few things to love their husbands to love their children and what am i talking about
spending time with your family it's something you should do every single day women should love their
children and spend time with their children every single day you know a lot of families homeschool
this is a great way to spend good quality time with your children another good way is to take
them out soul-winning another good way is just to play and have fun you know at our new house the
previous owners they left a basketball court out front and i'm thankful for it because it's like
sweet this is like free play time with my girls they absolutely love it they can't even make a
shot yet but they absolutely love going out there playing basketball with dad you know i love that
time with them i cherish that time with them mom cherishes that time with them and it's going to
be cool to see them grow up and actually finally be able to make a shot that's going to be great
but look at deuteronomy six verse six and these words which i command thee this day shall be in
thine heart and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when
thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou
risest up so again i said i think the principles of the bible is going to back me up here parents
are supposed to teach their children the bible when are they supposed to teach them that well
when you're in your house when you're sitting down how often are you in your house every day
when are you sitting down every day when thou walkest by the way what way i don't even know
it's just saying all the time is what this verse is saying when you lie down and when you rise up
you know it's saying you're supposed to be teaching your children the bible diligently every day so
that you know what that means it means spend time with your family every single day you know and
just kind of a sobering thought that people kind of push out of their minds but i think you should
think about this is that you never know when your last day will be you could die on the way home
tonight from this church service you can get a car crash and die tonight your children can die at
any time your grandchildren can die at any time and we don't think about that because we have a
normalcy bias and we just live life but you never know when the last time you will see your family
is and so every single day is a gift from god every single time you see your spouse you see
your children you see your family you know you should take advantage of that opportunity and
you should spend time with your family every single day so what is the sermon about it's
about habits and habits are very powerful for good or for bad we all have bad habits but you know i
hope that you could implement these five habits into your life and here's why these habits are
pretty easy to start is that there's something you could do every single day you know starting a
habit of church attendance is a little harder because it's something that you do three times
a week two times a week sometimes people one time a week sometimes people once a month but these
things you should do every single day what are they read the bible pray learn invest into your
physical body and spend time with your family i hope that helps let's have a word of prayer lord
thank you for this day thank you for all the blessings you've given us and i just pray that
you'd help us to be diligent to work on building these habits into our lives and especially reading
the word of god once someone does that it directs them in all other areas just pray that you'd bless
our church bless this upcoming week and help us all to get home safely we love you in jesus name amen