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Never you know.

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Hey, hello.

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I'm shocked that we all kept it a secret from her.

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I know.

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I'm super shocked.

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Especially because Aaron and Arden moved furniture out there, I hung up one.

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Arden did it without complaining.

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Well, he took a lot of convincing to get him to help with the first place.

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He did help with kind of like pricing for the first half of it.

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That's huge help.

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Chris said she gave it away at the point that they were arguing.

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So I have Aaron and Arden move their dresser.

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Whatever name that was.

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She gave it away.

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And they were arguing with me because I made them put carpet strips under the movements.

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They scratched my brand new flooring.

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I told them to take them out because they were huge.

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I said, no, just take them out.

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I'm like, I can be months.

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Take them out.

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And Chris said she was dying of fear.

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Dad.

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Just leave them there.

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And I'm like, no, take them out.

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So, what is it?

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He's better than you.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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He got that for Christmas.

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I didn't know that.

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I found this.

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I'm the reputable owner of this floor.

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Yeah, so I bet you bought it.

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Yeah, I said I got the shirt for Christmas.

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I bet he was trying to get her.

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They could have found it except for something they cannot pick up their pillow.

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They have to be on the floor or something.

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I don't know.

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I heard that he had his wet boots.

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Where's the old?

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I guess he said he had his wet boots.

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I was a tiny little boy.

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I picked up the pillow so he could have it.

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I'm like, oh, shoot.

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I had my son.

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I'll do it.

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I had your stuff.

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I had Luke's stuff.

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I would sell all kinds of stuff.

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I remembered everything but that.

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That's really good.

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That's kind of sweet.

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I was in the frame so I was doing one straight.

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I was in the frame.

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Here we are.

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I'm going to get some cats.

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I'm going to get a lot of food.

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He's got a couple species on him.

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I'm going to get some weird ones.

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I'm going to get a bunch of them.

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That's awesome.

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And eventually we got the cats.

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I was supposed to do it really hard, but the cats slipped out.

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I was like, do you care if I mark up the door?

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I got four of them.

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I drove it into the side of the door.

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I moved it like that and it went a quarter inch.

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I did that 15 times.

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What are you doing to your body?

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What are you doing to your body?

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I did not.

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She was home between 13 and 18.

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That is hilarious.

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The two of you grabbed me up.

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Going out of the office, I think is right.

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It's trying to connect in my head.

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Ready?

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Ready?

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I got a black colorful one.

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I was painting.

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Get it!

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Dad?

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No.

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I checked my son.

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He's been out for a while.

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Tell me.

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He doesn't even defy the law and check.

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I do.

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Good morning.

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Good morning.

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I want to talk to you.

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Put the chair down.

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I want to speak.

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What?

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You are?

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I'm Sherry.

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Nice to meet you, Hungry.

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You have to learn how to pass.

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I'm a senior.

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I'm a senior.

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I'm 13.

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She comes up and she goes down.

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She climbs back up with me.

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I'm laying down like this.

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I'm just in return.

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I hope you weather.

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I don't know why it's so difficult to see the sun.

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Every day I see a light.

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Make sure he gets it.

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Make sure he gets it.

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You guys like my adventures, right?

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Hahaha.

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There's a cat.

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A door.

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Here.

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Yeah, where's he?

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He didn't start.

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I did.

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When I stopped to get my teeth done.

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I brought one of them over here.

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One of them is mine.

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It's yours.

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Oh, okay, yeah. She only showed me the two.

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I told Dan Rose he could have one of them

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as long as there couldn't be a use for it

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at the live station at the E-Rights.

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So I'll bleed it and take one home.

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I don't know if he took one or not.

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I don't know if he took one or not.

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I got one of them.

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I got one of them.

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When he rose up his sleeves

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He had just put another rinse on

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God is an awesome God

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There is thunder in his footsteps

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Lightning in his steps

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I got him an awesome God

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But the Lord wants him choking

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When he keeps him out of me

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It wasn't for the reason that he shed his blood

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His return is very close

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So you better believe that I got

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This awesome God

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I got

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This awesome God

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He raised

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God is an awesome God

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Where the sky was starless

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In the void of the night

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God is an awesome God

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He spoke into the darkness

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And created the light

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God is an awesome God

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Just around he pulled us up

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Pricing grace he gave us at the cross

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That hope it was worth it

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That hope it was worth it

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God is an awesome God

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Our God is an awesome God.

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He rears from heaven and earth with wisdom, power, and love.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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Our God is an awesome God.

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We believe it's been six years since we signed that piece of paper.

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Is that nuts?

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That's crazy.

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Six years have flown by very rapidly since we signed the Constitution

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and became a constituent of the New Heights College of Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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That is our official name.

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We had that big long name for a long time, and then even after the Constitution, we had kind of a big long name.

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And now we have just New Heights College of Baptist Church of East Toledo, which is kind of long.

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I'm just calling it New Heights College of. That's all I need to say to people.

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I'll get it. A lot of people already know what it is when I tell them.

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So that's pretty cool.

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Anyway, so that's next week.

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And that means after service, we will be doing our cookout and block party in the whole nine yards, as it were.

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And having a good time.

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We will be promoting it to the community.

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We have missed out on some opportunities to do that, but we will make good on our opportunities this week

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to the best we can to get the word out about that.

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And the last time we did something like that, it was pretty well received.

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It will be again Sunday.

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And then what's going on with the pantry on Sunday afternoon?

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We remember what we talked about that open at the end.

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OK, so pantry will be open at the end.

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So that'll be a blessing again.

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It's good because it should be hard to do both those at the same time.

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Anyway, so then don't miss it coming up.

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The week immediately after that is our all family fellowship.

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And we have the we have had for almost two months now, over two months now.

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In fact, the shelter house by the tennis courts by the playground at Pearson Park Reserve for us to be there.

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And so even if the weather is bad, God willing, it won't be.

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No, it's the one on the other side of the tennis courts.

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Oh, the other side of the tennis courts, yeah.

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So the one right next to the playground is very small.

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They make it bigger.

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OK, anyway, so we'll be away from the just a little bit away, but really within striking distance.

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OK, we got grass and we got fun.

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We got time together and and we're we're church quote, unquote.

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That's us anyway. So we are providing the meat.

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So if you're willing to help cook some of the meat that's being provided on top of bringing the other things that you're bringing, let us know and we'll get that done.

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But we're going to have meat there.

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And then the church, y'all, me, all we all are bringing the stuff that we're going to eat along with it.

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And if you're somebody who normally gets transported here on Sunday mornings, make your arrangements.

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Make sure that you're able to go that because that's actually Sunday afternoon as well.

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So the after church after pantry, I assume.

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Right. So after the pantry, we'll be going out to the park for our all family fellowship.

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What's the time? Five or five thirty.

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OK, so if you're knowing someone normally gets transported, you would normally go home and then you would get picked up again.

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That's not until five o'clock. OK, so if other arrangements are going to be made, then you need to talk to the people who transport you talk to people who allow you to come and all that and get that situated.

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And everyone is asked to participate and bring a little something to share food wise.

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So we'll have plenty of food. And that is not this coming Sunday.

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This Sunday is a cookout block party. Next Sunday is this two weeks from today.

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There we go. Is the event at Pierce Park.

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Again, don't miss it because you didn't know this date until right now.

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If you have exhortation, spiritual gift, I'm talking about that again.

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I'll mention it. The spiritual gets a little bit at inspiration all the time because it's really hard to do that.

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If you have exhortation, spiritual gift, June 1st, the evening of June 1st, the evening of June 1st, which is a Monday night.

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I will be here because I that's one of my spiritual gifts. Praise the Lord. And if you don't know what your spiritual gift is, I will talk about that in a minute.

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But if you have that, then June 1st, 6 p.m. in the cafeteria dinner provided.

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It's a one hour event where we will share our successes and failures using that spiritual gift.

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We'll talk about what it is. We'll eat together.

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This is going to be a new thing for us. And then going forward, we'll have additional fellowships, additional fellowships based around.

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Boy.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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So we'll have additional fellowships based around each other spiritual gift as we go on.

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We have a lot of these going forward. OK.

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All right. And then don't miss VBS, the Freedom Celebration.

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That's all coming. Human trafficking events, which is not us doing human trafficking.

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I'm just talking about human trafficking. We have some very important guest speakers who will be with us that evening.

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So it's just you block out time for that. You hear what they have to say.

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It's pretty cool what we might be able to do as Christians to make a difference.

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If you're not aware of it, Toledo is one of the top cities nationally.

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You think New York, San Francisco, L.A., Miami, Chicago like that.

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But per person, we are one of the top cities nationally.

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Part of it is because we're so connected to snatch somebody off the streets here or a lot of them come through here because of all the expressways that go both ways, the airport, trucking, international ships.

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They go in and out of the port thousands of them every year.

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All that kind of thing is a terrible thing. What goes on with that?

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And there'll be more details on that event.

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And then we'll end that at eight o'clock. So the kids will be a team kid, an extra half an hour.

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All the kids are excited about that. The youth will be with the adults in the human trafficking events.

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That's the current plan. And so you got your bulletin.

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They don't have their bulletin, but I encourage you to keep track of the events and be prepared to be involved in everything that's going on.

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And we're going to do it together as a body and we're going to give God the glory.

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So I want to thank you for those of you who sent me prayer requests Thursday, Friday.

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I did have a great time with prayer and fasting with the Lord. I was very blessed by God's presence.

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And a lot of things came out of that. You've been hearing about some of those things, not necessarily today,

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but going forward because I'm excited about it and I know that I did pray for every request that was sent to me multiple times.

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Some of them for as much as a half an hour each.

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And so praise God that I was able to do that and you supported me to be able to do that.

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And that's pretty cool. Say happy anniversary to RJ and Alicia. Today is their 12th anniversary.

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They don't even seem old enough to be married for 12 years.

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But when you look at their kids, you can believe it. Look at Jason. You can believe they've been married for 12 years.

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But 12 years today, praise God. That's one year for every tribe of Israel.

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I get told that all the time at work.

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But you just married them?

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Yeah. When I told the guys on the street how long I've been married, they went, no.

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Blessing the Lord keeps us young. So we've got some folks in our congregation that have been married a lot longer than that. Praise God.

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And it's kept them young too and doing a lot. So we're blessed.

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All right. So we're going to pray at this time and jump into worship.

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And I've asked and prearranged Caleb is going to have our opening prayer today.

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It's the Jesus show. You ready? All right. Here we go.

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Amen. Let's praise him.

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All right. It's about time again. So I need everyone on their feet if you are able.

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And I need all the young type people towards the front of the room.

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Yeah. Come on. They've got purses ready. You guys can come in front if you want.

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So we're going to dance to the beat.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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Come on.

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All right. You can stay standing. This one doesn't have motions, but it is a call and response, which means one part is going to start and the other part is going to echo.

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And we're going to do adults versus children.

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Molly, I think if you're an honorary child. Yeah. So adults will go first. Children under the age of 18 will go second.

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All right.

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All right.

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All right.

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All right.

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Good job.

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All right. It's inspirational moment time.

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And I have been inspired this week and I had a big long list of stuff I could have talked about.

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But I have my duty and I thought I said, Lord, do I need to do that? And the Lord said, yes, we need to do that. So I was talking about that first.

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Anything else? And that's spiritual gifts.

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I had a brother say to me this week, he said, I kind of lost the joy of serving the Lord.

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And I said, wow, I said, that's a tough spot to be in. I know that people have been there before.

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And I've been there at times before. And I thought about it when I was talking about how has God helped me when I've been in that spot before where I sort of lost the joy of serving the Lord.

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And I know there's a few things that God uses all the time.

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And you could probably go beyond this.

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But the first thing that this come out of my Sabbath rest that I just took in prayer time and fasting and the word and so on.

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One of those is that Sabbath rest.

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That rest, you are supposed to be intentional about marking time out, spending time with God.

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And yes, we are with God now, but we are with God collectively.

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Right. And there's part of you that is maybe bristled a little bit because the person next to you or the person that's next to you is not going to be able to do that.

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Maybe the person next to you or the person that's talking, maybe you're annoyed a little bit by my voice or somebody else is goofing off and they're distracting you or your mind is somewhere else.

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You got a problem.

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Like, I don't know how I'm going to get my money in line to pay that bill or whatever, things like that.

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And so there's always little things like that.

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But when you get alone with the Lord and it's just you and God, there's really only two things that are going on.

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And one is you're talking to God.

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The other one is you're listening to God.

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And that's it.

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It's very, very simple at that time.

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And when God talks to you or he says, get up and go do something, you find the strength to get up and go do it.

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And the joy comes with the strength God provides and fills it as you go.

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OK, now I know what I'm supposed to be doing.

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And that so one is that time and rest alone with God.

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That's the only way that God does it.

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The second way that God does it, you just did it.

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I hope you did it.

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You didn't.

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You really missed out on opportunity.

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We have just a little bit more opportunity left today.

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And that is worship.

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Worship is one of the ways that God adds joy to our service.

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And I want to talk a little bit about it during the sermon today.

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So I want to get ahead of myself.

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The bottom line is if you love God and you know who God is, you know what God has done, you know what God is doing, you know what God is going to do, then you've got a lot of reasons to praise God.

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And when you praise God that way, God fills up his people as they're praising him.

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When you recognize him and what he's done, if you're talking about what's going on in your life, that does not recognize God.

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You're talking to people about your opinions.

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That does not recognize God.

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You're talking to God about the problems that you have.

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That's not really recognizing God unless you're saying, okay, I understand only God can do it, then that's something.

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But if you're just complaining to God, that may comfort you, but that's not really about God.

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But when you praise in God, you're putting him first, you're recognizing who he is, what he's done, what he's doing, what he will do, and God fills us up with strength as we praise him.

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I can't tell you.

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More times than I have all my fingers and all my toes, and it's probably getting to the point where I have more times than all the bones in my body, which is a couple hundred, right?

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And I'm thinking more times that I thought, well, I don't really want to go worship, and then I get there and I start worshiping and I sing, and just get fueled up from the inside.

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It's not like when you're hungry, you go to McDonald's and they give you some money to give you a Big Mac meal and you feel not hungry anymore.

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It's like you feel like, oh man, I don't have it.

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I don't know if I can do it.

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And then you start doing it and you say, praise God.

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Hallelujah.

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Praise the Lord.

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You know, or you sing just that first few phrases and God just shows up and empowers it.

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So worship is a big way, right?

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There are lots of ways, as I said.

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The third one is what I want to talk about.

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That's just spiritual gifts.

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Everybody, from the moment that you were saved, the Holy Spirit goes out to you a specific spiritual gift, and maybe more than one.

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You might have one.

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You might have ten.

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Right?

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It's typical that those who have a lot of them have each one that they have to a lesser degree.

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That makes sense?

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If you have ten of something, each one might be less of a driving force in your life.

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But if you have one of them, it might be the thing.

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You know what I'm saying?

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It might be the only one that God's just made you just wired to do that.

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That's what you do.

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And the others, kind of like, very useful things, but it's not a gift from God.

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It's not really what drives you.

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And so when you exercise your spiritual gifts and you recognize that,

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and so for me, for example, with preaching, when I preach and I know I'm saying what God wants me to say,

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God empowers me from the inside.

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It's like a pat on the back spiritually.

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Like I'll go, man, I know I couldn't have said that.

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I couldn't have done that.

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I couldn't have figured that out.

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I couldn't have seen that there if it wasn't for God.

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And you get that lift from the inside.

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And I'm trying to explain to you a spiritual thing in human words.

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So I know it's hard if you've never felt God lifting you up from the inside.

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You don't know what I'm talking about when I say that.

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Right?

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If you've never felt drained or like run out of spiritual strength,

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I'm just, oh man, I still don't know if I can go on with what I'm trying to do for the Lord,

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then you might not understand what I'm talking about.

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And they're just words.

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I'm just saying words right now.

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I'm just going in one ear and out the other.

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But the bottom line is the word teaches us that God gave us a spiritual gift

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and that as each member of the body exercises their spiritual gifts,

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they themselves are lifted up by God.

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And then we collectively are lifted up by God.

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We're linked together by God.

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And we grow individually and corporately into the image of the living God,

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of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, and God in the flesh.

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We will never get to be like God.

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Not initially.

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We'll never be God.

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But we get to be a little bit more like God.

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And we can test and approve what His good will is

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as we walk our life and are renewed in our minds and grow and have that blessing.

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So know your spiritual gifts.

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Use your spiritual gifts.

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Now that's not, in a couple of cases, it's going to dictate the kind of ministry that you get into.

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But in most cases, it doesn't.

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For example, if you have a service and health spiritual gift,

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which is one of the spiritual gifts that people have,

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you could literally use that in any kind of ministry.

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You're just going to wind up boosting it, building it up in the background.

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You don't have to be in the limelight.

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You can just be able to drive in there and make a difference,

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fixing some problem, doing something that needs to be done,

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being the strong person, physically, emotionally, spiritually, whatever.

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You're going to be able to go in and do that.

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If you happen to have exhortation,

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which is more of an outward, outspoken encouragement,

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drawing people out to do what they're supposed to do,

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a lot of people with exhortation get into preaching.

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But that is not the only way, by any means, that it is used.

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And it isn't even only spoken.

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Sometimes it's written.

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Some people have a gift of exhortation built through writing.

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And so you can figure out how to use your spiritual gift.

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And then every time you use it, whatever ministry you use it in,

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every time you use it, you get that little attaboy and the joy of the Lord.

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How awesome is it when you realize you're doing something

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that you could not do in your own strength, but God is doing it for you.

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And that's that power of the spiritual gift.

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So if you haven't done so, get yourself a spiritual gift analysis.

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There are basically three ways that you can figure out what your spiritual gifts are.

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And they all kind of work together.

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The first one is take an analysis, take a second test.

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It says, do you do this? Put it out.

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Hey, number one through ten.

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Do you do this? Do you do this? Do you do this?

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And you just go down and listen to the questions and you number.

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This never happens to me. This always happens to me.

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And at the end you add them up, and it's going to tell you what, most likely,

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what your primary spiritual gifts are.

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Okay?

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Second best way, or second way that kind of goes in conjunction with that,

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but it's less so. I'll take them away if I hear them again.

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You hear me? Thank you.

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Alright. So the second best way is to ask people who know you.

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Work with your family, your loved one, your spouse, your kids, your friends,

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who you work with in ministry, and say,

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hey, I think, you know, here's my analysis that says I might have these five,

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or here's what I read in Scripture about these gifts, and I think I might have this.

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What do you think? Do you think I have that spiritual gift?

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Have you ever seen me do something weird with that that you couldn't quite explain?

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Or can you give me an example?

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And they'll help you digest it. They'll help you figure out, is it your spiritual gift?

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If you get in there and you go like,

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number two says I might have the gift of service,

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service and helps.

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And you go like, I don't think that's me.

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Before you dismiss it, you better ask the people who know you,

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because maybe you've been doing it and you don't even realize it.

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Alright?

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And then the third way is the word of prayer.

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Just read what they are in the Bible and pray and ask God and compare it to your life

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and let God point out to you.

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God may give you a vision in your head of you doing that thing

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and how you felt while you were doing it and how powerful that was in you.

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So there's nothing required, no biblical thing about taking a spiritual gift analysis or a survey.

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However, it's a very useful tool that you started.

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Prayer and the Word, that's how they did it before surveys were ever developed,

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was prayer and the Word and talking to others.

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And so you can do it by that means or you can do it by that means.

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But if you think you have the spiritual gift of exhortation,

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then I would like to invite you to have dinner with me on June 1st.

482
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,960
It's not going to be anything fabulous, it's going to be basic dinner.

483
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:51,960
We're going to eat something.

484
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,960
But we're going to spend time talking about what is the gift,

485
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,960
what can one do with it,

486
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,960
and then at the end we're going to have anecdotally tell stories

487
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,960
of what happened when somebody used their gift like that.

488
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,960
And then you'll be able to, hopefully out of that you'll be able to determine,

489
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,960
do I have it? What can I do with it?

490
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:11,960
That's the goal.

491
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,960
We're not going to study a lot of Scripture or a Bible to get.

492
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,960
It's not a Bible study, you're not coming to a Bible study.

493
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,960
It's a fellowship, it's a spiritual gift fellowship.

494
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,960
So it's us working together, now that we think we've figured that out,

495
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,960
what does that look like?

496
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,960
So that's June 1st and I want to tell you how to explain it.

497
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:28,960
I felt really convicted, I needed to stand up and talk about spiritual gifts

498
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,960
because somebody here didn't have a clue.

499
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,960
And we all think everybody in the room totally understands that,

500
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,960
but somebody didn't know, and now you've got it, I hope.

501
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,960
At least you have an opportunity.

502
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:39,960
Thank you.

503
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,960
Alright, so how has the Lord been speaking to you this week?

504
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:48,960
As I said, I have a long list, like longer than my, what is this called, Qubit?

505
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,960
Arvin, you got something? Alright, let's hear it.

506
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,960
There's another song that I've been listening to a lot.

507
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:55,960
Okay.

508
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,960
A song that speaks to you.

509
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,960
It's by the same person I did last week,

510
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:06,960
but it's a really good song and I'll explain a little bit more later.

511
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,960
After the song.

512
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:31,960
One, two, three.

513
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:40,960
Somebody save me, me from myself.

514
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:48,960
I spent so long living in hell.

515
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:57,960
They say my lifestyle is bad for my health.

516
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:06,960
It's the only thing that seems to help.

517
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:15,960
All of this drinking and smoking is hopeless, but feel like it's all that I need.

518
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,960
Something inside of me is broken.

519
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,960
I won't do anything that sets me free.

520
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,960
I'm a lost cause.

521
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,960
Baby, don't waste your time on me.

522
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,960
I'm so damaged beyond repair.

523
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,960
Life has shattered my hopes and my dreams.

524
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,960
I'm a lost cause.

525
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,960
Baby, don't waste your time on me.

526
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,960
I'm so damaged beyond repair.

527
00:34:53,960 --> 00:35:15,960
Life has shattered my hopes and my dreams.

528
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:23,960
What if the night sky was missing the moon?

529
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:32,960
There were no shooting stars to use wishing on you.

530
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:41,960
And all of my sorrows, I just want to slow down.

531
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:51,960
It's the only peace I've ever found.

532
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:59,960
All of this drinking and smoking is hopeless, but feel like it's all that I need.

533
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:02,960
Something inside of me is broken.

534
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,960
I won't do anything that sets me free.

535
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,960
I'm a lost cause.

536
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:16,960
Baby, don't waste your time on me.

537
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,960
I'm so damaged beyond repair.

538
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,960
Life has shattered my hopes and my dreams.

539
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,960
I'm a lost cause.

540
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,960
Baby, don't waste your time on me.

541
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,960
I'm so damaged beyond repair.

542
00:36:37,960 --> 00:37:05,960
Life has shattered my hopes and my dreams.

543
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:15,960
So like, part of the reason why I like this song so much is because to me it reminds me of who I used to be.

544
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:20,960
So before I got saved I always felt like I was a lost cause.

545
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,960
I always felt broken.

546
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,960
Nothing ever seemed like it was good enough.

547
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,960
No matter how hard I tried, nothing ever seemed like I was doing enough.

548
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:34,960
And even now today I still struggle with that sometimes because there's multiple times in my life

549
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,960
where I'll just sit back and wonder, am I ever doing enough?

550
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:40,960
Am I doing a good enough job with my dad?

551
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,960
Am I doing a good enough job with my husband?

552
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:43,960
A provider?

553
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,960
So it's like you always have those thoughts.

554
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:52,960
Especially, I mean this is mostly for the guys, but especially as men we're meant to provide.

555
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,960
We're meant to protect.

556
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,960
And I don't know if it's, well like I said, I'm not sure if it's a guy thing for sure,

557
00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:05,960
but to me it seems like a guy thing that we always have that feeling like it's not good enough.

558
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,960
Like nothing we do is ever good enough.

559
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:14,960
And then we start getting into a spot where we hold onto things that aren't really good for us.

560
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,960
Because it makes us comfortable, it makes us feel safe.

561
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:26,960
And in the song that's one of the things it says is he says all of the drinking and smoking feels hopeless,

562
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,960
but it feels like it's all that he needs.

563
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,960
So you know there's a problem, you know there's something that's wrong,

564
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:39,960
but it's the only thing that you think makes you feel at peace.

565
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,960
And like I said, for me that's how it was before I got saved.

566
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:50,960
I mean it's hard to go look back and realize where I was and realize where I am now,

567
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,960
because I've always wanted something to save me from it.

568
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,960
I've never wanted to live a life like that.

569
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,960
And I finally did and it's changed my life dramatically,

570
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:09,960
but this song is a reminder that you may feel like it's hopeless,

571
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,960
you may feel like it's a waste of time,

572
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,960
and you may feel like you're a lost cause, but with God you're not.

573
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,960
You're not a lost cause, you're not a waste of time, you're not a waste of space.

574
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,960
In God you are someone amazing.

575
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:31,960
And I think there's plenty of people in this room even that can testify to that,

576
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,960
because you look back who you used to be before you got saved,

577
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,960
and look where you're at now and look at how much God has done in your life.

578
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,960
Even the little things in your life become huge things now,

579
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:46,960
because you realize that it's God doing it.

580
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:54,960
Like something as simple as being able to raise children or just pay a bill

581
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,960
or have the extra money to go, hey I can help you do that if someone needs it.

582
00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:04,960
Just simple things in life become huge things because you know that now it's God doing it

583
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,960
and not you striving to find something else.

584
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:16,960
Good word, I thought you were going to preach the opening of my sermon there for a second.

585
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,960
I'm not getting ripped fast.

586
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,960
Come on, dance, get your dance on.

587
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:32,960
The plan was, the two of us, next thing you know the two of us are floating, drifting somewhere new.

588
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:40,960
And we've hit a shortcut, I'm trying to be a good sport, but I don't see how we make it through.

589
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:49,960
Remember the size of the world before, it was you and I, just you and I.

590
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:58,960
And now the horizon holds so much more, it's do or die, yeah it's do or die.

591
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:06,960
All I can do when the road bends is lead into the curb.

592
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:15,960
And all I can do when the tanks run dry is see what's in reserve.

593
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:24,960
And all I can do when the plants break down is stay on my feet.

594
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:35,960
And all I can do at the end of the day is play on, play on, or we'll keep the beat.

595
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,960
Hey, Bebo, are you scared?

596
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,960
You know, my daddy used to sing to me when I was scared.

597
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,960
So did Andres.

598
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,960
Hey, we can sing with the songs.

599
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:47,960
That was Cherisa.

600
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,960
I am here, just on another song, always in your corner, watching you soar.

601
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:58,960
Drumming is in my blood.

602
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,960
I can teach you if you want.

603
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,960
You're going to teach me how to play drums?

604
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,960
Here, Bebo, check this out.

605
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:07,960
Try a simple beat.

606
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:10,960
That thing you're doing is noise.

607
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:16,960
Observe.

608
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:18,960
Wow, you learn quick.

609
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:20,960
I must be a really good teacher.

610
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,960
Oh, my good.

611
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,960
Whoa, this sounds good.

612
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,960
Yeah, I see potential.

613
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,960
Raw talent.

614
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:36,960
Come on, Bebo.

615
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,960
Let loose, Grandpa.

616
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:39,960
Grandpa?

617
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,960
Did a grandpa do this?

618
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:44,960
Oh, yeah, Bebo.

619
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,960
Woo.

620
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,960
And now you've got a size of the world before.

621
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:55,960
Now it's you and I, yes, you and I.

622
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,960
And now the horizon is so much more.

623
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:04,960
And it's you or I, yes, you or I.

624
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,960
All I can do in the road bend.

625
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,960
We've got to make it, if I can go.

626
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,960
We've got to make it, if I can go.

627
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,960
All I can do when the tanks run dry.

628
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,960
We've got to go be a better man.

629
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,960
We've got to go be a better man.

630
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:27,960
All I can do when the plans pretty done.

631
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:28,960
I'm in a world full of pain.

632
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,960
I'm in a world full of pain.

633
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:39,960
All I can do at the end of the day is play on, play on.

634
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,960
Let's keep the beat.

635
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:44,960
Come on, you can't stop now.

636
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,960
Let's keep the beat going, partner.

637
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:48,960
Not the beat.

638
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:49,960
Not my partner.

639
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,960
Okay, pause it, turn the lights on.

640
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:53,960
So, that's Bebo.

641
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:54,960
That's an awesome movie.

642
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:55,960
Sit down with your kids, man.

643
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,960
Every time I watch it, I'm like, God's in this, God's in this, God's in this, God's in this, God's in this.

644
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:00,960
You just can't stop.

645
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:01,960
I mean, it's so inspirational.

646
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,960
It's such a great movie.

647
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:04,960
Probably number one movie of the year.

648
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:05,960
I only got like top five movies.

649
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:06,960
It's on Netflix.

650
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,960
But anyways, so just real quick, it's so cool.

651
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:16,960
As I like to talk about the youth of God, God is not, he's a billion, trillion years young.

652
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:17,960
He's not old.

653
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:18,960
He's eternal.

654
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,960
He's always young.

655
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:26,960
And you can see this girl pushing her youth and her compassion and mercy to this older monkey.

656
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,960
And I've seen the movie.

657
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,960
No one can understand him except us, the audience.

658
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,960
He goes, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp.

659
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,960
So, nobody knows his sarcasm when he's singing.

660
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,960
So, like, you know, she just thinks that she's teaching him how to play the drums.

661
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:41,960
And he's like, yeah, good job.

662
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:47,960
And he's just, and then it's the wisdom of God, the older monkey, that God is wisdom and always been around.

663
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:53,960
And he's out there just being patient, knowing that we're trying to grow, knowing that we're trying to learn.

664
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,960
It's just so awesome.

665
00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:01,960
And also, I just want to say, if you want to check it out, I'm going to do maybe a half an hour session on the whole video.

666
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,960
But that's Righteous Foundation or Holy Ground.

667
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:10,960
And Father, the Watchman, anybody on the podcast, if you hear this, 419-902-4899, reach out.

668
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,960
We're looking for those that are desperately hungry for encouragement.

669
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,960
We find people that don't get encouraged at all by anybody.

670
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:21,960
And so, if you need that real truth, real love and encouragement, reach out to New Heights and we'll reach out to you.

671
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:22,960
And that'll be me.

672
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,960
I'll be reaching out to you anyway I can.

673
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,960
Here's what I love about these verses.

674
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,960
Remember the size of the world before was you and I, just you and I.

675
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,960
So, just remember the size of the world.

676
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:32,960
It was just you and I.

677
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:33,960
It was me and God.

678
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:34,960
You know, it was just you and I.

679
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:35,960
We were good.

680
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:37,960
But then the horizon became so much more.

681
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:38,960
It got really big.

682
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:39,960
It got really hard.

683
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:40,960
It got really crazy.

684
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,960
And I don't mean to offend anyone, but I'm broken and busted.

685
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:45,960
So, people have been broken but not busted.

686
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,960
Taking advantage of, not truly discipled.

687
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,960
Whatever it was, I'm not talking about churches or nothing.

688
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,960
But God brought me back and discipled me.

689
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:53,960
And God uses that.

690
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:54,960
I'll say this real quick.

691
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,960
If you were in a football field and you were a football player, even you could play baseball.

692
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,960
You're not going on the baseball field right away.

693
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,960
You were trained for football.

694
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:04,960
That's what God does.

695
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,960
He takes someone who's broken and busted, reach out to people who are really broken and busted.

696
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,960
Patiently working with them.

697
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,960
Some people can't even understand it because they've never been through it.

698
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:14,960
I've been through it.

699
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,960
Ten years of just the hardest days of my life.

700
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,960
So, I can understand and relate to a lot of people.

701
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,960
So, the horizon is so much more.

702
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:22,960
Now it's do or die.

703
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:23,960
We can't just give up.

704
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:25,960
It's either we do it or we die.

705
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:26,960
We can't quit.

706
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,960
And then He says, all I can do.

707
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:29,960
And that's the best part.

708
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:34,960
And even at the end when the girl's singing that song, He's like, I'm still not going to listen to that.

709
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,960
All I can do, all we can do, Church, is when the road bends, is lean into the curve.

710
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:40,960
Amen.

711
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:41,960
We lean to the cross.

712
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:43,960
We lean to who God is.

713
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:44,960
We don't quit.

714
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:45,960
There's no other way to do it.

715
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,960
They're going to lean some other way to just keep going, but they're really not going.

716
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,960
Because we have to lean to our God that is absolutely sufficient in all of our needs.

717
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,960
And all I can do when the tanks run dry, because we're going to have tanks that are going to run dry.

718
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,960
We've got to see what's in reserve.

719
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:05,960
God is absolutely sufficient in everything that we have.

720
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,960
We're not running dry.

721
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,960
We have everything in reserve by God.

722
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,960
And then He says this, all I can do when the plans break down is stay on my feet.

723
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,960
The plans will break down, but we keep on the feet.

724
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,960
The gospel of peace, we keep walking in the peace of God.

725
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:24,960
They can't take away what we're doing.

726
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:26,960
They can't take away what we can do.

727
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:27,960
They can't take away what we could do.

728
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,960
They can't take it away because we stay on our feet with God.

729
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,960
We walk that path that the Lord has.

730
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,960
We ain't perfect, but it's not our path.

731
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,960
In Hebrews chapter 12 says, a race marked out for us.

732
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:39,960
Amen.

733
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:40,960
We didn't mark it out.

734
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:41,960
He marked it out.

735
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,960
It's all marked out for Him, us.

736
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,960
He's got the obstacles, the snares, and when you do get us trapped, He's got a way out.

737
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:50,960
He's got a refreshment station.

738
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:56,960
Every little thing is marked out for us, the church, everybody, not just you.

739
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,960
Even though it's a podcast, He's got a race marked out for you.

740
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:03,960
Finally, all I could do at the end of the day, because the day ends.

741
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:05,960
The day doesn't end for God.

742
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,960
The glorious Lord spoke every day in existence the very day He spoke it.

743
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:10,960
He knows when the day ends.

744
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:15,960
There is no end to the day, to us, because we need a day over.

745
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,960
We need to play on and play on and keep the beat.

746
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:24,960
So what it really means to me is, at the end of the day, follow the drum.

747
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:25,960
Follow the guitar.

748
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,960
Follow whatever it is that you keep listening to every day that God does.

749
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,960
Stay with that beat.

750
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:32,960
Don't give up the beat.

751
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:33,960
Don't try to change the beat.

752
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:35,960
Don't try to make the beat different.

753
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:40,960
Stay with the rhythm of what the Lord is doing in your life, what the Lord wants to do,

754
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,960
what the Lord is doing, because it's not your rhythm.

755
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:45,960
It's His.

756
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:46,960
All right.

757
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:47,960
All right.

758
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:49,960
Anybody else?

759
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:56,960
I'm going to add a little bit about what he was saying just for a minute about how you lean into it.

760
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,960
You have to lean into God.

761
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:03,960
So first thing that popped into my head was it's a lot like riding a motorcycle.

762
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,960
If you don't lean into the turn, you fall.

763
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:08,960
You go off road.

764
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,960
And that's how we are with God.

765
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,960
If we don't lean towards God, we fall.

766
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,960
And then we go off the road.

767
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,960
And then it makes it so much harder to give back.

768
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,960
How about you pray for us as we transition?

769
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:24,960
Dear Father, we thank you for this time together.

770
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,960
Thank you for everyone that's here.

771
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:32,960
God, thank you that we're able to do this because there's many places where we wouldn't be able to.

772
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,960
Thank you that you blessed us enough to be here.

773
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:41,960
Thank you for every household represented here, every person represented here, God.

774
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:49,960
And I pray that we're all here to learn more about you and to grow and to see your power work.

775
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:56,960
God, I just pray you bless everyone here, bless every family, and keep everyone safe.

776
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:11,960
In Jesus' name, amen.

777
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:50,960
Thank you.

778
00:50:50,960 --> 00:51:09,960
Amen.

779
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:32,960
How long, how wide is the love of Christ?

780
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:41,960
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

781
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:50,960
How long, how wide is the love of Christ?

782
00:51:50,960 --> 00:52:00,960
How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

783
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:16,960
With the saints and bounties high and wide, with our great hand, our love is open, with the earth, with our soul, and

784
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:35,960
How long, how wide is the love of Christ? How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

785
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:51,960
More than any one can ever hold, is love the tail, the ocean, till we overcome?

786
00:52:51,960 --> 00:53:09,960
How long, how wide is the love of Christ? How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

787
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:25,960
Higher than the mountains, deeper than the ocean, farther than the reach of the sky.

788
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:39,960
Higher than the mountains, deeper than the ocean, farther than the reach of the sky.

789
00:53:39,960 --> 00:54:07,960
How long, how wide is the love of Christ? How deep, how high is the love of Christ?

790
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:25,960
The spender of the key, the world in majesty, that all the earth rejoices, all the earth rejoices,

791
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:43,960
He reps himself in light, and what the sky is to hide, the temples at his voice, the temples at his voice.

792
00:54:43,960 --> 00:55:09,960
How great is our God, sing with me, how great is our God, oh sing, how great, how great is our God.

793
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:27,960
How great is our God, sing with me, how great is our God, oh sing, how great is our God.

794
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:47,960
God is bringing love, Father, Spirit, Son, Father in the land, Father in the land.

795
00:55:47,960 --> 00:56:13,960
How great is our God, sing with me, how great is our God, oh sing, how great, how great is our God.

796
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:35,960
How great is our God, sing with me, how great is our God, oh sing, how great, how great is our God.

797
00:56:35,960 --> 00:57:03,960
How great is our God, sing with me, how great is our God, oh sing, how great, how great is our God.

798
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:26,960
How great is our God, sing with me, how great is our God, oh sing, how great, how great is our God.

799
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:54,960
There is a candle in every soul, some brightly burning, some dark and cold.

800
00:57:54,960 --> 00:58:07,960
There is a Spirit who brings the fire, ignites a candle and makes us whole.

801
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:24,960
Carry your candle from the darkness, seek out the wilderness, to use it more.

802
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:37,960
Take your candle, take your candle, and go light your world.

803
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:46,960
Take your candle, and go light your world.

804
00:58:46,960 --> 00:59:00,960
Brush any water, see how it's dried you, light with a candle, so melt away.

805
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:16,960
See now your sister, she's been cropped and lied to, so hold the candle without a flame.

806
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:31,960
Go into the darkness, seek out the lonely, tired and poor.

807
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:51,960
We're all to see it, take your candle, and go light your world.

808
00:59:51,960 --> 01:00:06,960
We are a family, our souls are crazy, so let's raise our candles out of the sky.

809
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:22,960
With our Air passionate,quency through fire, it moves from ahead of ours,

810
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:34,960
I can't go, I'm too the darkness Seek out the wilderness, to see them fall

811
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:47,960
I can't go, I'm too see them Take in your drizzle, you're like the moon

812
01:00:47,960 --> 01:01:02,960
I can't go, I'm too the darkness Seek out the wilderness, to see them fall

813
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:17,960
I can't go, I'm too see them Take in your drizzle, you're like the moon

814
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:34,960
I can't go, I'm too see them Take in your drizzle, you're like the moon

815
01:01:47,960 --> 01:02:14,960
It has occurred to me a number of times during my Christian walk as RJ began to touch on and I warned he was touching on the illustration of the sermon that I have wanted to do something more for God.

816
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:18,960
Has that ever happened to you? Has there ever been a moment in time where you say I want to do something more for God?

817
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:26,960
Like maybe somebody is hurting and you're talking with them and suddenly you get this kind of internal urging that you really desperately need to say the right thing?

818
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:36,960
Or you're working in the church and the church is talking about a mission trip or giving or serving in some certain way and you go I really feel like I want to do something more for God.

819
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:44,960
There is a grave danger in wanting to do something more for God in a good way and a bad way.

820
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:57,960
There is a grave danger in wanting to do something more for God because you can want to do something more for God and start to do something that isn't for God or about God or doesn't really fit the bill so to speak.

821
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:09,960
And that's the story today that we're going to hit on. It comes to us in a unique way and in a moment after we go to the text and you're with me there I'll give you the history and the background of the text.

822
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:14,960
Alright so grab your Bibles if you would and go with me to 2 Samuel chapter 6.

823
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:30,960
Amen praise God. This is all about God's words. I'm here on in and whatever it is that God would have us to say.

824
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:43,960
Alright 2 Samuel chapter 6. Now as I said I'm going to give you a little bit of brief background. I'm not going to go back and read the text. If I read everything that we needed to understand everything that was going on in this very historic text we would be here way too long.

825
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:54,960
So I'm going to give you the summary. The bottom line is the Ark of the Covenant is not in Jerusalem. David has taken control of Jerusalem and his seat is there and he's doing well.

826
01:03:54,960 --> 01:04:00,960
He has many houses and that kind of thing. He's prospering in Jerusalem but the house of the Lord is not in Jerusalem.

827
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:14,960
And it gets in David's mind to move the Ark back. The reason the Ark is not in Jerusalem is because you may recall there were two sons of Eli who were unfaithful to the Lord.

828
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:24,960
They were not serving God the way they were supposed to. Eli in his youth had been a high priest and had been serving the Lord faithfully but then as he raised his sons he didn't do a good job and his sons moved away from God.

829
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:31,960
They took the best of the offering for themselves and things like that. That's how Samuel kind of comes on the scene.

830
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,960
Samuel is a young boy and that household is raised by Eli and dedicated to God.

831
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:41,960
There's a certain day at which the Israelites go out against the Philistines in war and they take the Ark of the Covenant with them.

832
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:45,960
They already had fought for a couple of days and they were losing badly and they thought we're going to take the Ark of the Covenant.

833
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:52,960
We can't lose if we take the Ark of the Covenant with us. They took it out there and they lost it into the hands of the Philistines.

834
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:58,960
The Philistines are an ungodly people who had nothing to do with God. They were not Israelites. No blood in them. No semi-blood in them at all.

835
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:04,960
In fact, they were a seafaring people and nobody historically really knows where they came from and settled exactly.

836
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:10,960
But the bottom line is they captured the Ark of the Covenant, God's seat or his footstool on the earth.

837
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:19,960
At that same moment when the messenger came and told them that Phineas and I just lost his other name. It will come to me in a second.

838
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:25,960
Gosh, the two sons names. I had them memorized and I forgot them. I'll get them in a minute. They'll come back to me.

839
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:34,960
Anyway, the two sons of Eli were slain in the battle and the Ark was captured.

840
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:39,960
At that same time, Eli, when he got the news, he fell over backwards off his chair, broke his neck and died.

841
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:45,960
That was the end of that priestly line, if you will. The Ark went into the control of the Philistines.

842
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:54,960
After that happened, the Philistines had moved it from city to city and everywhere they moved it, plagues struck them and horrible things were happening to them.

843
01:05:54,960 --> 01:06:07,960
They said, we've got to get rid of this. So they put it on a new cart on two oxen who would be separated from their families and might turn the other way.

844
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:16,960
They put them on a road aimed back toward Israel and the cart was marching along back toward Israel.

845
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:25,960
But as it got near to Israel, they were afraid to accept it. They were afraid. What's that?

846
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,960
Haphni and Phineas. Thank you. Couldn't get that other name.

847
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:31,960
But anyway, they were afraid to accept the cart back in Israel.

848
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:39,960
The Philistines stopped at the border and they contacted a nearby town and they said, you take the cart, you take the Ark of the Covenant.

849
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:41,960
They were Israelites. They said, okay, we'll do it.

850
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,960
They took it into their town and they had it. Then they began to be blessed. They were being incredibly blessed.

851
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,960
God's people, Ark of the Covenant, they were being incredibly blessed.

852
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:54,960
They said, we're going to move the Ark up to Jerusalem, first try. This is during Saul's day.

853
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:58,960
While they were moving it up, there was a man named Uzzah who was walking along behind it.

854
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:03,960
He had helped to care for the Ark of the Covenant and the house where it had been stored for a while.

855
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:09,960
He's walking along behind and the oxen stumbles. As the oxen stumbles, he reaches out to steady the Ark of the Covenant.

856
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:12,960
God strikes out and kills him just like that.

857
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:17,960
They're like, oh gosh, how can we bring this Ark, that holiness of God, how can we bring the Ark up?

858
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:29,960
They named that place the place where God struck out and killed Uzzah. They moved it aside into the house of an Israelite who would take care of it.

859
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:34,960
You're not getting all the details here. The bottom line is, and then of course his house begins to get blessed.

860
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:37,960
Now we're in David's day and that's where we pick up the story.

861
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:41,960
David is thinking about bringing the Ark of the Covenant up.

862
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:46,960
This is what he hears in verse 12, 2 Samuel 6, verse 12. It says this.

863
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:53,960
It was reported to King David that the Lord had blessed Obed-Edom's family and all that belongs to him because of the Ark of God.

864
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:58,960
That's the house where they had gone aside and put the Ark in there and they're taking care of it and keeping it safe and whatever.

865
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:03,960
So David went and had the Ark of God brought up from Obed-Edom's house to the city of David with rejoicing.

866
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:08,960
When those carrying the Ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

867
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:12,960
David was dancing with all his might before the Lord, wearing a linen ephod.

868
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:16,960
Now if you go over and read the other account of this, just to be clear for one second,

869
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:19,960
if you go over and read the other account of this over in Chronicles,

870
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:26,960
you'll see that this time they have actual Coathites who are holding the poles and carrying the Ark the way it's supposed to.

871
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:32,960
The first time when they moved it up, when Uzzah was killed, they just put it on a new cart like the Philistines had done.

872
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:37,960
But now they've gone back and they've looked at exactly how you're supposed to carry it and so they're doing it right.

873
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:43,960
Now with that they sacrificed at the first six steps, but David is now dancing with all his might before the Lord,

874
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:48,960
wearing a linen ephod, which is basically a loose-fitting soft garment.

875
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:56,960
To us it would look like he was wearing almost like pajamas or bath clothing, but it's over wraps.

876
01:08:56,960 --> 01:09:02,960
He and the whole house of Israel were bringing up the Ark of the Lord with shouts and the sounds of the ram's horn.

877
01:09:02,960 --> 01:09:09,960
As the Ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul's daughter, Michal, looked down from the window

878
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:14,960
and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

879
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:18,960
So there he is in what is almost kind of like a little bit of, you know, almost like an underwear type situation going on,

880
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:23,960
in very loose-fitting clothing, probably showing more of what he than he should.

881
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:27,960
He's being very flamboyant because he's dancing and whatever, but he's focusing on God.

882
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:35,960
And she sees him dancing in front of all these people and whatever moves her, she begins to despise him in her heart.

883
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:40,960
Now there is a story and a background you may know or you may not know, and again I'm going to summarize it,

884
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:43,960
we're not going to read the text, but you need this background to understand her position.

885
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:48,960
So Michal has probably been wronged by David, in fact she's probably been wronged by just about everybody.

886
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:52,960
She loved David in the beginning.

887
01:09:52,960 --> 01:10:00,960
See David was promised the older daughter of King Saul in the early days, and then King Saul tricked him.

888
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:07,960
And instead of giving him his older daughter, which would have put him in line for the throne, he gave him his younger daughter.

889
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:12,960
But it says in that text that she loved David.

890
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:17,960
So Michal loved David and became his loving and supporting wife.

891
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:26,960
Then later, and the same story, five verses later, Saul demands a payment for the betrothal,

892
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:34,960
and David has to go and kill a bunch of Philistines and brings back 100 Philistine foreskins for her betrothal.

893
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,960
That's his dowry, which he does do that.

894
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:44,960
And then you know how things erupted between him and Saul, and Saul tried to kill him a couple of times,

895
01:10:44,960 --> 01:10:50,960
and then he's chased out in the country with some guys who are pretty much like the dregs of society, but they're very strong.

896
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:56,960
And while that happens, Saul gives Michal to another man.

897
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:04,960
Now they've never literally been married, they've never slept together, but he gives his daughter Michal to another man.

898
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:09,960
So then fast forward, David, three incidents, could have killed Saul, didn't, whatever, all that happened.

899
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:13,960
Saul and Jonathan are eventually killed. David comes back and becomes the king.

900
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,960
Then he asks, well, where's my wife that I was promised?

901
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:20,960
Now by the time that happens, David has already married Abigail.

902
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:25,960
Now you remember her, she's in the countryside, David's out there with his men, they're hungry,

903
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:29,960
and he goes to this man and he says, give me some food and water for my men.

904
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:33,960
And the guy's like, I don't know you from Adam, I'm going to help you, could be treason, whatever.

905
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,960
And then he goes out and the men start talking and they decide they're going to go back and punish him and take what?

906
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:41,960
Because David is the rightful king, ordained by Samuel, right?

907
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:43,960
But they say, well, they're going to go back and punish him.

908
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:48,960
And Abigail comes out and meets him and says, my husband spoke wrongly, he didn't understand, forgive him, whatever.

909
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:55,960
And so he winds up killing her husband and taking her as wife and Abigail becomes his first wife.

910
01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:59,960
Then he later goes and he's staying away still and he takes another wife.

911
01:11:59,960 --> 01:12:07,960
So he's got two wives already and then he goes back and he says, I want Michal, the first wife that I was promised, that loved me and I loved her and I want her.

912
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,960
So he takes her away from her current husband.

913
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:21,960
Now as her husband, as she is forced to walk up to Jerusalem to be David's wife, her husband walks behind her miles, like over ten miles, walks behind her all this distance, weeping the whole time.

914
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:28,960
When they get to Jerusalem, David takes Michal into his house, was supposed to be his first wife, but was never technically his wife.

915
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:34,960
And then he marries her and then he sends her husband away, back home.

916
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,960
So she's been wronged in every possible way.

917
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:43,960
She's had it really bad, so people think that David did this to her, or that Saul did this to her, and I think that's pretty accurate.

918
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:52,960
I think Saul did this to her, because he first gave her without her permission to David and then took her and gave her to another man and she was just trying to legally be obligated to her husband.

919
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:57,960
And then David comes in and by his own right, he had the right to do so, took her back.

920
01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:03,960
So I think Saul is the one who kind of did it to her, but whether Saul did it or David did it, I want you to see God did it.

921
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:08,960
God allowed it. I'm not saying God was punishing her for anything, I don't know that.

922
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:12,960
I just know some bad things happened in her life and God allowed those bad things to happen.

923
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:18,960
That's where she is the day she looks out and she sees David leaping and dancing before the Lord.

924
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:21,960
And she despised him in her heart, that's the full circle.

925
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:27,960
She loved him when she was first betrothed to him, now she despises him.

926
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:33,960
Then it says in 17, they brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent David had pitched for it.

927
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:37,960
Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the Lord's presence.

928
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:42,960
When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of armies.

929
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:44,960
That's our God, the God.

930
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:52,960
Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community, both men and women.

931
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:55,960
Then all the people went home.

932
01:13:55,960 --> 01:14:01,960
Verse 20, when David returned home to bless his household, Saul's daughter, Michal, came out to meet him.

933
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:04,960
How the king of Israel honored himself today, she says.

934
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:07,960
You can hear the snarkiness, this sarcasm in her voice.

935
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:09,960
How the king of Israel honored himself today.

936
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:14,960
So she accuses David of honoring himself.

937
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:24,960
She said, he exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects like a vulgar person would expose himself.

938
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,960
In other words, you danced barely clad in front of all these people.

939
01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:30,960
All these people saw you dancing.

940
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:36,960
And she accuses him of exposing himself and honoring himself, but not God.

941
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:47,960
21 says, David replied to Michal, it was before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord's people Israel.

942
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,960
So in other words, I danced not for myself, but before God.

943
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:56,960
I humbled myself before God and let everybody see that I was humbling myself before God is what he says.

944
01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:02,960
Then he says, however, by the slave girls you spoke about, I will be honored.

945
01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:12,960
In other words, they will recognize she didn't, but they would recognize that he was dancing and making a fool of himself, if you want to say that, before the Lord.

946
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:16,960
He was humbling himself before the Lord and honoring God.

947
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:20,960
And the slave girls would recognize that, but Michal was not recognizing that.

948
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:22,960
You follow?

949
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:30,960
And then it says this, and this is a terrible proclamation for her, and it says, and Saul's daughter, Michal, had no child to the day of her death.

950
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:36,960
So at that point in time, as far as we've gotten, that is the end of the house of Saul, essentially.

951
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:38,960
At least the ruling house of Saul. It's done.

952
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:45,960
There will be no more male heirs to take the throne, with one small exception who would never be able to take the throne.

953
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:48,960
So her line is dead.

954
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:57,960
She did not recognize what David was doing when he danced in a linen ephod before the Lord and honored God and then blessed all the people.

955
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:01,960
She didn't recognize what he was doing, and her line is dead.

956
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:03,960
Her house is dead.

957
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:04,960
Now chapter 7.

958
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:10,960
When the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, so everything is going perfectly,

959
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:18,960
the king said to the prophet Nathan, Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.

960
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:23,960
So Nathan told the king, Go and do all that is on your mind, for the Lord is with you.

961
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:26,960
So Nathan was the prophet and he told the king, Go and do everything that you plan to do.

962
01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:28,960
It's all going to be honoring to God.

963
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:30,960
Verse 4.

964
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:33,960
But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan.

965
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:37,960
Go to my servant David and say, This is what the Lord says.

966
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:41,960
Are you to build me a house to dwell in?

967
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:42,960
Hear that?

968
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:43,960
It's an accusation, if you will.

969
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:45,960
He says, Are you to build me a house to dwell in?

970
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:50,960
From the time I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until today, I have not dwelt in a house.

971
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:54,960
Instead I have been moving around with a tent as my dwelling.

972
01:16:54,960 --> 01:17:02,960
In all my journeys with all the Israelites have I ever spoken a word to one of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel,

973
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:05,960
asking, Why haven't you built me a house of cedar?

974
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:09,960
In other words, is this a thing I've ever asked you to do?

975
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:11,960
To build me a house?

976
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:14,960
So now this is what you are to say to my servant David.

977
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,960
This is what the Lord of Armies says.

978
01:17:17,960 --> 01:17:23,960
I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, to be a ruler over my people Israel.

979
01:17:23,960 --> 01:17:24,960
This is basically what he says.

980
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:30,960
You were nothing, the lowest of the low, and I have made you everything.

981
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:33,960
I have made you king under me over my people.

982
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:40,960
I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies from before you.

983
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:45,960
I will make a name for you like that of the greatest on the earth.

984
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:54,960
I will designate a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them so that they may live there and not be disturbed again.

985
01:17:54,960 --> 01:18:03,960
The evil doers will not continue to oppress them as they have done ever since the day I ordered judges to be over my people Israel.

986
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:06,960
I will give you rest from all your enemies.

987
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:10,960
So in other words, God says, Have I ever asked you to do that?

988
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:13,960
Listen, let me tell you what I'm going to do.

989
01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:15,960
And God just turned it around, didn't he?

990
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:21,960
Instead of making it about what David needed to do for God, God said, Now let me tell you what I'm going to do for you.

991
01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:27,960
The Lord declares to you, the Lord himself will make a house for you.

992
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:33,960
When your time comes and you rest with your fathers, I will raise you up.

993
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:40,960
I'm sorry, I will raise up after you your descendant who will come from your body and I will establish his kingdom.

994
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:42,960
He is the one who will build a house for my name.

995
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:47,960
So he's talking about Solomon and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

996
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:54,960
So in other words, not only will there be Solomon after you will build the house, but on top of that, there's going to be somebody on the Davidic throne forever.

997
01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:55,960
Almost done.

998
01:18:55,960 --> 01:19:01,960
I will be his father and he will be my son.

999
01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:07,960
When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a rod of men and blows from mortals.

1000
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:16,960
But my faithful love will never leave him as it did when I removed it from Saul, whom I removed before you from before you.

1001
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:25,960
Your house and kingdom will endure before me forever and your throne will be established forever.

1002
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:30,960
Nathan reported all these words and this entire vision to David.

1003
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:32,960
So David got it just exactly as that.

1004
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:34,960
All right.

1005
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:38,960
So a few things I want you to see in here and some of it's a little tough.

1006
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:42,960
The first thing I want you to see is that David wanted to do something more for God.

1007
01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:43,960
He wanted to bless God.

1008
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:50,960
Out of his humble heart, dancing in front of the coming Ark of the Covenant in an ephod, kind of shamefully, if you will.

1009
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:52,960
I mean, he's king or he could have been in a crown.

1010
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:54,960
He could have had a rod.

1011
01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:55,960
He could have had a golden cloak on.

1012
01:19:55,960 --> 01:19:56,960
You know what I'm saying?

1013
01:19:56,960 --> 01:20:03,960
He could have really been decked out and he could have shown all the people how awesome God is because of how much God had blessed David.

1014
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:04,960
Right.

1015
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:18,960
But instead, he put on the simplest of garments, maybe exposing a little bit too much of himself and danced joyfully and humbly and honored God before the Ark of the Covenant.

1016
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:20,960
We know he had a heart.

1017
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:21,960
He wanted to bless God.

1018
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:25,960
So then out of that heart that he wanted to bless God, you can see Nathan do that too.

1019
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:26,960
Right.

1020
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:28,960
Because Nathan said, just do whatever is in your mind to do for God.

1021
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:29,960
It's going to be great.

1022
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:31,960
That was Nathan's initial reply.

1023
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:35,960
But then God said, all these years I have lived in a tabernacle.

1024
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:39,960
All these years I've lived in a tent that went here and there and everywhere.

1025
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:45,960
Have I ever told anyone, any Israelite, anytime ever to build me a house made of cedar?

1026
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:46,960
Have I ever done that?

1027
01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:52,960
And David's like, well, it would have to say in response to Nathan the prophet who comes and says, well, no, you never did tell me to do that.

1028
01:20:52,960 --> 01:20:53,960
Right.

1029
01:20:53,960 --> 01:20:54,960
I've never done that.

1030
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:56,960
God said, I've never done that.

1031
01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:01,960
David had a heart that wanted to bless God and that led him to want to build God a house.

1032
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:04,960
I want to do something magnanimous, something huge.

1033
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:09,960
Remember we talked about last week about how we were into grand gestures.

1034
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:11,960
And the week before we were talking about grand gestures.

1035
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:15,960
We've got this idea that I want to do something that only I can do for God.

1036
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:22,960
Every time you say, I want to do something that only I can do for God, you forget that God can do everything for himself.

1037
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:27,960
God does not actually need you to do anything at all for him.

1038
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:33,960
Our actions and things that we do for God, they are not to honor God.

1039
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:36,960
We make it out to be like, oh, I'm going to go one step further.

1040
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:37,960
I'm giving tempers.

1041
01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:38,960
I'm going to give 11.

1042
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:39,960
I'm going to give 19.

1043
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:42,960
I'm going to show up an extra five hours and work harder.

1044
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:43,960
I'm going to push harder.

1045
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,960
I'm going to go until I'm sore and tired and got nothing left.

1046
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,960
And we make it out like we're somehow providing something for God.

1047
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:54,960
We want to bless God in some way.

1048
01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:56,960
David knew that God is good.

1049
01:21:56,960 --> 01:21:58,960
And you should as well.

1050
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:04,960
Out of what God has already done in your life, you should realize that God is good.

1051
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:10,960
But also realize that when people see you and see you do something amazing for God, we have this conversation.

1052
01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:12,960
Alicia said it beautifully in the team meeting.

1053
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:15,960
She said, when people come and they see all that we do for God, they get a little intimidated.

1054
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:20,960
They're like, I can't imagine how you do all that, and they get fearful of doing that to living like that.

1055
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:21,960
And we do a lot.

1056
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:30,960
And our church, being as small as it is, has the biggest footprint of literally any church that I am aware of anywhere.

1057
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:34,960
I know there are mega churches that will say they've planted 40 churches and so on.

1058
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:38,960
But no church of this size has ever done what we have done.

1059
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:39,960
But we haven't done it.

1060
01:22:39,960 --> 01:22:41,960
God did it.

1061
01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:43,960
So people look at us and they go, look at you, what you've done.

1062
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:44,960
I can't be like that.

1063
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:45,960
That's too much.

1064
01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:46,960
You're asking me too much.

1065
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:50,960
People see you, and when they see you, they don't see God.

1066
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:52,960
They don't.

1067
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:56,960
Do you expect people to look at you and see God because of the mighty works that you are doing?

1068
01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:59,960
Even if they see you, it's like, wow, he's incredible.

1069
01:22:59,960 --> 01:23:00,960
How can you do that?

1070
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:01,960
He can do what nobody can do.

1071
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:04,960
There are magicians that can do what nobody can do.

1072
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:08,960
And they don't go, oh, there's a magician over there that made the Statue of Liberty disappear on TV.

1073
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,960
Man, I've got to go praise God about that.

1074
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:15,960
Unless they already have a heart to praise God, they're not looking at them and going, well, that's incredible.

1075
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:20,960
The people who wrote series and became like J.K. Rowling, everybody knows that name in all the world.

1076
01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:22,960
Everybody knows J.K. Rowling because they wrote Harry Potter.

1077
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:24,960
And you're like, well, I didn't know that.

1078
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:26,960
But most people in this room probably did.

1079
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:31,960
But people don't look at Harry Potter or J.K. Rowling and go, oh, man, God.

1080
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:34,960
Yeah, I can see definitely God did that.

1081
01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:39,960
Because there have been other people who have written, right?

1082
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:41,960
God will see you.

1083
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:45,960
They will see you.

1084
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:47,960
They will not see God through you.

1085
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:48,960
Not inherently.

1086
01:23:48,960 --> 01:23:49,960
Not because you do something mighty.

1087
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:51,960
Not no matter what you decide to do for God.

1088
01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:52,960
It will not happen.

1089
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:59,960
So the question is, how will you lift him up and yet get out of the way so that he can be seen?

1090
01:23:59,960 --> 01:24:01,960
If there is a line, it's God.

1091
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:04,960
And I'm not, somebody out there is going to go, this is a radical, man.

1092
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:05,960
He's going to be all kinds of trouble.

1093
01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:06,960
It's God.

1094
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:07,960
And then it's us.

1095
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:08,960
And then it's the lost people of the world.

1096
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:10,960
Now, it's not actually like that, right?

1097
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:12,960
We're actually in all amongst them and all kinds of things.

1098
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:15,960
But if there was a line like that tracking spiritual growth, spiritual positioning, whatever,

1099
01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:18,960
it would be God, Christians, lost people.

1100
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:19,960
That would be the line.

1101
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:20,960
If there was a line.

1102
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:21,960
There isn't.

1103
01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:22,960
But if there was, that would be the line.

1104
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:27,960
And if you're there and you're holding up God, yes, God, yes, God, and they're looking at the bottom of your feet,

1105
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:28,960
they can't see God.

1106
01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:29,960
They just see the bottom of your feet.

1107
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:33,960
They see your butt end going, yeah, God's awesome.

1108
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:35,960
Right?

1109
01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:39,960
I went to a concert some years ago with the guys in our family.

1110
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:40,960
Went to an NF concert.

1111
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:41,960
It was really cool.

1112
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:46,960
I watched 80% of the concert on the cell phones of the people in front of me.

1113
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:47,960
Literally.

1114
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:48,960
I'm not joking.

1115
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:51,960
Because everybody has their cell phone up like this, video in the concert, right?

1116
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:55,960
And because I couldn't see past the heads of the people in front of me very well,

1117
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:58,960
and I certainly couldn't see past their upraised cell phone arms,

1118
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:00,960
and I could see lights and action and stuff.

1119
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:02,960
But man, I could see it on the cell phones real good.

1120
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:05,960
So I'm watching the people in front of me, there's like 10 cell phones,

1121
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:09,960
and I could see the scene and the smoke and the lights and the artists and everything.

1122
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:10,960
I could see it beautifully.

1123
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:11,960
That's what it is.

1124
01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:17,960
But what's happening is you're focused on God, and people are looking at you,

1125
01:25:17,960 --> 01:25:18,960
and there's nothing.

1126
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:19,960
There's no screen.

1127
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:21,960
There's no projection.

1128
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:24,960
There's no way for them to watch what you're watching.

1129
01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:28,960
You're not a scrying device into another realm.

1130
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:32,960
So how are you going to serve the Lord and honor Him and lift Him up

1131
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:35,960
and still get out of the way for people to be able to see?

1132
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:37,960
Well, David got it.

1133
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:39,960
This part of his example is awesome.

1134
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,960
He totally figured it out.

1135
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:45,960
If you want people to see God and see what God has done,

1136
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:48,960
you have to humble yourself before God.

1137
01:25:48,960 --> 01:25:50,960
Before we're through, I'll give you one practical step of that,

1138
01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:55,960
but I want to read from the speakings of another man who figured the same thing out,

1139
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:57,960
and it's John the Baptist.

1140
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:05,960
If you would go with me to John 3, verse 30, if you're following along.

1141
01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:07,960
John chapter 3.

1142
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:10,960
So John chapter 3 is a great chapter, by the way, obviously,

1143
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:12,960
because Nicodemus is in here before we're through.

1144
01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:14,960
There's some really good stuff.

1145
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:17,960
But I just want you to dial in on one little set of comments,

1146
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:19,960
and I'll go back to verse 27.

1147
01:26:19,960 --> 01:26:22,960
So John, that's John the Baptist, responded.

1148
01:26:22,960 --> 01:26:25,960
So this is chapter 3 in verse 27.

1149
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:26,960
John the Baptist responded.

1150
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:30,960
No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

1151
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:34,960
You yourselves can testify that I said I am not the Messiah,

1152
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:37,960
but I have been sent ahead of him.

1153
01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:39,960
He who has the bride is the groom.

1154
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,960
But the groom's friend, who stands by and listens for him,

1155
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:44,960
rejoices greatly at the groom's voice.

1156
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:48,960
In other words, the party, the groom's men around the groom,

1157
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:54,960
are super happy because they hear the voice of the groom and what's happening.

1158
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:57,960
And he says, so this joy of mine is complete.

1159
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:04,960
And verse 30, he must increase, but I must decrease.

1160
01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:07,960
The one who comes from above is above all.

1161
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:11,960
The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms.

1162
01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:13,960
That's the rest of us.

1163
01:27:13,960 --> 01:27:15,960
The one who comes from heaven is above all.

1164
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:20,960
He testifies to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

1165
01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:24,960
The one who has accepted his testimony has affirmed that God is true,

1166
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:30,960
for the one whom God sent speaks God's words, since he gives the Spirit without measure.

1167
01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:34,960
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hands.

1168
01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:37,960
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life,

1169
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:39,960
but the one who rejects the Son will not see life.

1170
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:43,960
Instead, the wrath of God, that means the violent opposition of God,

1171
01:27:43,960 --> 01:27:46,960
instead the wrath of God remains on him.

1172
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:48,960
The before and the after break down to this.

1173
01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:52,960
He must increase, but I must decrease.

1174
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:55,960
So now I'm going to give you just one single solo,

1175
01:27:55,960 --> 01:27:59,960
worth looking away from your phone if you're not following along in the Bible,

1176
01:27:59,960 --> 01:28:03,960
worth not being distracted right now, this one will give you one single action plan.

1177
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:05,960
I want you to look at yourself.

1178
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:07,960
I want you to look at your personality.

1179
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:09,960
I want to look at your experiences, your passion, whatever.

1180
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:12,960
We talk about shape, your heart, your attitude, your personality,

1181
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:14,960
and your experiences will lead you to what you can do for God,

1182
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:16,960
put your spiritual gift in there, boom, you live in your shape,

1183
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:18,960
and you can live that way for Jesus forever.

1184
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:19,960
And now I want you to look at yourself,

1185
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,960
I want you to look at your passions, the things you've done in the past, your experiences.

1186
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:27,960
I want you to look at the things that are there and the things that are not.

1187
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:32,960
Someone in this room is going to say, well, for example, I am not a public speaker.

1188
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:36,960
I know for a fact that I don't get up in front of people and talk,

1189
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:40,960
that's something I have never done, I never will do, God would never use me to do that.

1190
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:44,960
Or somebody else will say, I am not a person who reaches out to people who are hurting.

1191
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:46,960
I see they are hurting and I can stand by and I can be strong,

1192
01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:49,960
but I don't have a word of encouragement, I don't have a thing.

1193
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:51,960
I can't say, hey, can I help you in some way?

1194
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:52,960
Hey, can I pray for you?

1195
01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:54,960
Hey, can I ask you what's going to happen?

1196
01:28:54,960 --> 01:28:57,960
Because I am afraid they are actually going to tell me, or whatever.

1197
01:28:57,960 --> 01:29:01,960
Whatever it is, whatever it is about you that you say,

1198
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:06,960
that's not what I do, that's not who I am, you want to honor God?

1199
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:07,960
Do that for God.

1200
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:10,960
Now, not if it's sin, I am not talking about sin.

1201
01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:16,960
Nothing that's sinful, but by putting the thing that you can do for God,

1202
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:21,960
fully in your wheelhouse, this is what I do, this is what I am good at, this is who I am.

1203
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:24,960
This is the strength that I already know that I have.

1204
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:26,960
By doing that, you are not honoring God.

1205
01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:31,960
People are always going to look at you and say, he is strong, he is doing strongy things.

1206
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:33,960
He is smart, he is doing smarty things.

1207
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:36,960
She is wealthy, she is doing wealthy things.

1208
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:39,960
She knows how to dress and look nice, so she is dressing and looking nice.

1209
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:41,960
People are always going to do that.

1210
01:29:41,960 --> 01:29:43,960
And listen to me, all those things I just listed,

1211
01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:48,960
all of those people have already existed a thousand times, a million times, a billion times under the sun.

1212
01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:50,960
It's already been done.

1213
01:29:50,960 --> 01:29:56,960
You cannot do anything that anyone else does and do it for God and somehow bring him glory.

1214
01:29:56,960 --> 01:29:57,960
It's not going to work.

1215
01:29:57,960 --> 01:30:02,960
What you have to do is the one thing that you would not do.

1216
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:04,960
That's what you have to do.

1217
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:06,960
You have to say, people have to look at you and go like, there is a man,

1218
01:30:06,960 --> 01:30:10,960
there is a man who I wouldn't expect him to be doing that.

1219
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:12,960
I know him.

1220
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:17,960
I can't imagine that he would extend himself in that way to do this thing.

1221
01:30:17,960 --> 01:30:19,960
Wow, he is really taking a risk.

1222
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:21,960
He is putting himself out there.

1223
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:27,960
He is really, she is really doing something that I don't think they are capable of doing on their own strength.

1224
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:29,960
That's when God gets the glory.

1225
01:30:29,960 --> 01:30:37,960
Less of you, more of him.

1226
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:44,960
David wanted to bless God and David could build and he could collect resources and he could command men.

1227
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:46,960
He could put it all together.

1228
01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:52,960
I honestly think that if David had built the temple, he would have built God a bigger, better temple than Solomon did.

1229
01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:54,960
Not that it wasn't big and great and awesome,

1230
01:30:54,960 --> 01:31:00,960
but he probably would have gone even more because David had enough in him to know that the grandiose displays,

1231
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:04,960
if they are going to mean anything, they have to be truly grand.

1232
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:08,960
He would have probably marked out a temple size that was a hundred times as big as Solomon and said,

1233
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:11,960
I won't get this built in my lifetime, but I am going to get started on it.

1234
01:31:11,960 --> 01:31:15,960
We are going to build this out over the next five generations and it is going to be half the size of the city.

1235
01:31:15,960 --> 01:31:19,960
So that no one with a hundred miles can look into the sky and not see the temple of God.

1236
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:22,960
This is the kind of heart that David had for God.

1237
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:28,960
But he realized that that grandiose display, at the point at which he was walking in front of the Ark of the Covenant anyway,

1238
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:29,960
was not available to him.

1239
01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:36,960
So he put on a linen ephod and he danced like a madman to God's honor and glory.

1240
01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:40,960
And I am wondering when people who have become Christians,

1241
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:44,960
who have realized that God has saved their soul by grace, you can't earn it,

1242
01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:47,960
by grace your works of righteousness will always be as frailty rags,

1243
01:31:47,960 --> 01:31:52,960
will get to doing the things that God wants them to do that they don't think God wants them to do,

1244
01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:59,960
or they don't think God would use them for, or they don't think that would fit their personality.

1245
01:31:59,960 --> 01:32:02,960
I am not about to call for an underwear dance,

1246
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:11,960
but spiritually and emotionally you are going to have to decide to do the things that God would have you to do that are outside you.

1247
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:16,960
And that is when you will be honoring the Lord the way David wanted to.

1248
01:32:16,960 --> 01:32:19,960
And there will be someone who will look at you and say,

1249
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:23,960
oh you are getting an awful lot of attention by doing that.

1250
01:32:23,960 --> 01:32:26,960
And you will give the glory to God.

1251
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:31,960
But there will be someone who knows the Lord, who knows what God wanted you to do,

1252
01:32:31,960 --> 01:32:35,960
who will look at you and will say, yeah, I see what you are actually doing.

1253
01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:37,960
You are humbling yourself before God.

1254
01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:43,960
You are honoring God outside your own capabilities, outside your own strength to do what it is that God would have you do.

1255
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:48,960
You are glorifying God by humbling you.

1256
01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:52,960
Second thing in the text I want you to see in there is that Michal was the end of Saul's line.

1257
01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:55,960
She was the end of the story for Saul really.

1258
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:59,960
Some say she was wrong by David or trapped in a horrible relationship,

1259
01:32:59,960 --> 01:33:03,960
or she was unloved or she was ripped away from the man who truly loved her.

1260
01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:10,960
That she was just from the wrong family and had it bad the whole time.

1261
01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:15,960
She is the one who lowered David in a basket out the wall to escape Saul.

1262
01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:19,960
But later when David gave credit for escaping Saul, you know who he gave it to?

1263
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:21,960
Jonathan.

1264
01:33:21,960 --> 01:33:23,960
Not Michal at all. She was not mentioned.

1265
01:33:23,960 --> 01:33:25,960
But you know that was their society.

1266
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:29,960
Women did not really have a lot of rights and they did not get mentioned a lot.

1267
01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:31,960
But that is not Christian or godly society.

1268
01:33:31,960 --> 01:33:36,960
Of course David was not a Christian but he was a follower of the Lord.

1269
01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:39,960
The bottom line is her house ends here.

1270
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:45,960
It ends at the moment that she does not recognize that David is humbling himself before God.

1271
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:53,960
When she accuses those who are serving God in humbling themselves before God of actually looking for attention themselves.

1272
01:33:53,960 --> 01:34:00,960
You know how many times, I mean you know me, I am not really outspoken about me or anything like that.

1273
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:03,960
I do use some examples from my life and I try to be very transparent.

1274
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:06,960
I have repented a number of times in the pulpit and things like that.

1275
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:11,960
But so often I am treated or talked to like I am an enemy.

1276
01:34:11,960 --> 01:34:18,960
Like my opinions about what scripture says are flawed when I am literally just taking it the way it is written.

1277
01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:20,960
I am attacked for my political views.

1278
01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:23,960
All I have to do is say one thing that I do not agree with something or I agree with something.

1279
01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:28,960
And I will be attacked from all kinds of people that I did not even know existed.

1280
01:34:28,960 --> 01:34:33,960
There are a lot of people who just do not get it.

1281
01:34:33,960 --> 01:34:37,960
But now in this church there are people who recognize I am just trying to do my best serving the Lord.

1282
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:42,960
And they will stand up for me and they will stand with me and they will try to do what it is that God would have them to do.

1283
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:45,960
And that is what we are called to be.

1284
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:49,960
The reality is that God can take away all of your positive outcomes.

1285
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:56,960
All of your hopes and dreams or what you think or the next generation or where you want to be one year from now.

1286
01:34:56,960 --> 01:34:57,960
Five years from now, ten, twenty.

1287
01:34:57,960 --> 01:35:00,960
God can take all of that away and you say but that is not nice.

1288
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:01,960
No it is not nice.

1289
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:02,960
It is rap.

1290
01:35:02,960 --> 01:35:05,960
It is violent opposition.

1291
01:35:05,960 --> 01:35:16,960
Uzzah reached out to steady the Ark of the Covenant because there was a little shake and he thought it might fall off the brand new cart when the ox stumbled and God killed him instantly.

1292
01:35:16,960 --> 01:35:21,960
And like it says in the text that David got mad when he heard that Uzzah had been killed.

1293
01:35:21,960 --> 01:35:24,960
He was angry with God.

1294
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:26,960
But David did not know Uzzah's heart and he submitted that to God.

1295
01:35:26,960 --> 01:35:34,960
He named that place the place at which God destroyed Uzzah and then he sent the Ark off into Obed's house and did not bring it up to Jerusalem.

1296
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:36,960
He said how can I bring that up to me?

1297
01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:39,960
God is holy.

1298
01:35:39,960 --> 01:35:40,960
Listen to me.

1299
01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:48,960
If you dance in a linen ephod before the Lord in a prideful way, he is likely to destroy you or your house or your family or your finances.

1300
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:49,960
This is no joke.

1301
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:53,960
The God of heaven can eliminate your positive outcomes.

1302
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:57,960
And in many cases already had we were once objects of wrath.

1303
01:35:57,960 --> 01:36:09,960
And if we are now followers Lord Jesus Christ, but working in our own strength, unwilling to work in God's strength, unwilling to submit to the Lord, unwilling to follow the Lord the way he said, then we are probably facing that wrath despite the fact.

1304
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:10,960
What did he say?

1305
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:11,960
He said I'll love him.

1306
01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:15,960
I'll never stop loving him, but I'll beat him with the rods of men when he is disobedient.

1307
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:17,960
God's not going to walk away from us.

1308
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:19,960
He's going to hang with us to the very end.

1309
01:36:19,960 --> 01:36:24,960
But he is going to chastise or discipline us because he loves us.

1310
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:26,960
He's not going to let us keep going our own way.

1311
01:36:26,960 --> 01:36:28,960
You've got to go God's way.

1312
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:30,960
You have to.

1313
01:36:30,960 --> 01:36:33,960
The two sons of Eli were destroyed.

1314
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:39,960
Eli himself fell off a chair and broke his neck when the Ark of the Covenant was lost to the Philistines.

1315
01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:41,960
He goes back.

1316
01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:46,960
Look at every time the judge fell away, the people went into wickedness.

1317
01:36:46,960 --> 01:36:50,960
And then God sent the nearby nation to come and attack God's people.

1318
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:52,960
And men died.

1319
01:36:52,960 --> 01:36:53,960
And women died.

1320
01:36:53,960 --> 01:36:57,960
And children were killed because the people were not honoring God with their choices.

1321
01:36:57,960 --> 01:37:00,960
They were worshiping false gods.

1322
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:02,960
God chose Jacob over Esau.

1323
01:37:02,960 --> 01:37:03,960
Jacob I loved.

1324
01:37:03,960 --> 01:37:06,960
Esau I hated.

1325
01:37:06,960 --> 01:37:07,960
It's the God of heaven.

1326
01:37:07,960 --> 01:37:12,960
Doesn't mean he didn't love him as a human being, but he despised him in comparison to the people of promise.

1327
01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:16,960
God's people would eventually foster and begin the church which started us.

1328
01:37:16,960 --> 01:37:18,960
We all got saved because of Jacob.

1329
01:37:18,960 --> 01:37:19,960
Not because of Esau.

1330
01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:21,960
Esau founded a nation called Edom.

1331
01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:22,960
You can go there now.

1332
01:37:22,960 --> 01:37:25,960
In the mountains they carved huge stone fortresses.

1333
01:37:25,960 --> 01:37:26,960
Look it up online.

1334
01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:30,960
Some awesome pictures of huge stone fortresses carved in the mountains.

1335
01:37:30,960 --> 01:37:32,960
And you know where the people are?

1336
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:35,960
Nobody else knows either.

1337
01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:40,960
God said eventually I will wipe that nation from the face of the earth and no one will remember what happened to it.

1338
01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:41,960
And guess what happened to Edom?

1339
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:43,960
All the people disappeared and nobody knows what happened.

1340
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:48,960
They figure a nation came in and literally carried them all into captivity or whatever and it was never recorded in history.

1341
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:50,960
But God said he would wipe them out and he did.

1342
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:56,960
God can eliminate your positive outcomes.

1343
01:37:56,960 --> 01:38:03,960
You can literally cease to exist in the kingdom of God unless you figure out that there is a way to honor God.

1344
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:07,960
And it has to do with you getting outside your personal preferences.

1345
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:09,960
Outside what you think is right.

1346
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:11,960
Outside your judgment of God and God's people.

1347
01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:13,960
And living there.

1348
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:15,960
Okay God, I get it.

1349
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:19,960
You're big, you're strong, you saved me, you cleansed my soul, you inhabited me.

1350
01:38:19,960 --> 01:38:21,960
Because of that I have an attorney to have with you.

1351
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:23,960
Now I'm done.

1352
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:24,960
I'm not living for me anymore.

1353
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:27,960
I'm living for the one who died for me.

1354
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:29,960
2 Corinthians 5.

1355
01:38:29,960 --> 01:38:31,960
Michal was the end of Saul's line.

1356
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:34,960
So we got the end of a house.

1357
01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:37,960
But then look at what David was promised.

1358
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:46,960
The thought of what God had promised to David easily overcomes David's desires to build God a house.

1359
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:48,960
David said I'm going to build you a house.

1360
01:38:48,960 --> 01:38:51,960
God said have I ever asked anybody to build me a house?

1361
01:38:51,960 --> 01:38:53,960
David said I'm going to build you a house.

1362
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:59,960
God said have I ever asked anybody to build me a house?

1363
01:38:59,960 --> 01:39:01,960
Listen to what I've done for you.

1364
01:39:01,960 --> 01:39:03,960
Listen to what I'm doing for you.

1365
01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:06,960
Listen to what I'm going to do for you.

1366
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:10,960
And from that moment on, David lets it go.

1367
01:39:10,960 --> 01:39:14,960
He doesn't say I'm going to build a house anyway even though God doesn't want me to do that.

1368
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:22,960
He doesn't say I'm going to keep being the kind of guy who can work with the military and work with the soldiers and work with the temple and work with the money and all that.

1369
01:39:22,960 --> 01:39:24,960
That's how I'm going to honor God.

1370
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:26,960
No, he poured out his heart before God.

1371
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:28,960
And we see that all throughout the Psalms.

1372
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:34,960
David decided that the proper response to what God had done is doing and will do is praise.

1373
01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:46,960
David's desires to do one more thing for God were easily overcome by God's replacement plan for him which was to praise him.

1374
01:39:46,960 --> 01:39:51,960
To live humbly before the Lord and put God first.

1375
01:39:51,960 --> 01:39:55,960
And he danced and he lived in the ephod and he wrote Psalm after Psalm after Psalm.

1376
01:39:55,960 --> 01:39:58,960
And he was in the temple and they praised God.

1377
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:01,960
And that's what you and I are called to do.

1378
01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:04,960
The next time God does something good for you, this is going to happen.

1379
01:40:04,960 --> 01:40:06,960
You're going to get a check in the mail.

1380
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:08,960
Oh man, I wasn't expecting this money.

1381
01:40:08,960 --> 01:40:09,960
This is awesome.

1382
01:40:09,960 --> 01:40:10,960
I'm going to give God some of that.

1383
01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:14,960
I'm going to thank God for that money by giving him some.

1384
01:40:14,960 --> 01:40:18,960
The moment in time you make that decision is already too late.

1385
01:40:18,960 --> 01:40:21,960
Your heart is in the wrong place.

1386
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:22,960
You've got it all wrong.

1387
01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:25,960
Yes, God may have sent you that check.

1388
01:40:25,960 --> 01:40:26,960
Yes, God is blessing you.

1389
01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:28,960
He's blessing you because of his character.

1390
01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:30,960
It's not a question about what are you now going to do with those blessings.

1391
01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:31,960
We say that all the time, don't we?

1392
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:32,960
God has blessed me.

1393
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:33,960
Now what am I going to do with those blessings?

1394
01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:36,960
God has literally already gave you the kingdom.

1395
01:40:36,960 --> 01:40:37,960
You are air and joint air with Christ.

1396
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:42,960
It means every blade of grass on that lawn outside eventually is owned by us.

1397
01:40:42,960 --> 01:40:47,960
Every star in the sky whose names we cannot name eventually owned by us.

1398
01:40:47,960 --> 01:40:52,960
Free access to the throne room of God to spend time with our Father.

1399
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:55,960
Free access to come and go from the new heaven and the new earth.

1400
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:59,960
To ride a horse in one moment and shoot across the stars in the next.

1401
01:40:59,960 --> 01:41:02,960
Free access.

1402
01:41:02,960 --> 01:41:05,960
And we are going to thank God for a check in the mail.

1403
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:08,960
We are going to give him a little more money because he gave us a check in the mail.

1404
01:41:08,960 --> 01:41:14,960
We should be living a heart of gratitude every day all the time.

1405
01:41:14,960 --> 01:41:21,960
And there should be no question if God sends us a blessing that he's going to get back much of it.

1406
01:41:21,960 --> 01:41:27,960
Because we are already giving back much of everything.

1407
01:41:27,960 --> 01:41:34,960
When you get in view what God will do, how God has changed you past, present, and future.

1408
01:41:34,960 --> 01:41:36,960
What God is building for you.

1409
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:46,960
Your priorities will change from building something for God to praising the Lord with your every breath, action, and step.

1410
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:52,960
You won't be able to spew venom because your mouth will be too busy spewing praise.

1411
01:41:52,960 --> 01:42:01,960
You won't be able to do something more for God because your schedule will be so busy with the things that you are doing to give him praise and glory.

1412
01:42:01,960 --> 01:42:06,960
That there will be no time left over to go, oh I better give him something more.

1413
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:09,960
Like the little boy who had no money to put in the offering plate.

1414
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:14,960
And walked up to the front of the sanctuary and eventually all the money went into one plate and the other plate went on the ground.

1415
01:42:14,960 --> 01:42:18,960
And he stepped and stood in the plate and said, I got no money but I give him me.

1416
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:20,960
That will be you.

1417
01:42:20,960 --> 01:42:26,960
You'll stop looking at the balance of your checking account thinking I have enough money to pay my bills or I don't have enough money to pay my bills.

1418
01:42:26,960 --> 01:42:30,960
You have a God that will pay your bills if you will put the kingdom of God first.

1419
01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:34,960
He said seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you.

1420
01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:39,960
So you will get out of bed in the morning and you will say, okay Lord how do I praise you actively with this day?

1421
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:45,960
What would make this day the most about me getting out of the way and lifting you up so everybody can see?

1422
01:42:45,960 --> 01:42:50,960
What would make this day about that?

1423
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:52,960
But that's not what people are doing.

1424
01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:57,960
Not only people out in the world, lost people that don't know Jesus, but people in the church too.

1425
01:42:57,960 --> 01:43:03,960
When we get a view of what God will do, you can't buy your ticket to heaven.

1426
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:08,960
Your retirement is not going to buy one tiny little stone on your driveway in heaven.

1427
01:43:08,960 --> 01:43:11,960
It's not going to do it.

1428
01:43:11,960 --> 01:43:19,960
Winning a million people to Jesus would not give you the right to walk into the throne room of God when you die.

1429
01:43:19,960 --> 01:43:21,960
Nothing would do that.

1430
01:43:21,960 --> 01:43:24,960
Nothing you can do will ever entreat God to do it.

1431
01:43:24,960 --> 01:43:27,960
Now I understand it says give and whatever measure by which you give will be given back to you.

1432
01:43:27,960 --> 01:43:28,960
But why do you think that is?

1433
01:43:28,960 --> 01:43:33,960
Because when you give, your heart is already in the right place.

1434
01:43:33,960 --> 01:43:36,960
You're already doing this to praise God and do it because I love God.

1435
01:43:36,960 --> 01:43:39,960
God has already done so much more for me than I could ever do for him.

1436
01:43:39,960 --> 01:43:44,960
So I'm going to stop trying to do for him to pay back what he's done for me and start paying it forward

1437
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:49,960
and giving it all to God all the time as much as I possibly can.

1438
01:43:49,960 --> 01:43:56,960
When you get in view that which God will do, it will change your priorities from a priority of building something for God

1439
01:43:56,960 --> 01:44:01,960
to a priority of praising God with your voice, with your actions, with your strength, with your breath.

1440
01:44:01,960 --> 01:44:03,960
For a priority of praising God.

1441
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:06,960
Obedience is praise when you think about it correctly.

1442
01:44:06,960 --> 01:44:09,960
I'm going to follow the Ten Commandments. I'm going to stop lying.

1443
01:44:09,960 --> 01:44:15,960
I was listening to a woman who did a little devotional and she said she used to have a real problem with speeding.

1444
01:44:15,960 --> 01:44:18,960
And she would drive 10-15 mile over speed limit everywhere she went.

1445
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:24,960
So then she heard the pastor preach on it sometime and he said if you just govern your foot and think of it as praise,

1446
01:44:24,960 --> 01:44:30,960
think of it as you're praising God when you set the speed at or below the speed limit or within four miles or wherever you set it.

1447
01:44:30,960 --> 01:44:32,960
Set the speed there and you don't drive that 15 mile over.

1448
01:44:32,960 --> 01:44:36,960
And you think of every moment that you're choosing not to drive 15 mile over speed limit,

1449
01:44:36,960 --> 01:44:40,960
you think of every moment that you're doing that as praising God.

1450
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:43,960
And she said from that moment on she never sped. She didn't have a problem.

1451
01:44:43,960 --> 01:44:46,960
Because she just would put her foot on the pedal and she got up to about 65.

1452
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:49,960
She'd say, praise Jesus, I'm going 65.

1453
01:44:49,960 --> 01:44:51,960
And from that moment on she was able to do it. And it's you too.

1454
01:44:51,960 --> 01:44:53,960
It's about getting out of bed in the morning. It's about going to bed at night.

1455
01:44:53,960 --> 01:44:57,960
It's about working out. It's about eating right. It's about encouraging others.

1456
01:44:57,960 --> 01:44:59,960
It's about stepping up and serving.

1457
01:44:59,960 --> 01:45:03,960
All the things, if you would think of everything you're doing as praising God,

1458
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:07,960
you will soon find some things that you are doing that cannot be thought of as praising God.

1459
01:45:07,960 --> 01:45:12,960
Too many calories, too much caffeine, a little bit of alcohol, a little bit of pornography on the side,

1460
01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:16,960
or just some soft pornography, girls in bikinis, you know, whatever.

1461
01:45:16,960 --> 01:45:21,960
Guys, muscle guys in string bikinis or whatever the work, whatever your thing is.

1462
01:45:21,960 --> 01:45:24,960
All of that, none of that can be done as praising God.

1463
01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:27,960
And if your heart is in the right place like David, then it's less me, more God.

1464
01:45:27,960 --> 01:45:30,960
And when you do that, you'll be like, hey, I can't do this praising God.

1465
01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:35,960
So then you start to cut it out naturally because you're going to replace it with that which will praise God.

1466
01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:39,960
But maybe you don't realize what God has done for you, or what God is doing for you,

1467
01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:42,960
or what God is eventually going to do for you.

1468
01:45:42,960 --> 01:45:46,960
Maybe that's why your actions are not praising Him.

1469
01:45:46,960 --> 01:45:51,960
I submit to you that if that's true, you need to repent and turn to the Lord today and make your actions praise Him.

1470
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:54,960
The next time you say can't, I want you to think of this.

1471
01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:58,960
And our family, Alicia was growing up, we just started to have to do this with Ariana a little bit.

1472
01:45:58,960 --> 01:46:02,960
She would say can't all the time. I can't buckle my seatbelt, I can't get my door shut, I can't do this, I can't get my socks on.

1473
01:46:02,960 --> 01:46:05,960
Can't, can't, can't. And we used to say what?

1474
01:46:05,960 --> 01:46:08,960
There is no can't.

1475
01:46:08,960 --> 01:46:10,960
God tells you to do something, there is no can't.

1476
01:46:10,960 --> 01:46:13,960
You say, but if I go out there, I may wind up dead. Okay, fine.

1477
01:46:13,960 --> 01:46:15,960
There is no can't.

1478
01:46:15,960 --> 01:46:17,960
When you know what it is that the Lord would have you do, there is no can't.

1479
01:46:17,960 --> 01:46:22,960
You say, but I'm addicted to caffeine, I have to drink all that caffeine, which I know is too much, right?

1480
01:46:22,960 --> 01:46:25,960
There is an amount of caffeine that is reasonable, there is an amount that is not.

1481
01:46:25,960 --> 01:46:26,960
I have to do that.

1482
01:46:26,960 --> 01:46:32,960
Or I'm addicted to watching TV, I have to stream and see I asked 40,000 episodes, right?

1483
01:46:32,960 --> 01:46:34,960
Of the three to ten different variety.

1484
01:46:34,960 --> 01:46:36,960
I have to sit in front of the TV every night for two to three hours.

1485
01:46:36,960 --> 01:46:40,960
I have to do that. I'm addicted to it. It's who I am. It's who God made me to be.

1486
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:45,960
Get outside, who God made you to be, and make a choice to honor the Lord in that moment.

1487
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:48,960
And turn the TV off and read your Bible and pray.

1488
01:46:48,960 --> 01:46:51,960
Sing praise songs until you fall asleep.

1489
01:46:51,960 --> 01:46:55,960
The next time you feel like you have to do something that does not honor God,

1490
01:46:55,960 --> 01:46:59,960
read your Bible and pray and sing praise songs until you fall asleep.

1491
01:46:59,960 --> 01:47:05,960
And then get up the next day and ask yourself, today, how am I going to live?

1492
01:47:05,960 --> 01:47:08,960
Or maybe you don't understand what it is that God has already done,

1493
01:47:08,960 --> 01:47:11,960
what He's doing and what He's going to do for you.

1494
01:47:11,960 --> 01:47:15,960
The point now is to be a people of praise, obedience, and gratitude.

1495
01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:20,960
Jesus said to the woman at the well, or to the disciples there and all that were gathered,

1496
01:47:20,960 --> 01:47:24,960
that God is looking for worshipers in spirit and in truth.

1497
01:47:24,960 --> 01:47:27,960
And when you're watching things you're not supposed to be watching,

1498
01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:29,960
when you're doing things you're not supposed to be doing,

1499
01:47:29,960 --> 01:47:31,960
when you're eating things you're not supposed to be eating,

1500
01:47:31,960 --> 01:47:34,960
when you're failing to take care of yourself in the way that will allow you to be God's servant

1501
01:47:34,960 --> 01:47:36,960
for another 50 to 80 to 100 years on the earth,

1502
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:39,960
when you're failing to do those things, it's because you don't have an understanding

1503
01:47:39,960 --> 01:47:42,960
of your relationship with God, which is supposed to be.

1504
01:47:42,960 --> 01:47:46,960
This is my action of praise.

1505
01:47:46,960 --> 01:47:50,960
Talking with a brother, I say, I need to get this done. He says, I can't do that.

1506
01:47:50,960 --> 01:47:54,960
I call a sister on the phone, I said, I need to get this done. She said, I'll make it happen.

1507
01:47:54,960 --> 01:47:58,960
Another day I call a sister on the phone, she says, I can't do that, I'm busy doing this.

1508
01:47:58,960 --> 01:48:01,960
This will work for God. I know, but I'm busy.

1509
01:48:01,960 --> 01:48:03,960
Call another one, yep, I'll do it right now.

1510
01:48:03,960 --> 01:48:05,960
I was supposed to do this, this, and this, I have all these things I've got to do,

1511
01:48:05,960 --> 01:48:08,960
but I see that's for God, I'm going to do that right now.

1512
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:11,960
Are you willing to do that?

1513
01:48:11,960 --> 01:48:15,960
You want to bless God, if you know these things, you want to bless God.

1514
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:20,960
How will you lift him up and humbly get out of the way?

1515
01:48:20,960 --> 01:48:25,960
As I said before, one way that works, do that thing you never would do.

1516
01:48:25,960 --> 01:48:28,960
Not something that's sin, but it's different.

1517
01:48:28,960 --> 01:48:30,960
Something that in your personality you would not give up.

1518
01:48:30,960 --> 01:48:34,960
You say, I can't. I can't do it.

1519
01:48:34,960 --> 01:48:39,960
When God told me I was not allowed to have pop after 40 days of not having pop, I'm like, but God,

1520
01:48:39,960 --> 01:48:43,960
but come on, I want the pop.

1521
01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:46,960
And I'm not saying you have to give up pop, by the way.

1522
01:48:46,960 --> 01:48:50,960
You find your way of doing something for God that you would not normally do.

1523
01:48:50,960 --> 01:48:54,960
You're like, I can't do this unless God does it through me,

1524
01:48:54,960 --> 01:48:58,960
and then do that, and then tell everybody about it because God did it.

1525
01:48:58,960 --> 01:49:02,960
Tell them what you've seen and what you've heard.

1526
01:49:02,960 --> 01:49:06,960
Matthew 5.14, the same concept.

1527
01:49:06,960 --> 01:49:09,960
We are very near the end, we've got one reference left.

1528
01:49:09,960 --> 01:49:14,960
Matthew 5.14, you probably already, that rings a bell,

1529
01:49:14,960 --> 01:49:17,960
it's about something I know, but I want the verses before it and after it,

1530
01:49:17,960 --> 01:49:20,960
so I'm going to flip there.

1531
01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:23,960
Toward the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount,

1532
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:25,960
Jesus says this, beginning of verse 13,

1533
01:49:25,960 --> 01:49:28,960
You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt should lose its taste,

1534
01:49:28,960 --> 01:49:29,960
how can it be made salty?

1535
01:49:29,960 --> 01:49:32,960
I want to ask you as a Christian, what do you taste like?

1536
01:49:32,960 --> 01:49:34,960
And that's being overly simple.

1537
01:49:34,960 --> 01:49:38,960
When people encounter you, do they encounter somebody who is actively at that moment praising God?

1538
01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:43,960
Like when you go out to eat, do you bow your head and pray when you go out to eat?

1539
01:49:43,960 --> 01:49:46,960
And if you do, do you do it silently?

1540
01:49:46,960 --> 01:49:48,960
Or do you do it loudly?

1541
01:49:48,960 --> 01:49:51,960
Not rudely, but loud enough that somebody at least a couple tables away would hear?

1542
01:49:51,960 --> 01:49:54,960
Do you offer to pray with your server if you go out to eat?

1543
01:49:54,960 --> 01:49:55,960
Somebody was like, I don't ever go out to eat.

1544
01:49:55,960 --> 01:49:58,960
But when you have somebody over to your house, so you go over to their house,

1545
01:49:58,960 --> 01:50:00,960
and you go, I don't have anybody over to their house.

1546
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:01,960
So why don't you have anybody?

1547
01:50:01,960 --> 01:50:02,960
Well, that's just not what I do, okay?

1548
01:50:02,960 --> 01:50:06,960
Well, there's one thing you can put on your list.

1549
01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:08,960
You could go out to eat to praise God.

1550
01:50:08,960 --> 01:50:11,960
You could call somebody over to your house to praise God.

1551
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:13,960
You could go to somebody's house to praise God.

1552
01:50:13,960 --> 01:50:15,960
You could do those things to praise God.

1553
01:50:15,960 --> 01:50:19,960
And then when people encounter you, they will encounter somebody praising God.

1554
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:26,960
Instead of talking about sports or whatever, they will encounter somebody praising God.

1555
01:50:26,960 --> 01:50:30,960
You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty?

1556
01:50:30,960 --> 01:50:34,960
It's no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people's foot.

1557
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:36,960
You are the light of the world.

1558
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:38,960
A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.

1559
01:50:38,960 --> 01:50:44,960
No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lamp stand it gives light for all who are in the house.

1560
01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:51,960
In the same way, let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

1561
01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:54,960
You are the light of the world. You know why?

1562
01:50:54,960 --> 01:50:56,960
Because you know what God has done for you.

1563
01:50:56,960 --> 01:50:58,960
You know what God is doing for you.

1564
01:50:58,960 --> 01:51:00,960
And you know what God will eventually do for you.

1565
01:51:00,960 --> 01:51:08,960
And you are the light of the world to show that, to teach that, to praise God for that, to dance in a linen e-file.

1566
01:51:08,960 --> 01:51:16,960
Listen, if you can't call people on the phone, text people, show up at their house, you can't send gifts, give more, serve more, do more, mark more hours out in your day,

1567
01:51:16,960 --> 01:51:21,960
then get your stinking underwear and get down front and start dancing.

1568
01:51:21,960 --> 01:51:29,960
Because somebody somewhere better be able to figure out that you're shutting you down and turning God on in your life or otherwise you're not a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.

1569
01:51:29,960 --> 01:51:34,960
If nobody can see a light in you, no one can see the...

1570
01:51:34,960 --> 01:51:38,960
So you're serving, you're like, I'm serving, but I don't ever tell anybody about Jesus, I'm serving.

1571
01:51:38,960 --> 01:51:45,960
I'm strong, I'm doing strong things. I'm smart, I'm doing smart things. I'm wealthy, I'm doing wealthy things.

1572
01:51:45,960 --> 01:51:50,960
I'm tricky, I'm doing tricky things. I not address myself, I'm dressing.

1573
01:51:50,960 --> 01:51:54,960
How on earth does that show anybody that you're a follower of Jesus?

1574
01:51:54,960 --> 01:51:56,960
And the answer is, it doesn't.

1575
01:51:56,960 --> 01:52:03,960
If you just be who you are, who God made you to be, that will not show anybody something different.

1576
01:52:03,960 --> 01:52:11,960
But if you've been born again, made new, got a spiritual gift, got something you couldn't do before, you do that,

1577
01:52:11,960 --> 01:52:18,960
you start showing up when nobody expects you to show up, or in ways that nobody expects you to show up,

1578
01:52:18,960 --> 01:52:23,960
then they'll go, what is going on with that person?

1579
01:52:23,960 --> 01:52:26,960
We are not of this world.

1580
01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:29,960
People should be looking at us going, what is going on with that person?

1581
01:52:29,960 --> 01:52:33,960
Why is it every single time I run into him, he's singing a praise hymn?

1582
01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:38,960
Or, why does he always say that line about James chapter 1?

1583
01:52:38,960 --> 01:52:42,960
Or why does he always offer to pray for me every time I see him?

1584
01:52:42,960 --> 01:52:45,960
People should be wondering, because you're the light of the world.

1585
01:52:45,960 --> 01:52:49,960
You know what God did for you, is doing for you, and will do for you.

1586
01:52:49,960 --> 01:52:56,960
Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus, essentially, that this is the people that we're supposed to be.

1587
01:52:56,960 --> 01:52:58,960
Last reference of the day, Ephesians.

1588
01:52:58,960 --> 01:53:06,960
I'm going to use a verse from chapter 1 and then verses from chapter 4, once I find it.

1589
01:53:06,960 --> 01:53:12,960
Ephesians is a great book about the church.

1590
01:53:12,960 --> 01:53:14,960
In fact, it's largely about the church.

1591
01:53:14,960 --> 01:53:19,960
Ephesians 1, 18 and 19 says this,

1592
01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:24,960
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened,

1593
01:53:24,960 --> 01:53:27,960
so that you may know what is the hope of his calling,

1594
01:53:27,960 --> 01:53:30,960
what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

1595
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:37,960
and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the mighty working of his strength.

1596
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:39,960
That was written to the church.

1597
01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:40,960
Look at what he prayed for them.

1598
01:53:40,960 --> 01:53:45,960
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, that you can wake up and see what's going on,

1599
01:53:45,960 --> 01:53:47,960
so that you can know what is the hope of his calling.

1600
01:53:47,960 --> 01:53:51,960
How big, how mighty, how powerful, how effective is the hope of his calling?

1601
01:53:51,960 --> 01:53:54,960
What is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints?

1602
01:53:54,960 --> 01:53:58,960
God's going to give you more than you could earn in your lifetime,

1603
01:53:58,960 --> 01:54:02,960
and he's going to give it to you for an eternity without end.

1604
01:54:02,960 --> 01:54:06,960
And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power?

1605
01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:08,960
The power of God, for crying out loud,

1606
01:54:08,960 --> 01:54:14,960
we need to see that towards us who believe according to the mighty working of his strength.

1607
01:54:14,960 --> 01:54:15,960
We can figure this out.

1608
01:54:15,960 --> 01:54:16,960
It's pretty obvious.

1609
01:54:16,960 --> 01:54:20,960
That which you experience when you got saved, you've got to be saying something about it.

1610
01:54:20,960 --> 01:54:22,960
You've got to let it affect who you are.

1611
01:54:22,960 --> 01:54:25,960
Then in 4.17 through 24,

1612
01:54:25,960 --> 01:54:28,960
Therefore I say this and testify in the Lord,

1613
01:54:28,960 --> 01:54:32,960
You should no longer live as the Gentiles live in the futility of their thoughts.

1614
01:54:32,960 --> 01:54:34,960
Hang on.

1615
01:54:34,960 --> 01:54:36,960
We shouldn't live like the world lives.

1616
01:54:36,960 --> 01:54:40,960
Translating it to modern vernacular, we shouldn't live like the world lives in the futility.

1617
01:54:40,960 --> 01:54:45,960
We shouldn't be thinking like they think.

1618
01:54:45,960 --> 01:54:48,960
They are darkened in their understanding and excluded from the life of God

1619
01:54:48,960 --> 01:54:52,960
because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

1620
01:54:52,960 --> 01:54:55,960
They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity.

1621
01:54:55,960 --> 01:55:01,960
That means various sexual things for the practice of every kind of impurity

1622
01:55:01,960 --> 01:55:04,960
with a desire for more and more.

1623
01:55:04,960 --> 01:55:07,960
But that is not how you came to know Christ.

1624
01:55:07,960 --> 01:55:12,960
Assuming you heard about Him and were taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus,

1625
01:55:12,960 --> 01:55:18,960
to take off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires,

1626
01:55:18,960 --> 01:55:21,960
to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

1627
01:55:21,960 --> 01:55:29,960
and to put on the new self, the one created according to God's likeness and righteousness and purity of truth.

1628
01:55:29,960 --> 01:55:31,960
And then he gets into, and I won't read it, he says,

1629
01:55:31,960 --> 01:55:35,960
Therefore, put away lying, speak the truth,

1630
01:55:35,960 --> 01:55:37,960
and a variety of other things that we should do that are good works,

1631
01:55:37,960 --> 01:55:41,960
that we tell people they should do out of obedience to the Lord.

1632
01:55:41,960 --> 01:55:48,960
Recognize what God has already done and what He has promised to do for you, and respond accordingly.

1633
01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:52,960
Turn your attention to praising Him every moment of every day.

1634
01:55:52,960 --> 01:55:59,960
He has now chosen us as His temple, not a house made of cedar or a tent made of tarps or carpets.

1635
01:55:59,960 --> 01:56:06,960
We have become His light, and in time our crazy actions, our self-sacrifice and self-denial,

1636
01:56:06,960 --> 01:56:10,960
will become obvious to all as His work in us.

1637
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:20,960
What He is calling you to give up, what He is calling you to put in, what He is calling you to be, that's easy.

1638
01:56:20,960 --> 01:56:25,960
He's calling you to be His, to walk in Him.

1639
01:56:25,960 --> 01:56:30,960
He's got to be in your life at every moment of the day that you're awake and have any control over it,

1640
01:56:30,960 --> 01:56:33,960
and probably then it will be in your dreams too.

1641
01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:44,960
He's calling you to be His, to walk in Him, and to make this same relationship available to a lost and dying world.

1642
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:48,960
When it's like that, you'll be able to stop reading your Bibles going, it says, thou shalt not lie.

1643
01:56:48,960 --> 01:56:52,960
Well, I better stop lying.

1644
01:56:52,960 --> 01:56:57,960
Because instead you'll be, I'm praising God through speaking the truth.

1645
01:56:57,960 --> 01:57:04,960
You won't have to read that where it says, thou shalt have no other gods before me, no idols.

1646
01:57:04,960 --> 01:57:14,960
Don't worship anyone or anything else and declare its value or their value because you'll be busy declaring God's value.

1647
01:57:14,960 --> 01:57:23,960
You'll be looking every day at every moment, how do I praise the Lord with this, what I'm going through?

1648
01:57:23,960 --> 01:57:29,960
Mikal got the raw end of the deal.

1649
01:57:29,960 --> 01:57:38,960
But I submit to you, her story would have ended completely differently if she had just recognized how much honor God deserves

1650
01:57:38,960 --> 01:57:47,960
and how much a great man, the greater the man, the more he should humble himself before God.

1651
01:57:47,960 --> 01:57:52,960
If she had just figured that out, this story would have ended differently.

1652
01:57:52,960 --> 01:57:58,960
I'm asking you, I want to for me, I want to figure it out.

1653
01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:04,960
I want to live my life every moment of every day in praise to the living God who has done so much already,

1654
01:58:04,960 --> 01:58:13,960
who is doing so much in me and who is doing way more in the future than I can ever understand.

1655
01:58:13,960 --> 01:58:19,960
By the time you have to be corrected and somebody admonish you, you already missed a boat, you already forgot,

1656
01:58:19,960 --> 01:58:21,960
already failed to understand.

1657
01:58:21,960 --> 01:58:27,960
I pray that our hearts will be enlightened and we will realize how much God has done,

1658
01:58:27,960 --> 01:58:32,960
how much he is doing and the eternal house that he is promising us.

1659
01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:37,960
That son of David that would be on the throne forever, that's our Jesus.

1660
01:58:37,960 --> 01:58:46,960
And we are heirs and joint heirs with him, if we can figure this out and live accordingly.

1661
01:58:46,960 --> 01:58:54,960
I'm going to say a brief prayer for us today and then we'll be having the praise team come and we'll praise our way out.

1662
01:58:54,960 --> 01:58:59,960
And we forget sometimes, we've got a hymn of decision that that's praise, but it is praise.

1663
01:58:59,960 --> 01:59:02,960
If you don't have a reason to repent today, if you don't have a reason to say,

1664
01:59:02,960 --> 01:59:07,960
hey I have not been praising God with my life every moment of every day and I want to turn my life over to him

1665
01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:09,960
and let him do that through me.

1666
01:59:09,960 --> 01:59:14,960
I've been allowing my weaknesses or my experiences to hold me back to do things that God would have me to do.

1667
01:59:14,960 --> 01:59:18,960
I've been feeling like I need to do more for God because I'm so grateful for what he does,

1668
01:59:18,960 --> 01:59:23,960
but instead of me doing more building something on this earth, feeling like I'm doing something more for God,

1669
01:59:23,960 --> 01:59:34,960
I need to realize all my actions need to be out of praise, all my steps need to be in his ways.

1670
01:59:34,960 --> 01:59:36,960
And if you need to make that decision, make it.

1671
01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:40,960
If you don't need to make that decision, then it's a praise song.

1672
01:59:40,960 --> 01:59:45,960
That God led you to a place already where you already know and you already are all day long,

1673
01:59:45,960 --> 01:59:48,960
every day trying to live according to praising him.

1674
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:52,960
Jesus is not Lord 23 hours out of the day.

1675
01:59:52,960 --> 01:59:55,960
He's Lord 24 hours out of every day.

1676
01:59:55,960 --> 02:00:01,960
So if you're taking breaks here and there, you have no Lord at all.

1677
02:00:01,960 --> 02:00:03,960
No breaks.

1678
02:00:03,960 --> 02:00:06,960
Just Jesus all the time.

1679
02:00:06,960 --> 02:00:09,960
That's pretty good.

1680
02:00:09,960 --> 02:00:11,960
Father in heaven we thank you and praise you.

1681
02:00:11,960 --> 02:00:14,960
We see our weaknesses.

1682
02:00:14,960 --> 02:00:16,960
We also see our strengths.

1683
02:00:16,960 --> 02:00:20,960
Sometimes the enemy comes at us and makes us want to ignore our strengths

1684
02:00:20,960 --> 02:00:23,960
and we don't want to use our strengths and we don't want to work on our weaknesses

1685
02:00:23,960 --> 02:00:29,960
because we realize that we fail and we wouldn't do well.

1686
02:00:29,960 --> 02:00:35,960
But in our greatest weaknesses, you are made strong.

1687
02:00:35,960 --> 02:00:40,960
We see what you did on the cross at Calvary.

1688
02:00:40,960 --> 02:00:43,960
When I think about how it's been six years since we signed our Constitution,

1689
02:00:43,960 --> 02:00:48,960
I think it's about how it's been almost 2,000 years since Jesus died on the cross.

1690
02:00:48,960 --> 02:00:51,960
Both of those seem impossible to me.

1691
02:00:51,960 --> 02:00:54,960
Time has moved so quickly.

1692
02:00:54,960 --> 02:00:58,960
It's been 2,000 years almost since Jesus died on the cross.

1693
02:00:58,960 --> 02:01:01,960
It's hard to fathom.

1694
02:01:01,960 --> 02:01:07,960
For me it was that day when I was 25 years old

1695
02:01:07,960 --> 02:01:11,960
and I encountered you for the first time.

1696
02:01:11,960 --> 02:01:14,960
You forgave me of my sins.

1697
02:01:14,960 --> 02:01:19,960
You set me on a new course.

1698
02:01:19,960 --> 02:01:25,960
And then it was this morning, and it was just moments ago,

1699
02:01:25,960 --> 02:01:31,960
when I said the things that are hard for me to say, hard for me to grapple with,

1700
02:01:31,960 --> 02:01:39,960
but I can trust them because they are your things.

1701
02:01:39,960 --> 02:01:42,960
Father, help us deny ourselves and take off our cross daily and follow after you

1702
02:01:42,960 --> 02:01:46,960
and help us stop thinking that means we can do it our way.

1703
02:01:46,960 --> 02:01:49,960
I don't understand why we ever thought, deny ourselves,

1704
02:01:49,960 --> 02:01:52,960
do it our way, that those two things go together.

1705
02:01:52,960 --> 02:01:55,960
It doesn't make sense.

1706
02:01:55,960 --> 02:01:58,960
They are almost opposites.

1707
02:01:58,960 --> 02:02:02,960
I do know that people find their groove,

1708
02:02:02,960 --> 02:02:06,960
they find a rhythm serving you, following you, praising you every moment of every day,

1709
02:02:06,960 --> 02:02:08,960
and they cut things out of their lives, perfectly good things,

1710
02:02:08,960 --> 02:02:11,960
and people are like, why did you have to cut that out?

1711
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:13,960
It's a perfectly good thing. It's not even sin, right?

1712
02:02:13,960 --> 02:02:16,960
And they cut them out, and let them go, dismiss them.

1713
02:02:16,960 --> 02:02:21,960
And they are better off for it.

1714
02:02:21,960 --> 02:02:26,960
I guess I'd much rather be praising you every moment of every day,

1715
02:02:26,960 --> 02:02:31,960
every second that I can control,

1716
02:02:31,960 --> 02:02:36,960
and I'm asking your help for that.

1717
02:02:36,960 --> 02:02:39,960
You never asked me to build you a house.

1718
02:02:39,960 --> 02:02:43,960
You never asked me to become a house.

1719
02:02:43,960 --> 02:02:45,960
You did it all for me.

1720
02:02:45,960 --> 02:02:52,960
And for every person that's in this room, I will accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

1721
02:02:52,960 --> 02:02:54,960
And every person that's listening,

1722
02:02:54,960 --> 02:02:56,960
and that ever hears this message,

1723
02:02:56,960 --> 02:02:58,960
and that any person in this room takes this message,

1724
02:02:58,960 --> 02:02:59,960
and will unlike it out to the world,

1725
02:02:59,960 --> 02:03:06,960
the gospel is simple, that Jesus lived, He died, He rose again.

1726
02:03:06,960 --> 02:03:14,960
And believing in Him, they're saved, forgiven, have a Lord, have eternal life.

1727
02:03:14,960 --> 02:03:19,960
Father, help us praise you every moment of every day.

1728
02:03:19,960 --> 02:03:26,960
So we won't have to find ourselves going, oh, I want to do more for God.

1729
02:03:26,960 --> 02:03:31,960
But rather find ourselves saying, I can't believe what I've been able to do for God.

1730
02:03:31,960 --> 02:03:36,960
It's amazing. God is so good.

1731
02:03:36,960 --> 02:03:40,960
And there will be no underwear dancing, Lord.

1732
02:03:40,960 --> 02:03:43,960
But we know there will be embarrassing moments,

1733
02:03:43,960 --> 02:03:47,960
hard moments,

1734
02:03:47,960 --> 02:03:50,960
challenging times to overcome,

1735
02:03:50,960 --> 02:03:53,960
times in which we will feel like the victim,

1736
02:03:53,960 --> 02:03:56,960
we'll feel like things didn't go the way we thought they should have gone.

1737
02:03:56,960 --> 02:04:02,960
And those times, Lord, we pray that with your help we will be found

1738
02:04:02,960 --> 02:04:06,960
praising you for all that you've done, all that you're doing,

1739
02:04:06,960 --> 02:04:09,960
and all that you will do.

1740
02:04:09,960 --> 02:04:12,960
I pray all these things in Jesus' name, Amen.

1741
02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:16,960
Ask Christy to come forward at this time and lead us in our closing hymn.

1742
02:04:16,960 --> 02:04:20,960
And if you're not making some kind of decision in your heart today,

1743
02:04:20,960 --> 02:04:22,960
then you praise God right where you are.

1744
02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:24,960
And if you are making some kind of decision,

1745
02:04:24,960 --> 02:04:26,960
then you should take that information public.

1746
02:04:26,960 --> 02:04:28,960
And let yourself be held accountable,

1747
02:04:28,960 --> 02:04:30,960
let yourself be prayed for and encouraged

1748
02:04:30,960 --> 02:04:34,960
as we commit ourselves to praise and praise.

1749
02:04:34,960 --> 02:04:37,960
Would you stand and sing with us?

1750
02:04:37,960 --> 02:04:54,960
All to Jesus I surrender,

1751
02:04:54,960 --> 02:05:00,960
All to Him I believe in,

1752
02:05:00,960 --> 02:05:13,960
I will ever love and trust Him in His presence any day.

1753
02:05:13,960 --> 02:05:19,960
I surrender all,

1754
02:05:19,960 --> 02:05:26,960
I surrender all,

1755
02:05:26,960 --> 02:05:38,960
All to me, my Lord, the Savior, I surrender all.

1756
02:05:38,960 --> 02:05:44,960
I surrender all,

1757
02:05:44,960 --> 02:05:50,960
I surrender all,

1758
02:05:50,960 --> 02:05:58,960
I surrender all,

1759
02:05:58,960 --> 02:06:05,960
I surrender all,

1760
02:06:05,960 --> 02:06:13,960
I surrender all,

1761
02:06:13,960 --> 02:06:21,960
I surrender all,

1762
02:06:21,960 --> 02:06:26,960
I surrender all,

1763
02:06:26,960 --> 02:06:32,960
I surrender all,

1764
02:06:32,960 --> 02:06:37,960
I surrender all,

1765
02:06:37,960 --> 02:06:45,960
I surrender all,

1766
02:06:45,960 --> 02:06:51,960
I surrender all,

1767
02:06:51,960 --> 02:06:59,960
I surrender all,

1768
02:06:59,960 --> 02:07:04,960
I surrender all,

1769
02:07:04,960 --> 02:07:12,960
I surrender all,

1770
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:17,960
I surrender all,

1771
02:07:17,960 --> 02:07:23,960
I surrender all,

1772
02:07:23,960 --> 02:07:29,960
I surrender all,

1773
02:07:29,960 --> 02:07:34,960
I surrender all,

1774
02:07:34,960 --> 02:07:39,960
I surrender all,

1775
02:07:39,960 --> 02:07:44,960
I surrender all,

1776
02:07:44,960 --> 02:07:59,960
I surrender all,