June 30, 2024  GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCHNeil McClendon, Lead PastorGospel Modeling BehaviorsActs 18:18-281. Vows, v. 18A vow is an informed expression of understanding that one submitsthemselves to in order to express gratitude, need or understanding.“Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near tolisten is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not knowthat they are doing evil. 2 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let yourheart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven andyou are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. 3 For a dreamcomes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words. 4When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has nopleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. 5 It is better that you should notvow than that you should vow and not pay. 6 Let not your mouth leadyou into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was amistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the workof your hands? 7 For when dreams increase and words grow many,there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.”-Ecclesiastes 5:1-72. If God wills, v. 21“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into suchand such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life?For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this orthat.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him itis sin.”- James 4:13-173. A teachable spirit, v. 24-28Four things that will help you become a more teachable person…a) Seek honest feedback by asking honest questions of honest peopleb) Get better at listening- Hearing is the auditory function of the ear.Listening is an emotional commitment to the person talking.c) Get thicker skin- seek to be convicted more than offended.d) Ingest and implement- people come to see you as teachable whenthey see things they have shared with you show up in your life.Mental worship…1. Is there a vow you need to make or want to make, for the nextmonth, that would communicate gratitude, need or understanding?2. If you wanted to change something about your life, what questionwould you ask and who would you ask?3. How do you express your dependence on God in decisionmaking?4. Are you better at hearing or listening? How would your spouse/significant other answer?5. What is one thing you want to better understand aboutChristianity?6. Can you learn from anybody? If not, what type of person is it hardforyou to learn from.