WEBVTT 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:12.300 Thank you for listening to this message from 00:00:12.300 --> 00:00:20.440 Lifehouse Church. This Tuesday is Veterans Day. 00:00:21.219 --> 00:00:24.600 It's a day that we take and set aside to honor 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:28.239 those who serve this country and really pay the 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:30.500 price for our freedoms. And we wanted to take 00:00:30.500 --> 00:00:33.939 just a few minutes and honor those who are currently 00:00:33.939 --> 00:00:36.659 serving in the military or have served in the 00:00:36.659 --> 00:00:40.159 past. in the armed forces. So if you, if that's 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:44.159 you, first we want to say we see you. We appreciate 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:46.700 the sacrifice. We see your courage. We see your 00:00:46.700 --> 00:00:49.460 willingness to do what others won't do. We see 00:00:49.460 --> 00:00:52.200 the brave choices that you make and the challenges 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.200 that you overcome. And we want to make sure that 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.859 we recognize and give you honor today. So if 00:00:57.859 --> 00:01:00.460 you're in the military currently or you have 00:01:00.460 --> 00:01:02.719 served in the past, I'm going to ask you to do 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.299 one thing. I want to ask if you would just stand 00:01:04.299 --> 00:01:06.459 right where you are in your seat. If you would 00:01:06.459 --> 00:01:08.480 stand up this morning, we just want to take a 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.019 moment. Thank you. Thank you. I know they're 00:01:11.019 --> 00:01:13.159 always hesitant. Come on. Give them applause. 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.500 And if you would stay standing for just a moment, 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:28.459 we got just a very small gift, something that 00:01:28.459 --> 00:01:31.719 we want to give you just to say thank you. We 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.879 do appreciate, I appreciate that I get to stand 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:37.859 in this pulpit Sunday after Sunday because somebody 00:01:37.859 --> 00:01:40.159 paid the price on the front lines for me to share 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:44.219 the gospel loud and sometimes very loudly, right? 00:01:44.299 --> 00:01:47.819 Out loud. And we appreciate that so much. Could 00:01:47.819 --> 00:01:53.959 you give him just one more hand? Yeah. Thank 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:56.040 you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for 00:01:56.040 --> 00:01:58.859 serving. Well, listen, for almost two millennia, 00:01:58.939 --> 00:02:02.879 Christians have held to one document, one source 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.620 of truth, one source of wisdom, one source that 00:02:06.620 --> 00:02:10.139 tells us what God's word is, and it is the Bible. 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:12.240 If you got your Bible this morning, I want you 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:13.900 to hold it up. Come on, if you got the written 00:02:13.900 --> 00:02:15.939 word, hold it up high. If you got it on your 00:02:15.939 --> 00:02:17.520 phone, you can hold your phone up. That's okay 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:20.080 too. I read the Bible on my phone all the time 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.340 and the word of God there, but it is the Bible. 00:02:23.419 --> 00:02:26.960 It is our source, right, of absolute truth. It 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:30.080 is the reliable handbook for life. It is two 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:33.080 testaments in one, the revelation of the most 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:36.300 high, one measuring stick for all of life, one 00:02:36.300 --> 00:02:40.020 standard, one rule for our lives. It's the Bible. 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.840 Its value is beyond silver and gold. Its wisdom 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.439 is from above and not below. Its power is beyond 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:51.840 other words, any other written words. 66 books 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.319 compiled to bring us the completed work of the 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.659 Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. One word, 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.860 one book that gives us a proper description of 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:04.240 the King of Kings and of the Lord of Lords. One 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.139 book that leads to eternal life. One book that 00:03:07.139 --> 00:03:10.550 makes us healthy. and whole if applied. Amen? 00:03:11.210 --> 00:03:14.389 Amen. Come on, one book that is authored by none 00:03:14.389 --> 00:03:18.039 other than the Holy Spirit. He spoke and moved 00:03:18.039 --> 00:03:21.159 on men, right? And they wrote as God directed 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:24.719 them. One book that is descriptive and prescriptive 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.060 in nature. One book that leads us to the creator 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:29.719 of all things. One book that reveals the nature, 00:03:29.860 --> 00:03:32.240 the character, and the will of God. One book 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:35.340 that is divine. One book that is inerrant. And 00:03:35.340 --> 00:03:38.439 it is the best -selling book of all time. It 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:43.000 is the Bible. Amen? Come on. It's our sword. 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.000 It's our weapon. It's what we use to take down 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.879 any giant that gets in front of us. It is the 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:51.199 word of God. Amen. That should get you just a 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:53.680 little bit excited. It gets me excited. And this 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:55.379 morning, I want to take you to the first chapter 00:03:55.379 --> 00:03:58.479 of the book of John and help you understand the 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:02.800 incalculable value of God's word, the Bible, 00:04:02.939 --> 00:04:05.120 his word. And as you turn, I'm going to pray. 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:07.219 Father, I thank you for this day. God, I thank 00:04:07.219 --> 00:04:09.280 you for each one that's in the house. God, I 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.419 pray your favor and blessing. God, as we break 00:04:11.419 --> 00:04:13.740 the word, as we break the bread of life, Lord, 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:15.819 I pray that you would help us. Lord, pour it 00:04:15.819 --> 00:04:17.680 into our spirits and hearts. God, write it in 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.860 our minds. God, write it on the walls of our 00:04:19.860 --> 00:04:22.000 heart, Lord, that we might not sin against you, 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:24.680 that we might be able to recall your word, and 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:26.459 God, know the truth, and we just give you praise 00:04:26.459 --> 00:04:28.839 and glory. In Jesus' name, everybody said together. 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.839 Amen, amen. I'm gonna ask you to stand for the 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:33.379 reading of the word. I don't do that very often 00:04:33.379 --> 00:04:35.500 because I jump around a lot in the Bible, but 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:37.759 it's a lengthy portion. We're just gonna stand 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:40.980 in honor of the word. It says this, in the beginning 00:04:40.980 --> 00:04:44.579 was the word and the word was with God and the 00:04:44.579 --> 00:04:48.279 word was God. I'm gonna read that again. In the 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:50.699 beginning was the word and the word was with 00:04:50.699 --> 00:04:53.360 God and the word was God. He was in the beginning 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:56.300 with God. All things were made through him and 00:04:56.300 --> 00:04:58.560 without him, nothing was made that was made. 00:04:58.949 --> 00:05:01.509 In him was life, and the life was the light of 00:05:01.509 --> 00:05:04.949 men. And that light shines in the darkness, and 00:05:04.949 --> 00:05:07.250 the darkness did not comprehend it. There was 00:05:07.250 --> 00:05:09.670 a man sent from God whose name was John. Now, 00:05:09.689 --> 00:05:11.410 when it's talking about John here, it's talking 00:05:11.410 --> 00:05:13.829 about John the Baptist, the forerunner, the one 00:05:13.829 --> 00:05:16.329 who would announce Jesus as coming into the world 00:05:16.329 --> 00:05:20.069 as Messiah. This man came for a witness to bear 00:05:20.069 --> 00:05:22.910 light, to bear witness of the light that all 00:05:22.910 --> 00:05:25.670 through him might believe. He was not that light, 00:05:25.730 --> 00:05:28.329 but was sent to bear witness of that light. That 00:05:28.329 --> 00:05:30.350 was the true light, which gives light to every 00:05:30.350 --> 00:05:32.850 man coming into the world. And it goes back to 00:05:32.850 --> 00:05:35.470 describing Jesus. He was in the world, and the 00:05:35.470 --> 00:05:37.850 world was made through him, and the world did 00:05:37.850 --> 00:05:40.410 not know him. He came to his own, and his own 00:05:40.410 --> 00:05:42.990 did not receive him. But as many as received 00:05:42.990 --> 00:05:45.750 him, to them he gave the right to become children 00:05:45.750 --> 00:05:48.709 of God, to those who believe on his name, who 00:05:48.709 --> 00:05:51.569 were born not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, 00:05:51.629 --> 00:05:55.329 nor of the will of man, but of God. And the word, 00:05:55.490 --> 00:05:59.360 say in the word. became flesh and dwelt among 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.519 us, and we beheld his glory, and the glory is 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:04.699 one of the only begotten of the Father, full 00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:08.220 of grace and truth. You may be seated. Give somebody 00:06:08.220 --> 00:06:10.120 a high five while you're sitting down. Tell them 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:11.860 it's good to hear about God's word. Come on. 00:06:12.980 --> 00:06:16.439 John clearly lets us know in this passage, in 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:19.240 this portion of scripture, that the word has 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.500 been there from the beginning. The word was with 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:24.860 God, and not only was the word with God, but 00:06:24.860 --> 00:06:30.060 the word is God. Is God. That Jesus Christ is 00:06:30.060 --> 00:06:34.000 the manifestation of God's word in the flesh. 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:37.500 That he is the living word. He's Emmanuel. We're 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:39.740 getting ready to go into Christmas time, right? 00:06:39.819 --> 00:06:42.480 Thanksgiving and Christmas. Emmanuel. He is God 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.100 with us. God in the flesh. And Jesus himself 00:06:46.100 --> 00:06:49.779 tells Philip in John 14, 9. He said, if you've 00:06:49.779 --> 00:06:52.420 seen me, you've seen the father. If you hear 00:06:52.420 --> 00:06:54.540 me, you've heard the father. He said to him, 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.779 have I been with you so long? And yet you've 00:06:56.779 --> 00:07:00.139 not known me, Philip. He who has seen me has 00:07:00.139 --> 00:07:03.360 seen the father. So how can you say, show us 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:06.420 the father? God is the word and the word is God. 00:07:06.579 --> 00:07:09.600 If you hear Jesus, you hear the father, you hear 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:11.339 the words of the father, you hear the words of 00:07:11.339 --> 00:07:13.959 the son and of the Holy Spirit, three in one. 00:07:14.699 --> 00:07:18.550 And if you hear his words, the word of God, It 00:07:18.550 --> 00:07:23.029 is God. You cannot separate God from his word. 00:07:23.149 --> 00:07:26.209 You can't do it. You can't do it. Jesus is the 00:07:26.209 --> 00:07:30.129 embodiment of God's word, the living word, of 00:07:30.129 --> 00:07:33.129 the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 00:07:33.350 --> 00:07:35.750 And this is important to know because, and we 00:07:35.750 --> 00:07:38.769 need to know this, because to know someone is 00:07:38.769 --> 00:07:41.850 to hear their words. If you're going to know 00:07:41.850 --> 00:07:45.509 somebody, you've got to hear their words. Turn 00:07:45.509 --> 00:07:47.209 to the person beside you. Tell them I want to 00:07:47.209 --> 00:07:49.199 hear your word. Give them any word. Come on, 00:07:49.220 --> 00:07:50.779 turn them right now. Tell them I want to hear 00:07:50.779 --> 00:07:53.060 a word. Make it a good one. All right, they're 00:07:53.060 --> 00:07:56.279 sitting right beside you. But to know someone 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:01.079 is to hear their words. We are our words, and 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.639 our words are us. We cannot separate the two. 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:07.600 We cannot be known outside of our word. We really 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.319 can't. We can't step outside of our words. God 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:14.660 cannot be separated from his words any more than 00:08:14.660 --> 00:08:17.800 you and I can be separated from our words. Our 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:21.560 words virtually identify us. Who we are, what 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:25.399 we are, is our words. Our words are the external 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.839 identification that people place on us every 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:32.240 time we speak. I'm letting somebody know who 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.620 I am. You're letting somebody know who you are. 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:38.299 We cannot be separated from our words, though 00:08:38.299 --> 00:08:41.059 sometimes we would like to, right? We cannot 00:08:41.059 --> 00:08:43.710 be separated from our words, and God... cannot 00:08:43.710 --> 00:08:45.549 be separated from his words. And he never wants 00:08:45.549 --> 00:08:47.450 to be separated from his word because his word 00:08:47.450 --> 00:08:51.370 is truth. We're known by our words. We are, right? 00:08:51.950 --> 00:08:53.970 Now, let me ask you a question. Have you ever 00:08:53.970 --> 00:08:57.730 said something that you wish you would have never 00:08:57.730 --> 00:09:00.090 said? Raise your hand if you're with me. Amen. 00:09:00.289 --> 00:09:02.190 Thank you for leaving me hanging up here alone. 00:09:02.350 --> 00:09:05.370 All right. The moment it fell out of your mouth, 00:09:05.429 --> 00:09:08.570 you thought, I wish I could take that back. I 00:09:08.570 --> 00:09:10.889 wish I could stick that back in. So you said 00:09:10.889 --> 00:09:13.450 something to somebody you love, you said something 00:09:13.450 --> 00:09:17.190 to a group of people, and you thought, ah, could 00:09:17.190 --> 00:09:20.129 I put that back, please, right? Because you know 00:09:20.129 --> 00:09:22.549 that the people who were listening were identifying 00:09:22.549 --> 00:09:25.809 you the moment it fell out of your mouth. What 00:09:25.809 --> 00:09:29.009 was in your head, what was in your heart, that 00:09:29.009 --> 00:09:31.570 stupid thought that was swirling around for about 00:09:31.570 --> 00:09:33.710 a half a second fell out of your mouth, right? 00:09:34.250 --> 00:09:36.289 You didn't think about it. You didn't spend any 00:09:36.289 --> 00:09:39.590 time with it. And it labeled you on the spot. 00:09:40.169 --> 00:09:42.990 It really did, right? How many of you get labeled 00:09:42.990 --> 00:09:45.549 sometimes? You say something not so smart. I 00:09:45.549 --> 00:09:47.750 won't use the word stupid, but not so smart. 00:09:48.350 --> 00:09:51.330 They might label you as a jerk, right? They might 00:09:51.330 --> 00:09:55.629 label you as rude, arrogant, insensitive, ignorant, 00:09:55.830 --> 00:09:57.710 and a whole bunch of other descriptive words 00:09:57.710 --> 00:09:59.370 I'm not going to use from the pulpit, right? 00:09:59.789 --> 00:10:02.230 There's all kind of words that follow and identify 00:10:02.230 --> 00:10:05.269 us. Unfortunately, I've done this more than one 00:10:05.269 --> 00:10:07.649 time, personally, and particularly with my wife, 00:10:07.690 --> 00:10:09.250 who can confirm this, who's sitting on the fry, 00:10:09.370 --> 00:10:11.870 right? Some stupid statements have fell out of 00:10:11.870 --> 00:10:13.970 my mouth, and the second they came out, I wish 00:10:13.970 --> 00:10:16.149 I could have stuck them right back in. I wish 00:10:16.149 --> 00:10:19.429 that I never said them, right? I am the man of 00:10:19.429 --> 00:10:27.330 this house, and I will do what I please. Jerk, 00:10:27.330 --> 00:10:33.100 right? Jerk. Right? She goes, amen. She's amening 00:10:33.100 --> 00:10:38.120 on the front. Your words identify you. It's too 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.000 late once they drop out of your mouth. Our words 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.980 identify us. You cannot separate. You cannot 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:47.100 separate God from his words. Words are like toothpaste. 00:10:48.110 --> 00:10:49.929 I got toothpaste up here. It's like toothpaste. 00:10:50.070 --> 00:10:51.570 I used to use this illustration all the time 00:10:51.570 --> 00:10:53.370 when I was doing youth group. And we'd do this 00:10:53.370 --> 00:10:54.730 and we'd say, listen, this is what the words 00:10:54.730 --> 00:10:56.929 are like, all right? You just squirt it out all 00:10:56.929 --> 00:10:59.429 over the place. Now, what we would do is I would 00:10:59.429 --> 00:11:01.389 say, Zach, I want you to come up here and put 00:11:01.389 --> 00:11:04.450 that toothpaste back in this tube. How well is 00:11:04.450 --> 00:11:06.730 that going to work out, right? You can't get 00:11:06.730 --> 00:11:08.610 it back. And that's actually kind of even and 00:11:08.610 --> 00:11:10.029 accurate because if I was going to do this right, 00:11:10.090 --> 00:11:12.029 I won't do this to Zach. I'd bring him up and 00:11:12.029 --> 00:11:14.710 I'd smear the toothpaste all over him. Because 00:11:14.710 --> 00:11:17.779 you hear your words. They stick to you. right? 00:11:17.940 --> 00:11:21.879 They identify us. People do not, when they're 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:23.279 looking at you and they're listening to you, 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:25.519 they do not identify you by your intentions. 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:28.659 Do you know that? You can have the best of intentions. 00:11:28.820 --> 00:11:30.879 They're not identifying you by your intentions. 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.279 Go ahead and read a news article where they quote 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:36.080 somebody. You know, somebody says something terrible 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.000 and you know what? You've never seen a newspaper, 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:40.120 this terrible quote printed and then afterwards 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.159 it says, you know, they said that, but I don't 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.399 think they really meant it. You know, I think 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:46.120 they'd be inside. They really have a good, you 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.070 don't see that, right? You don't see that on 00:11:48.070 --> 00:11:50.490 social media. You don't get identified by your 00:11:50.490 --> 00:11:52.710 intentions, no matter how good they are. You 00:11:52.710 --> 00:11:55.009 get identified by your words. We don't even get 00:11:55.009 --> 00:11:58.250 identified by our emotions. You can't identify 00:11:58.250 --> 00:12:00.389 what's going on with me with my emotions. I could 00:12:00.389 --> 00:12:03.490 start crying up here, virtually physically crying. 00:12:04.570 --> 00:12:06.269 And you don't really know what's going on in 00:12:06.269 --> 00:12:09.230 my mind. Because it can be all kinds of things, 00:12:09.309 --> 00:12:13.370 right? It can be tears of joy. right? I just 00:12:13.370 --> 00:12:18.129 got a huge income tax return. Tears of joy. The 00:12:18.129 --> 00:12:20.269 government actually passed the budget, right? 00:12:20.629 --> 00:12:23.309 Tears of joy. Yes, I went there for a second, 00:12:23.389 --> 00:12:27.570 okay? Tears of joy. It could be tears of sadness. 00:12:27.710 --> 00:12:30.090 It could be tears of sorrow. It could be tears 00:12:30.090 --> 00:12:32.909 of grief. It could be tears of fear. It could 00:12:32.909 --> 00:12:36.070 be tears of hate. It could be tears of anger. 00:12:36.289 --> 00:12:38.509 Some people, if they get angry and they start 00:12:38.509 --> 00:12:42.419 crying, get out of the way. Come on, amen? When 00:12:42.419 --> 00:12:45.259 you get really angry, you cry. Yeah, if you're 00:12:45.259 --> 00:12:48.399 around somebody like that, duck, okay? Somebody's 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.200 going down, all right? You don't really know 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:54.740 me with those tears, but if I put words to those 00:12:54.740 --> 00:12:58.759 tears, you begin to identify me. Shortest verse 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.100 in all the scripture. You're gonna memorize scripture 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:04.399 this morning. John 11, 35, Jesus what? Say what, 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:07.340 say it. You memorized scripture this morning. 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:11.669 Jesus what? Jesus is standing at Lazarus's grave. 00:13:12.409 --> 00:13:15.330 Lazarus has been dead for four days, friend of 00:13:15.330 --> 00:13:19.809 his. And Jesus begins to weep. And in the very 00:13:19.809 --> 00:13:22.850 next verse, it says, and the Jews said, oh, see 00:13:22.850 --> 00:13:25.730 how he loved him. The Jews thought they knew. 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:29.080 right? What Jesus was thinking. They thought 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.840 they knew what they were identifying Jesus. He's 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.740 grieving. He says, that's not why Jesus was weeping. 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:37.860 Because Jesus is about to open his mouth, standing 00:13:37.860 --> 00:13:40.480 at the grave of a friend who's been dead for 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:43.279 four days. And when he opens his mouth, it begins 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:45.820 to identify him. Because he didn't say, oh, how 00:13:45.820 --> 00:13:49.240 sorrowful I am. He said, Lazarus, come forth. 00:13:49.740 --> 00:13:52.559 And Lazarus steps out of the grave, and all of 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:54.820 a sudden, everybody around him knows this is 00:13:54.820 --> 00:13:58.019 the Messiah. This is the King. This is the Lord. 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.539 This is somebody who calls people from the dead, 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.759 right? It is our words that identify us. When 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.019 Jesus was in the boat, and the winds and the 00:14:06.019 --> 00:14:08.500 waves were crashing, and the disciples thought 00:14:08.500 --> 00:14:10.559 they were going to die inside the boat, and he 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:13.340 stands up and says, peace be still. And the winds 00:14:13.340 --> 00:14:16.679 and the waves stop, and the ocean goes flat. 00:14:17.129 --> 00:14:21.409 They realized this is not just a rabbi. This 00:14:21.409 --> 00:14:24.389 is not just a Jewish teacher. This is the son 00:14:24.389 --> 00:14:27.470 of God, right? When he commanded demons with 00:14:27.470 --> 00:14:30.590 a word and they fled and they went back to the 00:14:30.590 --> 00:14:34.289 pit, right? With a word, it identified who he 00:14:34.289 --> 00:14:37.889 is. We cannot know God and separate him from 00:14:37.889 --> 00:14:41.490 his words. We must know his word. His word is 00:14:41.490 --> 00:14:45.870 him, and he is his word. He is eternal. His word 00:14:45.870 --> 00:14:48.529 will never pass away. Never. The word of God 00:14:48.529 --> 00:14:52.350 tells us that, right? And if we are words, right, 00:14:52.429 --> 00:14:57.850 he is so much more. And if we're not in his word 00:14:57.850 --> 00:15:04.570 daily, say daily, daily, we're missing him daily 00:15:04.570 --> 00:15:09.049 if we're not in his word. You don't really know 00:15:09.049 --> 00:15:14.730 somebody until you hear their words daily. You 00:15:14.730 --> 00:15:17.990 thought you knew that person you married, but 00:15:17.990 --> 00:15:21.269 it wasn't until you heard their words daily, 00:15:21.389 --> 00:15:24.610 you really knew them. Amen. And all the married 00:15:24.610 --> 00:15:28.850 people said, amen. You thought you knew that 00:15:28.850 --> 00:15:32.309 new coworker, but it wasn't until you heard their 00:15:32.309 --> 00:15:35.470 words daily that you really knew who they were. 00:15:35.529 --> 00:15:39.200 That new boss. That new teacher, that new instructor, 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.960 right? When I hear his word daily is when I get 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:49.960 to know who God really is. He is revealed in 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:53.820 his word. It's true. Sundays are not enough. 00:15:54.620 --> 00:15:56.940 They're not enough. When you come here to hear 00:15:56.940 --> 00:15:58.779 the word of God, I tell people all the time, 00:15:58.820 --> 00:16:01.860 when I'm preaching, this is nothing more than 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:04.320 just an appetizer. All right. This is to get 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:06.559 you hungry for God's word. This is to get you 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:08.879 hungry for him. It's just an appetizer. Do you 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.000 know what happens if you eat one appetizer for 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.379 the entire week and you don't eat another appetizer 00:16:13.379 --> 00:16:16.779 until next Sunday? You starve. All right. How 00:16:16.779 --> 00:16:18.759 many know if you even eat an appetizer every 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.100 single day, it's okay to have an appetizer. But 00:16:21.100 --> 00:16:23.179 if that's all you ate every single day, you just 00:16:23.179 --> 00:16:25.399 listen to somebody else expound on God's word 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:26.919 and you're just eating an appetizer. How many 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:28.259 know you're not going to be very healthy at the 00:16:28.259 --> 00:16:30.549 end of the week? right? Eat and have to, that's 00:16:30.549 --> 00:16:32.330 all it is. When you go to life group and you 00:16:32.330 --> 00:16:33.970 study together and you should, you should come 00:16:33.970 --> 00:16:35.669 to worship service, hear the word of God, you 00:16:35.669 --> 00:16:37.230 should be in a life group, you know, studying 00:16:37.230 --> 00:16:39.029 God's word, doing all those things, but those 00:16:39.029 --> 00:16:41.409 are appetizers. You don't really understand who 00:16:41.409 --> 00:16:43.250 God is. You don't really get to know who God 00:16:43.250 --> 00:16:45.330 is till you're in the word of God with him every 00:16:45.330 --> 00:16:48.110 single day and you're hearing it. It's how it 00:16:48.110 --> 00:16:51.470 works, right? We kid ourselves. We kid ourselves. 00:16:51.870 --> 00:16:54.809 If we think we're going to really know him, we 00:16:54.809 --> 00:16:58.509 get an appetizer down twice a week. We care ourselves. 00:16:59.649 --> 00:17:02.669 If I'm going to know him, I got to hear his words. 00:17:03.070 --> 00:17:05.970 I got to hear him daily. We need to hear the 00:17:05.970 --> 00:17:10.049 written word of God every single day. We must 00:17:10.049 --> 00:17:13.049 hear him. We must read. And we must do it for 00:17:13.049 --> 00:17:17.500 the right reasons. It's more than just knowing 00:17:17.500 --> 00:17:20.799 God by hearing his word, but we have to do it 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:22.180 for the right reasons. You might say, well, what 00:17:22.180 --> 00:17:24.920 do you mean by that? If we read God's word for 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.640 the wrong reasons daily, we'll still miss God. 00:17:27.859 --> 00:17:30.759 We really will. We can read the words of God 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.759 and still miss God. And you might be thinking, 00:17:33.779 --> 00:17:35.180 well, wait a minute, didn't you just spend five 00:17:35.180 --> 00:17:36.839 minutes or 10 minutes unfolding that you got 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.140 to hear his words? Yes. Did I mislead you? No, 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:41.740 right? You got to hear it for the right reasons. 00:17:41.819 --> 00:17:43.660 You got to be listening for the right reasons. 00:17:44.620 --> 00:17:47.220 We've got to be engaged in his word for the right 00:17:47.220 --> 00:17:51.000 reasons or we still miss him. It's possible to 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:54.380 hear somebody hear their words daily and maybe 00:17:54.380 --> 00:17:56.660 even idolize them some and never really know 00:17:56.660 --> 00:17:59.059 them. How many of you know what a fan club is? 00:17:59.460 --> 00:18:01.180 Raise your hand if you know what a fan club is. 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.539 You don't hear a lot about these days. If somebody's 00:18:03.539 --> 00:18:04.579 really young and they didn't raise their hand, 00:18:04.619 --> 00:18:06.019 just explain it to them later. Look it up on 00:18:06.019 --> 00:18:09.529 Google or something, okay? What a fan club is. 00:18:09.609 --> 00:18:11.869 It's a group of people who kind of idolize someone, 00:18:11.990 --> 00:18:13.269 right? This happens a lot of times with people 00:18:13.269 --> 00:18:16.670 that are singers or sports figures. And they'll 00:18:16.670 --> 00:18:19.440 listen to their words maybe even every day. They'll 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.980 put on their songs, and they'll listen to them 00:18:21.980 --> 00:18:23.720 going to work, and they'll listen to them coming 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:25.859 home, right? And they hear the songs over and 00:18:25.859 --> 00:18:28.200 over. And if they're really fans, they'll know 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.519 the quotes that they've spoken different times, 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:32.700 and they'll know those quotes. They'll be able 00:18:32.700 --> 00:18:34.960 to regurgitate those quotes. You know, somebody 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:36.819 that they idolize or somebody they've heard every 00:18:36.819 --> 00:18:38.799 day. They've got the T -shirts. They've got the 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:41.079 buttons. They've been to the concerts. They know 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.079 their words, but they don't really know them, 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.240 right? We just got back from a vacation, a week 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:50.579 of vacation in Disney, and I watched five -year 00:18:50.579 --> 00:18:53.480 -olds who could sing and quote the lyrics to 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:56.279 the movie Frozen, all right? Matter of fact, 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:58.480 I can now, now that I've been in Disney for a 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.599 week. Much to my chagrin, all right? And with 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.160 great passion and movement, right? These kids 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:07.460 are like, you know, let it go. I can't get it 00:19:07.460 --> 00:19:10.650 out of my head, right? You know, watching animated 00:19:10.650 --> 00:19:13.730 characters. They hugged Elsa and Anna, right, 00:19:13.869 --> 00:19:17.049 on the main characters of this movie, which are 00:19:17.049 --> 00:19:19.849 animated. It could be a sports figure. It could 00:19:19.849 --> 00:19:21.829 be a person in history. It could be just about 00:19:21.829 --> 00:19:26.369 anybody. They know a lot about the person. They 00:19:26.369 --> 00:19:29.450 know the statistics, right? They see them on 00:19:29.450 --> 00:19:33.470 video, but they never really personally get introduced 00:19:33.470 --> 00:19:37.980 to somebody. The wrong approach. And hearing 00:19:37.980 --> 00:19:40.619 God's word is fan club Christianity. It really 00:19:40.619 --> 00:19:43.859 is. Jesus was addressing the religious leaders 00:19:43.859 --> 00:19:46.839 who physically wanted to kill him. Now this is, 00:19:46.859 --> 00:19:49.539 it seems strange to say this because, you know, 00:19:49.539 --> 00:19:52.740 they're Jewish religious leaders. They're following 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:54.720 after God and they want to kill Jesus. They want 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:56.619 to take him out. And it sounds so strange when 00:19:56.619 --> 00:19:58.680 you begin to look at this. And because these 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:02.099 men were experts in the law of God. They were 00:20:02.099 --> 00:20:04.299 experts in the written word of God. They were 00:20:04.299 --> 00:20:06.680 professionals, so to speak, in the word of God. 00:20:06.779 --> 00:20:09.539 They memorized large portions of scripture. Maybe 00:20:09.539 --> 00:20:11.920 the first five books of the Bible, they would 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:14.859 memorize all of it, the Pentateuch, right? And 00:20:14.859 --> 00:20:17.559 they knew their stuff about the word of God, 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:21.000 and they totally missed God when Jesus showed 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.500 up. They missed him completely. They knew the 00:20:24.500 --> 00:20:26.740 word of God. They were just studying it for all 00:20:26.740 --> 00:20:29.019 the wrong reasons. They were professional religious 00:20:29.019 --> 00:20:33.319 leaders. They studied the Old Testament and unfurled 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:35.640 the scrolls, right? They spent countless hours 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:40.240 searching God's word and they totally missed 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:43.539 him. John 5, 39 says, you search the scriptures 00:20:43.539 --> 00:20:46.359 for in them, you think you have eternal life. 00:20:46.859 --> 00:20:49.940 And these are which testify of me, but you are 00:20:49.940 --> 00:20:53.160 not willing to come to me, to Jesus, that you 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:57.759 may have life. They had no idea that the Son 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:00.140 of God was right in front of them. The Word of 00:21:00.140 --> 00:21:04.940 God in flesh. The reason we read God's Word daily 00:21:04.940 --> 00:21:09.779 is to draw near to Him. That's the purpose. That's 00:21:09.779 --> 00:21:13.140 why we do it. We read God's word daily so we 00:21:13.140 --> 00:21:16.079 personally get to know him, so that we are part 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:19.059 of his unique system to personally understand 00:21:19.059 --> 00:21:21.839 and know God. God has a kind of a two -part system. 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.880 He's got the written word of God and he's got 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:26.079 the Holy Spirit. When you come and get saved, 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:28.599 you have the written word of God, right? These 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:31.299 66 books. And then you have the Holy Spirit who 00:21:31.299 --> 00:21:33.400 comes to dwell within you. And he's a personal 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:34.859 teacher. He's a personal instructor. That's what 00:21:34.859 --> 00:21:36.819 the word of God tells us. He'll teach you all 00:21:36.819 --> 00:21:39.319 things, right? And you begin to know God when 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:42.400 you engage in that on a daily basis. But if you 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:44.559 read the word of God for any other reason, to 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:47.220 check a box, so you get it done, that's what 00:21:47.220 --> 00:21:49.539 Christians are supposed to do. For any other 00:21:49.539 --> 00:21:50.980 purpose, purpose. I want a little inspiration 00:21:50.980 --> 00:21:53.140 once in a while, right? Come on, I got to figure 00:21:53.140 --> 00:21:55.880 something out, so I do one of these deals, you 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:57.900 know, and hope it's the answer that God gives 00:21:57.900 --> 00:22:00.200 me. Anybody ever do that other than me? All right, 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:03.740 come on. The scribes and the Pharisees were so 00:22:03.740 --> 00:22:06.220 caught up in the religious system of that day 00:22:06.220 --> 00:22:09.559 that they built a world around studying the scriptures. 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:12.480 It was a way of life for them. It was a profession 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.680 that they developed around the written word of 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.119 God. They developed this legalistic system that 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:20.009 actually went beyond the word of God. And it 00:22:20.009 --> 00:22:22.930 kept them from knowing God. The traditions they 00:22:22.930 --> 00:22:25.589 had, the music that they had, the culture they 00:22:25.589 --> 00:22:28.250 developed around the word of God, but they never 00:22:28.250 --> 00:22:31.950 drew near to God. In fact, when Jesus showed 00:22:31.950 --> 00:22:33.990 up, they wanted to kill him. And you think, how 00:22:33.990 --> 00:22:37.950 in the world can that happen? Well, it's a little 00:22:37.950 --> 00:22:39.789 bit like people who love to go to the hospital. 00:22:40.789 --> 00:22:42.450 Believe it or not, there are people out there 00:22:42.450 --> 00:22:44.779 who love to go to the hospital. They love everything 00:22:44.779 --> 00:22:47.019 about the atmosphere of the hospital. They love 00:22:47.019 --> 00:22:48.859 sitting in the waiting room for hours on end 00:22:48.859 --> 00:22:50.799 with other people that need help, right? They 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:53.940 love to get poked and prodded. They love to meet 00:22:53.940 --> 00:22:56.619 the medical community. They love their vitals 00:22:56.619 --> 00:22:59.019 getting taken. The rest of us are cringing right 00:22:59.019 --> 00:23:01.599 now, like, please don't make me go to the hospital. 00:23:01.779 --> 00:23:04.720 They love meeting the staff, right? Most of us 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:07.460 hate it. We only go if we're made to and we have 00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:09.700 to and we need healing of some kind. But they're 00:23:09.700 --> 00:23:12.440 in the hospital for all the wrong reasons. They're 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:14.319 not interested in healing. They're interested 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:16.720 in the atmosphere. And that sounds crazy, but 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:19.480 the same thing happens at church. People come, 00:23:19.579 --> 00:23:22.220 they're not interested in Jesus and getting closer 00:23:22.220 --> 00:23:25.079 to God. They love the greeters. We got some good 00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:27.859 greeters, by the way, right? They love the people 00:23:27.859 --> 00:23:30.400 in the parking lot. They love that they get hugged 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:32.319 and their hands shook coming in the door. They 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:34.839 love the awesome coffee that we serve and the 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:37.680 atmosphere out in the square. They love the music. 00:23:37.700 --> 00:23:39.900 They love the positive feel and vibe, right? 00:23:40.019 --> 00:23:41.980 In church, they love the people they're sitting 00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:44.359 with in their pew because you all have a pew. 00:23:44.500 --> 00:23:46.519 I see you every Sunday in the same spot, right? 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:49.799 They love to stay in class. They love all of 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:52.690 it. They even like the preaching and the singing, 00:23:52.769 --> 00:23:56.990 but they're here for the wrong reasons. They're 00:23:56.990 --> 00:24:00.069 not here to find God. They're not here to draw 00:24:00.069 --> 00:24:04.089 close. They just love the process. They love 00:24:04.089 --> 00:24:07.009 everything about it. I've been in ministry a 00:24:07.009 --> 00:24:09.069 long time. I know people that have gone into 00:24:09.069 --> 00:24:12.910 ministry for the wrong reason, because they love 00:24:12.910 --> 00:24:16.269 the process, right? Worship team, if you'd come. 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:21.299 John 5, 39, let me read it again. You search 00:24:21.299 --> 00:24:23.059 the scriptures, for in them you think you have 00:24:23.059 --> 00:24:25.599 eternal life. And these are they which testify 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:29.259 me, but you're not willing to come to me that 00:24:29.259 --> 00:24:35.640 you may have life. We read his word to come to 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:40.859 him daily. You cannot separate God from his word. 00:24:41.380 --> 00:24:46.440 You cannot. Can I share a little bit of a plan? 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:48.700 that we got going on right now at LifeHouse? 00:24:50.500 --> 00:24:52.559 Step one is this. November, we're going to be 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:54.019 preaching about the Word of God all through the 00:24:54.019 --> 00:24:56.279 month of November. As we go into Thanksgiving, 00:24:56.619 --> 00:24:59.400 what an amazing thing to preach on as we go into 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:01.819 Thanksgiving season. And then in Christmas, we're 00:25:01.819 --> 00:25:03.779 going to, you know, December, we're going to 00:25:03.779 --> 00:25:06.059 focus on who the Word's all about. We're going 00:25:06.059 --> 00:25:09.319 to focus on Jesus. But come January 1, we're 00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:12.039 going to take away every excuse you've ever had 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:15.460 to read through God's Word in a year. We're going 00:25:15.460 --> 00:25:17.440 to give you plans and opportunity. We're going 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:19.660 to give you groups of people to get together 00:25:19.660 --> 00:25:22.119 so you can cheer one another along in it. We're 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:26.099 going to give you a very easy way. It's amazing 00:25:26.099 --> 00:25:28.900 with modern technology and the apps that are 00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:32.220 now can be downloaded on phones. It's incredible 00:25:32.220 --> 00:25:37.279 the instruction that you can get and how easy 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:40.079 they lay it out for you. And in minutes, you 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:43.099 know, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, you can get with 00:25:43.099 --> 00:25:44.960 the God of the universe. even like calling it 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:46.880 devotions anymore, because it's too easy to say, 00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:48.640 I skipped my devotions, right? I'm just going 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:50.700 to skip my devotions today. No, man, you're skipping 00:25:50.700 --> 00:25:52.640 your appointment with the God of the universe. 00:25:52.940 --> 00:25:55.519 That's what you're missing. I've done it. Not 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:57.799 a good thing to do, all right? How many, no, 00:25:57.859 --> 00:25:59.799 you get a couple days away from meeting with 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:01.299 the creator of the universe, you start getting 00:26:01.299 --> 00:26:03.500 all sideways, and you start living you, right? 00:26:03.900 --> 00:26:06.359 It starts, everything starts going sideways on 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:09.400 you. Your thinking starts to get messed up, right? 00:26:09.460 --> 00:26:11.579 Your emotions start to get messed up, because 00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:14.650 you're not getting with the king. So this coming 00:26:14.650 --> 00:26:17.289 in January, we'll give you, come on, I'm giving 00:26:17.289 --> 00:26:19.769 you too much to prep up, all right? Too much 00:26:19.769 --> 00:26:22.529 to prep up. That's a long time to get ready. 00:26:22.710 --> 00:26:24.210 But we're gonna go through the word of God together. 00:26:25.410 --> 00:26:27.869 And we're gonna meet with the creator. We're 00:26:27.869 --> 00:26:30.710 gonna meet with the God of the universe. Isaiah 00:26:30.710 --> 00:26:34.029 55, six says, seek the Lord while he may be found. 00:26:34.589 --> 00:26:37.890 Call upon him while he's near, while he's near. 00:26:38.490 --> 00:26:40.890 I don't know if you've been looking around what's 00:26:40.890 --> 00:26:43.829 going on in the world around us. But I'm telling 00:26:43.829 --> 00:26:46.430 you, Jesus is getting ready to return. There 00:26:46.430 --> 00:26:49.289 are things that are unfolding. There are things 00:26:49.289 --> 00:26:51.450 that are taking place in the world around us. 00:26:52.230 --> 00:26:57.109 Signs of the times are everywhere. We went away 00:26:57.109 --> 00:26:58.789 for a week. We came back and all the leaves were 00:26:58.789 --> 00:27:01.410 blown down and pumpkins were everywhere in our 00:27:01.410 --> 00:27:03.430 house. They were rolling all over the yard. And 00:27:03.430 --> 00:27:05.170 we're like, we saw a sign of something, right? 00:27:05.630 --> 00:27:07.130 Yeah, there was some kind of windstorm. Something 00:27:07.130 --> 00:27:09.809 went down around our house. There was stuff everywhere. 00:27:11.029 --> 00:27:15.980 There's signs. Church, we're gonna get with God, 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:18.279 amen? I'm gonna ask you to stand this morning. 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.220 We're gonna seek him. Pastor Alyssa preached 00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:25.940 it last week. We're gonna seek him. We're gonna 00:27:25.940 --> 00:27:28.299 go after him. And you cannot do that outside 00:27:28.299 --> 00:27:31.660 of his word. If you've not been in his word and 00:27:31.660 --> 00:27:33.900 you keep telling yourself you can't, you're fooling 00:27:33.900 --> 00:27:37.819 yourself. You're fooling yourself. Word of God 00:27:37.819 --> 00:27:40.140 will call you out. Calls me out all the time. 00:27:40.940 --> 00:27:47.380 You're fooling yourself. Revelation. Revelation 00:27:47.380 --> 00:27:51.519 is this. The word revelation means an uncovering, 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:56.119 an unveiling. It is not until you get with the 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.019 God of the universe on a daily basis that you 00:27:59.019 --> 00:28:03.589 begin to uncover for yourself God. And what happens 00:28:03.589 --> 00:28:07.609 is, is God and revelation is God's words. It's 00:28:07.609 --> 00:28:10.630 his application to your situation is what happens 00:28:10.630 --> 00:28:14.150 with revelation. You're probably, you may or 00:28:14.150 --> 00:28:16.009 may not find your situation in the word of God. 00:28:16.069 --> 00:28:18.150 But if you're meeting with the God of the universe, 00:28:18.269 --> 00:28:20.069 you'll start finding out the revelation that 00:28:20.069 --> 00:28:22.410 is the application for your situation. God's 00:28:22.410 --> 00:28:24.589 word never changes, but he can change your situation. 00:28:25.390 --> 00:28:28.069 That only comes when it's self -discovery. It 00:28:28.069 --> 00:28:29.829 only comes when you're in the word of God yourself. 00:28:30.049 --> 00:28:32.230 When you're learning to feed yourself. People 00:28:32.230 --> 00:28:33.410 tell me all the time, well, I quit attending 00:28:33.410 --> 00:28:35.150 church because they quit feeding me. You need 00:28:35.150 --> 00:28:38.349 to learn how to feed yourself. Amen? Pray for 00:28:38.349 --> 00:28:40.089 the pastor if he's not that good. I appreciate 00:28:40.089 --> 00:28:44.369 that, okay? I do. But you've got to learn how 00:28:44.369 --> 00:28:48.190 to feed yourself. That happens in the word of 00:28:48.190 --> 00:28:51.069 God. In the word of God. That's why he gave it 00:28:51.069 --> 00:28:56.769 to us. We freely. freely read this in this country. 00:28:57.390 --> 00:29:00.970 We can carry this anywhere in public. That's 00:29:00.970 --> 00:29:03.349 not in all cases. That's not in all countries. 00:29:03.430 --> 00:29:06.410 We can read the word of God anywhere we want 00:29:06.410 --> 00:29:09.690 to. If you're a student, you can carry this in 00:29:09.690 --> 00:29:12.630 your public high school, right, and read the 00:29:12.630 --> 00:29:18.630 word of God. We have that freedom. God's good, 00:29:18.710 --> 00:29:22.069 isn't he? I want you to just if you would, bow 00:29:22.069 --> 00:29:26.170 your heads right where you're at. This starts 00:29:26.170 --> 00:29:29.210 off with the desire to meet with God. If you 00:29:29.210 --> 00:29:30.950 don't desire to meet with God, I can't help you, 00:29:30.970 --> 00:29:33.789 honestly. You and the Holy Spirit are going to 00:29:33.789 --> 00:29:38.049 have to work that out. Do you want to meet with 00:29:38.049 --> 00:29:42.309 him? Do you want to meet with him? Do you want 00:29:42.309 --> 00:29:46.970 his revelation in your application? Because you 00:29:46.970 --> 00:29:49.609 can't separate God from his word. Can't do it. 00:29:50.730 --> 00:29:52.569 You got to get into his word. You got to let 00:29:52.569 --> 00:30:04.250 the Holy Spirit. Begin to move in you. Thank 00:30:04.250 --> 00:30:07.210 you for tuning in to this message from Lifehouse 00:30:07.210 --> 00:30:10.609 Church. We pray that you were impacted powerfully 00:30:10.609 --> 00:30:13.390 by this message. If you have been personally 00:30:13.390 --> 00:30:15.950 affected by our ministry and you would like to 00:30:15.950 --> 00:30:19.230 partner with us as we love God, love people every 00:30:19.230 --> 00:30:24.109 day, visit our website at www .lifehouse .org. 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:25.400 lifehousecog .com.