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Where the message of the gospel really isn't come to Jesus is a means to an end.

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It's come to Jesus. He is the end. He is everything. He becomes your life. Paul said that.

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He said, when Christ who is our life appears, not Christ who is part of our life. And people say

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that I've made Jesus a part of my life. He's either Lord of all or He's not Lord at all.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word

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and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church,

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feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in

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our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God,

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that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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Welcome to those joining us online.

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And thank you worship team. Thank you Jordan for playing the saxophone.

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I find that everything in life is better with some saxophone.

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You could be buttering a piece of toast and you put saxophone behind it, it's better.

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You could be looking out of a rainy window, but you put saxophone in the background, it's better.

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So praise God, the more saxophone the better.

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Do you still have that saxophone I gave you?

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Good, it's a good one, so take care of it. Praise God.

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Oh, she had actually given me her prize saxophone. I didn't even know these instruments

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what they can go for. She said it's worth over $10,000 here, I want to bless you with it.

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And it was the only time in my life where I, as I took the gift, I knew I was going to give it back to

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the person giving it to me. Because the thought of going on eBay, right? I mean, because I opened it

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up and then like this history came off the sax, like you could feel it, you know, and the intricacy

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of every button and you call those things buttons? Okay, I do. I felt the felt the inside of the case,

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I picked it up, double check to make sure it was over $10,000. It was, it was a French company,

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right? Was it? Yeah. And then a couple of months later I said, hey, you got a gift for you.

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That's not it, is it? That's another one. So true, true musician doesn't have a saxophone,

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they have saxi, they have multiples. And so, hallelujah. Man, I feel the anointing.

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There's some messages the Lord just likes. And I feel like this morning's message he liked.

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And it's good to feel the anointing. I've not felt the anointing, that's not good.

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I'm feeling the anointing is always good. The anointing is what gets the job done.

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Hallelujah. I mean, tell them I'm busy, please.

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I'm feeling the anointing. I used to have a Harley and it was in his garage where they didn't

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want you to turn it on, which was weird because it was a motorcycle garage, but they didn't want you to,

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well, you know, they wanted you to like duck walk it out, 50 feet and then turn it on in the street.

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And so you got this 1,200 pound machine you're sitting on and you're duck walking it out,

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you can't turn it on, kind of trying to glide, glide off. That's what it's like doing anything

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in life, especially ministering without the anointing. And then you turn it on. And that was easy

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to go 50 feet. It's easy to go 5,000 feet. The anointing, him putting his super over your natural

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makes everything better. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You know, the anointing comes when you invite

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the anointing in your life. If you don't think about the anointing, you won't have much anointing.

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If you don't reverence the Holy Spirit in your life, sing a song to the Lord, read a few

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scriptures out loud, talk to the Lord, there'll be a desert, a dearth of the anointing.

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But when you're in that sweet place of communion and you welcome the anointing, especially in

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difficult times, makes all the difference in the world. I got into a really strange conversation

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with a friend in the ministry, a pastor colleague a while ago. And he was having a tough time in

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ministry. I thought he was doing really well, you know, but he didn't think so. And can I just

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tell you, the Bible says the love of money, the love of money is the root of all evil.

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But I would say for the number two spot, envy is the root of all evil. And we live in an envy

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amplifying culture more so than ever before. Let me just put a pause on my story. I went down this

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rabbit hole last night of how kids are growing up. Because we have a 90% no devices policy.

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Get them for a couple of days of the week for a small little window. But no devices. And if that's

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not you as a parent, I strongly urge you to read up on what is actually happening. And it's more

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than what's on the screen. So I noticed a complete shift in behavior when we made these changes a few

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years back. Because of course, when Victor was born in 2014, people weren't even talking about it. It

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was normal to take the iPad and fling it at your kid and not have to pay a babysitter here. Keep

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yourself a little timmy. Keep yourself busy with this for a couple hours while I go do that thing.

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They won't even warn you. And then the first articles to come out was around 2016 where it came

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out that top Silicon Valley executives don't let their kids use the apps and use the devices that

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they're creating. Why am I talking about this? Oh, envy. So I went down this rabbit hole of what

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is actually happening. I didn't know. Because the internet isn't not influential in my life. It is.

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I use it every single day. But if you're a young person, say between 15 and 25 now,

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there's actually a parallel civilization that's come up alongside the real world. And they're more

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in touch with this digital parallel civilization and the umpteen subcultures. And one common thing

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that's arising is that kids are incredibly, incredibly depressed because they can't find

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contentment. They can't find peace because their favorite influencers and the people

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forming their minds and forming their ideologies are always dangling a carrot in front of them.

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And so envy has taken my message as nothing to do on envy. I'm just this is for this is for

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somebody here this morning. Envy has come up and it's causing so much the pressure, so much

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just self hatred of even cutting and body hurting and horrible things that young people are

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dealing with. But when you dig in what's actually happening, their envy has been amped up.

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It's good to recognize that. And this fellow minister who I thought was happy and was doing well,

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he said, no, he wasn't really that happy. Things wasn't growing the way he wanted it to grow.

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And then he in this conversation was very excited and he said, I, I, I felt like a slave. I don't

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like I feel like a slave and I felt like a slave just working for the Lord and I love the Lord,

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you know, you got to say all the right things before you say that one wrong thing. I love the Lord

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and God is so good, but I'm really frustrated and I just got back and he had met with a very

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influential famous minister in another part of the country and got back and said, you know, I,

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he, I can do whatever I want. I mean, the Lord is not that prohibitive. I can do whatever.

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And I'm immediately, well, hello, because when somebody says I can do whatever,

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that's never been the start of any great statement by a Christian. I can do whatever I want.

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I said, what did this person tell you? And he told me what the person said. The person never

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said you can do whatever you want. But you know, when you're bent on something, people do that to

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me. They'll just terrifies me. People come and say, you know, last month, that thing you said,

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I said, what thing? And they tell me that thing you said really encouraged me to do and what they're

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going to do is crazy. I go, how did you get that? Dude, I never said that. I wasn't even in the

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neighborhood of that. You went home, took 20% of what I said, I added your own 80% then put it

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in the bag, mixed it up even more and came up with Satan's will for your life. And now you're

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pointing to me going, thanks for that. I had nothing to do with that. So he said, I can do whatever

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I want. I can start another business. I can go out and have other things. And by the way,

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whenever a pastor starts doing side hustles, that's never a good sign.

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The ministry is very, very consuming and it's made that way. It's your relationship with the Lord

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and then your relationship with God's people. And I had already known, I'd been warned thankfully

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by why is there men of God that there is a big trap ministers fall into somewhere around their 50s.

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You're going to laugh when I tell you what it is. Most ministers never get there because the

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reality is, most pastors contrary to what the world believes. Now that I'm meeting so many

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unbelief, you know, Long Island is a lot more conducive towards like relating and talking and

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having conversations. And now it's occurred to me that every person who's not saved believes

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that pastors fly in jets and live in mega mansions. And because, you know, they read the one article

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about some guy where that's what they see on TV. And I have to explain to them that's actually

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0.0001% of all pastors. Unfortunately, the majority of pastors have lived their whole lives

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financially choked and constrained and they're not doing well. And that is not God's will and

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that shouldn't be. But some that actually yield to the Holy Spirit and can flow with the Lord and

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allow God to build a church where it's sustaining him on salary and other staff on salary and it's

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a growing thing. Then they get bored in their 50s and they start, this is the joke inside of

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them is they start restaurants. Why restaurants? Why go into a business with like the highest failure

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rate of any business? But that's the thing. So any time a pastor starts talking about getting

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involved with something else, I immediately. And he starts saying how he can do whatever he wants

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and he can do this and do that and how he's no longer a slave but he felt like a slave. And I

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had the audacity to say but but literally the Bible calls us bond servants. Little different

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than a slave. A bond servant is a servant who who does it out of love realizing I mean it's not

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just altruistic. It's not I'm just doing it out of love. He's realizing wow it's a lot better

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tied to you than it is out there. And that's how it is with the Lord. We're servants but in chains

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of love and bonds of love. And then I quoted this scripture to him in Philippians 219 through 22.

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Hallelujah. Paul says I trust in Lord Jesus to send Timothy to shortly that I also may be encouraged

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when I know your state. Now Paul was a big fan of Timothy. This was young pastor Timothy

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and Paul saw his heart that it was a yielded heart. It was a surrendered heart. He says he's like

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minded. Paul knew he was surrendered. He only wanted what the Lord wanted for him. He said I have

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no one like minded who will sincerely care for your state. For all seek their own

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not the things which are of Christ Jesus. And I said to him that's what you're telling me right now

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you want to do whatever you want to do. You don't get to do whatever you want to do. You're called by

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the Lord and it's a holy calling you're in the past. You have to do what he says to do. And if

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you're going to swerve deviate off that path you better have 19 confirmations. God appeared to

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you in bodily forms spoke audibly to you to hear it. I mean that's what I would need to get me off

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the track that the Lord has me on. And that really must have rattled him up because he called me

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demonic and said I was a slave which typically whenever somebody calls you demonic that's the ultimate

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what's that psychological term where you're deflecting or usually you're wrestling with a bunch of

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demons and someone tells you how to get free and then they call you demonic. Jesus.

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The Bible says that we have been bought with a price and there is this thing in especially I

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feel like an old guy because I'm saying modern Christianity that's like what the old people said

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when I was a kid and I would judge him I go that's that old time he talked but it is you reach

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a certain age and now you have some history and you can see patterns and you can see cycles and

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then you realize wow we really are a selfish people and you don't hear much preaching on the

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Lordship of Christ see the church had a really bad rap in the 70s not very good at public relations

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at all 70s 80s 90s even before I became a Christian 1992 I was 16 years old I didn't even know what

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kind of Christianity I was getting involved with but when somebody mentioned the term born again

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Christian I immediately required even though I was one but I was so trained because to me a Christian

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or born again Christian meant a really angry finger pointing protester I never knew what they were

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angry about something about abortion or something but they were you know that's because I grew up

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with the media and if they were the ones who bombed abortion but they weren't but that's what I

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thought so the church realized they had a really bad PR problem and these other churches started coming

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up called seekers sensitive churches they weren't going to tell you right away the hard truths of

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the Bible that might scare you off you'll get to the hard stuff eventually when you pass through the

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membership program and we got in your signature and you're ready to commit it and socially entrenched

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then we got you you can't leave then we'll then like a good old bait and switch then we'll tell you

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what discipleship will really cost you and it started working and Christianity became softer

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and more politically correct and there's a term that was being floated everywhere wins them

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you know you don't want to abrade people you don't want to tell them any hard truth Jesus had no

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problem telling hard truths right off the bat you know what I found there's two kinds of people

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no matter what their lifestyle looks like I found people who have horrible horrible lifestyles they

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find themselves in a sinful mess yet still they're aching for truth and they want and they're able

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to analyze their situation honestly and they still want truth that person is a lot better candidate

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to experience life transformation the second kind of person which is just somebody who doesn't want

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truth and they really are two kinds of people someone who gravitate towards truth with even if it

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hurts even if it's uncomfortable even if it's unpopular in a false world they just want truth

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and then there's another kind of person and it's it's almost like they they are repulsed by the truth

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and they want to they want to live with their eyes smeared they want to live in a creamy lie of

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just deception and where two plus two often is four but sometimes five depends how you feel you know

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huh huh bro

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so the message then has for a while been just like come to Jesus and he's a means to an end

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come to Jesus he'll make your life better no matter how you live it come to Jesus and

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he'll bless you where the message of the gospel really isn't come to Jesus he's a means to an

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end it's come to Jesus he is the end he is everything he becomes your life Paul said that he said

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when Christ who is our life appears not Christ who is part of our life and people say that I've made

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Jesus a part of my life whoo dangerous territory you don't get them you know take him and put him

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in a little cubby hole of your life and go this I want you to be the one who pays the bills make

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sure I don't get into any accidents it gets hurt and gives me a nice happy ending that's where you

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belong I'm gonna stick you right there you're a part of my life no he becomes your life he's either

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Lord of all or he's not Lord at all and this is gospel truth and if you haven't come to that

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place of maturity where that's a reality to you I'm pleading with you in love that you submit

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to the lordship of Christ you cannot have it both ways he cannot just be your savior he has

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to be your lord and savior where every area of your life is submitted to him

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he's either Lord of all or he's not Lord at all and typically people who have a hard time with

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this message really because I had a hard time with it in the beginning it's because you haven't

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met God yet you haven't really tasted of his goodness so you're still trusting in yourself

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I've lost all trust in myself the Lord was merciful and letting me get out there on my own

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and I get slapped up slapped down and then I realize oh I want to how we I want to do things God's

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way I don't want to just do what whatever's right in my own eyes that's the phrase throughout the

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Old Testament whenever the Lord through his prophets rebuked that rebellious people when the

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children of Israel would grow rebellious this is how the Bible would describe them doing whatever

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is right in their own eyes in other words they're their own God they do whatever they want

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which in a big sense is really the number one cultural message right now

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and if you've explored Satanism at all that actually is the message of Satanism

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in the satanic Bible with Anton Levay and what the key doctrine of Thalema is is do what

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thou wilt do what you want no submission no bowing of the knee

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some parts you like do those things if you don't like it cut that part of the Bible out that

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irritates you get a real holy Bible cut out all these passages fill it with holes

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and God becomes kind of like Burger King your way right away you do it high

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and now you're not made in his image now you're creating a new God in your own image

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it's so dangerous and the reason why I'm preaching this is because it only leads to pain

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it leads to pain it leads to frustration and I've known people who've rebelled

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early in life like in their 20s and then that rebellion like let's say you want to move

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somewhere start in your life and you know in your heart God is saying no God how do you know

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because in prayer you just now you stop praying because every time you go to pray you got that

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irritation and the Lord is on you now you're avoiding God because of what he might say

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so now you go and you want to get fulfilled with your friends but your spiritual friends who

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actually hear from the Holy Spirit are telling you the same thing that the Lord is telling you in

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prayer now you get angry at them and call them demonic so you go to do what you're going to do

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anyway but now you've taken your whole life trajectory you're in another you know what moving to

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another part of the country everything changes who you're going to meet who you're going to marry

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how your kids will grow up what what jobs they might have in that part of the kind of they're

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either limited or everything's changed but you made that decision apart from the Lord and then

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you backslide and 30 years later you come back to church and oh Lord forgive me and clean up my life

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well he'll forgive you instantly the cleaning up your life part may take time because you've

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entrenched yourself in 30 years of rebellion the Bible says this Jesus himself said fall on the

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rock and be broken or the rock will fall on you and grinds you to a powder now I've made a

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decision multiple times to fall on the rock who is Jesus and be broken the good kind of breaking

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there's a good kind of breaking you know a Middle Eastern shepherd when he had a

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particularly mischievous and rebellious sheep typically a lamb young in age you know the whole

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herd is going to the right and that naughty lamb keeps going off in the bramble bushes on the left

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he would take the little lamb and break his two front legs

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and put him over his shoulders now those legs would start to mend and heal but that shepherd

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would carry that lamb for a long time weeks and weeks as those limbs mended the sheep would begin

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to smell like the shepherd and not the other way around and catch the rhythm of the shepherd

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hear the voice of the shepherd hear the heartbeat of the shepherd eat with the shepherd sleep with

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the shepherd when those legs were fully mended and the shepherd would let that little lamb go on

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now we can walk and run around it wasn't going to the left anymore he just wanted to be near the

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shepherd and hear his voice follow his heart and when the shepherd and the herd went to the right

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that little lamb who had been so gloriously broken is now first in line that's the good kind of

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breaking the bad kind of breaking is when you don't do the good kind of breaking and fall on

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Jesus and come to the end of yourself see and but the breaking I'm talking about I'm not talking

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about before I was saved that is everything is broken then I'm talking about after I got saved

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and as you're learning the will of God and as you're learning how to tap into the wisdom of God

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and then you remember oh yeah that was that thing I knew was the wisdom of God and trusted

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Christians in my life agree that was the wisdom of God but then I crept up all alone into my own

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head I started living that monkey brain working and I started rationalizing and talking my way out

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of what I knew was the wisdom of God and the will of God because I just wanted what I wanted

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and now a little bit after that I need to deconstruct I got hurt at church

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who hurt you was it the pastor the honest answer is no I hurt me because I knew what I should do

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I did the opposite you can't just do whatever you want to do when asked God to get in on it I mean

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you can but pain comes I'd rather fall on the rock and be broken then the rock fall on me and

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grind me to a powder that's the bad kind of breaking there's no coming back from that good breaking

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you don't get to just say Lord I'm gonna do xyz come on along and bless what I'm doing many

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Christians live their lives that way no you pray and you figure out what is the Lord doing

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and get in on that you find out where the oil where the peace where the presence of God is

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hallelujah James the book of James he he scolds the wealthy businessmen in the church

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he's not scolded Bible doesn't scold unbelievers you know what unbelievers do they sin

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sin or sin you don't scold why do well that's because that's what they're born to do literally

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that's their nature they have a sin nature they're gonna sin he's scolding the Christian

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businessman we're a little proud and arrogant and lofty because they had money said come now you

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who say you'll go to such and such city and buy and trade and do you're you're wheeling and

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dealing and doing your own things he scolds and says you're nothing he calls them

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is it what you ought to say if the Lord wills we will go and do xyz hallelujah the will of God is

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important it should be prized and I just have to say this when you arrive at that beautiful

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understanding and you accept it in your heart that the will of God is number one and you don't

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want to go outside the will of God because that's where it's dangerous then it's important also I'm

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talking to people on the other side of the spectrum don't get hamstrung and get the paralysis

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of analysis where you don't do anything because you're waiting for God to speak to you about it

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in an audible voice because there's Christians like that too they pray over what color socks they

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should put on in the morning Lord I'm just waiting for your peace should it be the black ones or

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the crimson ones or the good old white tube socks that have been with me all these years

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hallelujah well it's a good time to read a Christmas passage Luke chapter 1 and verse 26

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we decorated for Christmas just this week which we'd always waited for things giving first

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that's it I'm just letting you know since I'm reading a Christmas passage but it doesn't feel

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off you know Alexa played Bing Crosby Christmas put the lights up everything's wonderful hallelujah

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I don't want to I don't want to get less than a month yeah some people who are hostile

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anti God get a whole month I don't want 27 days 25 days or 23 now I'm taking a month and a half

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I've determined I'm gonna have a good time at church this morning I encourage you to join me

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now in the six months the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a

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virgin betroth to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David the virgin's name was Mary

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and having come in the angel said to her imagine what this is like historically speaking she

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must have been 15 years old 16 years old max and now and not just any angel because there are

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rankings of angels at the top are the arch angels then the seraphim then the chair of him

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goes down this was an arch angel coming and glory and power on behalf of Yahweh God and he says

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rejoice highly favored when the Lord is with you blessed are you among women

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but when she saw him she was troubled at his saying and considered what manner of greeting this was

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then the angel said to her do not be afraid Mary for you have found favor with God

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and behold you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son and she'll call his name Jesus

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he will be great and will be called the son of the highest and the Lord God will give him the throne

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of his father David and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there

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will be no end and then Mary asks a fair and logical question how can this be since I've never had

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sex that was the SV the street version and the angel answered and said to her the holy spirit will

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come upon you and the power of the highest will overshadow you therefore also the holy one who

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is to be born will be called the son of God now indeed Elizabeth your relative seeds getting

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Christmassy already here this morning Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old

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age and this is now the six months for her who was called Baron for with God nothing will be

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impossible no spoken word of God is impossible for him to perform now how many of you would agree

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this is a lot to take in I mean she must be thinking where I'm not even married I'm just

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be trod and my belly is going to start start showing and the village is going to want to take me out

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and stone me also there's an archangel talking to me telling me that God is going to become incarnate

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within me it's a lot her response and this is why I believe God chose Mary because of her heart

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because of her obedience because she's and this is how we must be like a drop of water in the Lord's

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hand flexible malleable he goes to the left she goes to the left he goes to the right she goes to the

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right her words her her knee jerk responses behold the mates there to the Lord let it be to me

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according to your word in other words may gods will be done and so I'm pleading with you this

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morning I'm asking you a question whatever happened to the will of God what happened to the will of

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God the will of God is to be sought he's a God who must be sought and the will of God is to be

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instantly embraced will it hurt sometimes yes there's always the pain of a crucifixion before

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a resurrection but there's always the glory of her you know I just last night

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it hits me so often I know I talk about it a lot but this is real to me I lived for five and a half

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years in a windowless basement where the church met at one two one east seven street in the east

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village of Manhattan that's where city lights started it was not fun living in those quarters I

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had a little cot smaller than a prison cell and at the shower in the church bathroom we built the

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showers and the kitchen was behind the worship but then the worship said but there was no heat in

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the kitchen so where I'd be living I could get it up to 75 degrees but you're going to kitchen you

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could see your breath because that was the part of the building sticking out it was an add-on

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mice everywhere scampering about every morning in the kitchen you leave those little black

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rice pellets everywhere I'm like oh you can't just like scoop that up bust out the 409 get out the

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chemicals the antibacterial the and I complain to the Lord about that Lord this I don't come from this

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be even back in Yugoslavia wouldn't live like this and now my parents immigrate here I get a great

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education I surrender it all to you to go into the ministry and now look at me I'm living like

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what is it like and that's okay the Lord's not intimidated by that Lord and I followed you I did what

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you said and I sensed in my spirit don't worry I'll get you don't worry so last night I'm just

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walking my wife and kids there in Pennsylvania had a family thing there so I'm alone so what is a

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guy alone do I walk through my house I'm worshiping God and then it just hit me I got my

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Lord you really did do what you said you do you did do that hallelujah and the way you did it

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you know I couldn't have if you told me 100 ways right down 100 ways the Lord is gonna come

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and give you a break three if I wrote down a hundred I wouldn't he did it a hundred and first way

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he's not man that he should lie and the Bible says those who put their trust in him will never

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be ashamed they'll never have their hope in him that the point is hallelujah

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so there is pain when you surrender to the will of God initially but over time a harvest a

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hundredfold harvest fruit will be born and I'm just encouraging you here this morning to receive

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the full Lordship if you want the full glory of God displayed in your life you gotta receive the

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full Lordship of Jesus into your life you can't do half and half you can't

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some people seems like it can but you don't know what's going on in their inner world

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just concerning wealth the Bible says that God will make you rich and add no sorrow to it

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your favorite influencer might be rich dying on the inside if he doesn't have Jesus

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full of sorrow hallelujah John chapter 2

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Mary became a great fan of the will of God the first message she preached if you can call

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it a message it was an encouragement to surrender to the will of God

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I've been outside of his will what an ugly feeling it's like taking a shower with your socks on

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you're still getting wet but it just feels way off just doesn't feel right

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and I know how I ended up there by oh let's read that one from Philippians first then we'll

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get to John too because I'm thinking how I got there this tells you how you get there Philippians

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chapter 3 verses 17 through 19 Paul says brethren join in following my example and note those

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who so walk as you have us for a pattern for many walk of whom I have told you often

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and now I tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ who are these people

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whose end is destruction whose God is their belly that means their own appetites what they want it's

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like Samson when he saw Delilah the exact first words out of his mouth were she looks good to me

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famous last words she looks good to me when the Bible says God is your belly it means you're

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a slave to your own appetites to your own self to what you want doing in your own way and you think

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you're the smartest person in the room and you know best and it's gonna end with you flat on your

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face and sand in your mouth God's way is always better it's always more fruitful

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and to get to that place it won't be easy it'll require you to yield

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Catherine Coolman said I have died a thousand deaths

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how many deaths have you died every time you say notice notice self note of the world

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and you remember that your life is hid with God in Christ and you've been crucified with him

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and your your heart's Christ Lord I want to do your will you know that's a prophecy about the Messiah

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when Messiah came into the world it was quote to do your will oh God every single one of us

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as little Christ Christians little Christ our hearts cry throughout the day should be to do your

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will oh God to do not to do my own thing not to figure out how much I can get away with and

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doing my own thing with you somehow still still still being with me and me making heaven

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the breakthrough comes with a totally surrendered and yielded heart

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all right now let's go to John chapter two first is one through five

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and I sympathize because it is harder than ever because the brainwashing is stronger than ever

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and the ideology forming is stronger than ever all thanks to the internet

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went down a weird rabbit hole last night did we talk about envy in this service

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in the beginning okay so it happens when you have services back to back so close

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did everybody talk about Victor

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but I talked about envy okay well it was just last night I did I talk about the parallel

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civilization in the service that was in the service thank you all

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as I didn't plan on sharing any of that so it came out off the cuff in the first

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service then I don't know in fact 80% of this isn't in my notes hallelujah but I was just making

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the point once again that that we're being programmed I mean so much more than a couple of

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generations ago it's nonstop to somebody in tech you're just a product and there's an algorithm

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designed to keep you engaged and keep milking you there's nothing for free something's for free

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you're the product on the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus

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was there now both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding and when they ran out of

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wine the mother of Jesus said to them they have no wine and Jesus said to her woman

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what does your concern have to do with me what a sexist huh the way the way he spoke to her

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and he probably said it like that too not woman woman what does your concern have to do with me

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my hour hasn't I'm gonna if you ever read that I went oh Jesus being rough with his mom

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you know what I learned early on whenever you have that feeling when you read something in

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this scriptures and something seems off immediately understand that you're the one who's off and

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not Jesus just go oh I must not be seeing this and and let's start with God is right and I'm wrong

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and now let me read that now with understanding that God is right because people have gotten so bent

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out of shape I mean about this there was a woman back in high school in the senior year of high

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school I worked in the mail room at Credit Suisse over at Tower 49 at 49th Street on Madison Avenue

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in the early 90s and there was a woman who had just gotten saved

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and she said she then like weeks later she was very upset because she saw in the Bible that God

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created the woman to be a help me for the man and she went I'm not a piece of me

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and she was all like forthin right now she went on the whole thing I'm like I'm just here to

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bring the mail but you know I was a Christian I'm not a piece of me call me a help me

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and I said I thought I didn't say anything I was two I didn't know I was only 18 and I'm like I wish

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I said something but I thought to myself I think you might be confusing MEAT

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with MWT which means a companion of equal value and associate called alongside to help

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so people have you know when somebody when somebody wants to be offended they'll find something

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you want to find and be offended you want to feel that dopamine rush of being offended clutching

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your pearls oh well I never there's plenty plenty of opportunities by the way Jesus here's not

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being rude to his wife he's actually engaging in some clever word play because she comes him and

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says hey we have no wine what is wine a symbol of what is wine represent the Holy Spirit so it's

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like she's saying hey Jesus we have no Holy Spirit and he goes hey woman what does your concern

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have to do with me my hour has not yet come whenever Jesus talks about his hour what is he talking

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about his crucifixion over and over again he says my when he goes it was my hour has finally come

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his hour is the crucifixion what happened after the crucifixion now that the sin problem has

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been cleared and taken out of the way the Holy Spirit God's new wine could come so here she is

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talking about physical wine and as a wink wink Jesus says hey I can't give him the Holy Spirit

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because my hour has not yet come amen and just calling her woman was a common thing in Aramaic

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hallelujah next verse his mother said to the servants now this is what Mary's message is

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and she actually has no message of her own other than to say whatever he says to you do it

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so after having submitted to the will of God she becomes a champion of the will of God

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and by the way what she's saying didn't make sense in the natural because Jesus is asking them to

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fill up six water pots full of water you don't just get the garden hose and fill them up the

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Bible is specific it actually says how much they contained and it was 20 to 30 gallons per water pot

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that's a lot it's a lot if you got to use a garden hose it's even more when you got to draw all that

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up from well and then and then do it for six pots so that means 150 gallons to 180 gallons

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that's a lot because the servants who does hey why are we doing this after like the 50th time they

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go to fetch water why are we feeling these well he's just wanted to he didn't even say what he was

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going to do he just said do that I mean what an opportunity to say forget this he can do it

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himself if that's what he wants but she said you got to submit to the will of God do what he's saying

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and then did I give you extra verses that I stopped here we know what happened Jesus turned

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the water into wine and this it was the best tasting wine they ever had

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which I shared in the first service and wondered if I'd share in the second I will share in the

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second what's so beautiful about this is that that wine was the best tasting properly aged wine

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how old was that wine well five seconds old right yet it tasted like it's been perfectly

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restored for a hundred years chateau that whatever kept in the cellar at the right temperature

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and the right humidity and why six water pots god here is speaking to creation you know there's

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a big debate people try to sideline you in your faith when it comes to how old the earth is

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and people can have a belief in god in his creation but then some some egghead scientists comes

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around it says well actually I carbon dated this rock and it's two billion years old

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maybe maybe god made it old when god made Adam how old was Adam Adam was one second old when he

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was formed but yet he probably had the body of a 25 30 year old right when god made the oak tree

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he didn't make a little seedling he made a fully formed oak tree that looked like it was several

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hundred years old but it was just seconds old the six water parts I like the six days of creation

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and if god could take water and turn it into finally aged wine Jesus is I believe saying

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that in the six days of creation god made that mountain old already hundreds of millions years old

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god made everything local so that because people will do the genealogical math and say hey it looks

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like we have a young earth the earth is only six thousand years old but how come when we carbon

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dated it looks like it's hundreds of millions years old now you know hallelujah

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because god could have made it a trillion years old so how old is it then it's a second old

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but it's also a trillion years old just like the wine hallelujah first Samuel 15

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verse 20 there's no sweeter pillow to sleep on than the pillow of a clear conscience

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and Saul said to Samuel now just a little bit of background here

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Saul was doing his Frankie thing I did it my way

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his burger king thing your way right away and he was king

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and he had he had I'm sorry I'm chuckling because I'm remembering

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being like 19 20 years old and reading through the Old Testament the first time

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and god gives these great specifics to how to build the the tabernacle right down to how many

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like nails to use like really specific and there's this instance where like god says use four

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beams and the guy uses five something like that and as he does that fire comes on from heaven and

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consumes him I'm reading this for the first time and I think to myself this is odd I'm on the

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floor reading praying drawing into the Lord and I go I go Lord what what are you saying here

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and I knew right away he's saying I prefer it my way do it my way if I say four beams used

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for beams if I say three nails don't get cute if I tell you go live in a basement and I'll get

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you back on the other side do it whatever I tell you to do do it don't be the problem do it my way

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I'll make sure your reap a mighty harvest here Saul he was king not a priest he shouldn't have

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been making sacrifices so he went out of bounds and that's really what I'm talking about here

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staying in bounds there you cannot live your life out of bounds there's no number of prayer lines

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you can call no amount of times you can go to the ministry team no amount of times you get me to

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pray for you me with you that can help if you're just consistently intentionally out of bounds

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Saul said to Samuel I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and gone on the mission on which the Lord

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sent me and brought back a gag of king of amalach I've utterly destroyed the amalachites

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but the people took of the plunder sheep and oxen they weren't supposed to take any plunder the best

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of the things which should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice to the Lord your God and Gilgau

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so Samuel said has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices

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as in obeying the voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than exterior or external religious

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activity that's what sacrifice means in this context God is after our obedience more than anything

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we can do externally that might demonstrate that we're we're loving him we're serving him we're

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keeping in touch with him whatever it may be I'm this is not a message where the pastor is now

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beating you all you got to submit you got to submit you got to receive his lordship this is me

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wanting to end unnecessary pain and suffering this is me inviting those who are still playing

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hoki pokey with the Lord would one foot in and one foot out one foot in and one foot out playing

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these games and you're frustrated and yeah you love the Lord you tell yourself whatever you got

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to tell yourself you love the Lord he knows your heart you know God knows my yes he knows your

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heart he loves you but he knows your heart is wicked right now and you're in rebellion and you

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need to stop stop doing it your way you've tried that now what has it gotten you and now you're

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gonna I mean it's a form of insanity do the same thing over and over again I expect a different

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result right and now you're just chronically in rebellion it's not gonna change do you really

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want your gravestone to say here lies so and so made it to heaven by the skin of his teeth

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it was the mercy and grace of God they still believed and so we believe they're with the Lord

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but really their life was riddled with just rebellion and doing things their own way their whole

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life so quiet here today Luke 646 worship team come on up

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when I had had when I had had my life intertwined in rebellion because one thing to just do

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something and then oh repent and immediately come back but if you persist in a rebellious

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courts of action relationships develop other things other elements even finances relationships

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social structure all those things get intertwined that makes it more difficult to just cut and turn

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but God is an expert not unraveler

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in Daniel it actually says they had an anointing to unravel knots you ever see a good knot

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you have if you had kids take one of their shoes it's like six sailors got nothing and a kid's

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knot I've had shoes where I'm like I said I'm throwing these out it's cheaper for me for my mental

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health to get a new pair of shoes then sit here for another hour trying to make these two straight

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laces that's how I felt like my life was and of course the rebellion but I still are to help me

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and you know what he did he helped me and he came in and he disrupted wouldn't either disrupting

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with with minimal blowback he got me back to where I needed to get to and he'll do the same for you

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I'm trying to tell you that Satan could be lying to you right now saying oh you know what he's saying

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is true you know this is the word of God you know the message is true but if you listen to this

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message and if you submit to the Lord oh the pain you're gonna endure oh it'll be like 10

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galives coming against you everything in your life will change and then Satan is trying to get

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you to quit and just keep on doing it your way no no let the song of your heart this week be Lord

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help me you can be still entrenched in your rebellion but with a sincere heart cry out Lord

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get me on the right path Lord I realize this is stupid I realize I was stupid help me Jesus

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help me clean my life of this unnecessary baggage get me into the perfect center of your perfect

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will where I know there is safety there is blessing there's provision there's peace get me there

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Lord and he'll do it and the beautiful thing is that he won't he won't I mean I joke about me and I

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call myself stupid and I call myself the like how I behave but you know that scripture in James

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where he says ask of the Lord he gives off willingly an upgrade if not you know what that means

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he means he won't make you feel dumb he won't make you feel bad about yourself you never ever

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does he do that I may do that to me if I've done it to you forgive me but the good news is the Lord

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is way better than me and he'll never do that to you now these are the words of Jesus but why do

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you call me Lord Lord and do not the things which I say that's a mic drop why why call him Lord

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if he's just Lord sometimes no you've then recreated God in your own image a God who winked

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said rebellion and is okay with doing your you doing your own thing and he's not

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whoever comes to me and hears my sayings and does them I will show you whom he is like he is like a

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man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock and when the flood arose the

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stream beat vehemently against that house and could not shake it for it was founded on the rock

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so Jesus says two types of people one who just hears what I say doesn't do it and one who hears

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what I say and actually does it the one who actually does it he's got a deep foundation he's building

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his house the house of his life on a rock but he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a

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house on the earth without a foundation against which the stream beat vehemently and immediately

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it fell and the ruin of that house was great heavenly father I pray that this church is full of

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people who are submitted and yielded and building their house upon a rock who is Christ everybody

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stand to your feet right now hallelujah father let all rebellion let all pride let all stiff neckness

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doing whatever's right in our own eyes let it all fall by the wayside in Jesus name I want to

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invite you to pray a prayer of dedication and consecration like Jesus did when he said not my will

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but yours be done if you want to participate surrender your life to the Lord of fresh

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say this prayer at the top of your lungs say with your whole chest dear Lord Jesus

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you gave me your life I give you mine I surrender to your lordship but I cannot do it alone

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I'm powerless help me fill me with the Holy Spirit guide me break chains off of me

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cause me to be in your will only in Jesus name a man hallelujah yeah I felt that lift and pop off

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hallelujah hallelujah go ahead and be seated we should also have you know we have testimonies

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of people celebrating the great things God has done I wonder if anyone's ever tried reverse

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testimonies like we should because I'm always sharing but I can't share I feel like I'm more

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transparent than most pastors I mean guys if you've been with me for a while you know everything

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about my life the good the bad and the ugly I hold nothing back I mean there's stuff if you're

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new you're like wonder what he's talking about wild stuff what you have to do is watch 2000 hours

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of sermons on YouTube to figure out what I'm talking about so I can be the only one talking about

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where I got it wrong we should have reverse testimonies where it's like 10 people who say this is

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what I was doing and went off course and this is exactly what happened as a result of my rebellion

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that's that's what I'm talking about everybody will leave totally depressed there's no hope there

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but but something would have been learned are you all ready to honor the Lord with your tides and

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offerings give with joy give with a glad heart given faith that given faith means you're believing

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and I just giving away your money you're sewing seed and you're going to reap a harvest in return

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if you would let's just well whenever they're giving this yeah the QR code there's three different

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ways to give and eventually it's not even worth putting up this week because the graphic came

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in too small you can't see it past your third row but we have this end of the year giving campaign

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our goal is a hundred thousand dollars first feuds of the future this is for people we're saying I'm

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going to sew now into my 2026 I'm going to give whatever the Lord has me to give what am I asking

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you to do I'm asking you to simply ask God what would you have me give specifically to this campaign

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last year we were like halfway met and then somebody said I'll get the other half that's awesome I

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love how God does that that's beautiful for the couple that said they do that lovely but it's

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that ideal still it's great for them but it's not ideal ideal is that everybody does their part

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everybody asks God I mean if you can hear God and what to give how are you going to hear him about

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other parts of your life what to give is like the quickest thing he re-enters the quickest thing you

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hear so ask just ask God what would you have me give some people don't ask because they're free

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to ask you know like Lord I know you you're generous with my money I'm not going to ask you

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and he's like well that's your problem you still think it's your money so aren't you glad that

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I'm not getting up you're going some of you can give five hundred dollars some of you there's

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ten yes there's ten people in here who can give ten thousand dollars yes no I'm asking you to

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go to the Lord ask him what he'd have you give you want prayer go to the ministry area that

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bluely lit section need the blues prayed off for you go to the blue area they'll lay hands on you

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see the anointing of God come upon you let's all stand hey sing this song don't just jet out

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this song is perfect because that's what we're asking for the refiner's fire to burn us out of us

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that's what I want I get in my own way refine us so God be blessed city light church

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this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message

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