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The Porch

Treat Yo Self in Yo Twenties

The Porch

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In a world that says it's perfectly acceptable to get all you can, while you can - God's word tells us a different story. Throughout Proverbs, Psalms and Ecclesiastes, it's made clear that we have a very short time to find wisdom, love and life through a relationship with God.

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0:00.0

You know that lyric got some bad advice.

0:24.0

You know we're singing it. You're letting them wash over you. Right? Not what was true and

0:33.3

I don't want to write and pure and lovely. Whatever look good refuted. There's anything worthy of excellence or anything

0:39.3

excellent or worthy of praise. Let your minds dwell on these things. That song, man, it just washes over you and

0:44.2

you had to start to do this, don't you? We're young. The Bible says, man, the glory of young

0:50.4

man is a strength. In other words, you think you're never going to die, man. We're going to put the

0:54.8

sun out. I'm going to be around for a long time. We are young and we can burn bright and we can burn

1:01.3

long and we can burn forever. And there is nothing to do but to light it up. Get it while you can. This is

1:09.7

your 20s, man. This is just the practice round. Let's go around a few times. Let's not miss out now. We'll have a

1:17.1

chance to settle down later. Ever heard that advice? Ever thought it? Are you living it? A lot of you are.

1:27.3

Our buddy, JP, I know him well. Right? This was his story. You know, he kind of grew up around church in a

1:34.0

cultural way. But then he went to college and he drifted because when you're just around something,

1:39.3

kind of a cultural way, whatever culture you're around is going to jump on you. And it jumped all over JP, man.

1:46.3

He was being totally influenced by it. He was letting a lot of alcohol run through him and he was trying to

1:51.4

run through everything he could put his hands on. And his life was a wreck. And after a week, man, he couldn't

1:56.5

sleep. He was nervous. He was laying in bed. He picked up the phone. He called a friend and he said, man, I am stressed out.

2:01.8

I don't know what to do. I'm supposed to have the time of my life. I'm doing all the things that people say.

2:05.3

We'll make you have the time of your life. What am I supposed to do? And the advice he got on the other

2:09.7

phone was this, man. Hey, that's what we do, bro. This is the years. You go get it while you can treat yourself.

2:19.8

Right? This is the day to live it up. You can grow up later. Right? You be a log. You be a lesbian until graduation.

2:31.9

And then then you can go find you a man and raise the house, get you little white picket fence.

2:37.1

Ever heard that? It's worked its way into your vocabulary. And if there is any lie that is built into

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