Bobby Chandler - Dangerous Compromises (Part 1)

June 18, 2026 | 21:56

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - Dangerous Compromises (Part 1) | June 18, 2026

These idols creep in a little at a time.
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It doesn't just happen right away.
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It happens with a small compromise.
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It's really start to think, what are you allowing?
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How did you get there?
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Why did you make that decision that you regret now?
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What things took place to lead you there?
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Start to notice the little things
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That you give into that allow you to become numb,
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That influence you to do the wrong things.
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I'm so glad you guys are here.
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I pray that you enjoyed some time with family last week.
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I didn't miss you guys, but let me ask you this question.
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Who really enjoyed the christmas service that we had this year?
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Come on, give god some praise on that.
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Just being together wasn't that amazing.
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Like seeing the entire church
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Under one roof and the building all together.
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And it was just amazing seeing everybody just filled up
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The room.
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I believe we had anywhere from 1300 to 1500 people in
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That room that day.
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And so it gets me excited over
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What god is doing this year for us. okay,
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Because it's a new year and god is doing exciting things.
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We now own 23 acres that we're going to build on.
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Hallelujah.
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And also with that being said, we're going to be moving
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Into a transition space very, very soon, as soon as we can.
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Once the renovations are done
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And we're going to add more room for people.
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And this month, i'm excited.
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I know
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Avery already touched on it,
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But we're celebrating the year of seven guys.
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It's been
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Seven years of ministry, and i've been excited about this
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Because the number seven means completion out of the bible,
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Eight means new beginnings.
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So i'm excited about the eighth year as well,
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But we can just see
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All the new things that god is doing and putting together.
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Hallelujah.
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And so i believe we're going to see a lot,
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A lot more miracles to come.
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And so i want to say thank you to everybody
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To that's watching online
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Because we have people watching from all over the world.
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You mean so much to us.
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And so make sure to drop a comment down below.
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That way we can see where you're watching from.
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And if you're new to make sure to click that link.
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It will help us get connected with you.
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And if you're new in the house of the lord today,
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I want to say thank you for joining us.
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You came on a good day.
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You're starting off the new year, right?
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Because today we're starting a new series.
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I'm very excited about this series.
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It is titled still growing, still growing
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Because believe it or not, we are all still growing.
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Nobody in this room has arrived.
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Okay.
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God is still teaching me new things.
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Jesus is still teaching you new things.
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And we're going to learn.
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And we're going to grow together.
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Because the truth is, it doesn't matter
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How long you've been saved,
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You can be saved for a very long time
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And still be spiritually immature.
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You could have given your life over to christ a long time ago,
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Been baptized up to church every single sunday
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And still make the wrong decisions,
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Still do the wrong things,
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And still feel like you're caught up in the addictions
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That jesus has come to set you free from.
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And so i want to talk about spiritual maturity
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And what it means to still grow.
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And we're hitting in that time, right?
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This is that time we're going to hear the phrase
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That we always hear a new year, a new you.
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And some of you are excited about that.
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You've already ordered your planner off of amazon.
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You know who you are.
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Like every year you get one and you've decked it out.
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You put stickers on it
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Like you're like, this year i'm going to use it.
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I'm going to go to the gym.
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I got high hopes, right.
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New year, new you.
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Okay, so i came to preach the truth.
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Okay?
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And i love you.
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But i came to preach revelations.
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And here's the truth.
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Just because it's a new year,
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It does not automatically mean it's a new you.
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You can step into 2026, still making the same
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Bad decisions and relationships.
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Being broken, feeling left in pieces.
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Okay, you can step into 2026.
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Still choosing the same habits
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That drain you and still listening to the same negative
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Thoughts that tear you apart and bring you down.
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You can even make the same excuses you make every year.
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I'll just change this about me next year, right
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When the following year comes, then i'll do it.
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Then i'll step up. i'm just not ready for it now.
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Because the truth is,
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The calendar can change, but your heart can stay the same.
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And that's a big problem in a
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Lot of our lives because we want to grow.
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We do want a new me, a new you to spiritually grow
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And understand the word of god.
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And so what is it that's really holding us back?
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And i believe james says it best.
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So james here is the half brother of jesus.
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And here's what he says in
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James chapter one verses 22 through 24.
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And he says this don't just listen to god's word.
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You ready for this?
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You must actually do what it says.
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Somebody needs to underline that right now, okay?
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Don't just listen to the word of god.
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You also need to apply it.
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You need to do what it says.
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Otherwise it's in this.
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For you are only fooling yourselves.
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For if you listen to the word and don't obey it,
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It's like glancing at your face in a mirror.
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You see yourself, you walk away and you forget immediately
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What you look like.
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I'm going to break down what james is saying,
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But let me make it clear here.
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It means you can show up to church every sunday.
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You can even take notes.
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You can say amen,
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And you can walk out of this building
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Making the same decisions
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That don't involve jesus in your life.
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So breaking your heart, so doing the wrong things.
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And so james is saying, listen,
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The word of god is meant to
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Show you what's on the inside so that you can change it
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And be convicted over that
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Conviction is a really good thing, by the way.
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It's part of god's love.
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He convicts us so that we change.
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Now don't get it twisted with what satan does.
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Satan doesn't convict. he condemns.
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Okay, so if you ever hear the voice
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Of condemnation telling you you're not good enough,
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You're never going to change. understand?
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That's not the voice of god that's from the enemy.
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But god will bring conviction into our life.
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Show us what's on the inside.
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And so let me break it down for you.
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Let me say it like this.
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God's word is a mirror, not a window.
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What do i mean by that? in a window,
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When you look outside, what do you do?
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You judge everything around you.
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Some of us love it when the bible points out
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What's wrong in culture.
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We love it
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When the bible points out what's wrong in our friends.
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Okay, when it points out what's wrong
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Even in our spouse, no pointing please.
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In this room, okay?
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When it comes to somebody else, oh,
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I'd love to open up the bible to really put you in your place.
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We love to point the finger.
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And james is saying, no, no, no.
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The word of god is pointing the finger at
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You. when's the last time you looked in the mirror?
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When's the last time you stop blaming
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Everybody else for the problems you have?
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Because if it keeps having
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Happening in your life, maybe there's a reason.
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Maybe it's the things that you're doing.
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Maybe it's the things that you were saying.
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And so what james is saying is that the word of god
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Is meant to convict you on what's on the inside.
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You see yourself, though, and you walk away.
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Here's the dangerous thing, and you forget what you look like.
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So what he's saying here
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Is, don't look in the mirror and see the reflection
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By god's word, and then choose not to repent.
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Because here's the dangerous part about that.
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How many times has god convicted you
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But you did nothing about it?
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How many times has god spoken to you?
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Maybe a word on a sunday morning,
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Maybe just during the day,
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Maybe just a random moment while you're at work
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And god is convicting you over something,
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But you don't do it, and then the dangerous thing assist you.
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Let the moment slip away,
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You're no longer convicted, and you
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No longer want repentance or change in your life.
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You heard the word you say to a man, to the word,
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But you did nothing about it in your life.
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How do you expect change?
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And so this is going to be a hard word today,
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But it's a deep word
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That actually brings the change that you desire.
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God is saying, listen to my voice.
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It's all about trust, by the way.
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That's what it's about.
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Do you trust
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God to listen to his voice,
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To believe that he knows better than you?
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And so we're going to see this growth in our life.
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But in order to be obedient.
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All right, let me say it like this.
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Instead of a new year, new you, let's say it like this.
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New year, obedient you.
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This is the year you're going to walk
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In obedience in god's word.
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And in order to do that,
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You must be aware
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Of the small compromises that bring dangers into your life.
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And so the title of today's message
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Is this the dangerous compromises.
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I want to show you today that it's the little things,
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The things that you think are no big deal, the small things
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That start in the beginning of your mission of your life.
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As you're trying to see change that you allow,
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That can slowly become something very big.
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Because again, what you feed, even if it's a little bit,
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Starts to grow. okay.
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And so for the rest of this month,
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I want to examine, to learn
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And to grow from the life of king solomon.
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So we're going to look at the entire life of king solomon.
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And i love his story because solomon is called by god.
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He is the son of king david.
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And if you know the story, you know that
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He becomes the wisest man who ever lived.
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Besides jesus christ, who is the wisest of them all.
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But even though he has this reputation
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And he did amazing things, incredible things in the world,
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If you look at the beginning of his story,
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He still felt like he wasn't worthy.
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He still felt like he didn't have what it took to be
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The king over the nation of israel,
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Even though he did great things.
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So let me let me say it like this.
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Because maybe you're struggling in this area.
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You can be anointed and still be scared.
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Okay?
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You can be called by god
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And still be afraid to step into the new season.
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Just because you're called by god doesn't mean that you're
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Not going to feel fear.
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It's actually just a revelation that reveals to you
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How bad you need god through it all.
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Because who gets the credit?
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In the end?
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The answer is not you.
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The answer is jesus.
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Jesus is going to call you into things that you can never
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Do by yourself, and you can't.
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And that's what gives god all the glory.
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Okay, but i want you to hear the words of king solomon
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At the very beginning of his leadership
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In first kings chapter three, verse seven. listen to this.
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He said, now, o lord my god,
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You have made me king instead of my father david.
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But i listen to how he feels.
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I am like a little child who doesn't know his way around.
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Now, i believe this is interesting,
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But scholars do believe
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When he stepped into kingship, he was around the age of 18.
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So solomon is being real right here.
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He's around the age of 18.
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Can you imagine being an 18 year old,
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Stepping into kingship now running the nation of israel?
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And so he's very honest with the lord.
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He's saying, god, i'm afraid i still feel like a child.
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I am a child, pretty much.
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I don't know what to do.
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And i'm going to lead these people.
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And so what we see at the beginning, it's this humility.
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And by the way, this is not weakness.
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Please understand this.
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Men in the room.
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It's not a weak thing to humble yourself before god
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And to say, god, i don't know what to do.
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I don't know how to provide.
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I don't know the answers to these things
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That my family is looking for me towards.
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I don't know what to do, but i will humble myself before
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You and i can ask you, god, give me wisdom i don't have.
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You know you can do that.
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You don't have to have it all figured out.
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In fact, you were not created to have it all figured out.
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Stop putting that pressure on yourself
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And come before the presence of god.
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This is not weakness and humility.
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God honors humility.
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Luke chapter 14, verse 11. now listen to this.
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For those who exalt themselves will be what will be humbled.
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You know somebody like that.
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All right.
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Every time you start to talk about
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An accomplishment in your life, they're like,
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Yeah, yeah, i did that five years ago.
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You should hear about these things in my life.
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And it brings you down a little bit.
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Why? okay.
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Because they're talking about themselves
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Like they're better than you
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And you don't have to get even with them.
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You don't have to get jealous.
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You don't have to start comparing.
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No, no, no.
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God says, listen.
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Those that exalt themselves,
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Those that are prideful, guess what?
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They will be humbled.
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And by the way, god does that as a sign of love
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To change people and convict people.
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We learn that from stories like king nebuchadnezzar,
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Who was humbled over his pride and actually came to the lord
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Through it.
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But here it is. here's the promise.
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But those who humble themselves will be what will be exalted.
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So just be humble.
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Just a myth that you don't have the answers.
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Just trust in him and at the right time.
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God is the one that exalts you.
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But pride comes to kill your calling, okay?
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Pride will always come to kill your calling.
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But humility, it's going to
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Lead you into everything that god has for you. but
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Here's why i wanted to study the life of king solomon.
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Because in the beginning, king
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Solomon does all the right things.
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It seems like it his heart is in the right place.
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He's saying, god, give me wisdom
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So that i can lead the people in and out.
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He specifically chose that phrase because it represents his
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Father, david, leading the people of israel
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In and out of war.
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He's saying, god, i don't know how to lead
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These people into battle i'm afraid of.
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I just don't know what to do.
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He does everything right in the beginning.
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But then there's a warning that comes from the life of solomon.
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And here's what we learn.
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Wisdom alone, though great, though wonderful.
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And the bible highly recommends having wisdom and knowledge
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In the word of god.
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But it isn't enough to keep your heart obedient.
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You know, it keeps your heart obedient.
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It's not just knowledge and information in your head,
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It's actually surrendering everything over to the lord.
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I think this is fascinating because another story
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I love out of the bible is the story of samson.
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We said to him last year, and in samson's
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Life, god gave him supernatural strength,
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Yet he could not fight the lust that was on the inside of him.
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Now here's a man who is extremely wise,
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Has everything in his fingertips,
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Yet still struggles with the same thing.
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Verse kings 11, verses four through six states
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This in solomon's old age they, meaning his wives,
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Listen to this turned his heart to worship
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Other gods instead of being completely faithful to the lord
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His god, as his father david had been.
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And it gets worse than that because it starts off
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As a small compromise
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And a relationship that he should not be in,
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And then it opens up a door for worse things.
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And then solomon started to worship astaroth,
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The goddess of the sedona, and molech,
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The detestable god, the ammonites.
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By the way,
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When when people came to worship these gods,
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There was prostitution taking place.
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And they were
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They were sacrificing children to these idols.
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And somehow i just want you to see this,
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Because solomon didn't plan for his kingship to end here.
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When he started in the beginning, he had no idea that
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That was going to come.
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But it's the small little compromises.
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You don't see the things that you think are no big deal
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That can lead to idols feeling your heart.
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And next thing you know, you're sacrificing
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The very thing god gave you as a blessing.
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And he started to worship these other
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Gods, the detestable god of the ammonites.
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Listen to the wording there and in this way, solomon, here
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It is.
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He did what was even in the lord's sight.
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How did he get here?
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Because he refused
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To follow the lord completely.
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Is that where you are?
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God, i want to grow.
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I want to dive deeper.
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I want to follow you.
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But there's still some areas of my life i just refuse.
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I refuse when it comes to dating.
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I refuse when it comes to where i am on the weekends, i refuse.
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When it comes to forgiving, i refuse
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When it comes to these people because i can't stand them.
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Are there things in your life that you're refusing
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To give over to god, and it keeps
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Allowing an open door for idols to come into your life?
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And so again, wisdom is powerful,
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But it cannot compete with a divided heart.
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And so i want to ask the question,
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How did solomon get here?
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And what can we learn from his story to apply to our own lives?
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So if you have your bibles, turn the first kings chapter three.
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We're going to be in first kings
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Chapter three for the rest of the sermon.
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Okay, i'm going to have some other scriptures
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I'll bring in, but mostly in first kings chapter three.
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And we're going to start
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At the beginning of solomon's story,
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Because i'm telling you,
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There were little things that we read
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That we don't pay attention to that happened. okay.
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So the first point is this small compromises
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Start early when no one is paying attention.
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That's why it's sneaky.
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I think a lot of times we're like, you know what?
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The devil can't mess with me
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Because i'm going to know, i'm going to recognize it.
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And sometimes we think the devil is just going to come
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Full attack mode, right?
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Just bring everything into our life.
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We're going to recognize it. no, no, no, it's a little time.
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You understand that?
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It's a little time. it's just a small open door.
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It's just trust me here.
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Trust me there.
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Because the more the devil can try
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To build up some deception, some some trust in your life
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Over his way instead of god's way.
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The more you let him in,
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The more you let these demons in.
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So small compromises start early
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When no one is paying attention. let me also say like this.
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What you allow
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Or what you tolerate today can dominate you tomorrow.
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The thing that seems like it's
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No big deal, it can consume you tomorrow.
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It can break up your family and tear you apart.
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And as far as mentally as well, can bring in depression,
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Anxiety, frustration.
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Okay, so let's start by reading and i'll break it down first.
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Kings chapter three, verses one through three.
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I'm going to read
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The amplified version here because i like the description
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That it gives, but it states that solomon became.
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It's the beginning of his kingship.
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He became a son in law to the pharaoh, king of egypt.
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And so he formed an alliance
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By taking pharaoh's daughter now in marriage.
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And he brought her to the city of david,
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Where she remained temporarily until he had finished
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Building his own house, which is the palace, and built
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For the name of the lord, for there was no permanent house yet
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For the name of the lord at all.
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And he also built the wall around jerusalem.
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But listen to this.
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But in the meantime
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The people were still sacrificing
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To god on the high places on the hilltops.
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And if you were to read
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That, you would think, okay, they're building altars
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And they're still sacrificing to yahweh.
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This is not a bad thing.
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But then it states here, as the pagans did
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With their idols, okay?
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For there was no permanent
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House yet built in the name of the lord.
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And so since there was
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No permanent house yet, no temple yet,
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They had to go to
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The tabernacle, which is about 5 to 6 miles away in gibeon.
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And instead of just traveling
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To gibeon as the law commanded them to do,
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They would see it as an inconvenience.
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I know god
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Told me to go over there
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To to sacrifice over there, but that seems a little
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Inconvenient for me.
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So let me go ahead and just build an altar
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On one of the high places,
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And i'll just do that because that's here.
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I'm still honoring god.
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I still have good intentions. right?
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But they're on the high place.
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It's just like, who else did this?
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Who else did this? the pagans.
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So notice that in the wording here,
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The pagans did the exact same thing with their idols.
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They're starting to worship god by copying culture.
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That's very dangerous.
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Please hear me on that.
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They started to feel the pressure
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To look like everybody else around them.
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If they did it, i can do it too.
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So they did this.
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Now solomon again, he has good intentions.
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He loved the lord walking at first
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In the statutes of david, his father.
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Except
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Don't miss that,
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Except for the fact that he also sacrificed
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And burned incense in the high places.
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And here's why i like the amplified version.
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It adds this ignoring the law, the law of moses that required
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All sacrifices to be offered at the tabernacle.
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And so he's following the lord. he loves god.
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Except in this area of my life, i feel like we can all relate
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To that.
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There's two red flags that we see from the beginning
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Of saul's kingship.
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The first one is this solomon loved god
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With his words, but compromise with his habits.
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All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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There is a reason you heard this word today.
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It's not by mistake.
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You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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And listen,
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Bobby Chandler - Dangerous Compromises (Part 1)

June 18, 2026 | 21:56

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