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Tim Timberlake - Fading Fire, Faithful Father (Part 1)

March 20, 2025 | 27:30

Tim Timberlake - Fading Fire, Faithful Father (Part 1)
Join Pastor Tim Timberlake as he delivers a passionate message about the importance of loving God with all our heart, soul and mind.
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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Fading Fire, Faithful Father (Part 1) | March 20, 2025
  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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  • Hey, family.
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  • I bring you greetings from celebration
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  • Church right here in jacksonville, florida.
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  • And today we're going to begin to unpack a brand
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  • New series entitled the greatest commandment.
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  • My desire is that in this series,
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  • We will grow deeper in our love for jesus christ.
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  • We would grow up in the things of god.
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  • We will continue to push back the veil of darkness
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  • As we grow a new boldness,
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  • A new spiritual authority in the kingdom of god.
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  • I don█t want to waste any time.
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  • I want us to go into the message,
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  • As it has already begun.
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  • Part one fading fire,
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  • Faithful father,
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  • I just need you to hear me when i tell you this scripture
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  • Never says that jesus is coming back for a pretty church.
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  • Scripture never says that jesus is coming
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  • Back for a popular church.
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  • Scripture says he's coming back for a spotless church.
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  • A church that's in purpose, on purpose, operating in power.
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  • And i'll be honest with you, i'm tired of experiencing powerless
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  • Church
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  • Where people mope in and they move out
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  • And we leave the same way that we came.
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  • And we make worship about us.
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  • That's not what this is about.
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  • This is about jesus.
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  • And he's not asking us
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  • For a fraction of us.
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  • He's asking us for all of us.
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  • So this scripture that matthew pins for us gives us the desire
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  • Of the heart of god.
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  • Teacher,
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  • Which is the greatest commandment,
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  • Which is the great commandment of the law.
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  • And he said to him, you shall love the lord
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  • Your god with all your heart,
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  • And with all your soul, and with all your mind.
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  • This is the great and first
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  • Commandment.
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  • So if he's telling us
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  • That he wants all of our heart.
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  • What have we fraction
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  • Our heart for?
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  • I don't know what your
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  • Personal
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  • Thieves are that has stolen your heart,
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  • But i would just list out a couple we we've
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  • Set up for hustle culture.
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  • That is when success and
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  • Busyness replace surrender.
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  • And we make things more of a priority than we do.
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  • The presence of god.
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  • We've set off for entertainment over intimacy,
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  • And so we consume content,
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  • But we're barely making space for god.
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  • We've settled for social media and comparison, seeking
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  • Likes and validation instead of listening for god's voice.
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  • And we settle for the idol of self
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  • When we prioritize personal desire over god's will,
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  • We've settled for comfort
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  • And convenience over commitment.
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  • Some of us have chose easy
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  • Faith instead of true discipleship.
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  • For some of us, we've settled
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  • For politics and division,
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  • Letting our political allegiances shape
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  • Our faith more than the gospel of jesus christ.
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  • We've settled for materialism,
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  • And materialism is when stuff owns us instead of god.
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  • So we work our jobs for a car.
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  • We work our jobs for a house.
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  • We work our jobs for what culture
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  • And society tells us is success.
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  • But when it comes to us being faithful
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  • In the things that god desires for us
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  • To our fits gets real uncomfortable.
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  • And so we allow our children's sports schedules
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  • To dictate our schedule more than we do the house of god.
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  • Y'all not talking to me this morning, but i don't care
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  • Because we think that they are our future investment
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  • And if they make it to the league, they'll take care of me.
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  • And so we make them little idols.
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  • Instead of prioritizing a relationship with jesus christ
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  • And instilling in them their dire need for him as well.
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  • We shuffle them off to this on the weekend
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  • And this the next weekend, and do this
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  • Because they have to be good at something.
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  • When in fact
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  • We miss an opportunity
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  • To see god's purpose in their life.
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  • And we're always trying to live out what we
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  • Failed that through them.
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  • It's required to be here today.
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  • With settle
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  • For church without christ.
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  • Religious activity
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  • Without real relationship.
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  • We make excuses like that
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  • Church too big.
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  • Too many people go to that church.
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  • I don't know about you, but i have
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  • Been in need of
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  • Going to the hospital.
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  • I needed medical attention,
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  • And when they were pushing me through that hospital,
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  • I wasn't looking around and talking about.
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  • There's too many people in this hospital.
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  • Too many people. i.
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  • I don't care what the doctor know.
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  • Is too many people up in here.
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  • No, no.
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  • When i was in pain,
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  • They were pushing me through that hallway.
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  • I didn't care who saw me.
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  • Hear me?
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  • They put their little gown on me.
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  • My hotel lot. i didn't care.
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  • I need to see a doctor.
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  • I need this doctor to tell me what's going on.
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  • I need him to find the solution for the pain
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  • That i am experienced.
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  • And so i don't want to hear the excuse.
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  • The church is too big.
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  • There's too many people.
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  • When you understand your dire need of jesus
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  • And you understand that he is the great physician,
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  • It doesn't matter who sees you,
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  • It doesn't matter where you are.
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  • It doesn't matter how long it takes you to get there.
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  • It doesn't matter who's watching and who's looking.
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  • You know you need him to touch you,
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  • And you know you need him to heal you.
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  • And you know you need him to deliver you.
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  • So who cares who saved you?
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  • But we've set out for church
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  • Without christ because we would rather have religious activity
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  • That make us feel good versus a relationship that convicts us.
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  • Tells us we're wrong.
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  • We're in sin.
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  • Tells us
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  • That we're wrong when we're following our flesh.
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  • But we want to find churches
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  • That make us feel comfortable living the way we want to live.
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  • In any church that makes you feel comfortable
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  • Living in sin is a church without christ.
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  • And we settle
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  • For pleasure over purpose
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  • And we've chase feelings instead of faithfulness.
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  • Jesus says the greatest commandment,
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  • The first commandment, the most important is love god
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  • With all of your heart.
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  • So if you're taking notes,
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  • I want you to write this down.
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  • Point number one is this
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  • Love isn't just a filling.
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  • It's a pursuit.
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  • Everybody notice.
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  • Satan doesn't need you to stop
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  • Believing in god.
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  • He just needs you to stop
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  • Being in love with him.
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  • And some of us have settle
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  • For knowing about god.
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  • Rather than knowing him in
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  • An intimate way.
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  • This love that i speak of.
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  • It's not just an emotion.
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  • It is intention.
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  • It's prioritizing
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  • Jesus over everything else.
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  • And jesus, he teaches us.
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  • I want all of you. i want your whole heart.
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  • I want your whole mind. i want your whole.
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  • So i want to be married to you.
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  • I want to be grafted to you.
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  • And some of us are settling for spiritual polygamy.
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  • Or you want to be married
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  • To jesus on sunday,
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  • But you want to cheat a little on monday.
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  • Nobody
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  • In their right mind would stand at the altar
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  • And hold hands with your future spouse.
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  • And right before you take your vows,
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  • That spouse looks at you and says, listen,
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  • I want to be married to you today,
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  • But i want to cheat tomorrow.
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  • And on tuesday,
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  • I want to cheat with somebody else.
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  • And on wednesday i want to cheat with somebody else.
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  • But i'm going to come back home to you on friday.
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  • Who in their right mind will want to marry
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  • Somebody that tells you that?
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  • And is crazy and far fetched?
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  • That that sounds that is awesome most weeks.
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  • But jesus comes back into a relationship with us
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  • Every time we repent and say, god, i've done it again.
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  • I'm sorry.
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  • I need your forgiveness.
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  • He's right back at the altar with us, saying, i love you
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  • Because i love you, because i love you.
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  • And there's nothing that you've done
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  • That could separate you from the love i have for you.
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  • All i want from you is all of you.
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  • The thing
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  • That stops us from giving him
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  • A whole heart
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  • Is we think we know more about our heart
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  • Than he does.
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  • And family.
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  • No one here.
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  • In and of themselves,
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  • Has a good heart.
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  • I know you think you're good.
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  • But we're not good.
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  • I know you think you can make it without him.
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  • But you can't make it.
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  • Can't.
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  • I know you think because you've been
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  • Going to church for a little while, that you.
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  • You're doing all right for yourself.
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  • You're not doing all right.
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  • Scripture
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  • Tells us that the heart of men and women is deceitful,
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  • And it is evil, and it will lead you
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  • The wrong way.
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  • And so jesus is telling us in order
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  • For you to make it listen, i need your heart.
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  • If you keep on to a portion of it, that portion that you keep,
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  • It's going to corrupt the rest of it.
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  • I know you think there's no blockages.
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  • I know you think that there's no no, no,
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  • No hindrances in your spiritual heart.
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  • But the reality is, is every valve is closed
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  • Until you place it back in my hands.
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  • And so for a moment, i want you to think back to the early days
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  • When you first got saved
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  • On how you prayed, knowing you were no longer going to hell.
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  • How do you thank god knowing that he saved you from death?
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  • Hi. how you how you shouted unto god when you knew that
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  • Hell was no longer your future.
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  • But something along the way.
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  • Made you believe
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  • That you were now perfect
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  • Because you were making progress.
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  • It's not until you sin again that you realize you're
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  • Desperate and dire need of a savior.
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  • How many of you sin this week?
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  • How many of you sinned last week?
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  • How many you sin
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  • Before you walked in the door today?
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  • You say, pastor, why are you asking me this
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  • Question?
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  • Because a lot of us know religion,
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  • But we don't know relationship.
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  • And a lot of us have settle for living for jesus
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  • Instead of living with jesus.
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  • When i live with jesus, i become like jesus.
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  • When i live for jesus, i'll settle for just working
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  • For someone that i don't truly, really believe in.
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  • It's impossible
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  • Not to become who you stay with.
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  • That's why some of you don't like who you are right now,
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  • Because you staying with the wrong person.
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  • And jesus is asking the question, can you live with me?
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  • Can you become like me?
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  • Can you model your life after who you're staying with?
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  • Can you stop settling for dating me and actually marry me?
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  • I don't want a portion of you.
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  • I don't want the majority of you.
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  • I don't want a fraction of you.
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  • I want all of your mind. i want all of your heart.
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  • I want all of your soul.
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  • I want all of you.
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  • I like every great love story.
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  • The thing that kills it.
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  • Is neglect.
  • 00:14:13.235 --> 00:14:16.405
  • So if you don't want your relationship
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  • With jesus to grow, just neglect it.
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  • Think to yourself,
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  • Sundays is good enough for me.
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  • Think to yourself if i just can make it to church
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  • Just twice a month, that's good enough for me.
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  • I'm gonna give him
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  • Three times a month, but that's good enough for me.
  • 00:14:33.689 --> 00:14:36.392
  • And we follow our flesh instead of following the spirit of god.
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  • A fleeting fire,
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  • A failing fire, a dwindling fire.
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  • But a faithful god
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  • Who looks at our fire as it dwindles and says,
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  • I've still called you.
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  • I've still chosen you.
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  • I've still anointed you.
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  • And i have more plan for you
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  • Than you could ever have for yourself.
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  • So try to make it without me.
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  • Let's see how long that lasts.
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  • Point number two is this.
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  • Familiar arity
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  • Is the enemy of intimacy.
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  • When i get familiar with something,
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  • It's very hard
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  • To stay intimate with it.
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  • One of the things that god
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  • Expressed to me about my personal relationship.
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  • And i pray it impacts your personal relationship.
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  • It's this
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  • Whenever god
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  • Becomes common in my life,
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  • Worship becomes casual.
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  • And i come into environments like this.
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  • And i make service
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  • More about me than i do about him.
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  • How does this song make me feel?
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  • I don't feel like lifting my hands.
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  • They didn't sing my song today.
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  • Pastor didn't read my favorite verse today.
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  • And today was tough.
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  • He was stepping on a lot of toes, including mine.
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  • And i don't like that.
  • 00:16:33.509 --> 00:16:35.778
  • And we make these moments about us.
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  • Instead of fixing our eyes on him and asking him,
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  • What does he want from us?
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  • I don't know about you, but i
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  • Can't get into the presence of the person
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  • That extends the life of my mind,
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  • Knowing that i was bound for hell,
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  • Knowing that i had a life and a life sentence
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  • In the pit of hell and death was my future.
  • 00:16:56.465 --> 00:17:00.035
  • And he stepped in and he exchanged his life for my.
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  • I can't get into his presence.
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  • I can't come into proximity of him and keep my mouth close
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  • And keep my hands by my side.
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  • I have to lift up
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  • My hands and open my mouth and tell him how grateful i am.
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  • And we have become so accustomed
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  • To coming into the presence of an almighty savior
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  • With entitlement and pride, thinking that he had to do
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  • Something for us.
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  • He didn't have to.
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  • But he did
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  • Because he knew more about you than you know
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  • About yourself. and.
  • 00:17:36.872 --> 00:17:40.476
  • And here we are
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  • Making this relationship about our comfort,
  • 00:17:43.145 --> 00:17:46.415
  • Making it familiar,
  • 00:17:46.882 --> 00:17:49.384
  • And we lose the power
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  • Of intimacy with the father.
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  • You will never worship deeply
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  • A god.
  • 00:18:00.629 --> 00:18:01.296
  • You only acknowledge casually.
  • 00:18:01.296 --> 00:18:06.568
  • You will never worship intimately
  • 00:18:07.269 --> 00:18:11.006
  • The god you rarely have conversation
  • 00:18:11.006 --> 00:18:12.708
  • With.
  • 00:18:12.708 --> 00:18:16.111
  • I need you to hear me when i tell you
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  • This worship is a response
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  • To god's revealing in your life.
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  • So if you don't spend time with him,
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  • You don't know what he's revealing.
  • 00:18:30.292 --> 00:18:32.628
  • And if you
  • 00:18:32.628 --> 00:18:33.762
  • Don't know what he's revealing, there is no response.
  • 00:18:33.762 --> 00:18:36.832
  • But if you know that god has revealed himself
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  • To you in a way that has changed your life forevermore,
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  • There should be a worthy response to that revelation
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  • That pushes you beyond your comfort
  • 00:18:45.841 --> 00:18:47.876
  • Into a place of godly conviction,
  • 00:18:47.876 --> 00:18:49.745
  • Where you know
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  • If it had not been for the lord on my side,
  • 00:18:50.712 --> 00:18:53.282
  • I would have been bound for hell.
  • 00:18:53.282 --> 00:18:55.050
  • But he sent his son, and his son cut me off,
  • 00:18:55.050 --> 00:18:57.920
  • And he exchanged places with me, and he gave me grace.
  • 00:18:57.920 --> 00:19:01.123
  • And he took my sin, and he gave me mercy,
  • 00:19:01.123 --> 00:19:03.625
  • And he took my sorrow, and he gave me love,
  • 00:19:03.625 --> 00:19:06.094
  • And he took everything out of me that was not like him.
  • 00:19:06.094 --> 00:19:09.698
  • And he took it to the grave
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  • So that i never would have to go there.
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  • Let me ask you, this
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  • Family, what kind of god do we serve
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  • That looks at us
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  • And says they need a savior.
  • 00:19:24.012 --> 00:19:26.181
  • They can't save themselves.
  • 00:19:26.181 --> 00:19:27.849
  • They can't deliver themselves, they can't heal themselves.
  • 00:19:27.849 --> 00:19:30.619
  • But i know someone that can.
  • 00:19:30.619 --> 00:19:42.798
  • And his name is jesus.
  • 00:19:43.265 --> 00:19:51.206
  • But if we never.
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  • Desire to know who he is,
  • 00:19:56.345 --> 00:19:59.615
  • We settle for a lukewarm heart.
  • 00:19:59.615 --> 00:20:04.987
  • And a lukewarm love
  • 00:20:05.454 --> 00:20:09.291
  • Is the fruit of distracted focus.
  • 00:20:09.992 --> 00:20:15.197
  • Where everything else
  • 00:20:15.697 --> 00:20:17.065
  • Matters more than he does.
  • 00:20:17.065 --> 00:20:20.469
  • And it's not that he's moved.
  • 00:20:20.469 --> 00:20:21.837
  • It's not that he's left us.
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  • That we have.
  • 00:20:22.904 --> 00:20:26.441
  • And he waits for us to come back.
  • 00:20:26.441 --> 00:20:30.112
  • He waits for us to return.
  • 00:20:30.679 --> 00:20:33.915
  • He waits for us to go back to the very place
  • 00:20:33.915 --> 00:20:37.919
  • That we fell.
  • 00:20:38.287 --> 00:20:41.690
  • And so my prayer for us
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  • This year, 2025, is things don't become routine.
  • 00:20:43.258 --> 00:20:48.730
  • And the reason i say that is because routine
  • 00:20:49.631 --> 00:20:52.134
  • Without reverence always leads to spiritual numbness.
  • 00:20:52.134 --> 00:20:56.405
  • Some of you got the routine down.
  • 00:20:57.172 --> 00:21:00.642
  • Some of you got the ritual down.
  • 00:21:01.276 --> 00:21:04.546
  • Some of you got the rhythm down, but
  • 00:21:04.546 --> 00:21:06.148
  • You don't got the relationship.
  • 00:21:06.148 --> 00:21:10.552
  • And so you settle
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  • For religious habits.
  • 00:21:12.454 --> 00:21:16.224
  • Instead of true transformation.
  • 00:21:16.858 --> 00:21:22.597
  • You settle
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  • For yesterday's revelation
  • 00:21:24.266 --> 00:21:27.669
  • Instead of seeking out his word for today's
  • 00:21:27.669 --> 00:21:30.005
  • Fresh manna.
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  • My prayer is
  • 00:21:34.476 --> 00:21:35.677
  • That we would never get familiar with the presence of god,
  • 00:21:35.677 --> 00:21:39.481
  • That we would always been, or that we would always be left
  • 00:21:40.615 --> 00:21:44.219
  • Speechless because we've had a true encounter with him in.
  • 00:21:44.219 --> 00:21:50.859
  • We made church about us.
  • 00:21:51.393 --> 00:21:56.064
  • We made church about our beliefs
  • 00:21:56.698 --> 00:21:57.999
  • Instead of his beliefs.
  • 00:21:57.999 --> 00:22:01.103
  • Made church.
  • 00:22:01.103 --> 00:22:02.404
  • We've dumbed it down to wardrobe.
  • 00:22:02.404 --> 00:22:06.975
  • You got to dress like this.
  • 00:22:07.576 --> 00:22:08.677
  • You got to be like this.
  • 00:22:08.677 --> 00:22:09.644
  • You got to wear it is.
  • 00:22:09.644 --> 00:22:11.713
  • What are we talking about?
  • 00:22:11.713 --> 00:22:16.151
  • We've dumbed down church to our preferences.
  • 00:22:17.085 --> 00:22:20.655
  • If you don't do this, you ain't had church.
  • 00:22:20.655 --> 00:22:22.424
  • If you don't say this, you ain't had church.
  • 00:22:22.424 --> 00:22:24.426
  • If you don't act like this, you ain't have church.
  • 00:22:24.426 --> 00:22:25.894
  • What are we talking about?
  • 00:22:25.894 --> 00:22:35.904
  • And we get in church and we start talking church.
  • 00:22:36.905 --> 00:22:39.775
  • And the world around us is dying.
  • 00:22:39.775 --> 00:22:47.449
  • May we never get familiar with religion.
  • 00:22:48.283 --> 00:22:52.087
  • But may we always keep fresh eyes.
  • 00:22:52.821 --> 00:22:55.791
  • To see the heart of the father in the hands of his son
  • 00:22:55.791 --> 00:22:59.361
  • That have been pierced for us, so that we would know where true
  • 00:22:59.361 --> 00:23:04.433
  • Grace and mercy and love
  • 00:23:04.433 --> 00:23:07.536
  • Looks like.
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  • Let me give you one more.
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  • The fire of your first
  • 00:23:17.779 --> 00:23:19.314
  • Love requires fuel.
  • 00:23:19.314 --> 00:23:25.353
  • See passion doesn't disappear.
  • 00:23:25.987 --> 00:23:30.325
  • Passion is either feared
  • 00:23:30.826 --> 00:23:32.260
  • Or forgotten.
  • 00:23:32.260 --> 00:23:35.530
  • And in january,
  • 00:23:35.530 --> 00:23:37.699
  • You fed your faith and you starved your doubt.
  • 00:23:37.699 --> 00:23:41.436
  • January you fed your spirit and starved your flesh.
  • 00:23:41.436 --> 00:23:45.340
  • In january,
  • 00:23:45.674 --> 00:23:46.875
  • You allowed the spirit of god to grow
  • 00:23:46.875 --> 00:23:48.877
  • Because you were feeding it and feeding it and feeding and it.
  • 00:23:48.877 --> 00:23:51.379
  • Something happens after we come off the fast,
  • 00:23:51.379 --> 00:23:53.381
  • We get complacent
  • 00:23:53.381 --> 00:23:54.583
  • And we just go back to doing things the way that we did.
  • 00:23:54.583 --> 00:23:57.352
  • But i'm telling you, in order for you to step into greater,
  • 00:23:57.352 --> 00:24:00.655
  • You have to keep that same fire that you had
  • 00:24:00.655 --> 00:24:03.692
  • When you were fasting and praying,
  • 00:24:03.692 --> 00:24:06.061
  • So that the spirit of god
  • 00:24:06.061 --> 00:24:07.729
  • Can continue to grow on the inside of you.
  • 00:24:07.729 --> 00:24:09.998
  • Because this intimacy, this passion, it does not disappear.
  • 00:24:09.998 --> 00:24:13.702
  • It's either fed or it's forgotten.
  • 00:24:13.702 --> 00:24:19.975
  • And the secret to you keeping
  • 00:24:20.609 --> 00:24:23.778
  • Revelation from god strong intimacy
  • 00:24:23.778 --> 00:24:26.815
  • With god is not more information in its daily
  • 00:24:26.815 --> 00:24:30.185
  • Consistency.
  • 00:24:30.185 --> 00:24:33.889
  • Information does not make you more intimate.
  • 00:24:34.789 --> 00:24:38.159
  • Revelation does.
  • 00:24:38.560 --> 00:24:41.363
  • When you hear the heart of the father,
  • 00:24:41.363 --> 00:24:42.731
  • You hear the heart of jesus.
  • 00:24:42.731 --> 00:24:44.466
  • You hear
  • 00:24:44.466 --> 00:24:45.534
  • What it is that god desires for you to step into
  • 00:24:45.534 --> 00:24:48.036
  • What he desires for you to walk into.
  • 00:24:48.036 --> 00:24:49.971
  • It takes the blinders off of your eyes
  • 00:24:49.971 --> 00:24:52.774
  • For you to see him
  • 00:24:52.774 --> 00:24:56.144
  • Clearly.
  • 00:24:56.411 --> 00:25:00.815
  • That's my prayer for us.
  • 00:25:01.316 --> 00:25:04.886
  • This fire would never fade
  • 00:25:04.886 --> 00:25:08.690
  • Because we understand how faithful of a father
  • 00:25:08.690 --> 00:25:11.259
  • We serve.
  • 00:25:11.259 --> 00:25:14.429
  • Well, we're out of time for today's broadcast.
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  • But don't worry.
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  • Next week
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  • We'll be right back here for part two of fading fire,
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  • Faithful father.
  • 00:25:22.604 --> 00:25:23.772
  • And my prayer is that you would invite somebody
  • 00:25:23.772 --> 00:25:25.707
  • To watch this broadcast with you,
  • 00:25:25.707 --> 00:25:27.709
  • As i believe
  • 00:25:27.709 --> 00:25:28.543
  • It will not only change your life,
  • 00:25:28.543 --> 00:25:29.844
  • But it would change their life as well.
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  • This message is blessed. you.
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  • My prayer is that you would prayerfully
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  • Consider partnering with us.
  • 00:25:35.850 --> 00:25:37.586
  • It's because of our partners that we're able to continue
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  • To spread the gospel of jesus
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  • Christ all over the world through this incredible station.
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  • It takes partners like you,
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  • Locking arm in arm with us to ensure that the gospel of
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  • Jesus christ reaches the places he desires for us to reach.
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  • Information at the bottom of the screen.
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  • You'll also see there
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  • Some information
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  • As to how we can set ourselves in agreement and pray with you.
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  • If you have a prayer request, email us, write us, call us.
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  • So that we can partner with you in faith and believe god
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  • With you for the things that he desires for your life.
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  • Before we close this broadcast, i want to set myself
  • 00:26:13.822 --> 00:26:16.591
  • In agreement with you
  • 00:26:16.591 --> 00:26:18.126
  • And what you may be believing god for right now.
  • 00:26:18.126 --> 00:26:20.962
  • And i'm going to stretch
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  • My hands towards the screen as a point of contact.
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  • The heavenly father,
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  • I just thank you for my brothers and my sisters
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  • Watching this broadcast all over the world right now.
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  • I ask god that you would not only hear the request, but god.
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  • You would respond.
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  • Allow them to feel your hand.
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  • Allow them to experience your presence.
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  • Allow them to hear your voice.
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  • In the name of jesus we pray.
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  • Amen. family.
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  • If you're ever in the jacksonville area,
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  • Come visit us right here at celebration church.
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  • We'd love to host you any sunday, 9 a.m.
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  • And 11 a.m..
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  • If you're not within driving distance
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  • Of jacksonville, continue to tune in right here.
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  • Same time, same place until next week.
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  • I want you to know god loves you.
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  • I love you too. be blessed.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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