1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,280 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:22,640 Turn to somebody beside you tell them it is 2025. 3 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:23,640 It is here. 4 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,640 Tell them right now. 5 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,840 It's 2025 just in case they didn't know. 6 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:28,400 They slept through it. 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:33,280 How many how many of you stayed up and saw the ball drop stayed up till midnight like 8 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:34,960 like six people stayed up. 9 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:35,960 That was it. 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,160 The rest of you slept in the new year. 11 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:39,160 Good. 12 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,520 You good and rested for 2025. 13 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,520 But it is good to have you in God's house. 14 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:44,880 It is a brand new year. 15 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,920 We are heading into this new year with just expectancy. 16 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:49,920 I hear it in your voice. 17 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,800 Heard it while you were praising this morning. 18 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,160 Just believe in God. 19 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:55,160 Trust in God. 20 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,560 I know some of you came to the new year sick right. 21 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,960 And just man the flu is going around the illness. 22 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,000 But listen God's on the throne and he's got you. 23 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,500 Can I tell you that this morning. 24 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:06,500 He does. 25 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:07,500 He does. 26 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:10,520 And he's going to walk you through and just amazing things unfolding. 27 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,800 A lot of you been asking and I want to let you know we've really started to nail down 28 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,920 what we think is going to be a date to move into the new building. 29 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,480 So we're looking at the first Sunday in March. 30 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,000 So that's March 2nd. 31 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,640 Yeah that should give us time to get equipment installed. 32 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,240 We should be able to get all the training done that we need to. 33 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,640 Do a dry run over there to make sure everything works right and then get launched in. 34 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,760 So just be praying. 35 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,360 We'll be calling on all of you at different times maybe to help out in some kind of way 36 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:39,680 or to prepare. 37 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,120 But we're excited. 38 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,840 I got two things going on in my heart my head right. 39 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,800 I'm excited about the new thing and I'm a little nostalgic about this place. 40 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,400 So a little bit of both taking place at the same time. 41 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,760 But I could not be more thrilled about what God's doing in your lives and what he's about 42 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:55,760 to do. 43 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,880 But we're just trusting God for that all along the way. 44 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:58,880 Amen. 45 00:01:58,880 --> 00:01:59,880 Do you believe it for 2025. 46 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:00,880 Yeah come on. 47 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:02,800 He's got good things in store for you. 48 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,160 Well I don't know if you know this or not about me. 49 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,920 Some of you may some of you don't. 50 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,260 But one of my hobbies and I don't get to do this a lot but one of them is I like to go 51 00:02:11,260 --> 00:02:15,500 hunting and I'm a deer hunter and I hunt some other things as well. 52 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:17,940 But I don't get out near as often as I like. 53 00:02:17,940 --> 00:02:20,280 But I do know this about hunters. 54 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,380 If you're not if you're from Pennsylvania you probably are pretty familiar with deer 55 00:02:23,380 --> 00:02:27,200 hunting especially from Western PA or maybe Northern Pennsylvania. 56 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:32,860 But every September and every November every Pennsylvania archery hunter in particular 57 00:02:32,860 --> 00:02:38,320 experiences a little more than just a little bit of excitement about a hot pursuit that's 58 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,120 going to take place in the forests of Pennsylvania. 59 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,480 All right. 60 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:49,400 Any seasoned whitetail archery hunter will tell you that the male whitetail the buck 61 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:57,360 say the buck all right who occupies the force they're about to go out of their minds in 62 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,280 a hot pursuit chasing a female deer. 63 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:08,400 What is normally a very skilled creature in staying away from predators avoiding conflict 64 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:16,000 of any kind or and you know any kind of probably moment of getting near a predator that buck 65 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:21,600 will lose his ever live in mind in a hot pursuit of a female deer. 66 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:29,560 And hunters love it because a buck will completely ignore its instincts it will completely ignore 67 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:36,840 its weary eyes and ears and even a sense of smell and it'll walk right in front of a deer 68 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:37,840 hunter. 69 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,900 How many of you seen him cross the highway in September November and you're thinking 70 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:43,000 what in the world are you thinking right. 71 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,720 They'll walk out right on the route on route 81 and step into traffic right. 72 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:53,920 They'll go into cities they've even been known to walk up to big pane glass windows see a 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,560 reflection and start to fight with another buck right because they're in a hot pursuit 74 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,360 of a doe and they'll drive they'll jump right through the window. 75 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,720 They're in hot pursuit and nothing else matters to that buck except the pursuit that's taken 76 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:07,720 place. 77 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:13,960 I've seen the same thing with teenage boys all right with a teenage girl they'll lose 78 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,760 their ever live in mind they'll do things they'd never ever do before right. 79 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,200 You've witnessed a hot pursuit in action even if you've never been in the woods right. 80 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:28,200 We see it on TV with with police officers who are chasing the criminal right and they're 81 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:33,320 in hot pursuit and it's in the name of justice and it's in the name of public safety. 82 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:38,960 We see athlete right athletes go to the Olympics and they're in pursuit they're in hot pursuit 83 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:44,520 of the gold and they will train feverishly for years to bring honor to their country 84 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,240 and to fulfill a personal dream or goal right. 85 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,240 I've witnessed a hot pursuit. 86 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,460 I've seen this with business business owners truly right. 87 00:04:52,460 --> 00:04:56,360 You can get a business owner who will be in a hot pursuit of what they do for the right 88 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,320 reasons and sometimes even for the wrong reasons right. 89 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,520 Sometimes it's all about the money sometimes all about the bucks different kind of bucks 90 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:03,520 right. 91 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,840 It's it'll be all about the money but sometimes it's really about just providing a service 92 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:13,580 or providing something that helps others and you can see this hot pursuit and while there 93 00:05:13,580 --> 00:05:17,800 are plenty of things in life to be in a hot pursuit about there's plenty of things that 94 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:18,920 we can engage in. 95 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:25,240 There's nothing more important to pursue to be in a hot pursuit about than Jesus. 96 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:26,240 Nothing right. 97 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:27,240 It's true. 98 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,160 Nothing will have more impact in your life. 99 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,060 Nothing will change your life more. 100 00:05:31,060 --> 00:05:37,520 Nothing will impact your future more than a hot pursuit of Jesus and in 2025 we're going 101 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,720 to be in hot pursuit. 102 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,680 We're going to pursue Jesus this year. 103 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:41,680 Anybody with me. 104 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:42,680 Come on anybody on board. 105 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,960 I believe you because I heard you singing this morning. 106 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,120 We're going to pursue the Holy Spirit. 107 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,760 We're going to pursue righteousness. 108 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,400 We're going to pursue his presence. 109 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,200 We're going to pursue the Father the Son and the Spirit. 110 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,200 We're going to pursue God's Word in a right way right. 111 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,480 We're going to we're going to pursue God's revelation in your life. 112 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,300 That's God's Word in application in your life right. 113 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:05,560 We're going to go after it and we're going to chase him and we're going to follow him 114 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,780 and we're going to do everything we can. 115 00:06:07,780 --> 00:06:14,720 But know this about a pursuit a constant and relentless pursuit of anything requires a 116 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,440 motivating factor right. 117 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,160 There has to be a purpose behind the pursuit. 118 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,160 Really does. 119 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,120 No one just engages in a hot pursuit accidentally. 120 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,680 That doesn't happen right for the white tailed deer. 121 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,000 It's a biological thing right. 122 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,320 They're ready to procreate. 123 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,720 They're chasing that female deer for the police officer. 124 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,240 It is justice. 125 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,720 It could be public safety for the Olympic athlete right. 126 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,120 The purpose behind the pursuit is the gold. 127 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,400 It is to bring honor to the country and maybe to fulfill their personal goal. 128 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:49,360 So what's the catalyst or the purpose behind our pursuit of Jesus. 129 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:54,680 If we're going to chase them down if we're going to engage in this on a daily basis right. 130 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,880 If we're going to do this and not just be a January thing right. 131 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,640 How about you know you can do a January thing. 132 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,320 You know most January things end by January 19th. 133 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,120 It's true they've studied this right. 134 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,520 If it's going to be more than just a January thing if it's going to be something I'm going 135 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:15,080 to engage in all year long all life long. 136 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,460 What's the purpose. 137 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:20,040 What is the motivating factor behind pursuing Jesus. 138 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,480 Well it might not be exactly what you think. 139 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,840 A hot pursuit of Jesus is constantly fueled by humility. 140 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,080 Humility it's true. 141 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,100 Say humility just so you hear what I'm saying right. 142 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:36,100 You heard me. 143 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:42,720 Humility it's the driving force behind a hot pursuit with Jesus. 144 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,520 Passion will not keep you in the hot pursuit. 145 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:49,960 Knowledge will only carry you so far in the hot pursuit right. 146 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,160 Inspiration how many know inspiration can fade by lunchtime. 147 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:57,440 You can get inspired in a church service in the morning and you forget about it by the 148 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,000 time you're munching on some pepperoni right. 149 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,240 It's true. 150 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,720 It's a inspiration can fade. 151 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:08,160 Sometimes even love won't keep you in the hot pursuit. 152 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,300 It won't. 153 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:15,200 If you want to stay in a constant state of pursuing state of chasing after Jesus it's 154 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:20,040 going to be fed by a lot of doses of humility. 155 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,400 In the absence of humility the hot pursuit will turn off. 156 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,800 It'll shift into something that will be nothing more than an occasional interest. 157 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,200 It'll be a half-hearted pursuit of some kind right. 158 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,320 You know only when you figure out the benefits that come along with that half-hearted pursuit 159 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:36,480 may be following Jesus. 160 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:40,120 We used to say you know some people pursue Jesus because it was fire insurance right. 161 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,520 They'd get them to heaven and keep them out of hell. 162 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:43,520 That's what they would say. 163 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,080 It was just they saw nothing more than fire insurance and that will only carry you so 164 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,080 long. 165 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,760 So we're here to tell you humility will keep you in the pursuit of Jesus. 166 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,320 So if you got your Bible this morning I want you to go ahead and turn to second Chronicles. 167 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,640 We're going to go in the Old Testament second Chronicles chapter 7. 168 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:03,320 We're going to start off with verse 1 and as you turn them on pray this morning Lord 169 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:04,320 we thank you. 170 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,760 God I thank you that we God have another year. 171 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,800 Lord we can chase after you that we can pursue you. 172 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:17,000 God that we can get in hot pursuit of everything that you are everything that you do. 173 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,840 God that we are Lord engaged and I pray God that as we look into your word I pray God 174 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,960 that humility would fill our hearts. 175 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:29,120 God that would Lord begin to sink into our spirit and Lord that we would just humbly 176 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:34,680 humbly come in behind you and Lord just chase hard after you and Lord we just give you praise 177 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,440 and glory in Jesus name and amen. 178 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:43,960 Second Chronicles chapter 7 verse 1 and says this when Solomon had finished praying fire 179 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,160 came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory 180 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,000 of the Lord filled the temple and the priest could not enter the house of the Lord because 181 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,080 the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord's house when all the children of Israel saw 182 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,600 how the fire came down and the glory of the Lord on the temple they bowed their faces 183 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:05,280 to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and praised the Lord saying for he is good 184 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,800 for his mercy endures forever. 185 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,800 Then the king and all the people offered up sacrifices before the Lord. 186 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:16,080 King Solomon offered a sacrifice now listen to this this is a sacrifice at the temple 187 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:22,720 in the ancient temple 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep. 188 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:27,720 So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God and the priests attended to their 189 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:32,760 services and the Levites also with instruments of the music of the Lord which King David 190 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:38,920 had made to praise the Lord saying for his mercy endures forever whenever David offered 191 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,160 praise by their ministry. 192 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:46,440 The priest sounded trumpets opposite them while all Israel stood. 193 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,240 Furthermore Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in front of the house 194 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:55,160 of the Lord for there he offered burnt offering and a fat of the peace offering because the 195 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,280 brawn altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering and the 196 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,080 grain offering and the fat. 197 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:06,380 At that time Solomon kept the feast seven days and all Israel with him a very great 198 00:11:06,380 --> 00:11:10,360 assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt and on the eighth day when 199 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,840 they had held a sacred assembly for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days and 200 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:21,880 the feast seven days on the 30th on the 23rd day of the seventh month he sent the people 201 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,200 way to their tents joyful and glad of heart for the good that the Lord had done for David 202 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,000 for Solomon and his people Israel. 203 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,920 Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord the king's house and Solomon successfully 204 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:39,960 accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the Lord and in his 205 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,560 own house. 206 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:44,960 King Solomon is the third king of Israel. 207 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:52,880 He's the third king that comes in these David's son King David's son and David had this vision 208 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,160 and this idea to build God a temple. 209 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:01,520 Now there was a temple that was that existed in ancient Israel but it was a tent Israel 210 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:06,200 started off as a nomadic people they removed about and God told them and instructed them 211 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,160 and how to build this tent and it was a special tent it was set up with different chambers 212 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:15,960 in it but when they got settled in the promised land when they got settled down David in his 213 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,200 heart King David wanted to build God a temple and God told him no. 214 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,720 He said you're a man of war you're a man of blood you're not going to build this temple 215 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,700 but your son will your son Solomon will become king. 216 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:32,560 So God instructs David and David begins to save up materials and this was no small building 217 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:34,120 that they were talking about. 218 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:39,320 We're talking about a temple that would stand 207 feet tall at its highest point 20 story 219 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:45,080 high back then that it would be built out of eun stone and set one upon the other and 220 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,640 it's incredible when you think about the time inside it would have 50 feet high ceilings 221 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:57,160 180 feet long and 90 feet wide and there would be a vast quantity of cedar that would line 222 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:04,680 the inside of the temple but not just cedar wood cedar wood overlaid with pure gold pure 223 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:05,680 gold. 224 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:13,320 There were some 3300 officials appointed to oversee this project 100 and 100,000 talents 225 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:14,520 of gold. 226 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:19,600 So just to give you a little idea how much gold that is 75 pounds to 100 pounds makes 227 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:27,600 up a talent of gold there was a hundred thousand listen hundred thousand talents used in the 228 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,080 temple overlaid. 229 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,760 This was an incredible facility. 230 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:37,080 King Solomon had it in his heart in his heart to do right by God. 231 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,200 He wanted to show God's majesty. 232 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:44,560 He wanted to show how amazing God is and when they dedicated the temple he didn't go small 233 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:51,760 that either when they started doing the sacrifices 22,000 bulls 120,000 sheep and this effort 234 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,900 actually pleased God right. 235 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:55,640 His presence fills the temple. 236 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:58,240 The word of God says that the fire came out of heaven. 237 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,800 They didn't light the fire for the sacrifice. 238 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:01,800 It came out of heaven. 239 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:07,960 God sent fire out of heaven and consumed the sacrifices and once this is all completed 240 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:13,320 and the feast was over seven days of celebration and feast they all go back to their tents 241 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:18,160 and Solomon goes back to his and verse 12 says this then the Lord appeared to Solomon 242 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:23,200 by night and said to him I have heard your prayer and I have chosen this place for myself 243 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,580 as a house of sacrifice right. 244 00:14:25,580 --> 00:14:27,200 God Almighty shows up. 245 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:32,040 Solomon's hot pursuit after he got and God honors it and he speaks speaks to Solomon 246 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,980 and he tells him I see this but as he's talking to Solomon all of a sudden and you see this 247 00:14:36,980 --> 00:14:40,440 sometimes in scripture a shift takes place. 248 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,320 God starts to say something completely different. 249 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,920 I don't know if you've ever read God's word and you're reading you're like how many ever 250 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,400 like why do you say that right. 251 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,960 You're reading along it's like boom boom boom then boom all of a sudden something changes 252 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,760 and God does this when he's talking to Solomon. 253 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,520 Solomon's speaking with God in the night and God commends him for what he's doing then 254 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:04,580 all of a sudden in verse 13 he says this when I shut up heaven this is God talking and there's 255 00:15:04,580 --> 00:15:09,840 no rain or command the locusts to devour the land or to send pestilence among my people. 256 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:15,760 The conversation moves from commendation to correction of Israel and God tells Solomon 257 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,520 I'm going to have to correct Israel in the future. 258 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:22,800 They're going to disobey me their propensity to turn from me and turn their backs upon 259 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,480 me and engage in idol worship is going to take place and when they do that they're going 260 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:31,520 to leave me no choice but to humble them right to shake them loose from from their their 261 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:37,480 rebellion in me and and it's going to involve no rain and the locusts are going to come 262 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:42,400 and it's going to devour the land and when my mercy and patience run out all these things 263 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:43,400 are going to fall. 264 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:45,040 I mean that's a pretty big shift right. 265 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,680 He's getting commended for what he did and then he starts hearing about God talking about 266 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,800 Israel and I'll be left. 267 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:57,640 God says I'll be left with humbling them to reunite them to get them back into hot pursuit 268 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:03,880 of me and then God says a scripture that gets quoted all the time in Second Chronicle 7 269 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:10,920 14 says if a people who are called by my name will humble themselves say humble themselves 270 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:15,640 if they will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways 271 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:21,320 then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and heal their land. 272 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:27,720 The Lord tells Solomon that hot pursuit of God is always preceded with humility. 273 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:33,120 It takes humility it's humility that motivates us it's humility that keeps us moving towards 274 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:39,540 God and it's that humility that will keep me in pursuit a hot pursuit of the master. 275 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:41,080 God takes no pleasure. 276 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,320 He takes no pleasure in humbling us right. 277 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,120 We read this here. 278 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,580 Correcting us allowing us to go through difficulty. 279 00:16:47,580 --> 00:16:51,500 He doesn't take he doesn't take any pleasure in that but he does know that it's necessary 280 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:52,500 sometimes in our lives. 281 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:55,600 Now I know I'm not going to get an amen for that right. 282 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:56,600 Nobody wants that. 283 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:57,600 Nobody wants correction. 284 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:58,600 I've been corrected by the Lord. 285 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,200 I'm not ever going like yeah all right. 286 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,280 I'm like oh no right. 287 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:04,420 You know that's correct. 288 00:17:04,420 --> 00:17:08,640 But he'll allow us to go through difficulty if it'll turn us back and get us in hot pursuit 289 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:09,640 of him. 290 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,060 He'll let us go through the difficulty. 291 00:17:12,060 --> 00:17:14,360 It's a little bit like a little kid. 292 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:15,740 Sometimes little children right. 293 00:17:15,740 --> 00:17:19,480 When they're small and they're walking around and there's a hot stove on and you tell them 294 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,280 don't touch the stove because that's going to mess you up right. 295 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:23,280 You're going to get burned. 296 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:24,560 You're going to get disfigured. 297 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,120 You know you don't want to go near that stove. 298 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:27,640 Don't fall on the stove. 299 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:28,640 Stay away from the stove. 300 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,680 Sooner or later you say that enough times to a kid. 301 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:32,960 How many of you just let them brush the stove once. 302 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:33,960 Right. 303 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:34,960 You know you want to. 304 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,880 It's better that they get a minor burn right. 305 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,120 It's better they get a minor burn that you can treat and throw a band-aid on and say 306 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:44,040 see this is why I told you not to touch the stove right. 307 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,080 And it points in the right direction. 308 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,480 God does that sometimes with. 309 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,120 He'll allow us to be humbled. 310 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:50,120 The hard way. 311 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:52,720 I mean I know it's a hard way right. 312 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,240 The easy way is if you just listen to what he has to say. 313 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:56,680 But it's a hard way. 314 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,480 Israel was constantly rebelling against God. 315 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:06,480 Pride and stiff neck over and over again. 316 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,280 After long periods of grace and mercy and God calling them back and sending prophets 317 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,760 to him and really opening the door for them in so many ways. 318 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,500 Sometimes he would have to let them get captured by the enemy. 319 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:20,340 Sometimes they would go into slavery. 320 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:22,200 Sometimes they would suffer setbacks. 321 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,820 And it's because God wanted them in a hot pursuit. 322 00:18:25,820 --> 00:18:27,600 Because they got prideful. 323 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,420 Because the humility was gone. 324 00:18:30,420 --> 00:18:32,860 And they began to chase their own way. 325 00:18:32,860 --> 00:18:36,160 If you want God's hand in favor in your life. 326 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,120 Stay in a humble state before God right. 327 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,680 If you want his power to flow in your life. 328 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,640 Stay humble before God. 329 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,680 The word of God says he resists the proud. 330 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:46,680 He does right. 331 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:47,680 Staying humble. 332 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:48,880 He fights. 333 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,880 If you want God to fight evil for you. 334 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:51,880 Go out in front of you. 335 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:52,880 He did that all the time for Israel. 336 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,320 It's when Israel was humble and they were following God. 337 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:56,520 God said don't worry. 338 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:57,520 Your enemies coming. 339 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:58,520 No worries about it. 340 00:18:58,520 --> 00:18:59,520 I got this. 341 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,240 I got this right in my devotions this week. 342 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:02,320 So cool right. 343 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,360 God goes in and he confused the enemy. 344 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:06,640 And he makes them hear things like chariots right. 345 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:07,640 And they're like ahhh. 346 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,360 They freak out and just leave the camp. 347 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:10,360 They just leave. 348 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,280 And Israel plunders the camp. 349 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:14,480 He would do stuff like that all the time. 350 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,760 In hot pursuit stay humble. 351 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:20,000 He'll supply your every need if you stay humble before him. 352 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,880 You got to stay humble. 353 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,320 But Israel rarely humbled themselves. 354 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,840 They forced God's hand to humble them. 355 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,880 Because God did not want to see them get destroyed. 356 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:36,920 And instead of heeding God's word and humbling themselves and getting before God and remembering 357 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,240 all the things God's done. 358 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,120 They went to the school of hard knocks. 359 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:43,160 How many of you have ever been to the school of hard knocks? 360 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:44,280 How many of you live there? 361 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,280 Okay come on. 362 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:46,280 I'm there sometimes. 363 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,280 Right. 364 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:48,280 Following. 365 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:49,280 Not following God's warning. 366 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:50,280 Not following his word. 367 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,280 How many warning signs are good for us? 368 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,720 They really are. 369 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,040 God's word sometimes warns us about things that are really. 370 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,600 Warning signs are good. 371 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,520 When I was young I used to ski a little bit. 372 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:07,800 And if you ski any amount on decent slopes you'll start to find out that they have warning 373 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,200 signs for slopes. 374 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,080 When you get to the top of the slope there's going to be green, blue, red, at least where 375 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:14,280 I did or black. 376 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,080 And it was a diamond shape. 377 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:17,600 And it meant different things. 378 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:18,640 Green was a beginner slope. 379 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,640 So if you were a beginner that's where you went. 380 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:21,640 You went on the green slope. 381 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,920 How many of you were a beginner and you were a green slope kind of skier? 382 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,560 You did not wander over to the black diamond side of things. 383 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:34,040 Because if you did I've watched some people that were green skiers going over to the black 384 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:35,400 diamond side of things. 385 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,600 And you know what I saw? 386 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,280 It was not skiing. 387 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,440 They were sliding down the moguls on their back. 388 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,040 You know help me. 389 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:48,960 Or they were getting hauled away in a stretcher and meeting the first aid crew firsthand. 390 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,240 There's warnings. 391 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,800 We can do humble without getting humbled. 392 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,560 Do you know that? 393 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,760 We can. 394 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,800 We can get humble without getting humbled. 395 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,280 In fact it's the best way to do humble. 396 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,000 Is not to go to the school of hard knocks. 397 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:12,600 And the way that we get humble without being humbled right is to DTR things. 398 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,240 Say DTR this morning. 399 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:15,240 DTR. 400 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,240 Come on it's crossing. 401 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:17,240 How many know what DTR means? 402 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,880 Come on some young people should know this. 403 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,880 What's DTR? 404 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:22,880 Thank you. 405 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:23,880 Define a relationship. 406 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:24,880 Say define a relationship. 407 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,560 Don't go to the school of hard knocks to get humble right? 408 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,880 You got to define the relationship. 409 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,640 You got to define the relationship. 410 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,080 You got to define the relationship between you and God. 411 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,720 As a man of God or as a woman of God following God you got to define the relationship. 412 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,760 You got to know who God is in this relationship. 413 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,780 If you want to get an accurate picture. 414 00:21:47,780 --> 00:21:52,280 If you want to have a heart of humility and stay with a humble heart. 415 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,840 You got to DTR it. 416 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:54,840 You really do. 417 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,880 You might think well how do I do that? 418 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,600 You got to go back to scripture and you got to learn. 419 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,200 You got to know who God is right? 420 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,360 And I want to take you to a guy named Job this morning. 421 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:06,840 Second scripture I'm going to share with you. 422 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:07,840 Job Job. 423 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,200 God DTR the relationship for Job. 424 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,040 I don't know if you know that or not. 425 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,640 And if you read about Job Job was an incredible man. 426 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:15,880 He was a righteous man. 427 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,520 He followed God. 428 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,720 But he went through extreme extreme difficulty. 429 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,600 He in the word of God he lost all 10 of his children and it was a natural disaster that 430 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:27,600 took them. 431 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,280 And this all was filtered through God's hand. 432 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,960 He lost all his possessions. 433 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,440 He was extremely wealthy. 434 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,120 He lost everything that he had. 435 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,120 He lost all his health. 436 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:40,680 You know everybody you always hear people say well man as long as you got your health. 437 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,680 He didn't have his health. 438 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:46,240 He started breaking out in boils and his boils were so severe he sat on an ash heap and he 439 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,960 took pottery and he scraped the boils. 440 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:49,400 How many know that's gross right? 441 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:54,560 He just scraped in the boils and he's reject and not only not only does he lose his children 442 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,280 he loses all his possessions. 443 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,800 He's covered in boils. 444 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:58,800 He's he's sick. 445 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,200 He's he's unhealthy. 446 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,200 Right. 447 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,840 Then his friends his good friends come along and completely reject him. 448 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,520 They feel like he's in sin and they're constantly correcting him. 449 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,320 And all this happens simultaneously with God's permission by the way. 450 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:13,320 Incredible story. 451 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,320 Go back and read it right. 452 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,960 And you're thinking well this is awful right. 453 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,640 And Joe begins to complain at some point in scripture. 454 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,240 Now how many of you would complain if you suffered all that. 455 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,040 I'd probably be the first one in the complaint line right. 456 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,960 And he begins to complain but he starts to complain to God and somewhere along the way 457 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,160 he edges up to challenging God. 458 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,160 He's scourged it. 459 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,600 I don't know where exactly but somewhere along the way he questions God so much that he ticks 460 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,400 God off a little bit. 461 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,800 That's not a good spot to be in by the way. 462 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:41,800 Right. 463 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:46,700 And God says you know what I think it's time to DTR the relationship Joe. 464 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:52,040 So in Job chapter 38 verse one this is this is God talking to Job. 465 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,040 He starts right. 466 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,040 Job just picture him right. 467 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,720 I want you to picture him on the ash heap and he's sick and he's lost everything right. 468 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,840 And listen boy God says to me he says then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind. 469 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:07,080 First of all God comes in a whirlwind and says who is this who darkens counsel by words 470 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,580 without knowledge. 471 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:10,360 Now prepare yourself like a man. 472 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:13,240 I will question you and you shall answer me. 473 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:17,400 How many of us a big gulp moment. 474 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:18,400 Right. 475 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,240 I mean how many of you ever want to back it up. 476 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,360 There's wrote in reverse right. 477 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:24,360 Back it on up. 478 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:26,040 Just wish you want to said something right off. 479 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,760 Yeah I just go back and not say anything. 480 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,880 And then God begins to speak to me he says where were you when I laid the foundations 481 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,040 of the earth. 482 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,640 Tell me if you have understanding who determined its measurements. 483 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,460 Surely you know who stretched out the line upon it. 484 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:45,620 To what were its foundations fashioned or who laid its cornerstones. 485 00:24:45,620 --> 00:24:50,120 When the morning stars sank together and all the sons of God shouted for joy or who shut 486 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:55,420 shut in the sea with its doors when it burst forth and issued from the womb. 487 00:24:55,420 --> 00:24:59,120 When I made the clouds its garments the thick darkness its swaddling band. 488 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:02,160 When I fixed my limit for and set bars and doors. 489 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:08,240 When I said this far you may come but no further here and here your proud ways must stop. 490 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,980 Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused the dawn to know its 491 00:25:11,980 --> 00:25:16,360 place that it might take hold of the ends of the earth and the wicked be shaken out 492 00:25:16,360 --> 00:25:17,360 of it. 493 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:22,860 It takes on the form like clay under the seal and stands out like a garment for the wicked 494 00:25:22,860 --> 00:25:26,120 their light is withheld and upraised arm is broken. 495 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:31,120 Have you entered the springs of the sea or have you walked in search of the depths. 496 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:35,720 Have the gates of death been revealed for you or have you seen the doors of the shadow 497 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:36,720 of death. 498 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,720 Have you comprehended the breath of earth. 499 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,960 Tell me if you know all this Job. 500 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,160 How many know God DTR to relationship. 501 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,720 Right. 502 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:53,120 He did for another 42 verses. 503 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:58,200 God tells Job or asked Job were you there. 504 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,680 Were you there when I did all this. 505 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,960 Did you do any of this personally right. 506 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,380 You know and this whole incident I read it this is brought back a little minor picture 507 00:26:08,380 --> 00:26:09,380 in my mind. 508 00:26:09,380 --> 00:26:12,160 This is something that took place with me when I was a kid and I was young. 509 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,920 I was a young teenager and I did something really stupid. 510 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,560 My parents caught me and what I was doing I'm not going to go into all that but what 511 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,960 I did I will tell the story another time. 512 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,400 But what I did I endangered one of my friends and it was very dangerous for that person 513 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,360 and my mom and my mom and dad were pretty calm quiet people but my mom sat me down in 514 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:34,460 a room and she DTR me for a while. 515 00:26:34,460 --> 00:26:41,120 She went on categorically for an hour explaining to me how harebrained and idiotic what I did 516 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:46,560 was you know and she went on and on and on and I remember feeling pretty humbled by the 517 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,000 end of that conversation. 518 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,360 I remember shrinking down just a little bit because she was absolutely right in what I 519 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:59,240 did and this is God with Job and one of the things God understand God can DTR us or we 520 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,760 can understand who he is ahead of time and just humble ourselves ahead of time right. 521 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,080 I don't really want God getting ticked off of me. 522 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,120 I don't really want God coming in and saying well let me straighten you up a little. 523 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:13,400 He's done that a few times right but I want to come humbly before him because it's in 524 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:18,820 the humility when you start to understand who God is and who you're not you'll start 525 00:27:18,820 --> 00:27:21,960 chasing after him because I want what he's got. 526 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,680 He has it all right. 527 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,720 He loves me more than anybody on the face of the earth so much so that he sent his own 528 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,960 Lord's son right. 529 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:35,800 Now listen Job answers God in verse 43 and 43 says this then Job answered the Lord instead 530 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,960 after God goes on for another 40 some verses. 531 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,840 Listen what Job says behold I am vile. 532 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,480 What shall I answer you. 533 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:50,440 I lay my hand over my mouth once I have spoken but I will not answer yes twice but I will 534 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,960 not proceed no further and God wasn't done yet. 535 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:59,000 Number 51 verses go by God DTR in the relationship. 536 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,840 I think you wanted Job to get it and verse 41 5 says I have heard Job has to answer again 537 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:11,200 God says answer me and he says I have heard you by the hearing of the ear but now my eyes 538 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:17,880 see you therefore I have whore myself and repent in the dust and in the ashes. 539 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,880 Wow. 540 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,280 What am I saying. 541 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,600 DTR the relationship right. 542 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,120 Don't let that happen the hard way. 543 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:31,960 Don't don't make God humble you so you look up. 544 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:36,560 Don't smash into something so you're flat on your back looking up. 545 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,440 Understand who he is in this relationship. 546 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,940 Understand all that he has provided. 547 00:28:41,940 --> 00:28:45,020 Understand all the things that he wants to do in your life. 548 00:28:45,020 --> 00:28:48,680 Understand the amazing plans that he has for you right. 549 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,640 Understand that you have nothing outside of his hand. 550 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,920 Understand I just got into a conversation this week with someone and they were talking 551 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,280 about how they got sick and one little germ put him down right in a day. 552 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,680 They're flat on their back. 553 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,080 They couldn't do anything but understand who he is. 554 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,200 Understand what he protects us from right. 555 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,200 What he walks us through. 556 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:16,800 DTR the relationship because when you do you'll start to understand he's way up here and I'm 557 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:25,400 way down there and I start to get humble about the God who loves me more than life itself. 558 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,520 I start to get humbled about what he can do. 559 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:34,640 I start to get humbled about my place in this relationship and you think you think something 560 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:35,800 like that would drive you away. 561 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,280 It does the exact opposite. 562 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,800 It drives you to him. 563 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,680 You start to understand how amazing he is. 564 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,840 How much he really doesn't need me but longs for me. 565 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,760 Do you understand that? 566 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:49,760 God doesn't need me. 567 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,160 He doesn't need you. 568 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:56,120 He's got all the power but he longs for us. 569 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:57,800 He wants us. 570 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:03,000 He goes to extreme measures so that we're in relationship with him. 571 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,800 When you understand that it will humble you. 572 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,720 It will humble you and you'll stay in hot pursuit. 573 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,720 You'll want to be in his presence. 574 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,520 You want to be where he's at. 575 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,400 You want to walk where he walks. 576 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,120 You want to hear what he has to say when he has to say it. 577 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,120 So in 2025. 578 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,080 Man humble yourself before him. 579 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,080 Understand who he is. 580 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:42,440 I'm going to ask you to stay in this morning. 581 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,440 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Lifehouse Church. 582 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,440 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 583 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:53,200 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 584 00:30:53,200 --> 00:31:00,840 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.LifehouseCOG.com. 585 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:01,840 God bless. 586 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:30,840 God bless.