This Is Why You Feel Miserable
Fresh Life Church
Pastor Levi Lusko
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this message, Pastor Levi unpacks Jesus' parable of the workers in the vineyard to reveal why we make ourselves miserable—and it can be summed up in four words: "I was here first." Discover why God's kingdom runs on grace, not grades, and how control, complaining, and comparison are the triple threat stealing your joy. If you've ever struggled with jealousy over God's grace to others or felt entitled because of your spiritual resume, this message will transform spiritual entitlement into joyful gratitude for grace.
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| 0:00.0 | When I was a child, I learned in an interesting way the connections between your physical health |
| 0:06.6 | and your emotional health. I had this weird way of getting sick whenever I was misbehaving. |
| 0:14.2 | And my mom connected the dots between the two, and she's like, you know, whenever you're like |
| 0:18.6 | just naughty and you're moody and just being a brat and, |
| 0:23.7 | you know, not getting along with your siblings, you always, it seems like you just get so, like, |
| 0:28.5 | churning with rage and angst that you get, like, you make yourself sick. And I didn't believe her. |
| 0:34.0 | And then, you know, like three times in a row, it was like exactly correlated, like |
| 0:38.6 | me just being a punk and then getting literally, specifically a stomach bug. Now, everybody |
| 0:45.2 | hates throwing up, but as a child, like there was to me the absolute worst thing that could |
| 0:49.6 | happen. And so it actually like got to be a thing enough where I remember in fifth grade, her specifically, |
| 0:56.0 | like she wouldn't have to threaten spanking. |
| 0:58.2 | She wouldn't have to threaten any discipline. |
| 0:59.8 | All she'd have to do is be like, you're going to make yourself sick. |
| 1:03.6 | And that was enough to sober me right up. |
| 1:06.5 | You know, I couldn't be sure whether she was right about the connections, but I didn't want to vomit, |
| 1:12.2 | and so wasn't willing to find out. So it would like, you know, snap me out of it. |
| 1:15.8 | And I, this isn't parenting advice. I'm not approving, condoning. I'm just reporting the news here, |
| 1:22.1 | right? But then as I got older, I read in the Bible that maybe she was on to something, |
| 1:27.1 | because Proverbs 1722 says, a merry heart or cheerful disposition does good medicine, does good |
| 1:36.6 | like medicine. But look at this. A broken spirit dries the bones. There is a connection between how we feel and how we feel. |
| 1:49.6 | Title of this message is, this is why you feel miserable. This is why you feel miserable. Today we kick |
| 1:58.8 | off a brand new season in the life of our church. This is the |
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