How Do I Apply the Bible to My Life? - Theology for the Rest of Us

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Good morning.
Oh man, I got to start with the

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verse today.
So Philippians 44 you guys

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ready?
Yes, rejoice.

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I didn't get any joy out of
that.

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There was no rejoicing that
happened.

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Rejoicing who helped me out and
the Lord how often always not

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just in the easy seasons, but
the hard seasons, right?

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And I think about there's no
great place to put your joy than

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in the Lord.
If your joy is found in anything

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else, where was a marriage or
kids or society or anything,

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man, you're going to be a little
disappointed, a lot

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disappointed.
But rejoice found Lord.

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Amen.
And I'll just say it again,

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Rejoice.
Come on, somebody.

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And so I want to celebrate
today.

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There's lots of a lot we can
celebrate.

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I think he already escaped.
He's escaped somewhere.

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So our new drummer, come on,
somebody.

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Michael Harbour, you might
recognize there's like, who is

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this guy?
He's over here, the man, the

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myth, the legend.
Oh man, thank you so much for

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Michael.
That's awesome.

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So it's fun.
There's so many new guys come on

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team and and it's really praise
the Lord.

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You think about this.
God is just good.

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He is so, so good.
Amen.

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Hidden is faithful.
He's so, so faithful.

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He's a healer and he's got our
back.

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He protects us and he's the rock
we stand on.

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He's our, everything is our
substance.

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And so often we, we forget like
there is so much to be thankful

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for and to rejoice for.
And I was just sitting here

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watching the, the, the worship
team.

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I thought, man, this, this is so
much fun.

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The, the crew, they're, they're
getting kind of lively nowadays.

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I'm telling you, they're getting
kind of close and like messing

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around a lot.
It's kind of fun to watch them.

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But anyway, you got to be around
the behind the scenes to see it.

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But lots of things to rejoice
today.

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Number one, this never gets old.
But last week there was one

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person to put their faith and
trust in Jesus.

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Amen.
And that never gets old because

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you always rejoice over the one,
right?

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Like Jesus left the 99 to go
after the 1.

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And I found this at churches and
I've noticed it a little bit in

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our seat this last, this last
season, our church a little bit.

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We really, really love to be the
99, but it's very difficult to

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actually be the church that goes
after the one to be the church

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that is pursuing and and and
reaching and rescuing again,

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your hands messy and inviting
and and praying for and loving

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on and it's just a it's a
different world, right?

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And I just know it's like we
love to be in our circle kind of

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who's who, but ultimately God's
cause to The Who cares and it's

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caused the loss and and the
broken.

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And I would encourage you guys
in this season to really have

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your one like that person that's
on your heart.

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Just be continuing to pray for
them.

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Invite and not just to Sunday
morning gathering, but invite

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into your life and show the
things of Christ, Amen.

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Like be the hands of feet of
Jesus.

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It's not about growing how big
this is.

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It's about growing the King of
God.

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And you guys get to play a huge
part of that story.

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But thank you, Jesus, Amen.
He still works every single

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Sunday.
He's always working.

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Last week was incredible.
It's kind of maybe a little odd

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to say this, but it was our
largest like non event Sunday.

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So we take out Mother's Day,
Christmas, like the days like

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just a non, like an almost.
I know we call it something just

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never note, but it was like the
largest one, right?

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There were 350 people last
Sunday.

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Praise God, Amen.
It's crazy.

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It's amazing.
And I don't know about you, but

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like I feel like my face is like
half dark and half light.

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So maybe I'll go over here.
Can you see me now?

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I have no idea.
I'll preach in the dark.

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It don't matter.
Everything will fall apart.

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We'll see preaching it anyway.
So last week was incredible.

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God just doing a move and
there's just people.

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I I'm showing I'm I'm the pastor
of the church.

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I'm like, all right, who are
these people?

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God help me remember the names,
you know, like it.

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It's so amazing.
So I want to say thank you guys

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have been coming out.
Thank you guys been bringing

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people and just something
special happened this season.

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No thing to rejoice on our life
groups for summer actually going

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Live Today so you can go online
and check them out.

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Come on, praise God, Amen.
You get connected.

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I'm not going to give you a
bunch on it 'cause you hear

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about later, but I'm just so
thankful for our leaders that

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decide to open their homes and
to pursue God and invite you

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guys in to really just make the
ark a crowd of people into a

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community of people that are
covered in prayer, that love

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each other, that point to Jesus,
that encourage you spiritually,

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all the things.
And the last thing that really

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sticks out in the season for me
right now is this building the

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belt and SIM 8.
I still can't get past this.

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Like every time we we office
next door, OK, and then in the

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very next building.
And so I'm by all the time I'm

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over the whole time and I just
still lost and the wonder of

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like Lord and we prayed for to
say yes to our first permanent

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space.
This is well above and beyond

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like what we were praying for.
So Lord, what would you have us

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to do in this space?
And so last night, I'll be

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really honest with you, I
started dreaming about this

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space and I don't know, I just
stayed up way too late.

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And you're probably going to
recognize that as a priest today

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as we begin to dream about this
space.

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And it's like, Lord, what would
you have us to do?

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And it's not just to gather the
church, but how can we scatter

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the church through this space?
Look like how in the world can

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we use this as a hub to get the
gospel out to the ones to to the

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lost, not not just even here in
our city, but around the world.

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And so there's all these ideas
come to mind.

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I'm like scattering center like
what in the world?

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How would this look like?
How can I mobilize our people

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that God has given us to take
the gospel out to a lost and

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broken people, not just here,
but around the world, like all

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these crazy ideas.
But that's what the Holy Spirit

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does.
Hey man.

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And so I stay up all night.
Literally I'm sitting there

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like, OK, I got to go to bed and
the dog woke me up at like 1250.

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Come on, somebody.
I don't know why I was like, I'm

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going to kill this thing right?
And then it's like, maybe I was

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going to leave it outside.
I know it's a little cold.

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Maybe I should leave it outside
a little mud.

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And that from like 12:50, it's
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I'm like, what we can do with
this space, just laying in my

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pillow, rolling around just like
dreaming about like what God can

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do.
But it's exciting season.

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Amen.
So just rejoice that this is

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what God has given us.
And I thought of this theatre,

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you know, it's kind of the
pinnacle of society in a sense

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of like, this is the best the
world has the offer.

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Like, here's this entertainment
value, here's the theatrics,

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Here's the greatest
cinematography, the greatest

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arrangements of music played on
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And now I got grace.
We get to show the goodness of

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God and the very place that was
a goodness of humanity to preach

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the gospel to a lost and dying
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Amen.
It's exciting.

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And so I always encourage you
guys to continue to pray for

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this space.
We had to extend our due

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diligence.
They've got some work to fix a

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few things.
And so it's like, OK, like we're

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going to make sure that gets
done.

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But man, we're just so excited
for God's doing.

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Amen.
So today we're jumping into the,

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our serious thoughts.
Best of us.

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Last week we talked about how to
know what the Bible means.

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Like what, what does it mean?
What's, what's that look like?

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And today I'm going to take it
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And how do we actually apply the
Bible?

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And, and there's really three
things that happen to read the

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Bible.
There's really 3 results of

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reading the Bible.
One is you leave confused.

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Anybody ever been confused with
the Bible?

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Come on, show hands.
Let's be if you didn't raise

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your hand, you're a liar.
Or if you never read the Bible,

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come on somebody right?
And oftentimes as a pastor, like

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I'll read something like, all
right, who is this again?

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Help me out.
Like give me the whole whole

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story.
Like, and there's more to it.

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And I like to find the gold.
Like I read a passage, I don't

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understand it.
I always like miss a great

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opportunity to find out what God
has for me today.

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And so I have to search and
study, but we often leave

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confused.
That's maybe the level that a

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lot of us can leave it out.
It's like that didn't really

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make any sense, but hey, OK,
it's all right.

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Second level is we leave
educated.

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We, we, we get smarter like we,
we went to the Bible study.

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We, we showed up on Sunday, like
I went to the Bible in a year.

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How many guys are doing, by the
way, Bible in a year?

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Some of y'all got the, the, the
video deal and all that stuff.

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And you're like you, you get,
you get like man, sometimes you

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don't apply it and it's just
education and you get a little

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smarter.
And and the third level, this

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level of God wants us to leave
at is we leave transformed.

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We we leave like a word from the
word.

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We leave more obedient.
We leave changed.

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But I don't know about you.
Have you ever met somebody that

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could that knows the verses but
looks very little?

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But like Jesus, he hasn't been
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Somebody can quote the
scripture, but it's like man,

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they don't really know.
They don't really know God the

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way you never know because the
way they treat people, the kind

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of the right foot of Christian
fellowship kind of people.

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It's really dangerous.
Amen to study the scripture and

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not let it change your life.
It it is extremely dangerous to

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go to Bible study and hear the
word of God or read the Bible in

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devotion and not be obedient or
submissive to what God is

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showing you.
It it's very dangerous for your

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life and it just happens when
the Bible becomes a textbook

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that there's so many friends
I've had that have been to Bible

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college or or admit people went
back to like a seminary.

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And this is literally I was on a
trip to Egypt and I met this

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lady and she's a missionary
Cuba, but she was in Egypt and

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she said the worst three years
of my life is when I went back

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to get my master's degree in, in
in my Mdiv because the Bible

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became a textbook.
And it is very easy to get the

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spot where like, well, I know
all the answers and I know what

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this looks like.
I know this looks like, and it's

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very dangerous for your life or
the Bible becomes a check box.

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We're like, well, I got to do my
daily reading, not most from a

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high, the highest or high old
school, right?

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Like you just check off the box,
just kind of go through the

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motions or it's a religious
obligation.

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I don't know if you grew up in
that kind of world was just you

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just kind of did the thing, but
you weren't being the thing.

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And what happens is you've been
gained knowledge, but your

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pursuit is maybe not Jesus, your
pursuit of something else.

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And as you pursue your life and
your dreams, you're adding Jesus

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into your plan and your schemes
and your direction.

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What ultimate is happening is
you have somebody else in the

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throne of your life, you're
worshipping an idol, right?

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And you add Jesus in and instead
of putting Jesus above all that

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Jesus in, and we're on the
throne.

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And so it might be the greatest
weapon in Satan's arsenal is

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that we'd actually get to the
word of God and leave the same

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that they would sit down with
the mule of Jesus and we still

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leave hungry for the things of
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I've seen this so often as a
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of people that speak up, I don't
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good at preaching the gospel to
others, but they're very bad at

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preaching the gospel to
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They're very good at pointing
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this, I am the work of God.
I'm not perfect, I make

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mistakes.
We call them the Sunday Saints

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and Monday ain't.
Come on, somebody you know, I'm

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talking about nothing like
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It's the people that get the
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fellowship.
Come on, somebody you said

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sticking a hand that they can't
put you on their foot and kick

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you a little sideways and you're
like, man, do you really love

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it.
I really my goal, I guess as a

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pastor is kind of sad, but I try
to offend those people fairly

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quickly.
Just saying, just saying it's

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the people that got a head full
of knowledge, but a heart full

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of themselves and it's hard to
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with lack of application.
So Matthew 23 and verse 27, it

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says, woe to you, this is Jesus
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These are red letters here.
Woe to you.

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Teachers of the law and
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These are people that knew the
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They knew the Bible.
Matter of fact, they would have

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memorized the entire Old
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years old.
These people knew every verse

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they could quote every
scripture, they could finish

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everything you said about the
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But Jesus says, you what?
Help me out, you hypocrites.

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You, you say one thing, but you
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Like in, in real honest, like
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level, Amen.
Like we, we, we all have a, a

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tendency and a nature and a, and
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Like, well, I know what I should
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And the difference is in this
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and I think this is the pursuit
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are are you struggling towards
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Is it going Oh Lord, I I really
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pursue you, Lord.
I want my life to be a different

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Lord change me.
But man, I'm struggling the good

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that I would, but I should
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I'm chasing down God, but I'm
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But those it's like, well, I'm
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I'm good.
I can justify it.

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I'll do my own life.
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I've I've I've been to church
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I, I always get tickled when
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I've been like, had that happen
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People come here and they're
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enough.
You know, the kids have

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graduated.
I've, I've ran the course like

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I'm spiritual enough.
Isn't that crazy?

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It's like, who are, who are you?
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And you look at this, it's, it's
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And he says this, you're like a
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This is interesting.
You talk about whitewashed tomb

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in that time period of Jesus
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obviously using the tomb,
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outside of tombs, when you walk
by them, if they weren't

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signaled or or notified somehow
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corrupted, like you couldn't
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they do in the Jewish culture,

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they actually go around with
lime and actually paint the

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outside of the tomb so you
wouldn't touch them, so you

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wouldn't be corrupted by the
dead things or the corruption

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that's happening inside the
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And so they walk by and they
say, oh man, there's whitewashed

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tomb and they knew where it was.
They, they take a different

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route.
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whitewashed tomb and he explains
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It says which look beautiful on
the outside, but on the inside

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are full of the bones of the
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He says in the same way on the
outside you appear to people as

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how righteous you look the part,
but on the inside you're full of

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hypocrisy and he takes a no
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This is interesting because you
can actually know of God

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intellectually, but actually not
know God You you, you can

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actually mentally understand who
he is you, you can arrange the

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facts.
You can even do great things for

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God, for God, not through God.
It just goes back to like

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Matthew Chapter 7, like 21.
It's like Lord, Lord, we we cast

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out these demons and we do these
great things for you and Jesus

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says depart from me.
I do not know you.

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You work of iniquity.
They've been gnashing and

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gnawing of teeth.
You can actually go to church

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your entire life.
You can actually come on a stage

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and you can preach the gospel
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Is that scary?
It should be humbling.

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Amen.
And in these religious leaders,

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these were the people that led
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They had knowledge without
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They knew truth without
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They knew the things of God
without obedience.

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not follow.

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You can study and not surrender.
You could even quote the Bible.

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Come on somebody and know the
verses, but actually not believe

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them.
And this is what it says about

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the demons, right?
And say themself, they know the

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Scripture that they they even
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The demons tremble, but they
actually don't know and follow

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God.
It's real easy to get that spot.

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There's a lot of Christians that
get real complacent in their

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faith.
Like all of a sudden, like I

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guess I've been around church
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We've been thinking about this.
Jason was talking about too.

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He's done this before, but but
in a theater, like we're going

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to go in and the seats are
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Come on, somebody, they've got
armrests.

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You got place to put your coffee
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Come on, somebody.
We might even keep the soda

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found.
Thank you, Jesus.

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And the popcorn and it, it
doesn't quite recline, but it,

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it rocks a little bit, right?
I've had recliners in Sunday

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morning.
I swear I'd appreciate nothing

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but sleeping people.
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Can you imagine sitting there?
I'm going to cut the power to

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this thing, you know what I
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But it's going to be real easy
to show up and be like, man,

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this is super comfortable and
you go to the theater.

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Why?
To be entertained.

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It's so it's the, I can just
imagine less in there that it's

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going to be very, very easy to
be complacent and like, let's

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come and sit and some let's go
and tell.

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Amen, an application like what
does the Lord want us to do?

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Looking at this, I would
encourage you if you think about

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why wash tomb that that's like 1
extreme like you read the Bible

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and you leave unchanged, but the
but the other stream is like why

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wash tomb?
The other stream is actually

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being washed white as snow.
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Like one you're dead on the
inside and there's wickedness

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and there's corruption and
there's brokenness and things

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decay.
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faith in Christ.
What God does is he takes the

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things on the inside and he
resurrects them and brings them

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to life.
He takes the wickedness and he

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gives his righteousness and he
gives his mission and he gives

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his Holy Spirit.
And so they're completely

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opposite.
And one is from grace and one is

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for grace.
And there's some of this

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disobedient matched in the
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I, I got a man of my life that
told me this one time.

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He said, Sean, you're, you're,
and it's going to be big terms.

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I'll break it down, but you're
orthodoxy has to match your

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orthopraxy.
What you know about God has to

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match what your actions are for
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And here's what happens when,
when your knowledge of God

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exceeds your practices, guess
what happens?

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You become a Pharisee.
You're the guy goes on Facebook

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and you can't help yourself,
man, because you don't really

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love other people right now, but
you sure know what they should

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do.
And you become really critical

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of others.
It's always interesting because

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you can see humanity.
You can see the good and the

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bad, you can see the worst and
the best and you can forget like

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I need to pray for these people,
like I need to lead these people

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and I can't help them, but God
can at moments like it's not my

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ability, it's God's ability, but
it's really just Christians get

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really, really jaded because of
truth and they forget about

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love.
They forget about the greatest

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work that God is going to do is
actually in your life.

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If you're so consumed about
others, you're going to miss

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what God wants to do.
And often times we'll spend

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years or decades of their life.
We'll talk about our parents and

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we'll talk about this thing in
the past.

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We'll talk about this and it's
like, what about you?

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What is God doing in your life?
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And I think some people hide
behind this intellect and it's

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it's just amazing to me.
And then the other side is your

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practice is out.
Seize your knowledge.

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And so these are like
philanthropist, these are the

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good deed doers.
These are people that just do it

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in the name of love.
We just care for people to care

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for people, but Jesus is really
not a part of it.

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Like, well, maybe I'll bring the
gospel up or not.

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I had a leader in our city that
asked me to stop praying at

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certain events because the
culture just didn't want to

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tolerate anymore.
I was like, well, you probably

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asked the wrong person.
Wait till the next leader comes

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in because I'm just going to
keep doing it.

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Amen.
It's like, why am I apologizing

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for this?
It's crazy, but your orthodox

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and orthopraxy should match.
And here's a level which Paul

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laid out in Philippians chapter
3 says I want to know Christ and

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that this word for know is not
the word of knowledge.

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Gnosco.
It doesn't mean to know an

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intellectual sense when he says
I want to know Christ, yes, to

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know the power of his
resurrection.

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He's not talking about his sense
of like, well, I want to study

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in a book and it I want to, I
want to actually fly plane and I

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want to read the manual.
I'm like, man, I'm so satisfied.

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That was so much fun.
It's not what he's saying.

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What he's saying is I want to
experience the depth of

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knowledge of God.
It's not just intellectual

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knowledge.
It's an experiential type of

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knowledge.
Like I want to actually

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experience the fullness of
Christ.

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I want everything that Christ
has for me to be given to me and

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I want to walk through it.
And he's ultimately said the

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power is resurrection.
By the way, when you knew Jesus,

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you experienced the power of the
resurrection.

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Amen.
Like there's something inside

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you that was dead in that tomb
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And Paul wanted that even with
further he said in participation

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in his what suffering.
He didn't want to read about the

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suffering he actually wanted to
suffer like Christ.

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I'll be honest with you in in
American Christianity, I don't

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find this very often, even in
myself like I want to suffer for

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Christ.
And yes, we come and step and

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tear down.
Not the same level of suffering,

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Amen.
Not the same level participating

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in sufferings, becoming look at
this even a further extent

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becoming like him in his what?
His death.

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And so somehow, and it's just,
it's just funny how I said this,

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somehow attaining to the
resurrection from the dead.

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Like he's like, not only do I
know his power is resurrection,

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like I want to experience the
fullness.

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I don't experience the
suffering.

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I don't experience the suffering
to his fullest all the way to

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his death.
I, I, I want to be martyred for

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Christ.
I'm gonna be treated just like

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Christ.
I, I want to be, I want to be

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disowned by this culture.
I want people that hate me.

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I'm gonna be taken to trial.
I'm gonna be falsely accused.

450
00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,800
I, I want to be murdered for the
gospel.

451
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,840
Wow, that's a whole nother
level.

452
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,520
Amen.
And he didn't shy away from it

453
00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,000
and he wanted to go full on and
and his his mission like not

454
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,600
that he doesn't, he says somehow
attain the resurrection of the

455
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:42,960
dead.
He's not like, man, I hope I can

456
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,240
get there.
Like maybe it work out if I do

457
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,200
all the right things.
No, he's like, this is my

458
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,800
ambition, my goal and through
all things like, oh man, this

459
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,400
would be the prize.
That's what he's saying.

460
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,480
He's not questioning if he's
going to be red or dead.

461
00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,000
He's just talking about how the
goodness of God is going to be

462
00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,600
that he's going to be
resurrected from the dead.

463
00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,640
He's just so passionate about
it.

464
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,600
And so the ultimate move we're
learning here is not just what

465
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,800
I'm learning through Scripture,
it's what I'm living out.

466
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,440
Do you see Paul?
He's a man that's obedient and

467
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,040
submissive.
Just as the Father sent me

468
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,920
talking about Jesus, so I send
you the Father sent Jesus.

469
00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,040
Jesus was submissive to the
Father.

470
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:17,800
Amen.
He didn't go.

471
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,800
I'll do my will.
Let my will be done.

472
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,560
Thank you for sending me.
I'll do my will now.

473
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,880
He was submissive to the Father.
And so last week, we'll walk

474
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:26,880
through this.
Last week, we could talk about

475
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,440
how to read the Bible.
And if I summarize last week

476
00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,760
into two words, it'd be So what?
So what, when you open the

477
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,200
scripture and you get to any
passage, you have to ask the

478
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,040
question, So what?
So, So what is happening?

479
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,920
So who's who's writing this?
Who, who's it written to?

480
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,600
What's happening around?
What's the context of this?

481
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,040
So what is going on?
And you have to really pursue

482
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:48,640
that.
Amen.

483
00:21:49,120 --> 00:21:52,360
You can talk yourself into some
really, really crazy theology

484
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,000
and some really big mishaps with
scripture if you're not diving

485
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,800
deep into what is this actually
mean?

486
00:21:58,160 --> 00:21:59,720
So what is happening in the
scriptures?

487
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,760
Look at context.
The second thing you look for is

488
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,040
authorial intent.
Like what's the what's the

489
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,240
intention of the writer?
We talked about burying his love

490
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,640
note.
He actually wrote a poem I found

491
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,160
out about later.
It was framed in the house

492
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:11,680
because that's how often he
writes poems.

493
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,200
Come on, somebody.
It was put on the wall like lots

494
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,920
of thing, you know, and I still
have, I need to get a picture of

495
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:17,880
it.
I'll put on the screen one of

496
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,320
these days.
I don't know if he's around here

497
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:24,800
or not, but no, no, we'll think
less of you, huh?

498
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,840
Barry, is that you're worried?
He does have a heart, maybe

499
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,840
more.
That's the only way we can go.

500
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,120
Barry, I love you, but I'll
thorough intent.

501
00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:37,360
What is God saying through this
writer to that audience that

502
00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:38,320
this is where you're chasing
down?

503
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,280
We talked about in depth last
week, so I'm not going to dive

504
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,480
through it completely, but the
big the biggest piece is when we

505
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,360
go to scripture, we don't take
our mean to scripture.

506
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,680
We actually find the meaning in
the scripture, the, the, the

507
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,000
truth of God's word is actually
found in the text where we're

508
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,080
discovering what the author
intent is, what what happened

509
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,280
here?
Why is this happening?

510
00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,960
Who wrote this, what, who
they're writing to?

511
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,760
And there's so much more we
could talk about.

512
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,320
We didn't dive into, but like
historical context, like we talk

513
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,200
about like a Roman soldier,
right?

514
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,800
And, and, and armor of God and
like what, what would that mean

515
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:11,920
to be an armor God and Roman
soldier?

516
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,280
Like what's going on in the
Church of Philippi?

517
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,120
Like what what is he talking
about in Corinth?

518
00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:18,640
Have these footsteps of the
prostitutes that lead all these

519
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,680
harlots houses like to know all
these pieces helps you

520
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,360
understand what the scripture
is.

521
00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,600
You put some flesh to that
culture and you really

522
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,560
understand like what is God
really saying here?

523
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,520
And it's our job to do that kind
of work, Amen?

524
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,240
Like you just don't read and go
well, that was that was good.

525
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,680
Like you got to study a little
bit and ask these questions.

526
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,200
So let's assume you do that.
That's education, Amen.

527
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,400
You got educated, you learned a
little bit.

528
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,440
So they don't dive into how do
you apply it?

529
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,640
And, and, and this made me be
underrated.

530
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,600
Like nobody talks about this
whole lot, but how do you

531
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:48,880
actually apply what you actually
learned?

532
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,040
Let's say you, you, you run out
some gold, you found some truth.

533
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,600
You like saw that and you're
like, OK, how do you actually

534
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,440
apply this to your life?
And I'm going to give you 2

535
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:57,640
different words.
So you had So what?

536
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,840
Say somebody say So what?
OK, next part you say now what?

537
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:03,960
Now what?
So what now what?

538
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,280
Come on somebody.
So what now what you can't skip

539
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,120
it if if you just a So what
person I I've met a guy that

540
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:12,880
read the Bible in almost every
version possible in the English

541
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,040
language.
I mean, had a whole case of it

542
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,680
and you'd wonder like, but has
it made effect in your life?

543
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,480
Like you've asked the first
question.

544
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,920
Quite quite frankly, you've
asked it way too much.

545
00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:24,600
You've not asked the second
question.

546
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,120
Now what do you want me to do
with the Lord?

547
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,160
And every time you go to the
table of God, I believe he wants

548
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,320
to feed you.
And by the way, I don't think

549
00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:35,440
Jesus feeds us grits, Amen.
I don't think you get in there

550
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,000
and you're like, I'm going to
eat this as fast as possible.

551
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,240
We got here because it tastes
terrible.

552
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,200
I think we sit down with Jesus.
He gives you a steak.

553
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,760
Come on, somebody.
And who knows it's a sin to eat

554
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,680
a good steak quickly.
Oh, I eat this steak so fast I

555
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,120
can't tolerate it.
You savor it, Amen.

556
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,080
You sit down and you dine, you
listen.

557
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,400
This is what Jesus does.
It says open the door, your

558
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:56,840
heart, you knock, you know it's
dying with you.

559
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,880
And you sit with me as we sit
with Jesus and we sit there and

560
00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:02,640
listen and spend time with
Christ.

561
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,440
He wants to teach you things and
show you things you have to

562
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,520
leave changed.
So now what?

563
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,200
What's God asking me to do?
What's obedience look like?

564
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,240
And by the way, we teach you
obedience, Amen.

565
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,280
Like the, the point of knowledge
is not that you know, the point

566
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,840
of knowledge is that you obey,
that you find out in the Great

567
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,000
Commission, right?
Matthew 2019 to, to, to, to

568
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,920
teach obedience to all nations.
This is how we learn.

569
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,880
So it's not just, well, here's
the truth.

570
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,560
And I think a lot of the
disciple making or Bible studies

571
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:31,840
that they're really good at
truth.

572
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,840
And then it occurs.
It's like a family fight.

573
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,760
I don't know if you've been
around those groups where people

574
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,440
fight about scripture.
Anybody been around those

575
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,360
groups?
There's been just fighting about

576
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:40,960
different opinions.
And it's like, was that the

577
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,800
point?
Is that why Paul wrote that so

578
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,960
you could fight about it?
I mean, it's like just, it's

579
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,480
amazing to me.
I've kind of seen it all, I

580
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,960
guess.
But the question is what needs

581
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:54,840
to change in me to be more like
Jesus by reading this what,

582
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:56,560
what, what, what do I do
differently?

583
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,880
Like there's a surrender that
happens.

584
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,680
What's what, How is God inviting
me to trust him more through

585
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,320
this?
What step do I need to take

586
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,800
today to look more like Christ?
What what's God called me

587
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,640
surrender at his feet today and
you find this it's not good

588
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,880
enough just to read it.
So John 1415, you might know

589
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,160
this one if you love me, come
on, somebody you keep my

590
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,200
commands.
It you know, it doesn't say if

591
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,480
you love me understand
Scripture.

592
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,440
It doesn't say if you love me.
Know my commands is if you love

593
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,800
me, you keep my commands that
that means you follow him.

594
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,080
There's there's a submission
there.

595
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,040
There's no obedience.
I I love it to say it this way,

596
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,680
the way that God spells love is
OBEY.

597
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,320
Come on, somebody like you, you
see it with your own kids,

598
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:39,600
right?
Like, Oh, I love you, Dad.

599
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:45,120
Oh my God, do you I think you
like the idea of me.

600
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,640
I don't know.
I'm so sure you love me right

601
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,000
now, right, But that's not
personal.

602
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,840
That's somebody else's story
completely right.

603
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,760
But did Jesus say if you love
me, understand everything.

604
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,200
If you love me, just go to
enough Bible studies.

605
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:00,680
I don't know, there's so many
Bibles.

606
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,480
I'm not saying I'm not dogging
about having a Bible study

607
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,320
because I think you need them.
But Lord help us if we need

608
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,360
another Bible study to get
closer to Christ.

609
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,040
Like we, we have so much
knowledge that we've not

610
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,840
applied, like to take action
with what, you know, often

611
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,880
times, let's say often there's
seasons where somebody come in

612
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,560
and say, Hey, pastor, like we
really need preaching through.

613
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,120
And they'll say like Daniel or
like Revelation and May we kind

614
00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:26,000
of like, and it's kind of like
watered down.

615
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,920
So like we need to go like a lot
deeper.

616
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,360
And I'm like, have you read
Revelation lately?

617
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,520
Oh, no.
OK, so you're asking me to do

618
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,640
something that you're not even
doing and then you want me to

619
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,560
preach this.
And so often just have to

620
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,080
contain my thought.
But I'll tell you, my thought is

621
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,400
often this, it's like maybe
we'll move on to the harder

622
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,880
things of Scripture if we'd
actually do the easy things of

623
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,760
Scripture.
Like if you can't obey the

624
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,840
simple things, why would I go
into these hard level post pre

625
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,000
Trib amillennial?
Why would I go into these

626
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,240
difficult hard things in
Scripture if we're not even

627
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,920
doing 1 + 1?
Amen.

628
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,960
I'm not saying it's everybody
because we're all different

629
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,720
levels, but the people often
tell me this and the people that

630
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,280
don't look much like Jesus, but
they're really curious about all

631
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,680
these things.
And so the way it looks like if

632
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,200
you love me, you obey.
If you love me, you submit.

633
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,160
If you love me, you surrender.
And that that's an ongoing

634
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,440
thing.
You don't, you don't.

635
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,080
And it's really what happened at
the cross.

636
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,360
You, you surrender to Jesus.
Amen.

637
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,640
Not my will, but your will be be
done.

638
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,880
I'll obey you, I'll follow you.
You never get past that prayer

639
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,320
or confession.
You never get past this hold on

640
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,640
the old rugger cross.
So the question to ask when you

641
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,920
read Scripture is how is this
verse or passage or the truth

642
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,120
I've learned?
How is it significant to my life

643
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,720
today?
Somebody say significance,

644
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,520
significance.
It it it's you can say

645
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,760
application, which is, you know,
because a lot of people say,

646
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,000
well, it didn't really apply to
me.

647
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,160
And I kind of guess there's
there's some nuance here.

648
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,960
OK, but when you think of
application, like you maybe read

649
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,120
the woman kind of adultery and
you're like, well, I'm not an

650
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,480
adultery affair and so I'm not
like her.

651
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,560
And it's like, oh, it was good.
One day I'll maybe know

652
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,760
something about it.
OK, totally understand.

653
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,960
But there is an infinite amount
of significance to every

654
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,320
scripture.
That's why when you go back and

655
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,840
read it a second time or third
time or the 100th billionth

656
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,560
time, you actually get something
new and different for your life.

657
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,120
Amen.
So, so like this woman kind of

658
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,720
adultery, like that's not my
story at all.

659
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:34,120
But if God can love her that
much, and she's been through so

660
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:39,360
much, how much must God love me?
And if God can be that merciful

661
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,480
and that caring and that
compassionate to somebody that

662
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,840
most people would throw out the
door, how should I be loving and

663
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,400
treating people?
They're living a life that's

664
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,400
complete apart from the gospel,
but they need the grace of God

665
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,840
to effectually touch their life.
I can, I can, I can have

666
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:58,000
significance for that, Amen.
And I could go on and on and on

667
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,280
and on and on and on.
Of all the significance, there's

668
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,960
millions of significance for
every piece of Scripture in your

669
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,800
life.
And I found that God often will

670
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,000
give you the most significance
where you have the biggest

671
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,240
struggle or the biggest trial in
the season of your life.

672
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,680
That's where God will speak
through his word.

673
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,240
You're like, man, I don't know
where to start.

674
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,840
Well, there's a lot of great
places to start, but wherever

675
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,160
you pick up, I believe that God
will show you something for your

676
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,320
life through that scripture.
It'll often speak to the hardest

677
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,440
thing you're walking through.
God is not going to, like, take

678
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,480
the medicine and apply it to a
wound that doesn't exist.

679
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,200
He's going to take the medicine
and the Holy Spirit's going to

680
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,920
speak through the trial that
you're walking through, and it's

681
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,920
going to help you.
That's why the Holy Spirit's

682
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:46,400
called the comforter, Amen.
He's going to lead you and walk

683
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,560
with you even through the
valley, maybe even called the

684
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,520
shadow of death of the hard
places.

685
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,280
He's going to sit down in front
of your enemies.

686
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,520
He's going to make a table and
he's going to relax and dine

687
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,880
with him as your enemies
surround you and nobody

688
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,080
understands you and you're feel
like you're all alone, but

689
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,000
you're in the presence of God
and He has everything in his

690
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,880
control.
Amen.

691
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,680
This is what the Scripture does.
This is who the Holy Spirit is.

692
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:10,920
He gives you a word in the
season.

693
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,760
And I found that the word of
God, the application that comes

694
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,600
from God, comes at different
levels.

695
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,640
And there's more than I'm going
to name, but I'll give you

696
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,960
really the four that I think are
like the main levels that God

697
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,320
will speak to you when you read
Scripture.

698
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,640
One is your identity.
God will speak to who you really

699
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,280
are.
And it's pretty fun in the life

700
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,720
of a believer when you start
exchanging like your version of

701
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,400
who you are or maybe somebody
else's version, because that's

702
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:33,480
what people would usually live
for.

703
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,160
We actually start exchanging it
for God's version of who you are

704
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,600
and you start rewriting your
identity.

705
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,720
And I believe that's probably
the deepest level of God is

706
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,680
speaking to you all the time.
And if we let him shape it, God

707
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,000
would shape it every single
time.

708
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,520
He doesn't want you to leave
going, oh, I don't know what to

709
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,640
do.
He is speaking to who you are.

710
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,600
How about your motives or your
will, right?

711
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,640
Like, why are you doing these
things?

712
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,280
And God will speak to you Like,
is that for you?

713
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,880
Is this, is this about Sean?
Is this about accolade?

714
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,440
Is this is this about
accomplishment?

715
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,880
What, what is the motivation for
what you do?

716
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,600
And, and God knows that, Amen.
I mean, he's, he's judged all of

717
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,040
humanity before just by the
thoughts and motivations of the

718
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,720
heart.
Motives matter.

719
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,840
And so Jesus is looking at what
you're doing and Jesus doesn't

720
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,400
want you to do a lot of stuff.
He actually is more than you

721
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,760
becoming someone else.
He he doesn't want you to start

722
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,440
adding on church and add on the
Bible study and add on a life

723
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,680
group and add this stuff.
He actually wants you to be more

724
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,520
like Jesus.
He he wants you to become

725
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,760
somebody that you're not in his
name.

726
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,600
And how about this no level is
emotions like God will speak to

727
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,720
and through and about your
emotions.

728
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,440
Should you have felt that way?
Should you have got so mad about

729
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,040
that?
Should you be so unforgettable?

730
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,800
She have that hot kind of
hostility?

731
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,120
Should you really be triggered
that quickly?

732
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,760
Is that grace filled?
Is that merciful?

733
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:56,400
And God will speak to that Amen.
Awful quiet.

734
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,680
And then he'll speak to your
your actions.

735
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,880
Like what are you doing with
your life?

736
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,480
Like is that obedience?
Is that the direction he's

737
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,320
calling you to go?
And so let me just walk you.

738
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,120
I'll just play it out for you.
So Joshua one verse 7 and 9,

739
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,800
I'll read a passage, Let me get
a context and I'll apply it to

740
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,600
my life and maybe God will speak
through it to your life because

741
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,200
they're probably some
significance from my

742
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,880
significance to your life.
That's fun, right?

743
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,800
So Joshua 17, it says this.
We'll, we'll back up.

744
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,440
Give me some context.
So Joshua's written Moses passes

745
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,720
away.
Who was supposed to bring this

746
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,840
Hebrew people into the promised
land?

747
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,160
And he sent in Joshua and Caleb
and Bruce spent, he spent in

748
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,840
all, all the the spies and
Joshua killed the only two that

749
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,920
said, no, we can do it, we can
do it, we can do it.

750
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,720
And those just like, let's take
a vote.

751
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,200
And they said, no, we can't.
He said, yeah, we can't.

752
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,200
And they wandered for 40 years
because they spent 40 days as

753
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,760
spies in the promised land.
And so they wandered for 40

754
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,600
years, but should have taken
like 2 days to get to the

755
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:58,880
promised land.
They just wandered.

756
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,320
And while they're wandering,
they remember the miracle of

757
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:02,960
God, the Red Sea.
And they got to the point the

758
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,760
generations passed away.
And they're like, where is the

759
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,360
God these miracles?
You know, you see that with

760
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,840
Gideon, like where's this God
that pards Red Sea?

761
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,520
We don't see this anymore.
Like they've forgotten all the

762
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,960
power of God and the every
person that was in that

763
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,440
generation died except for Caleb
and Joshua, including Moses,

764
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,560
because their unfaithfulness to
God.

765
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,679
And so here's Joshua, Moses
passed away, wrote the book of

766
00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:27,320
Deuteronomy the last 30 days of
his life because he wants the

767
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,920
mantle of the glory of God to
move forward.

768
00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:33,040
He's in the right place.
He is humbled and he gives this

769
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,679
mantle to Joshua.
He's still alive.

770
00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:37,080
Then we're going to read it, but
actually came through God to

771
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,960
Moses before this actually
happened.

772
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,600
God's actually quoted himself
through Moses.

773
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:43,840
And so he tells Joshua, you're
going to do this man.

774
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:46,080
Like there's a time I'm I'm not
leading the end.

775
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,000
Like I'm, I'm, I'm out and
you're going to demand and he

776
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:54,400
sets up Joshua to like be the
next leader of the Hebrew people

777
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,440
to go into the promised land.
And so picks up verse 7.

778
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,120
This is God himself speaking to
Joshua.

779
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,280
He says, be strong.
Come on somebody.

780
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,920
And how very courageous.
That's a good word for 2026, by

781
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,880
the way.
Be very courageous with your

782
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,520
faith, like we're not called to
be like this backseat silent

783
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:17,400
majority.
We're called to be bold and

784
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,560
courageous with what God has put
in front of us.

785
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,640
He says be careful to what?
Help me out, obey.

786
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:29,600
There it is all the law my
servant Moses gave you and do

787
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,240
not turn from it to the right or
to the left that you may be what

788
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,080
success where we go so so if
you're going to follow God, you

789
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,760
want success in the Kingdom of
God, then obey the things of God

790
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,000
and that would make you
successful in the eyes of God

791
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,160
and the Kingdom of God.
Man, that's some gold right

792
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,640
there Amen.
Like what's driving my life.

793
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,960
I'm going to follow Jesus.
Verse 8 says keep this book of

794
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,520
the law always on your help me
out your lips.

795
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,600
Meditate on it day and night.
So you be careful to do

796
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,920
everything written in it.
Then you will be what prosperous

797
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,360
and successful.
So you just kind of dives even

798
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,920
deeper.
Put in your lips, put in your

799
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,560
mind, let it become your life
and then you become prosperous

800
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,360
and successful.
Verse 9 he just double s down

801
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:17,040
have helped me out.
I not commanded you.

802
00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:21,080
What a great question that
matters who is speaking to you.

803
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,440
Be strong and courageous.
He reminds me again and do not

804
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,320
be afraid.
Do not be discouraged for the

805
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:33,120
Lord your God will be with you
wherever you go.

806
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,440
That's a passage, baby.
That's a passage.

807
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,080
Like I feel like when you sit
down with people and they're

808
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,480
like struggling with like, oh, I
got to be courageous and don't

809
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,320
want to do they're freaking out.
This this Bible, you're like,

810
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,000
this is like the mantle.
Be strong and very courageous

811
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,120
and you just stick in their
chest, right?

812
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,640
This is what I'm asking you to
do, like put the law in your

813
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,480
heart, follow God, be
prosperous.

814
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,520
He's with you wherever you go,
step out of faith.

815
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,240
Amen.
It's it's like a just a mantra

816
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,920
and it looks really cute, like
in the kitchen on the wall.

817
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,200
Be strong, very courageous to
make sourdough.

818
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:12,600
Maybe, you know, but this is
marching orders to go to war.

819
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,920
But you imagine the pressure of
Joshua, like, OK, I'm going to

820
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,960
leave this meeting.
And then maybe like, all right,

821
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,120
guys, I know we've been
wandering for 40 years, but now

822
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,360
we're going to do it.
And he's wondering like, are

823
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,320
they going to follow?
Are they getting mad or what's

824
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,960
going to happen?
And you start thinking about,

825
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,960
well, this is a big risk.
Like we could all die.

826
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:36,800
Like, do I have?
Are these people well trained

827
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,840
military people?
I mean, I saw who was in the

828
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,880
last time we walked through it.
But you know what Joshua did, he

829
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,440
obeyed.
Amen.

830
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,200
Matter of fact, as soon as he
left the meeting, if you want to

831
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,200
read on your own, he turns
around to his leaders and he

832
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,240
tells them, hey, guys, just so
you know, 3 days from now, we're

833
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:56,960
going to cross the Jordan and go
in that lane.

834
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,600
So get your boys ready.
We're going that's pretty good,

835
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,720
Amen.
Like he followed the Scripture,

836
00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:04,280
be strong and very courageous.
But I, I look at this and I

837
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:05,920
think, man, how does this affect
my life?

838
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,920
Like identity and that this word
I have commanded you.

839
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:14,000
It matters who tells you, Amen.
Like when, when Jesus says, I

840
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,000
want you to go and I, I want you
to be my hands and my feet and I

841
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,080
want you to give up your degree
like your your vision of your

842
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,800
life and I want you to exchange
it for what I'm doing, which is

843
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,480
far greater than anything you
can dream of.

844
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,800
It matters that that's Jesus
talking, Amen.

845
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,080
And as a leader, as a, as a
pastor, as a, as a just a

846
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,880
Christian, there's a lot of
voices in our lives, Amen.

847
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,840
Like we got family, we got
friends, we got kids, we got all

848
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,760
the different people around us.
And you know what, it seems like

849
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,080
everybody's got an opinion and
that some people have a dream

850
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,080
for your life.
I love those people that have a

851
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,240
dream for my life.
I'm like, what, who are you to

852
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:51,760
have a dream from my life?
Like, you know, what really

853
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,560
matters to me is what God says,
Amen.

854
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,240
So, so when I hear from God,
then I'll follow it and

855
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,240
everybody else is just white
noise, Amen.

856
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,960
Like I hear you, I love you, I
love our church, I love my

857
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,880
family, I love it, I hear it, I
hear it, I hear it, I hear it.

858
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,040
But until the Lord tells me to
do it, I'll file that and next

859
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,080
to file 86, like I'm waiting to
hear from God, Amen.

860
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,640
Because the world that everybody
else just has a dream and a

861
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,280
destiny that may not be from
God.

862
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,880
And so I'm going to follow the
person that part of the Red Sea,

863
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,240
I'm going to follow the person
that brought the mana down from

864
00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:27,560
heaven to put a pillar of fire
by night.

865
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,440
I'm I'm going to follow that
person, Amen.

866
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,320
And this is what Joshua was
thinking.

867
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,240
If you look at scripture like
your identity, like what is my

868
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:37,320
life really built on?
Was it is this like my old man

869
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,880
like reaction?
Am I trying to like fill a gap

870
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,840
or like a wound I'm trying to
heal or, or is this truly from

871
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,400
God himself?
And I wrestled all those things.

872
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,360
Amen.
Like I, I, I've been there

873
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,240
going, man, who am I?
Like seriously, you love me that

874
00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:53,240
much?
And but your identity shaped by

875
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,920
Christ and Joshua obviously had
had a season of walking with God

876
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,080
and what God says it's time to
get up and go.

877
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,760
He didn't say, guys, what do you
think about it?

878
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,840
He didn't say, do you all agree
we should go because that's a

879
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,480
big task.
I don't know if we can do it.

880
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,160
I looked at you guys and I was
like, right.

881
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,440
I mean, I'd be feeling pretty
good if I had like AB2 bomber or

882
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,480
something.
Right, but you look around,

883
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,200
you're like, well, but what we
have is what the Lord Amen.

884
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,560
And he's more than enough.
And so it's all that matter to

885
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,720
Joshua and that's all that needs
to matter for you.

886
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,800
So that's the significance.
Just it just sticks out to me.

887
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,120
That was free motivation.
So motive.

888
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,080
Why do you do it?
It says for the Lord, your God

889
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,920
will be with you wherever you
go.

890
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,720
That's great motivation, Amen.
Like when God calls you to start

891
00:40:40,720 --> 00:40:44,960
a church in the middle of Belden
Ray Moore, like not the sexiest

892
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:51,320
thing to do, Amen.
I mean, Kona, HI was great.

893
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,480
Like that sounds like a great
place for God to call me, Amen.

894
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,680
I mean, I was like, we can name
the church Wake Church.

895
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,760
Like I love wakeboarding and
water sports.

896
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,840
Like this is God's call.
We could be right there on the

897
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,400
beach.
Jesus, Jesus, do you need us

898
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,280
there?
Amen and even starting a church

899
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,160
like that's kind of backwooded
in 2026, like do we need

900
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:14,840
churches like people are just so
anti church, but who who's

901
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,840
leading the way?
Amen Jesus and matter of fact,

902
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,120
he gave us this very command in
Matthew 2020.

903
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,800
He said low I'll be with you
always, even to the end of the

904
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,120
age.
The most important thing about

905
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:26,560
your motives, you're doing for
the Lord, Amen.

906
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,960
Like we, we, you said rejoice in
the name of the Lord, the name

907
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,840
of God, Christ.
And again you say rejoice

908
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,080
because he deserves all glory
and honor, Amen.

909
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,280
Because he's the one that's
making the way I'm stepping into

910
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,240
his plans that are already set.
I'm not trying to make my own

911
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:44,200
plans.
So what's your motivation to

912
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:48,120
make his name great, Amen.
To make his name and his renown

913
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,520
famous throughout the earth.
It's all about Jesus.

914
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,120
Let's talk about a Jesus church
and we're not going to be like

915
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,360
there's Pastor Sean in heaven.
Pastor Sean, you got Jesus,

916
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,400
Amen.
You don't need to go to Pastor

917
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,000
Sean, like go to the feet of
Jesus.

918
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,720
You don't want to go.
I'm going to talk to real life

919
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:04,680
church and there's no real life
church in heaven.

920
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,880
You are the church, the people
of the Kingdom of God.

921
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,600
You made it, Amen.
You know, like, well, I'm, I'm,

922
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,360
I'm this denominations, there's
no denominations in heaven.

923
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:16,440
It's just like, what are we
doing?

924
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,000
Like we're doing it for the
Lord, Amen.

925
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,440
And that's our motivation.
Or how about your emotions?

926
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,360
Like Joshua felt it.
That's why Moses told him in

927
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:28,840
God, he says do not be afraid
and do not be discouraged.

928
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,680
Have we ever stopped a dream of
God in our life because we're

929
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:37,360
afraid or discouraged?
I probably every day God has

930
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,160
called us to do something.
It's like, well, that's that's

931
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,120
hard.
People don't like it, you know,

932
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:44,480
and we get afraid of
discouraged.

933
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,360
And what's really interesting
about this passage is that David

934
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,640
actually repeats this very
Scripture to his son Solomon

935
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,400
when he commissions him and
hands the mantle to him to

936
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,720
actually build the, quote,
palatial structure of the

937
00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:01,640
temple.
There's something special about

938
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:07,160
buildings where your head says,
do not be afraid or discouraged,

939
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,560
Amen.
I mean, you look at it, it's a

940
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,560
daunting task.
If you had, I talked to somebody

941
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,160
earlier that they're paying
their house, that's a lot of

942
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,160
work, Amen, To go around and
paint your whole house.

943
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,960
The interior is painful.
Come on somebody.

944
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,160
But if you drive it or you go to
the Belden Theater, it's 25,000

945
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:32,280
square feet of 32 foot walls and
they're concrete and there's

946
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,480
these stadium seating.
How do you even get up there?

947
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,520
If you can find a way, you could
beat me right after this

948
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,240
gathering and you tell me about
to get through a three O door

949
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,960
with a 50 foot stenchion trying
to figure it out.

950
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:48,760
And maybe that's where I went
last night a little bit in my

951
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,840
mind, I don't know.
But don't be afraid or

952
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,000
discouraged.
Amen.

953
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,240
Like we're worried about the
things in the future because we

954
00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:59,600
have well, the way it went last
time or the wounds of the past

955
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,720
or the fear of failure or the
voices that are around us and in

956
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:07,440
spiritual warfare and demonic
forces in that we've stuck in

957
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,480
the Mary clay.
We played the same song for

958
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,200
15,000,000 times in a row and
God's like, but there's a better

959
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,920
song and he picks you out of the
miry clay and he sets over here

960
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,120
and he's going to hear it one
time before we fall in love with

961
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:17,560
it.
Amen.

962
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,280
Just break the habit one time.
Like dude, God's grace is so

963
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:21,720
much better than the story.
I was right for myself.

964
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:23,720
So God just tells them, don't be
afraid.

965
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,200
And if we get past that fear and
we believe this promise right

966
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,480
here for ourselves, that if it's
if it's fearful and

967
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,920
discouraging, it's not from the
Holy Spirit.

968
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,800
It doesn't lie with Scripture.
It's not from God himself.

969
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,480
And if you could just put that
in your mind every time you're

970
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,880
facing a decision because is
this from God or is this from

971
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,720
man or is this from somewhere
else?

972
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,720
And the fourth level was actions
that you may be success wherever

973
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:50,120
you go, that that's the end
result is like it, it really

974
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,040
matter where he went.
It just matter.

975
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,720
The Lord was with him, Amen?
Like he just travelled like a

976
00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:57,040
nomad, like, well, we'll go in
like we'll get to Jericho,

977
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,680
you're coming, you know, watch
out, those walls will be mine.

978
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,520
But we're going this way today.
And God just is with him and he

979
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,320
takes care of it.
I mean, how bold would your

980
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,680
faith be if you do wherever you
step that Jesus with you and

981
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:09,960
ahead of you, That's pretty
amazing, Amen.

982
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,400
Like, is there any territory on
this earth that God doesn't mean

983
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,160
to walk and redeem?
Is there any nation or place?

984
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:17,960
Is there any alleyway that
should be afraid of?

985
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,440
That's what he's saying.
And so you look at what are my

986
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,080
actions?
Is it, is it about me?

987
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,880
Is it, is it my money, is my
powers and my stories about

988
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,320
God's story.
Because ultimately he gets the

989
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,080
glory and He wants to walk in
the safest place as a center of

990
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:36,520
his will.
So we'll continue three simple

991
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:37,800
practices.
I'll just like how do you

992
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,840
actually apply this?
Let me give you 3 simple things

993
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,600
so you can take something home.
1 is make time.

994
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:44,840
Make time to be with the be with
Jesus.

995
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,160
Make time to be in the
scripture.

996
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,560
We talked about this last week a
little bit, but Matthew 4 four

997
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,280
man should not live on bread
alone, but on every word that

998
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,560
comes from the mouth of God.
Let the Bible is your daily

999
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,040
bread.
Amen.

1000
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,040
Let you you got to get into the
Scripture and you have to make

1001
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,520
time for that.
So here's what I tell you.

1002
00:46:01,720 --> 00:46:06,640
Pick a place, pick a time and
pick a book in the Bible.

1003
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,440
Just do those three things.
Just pick a place, pick a time,

1004
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,200
pick a book and maybe it's the
morning, maybe it's at your,

1005
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:15,240
your, your lunch break.
Maybe like a, like a night owl,

1006
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:17,600
come on somebody and you just
want to get in the Scripture,

1007
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:22,200
like do it like repeatedly over
and over and over again.

1008
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,800
Pick those three things and see
what the Lord can do.

1009
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,560
Just take 10 minutes.
I would encourage you guys.

1010
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,600
It's not about quantity, it's
about quality.

1011
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,240
It's about quality time with
Jesus.

1012
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:36,120
Like you can get more from one
verse than you can get from

1013
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:38,560
reading the entire book of the
Bible back and forth.

1014
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,000
If you ask the question, Lord,
what we have me to do, practice

1015
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,560
the submission part of it, like
sit there and think about what

1016
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,480
you learned.
Like meditate on it, which is

1017
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,560
the second piece.
So not only make time, but

1018
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,560
meditate.
Don't just read it like have it

1019
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,400
read you.
Like if you if you spend a

1020
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,240
moment with Jesus a day, you've
missed the point.

1021
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,280
The idea is not that you take a
moment and say OK, that was

1022
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:07,160
great got that done.
Now I go do my other things

1023
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:08,520
right now I got all all these
things.

1024
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:10,400
The world will not run without
you, my friend.

1025
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,840
You got so much going on and so
you got to run everything else

1026
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,560
down.
What you have to do is you take

1027
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,440
a moment with Jesus and then you
meditate it on it all day.

1028
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,640
You put it in your mind is so
you see Joshua is is in there.

1029
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,200
You can go so many places on
this, but Joshua 18 read earlier

1030
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,520
says keep this book of law
always on your what on your

1031
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:32,360
lips.
Meditate on it day and night

1032
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:37,760
means contemplates.
Think about it, chew it like put

1033
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,400
it on your heart all the time so
that you may be careful to help

1034
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,560
me out to do everything written
in it.

1035
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:45,960
Did you guys see how scripture
moves?

1036
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,480
Do you guys see that little
piece there?

1037
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,400
He said, put on your lips like
we put it back up.

1038
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,400
We can go back just so you can
see it, but put on your lips.

1039
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,320
It's your first thing you do.
So you read it and you say it

1040
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,080
out loud and you're like, wow,
OK, this is what here it is.

1041
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,480
And then you don't you moves
into your mind, you meditate.

1042
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,160
That's that's where you do
meditation in your mind.

1043
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,840
So when it Bible says take every
thought captive, make a be to

1044
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:11,240
Christ and all day long you're
like, OK, how am I going to put

1045
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:12,520
that thought captive?
What's that mean?

1046
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,640
Like what's that look like?
And you started this image of a

1047
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:16,640
soldier with a sword and it's
like sticking right there, the

1048
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,160
neck of a thought.
I was like, Oh, this is good.

1049
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,040
And throughout the day you're
learning from the Holy Spirit

1050
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:23,480
what he's showing you about the
scripture.

1051
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:24,600
You're learning and you meditate
on it.

1052
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,960
What happens is as you meditate,
because you're thinking about

1053
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,360
all day, because you renew your
mind, it says that so that be

1054
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:32,560
careful to do everything written
in it.

1055
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,240
So boosting your lips to your
mind to your becoming like

1056
00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:38,640
Jesus, Amen.
And if you skip those steps,

1057
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:40,040
you're not getting a lot lot
from the Bible.

1058
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,040
A lot of people read the Bible.
It's like I'm not getting

1059
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,760
anything from the Bible.
It's like maybe you're skipping

1060
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,880
the application, Amen.
Like maybe you, you skip the

1061
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,000
whole make time, meditate part
of the scripture.

1062
00:48:52,240 --> 00:48:53,960
And the last thing I'll
encourage you to do is to

1063
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,640
memorize.
So make time, meditate.

1064
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,960
And the last time I treated to
memorize, I'll I'll tell you

1065
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,960
this.
Every struggle has a scripture,

1066
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,640
Amen?
Every struggle has a scripture.

1067
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:08,720
You, you have to find the
Scripture that speaks to your

1068
00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:12,040
deepest wound, that speaks your
pain point, that speaks your

1069
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,080
habitual sin, that speaks to
things broke in your life, that

1070
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,880
speaks to your triggers.
You have to find a scripture.

1071
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,160
And by the way, there's a lot of
them.

1072
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,200
If you need some help, just ask
me or look the person next to

1073
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:23,520
you and say I'm jacked up, so
are you.

1074
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:24,800
What's the Scripture you've been
using?

1075
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,240
Come on somebody, there's always
a scripture.

1076
00:49:27,240 --> 00:49:28,760
You have to memorize that
scripture.

1077
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,960
And you can see this in Psalm
119, obviously super famous

1078
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:33,680
verse.
I will seek you with all my

1079
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,160
heart.
Do not let me straight from your

1080
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,000
commands.
I have hidden your word in my

1081
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,960
heart that may not sin against
you like you're placing it right

1082
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:42,400
here.
Because here's the thing, the

1083
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,920
word to memorize when there when
it's when there's peacetime

1084
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:50,040
actually becomes your weapon
when there's pressure and

1085
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:52,680
there's war.
Like imagine this, no one shows

1086
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,800
up to the battlefield is like,
oh, I forgot to sharpen my

1087
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,120
sword.
Hold on, hold on.

1088
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,440
Just sharpen the sword.
You, you're ready.

1089
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,160
Amen.
And so when you show up, you

1090
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,240
already have a scripture.
So when you're in a battle at

1091
00:50:05,240 --> 00:50:08,000
11:00 at night or there's
something happened to your

1092
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,160
family, like whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.

1093
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,840
I've already got this down.
Like there's a verse like I've

1094
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,280
memorized like Job and maybe
it's pornography and you know

1095
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,360
you, I'd better cover my eyes or
not look lustly upon a woman.

1096
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:21,880
Great verse.
Amen.

1097
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:23,840
I just gave a verse for all the
guys in the house.

1098
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,440
Come on, ain't a lot of ladies.
It's kind of crazy.

1099
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:31,480
But you should memorize the
scriptures that attack the very

1100
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,680
thing that Satan and the world
is trying to pull from you.

1101
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:38,960
And ultimately the true essence
of applying the Bible or reading

1102
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:43,160
the Bible is that you actually
add Jesus to your life and

1103
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,080
subtract yourself.
That's the true essence of

1104
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,680
reading the Bible.
It's not like, oh man, I didn't

1105
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,440
major up.
I didn't finish my Bible reading

1106
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,280
plan today.
I didn't check the box on you

1107
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:57,360
version.
You know I mean I'm not the

1108
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,680
pastor that's going to post like
here's the perfect breeding plan

1109
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,160
I did everything was perfect.
It's never perfect Amen.

1110
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:08,800
But pursuit and the ideas we add
Jesus to attract ourselves.

1111
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,080
You see this in John 3/30.
He must become greater and I

1112
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,560
must become less every time you
go to Scripture, Lord, more of

1113
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,800
you, less of me, more of you,
less of me.

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Galatians 220.
Paul said this way.

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I've been crucified of Christ as
the only I that live, but Christ

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lives in me, Amen.
It's no longer my will.

1117
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:27,960
It's not in my direction.
The life I now live.

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I live through Christ and Christ
alone.

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I'm a dead man walking.
Amen.

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There's a part of me that died
with Christ and Jesus

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00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:35,800
resurrected.
I have nothing else to do with

1122
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,160
my life but to serve and live
for Jesus.

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00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,400
How do you want me to live?
It's no longer my will, I'm

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00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,880
living for you.
Deal Media said this.

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00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:46,840
He said God sends no one away
empty except those who are full

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00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,960
of themselves.
So you have to ask the question

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00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:51,360
if you're reading the Bible.
I'm like, well I'm not getting

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00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,400
much out of it.
I might have to ask the question

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00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:54,600
is it because you're full of
yourself.

1130
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:58,160
There's no room for God because
often times that's what happens

1131
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,840
because we're reading it to get
some kind of intellect that says

1132
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:05,400
in the second chronicle, second
Chronicle 69 for the eyes of

1133
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:10,400
Lord range or roam throughout
the earth to strengthen those

1134
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,520
two hearts are fully committed
to him.

1135
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,560
Go back to KJVI.
Love it like the eyes of Lord

1136
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,920
run to and to and fro.
It's pretty amazing.

1137
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,200
He's looking for those people
that their eyes are on the Lord

1138
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,840
and they're submissive.
Lord, I'm going to follow you.

1139
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:27,320
I want to have your plan.
I want, I want to go your

1140
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:30,200
direction, whatever you want.
Here's a blank contract you

1141
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,200
filled in.
I'm all in.

1142
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,640
I want that for my life.
Lord, show me what it is.

1143
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,040
And God says I'm going to
strengthen those people.

1144
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,320
I'm I'm going to elevate those
people.

1145
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:44,280
Those are the humble people that
that God's going to lift up is

1146
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,600
going to use.
They're open handed and their

1147
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,680
glory bears for Christ.
And ultimately I'll leave you

1148
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:52,080
this.
There's a man in the Bible.

1149
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:56,560
His name is Jacob and Jacob like
has a crazy story, but he stole

1150
00:52:56,560 --> 00:53:00,360
his brother's birthright or is
the the the blessing from his

1151
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,360
dad when his dad was passing
away and he stole it and he ran.

1152
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,960
He went to his uncle's place.
He's coming back.

1153
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,800
I'm summarizing a ton of here.
He's come back home and he knows

1154
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:09,880
he's got to face his brother
Esau.

1155
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:14,960
His brother Esau is a warrior.
He's hardened, like he's

1156
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:16,960
thinking he's going to go home
and he's going to battle, he's

1157
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,840
going to die because no way he's
going to defend and beat his

1158
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:20,240
brother.
You saw.

1159
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,960
And so he ends up by himself on
purpose, sends his wife, his

1160
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:25,920
kids, all his belongings, all
his stuff to other places.

1161
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:27,720
And he ends up, it's crazy
enough.

1162
00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:29,440
He ends up wrestling God
himself.

1163
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,640
Pretty awesome story, Amen.
And he wrestles God and God's

1164
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,440
like basically we just give up
already, you know, And he says

1165
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,280
I'm not letting go you.
He says it's just 3226.

1166
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,880
I'm not letting go unless you
what?

1167
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,040
Unless you bless me, I'm not
letting go until you bless me.

1168
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,840
And so Lords like okay.
And he boom, he hits him in the

1169
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,920
right hip and he, he just
wretches.

1170
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:52,480
He just torques him down right,
like God just would have killed

1171
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,640
him, but just takes his hip out
and he and he, he has to walk

1172
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,960
the limp from the on right, But
he's just holding on to him.

1173
00:53:57,960 --> 00:53:59,200
He gave him a new name.
He did bless him.

1174
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,840
He gave him name Israel and he
changed his name and he he

1175
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:04,520
blessed his lineage and he
blessed the generation.

1176
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,760
And matter of fact, the
immediate blessing was is that

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he went back home and he
measured you saw and his he was

1178
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,360
so nervous.
He sent gifts out in front of

1179
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:12,440
him.
Give him more, give him more,

1180
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,440
give him more three different
times because that's what him

1181
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,400
know like don't, don't hurt me.
And he saw he's like just goes

1182
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,720
past everything and he runs up
to his brother and gives him a

1183
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,560
hug and they're reunited because
of God's blessing.

1184
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:27,440
This is what Jacob was wrestling
and I just want to encourage you

1185
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,000
when you get with Scripture and
by the way, Jacob actually saw

1186
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,000
it says he saw God's face and
yet he lived.

1187
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:38,600
That's that's big to see God's
face to know him fully if he

1188
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,840
sees that face as dead because
the holy is the righteous of

1189
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,080
God, but he saw God's face.
I would encourage you when you

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00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:46,360
get into Scripture, you do not
let go of what you're reading

1191
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:48,040
until you get something from
God.

1192
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,040
You do not let go of what God
has put in your lap.

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00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,000
It is too precious for you to
dismiss or to go, well, that was

1194
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,360
too complicated.
I know what it means.

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00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,000
Or it's like, well, that was
good education.

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00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,160
You do not leave there until
you've got a meal from Jesus,

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Amen.
You, you sit there and you look

1198
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:03,480
at that Scripture and you
meditate on it and say, Lord,

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what do you have me to do?
Even I'm reading Joel, the book

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00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,320
of Joel, I could find something
from Joel, Amen.

1201
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,840
Like you get something from the
Bible and you hold on to it and

1202
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,000
say, Lord, bless me, show me,
what should my life be like?

1203
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:15,480
What do you want to do with my
life?

1204
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,720
How should I live what looks
like, you know, be to you, I'm

1205
00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:19,240
going to be very more glory for
you.

1206
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:21,840
It's amazing.
God always shows up.

1207
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,600
He always shows up.
He has not failed yet to show up

1208
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,800
when you make time for him and
you seek him diligently.

1209
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,000
Amen.
And this is what we do as

1210
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,080
Christians.
And it makes no sense.

1211
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,600
Like how do you do that?
Because my power doesn't come

1212
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,920
from earth.
My power comes from Christ.

1213
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:39,960
My peace doesn't come from
earth.

1214
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:44,000
My peace comes from Christ.
My identity doesn't come from

1215
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,000
earth, it comes from Christ.
My motivation doesn't come from

1216
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,880
myself, it comes from Christ.
My emotions aren't built on

1217
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,160
myself, they're built on Christ.
My actions are built on self,

1218
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,760
they're built on Christ.
That's what happens.

1219
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,080
You read the Bible and apply it,
Amen.

1220
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,080
And I feel as a church, as a
people of God, we're really,

1221
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,920
really good at doing this
because most people are waiting

1222
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:07,360
for somebody else to go.
I don't want that.

1223
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:10,400
You've got to feed yourself,
Amen.

1224
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:16,360
If you just make this one tweak
in your life with Christ, be

1225
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,160
amazing how far God takes you.
So people say, Sean, I'll be

1226
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:20,200
like you.
I want to be like these

1227
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:21,720
Christian leaders.
What should I do?

1228
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:26,120
I just gave you the recipe.
Get in front of God humbly and

1229
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,360
let him shape your soul.
So finally God would come before

1230
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,880
you got to ask a blessing on our
church.

1231
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,440
God that we be the church that
applies not just be hearers, but

1232
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,600
doers of the word and God.
We become just like you.

1233
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:39,520
I'm praying for those people in
the house that say, you know

1234
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:40,960
what?
I need to get in the Scripture.

1235
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,280
I need to walk with Jesus
deeper.

1236
00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:46,120
I need to hold on to God until
he blesses me.

1237
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,240
I need to get in my Bible every
single day.

1238
00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:50,000
If that's you that Jesus
followed, we just raised you in

1239
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,880
highs, that's me, Lord, I need
to follow you.

1240
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,080
Come surrendering now to your
way and your will.

1241
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:00,040
God use me.
God is no longer about Sean

1242
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:01,560
Petrie.
It's no longer my will, it's

1243
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,440
your will.
So God, help me to know you.

1244
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:05,480
God, I want to sit down with a
meal.

1245
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,440
I'm so hungry.
I'm tired of eating table scraps

1246
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,760
in the world.
My life built on sand.

1247
00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:16,320
Lord I need to build a rock so
God don't walk with you.

1248
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:19,200
I'll pray for one person
individually.

1249
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:25,480
The 1 today that's come that God
has found that those you to

1250
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:30,640
recognize that Jesus loves you
deeply and will shape every part

1251
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:33,200
of you because the day they
walked in and you realize

1252
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,400
there's dead things in your life
and even the resurrection power

1253
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,720
of Christ.
And so today if you need Jesus,

1254
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,880
the Bible says even called Jesus
be saved, forgiven and made new

1255
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,480
that he came in this world
because he loved us and died for

1256
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:47,600
us so that we could follow him.
We not just because we're trying

1257
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:50,920
because he's made us different.
He has resurrection power to

1258
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:55,400
take the old self and kill it
and resurrect the version of you

1259
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,400
that he has created and called
you to be.

1260
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,000
And so today if you need Jesus
without any be looking around

1261
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,200
just our relationship with
Christ.

1262
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:09,440
You want to hear from God, maybe
for the very first time be

1263
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,200
changed.
It's why it's all happens.

1264
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,320
It's for you.
If that's you, just raise your

1265
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:16,760
hand high and say, you know
what?

1266
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,400
I need Jesus today.
I need life in Christ today.

1267
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:26,520
Make God's love today.
If that's you, believe through

1268
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:27,720
prayer.
The prayer does not save you.

1269
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:33,840
It's your heart, it's your
belief, it's confession.

1270
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,240
Say Father God thanks so much
for sending Jesus.

1271
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,640
You love me enough that I was my
worst, I was strained in sin,

1272
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,440
yet you love me God for unknown
reasons.

1273
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:43,840
God, you have such a deep love
for me.

1274
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:46,320
God, thank you so much.
God, I want you to shake my

1275
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:47,920
identity, I want you to shake my
soul.

1276
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:49,840
I want you to change my
emotions, I change my actions.

1277
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,800
God, I want to walk with you.
So thank you God for coming to

1278
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:55,120
my life.
God is saving me and finding me

1279
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,040
even my worst.
God you're at your best so thank

1280
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,080
you Jesus.
I pray this in Jesus name, the

1281
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,760
church said, Amen, give some
glory to God.

1282
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:05,240
Amen.
You're a little rejoicing today.