Bobby Chandler - When God Asks a Question (Part 1)

July 6, 2026 | 23:43

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 - When God Asks a Question (Part 1) | July 6, 2026

It's forbidden for you to do
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As the pagans do, because they worship idols
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Like molech and bell and asterisk,
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And they sacrifice their children,
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And they they bring in prostitution
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And they allow all these things.
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Well, i'm looking at solomon,
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And solomon must be thinking, but i'm not doing that.
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I do want to say thank you to everybody
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That's watching online.
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We have people watching from all over the world,
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And we're so honored because of that.
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And if you're watching, even in areas where it's illegal
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To be a christian, know that we're praying for you.
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And it means so much to us that the word of god is
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Is meeting you where you are.
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And so we're praying for you and everybody watching.
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You're part of the family here.
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And if this is your first time
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Here in the house of the lord, please don't make it your last.
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Please keep coming back.
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The lord is moving and we've been growing
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And i mean that spiritually, okay?
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We've been growing and learning what the lord is showing us.
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And so last week
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We started a brand new series titled still growing
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Because none of us have it all figured out.
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It doesn't matter how long you've been saved, you
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You could be saved for decades.
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It doesn't mean you know everything, right?
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Jesus is always still teaching us something new.
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He's teaching me something new.
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He's teaching you something new.
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We don't always have the answers
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To things, but god still shows up
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And gives us a major revelations.
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And i think that's exciting.
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Like, i love that
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The lord is so creative that when you think like,
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When you think you have it all figured out,
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You don't have nothing figured out, right?
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God could still show you something new.
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And so that's what we're seeing here in the word of god.
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And so i think it's
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Fitting for this series to talk about the entire life
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Of king solomon.
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And if you know his story, you know that he was
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The wisest man to had ever lived besides jesus christ.
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But his story is so powerful because even though
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Now please listen to this, even though solomon
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Was brilliant in his wisdom, okay?
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He was blind in his relationships.
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Please hear me on that.
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Even though he was brilliant within his wisdom, for god
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Gave him a supernatural wisdom.
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This gift came from above because he asked for it.
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We're going to talk about that today.
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So god showed him what was right and what was wrong.
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But you can know the difference between right and wrong.
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But if you don't surrender your life over to jesus,
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You can still do the wrong thing.
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And i'm
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Seeing this man with incredible wisdom,
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But still blind in his relationships.
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And so first kings chapter 11, verse four states it like this.
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In solomon's old age day, meaning his wives turned
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His heart to worship other gods.
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And i think we read that and we're like,
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How dare you, solomon?
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You know what i mean?
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Like, it's easy from the outside to judge somebody else.
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Like, how dare you turn your back on god?
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But how many times have you turned
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Your back on god because of an idol in your life?
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Idols can be your work.
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Idols can become your relationships.
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Idols can even be your status, your money.
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Whatever it is, idols
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Can creep into your life and into your heart.
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Because, as we learned last week, it's
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The small compromises
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That open up the door for idols to come in.
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And when idols come into the temple,
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What is your temple?
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Do you remember your body is the temple of the lord.
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The holy spirit dwells in you.
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When idols come into the temple,
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They don't just come to visit, they come to rearrange,
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Okay?
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They come to mess with your mind.
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They come to mess with your heart.
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And so we must be careful,
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Because here's solomon, a man of great wisdom.
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And he started worshiping other gods
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Instead of being completely faithful.
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It states to the lord his god, as his father david had been.
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And so here's something we need to learn.
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Your heart does not turn away from the lord overnight.
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It slowly drifts away
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From the lord by small compromises.
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You understand that
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The small compromises that you make on what you watch,
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The small compromises that you make on
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What you listen to, what you give into.
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It's just a drink.
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It's just a little smoke. for me today.
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It's been a hard day. i need to relax.
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And you allow these small compromises.
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But these very things are the things that are defeating you.
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Every day
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We lie to ourselves.
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It's a small. it's just a little bit.
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I'm just tired. i just need this.
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It'll make me feel better.
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And we open up the door
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For something demonic to come in and try to consume us.
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And that's exactly what happened to the wisest man
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Who ever lived.
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And so let me give you a quick recap
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Of some of the small compromises that he had in his life.
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The first one is this he married many foreign women,
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Many women who worshiped idols and other gods.
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And when i say many, i mean many.
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Like this dude had a thousand wives.
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I'm like, god, are you sure he was wise?
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Like a thousand first kings.
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Chapter 11, verse three.
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He had 700 royal wives or 700 wives of royal birth.
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Like these were 700 princesses.
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Like when they came into this palace,
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They really were a princess, you know, and 300 concubines.
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And so he married a thousand women, in fact.
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Now, let's look at the confirmation here again.
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And in fact, they did turn his heart away from the lord.
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This man had a thousand wives.
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That's a lot of voices telling you how to drive.
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I'm just telling you
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I'm gonna get in trouble.
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But imagine trying to remember your anniversary.
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You can't remember your one.
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You know he's got a thousand wives.
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Here is a deeper problem, though.
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See, we talked about it last week.
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In the beginning, he opened up this door
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Because many other kings did the same thing.
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Because really, it wasn't about love was about a treaty.
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And so he wanted a peace agreement.
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And the first wife that he had was the daughter of pharaoh.
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He brings her in,
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He brings his peace treaty in, and he says, you know what?
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Here's the problem.
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It's not enough.
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Let me try to control the situation with my own hands.
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And so maybe if i marry other princesses,
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We can form more treaties and we can bring in more peace.
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And so he starts to take control.
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But here's the problem
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Within him is that one was not enough and he needed more.
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And i've realized biblically,
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And i've realized in people's lives
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That every downfall starts when enough stops being enough.
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That's when pride starts to come into your heart.
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That's when lust starts to consume you.
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That's when selfishness gets the best of you.
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Because what you have, you're no longer grateful over that.
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You need more.
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And since this satisfies my flesh, it makes me feel good.
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Today i need another
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And another and another.
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And that is the temptation that he had in his life.
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He knew right from wrong.
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He was very wise, but he opened up a door to something
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That he liked way too much, and so it became his downfall.
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The second thing is this he also was sacrificing
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And burning incense in the high places.
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Now these are the elevated places of israel.
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And even though
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He would bring together an altar and worship yahweh,
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He would worship god on these elevated places.
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He took it from the rituals of the pagans,
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Because this all came from the pagans, the culture around him.
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The pagans would worship their idols on the mountaintops.
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In fact, the law of moses says it is forbidden.
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It's forbidden for you to do as the pagans do,
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Because they worship idols
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Like molech
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And bell and asterisk, and they sacrifice their children,
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And they
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They bring in prostitution and they allow all these things.
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Well, i'm looking at solomon,
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And solomon must be thinking, but i'm not doing that.
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I'm allowing the custom into my heart, into my life.
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But i'm not doing that.
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I'm worshiping yahweh.
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And it still is breaking
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The commandment of moses, the law of moses.
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And you know, you know what the dangerous part
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About that is, is that i believe solomon
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Had good intentions.
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I'm worshiping god.
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But why should i travel 5 to 6 miles to gibeon?
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Because gibeon is where the tabernacle was.
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That's where the lord told him to go
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To sacrifices where he was meant to be.
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But why should
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I travel 5 to 6 miles to do this when i could do this here?
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He had a good intentions,
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But i believe that somebody needs to hear this today.
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Good intentions don't make disobedience, okay?
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Please hear me on that.
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Your good intentions does not mean that disobedience is okay.
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Because even with good intentions,
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There's still consequences that come into your life, right?
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If you break the law and you're in court,
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You can't just say, well, i had good intentions.
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Why should you throw me in jail?
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I was really hungry and i just wanted to steal for the day,
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You know what i mean?
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I had good intentions, but you still broke the law,
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So there's still consequences right?
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Now. listen to this. the prophet samuel.
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I love what he said to king saul.
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This is a powerful revelation that could change your life
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If you listen first samuel 2015, verse 22 and 23.
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But samuel replied, what is more pleasing to the lord,
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Your burnt offerings and sacrifices
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For your obedience to his voice?
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Listen, obedient is better than sacrifice,
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And submission is better than offering the fat of rams.
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Now here's the revelation that i saw.
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I remember
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First reading this
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And like, wow, like samuel really brought it right here.
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He said, rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft.
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Who you hear that
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Rebelling against god and his commandments
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And what he's telling you to do
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And how he's telling you to live.
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It's as sinful as witchcraft, but it gets a little worse.
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And stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols.
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Because when you're that stubborn, you're saying, god,
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My way is better than your way.
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And without even understanding it, you are worshiping an idol.
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You're worshiping yourself.
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You're worshiping your flesh.
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You're worshiping your own control.
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He said, listen, stubbornness.
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When you are stubborn against the lord,
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Have you been stubborn against the lord lately?
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God, i don't want to do that.
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I don't want to forgive them.
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I don't want to go there.
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I don't want to do this.
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I got good intentions though.
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Private sector 14, verse 12 states it like this.
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There's a path
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That seems right to each person, but in the end it leads to
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To death.
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How many times did you make
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Decisions against god's will and against his commands?
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Because you had good intentions,
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But it led to some type of death
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The death of a relationship,
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The death of somebody hope,
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The death of believing that things could
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Actually change in your life because you meant well.
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But you miss god because you still crossed his boundaries
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Like god does. give us boundaries.
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Did you know that boundaries are biblical?
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And i believe somewhere along the way we decided,
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You know
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And believe
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The lies of satan, that, you know,
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God just wants to hold us back from fun
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Because it's in that what the world says.
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Oh, y'all just,
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You know, funny daddies
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And you just don't want to have fun to know
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He's a good father who wants to protect you.
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Because every time you do it
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Your way, your heart gets shattered.
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Every time you say the things you want to say,
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Somebody gets hurt and relationships fall apart.
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All right, so let me ask this question.
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What does this deception look like?
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Because it's tricky.
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What does it sound like?
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What does it look like?
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It sounds like this.
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Here's one example i need to work nonstop.
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I cannot rest because i'm doing it for my family.
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The sabbath is biblical.
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I believe that god calls us to rest
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Because here's what happens you work nonstop for the family,
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But then you start neglecting your spouse.
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You're no longer having conversations like
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You used to have conversations.
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You're no longer being together or sitting together
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Or talking about deep subjects, and then you may start
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Neglecting your own children, not being there for them.
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They don't have a relationship with you. and guess what?
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Because you're working so hard, usually to do what?
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To control something for something,
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Make something happen.
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You're irritable
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And you're tired,
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And so nobody wants to be around you
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Because you feel like you've lost your passion.
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The sabbath is biblical.
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Every friday, my family takes a sabbath.
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On that day.
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I've always told our team here, do not bug me.
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Do not reach out to me about anything church related.
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I don't do any editing on friday or any of those things. why?
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Because i'm focused on the family.
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The family is the first ministry.
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How can you do ministry from for the lord?
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If your house is in chaos,
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You can't.
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You can't hear from the lord when your house is in chaos,
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When there's division going on in your own home.
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So you must rest.
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But the great thing about it
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Is that you can trust the lord to handle it.
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Listen to what solomon said and psalms 127.
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Now i love this verse one and two for you workaholics.
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Okay, listen to this.
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Unless the lord builds a house, the work of the builders
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Is wasted.
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You hear that?
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Unless the lord protects the city, guarding it
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With sentries will do no good.
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Now listen to this, for it is useless for you to work
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So hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously
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Working for food to eat.
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For god gives.
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He gives what?
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He gives rest.
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Look to somebody next to you and say, god will give you rest.
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God will give you rest.
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He gives rest to his.
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What loved ones?
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Okay, i'm about to go somewhere.
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Bear with me. okay.
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No rest is demonic.
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Demons don't rest.
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Demons never rest.
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They cannot achieve or receive rest. why?
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Rest is a good thing that only comes from god.
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Rest is something from the father
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To prove that he loves you.
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And so here's what that means.
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When you take your hands off of it,
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You trust that god will work it out.
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And i realized in my life that if you do something
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That you even love to do, but you never rest, you could end up
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Hating what you love.
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Don't understand that.
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So this is a biblical principle right here.
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Another one is this.
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Have you ever said something like this?
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I'm just trying to protect myself.
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And what you're really doing is that you're building.
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You're building up walls with everybody you meet,
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And maybe there's some past hurt that you haven't dealt with.
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There's a root of bitterness on the inside.
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Maybe you've had church hurt in the past.
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And so you're like, you know what?
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I'm gonna show up and do my thing,
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But i don't trust anybody.
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So you build these walls.
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And the problem is you've been holding on
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To grudges for decades.
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You held on to
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That phrase, to that word, to the person that didn't pay
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You back, to the person that didn't help you
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The way that they said that they would help you.
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And so it starts to take roots.
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You don't trust nobody.
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But the word of god says to forgive.
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Jesus said it pretty strongly, actually.
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And matthew chapter six, verse 14 and 15,
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If you forgive those who sin against you,
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Your heavenly father will forgive you.
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Verse 15, if you refuse to forgive others,
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Your father will not forgive your sins.
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How can god forgive you if you do not forgive others?
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How can god
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Show you grace daily
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If you won't show anybody else grace,
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The same grace that he brings into your life?
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And and i've had those
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Conversations, actually, i had a recent conversation
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With somebody who was really hurt,
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And we started talking about forgiveness.
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And i wanted to make it clear.
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So, you know, forgiveness doesn't mean that you're
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Condoning somebody's bad behavior.
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It doesn't mean that you're letting them get away with it.
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Forgiveness.
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The definition actually means forward giving.
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Okay?
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So you're forward giving it over to the lord.
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Your pain, you're hurt, your anger.
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And you're saying, god, you take care of them
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Because i'm about to lose my mind.
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God won't lose his mind.
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He knows exactly how it needs to be handled.
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And let me say it like this
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God can handle them better than you could ever handle them.
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So trust him and rest.
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And so there are things that we tell ourselves
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With good intentions or to protect ourselves,
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But they're unbiblical and we go and get the
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The laws of god, the commandments of god.
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And we just bring in anxiety and depression.
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And so as we look
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At solomon's life right here, even though he was a wise
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Man ever lived in the very beginning
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Of his kingship, there were small compromises.
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And so slowly he's he's drifting away.
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And so god interrupts his drift with a dream.
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And in his dream, god asked this question.
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Such a big question
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It would change his life forever.
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So the title of today's message is this when god
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Asked a question, i'm going to dive deep into this.
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Why would god ask solomon a question?
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Why does god ask you questions?
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Okay, if you have your bibles, you can turn to first kings,
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Chapter three, first kings, chapter three.
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We're going to keep reading
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Where we left off
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From last week in the beginning of his kingship.
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And if you're a note
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Taker in the room, you can go ahead and write down
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Point number one, which is this?
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Sometimes god doesn't command you.
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He questions you.
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There are times out of the bible
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We see this theme over and over again
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Where sometimes god doesn't command you.
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He questions you. why?
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Okay, because questions can reveal what commands cannot.
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What do i mean by that?
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Commands tell you what to do, but
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A question can reveal who you are.
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There are a lot of people
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That are led by a spirit of religion.
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Let me say it like that.
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Meaning they have a checklist and this is how they honor god.
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I got to do this. i got to do that.
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I got to show up and i got to do these things.
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Yet you can do all these things and look the part
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On the outside,
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But on the inside, your heart is actually far from god.
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You can check things off the list and not love people.
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Did you know that you can show up to church
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And not love people?
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And so god is working on your heart, on the inside.
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And so sometimes he may
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Ask a question to reveal something
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You don't even know about yourself.
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Right.
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So let's dive into this. i'm going to read it.
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I'll break it down first.
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Kings chapter three, verses three through five.
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Now it stated that solomon loved the lord,
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And he followed all the decrees of his father david.
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Again, except
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Don't allow any exceptions in your life,
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Except that solomon two offered sacrifices
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And burn incense at the local places of worship.
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This is the high places we just talked about.
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But pay attention to this statement right here.
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I'm going to show you this.
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But the most important of these places
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Was at gibeon, where the tabernacle was.
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Okay, so the king went there and sacrificed 1000
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Burnt offerings.
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So again, according to the law of moses,
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A gibeon, this is the tabernacle
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That he should be sacrificing at.
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And it put it in modern terms, his sacrifice
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That he gave to the lord would be equivalent if it were.
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If it were sheep, it would be equivalent to 60 to $250,000
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That he gave over to the lord, if it were bulls that he were
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Offering to the lord, listen to this,
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It would be equivalent to 1.5 to $2.5 million.
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So i want you to see what solomon did do
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Good in the beginning, okay.
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He is now going to gibeon, to the tabernacle
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Where he's meant to be, and he is giving an offering.
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This is well above his tithes, okay.
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He's giving an offering.
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Other kings didn't do this.
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And then
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Notice, notice how god works.
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So when your heart is in the right place
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And you do surrender and you do give over to the lord,
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That's the night.
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I just think it's by no coincidence.
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That's the night the lord appeared to solomon
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In a dream and god said, what do you want?
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Ask, and i will give it to you.
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And that's the question you want.
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You want that in this room?
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You sure about that?
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Pretty heavy question.
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I want you to think about it for a second.
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Check your heart.
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God shows up and says to you, whatever you want,
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I'll give it to you.
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What's your answer?
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Come on, don't be all church to you right now.
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Think about it.
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Think about it. what is your answer? really?
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If god said, i will give you whatever your heart
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Desires, what do you want?
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Ask it and you can receive it.
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I saw that question and i just had to stop
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Because i want to do a.
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I want to dive into a deeper look of this and examine it.
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Did you know
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This is
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The only time out of the bible that god asked this question
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To somebody?
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And god never asked this question,
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Not this specific question to anybody else out of the bible.
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So why did god do this?
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It was not god just randomly feeling generous
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And showing up in solomon's life.
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No, there was a deeper meaning.
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Do you remember what jesus said
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In matthew chapter six, verse 21?
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Let's read it together.
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Matthew chapter six, verse 21.
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Wherever your treasure is, there
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The desires of your heart will also be.
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Questions can reveal what is deep down in your heart
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When you give those answers. okay.
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So again, god wasn't being randomly nice to solomon.
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He was revealing to solomon his own intentions.
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Because solomon struggled here again, he felt unqualified.
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He was young, remember?
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Scholars believed that he was around the age of 18 years old,
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Leaving now the nation of israel.
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And so he felt unqualified.
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So god's like,
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Let me help you out of here because i've chosen you.
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Let me show you what's on the inside.
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Let's see if you can answer it correctly.
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It was a test.
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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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If you love this church and thinking about giving to
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This church,
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All you have to do
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Is visit our website at bobby chandler ministries.
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And it's very easy to give.
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And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives.
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Because of your faithful giving, we're able to reach
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Not only the nation, but the world.
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We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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So that they know the love of god.
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And listen.
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Bobby Chandler - When God Asks a Question (Part 1)

July 6, 2026 | 23:43

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