ATTITUDE

Text John 3

There 're certain things that defines your personality, things that defines your fulfillment and your value.Your attitude is very important. Attitude is the only way to altitude, your way of doing things, your way of saying what you want to say. You can say something that is right with a wrong attitude and that destroy the right thing that you said. A lot of people in life are not necessarily doing something wrong; they just have a bad attitude, a wrong attitude.A lot of time we hear wrongly not because what was said was wrong but because we have wrong attitude in listening. Do you know this is one of the reason some people have defined themselves as taking one step forward and two step backwards. A lot of time everything seem to be alright but spiritually they are not fulfilled because they have a wrong attitude. A lot of time people with such attitude hardly discover that they have a wrong attitude. So they blame everyone else for the things that go wrong about them, they think someone else is responsible and the truth is no one is responsible, they just have a bad attitude.

Your attitude can define your personality, it can define your fulfillment, there are people who are not fulfilled at home, in their family. and always it looks like they are in the wrong house. You see they have got a wrong attitude they don't realize it, but they think everyone else is their problem. Sometimes at work, do you know there are multitude of people having exodus, they journey from company to company, from one organization to the other, they just can not be somewhere why? they have got a wrong attitude but they don't know it. They always see their wasted years and wasted time. Always they feel that there was someone else who didn't discover their greatness.


You see they know they are valuable but why can't anybody else fine their value? Cause chances are they've got a wrong attitude. There's so much to learn from Jesus. Many time in your life when you want to make progress,fine out about the master attitude and fine out about those whom Jesus praised. Why did he praised the one he praised? Go through the old Testament and fine out those he praised. Why did he praised them, what was peculiar to them, what was in their attitude Or in their character that was so impressive to God? In the New Testament one of the character that drew my attention was John the Baptist. Luke 7:28


Jesus said "of all men born of women there is no greater than John the Baptist"That's powerful.Jesus said John the baptist was greater than them all.Matthew 11:7-11

Notice that he did not say the least in the kingdom of God;rather he said the least in the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is that which Jesus has come to establish here on earth.Jesus is the head of the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of heaven is actually here on earth. The kingdom of God is in heaven and papa God is the boss of that one and he sent Jesus to establish the kingdom of heaven in earth and that is the kingdom we are a part of, that kingdom took off after his death, burial and resurrection.So its actually the church of the New Testament that's functioning in the earth, so that means, he's talking about those who are joint heirs with Christ.He's talking about us in the New Testament. The only reason he says we are greater is because we are the body of Christ and each one of us has been exalted to that place when we are seated together in Christ. So it's not just something about us as a people but as the body of Christ. Amen.


Notice how Jesus commended John. John3:22
There was controversy about baptism. There was a question about immersion, about deeping into water. In bible days, they had that problem about purifying or washing.So they fine John deeping people into the water and Jesus comes on the scene and was doing the same thing John3:26

In other words it was like they were stealing John's show. What did John say? who is that guy? Or don't mind him am bigger than him? Is that what he said? John3:27
What an answer! We are trying to find out John's attitude.What kind of man was he? I want to remind you that he did not know Jesus as good as we do. The man was spoken to by the spirit of God, like he would talk to anyone of us.He knew Jesus by prophetic revelation, so he would have been in competition with Jesus, he could have been upset or he would have said am the one Baptizing here, am the baptist! but he didn't do that! John 3:27-29

CONCLUSION

Your attitude can define your fulfillment in life. they are people who are not fulfilled not because things have gone bad but because they have a bad attitude.To be continue....