Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church

Bobby Chandler - Insane Pride (Part 1)

July 10, 2025 | 24:58

Pastor Bobby Chandler teaches about the dangers of pride and encourages believers to give God control.

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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - Insane Pride (Part 1) | July 10, 2025

And now he has given us an assignment.
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And that assignment is to spread the gospel all over the world.
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So today we get to celebrate jesus.
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You don't have to fight him anymore.
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You don't have to run away.
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It doesn't matter what you did in the past.
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He is pursuing you since the day you were born.
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There are people that are so stubborn
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And powerful and they don't know.
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I built this lesson.
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You didn't build that.
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God, place that blessing in your life.
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And you need to be careful,
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Because god can take it away tomorrow.
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Everything belongs to the lord.
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You didn't build. anything.
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But so many times we hear this voice of pride
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Saying, look at what i built.
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Look at how beautiful it is.
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I am in control of. my own life.
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It is a sneaky little liar.
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Because the truth is, when pride grows.
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Trust in god starts to die.
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As pride is growing in your heart.
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Your faith in god starts to die. why?
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Because if you believe the lie
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That you don't need god,
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That you can be in control of all things.
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Guess what you will never do.
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You will never get on your knees saying, god, meet me today.
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That's such a beautiful moment.
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We all need that.
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Listen, we're not in control of tomorrow.
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Things happen. life gets hard.
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But there's something beautiful
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About getting on your knees before the lord saying, god,
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I need. you to show up.
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God, i need you to hear my voice.
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If you don't rescue my marriage
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Today, it's not going to be here anymore.
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God, if you don't help me heal over this,
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I'm going to be bitter for the rest of my life.
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God, will you meet me today?
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Pride wants to steal that away from you.
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Pride will tell
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You you don't need anybody.
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Stop looking.
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Weak.
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Pride will tell you.
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You don't have to ask people to pray for you.
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You don't need anybody there in your life.
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You don't need god.
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You can just take control.
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Pride is a liar.
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And pride knows that you really can't do it
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On your own.
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You can't mentally
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Handle it on your own.
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You cannot.
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James chapter four, verse six.
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Even states it like this now.
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God opposes the proud,
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But gives a grace to the humble.
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A lot of times when we see this verse,
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We are fixated on the idea that yes, god is good.
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He gives grace to the humble.
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But don't miss the other verse.
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God opposes the proud.
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Notice that the verse doesn't state it like this.
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God dislikes the proud.
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No, he opposes it.
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He comes against it.
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God wages war against those that are proud. why?
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Because the pride will always lead you into
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Spiritual rebellion.
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And i was thinking about this earlier.
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If you remember the story of king saul.
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King saul was the first king of israel,
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But he's rebelling against god. the prophet samuel told him.
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Why do you keep rebelling against god?
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And then the prophet samuel said this.
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He said, listen, your rebellion is as wicked as witchcraft.
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It's the same thing in the eyes of the lord. why?
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Because you're trying to take control.
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And every day is a supernatural fight.
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The thing is, you're fighting it the wrong way.
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You're doing the wrong things.
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You're believing that you have the upper hand.
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So god opposes pride because pride
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Is leading us straight to hell.
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I'm not going to sugarcoat that.
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Pride will lead you straight to hell.
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It is spiritual rebellion
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Telling god i'm going to do things my way, not your way.
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What is the first sin?
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Pride is what caused the fall of satan.
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The first sin against god.
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Listen to this.
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Isaiah 2014, verse 12 and 13 talking about satan.
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Hear how you have fallen from heaven,
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O shining star, son of the morning.
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And this is where we get the terminology lucifer right there.
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You have been brought or been thrown down to earth.
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You who destroyed.
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The nations of the world.
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For you said to yourself, listen to what satan said.
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I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above god's stars.
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Now stars out of the book of revelation
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And many times throughout the bible represent angels.
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So here's what satan is saying.
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He's going to put his throne.
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Above god's throne,
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And he's going to be the leader of all the angels.
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And this is why one third, one third of the angels
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Fell from heaven because of the deceitful lies of pride.
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Satan said, he's going to put his throne above god's.
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But verse 15 tells us that didn't happen.
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Instead, listen to this.
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You will be brought down to the place of the dead,
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Down to its lowest depths.
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Satan knows where he's going.
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So he's trying to pull us with him.
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But my jesus has rescued us from this.
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But in order to be rescued, you have to let
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Go of your pride.
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Some of this pride.
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Also, the second thing is this.
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Pride turned a paradise into a world of pain.
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Think about it like that.
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Now, of course we know this at the genesis account.
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But what about your own life?
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The blessings that god has given you.
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Trust me.
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It can become a world of pain once pride comes in.
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Pride will always lead to a separation,
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Especially within your relationship.
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When pride gets the best of you,
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You're not there for somebody else.
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You're only there for yourself.
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You're the only one. that's right.
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You don't want to hear from somebody else.
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You're the only one that's right in your own eyes.
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It causes a separation and see pride
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Is what tempted
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Adam and eve as satan deceives her.
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She believed that she disobeyed.
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God did things her way.
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She can be like god.
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Look at this.
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Genesis chapter three,
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Verse four and five.
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Satan said, you won't die.
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Serpent applied to the woman.
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For god knows that your eyes will be open.
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Your eyes have been closed,
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And you will eat it.
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And you'll be like god now, knowing both good and evil.
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And i've been kind of studying
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That just the way that it's worded.
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And i'm wondering how satan is manipulating the truth here.
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He's almost saying, you know what?
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You can follow good, or you can follow evil.
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Now you'll know about both,
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And you can choose which path you want to take.
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You don't have to follow god.
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You could be the god of your.
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That's right.
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But you know what?
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We've all heard that voice, haven't we?
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Let's be honest.
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You can't say here in church.
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No, no, no, i've never heard that voice.
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I've always wanted to do the right thing.
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Liar.
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All of us have heard that voice.
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Like, what if you just did it your way?
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You don't have to follow god, but yet it leads to destruction.
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Proverbs chapter 16, verse 18.
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Pride goes before destruction and haughtiness before a fall.
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But here's the good news
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God loves you so much he is offering you a way out.
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That's what i love about the bible.
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Okay, there's so many people that say, you know what?
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The devil made me do it?
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The devil forced me to eat this last ice cream
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And lie about it.
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You know, like the devil made me do these things in my life.
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No, no, no.
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The devil can't make you do anything.
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Because the bible says in every temptation that comes your way.
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God provides a way out.
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There is always an open door to leave.
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But there also is an open door for demons to come in.
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Which path are you choosing?
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Let's be honest.
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Why are you butting heads with god right now?
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What area of your life
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Are you not surrendering over to the lord?
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Why are you fighting so much?
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For some of
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Us, it's just busyness.
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We're distracted.
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We're living for all these other things.
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And by the time
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We actually come into the presence of god, we're tired
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And we can barely focus.
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Do you understand?
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That's the strategy of the enemy.
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Because you'll never be able to fight the spiritual fight.
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Tired and distracted and focused on the wrong things.
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So god always gives us a way out.
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And here's why i love the story of daniel.
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Okay?
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Because out of
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The book of daniel, we see this king named nebuchadnezzar,
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And he literally is possessed by this demon of pride.
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That's what we're going to talk about today.
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He loses his mind.
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He has everything he's ever wanted, yet
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He loses his mind, loses everything overnight.
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And you would think god would say, ha!
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Like you came after my people.
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You destroyed solomon's temple.
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You brought my people into captivity.
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But here's the crazy thing about this story.
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God pursues. nebuchadnezzar.
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God rescues him
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And changes his life.
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God will change your life today
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If you accept him
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And allow it.
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And so the title of today's message is this insane pride.
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Insane pride.
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If you have your bibles,
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You can turn to daniel in chapter four.
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And when we started this series,
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I told you guys that king nebuchadnezzar. what?
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This ruthless king, was this ruthless king of babylon.
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He took in many of the people of israel
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Into captivity, destroyed solomon's temple.
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But then all of a sudden, he had this nightmare.
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And the only one that can interpret or understand
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The meaning of the dream, or even know
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The dream was daniel with his friends.
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So that's how god. elevated daniel and his friends.
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But now god is speaking to him again,
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And god is going to give him another nightmare, but this time
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To warn him about the way he is living.
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So let's look at it together.
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Point number one.
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Is this god warns the proud.
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And before i start reading, let me also help you understand
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This, okay?
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God warns the proud.
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That is god's mercy.
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God is a just judge.
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That's what makes him good.
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Meaning he judges evil and wickedness.
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But throughout the entire bible, before god brings judgment,
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Guess what?
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He brings first
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A warning.
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Before god brings judgment.
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Every time this is the character of god.
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Before he brings judgment.
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God will always provide a warning.
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All the prophets
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In the old testament
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Say, speak to the people of israel
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That have turned their backs on god.
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He brings judgment.
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Hey, this judgment is coming.
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But here's the warning so that you can repent.
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That is very important to understand why?
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Because so many people say, you know what?
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The god of the old testament
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Seems different from the new testament. no, he didn't.
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He always showed mercy,
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But he always told them what was coming.
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But if they just repent and change,
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Their situation would change.
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They just didn't want to listen to god many times.
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So this is his mercy. let's read.
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Here's the start of the story
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Daniel chapter four, verses one through three.
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King nebuchadnezzar
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Sent this message to the people of every race, nation,
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And language throughout the world.
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Now listen to this wording here.
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King nebuchadnezzar.
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Said, peace and prosperity.
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To you.
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I want you all to know about the.
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Miraculous.
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Signs and wonders of the most high god,
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And what he has performed for me.
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How great are his signs?
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You know, it's almost.
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Imagine him like raising his hands right here.
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How great are his signs, how powerful his words.
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His kingdom will last forever.
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His rule.
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His rule throughout all generation.
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And so i'm reading this
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And i almost think to myself, like, hold up,
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Is this king nebuchadnezzar or is this king david?
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Because it doesn't sound like a psalm.
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And so many of us would hear this,
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Especially if we were living in the days of babylon.
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We would hear this
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And we would think, okay, finally, oh never gets it.
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Like king nebuchadnezzar is following yahweh.
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He's praising him.
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Everything is good.
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But the thing is, he's not following yahweh.
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He's saying what sounds right, but
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He's still not giving his life over to god.
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This is where we mature.
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This is where we get to be careful,
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Because so many believers.
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Today are being deceived by people
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That are saying the right thing,
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But not have not surrendered their life over to god,
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Have not been living for the lord at all.
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This is where we need to wake up,
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Because not everyone who sounds spiritual has surrendered
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Their life to god. not everybody
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Who's raising their hands and prays has repented.
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We see it today all the time.
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Look within culture.
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We got some of these people winning awards
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For doing blasphemous things.
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I want to thank god.
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What god are you thinking?
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Who are you thinking?
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Because that doesn't represent the god that i know
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In what you're doing and how you're living.
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And so here's the thing about king nebuchadnezzar.
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He is praising god. he's praising yahweh.
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At the same time, he still worships demons.
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So we have to see these things in his life.
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He has not matured yet, but he's getting there.
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Nebuchadnezzar clearly was amazed by god,
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But he never surrendered.
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His life over to the lord.
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Now, at this point.
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Here's my burden.
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How many of us are showing up
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To church saying the right things?
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Raising our hands?
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But you have never surrendered your life over to god.
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This is between you and the lord.
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See, a lot of us will pray and say, jesus, be my savior.
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We like that
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Because he died on the cross, redeemed us, restored
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Us, and has forgiven us.
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He's been our savior.
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He is our savior.
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But are you also asking him to be lord
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Over your life?
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Meaning you have to submit your.
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Will to the will of god.
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You have to follow him instead of following your self.
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And here's the dangerous thing about pride.
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Listen.
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Pride will say all the right things, but refuse to change.
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Ever been in a relationship with somebody that will tell you
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The things you want to hear, but refuse to change
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How they make you feel?
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No pointing. okay, don't do that in here.
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But how did it make you feel?
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Think about it.
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Then why are we doing it to god?
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God, if you just show up, i'll say
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God, if you just do the thing that i want right now, then i'll
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Walk away from these things. god. i'll just.
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I'll do these things.
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So many times god is showing up and we keep walking away
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Because of right now.
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We also do this because our pride is bad sometimes.
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Listen to this by the comfort in our life.
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Let's continue reading daniel chapter four,
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Verse four and five.
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I, nebuchadnezzar, was living in my palace
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And comfort and prosperity.
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But one night i.
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Had a dream that frightened me,
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And i saw visions that terrified me as i laid in my bed.
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It was kind of funny.
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To me about king nebuchadnezzar
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Is that everybody's afraid of him.
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Everybody in their mama is afraid of this man.
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But it seems like every time he goes to sleep,
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He has a nightmare and he needs a nightlight.
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Like somebody needs to come rescue him.
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He needs some. milk at night, like, hey, help me go to sleep.
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Single alabi, because he's terrified.
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This is what god can do.
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This is a ruthless man that everybody is afraid of.
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God keeps making him look like a.
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Little baby at night.
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So he has his dream.
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But i also want you to see this.
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Nebuchadnezzar
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At this point was living the life in his comfort.
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He created one of the ancient wonders.
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Of the world.
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Okay, the the hanging pyramid.
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Right.
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The hanging gardens is actually what it was called.
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You had people traveling to babylon.
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They would see the golden walls.
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His empire was known as the empire of gold.
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Every empire that he went against, he conquered.
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God always gave him victory.
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He had everything he wanted.
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All the money, all the wealth, all the authority.
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So listen to me.
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His comfort was a leading him into the wrong direction.
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Sometimes because of god's love,
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He's going to allow your comfort to be disrupted.
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Sometimes god is going to allow your life to be shaken up. why?
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Because you have been
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Misled by that comfort and you're going the wrong way.
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Because now you have forgotten how to pray.
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Think about it.
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When you were going through that trial
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And your heart was broken and things were happening every day,
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You were on your knees praying, god, meet me where i am.
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But once everything got good, hey god.
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I'm good.
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Comfort.
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Listen.
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Blessings can come into your life
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Because god gives us blessings.
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But at the same time, sometimes we start to worship
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These blessings instead of the creator of the blessing.
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And so this is when comfort starts to consume our heart.
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And i'm telling you right now, we could be misled
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By our comfort.
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And so god is looking at nebuchadnezzar.
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He's shaking up.
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His life with a nightmare so that.
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He can see the reality of the way that he is living.
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God is not punishing him.
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God is actually waking him up.
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So think about your life right now.
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You have comfortable.
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I see everything getting shaky at this moment.
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You're job
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In relationship.
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What do you feel?
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Just.
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Just divined everything right now. just
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What's been shaking you,
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Your life at this very moment.
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And i believe god says in his mercy,
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I would rather shake up your wor
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Let me prove it to you.
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One quick example jesus spoke this to the church earlier
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This year at a revelation, chapter three, verses 15 to 17.
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A lot of us have heard this part of the verse.
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I know all the things you do.
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Now. this is jesus speaking to the church
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That you were neither hot nor cold.
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I wish that you were one or the other,
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But since you are like lukewarm water, but they're hot,
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Neither hot nor cold, i will spit you out of my mouth.
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Meaning listen god saying, stop playing with me.
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That's what god is saying.
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Either be hot or cold.
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Stop standing in the middle ground.
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You can't have one foot being hot and one foot being cold.
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You can't have one foot with god and one foot with the world.
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It means it's a false testimony.
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You're telling people about me, but you're not living for me.
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It's all lukewarm.
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It's a false testimony.
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I want you to be real with me.
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God is saying, stop playing.
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He sees your heart. he sees your life.
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But here's the thing.
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Here's my question how did they become so lukewarm?
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So let me show you right here.
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It says, because you say i am rich.
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I have everything i want.
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I am so comfortable, i don't need a thing.
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And listen to the. words of jesus here.
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And you don't realize that you are
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Wretched.
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Miserable,
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Poor in the spirit, blind and naked.
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You don't even see how bad it is in your life. why?
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Because of the comfort that you have right now.
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You're pursuing these shallow things and you still feel empty
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On the inside. you have forgotten your purpose.
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How quickly comfort
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Can change everything.
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You can have success and start to lose the fire.
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You can have money and start to lose your hunger for god.
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Let me challenge you today.
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How's your prayer life?
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Are you still praying as heavy as you did
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When you were going through trial?
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This ministry has blessed you or helped build your faith.
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I'm going to ask you right now to consider partnering with us,
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And if you want to become a partner,
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All you have to do is give to bobby chandler dawg.
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And it helps our ministry reach people all over the world
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For the kingdom of god.
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See, it's not just a donation, but it's actually a declaration
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That god comes first in your life,
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That he is number one and that he is in control.
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And every giving that comes into this ministry
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Helps us broadcast the good news of the gospel of jesus christ
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All over the world, reaching homes,
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Even in different countries.
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And also it helps us reach people here
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In our community, help people who are in need
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And who need to know the love of god and something
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That we're unashamed about here in this ministry.
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It's preaching the truth of god's word.
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So every time you give, it allows us to preach the truth
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Unashamed, allowing people to see freedom
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Chains falling off from generational curses
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Because of the spirit of god, because of where
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The spirit of the lord is, there is freedom.
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And when you give, it helps us reach our mission
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To have people encounter god, to grow in christ
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And be set free by jesus christ.
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And so again, i want to thank you
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And ask you to pray about it.
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Do you want to become a partner
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And help us reach more people for jesus?
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Again, i pray that today's message bless your life.
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I'm so thankful that you watched it with this,
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And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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If this
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Job doesn't work out for me, what if i move my life
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By faith and it all just crumbles to the ground?
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What if it works?
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What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
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But i would rather move by faith
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And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
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And i ended up exactly where i needed to be.
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You know what today is
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Pentecost sunday.
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Pentecost sunday.
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We. you better
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Not ask a holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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I came here to remind you.
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You need the holy spirit.
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We need.
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Bobby Chandler - Insane Pride (Part 1)

July 10, 2025 | 24:58

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