1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Thank you for listening to this message from LifeHouse Church. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Good morning. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,000 How's everyone doing? 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:10,000 All right. 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,000 I'll give you one more chance. 6 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Good morning. 7 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,000 How's everyone doing? 8 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Now you're with me. 9 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Now you're with me. 10 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Well, welcome. 11 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 It is so good to be here with you all this morning. 12 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,000 As you guys from LifeHouse Church, we're going to be talking about the 13 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:30,000 life of the church. 14 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 And I'm just so excited to be able to share with you today. 15 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Happy Father's Day to all you amazing fathers out there. 16 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 My husband Brad and I have, well, I really have been able to be apart 17 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 from LifeHouse from the start. 18 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 And Brad, as soon as we got married, jumped in. 19 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,000 And we have loved serving here. 20 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,000 It has been an absolute privilege. 21 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 And I am not talking about moving because then we would be able to 22 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 actually hear the message today. 23 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 So I want to say just a quick happy Father's Day. 24 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Can everyone turn around and say hi, Brad, back there? 25 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,000 The guy with the ball cap. 26 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Hi, Brad. 27 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000 That's my amazing husband. 28 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Just a shout out to him. 29 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 He's incredible. 30 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 I'm sure you've seen our two wild children. 31 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Well, one wild child, one sweet one running around here. 32 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,000 We've got a two-year-old, Maisie. 33 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,000 She's in all pink today. 34 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 I'm sure you'll see her at some point. 35 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 She is wild, energetic, strong. 36 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,000 She will be our leader for sure. 37 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 And then sweet Mia in the back is 10 months. 38 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,000 And she is full of joy and just learning all of the things in life. 39 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 It's so exciting to just watch them both learn and grow. 40 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,000 And I just recently found a very cool fact about myself, well, 41 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 about my hometown that I just have to share now. 42 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Any time I'm going to do a bio, this is my new cool fact. 43 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,000 So I was born in Wimber, Pennsylvania. 44 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Raise your hand if you've heard of Wimber, Pennsylvania. 45 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Okay, more than I thought. 46 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,000 It's like the middle of nowhere. 47 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,000 It's like two hours west from here. 48 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 And I was born in the same, I've got to look at this guy's name, 49 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:58,000 I was born in the same place as the original Tarzan, Johnny Weissmiller. 50 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Anybody know him personally? 51 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,000 I don't know. 52 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,000 I could have, right? 53 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,000 How crazy is that? 54 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I was born in the same place as Tarzan. 55 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,000 So shout out Mr. Doug at East Shore Campus this morning. 56 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,000 If you are there, thank you for giving me that cool fact. 57 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 He taught me that a few weeks ago when I got to Vista. 58 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 When I got to visit the East Shore Campus. 59 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 If he's at East Shore today, would you guys, everybody just run over 60 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 and high five Mr. Doug really quick. 61 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Just, we'll all give you virtual high fives over here. 62 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 But run over and give Mr. Doug a high five. 63 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 That is such a cool fact that I learned about myself. 64 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 But again, I just want to say really quickly, 65 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 before we jump into God's Word this morning, 66 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Happy Father's Day to the best dad in the world. 67 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Dad, I'm so grateful for all that you've done serving with you here 68 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 and just in our community has been a dream. 69 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,000 I've learned so much from you and I'm grateful. 70 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 I think we got a picture, if we can show you up there. 71 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 That is, check out that mustache. 72 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Anybody think Pastor Kip should bring back the mustache? 73 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Yeah, that's me and my dad on my third birthday. 74 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 And then I think we got a picture too of my husband. 75 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Shout out to you, Brad. 76 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 You are the most amazing dad to our girls and leader of our family. 77 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,000 And I'm so blessed. 78 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 My father-in-law, Jim, I don't have your picture, Jim. 79 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 I'm sorry, up there. 80 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 But he's like, thank the Lord. 81 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 But we're so glad that you're here. 82 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 I'm grateful for the impact that you've had on Brad 83 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,000 and the girls and our lives. 84 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,000 We love you guys. 85 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Happy Father's Day. 86 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Three best dads in the room, 87 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,000 but the rest of you, you're close backups. 88 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 So again, so excited to be here. 89 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Raise your hand, who was here on Mother's Day? 90 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Anybody here on Mother's Day? 91 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Okay, if you were not here on Mother's Day, 92 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 you definitely want to go back online 93 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 and just check out the message from that day. 94 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 I had the incredible opportunity to be up here 95 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 with some really strong, amazing women. 96 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 And we got to share just pieces of our stories. 97 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,000 We shared parts of our stories where some difficult seasons. 98 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 We had some difficult seasons of change, 99 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 seasons of waiting, seasons of loneliness. 100 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And we realized through conversating and sharing our stories 101 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 that every single one of us got through those seasons 102 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 by rooting ourselves in Jesus. 103 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 And I got to share one of my very favorite, 104 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 which I think, if you can quote me if I'm wrong, 105 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,000 I think this used to be one of your favorite passages as well. 106 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 But one of my very favorite scriptures is John 15, 5, 107 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,000 that says, I'm the vine and you are the branch. 108 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,000 If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit, 109 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 but apart from me, you can do nothing. 110 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 So we talked all about remaining in Jesus, 111 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 and that's how we get through those difficult seasons. 112 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,000 We know every single, I'm sure you could line up up here 113 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 and share your testimony, your story. 114 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Every single one of us face difficulties in this life. 115 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Difficulties that may seem hopeless, 116 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 that may be really difficult, but we got the good news, right? 117 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 As Christ followers, we know that the only way 118 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,000 to get through those times is to root ourselves 119 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 in the firm foundation. 120 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 We just sang about it, right? 121 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 The firm foundation of Jesus Christ. 122 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,000 We heard this through the personal stories on Mother's Day, 123 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,000 and I'm sure we've all witnessed it in our lives, 124 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,000 and if we haven't, we certainly will. 125 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,000 John 15 reminds us that apart from Jesus, we can do nothing. 126 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 So today, we're gonna spend our time exploring 127 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 how we remain rooted in Jesus 128 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 through every messy curve that this life throws at us, 129 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 every twist and turn. 130 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 What does it look like on a practical level 131 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 to remain rooted when the unexpected happens? 132 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 How do we stay rooted? 133 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 What does this look like in everyday life? 134 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 And don't you just love the Bible 135 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 because it has everything that we need? 136 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 In one way or another, any question you have, I promise, 137 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 will be answered through the Word of God, 138 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 and so naturally, we're gonna look there today. 139 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 So if you, anybody got the good old hard back with them today? 140 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,000 If you've got that, go ahead and just get that out 141 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,000 in a little bit, I'll give you a head start. 142 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 We're gonna be in 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel today, 143 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 so that's in the beginning of the book. 144 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Go ahead and just find 1 Samuel. 145 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,000 We'll jump there in just a moment. 146 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 But looking to Scripture, we see the answer to this question, 147 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 how we remain rooted, and I love a good process. 148 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 There's three steps that we find in Scripture. 149 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Identify, remove, reroute. 150 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Do you know what that makes? 151 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Err. 152 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Everybody go, err. 153 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 That's so like Father's Day and manly of us, right? 154 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Err. 155 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Identify, remove, reroute. 156 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Identify, remove, reroute. 157 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,000 If we wanna remain rooted in Christ, 158 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 we need to first identify the fruit that we're producing. 159 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Second, we need to remove the sin that's in our life. 160 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 And third, we need to reroute ourselves into the things of God. 161 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Life goes up, as we've heard, and life goes down. 162 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,000 We need to live this process. 163 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Identify, remove, reroute. 164 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 We've gotta constantly be identifying what's going on in our life, 165 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 getting that sin out of there, 166 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,000 and rerouting back into the things of God. 167 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 And a lot of us have heard the story of David and Goliath, 168 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 probably growing up, maybe if you grew up in kids' church 169 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 or you've been around church at all, 170 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 you've probably heard the story of David and Goliath. 171 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 But did you know that David was a king, 172 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,000 like just like us, who faced a lot, well, we're not kings, 173 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,000 but like us, he faced a lot of ups and downs. 174 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 He had a lot of twists and turns 175 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 in his relationship with the Lord and his journey. 176 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 And despite his profound love for the Lord, 177 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 which we're gonna hear about in just a moment, 178 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:30,000 he did have ups and downs that caused him to get rooted in his own desires, 179 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 to pull him away from the things of the Lord. 180 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Early, so if you read in Scripture, 181 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000 the Lord himself literally describes David 182 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 as a man after God's own heart. 183 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,000 That is like the ultimate compliment that you can receive from God himself. 184 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 From a young age, David was so rooted in the things of God, 185 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 like he made a difference to everyone around him. 186 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,000 He was a young shepherd boy just faithfully serving in his father's fields. 187 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:00,000 And one day, God sent a prophet named Samuel 188 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 to come and to anoint David as the next king. 189 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 And this was an extremely significant moment 190 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 because God himself would handpick the king 191 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 and their time for them to rightfully rule. 192 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 And so Samuel was being sent by God to anoint David 193 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 to be a future king of a nation. 194 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 That's like a huge deal for this small shepherd boy 195 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 who was just faithfully serving the Lord. 196 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 So this happens, and then David just, it wasn't for right at that moment. 197 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,000 So this happens, Samuel leaves, David goes back to the fields, 198 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,000 and is just faithfully serving the Lord, honoring his dad, 199 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:39,000 taking care of the sheep, praying, praising the Lord, just doing his thing. 200 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:44,000 And he also had a very large skill to play an instrument called the lyre. 201 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Say lyre. 202 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Not like you think, right? 203 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,000 The instrument lyre. 204 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 And so David played this instrument, 205 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000 and he was noticed by someone at the palace. 206 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 And just like everything that David did, 207 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 he played the lyre unto the Lord. 208 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,000 It was, it just made everyone quiet in a room. 209 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 It brought peace, it brought grace, it brought comfort. 210 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 And so King Saul heard this, who was the king at the time, 211 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Saul called him to the palace and asked him to come in 212 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 because at the time, scripture tells us that Saul was being tormented 213 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,000 by demonic spirits, and he couldn't, he tried everything. 214 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 He could not get rid of these demonic spirits. 215 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 So he called David to the kingdom and asked him to play the lyre. 216 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 And do you know what happened when David got in the room 217 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,000 and he played his instrument unto the Lord? 218 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,000 What happened? 219 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Those demons fled. 220 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:33,000 That's amazing. 221 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 That is amazing. 222 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Those, you could see the fruit of David being rooted in God 223 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,000 flowed out of him, and it literally opened doors for him 224 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,000 to get into the palace. 225 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,000 That's a huge deal. 226 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 The light and peace and grace that flew from David 227 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 was the fruit of being rooted in Christ. 228 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 It's evident to everyone around him. 229 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,000 So if you've got your Bibles, 230 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 they're also going to turn it on the screens for you. 231 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 We're going to pick up in David's story just as he hears 232 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 about this Philistine giant that is defiling the name of his God, 233 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 and David is burning with righteous anger. 234 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 And again, the king is starting to know him. 235 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 So the king notices that David's burning with his righteous anger, 236 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 and we're going to jump right into their conversation. 237 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,000 So 1 Samuel 17, we're going to start in verse 32. 238 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Chapter 17, verse 32. 239 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Say there when you're there. 240 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Thank you. 241 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 We're going to wait a long time for you. 242 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 All right. 243 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 David said to Saul, 244 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine. 245 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Your servant will go and fight him. 246 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Saul replied, 247 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:40,000 You are not going to be able to go against the Philistine and fight him. 248 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:45,000 You're only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth. 249 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,000 But David said to Saul, 250 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. 251 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 When a lion and a bear came and carried off the sheep from the flock, 252 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,000 I went after it. 253 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,000 I struck it and rescued it from the sheep's mouth. 254 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,000 When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it down, and killed it. 255 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Your servant has killed both lion and the bear. 256 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 This uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them. 257 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Because he has defiled the armies of the living God, 258 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,000 the Lord who rescued me from the pawl of the lion and the pawl of the bear 259 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,000 will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine. 260 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,000 Saul said to David, 261 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Go and the Lord be with you. 262 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic and put a coat of armor around him 263 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,000 and a bronze helmet on his head. 264 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,000 David fastened his own sword over the tunic and tried to walk around 265 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 because he was not used to them. 266 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 I cannot go in these, he said, because I'm not used to them. 267 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,000 So he took them off. 268 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Then he took his staff in his hand. 269 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:47,000 He chose five smooth stones from the stream and put them in his shepherd's pouch. 270 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 With his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine. 271 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Meanwhile, the Philistine with his shield barrier in front of him 272 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 kept coming closer to David. 273 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, 274 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 glowing with health and handsome. 275 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 He despised him. 276 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,000 He said to David, 277 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Am I a dog that you come at me with sticks? 278 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 279 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Come here, he said, and I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animal. 280 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 David said to the Philistine, listen, this is powerful. 281 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 David said to the Philistine, 282 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, 283 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,000 but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, 284 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defiled. 285 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 This day, the Lord will deliver you into my hands. 286 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 I will strike you down and cut off your head. 287 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,000 This very day, I will give the carcass of the Philistine army to the birds 288 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:47,000 and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 289 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear 290 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,000 that the Lord saves, but for the battle is the Lord's, 291 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 and he will give all of you into our hands. 292 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,000 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, 293 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,000 David ran quickly towards the battle line to meet him. 294 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Reaching into his bag, taking out a stone, 295 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. 296 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 The stone sunk into his forehead. 297 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 He fell face down, so David triumped over the Philistine 298 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 with a sling and a stone. 299 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Without a sword in his hand, he struck down the Philistine and killed him. 300 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Wow. I know we know that story, but just wow. 301 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Reading it for the millionth time, it's still wow. 302 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:41,000 An entire army, a king, a big, strong king of a nation, 303 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 were cowering in fear, and this little shepherd boy 304 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,000 was able to stand up and fight an enemy because he was rooted in the Lord. 305 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 There is no question that at this time in David's life, 306 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,000 he was firmly rooted in the things of the Lord. 307 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:04,000 He spent his time in that field, praying, fighting lions and bears 308 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 in the name of the Lord. 309 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,000 He was rooted in God, and it showed. 310 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 David's fruit was evident. We saw this. 311 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 He responded in strength and faithfulness immediately. 312 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Immediately, he burned with righteous anger. 313 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,000 When he heard this giant was coming against his God, 314 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 he burned with righteous anger. 315 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 He was courageous and bold. 316 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,000 I don't know if you caught that one part. 317 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 David was coming toward him, this giant. 318 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 I don't have the statistics, but you can look it up on Google. 319 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,000 The dude was huge, and he was coming against this little shepherd boy. 320 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Did David get scared? 321 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Does Scripture say that he trembled or he backed up a little bit 322 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 or even just stood still? 323 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 He ran towards the battle line. 324 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:49,000 That is fruit of being rooted in God. 325 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,000 When we look at the fruit someone is producing, 326 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,000 it becomes so evident whether they are rooted in God or not. 327 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Our fruit is the outward emotions that we show, right? 328 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 It's how we respond. 329 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 It's the way we speak, maybe the way we speak to our spouse 330 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,000 or our children or someone at our workplace. 331 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 It's the way we hold our tongue when we should hold our tongue, right? 332 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 It's revealed in our actions, 333 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 the choices that we make from little to medium to big choices. 334 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,000 The fruit is what's visible in our life. 335 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Either our fruit is going to reflect Christ or it's not. 336 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 There is no in-between. 337 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,000 The first step in remaining rooted in Christ 338 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 is to identify the fruit we're producing. 339 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Say it again. Say, identify. 340 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Identify. Give me the R. Do it. 341 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,000 R. You're never going to forget this, right? 342 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,000 It is an honest inventory of our life. 343 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 We see David's story continues through 1 and 2 Samuel. 344 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 If you haven't had a chance to read deep into David's story 345 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,000 through both of those books, make that your next, like, Devo time 346 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 because it is so good and there's so much in there. 347 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:03,000 After he defeats Goliath, he goes on to just be a great warrior. 348 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,000 King Saul sees so much value in him and God's hand on him. 349 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,000 He pulls him close almost as a family member. 350 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,000 David ends up marrying King Saul's daughter 351 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,000 and becomes pretty much best friends with King Saul's son. 352 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 He goes on to win many battles, 353 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 to do so many things for his nation and for the Lord. 354 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 We're going to skip to a little bit later in his story, 355 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,000 another familiar part of his story. 356 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 At this point, King Saul has now passed away. 357 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,000 And so remember that prophecy that Samuel had spoken over David. 358 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Now is all coming to fruition. 359 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000 So David is now king of a nation. 360 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Everything that God spoke had gone into order. 361 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,000 King Saul has passed away. 362 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,000 We're going to read this familiar part of David's story. 363 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000 This time we're going to be in 2 Samuel, chapter 11. 364 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 So if you're not there, go ahead and turn. 365 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 2 Samuel, chapter 11. 366 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 This time we are going to start in verse 1. 367 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Say there if you're there. 368 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 All right, 2 Samuel, chapter 11, verse 1. 369 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,000 The man said, 370 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Then David said to Uriah, 371 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Go down to your house and wash your feet. 372 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,000 So Uriah left the palace and a gift from the king was sent after him. 373 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,000 But Uriah slept at the entrance of the palace with all of his master's sermons 374 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 and did not go to his house. 375 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 David was told Uriah did not go home. 376 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 So he asked Uriah, 377 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,000 Haven't you just come back from a military campaign? 378 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Why didn't you go home? 379 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Uriah said to David, 380 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,000 The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents. 381 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,000 And my commander Joab and my lord's men are camped in open country. 382 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,000 How could I go to my house and eat and drink and make love to my wife? 383 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,000 As surely as I live, I will not do such a thing. 384 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Then David said to him, 385 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Stay here one more day and tomorrow I will send you back. 386 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:50,000 So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 387 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:55,000 At David's invitation, he ate and he drank and David made him drunk. 388 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,000 In the evening, Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants. 389 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 He did not go home. 390 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:06,000 In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 391 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:11,000 In it, he wrote, Put Uriah out on the front lines where the fighting is fiercest. 392 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Then withdraw from him and he will be struck down and die. 393 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 That is another wow. 394 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,000 What a change in fruit we are seeing. 395 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:29,000 This is the same David that was courageous and bold and gracious and kind and fought a giant. 396 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 What a change in fruit. 397 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Instead of standing strong and courageous like he did against the lions, the bears, the giants, 398 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 he is now cowardly and weak. 399 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:46,000 He went from a calm, calculated man to now in just a spiraling frenzy trying to cover up his sin. 400 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Let's just recap what happened in that story real quick. 401 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,000 David commits adultery. 402 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,000 He sleeps with someone who is not his wife, somebody else's wife. 403 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,000 He gets the woman pregnant and then he tries to blame her husband. 404 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,000 He tries to make her husband think it was him. 405 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,000 When that doesn't work, he tries again by getting the guy drunk to send him home. 406 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Hopefully this time, the guy will think that it's his child. 407 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:17,000 When that doesn't work, he literally sends Uriah to battle with his own death sentence in hand. 408 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Did you catch that? 409 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Uriah went back to battle with his own death sentence to give to the commander. 410 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000 What a difference. 411 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:31,000 It is evident here that David was not rooted in the Lord. 412 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 He was derailed by his sin. 413 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Step two in the process of remaining rooted in Christ is to remove our sin. 414 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Say remove. 415 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 I won't make you say error. 416 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Remove. 417 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,000 Remove our sin. 418 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Every single one of us deal with sin on a regular basis. 419 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:58,000 1 John 1, 8 says, if we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 420 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 We can admit it or not, but scripture lays it right out there for us. 421 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Every single one of us fall short of God's glory and we sin and we mess up. 422 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,000 We are messy people. 423 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:14,000 I don't know if you're anything like me, but I think sometimes we can categorize our sin. 424 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:22,000 We have the big bad ones that are like adultery, like we just read about, murder, addiction. 425 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Then we have the ones that we downplay, like anger, jealousy, lust, gluttony. 426 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:36,000 It can become really easy to let ourselves off the hook with the ones that don't seem so bad, 427 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,000 that don't seem so life-altering. 428 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 We can tend to let ourselves off the hook. 429 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:46,000 I found myself in this exact pickle just like maybe like three weeks ago. 430 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,000 I was noticing that in my day-to-day life, I was just getting a little bit more snippy. 431 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Have you ever had those days where you're a little bit more snippy? 432 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:59,000 I'm a stay-at-home mom with my two girls and I love it and it's awesome, but they are tiring sometimes. 433 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,000 And I found myself, I was getting just a little bit more snippy than usual. 434 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 I was a little bit more impatient. 435 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,000 I was a little bit maybe more sassy. 436 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Our poor dog, I even took it out on our poor dog. 437 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I was just getting a little mean, if we're going to be honest. 438 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 I was getting a little mean. 439 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 And Brad, I would have a long day with the girls. 440 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Brad would have a long day at work. 441 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,000 He would come home from work and do you think my sassiness stopped then? 442 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 No, it escalated. 443 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,000 I got a little bit more sassy with Brad and I'm sure he is like, what is going on? 444 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:36,000 And so I just noticed, you know, I'm reacting to things that I wouldn't usually react to in this way. 445 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:41,000 And I was talking to a friend, a sweet friend and a mentor of mine and I was telling her this and I'm like, 446 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,000 you know what, I don't know what's going on, but do you think maybe something's happening? 447 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Like, I don't know. 448 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000 I'm just being really snippy. 449 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000 I'm not sure what it is. 450 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:58,000 And she ever so lovingly and kindly and graciously pointed me in the direction that maybe something was going on under the surface. 451 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Maybe there was something a little bit there that needed to get removed. 452 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,000 And she was right through a lot of conversation and prayer time together. 453 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:12,000 I realized that I had some jealousy and I did not want to say it. 454 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 That feels I don't even like saying it up here. 455 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 It feels yucky. 456 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 It's embarrassing. 457 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I don't want to admit it. 458 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:22,000 But when I look back at my situation day after day, I'm with the girls. 459 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000 You know, Brad is leaving and going to work. 460 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 And I got to thinking, you know, he goes to work. 461 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Nobody follows him into the bathroom. 462 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Nobody knocks his plate down during lunch. 463 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Nobody eats every snack that he tries to put in his mouth. 464 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Nobody is saying, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy all day long to him. 465 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 And guess what? 466 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,000 I got a little bit of jealousy that he got to leave every day and I had to stay home. 467 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,000 But I did not want to admit that because, first of all, it's embarrassing. 468 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 It sounds like a bad mom, which is a lie. 469 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,000 It's just the truth. 470 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,000 But I didn't want to admit it, right? 471 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:59,000 I didn't want him to think I don't love being at home or I wasn't grateful for this gift of being with my girls because I am. 472 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,000 But the truth is, I let this little piece of sin slide into my life. 473 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:05,000 And guess what? 474 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 It was becoming evident in my fruit. 475 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000 I was getting snippy. 476 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,000 I was impatient. 477 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Are those fruits of the spirit and of God? 478 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,000 No, no, it was becoming evident. 479 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,000 And thankfully, I had this friend to so graciously call me out on it and to help me get there. 480 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:25,000 And I was able to talk to Brad, spend time with the Lord, get my heart right and repent. 481 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,000 And can I tell you the joy and the freedom that I found in that? 482 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:35,000 When you walk away from sin, there is no freedom like walking in forgiveness. 483 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:40,000 My fruit shifted from grumpy and impatient to joyful. 484 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:41,000 And can I tell you something else? 485 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:50,000 That sin, though it might seem small, might sound silly or stupid or whatever you want to call it, that sin had the potential to wreak havoc on my family. 486 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,000 If I let that sin go and it built and it built, do you know that resentment would have built in my marriage? 487 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,000 I would have been probably not as good of mom as I should have to my daughters. 488 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000 And guess what? 489 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Ultimately, it would have affected my relationship with the Lord. 490 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 It would have brought separation. 491 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:14,000 The reality is that every sin, no matter how big or small or whatever category that we want to put it in, it has the same outcome. 492 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 It has the same outcome. 493 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Every sin leads to separation from God and spiritual death. 494 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 There is no escaping that. 495 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:28,000 We have to remove the sin from our lives if we want to remain rooted in Christ. 496 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Do you know David should have stopped the moment he was on that roof and he glanced up at Sheba? 497 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 That's when he should have stopped that right in that moment. 498 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 He should have chose to stop it and walk away and turn his head. 499 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,000 But he didn't. 500 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:46,000 He gave into temptation and it separated him from God. 501 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,000 He was rooting himself in his own desires and it separated him from God. 502 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000 And in his case, it caused literal death. 503 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,000 There was death on his hands from the choice he made to sin. 504 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Roman 623 says, For the wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 505 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 The outcome of sin is death. 506 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 But as Christ followers, we have the gift of forgiveness. 507 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:19,000 When Christ died on that cross for us, it was so that we could walk away from our sin. 508 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,000 We could choose to lay it at his feet and live a life forgiven and free. 509 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,000 That's why he died on that cross for us. 510 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,000 So we can be in communion, in relationship, in freedom with him. 511 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:37,000 If we want to remain rooted in Christ, we have to first identify the fruit that we're producing. 512 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000 We have to remove the sin from our lives. 513 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000 And then we have to reroute ourselves in the Lord. 514 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Step three to remaining rooted is to reroute ourselves in the Lord. 515 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Because that sin that we step into so often causes separation, it creates this void in our life that needs to fill. 516 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:03,000 There's this spiritual void that we need to dump the things of God back into to strengthen ourselves. 517 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,000 It is so important to come back and root ourselves in the things of God. 518 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 Things like being in God's word daily. 519 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:15,000 The word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path, right? 520 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,000 Find a way to immerse yourself in scripture, whether that's a Bible plan, 521 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,000 whether that's just going straight through your hardback Bible, whatever it looks like. 522 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Find a way to get yourself in the word of God. 523 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Like I said at the beginning, it has every answer in one way or the other. 524 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:37,000 I promise you, whatever question, whatever clarity that you are looking for, it is in the word of God. 525 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,000 And God will speak to you through his word. 526 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,000 Find a rhythm of prayer and worship in your life. 527 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000 This could look like I don't know if you're a morning person like me. 528 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Maybe this looks like waking up hours before your family is stirring. 529 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,000 The only time you can get quiet before everyone wakes up or if you're like my husband, 530 00:27:54,000 --> 00:28:01,000 it's after everybody goes to sleep because you're the night aisle and you can get quiet with the Lord when no one else is distracted, 531 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,000 when there's no distractions, there's no busyness and it just slows down. 532 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Maybe for you, it's sneaking away during nap time or during a break at work or maybe you've got a long commute or a drive. 533 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Find whatever way that fits into it, whatever way that you can make happen in your schedule. 534 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Maybe it's dancing around your kitchen with your kids. 535 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 Anybody like to dance and worship in their kitchen? 536 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Is that just that's just me. 537 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Okay. All right. 538 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000 Well, I love dancing around in my kitchen and worshiping with my family. 539 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:35,000 Whatever way that you can be intentional to pull praise and worship and prayer into your life, do it. 540 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000 It will be a lifeline. 541 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,000 And you guys know this last one. 542 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:47,000 If you have been with us at LifeHouse for any amount of time, what is the last thing I'm going to say in order to grow spiritually and root back into the things of God? 543 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 We don't do life alone. 544 00:28:50,000 --> 00:29:01,000 This is the way that God created us to be to be in community with one another, to keep each other accountable, to encourage one another and build each other up. 545 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:08,000 There is so much strength in community, especially community surrendered centered around God. 546 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000 That is where you will find your people that you can lean on through the ugly. 547 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:17,000 You'll have the people call you out when you're jealous about something or you've got a sin that you don't even want to name. 548 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000 Find your people that are going to love you and walk with you. 549 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:34,000 I have been so beyond blessed in my life in different seasons, and sometimes it's been different people that God has brought in my life to encourage me to pull me out of those those dark places to spur me on to the things of God. 550 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:40,000 And recently, one of those close friends and I, we had an opportunity for just a little bit of time. 551 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000 We were meeting up really early before our children woke up. 552 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:51,000 We were meeting really early in the morning at a diner and we were just spending time in God's word and praying with each other and encouraging each other. 553 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000 It was it was a wonderful time. 554 00:29:53,000 --> 00:30:00,000 And one of my favorite things that we did there was we created this space to confess our sins to each other. 555 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000 And at first, like it felt scary to do. 556 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,000 It felt a little bit awkward. 557 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,000 But can I tell you the freedom? 558 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,000 There was no shame. 559 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,000 There was love. 560 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000 There was accountability. 561 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,000 It was everything that God has created us to be in sharing and confessing our sins to each other. 562 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:28,000 I found so much strength and so much growth in being able to do that with a dear friend that I knew was going to not judge me, but spur me on to get right with the Lord and to get my heart where it needed to be. 563 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Do not do life alone. 564 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:38,000 There are people in this room that love you, that care for you, and that want to walk with you through every single up and down. 565 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000 Don't do life alone. 566 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000 And second, Samuel, we see the accountability from David's community, right? 567 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:52,000 We see if you continue on, we're not going to read it all today, but if you continue on, you'll see that Nathan comes along and completely calls David out on his sin. 568 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000 He urges him to repent. 569 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,000 He even shares this whole story to get David to understand, like, the depths of what he had done wrong. 570 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000 Definitely read it on your own time. 571 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,000 But he calls him out and he says, come back to the things of God. 572 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,000 David chooses to repent. 573 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,000 He returns to God. 574 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:14,000 He asks for forgiveness and he gets himself rerouted into the things of God. 575 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,000 Sometimes when we identify our fruit, things are going to look good. 576 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,000 We're going to see fruit. 577 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,000 We're going to look at our fruit. 578 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000 We're going to see that is reflecting God. 579 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000 It's beautiful. 580 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,000 It's right where it should be. 581 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:30,000 But sometimes when we look at our fruit and we're honest and we identify that fruit, it is going to reflect sin. 582 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000 It is going to reflect things that are not of God. 583 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,000 And if we don't remove those things, it is going to separate us from our creator. 584 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:48,000 If we want to remain rooted in Christ, we have to identify our fruit, remove our sin and root ourselves in the things of God. 585 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Let's say it together. 586 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Identify, remove, reroute. 587 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,000 Identify, remove, reroute. 588 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Give me one last er. 589 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000 Er. 590 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Identify, remove, reroute. 591 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 This is not a one time process either. 592 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,000 This isn't just something we do when we give our life to the Lord the first time. 593 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,000 This is the process of being made like Jesus over and over. 594 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,000 You might need to do this monthly, weekly, daily. 595 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:17,000 We saw through David's story at any time we can be separated from God. 596 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,000 It just takes we can have beautiful fruit one moment and one choice of sin can turn our fruit ugly. 597 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,000 We have got to do this. 598 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000 We've got to get rooted in God. 599 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:33,000 I'm going to ask if Zach and the worship team will come and Pastor Eric is going to be getting ready to come at East Shore in just a moment. 600 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000 I'm also going to ask if you would just stand. 601 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:46,000 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church. 602 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,000 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 603 00:32:50,000 --> 00:33:04,000 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.lifehousecog.com.