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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Fading Fire, Faithful Father (Part 2) | March 24, 2025
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- Hey, family.
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- We're back for part two.
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- A fading fire faithful father.
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- And my prayer is that as we continue
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- To go through the word of god and search out our first love,
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- Love that jesus can give us, the love that we can only find
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- In a loving father.
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- That our fervency for him, a hungry thirst
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- For righteousness, continues to grow deeper and stronger
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- As we go into the word of god today.
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- I encourage you, call somebody, grab your word, grab a pen,
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- Grab your notepad, let them know we're on life right now.
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- As we go into part two,
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- Of fading fire, faithful father.
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- Pick up today.
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- We're going to pick up at verse number four.
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- If you missed the first three
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- Points, i encourage you to go back.
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- Listen to last sunday's message.
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- We got a lot of
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- Ground to cover, a little time to do so.
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- And so point number four today.
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- Point number one for some is this.
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- You have to make the shift
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- From obligation to obsession.
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- What do i mean by that.
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- You have to make the mental shift to feel
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- Obligated to come to church
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- And be obsessed with the presence of god,
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- Because you will never be
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- Successful in anything that you're not obsessed with.
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- I'll say it again you will never be successful
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- In anything that you are not obsessed with,
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- And so you have to be obsessed with your relationship
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- With jesus christ.
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- You have to be obsessed with the person of jesus christ.
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- Here's why.
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- If you're not obsessed with jesus,
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- He becomes an obligation, and anything in your life
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- That is an obligation eventually loses his luster in steam.
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- And that's why some of us find ourselves
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- Hot one day and cold the other, because we feel obligated
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- With our relationship with jesus instead of obsessed with it.
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- And in order for us to
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- Understand this passion, in order for us to understand
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- This fire that we steward in, it cannot fade.
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- We have to understand that this is not an obligation
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- Given to us by god.
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- This is an obsession that we give an opportunity to steward.
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- And when we steward it the right way,
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- We get a chance to experience
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- What we cannot put words to.
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- What you're devoted to
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- Determines your direction.
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- And some of us have been devoted
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- To the wrong things.
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- Some of us have been devoted to the wrong people.
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- Some of us have been devoted to the wrong situations
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- And circumstance.
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- And so it's led us in a direction
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- That is away from the presence and the intimacy of god.
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- The reason this is important to know
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- Is because love always leads you somewhere.
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- Love always leads you somewhere.
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- If i said i love my wife
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- For five years and she said, baby, where we going?
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- I said, girl, i don't know.
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- Just follow me.
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- Five more years passed and say, baby, where are we going?
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- I said i don't know.
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- Just keep following me and i don't take her to the altar.
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- Then there will come a point
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- In time where she no longer believes what she's hearing,
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- Because there's been no commitment to it.
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- You're not talking to me.
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- But it's okay.
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- Hear me?
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- Singles.
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- If they're not committed to loving you
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- And to the place where they take you to
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- The altar, that is not love.
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- If they are
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- More committed to your vacations
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- Than they are the altar.
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- That is not love.
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- If they're more committed
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- To getting from you what they want from you
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- Without giving anything in return.
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- That is not love.
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- Because love always leads you to the altar.
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- Y'all not hearing me.
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- Love always leads you to the altar.
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- So if love is leading you in circles,
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- There is not love that is abuse.
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- But we don't want to hear that because we like posting up
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- With our boo on instagram.
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- And we like making little tiktok videos of us
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- Dancing and doing the shuffle and all that.
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- But but where's the ring?
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- Where's the commitment with where is he leading you?
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- Where she leading you?
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- If it ain't leading you to the altar, it is not love.
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- But we like.
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- Because we like to look like we're going somewhere
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- Without the commitment of actually going.
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- Love always leads you to the altar.
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- That's why when you say you love jesus and jesus responds,
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- I love you back.
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- He always tells you,
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- Meet me at the altar
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- Because there are some things about your life
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- I need to change.
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- There's some things about your life
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- You need to be deeper committed to.
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- There's some things
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- About your life that can only be altered at the altar.
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- And if you say you love me and i love you.
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- Then meet me at the altar.
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- But you can't say you love jesus.
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- And you can't say you want jesus back for your life
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- And not come to the altar for him to change you
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- And crucify your flesh and change some things
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- About your season and your circumstance.
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- And it's okay if you don't like it. i don't care.
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- And we've
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- Become so obsessed with the world.
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- Things that we think our relationship
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- And into christ is weird.
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- And we broadcast
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- And boast witchcraft louder than we do.
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- The gospel of jesus christ. the.
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- We don't mind telling people what our horoscopes are,
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- But we can't tell them a scripture.
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- Hear me family.
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- I don't care if you don't like it.
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- If you follow your horoscopes, that's demonic.
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- Show me.
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- Show me in scripture where it talks
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- About you being a cancer
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- And an aquarius and a sagittarius
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- And all of these different things.
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- People ask me all the time, pastor, what are you.
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- I said, i'm covered by the blood of jesus christ.
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- Pastor, what are you?
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- I'm blessed and highly favor.
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- Pastor. you.
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- I'm the head and not the tail.
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- Well, what's your sign?
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- My sign is blessed.
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- What's your sign?
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- My sign is, the sign of the fish
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- We can't be more obsessed.
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- With the world than we are
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- With the gospel of jesus christ.
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- God, i like if you want to go to the doctor
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- And the doctor wants to say you got cancer.
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- You would tell the doctor, no, i don't.
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- I rebuke
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- That in the name of jesus.
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- Be at the altar trying to get a prayer cloth.
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- But because i saw a sign you don't mind
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- Declaring in the korean i'm a cancer.
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- Be mindful of what you speak over yourself.
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- Right now.
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- You can't be obsessed with the world
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- And think that you're going to be obsessed with jesus
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- Christ.
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- No, no, this is no longer an obligation.
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- This is an obsession.
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- And jesus says, listen, i don't want a part of you.
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- I don't want most of you. i want all of you.
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- I want your full commitment.
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- I want to meet you at the altar.
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- And us exchanged vows together.
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- So you know my stance.
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- And i know yours because i'm committed for you.
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- I'm committed to you.
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- I'm so committed.
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- I'm willing to lay down my life for you.
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- What are you willing to lay down for him?
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- When you love someone.
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- Sacrifice doesn't feel like sacrifice.
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- It feels like privilege. yeah.
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- What what what a privilege it is to be married to my wife.
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- What an honor it is to be married to my wife.
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- I'm married to one woman.
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- There is one woman that can say that she is mine and i am hers.
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- I am committed to her.
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- The reason i'm committed to her
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- Is because i made that commitment at the altar.
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- And when you make that commitment
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- To jesus at the altar, he wants to be your one and only man.
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- He doesn't want to be a part of your helm that you have.
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- He doesn't want to be somebody on your rolodex.
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- He doesn't want to be somebody
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- That you scroll through to get to know.
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- He wants to
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- Be the priority of your life, and everything else falls
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- Behind him.
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- So anything that becomes
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- A duty
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- Without desire
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- Is just religion in disguise.
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- And some of us know religion, but we don't know relationship.
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- Some of us know church, but we don't know relationship.
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- Some of us know religion, but we don't know what it is
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- To be intimate with the father.
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- We don't know what it is to walk hand in hand with jesus
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- And to talk to the holy spirit throughout the day.
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- But we know how to speak in church because we've been around
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- Church for a long time,
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- And we know how to dress and carry ourselves in church
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- Because we've been around church for a long time.
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- But listen, you don't have to know church to know jesus.
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- He's not saying, how well do you know church?
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- He's saying, how well do you know me?
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- He said, i've come
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- That you may have life.
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- More abundantly.
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- Not that you may have church more abundantly.
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- And understand
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- Church lingo
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- And know, understand and know when to sit
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- And know when to clap your hands
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- And know when to lift your hands.
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- And no one to do your dance. he ain't talking about you.
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- I want you to know me.
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- And when you worship me, it's a response to your revelation
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- Of me.
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- Obsessed.
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- I'm obsessed with jesus.
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- I'm obsessed with the holy spirit.
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- My wife will tell you.
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- I will stop everything to spend time with him.
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- There is not a night that does not go by that
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- I am not at my prayer table every single night at 3 a.m.
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- Talking to him because i'm obsessed.
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- I can't spend a day without his presence.
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- Because i know what he's delivered me from.
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- I know who i am without jesus christ,
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- And my life is dependent upon my time with him
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- Because my heart, in its human form, is evil and deceitful.
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- And i know what he has bought me from and delivered me from.
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- And i know how quick it is for me
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- To go back to who i used to be.
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- So i can't take one night off.
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- I can't take one day off.
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- I can't take one week off because i will go back
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- To who i was.
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- So my response to jesus, based upon what he's done
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- For me is, god, you can have it all.
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- See, i don't know what you've been delivered from,
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- But i know what i've been delivered from.
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- I know how angry i was.
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- I know how evil i was.
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- I know the things that he's delivered me from.
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- I know the sin that he's taking me from.
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- I know the life that he's removed out of me.
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- And i have to spend time with him to stay away from who i was.
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- You hear me?
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- Family. you can like.
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- Your stuff is all together, all you want to
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- And you cannot like, man, i'm just a good christian.
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- And god is so good
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- All the time and in all the time god is good.
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- But you spent a week without him.
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- See how your life goes back to who you used to be,
- 00:12:08.010 --> 00:12:10.980
- And you start doing the things that you used to do.
- 00:12:10.980 --> 00:12:13.315
- Some of you spend time with god,
- 00:12:13.315 --> 00:12:14.950
- And we still do things that we don't want to do.
- 00:12:14.950 --> 00:12:18.988
- So we gotta get out of this mentality
- 00:12:19.822 --> 00:12:23.159
- That we are good because we are not.
- 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:27.129
- We got to get out of this mentality
- 00:12:27.863 --> 00:12:29.165
- That we're great because we're not.
- 00:12:29.165 --> 00:12:30.566
- And i know
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- Your parents may have told you you're the best thing.
- 00:12:31.634 --> 00:12:33.269
- You're the greatest and there's nobody like you.
- 00:12:33.269 --> 00:12:36.071
- You're special. all and all of those things.
- 00:12:36.071 --> 00:12:38.707
- Listen to me.
- 00:12:38.707 --> 00:12:39.475
- Aside from jesus, are not true.
- 00:12:39.475 --> 00:12:44.079
- Because in your flesh
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- And your human form,
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- You are a lover of yourself.
- 00:12:49.518 --> 00:12:54.623
- And you are a lover of yourself.
- 00:12:55.257 --> 00:12:56.759
- You love the things in this world.
- 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:00.296
- You love to please yourself.
- 00:13:00.296 --> 00:13:02.131
- You love the passions that your self desires to you.
- 00:13:02.131 --> 00:13:05.467
- Love all the things that make you feel good about you.
- 00:13:05.467 --> 00:13:08.771
- But when you love christ, you hate the things in this world.
- 00:13:08.771 --> 00:13:11.640
- You hate the sin in your heart.
- 00:13:11.640 --> 00:13:13.409
- You hate that you continue to go back
- 00:13:13.409 --> 00:13:15.244
- To the very things that you know.
- 00:13:15.244 --> 00:13:16.846
- It's pulling you away from the presence of jesus,
- 00:13:16.846 --> 00:13:19.415
- And it's when you are intimate with god
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- That you are stripped of all those things,
- 00:13:21.283 --> 00:13:23.185
- And he reveals himself in you and him for you in a greater way
- 00:13:23.185 --> 00:13:27.089
- Than you ever could think of or imagine.
- 00:13:27.089 --> 00:13:31.126
- So here's my question for us.
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- How can you be intimate with someone
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- With your close to lord?
- 00:13:36.665 --> 00:13:41.971
- If you're in the bedroom.
- 00:13:42.538 --> 00:13:43.639
- How can you be intimate with your clothes still on?
- 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.574
- Some of us, we're in the presence of god,
- 00:13:45.574 --> 00:13:47.776
- But we're trying to cover ourselves.
- 00:13:47.776 --> 00:13:49.144
- We're trying to protect ourselves.
- 00:13:49.144 --> 00:13:50.279
- We're trying to keep ourselves.
- 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:51.547
- And we want to be around jesus.
- 00:13:51.547 --> 00:13:53.382
- But we don't want to be intimate with jesus
- 00:13:53.382 --> 00:13:56.385
- Because we think we can hide something from him.
- 00:13:56.385 --> 00:13:59.421
- He already knows.
- 00:13:59.421 --> 00:14:01.423
- He already sees.
- 00:14:01.423 --> 00:14:03.125
- You remember when adam and eve fell and they started to sin?
- 00:14:03.125 --> 00:14:06.428
- God already knew where they were,
- 00:14:06.428 --> 00:14:07.930
- But he said, adam, eve, where are you?
- 00:14:07.930 --> 00:14:11.567
- Because he wanted them to come to the conclusion,
- 00:14:11.567 --> 00:14:13.736
- I can go nowhere without god saying,
- 00:14:13.736 --> 00:14:15.838
- I can do nothing without god knowing.
- 00:14:15.838 --> 00:14:17.740
- I can't cover myself even though i'm trying.
- 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:20.242
- God already knows every increment detail about my life.
- 00:14:20.242 --> 00:14:23.913
- So why are you trying to hide who you are from him?
- 00:14:23.913 --> 00:14:30.953
- He already knows.
- 00:14:31.387 --> 00:14:34.056
- So instead of trying to cover yourself,
- 00:14:34.056 --> 00:14:37.126
- Be obsessed with him
- 00:14:37.593 --> 00:14:39.762
- And he'll cover you.
- 00:14:39.762 --> 00:14:42.564
- I'm so glad god covered me with this grace and his mercy.
- 00:14:42.564 --> 00:14:45.601
- I'm so glad god cover me with this hand
- 00:14:46.468 --> 00:14:48.637
- And with this love.
- 00:14:48.637 --> 00:14:49.872
- I'm so glad god covered me with this healing and his holiness.
- 00:14:49.872 --> 00:14:52.241
- I'm so glad god covers me because i am obsessed with him.
- 00:14:52.241 --> 00:14:57.980
- He is not my obligation.
- 00:14:57.980 --> 00:14:59.682
- He is my obsession.
- 00:14:59.682 --> 00:15:06.655
- And so the greatest tragedy
- 00:15:07.256 --> 00:15:09.792
- In this life.
- 00:15:09.792 --> 00:15:12.728
- It isn't rejecting god.
- 00:15:12.728 --> 00:15:16.198
- The greatest tragedy in this life
- 00:15:16.966 --> 00:15:20.302
- Is replacing him with the lesser
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- Love.
- 00:15:22.137 --> 00:15:25.140
- Replacing him with something that cannot give you
- 00:15:25.140 --> 00:15:27.543
- What he can.
- 00:15:27.543 --> 00:15:30.479
- Spending more time with the thing
- 00:15:30.479 --> 00:15:32.581
- That is stealing life rather than giving you life.
- 00:15:32.581 --> 00:15:37.920
- You got to ask yourself this question today.
- 00:15:38.821 --> 00:15:41.056
- Am i fully committed to my relationship with jesus,
- 00:15:41.056 --> 00:15:44.994
- Or am i fully committed to the thing
- 00:15:45.794 --> 00:15:47.463
- That separating me from jesus.
- 00:15:47.463 --> 00:15:52.668
- He has to be
- 00:15:52.968 --> 00:15:55.070
- Your obsession.
- 00:15:55.070 --> 00:15:58.374
- Because he loved you so much
- 00:15:58.374 --> 00:16:02.044
- That he took your place on the cross.
- 00:16:02.878 --> 00:16:06.582
- He took your place by going to hell,
- 00:16:07.383 --> 00:16:10.753
- Stealing the keys to death, hell and the grave,
- 00:16:10.753 --> 00:16:15.391
- And then resurrecting so that you could have life
- 00:16:15.391 --> 00:16:18.927
- And eternity with him.
- 00:16:18.927 --> 00:16:22.064
- So if jesus is not your obsession,
- 00:16:22.798 --> 00:16:26.602
- What is?
- 00:16:26.869 --> 00:16:29.371
- Because your obsession is going to go somewhere.
- 00:16:29.371 --> 00:16:34.376
- If jesus is not your obsession,
- 00:16:35.010 --> 00:16:36.845
- What is?
- 00:16:36.845 --> 00:16:39.882
- Here is a harsh reality.
- 00:16:39.882 --> 00:16:42.684
- Some of us are jealous of jesus.
- 00:16:42.684 --> 00:16:47.289
- Jealous of the glory he gets
- 00:16:47.890 --> 00:16:49.825
- Because you think that you are deserving of it.
- 00:16:49.825 --> 00:16:53.495
- And you may not voice that.
- 00:16:54.096 --> 00:16:55.964
- You may never vocalize,
- 00:16:55.964 --> 00:16:57.199
- That you may never say it out of your mouth,
- 00:16:57.199 --> 00:16:59.268
- But you believe that in your heart
- 00:16:59.268 --> 00:17:01.203
- Because of how you live your life.
- 00:17:01.203 --> 00:17:03.572
- You base everything around your comfort, your convenient,
- 00:17:03.572 --> 00:17:06.442
- How you feel,
- 00:17:06.442 --> 00:17:07.676
- Not considering how he feels laying down his life for you.
- 00:17:07.676 --> 00:17:11.947
- We are not built for glory.
- 00:17:11.947 --> 00:17:14.650
- Jesus is worthy of it.
- 00:17:15.117 --> 00:17:19.822
- And so when we live our lives obsessed
- 00:17:20.656 --> 00:17:23.792
- With pleasing him,
- 00:17:23.792 --> 00:17:26.895
- He allows us to experience things that we can no longer
- 00:17:26.895 --> 00:17:30.999
- Experience in our own power and in our own effort.
- 00:17:30.999 --> 00:17:36.638
- Loving god
- 00:17:36.939 --> 00:17:37.806
- Isn't about fitting him into your life.
- 00:17:37.806 --> 00:17:41.176
- It's about making him your life.
- 00:17:41.810 --> 00:17:45.380
- And today, some of you need to recommit
- 00:17:46.215 --> 00:17:48.117
- To jesus at the altar.
- 00:17:48.117 --> 00:17:51.820
- Today, some of you need to exchange
- 00:17:51.820 --> 00:17:53.789
- Vows again with jesus at the altar.
- 00:17:53.789 --> 00:17:57.826
- You've made other things your obsession.
- 00:17:58.660 --> 00:18:00.629
- You made other things your priority.
- 00:18:00.629 --> 00:18:02.431
- You made other things your god.
- 00:18:02.431 --> 00:18:03.866
- You made
- 00:18:03.866 --> 00:18:05.067
- Other things more important than him and his me family.
- 00:18:05.067 --> 00:18:07.202
- It's not hard
- 00:18:07.202 --> 00:18:09.638
- To get back to where he desires for you to be.
- 00:18:09.638 --> 00:18:13.275
- It takes a decision.
- 00:18:13.709 --> 00:18:16.578
- It's not a bunch of hurdles you got to jump through.
- 00:18:16.578 --> 00:18:19.148
- It's not a bunch of ropes.
- 00:18:19.715 --> 00:18:20.849
- You got to jump. it's a decision. it's you deciding.
- 00:18:20.849 --> 00:18:23.218
- Today is a day, a recommit at a deeper level
- 00:18:23.218 --> 00:18:26.355
- To my relationship of intimacy with jesus christ.
- 00:18:26.355 --> 00:18:29.424
- Because i know, and i believe that my life is far
- 00:18:29.424 --> 00:18:32.828
- Greater with him than it is without.
- 00:18:32.828 --> 00:18:41.103
- When you think about that,
- 00:18:41.670 --> 00:18:44.139
- You think about what he saved you from.
- 00:18:44.139 --> 00:18:46.909
- You think about the reality of where you were headed,
- 00:18:46.909 --> 00:18:50.045
- And he cut you off and stepped in the way and say, no,
- 00:18:50.045 --> 00:18:53.649
- I got a plan for your life.
- 00:18:54.249 --> 00:18:57.085
- I got a purpose for your life.
- 00:18:57.085 --> 00:18:59.922
- The plan and the purpose for your life is good.
- 00:18:59.922 --> 00:19:04.359
- But the only way
- 00:19:04.760 --> 00:19:05.527
- You can accomplish it is with me.
- 00:19:05.527 --> 00:19:08.463
- There are not many ways to the father.
- 00:19:08.463 --> 00:19:09.865
- There's one way.
- 00:19:09.865 --> 00:19:11.934
- When you know
- 00:19:12.301 --> 00:19:13.268
- That, you know that he saved you from hell.
- 00:19:13.268 --> 00:19:16.271
- The response should be,
- 00:19:16.271 --> 00:19:19.107
- You can have whatever you want from me.
- 00:19:19.107 --> 00:19:23.679
- How many have been burned before?
- 00:19:24.413 --> 00:19:28.317
- How many?
- 00:19:28.617 --> 00:19:29.284
- Remember what that feels like.
- 00:19:29.284 --> 00:19:32.487
- You was that brilliant kid that didn't
- 00:19:32.487 --> 00:19:34.022
- Listen to your parents when they told you.
- 00:19:34.022 --> 00:19:35.524
- Don't touch the stove.
- 00:19:35.524 --> 00:19:36.658
- You thought to yourself, i'm going to be
- 00:19:36.658 --> 00:19:38.160
- The only human being in history
- 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:40.529
- To touch this and not get burned.
- 00:19:40.529 --> 00:19:42.397
- How many was that kid?
- 00:19:42.397 --> 00:19:45.667
- How many?
- 00:19:45.667 --> 00:19:46.335
- Remember what it felt like?
- 00:19:46.335 --> 00:19:49.438
- How many have been burned
- 00:19:49.438 --> 00:19:50.539
- Bad before?
- 00:19:50.539 --> 00:19:53.942
- I remember 2012, july 1st.
- 00:19:53.942 --> 00:19:56.878
- Our home burned down.
- 00:19:56.878 --> 00:19:59.514
- The whole house is on fire, and i don't see my mom.
- 00:19:59.514 --> 00:20:03.118
- And so i go back inside of this burning house to look for.
- 00:20:04.253 --> 00:20:09.324
- And i'm looking and i'm looking.
- 00:20:09.958 --> 00:20:11.093
- I don't see her.
- 00:20:11.093 --> 00:20:14.329
- And as i'm looking for one of the support beams
- 00:20:14.329 --> 00:20:17.099
- For the ceiling, it falls on my back
- 00:20:17.099 --> 00:20:20.736
- On fire.
- 00:20:20.969 --> 00:20:22.904
- And it burns me.
- 00:20:22.904 --> 00:20:25.841
- And the support beam blocks the door so i can't get out.
- 00:20:25.841 --> 00:20:29.778
- And the whole house. everywhere i look, there's fire.
- 00:20:29.778 --> 00:20:31.880
- Everywhere i turn around this fire and.
- 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:33.248
- And i see this sunlight shining through the window.
- 00:20:33.248 --> 00:20:36.251
- So i bust through the window.
- 00:20:36.251 --> 00:20:37.486
- I get outside, i see her on top of the hill and she screams.
- 00:20:37.486 --> 00:20:41.056
- My dog's inside the house.
- 00:20:41.056 --> 00:20:42.457
- I'm like, woman, i don't care about them dogs.
- 00:20:42.457 --> 00:20:50.032
- So i go back inside.
- 00:20:50.499 --> 00:20:54.169
- I get the dog.
- 00:20:54.503 --> 00:20:55.404
- I throw him out the window
- 00:20:55.404 --> 00:20:58.473
- And this dumb dog runs back inside the house.
- 00:20:58.473 --> 00:21:03.211
- I look at her, i say, listen, he's going to see the father.
- 00:21:04.413 --> 00:21:07.049
- He is this. i can't open.
- 00:21:07.049 --> 00:21:10.519
- And she said, he's right there at the door.
- 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:12.054
- So this is the god honest truth.
- 00:21:12.054 --> 00:21:14.289
- I reach my hand down to grab him and the dumb dog bites me.
- 00:21:14.289 --> 00:21:18.327
- I want to kick him further in, then they say, go on.
- 00:21:18.327 --> 00:21:23.999
- I reached in, grabbed him out.
- 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:28.203
- Whole house goes up in flames.
- 00:21:28.203 --> 00:21:31.440
- I remember what that fire felt like.
- 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:35.010
- I remember what those burns felt like.
- 00:21:35.010 --> 00:21:38.780
- I remember not being able to breathe
- 00:21:38.780 --> 00:21:40.816
- Because of the carbon monoxide poisoning.
- 00:21:40.816 --> 00:21:43.018
- I remember what that felt like.
- 00:21:43.018 --> 00:21:44.186
- But more than remembering the pain, i remember my posture
- 00:21:44.186 --> 00:21:47.856
- That sunday in church.
- 00:21:47.856 --> 00:21:51.259
- I remember how grateful i was to
- 00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:53.095
- Just be alive and all of my family was alive.
- 00:21:53.095 --> 00:22:02.838
- My oldest sister, her husband, was taking a nap.
- 00:22:03.805 --> 00:22:07.109
- On the second level.
- 00:22:07.109 --> 00:22:07.943
- My two nieces was upstairs sleeping.
- 00:22:07.943 --> 00:22:12.514
- A second older sister.
- 00:22:12.981 --> 00:22:14.149
- Her two kids were in the house.
- 00:22:14.149 --> 00:22:16.251
- My mom was in the house,
- 00:22:16.251 --> 00:22:18.286
- My little brother was in the house.
- 00:22:18.286 --> 00:22:20.455
- And all of us made it out alive.
- 00:22:20.455 --> 00:22:22.791
- And i remember, i remember, i remember
- 00:22:22.791 --> 00:22:26.194
- More than that, what my posture was
- 00:22:26.194 --> 00:22:29.598
- In service that next sunday.
- 00:22:30.165 --> 00:22:33.869
- And the reason i'm telling you all of this
- 00:22:33.869 --> 00:22:35.604
- Is because god is not after your playlist.
- 00:22:35.604 --> 00:22:39.074
- God is after your posture.
- 00:22:39.641 --> 00:22:42.244
- And some of us have forgotten
- 00:22:42.244 --> 00:22:44.146
- That hell is real.
- 00:22:44.146 --> 00:22:47.983
- And that it never ceases.
- 00:22:48.550 --> 00:22:49.751
- It never stops.
- 00:22:49.751 --> 00:22:52.554
- That anguish,
- 00:22:52.554 --> 00:22:54.222
- That turmoil, that torture.
- 00:22:54.222 --> 00:22:57.325
- It never stops.
- 00:22:57.325 --> 00:23:00.762
- And so,
- 00:23:01.029 --> 00:23:02.264
- Although you may be enjoying the fruits of sin in this life,
- 00:23:02.264 --> 00:23:05.400
- You will also enjoy the fruits of sin.
- 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:07.436
- And the next.
- 00:23:07.436 --> 00:23:09.638
- And i'm
- 00:23:09.905 --> 00:23:10.872
- Telling you, if jesus is not your obsession,
- 00:23:10.872 --> 00:23:14.142
- Then the pleasures of this world are, and they are fleeting
- 00:23:14.142 --> 00:23:17.913
- And they will lead you further than you want to go,
- 00:23:17.913 --> 00:23:21.616
- And you will not be able to negotiate your way out of
- 00:23:21.616 --> 00:23:25.554
- The eternity that you've worked hard for in this life.
- 00:23:25.554 --> 00:23:33.495
- So i urge you
- 00:23:33.862 --> 00:23:36.665
- To make a decision today
- 00:23:36.665 --> 00:23:41.970
- To not only confess
- 00:23:42.437 --> 00:23:44.606
- That jesus is lord,
- 00:23:44.606 --> 00:23:47.676
- But live your life in the pursuit
- 00:23:47.676 --> 00:23:51.546
- Of proving it.
- 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:55.383
- So, pastor, how do i do that
- 00:23:55.984 --> 00:23:58.520
- And how do i how do i make that happen?
- 00:23:58.520 --> 00:24:02.791
- Just as you would say, you love someone
- 00:24:03.592 --> 00:24:06.828
- And will walk down the aisle to meet them at the altar.
- 00:24:06.828 --> 00:24:11.366
- Today, if you want jesus to be your lord,
- 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:15.337
- He wants to meet you at the altar.
- 00:24:15.337 --> 00:24:17.639
- If you like. what pastor?
- 00:24:17.639 --> 00:24:19.407
- All these people go see me and i. that ain't.
- 00:24:19.407 --> 00:24:21.910
- That ain't my.
- 00:24:21.910 --> 00:24:22.944
- That ain't my style. that ain█t how i get down.
- 00:24:22.944 --> 00:24:24.312
- I want these people looking at me.
- 00:24:24.312 --> 00:24:26.414
- I just want to remind you there is no cupboards,
- 00:24:26.414 --> 00:24:30.819
- No office cubicles in heaven at the seat of judgment.
- 00:24:30.819 --> 00:24:34.656
- God is not going to say,
- 00:24:35.190 --> 00:24:36.458
- All right, everybody turn around while i see this next person.
- 00:24:36.458 --> 00:24:40.962
- I know everybody's going to be watching
- 00:24:41.730 --> 00:24:43.164
- And they will hear either
- 00:24:43.164 --> 00:24:44.499
- Well done, that good and faithful servant,
- 00:24:44.499 --> 00:24:46.301
- Or depart from me.
- 00:24:46.301 --> 00:24:47.168
- I know you not.
- 00:24:47.168 --> 00:24:50.572
- So who cares who sees you here
- 00:24:50.572 --> 00:24:53.909
- As long as they see you there?
- 00:24:53.909 --> 00:25:03.351
- Well, that's our time for today's broadcast.
- 00:25:04.286 --> 00:25:07.055
- But the good news is we have more to unpack.
- 00:25:07.055 --> 00:25:09.958
- And so i want to encourage you to meet me here.
- 00:25:09.958 --> 00:25:12.093
- Same time, same place. next week.
- 00:25:12.093 --> 00:25:14.496
- If you're ever in the jacksonville area,
- 00:25:14.496 --> 00:25:15.964
- Meet us live on sundays at celebration church at 9 a.m.
- 00:25:15.964 --> 00:25:19.000
- And 11 a.m.
- 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:19.968
- And my prayer is that as we continue
- 00:25:19.968 --> 00:25:22.437
- To walk through the word of god together, we continue to grow
- 00:25:22.437 --> 00:25:25.507
- Locked arm in arm together.
- 00:25:25.507 --> 00:25:27.342
- Today i want to pray with you.
- 00:25:27.976 --> 00:25:29.778
- Pray for you.
- 00:25:29.778 --> 00:25:30.845
- Set myself in agreement
- 00:25:30.845 --> 00:25:32.013
- For the things that you may be believing god for.
- 00:25:32.013 --> 00:25:34.816
- And so right now, in the name of jesus,
- 00:25:34.816 --> 00:25:36.151
- I thank you for my brothers and my sisters.
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- I ask right now in jesus name,
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- That you would touch them right where they are.
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- God, your presence knows no limits and knows no boundaries.
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- And so god,
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- I just ask that
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- They would feel you
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- Where they are, no matter where they are in the world.
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- And god, i thank you that you're
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- Not just a god that hears, but you are a god that responds.
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- Your word says in ephesians chapter three verse 20,
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- Now unto him that is able to do exceeding
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- And abundantly
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- Above all that we can ask or think according to the power
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- Is at work on the inside of us.
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- And so today, god, we work that power.
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- We thank you god, that
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- That power and our faith is working on our behalf.
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- In jesus name we pray.
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- Amen.
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- Family at the bottom of the screen.
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- Our team is going to throw some information
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- As to how you can partner with us as we close this broadcast.
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- Would you pray about partnering with us,
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- About helping us continue to spread this message
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- Of the gospel of jesus christ
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- To the very heart to reach places in the world?
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- It's because of family members like yourself that we're able
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- To continue to get this broadcast
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- And to the very hands of the people that need it.
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- Also, if you have a prayer request,
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- What should it email us.
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- Call us, mail us that prayer request
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- So that our prayer team
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- Can set ourselves in agreement with you.
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- I want you to know to the very next broadcast.
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- God loves you.
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- I love you and i can't wait to see you.
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- Same time, same place next week.
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- Be blessed in jesus name.
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