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Tim Timberlake - Committed Beyond Convenience

August 13, 2025 | 28:30

Tim Timberlake - Committed Beyond Convenience
Pastor Tim challeges us in his message ‘Committed Beyond Convenience’. Drawing from Acts 2, he urges believers to pursue deep, spirit-filled community-going beyond comfort to discipleship, fellowship and generosity.
#Commitment #Sacrifice #Witness/Witnessing #Purpose #Gospel #SpiritualGrowth #Dedication/Devotion #Love #SeekGod #KingdomofGod #GlorifyGod

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Committed Beyond Convenience | August 13, 2025
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  • Hey, family.
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  • It's pastor tim of celebration church,
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  • And i'm so excited about the word
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  • That god has given me for our time together today.
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  • I want to ask you this question.
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  • What are you committed to?
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  • Are you committed to your spouse?
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  • Are you committed to your family?
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  • Are you committed to your job?
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  • These commitments determine outcomes.
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  • Today, as we go through the word of god.
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  • I want to ask you this question.
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  • Are you committed beyond convenience?
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  • This convenience and comfort trap you
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  • Into becoming who you desire
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  • Rather than who christ desires for you to become?
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  • Let's go into the message as it has already begun.
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  • Entitled.
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  • Committed beyond convenience.
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  • What i'm telling you to do when
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  • In fact this is what they were told to do in scripture.
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  • I'm not asking you to do that.
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  • All i am asking you to do is ask yourself the question,
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  • Am i sacrificing the way god desires for me to sacrifice?
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  • And my sacrificing my time
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  • To pray with someone that needs prayer?
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  • Am i sacrificing my convenience to stop on the street
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  • To witness to someone that is in dire need of jesus christ?
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  • Or how about allowing my identity
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  • And the influence
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  • I've given myself become more important
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  • To the god given purpose of me being here?
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  • Am i utilizing my platform for the glory of god,
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  • Or am i using my platform to consume life?
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  • God never called me to consume.
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  • We understand self preservation,
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  • But we don't understand sacrifice.
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  • What i love about this text,
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  • The scripture never says that they were forced to do this.
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  • They understood that love demanded it.
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  • See, the kingdom
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  • Redefines ownership.
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  • When i am a citizen of the kingdom of god,
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  • Everything i have is his.
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  • Everything that i do is for his glory.
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  • When i am a citizen of this world,
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  • I think that my possessions i worked hard for
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  • When i am a citizen of this world.
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  • I think the position that i'm in, i worked my way there.
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  • When i'm a citizen of this world,
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  • I believe that all that i have is mine.
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  • When in fact all that you have,
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  • All that you have worked for,
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  • The status that you currently steward.
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  • It comes because of the grace of god.
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  • The westernized church.
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  • We preach prosperity more than we preach sacrifice,
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  • And our version of blessings
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  • Often stops at what can i get?
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  • Instead of what can i give up?
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  • A true biblical definition
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  • Of the church of jesus christ is a family
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  • That is willing to make
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  • Sacrifice for their brothers and their sisters.
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  • Understand that when we all make sacrifices
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  • Together, we are the true reflection of the sacrifice
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  • Jesus made for us.
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  • What we see in scripture after this happens
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  • As a family that stands in
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  • Awe and wonder,
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  • And some of us
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  • Don't know what awe and wonder is
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  • Because we've settled for well planned programs
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  • And we step church.
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  • If praise and worship goes beyond 30 minutes,
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  • We call it a concert.
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  • Because after all, praise and worship is supposed to meet
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  • Our comfort and convenience.
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  • And if the worship team doesn't sing my song,
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  • I'm not coming back.
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  • They sing too long.
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  • I'm sorry.
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  • I thought that this worship
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  • Was about jesus.
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  • Not about you.
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  • The words of the song
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  • Says he deserves the glory,
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  • Not we deserve the glory.
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  • See, a westernized church mentality
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  • Has made us so consumer driven
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  • That we want to box god into an hour and 25 minutes.
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  • And if god doesn't speak in an hour and 25 minutes,
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  • God ain't speaking.
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  • But what if god
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  • Wants to speak to you at one hour and 26 minutes?
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  • Outside of your comfort and your convenience,
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  • Outside of your little pre-planned schedule,
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  • Outside of your cell phone notifications,
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  • Outside of what you had planned on your dream board.
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  • What if god wants to break your routine and your schedule
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  • And your comfort so that he can actually
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  • Have his way in your life?
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  • Talking about being committed.
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  • Beyond convenience,
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  • We lose the awe and wonder
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  • Of what jesus desires to do when we come
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  • Into the house of god with a
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  • Pre-scheduled plan
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  • Of what he has to do,
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  • In the limited time we give him.
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  • Well-run service means absolutely nothing.
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  • If the holy spirit can interrupt it.
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  • Scripture teaches us
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  • The acts chapter two.
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  • They were gripped by holy wonder
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  • And signs and wonders
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  • And miracles flowed from simple,
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  • Raw gatherings of people
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  • Who weren't coming, looking for people.
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  • Awe and wonder hit a family
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  • Who are in search for jesus.
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  • We scheduled
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  • Services down to the second
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  • And we leave awe and wonder in the lobby.
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  • And when things go
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  • According to our plans, we say that was a smooth service
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  • Production was great.
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  • The smoke machine and the lights
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  • Set the atmosphere.
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  • The temperature in the auditorium.
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  • Chef's kiss.
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  • And we make
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  • Service.
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  • About our experience.
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  • Instead of encountering jesus.
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  • The taking notes.
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  • Point number one
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  • Is this.
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  • According to acts chapter two.
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  • Family is not found.
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  • It's forged.
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  • You don't stumble into covenant.
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  • Are you listening to me?
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  • You don't stumble into covenant.
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  • You stand in the fire until your selfishness
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  • Burns off.
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  • I tell you what.
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  • Church is not.
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  • Church is not a club.
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  • You join.
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  • It's a cross you carry.
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  • Amen.
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  • Rejoicing with those who rejoice and mourning
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  • With those who mourn.
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  • Scripture says they had all things in common.
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  • Doesn't mean they agreed on all things.
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  • The person sitting beside you
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  • Is not going agree with everything you agree with.
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  • The person sitting in front of you
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  • Is not going to agree with everything you agree with.
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  • But we have to understand that agreement and unity
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  • Are not the same.
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  • But we have to fight for it and contend
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  • For is unity in the body of christ.
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  • And understand this.
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  • The person just sitting beside
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  • They have a testimony.
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  • They have a story.
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  • They're still walking out this journey.
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  • And so don't expect them to be
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  • Jesus junior.
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  • Extend to them the same grace
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  • You expect jesus to give to you.
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  • That's what makes the family of god so beautiful.
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  • None of us are perfect,
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  • But we are in pursuit
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  • Of a perfect savior.
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  • If the person beside
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  • You knew your real story,
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  • Your real struggles,
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  • Your real obstacles, your real
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  • Habits, your real routine,
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  • And they still chose to break bread with you.
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  • That's church.
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  • Church and shouting music.
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  • Church ain't crying and wallowing in the floor.
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  • Church is staying consistent and faithful
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  • With your brothers and sisters
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  • When they get on your last nerves.
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  • We don't want to hear that
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  • Because we made church more about us than we have
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  • The great commandments that jesus has left us.
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  • Scripture teaches us jesus gave us
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  • The greatest commandment,
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  • Which is to love your god with all your heart
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  • And to love your brothers and sisters as you love yourself.
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  • How many of you love you?
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  • Wave at me.
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  • You all got your hand up.
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  • You're lying.
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  • How many of you love you?
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  • You love you.
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  • Scripture tells you to love your brothers and your sisters
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  • As much as you love your self.
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  • Point number two is this.
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  • This is important for us to know.
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  • The early church didn't chase miracles.
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  • They chased jesus
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  • And the miracles chased them.
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  • Wonder never visits the casual.
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  • I'll say it again.
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  • Awe and wonder never visits the casual.
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  • If you are believing god to experience
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  • Supernatural signs, wonders and miracles,
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  • You can't have a part time relationship with him through.
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  • You can't demand god's best
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  • And give god partial of what he requires from you.
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  • Awe and wonder
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  • Does not visit the casual.
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  • Scripture says they chased jesus and miracles chased them.
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  • Another way of putting this is seek first
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  • The kingdom of god and his righteousness,
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  • And all these things shall be added unto you.
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  • So if you are in need of a miracle today, chase after
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  • Jesus and the miracle will chase after you.
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  • If you are in need of a breakthrough today, chase
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  • After jesus and the breakthrough will chase after you.
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  • If you are in
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  • Need of a spouse today, chase after jesus and that spouse.
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  • Y'all not talking to me will chase after you.
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  • If you are in need of
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  • Whatever it is that you have need of, chase after him
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  • And what you have need of what chase after.
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  • You were so busy chasing after things that we have failed
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  • To chase after jesus, and we put more of a demand
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  • And faith in the resource than we do in the source.
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  • And god will never promote.
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  • He'll never elevate.
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  • He'll never bless what you have made an idol.
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  • So chase after him.
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  • And if you chase after him,
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  • All that you have need of will chase
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  • After you.
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  • Man this word.
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  • It changed the trajectory of our church.
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  • And i pray that it's changing you from the inside out.
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  • I pray that it's stirring up your faith.
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  • And i pray that is stirring up the gift of god in you.
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  • To help you understand that there is a level of conviction.
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  • There's a level of living that jesus desires for you
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  • That's well beyond your comfort and your convenience.
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  • Let's go back into the message as we continue
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  • To learn what it means to be committed beyond convenience.
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  • God designs
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  • Where people refuse to settle
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  • For business as usual.
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  • And if you want to experience the supernatural
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  • Awe and wonder, the signs and the miracles
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  • That only jesus can provide for you,
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  • Get desperate for his presence.
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  • Get desperate
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  • To experience him in ways
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  • You never thought you could experience him,
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  • And all these things shall be added unto you.
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  • We spend church services.
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  • We spend our weeks.
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  • We spend our months praying more for things
  • 00:13:58.888 --> 00:14:01.657
  • Than we do, thanking god for just being under his care
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  • And coverage.
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  • Talking about being committed beyond convenience.
  • 00:14:08.564 --> 00:14:11.867
  • Is your relationship with jesus about you,
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  • Or is it about him?
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  • Is your prayer list look like?
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  • Is it consume what you want?
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  • Is it praying for the needs of others as well?
  • 00:14:28.250 --> 00:14:33.656
  • What we've done.
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  • In the westernized church, we've replaced
  • 00:14:37.226 --> 00:14:40.663
  • Wonder with programs,
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  • And we've called it progress.
  • 00:14:44.033 --> 00:14:47.069
  • And so we seek entertainment
  • 00:14:47.069 --> 00:14:50.339
  • Rather than sound doctrine.
  • 00:14:50.940 --> 00:14:54.410
  • We come looking for a show
  • 00:14:54.410 --> 00:14:57.546
  • Rather than to encounter the presence
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  • Of the holy spirit.
  • 00:14:59.581 --> 00:15:02.885
  • And so when we don't get what tickles our fancy,
  • 00:15:02.885 --> 00:15:06.922
  • We look at the clock at an hour and 20 minutes
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  • And say, it's time to go.
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  • And we'll push past people who are standing for salvation
  • 00:15:13.529 --> 00:15:16.098
  • Because we are already saved.
  • 00:15:16.098 --> 00:15:21.036
  • The service is now
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  • Inconveniencing my schedule.
  • 00:15:22.371 --> 00:15:25.474
  • My plans, my date,
  • 00:15:25.474 --> 00:15:28.844
  • My champogne for brunch.
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  • Champagne for those that don't.
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  • It█s okay.
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  • Champagne for lay.
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  • Fillet, fillit.
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  • But we have to remember.
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  • Signs.
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  • Follow those who won't move without the spirit of god.
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  • Signs.
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  • Follow those who won't settle for
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  • Man made convenience.
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  • Signs and wonders and miracles.
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  • Follow those who make jesus the priority
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  • Over their preference.
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  • That is the church of the living god.
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  • Everything else
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  • Is a cool country club.
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  • That jesus is not coming back for.
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  • Scripture teaches us that he's
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  • Coming back for a bride
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  • Without spot or blemish when it be ashamed.
  • 00:16:38.747 --> 00:16:42.885
  • If jesus was to come back.
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  • But you missed it because you were too busy
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  • Blowing past somebody else to go to brunch.
  • 00:16:47.456 --> 00:16:55.697
  • When does jesus move?
  • 00:16:56.198 --> 00:16:57.533
  • When you least expect it?
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  • When does revival break out?
  • 00:16:58.700 --> 00:17:00.169
  • When it's out on your calendar.
  • 00:17:00.169 --> 00:17:01.770
  • How can you plan revival on.
  • 00:17:01.770 --> 00:17:05.040
  • You can't.
  • 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:06.375
  • It happens when family gets hungry for the father,
  • 00:17:06.375 --> 00:17:10.979
  • And they worship the true and living savior
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  • That redeemed them and restored them
  • 00:17:13.949 --> 00:17:17.086
  • And renewed them and brought them out of whatever
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  • Hell they were experiencing and gave them an opportunity
  • 00:17:22.024 --> 00:17:26.095
  • To experience heaven on earth through the gift
  • 00:17:26.095 --> 00:17:29.331
  • Of the holy spirit and our wonder.
  • 00:17:29.331 --> 00:17:31.266
  • Is there anyone listening to me
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  • Right now that is grateful to god for his son, jesus?
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  • That not only is mighty to save, but is also mighty to deliver
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  • And bring even the craziest of family members
  • 00:17:41.243 --> 00:17:44.546
  • Back into the fold so that we could be on one accord
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  • And in unity together.
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  • If you believe that, shout amen.
  • 00:17:49.885 --> 00:17:54.656
  • Work through this text a little bit.
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  • Number three is this what you won't release will rot you
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  • If your hands are too full to give.
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  • There are two fold to receive and a lot of us.
  • 00:18:05.734 --> 00:18:09.304
  • We live in a consumer world where we take, take, take,
  • 00:18:09.304 --> 00:18:13.041
  • Take, take instead of contribute and sew and invest and return.
  • 00:18:13.041 --> 00:18:18.380
  • And so when we hear things like tithes
  • 00:18:18.380 --> 00:18:20.782
  • And we hear things like offering,
  • 00:18:20.782 --> 00:18:22.551
  • We have this mental conception in our mind
  • 00:18:22.551 --> 00:18:25.754
  • That makes us believe.
  • 00:18:25.754 --> 00:18:27.089
  • Here's the church again in need of what i have.
  • 00:18:27.089 --> 00:18:30.292
  • It is not the church in need of what you have.
  • 00:18:30.292 --> 00:18:32.794
  • It is a church telling you to partner with heaven, to see
  • 00:18:32.794 --> 00:18:36.031
  • Those who are in dire need of the gospel of jesus
  • 00:18:36.031 --> 00:18:38.834
  • Christ be given the same opportunity
  • 00:18:38.834 --> 00:18:41.136
  • You were given when you were lost,
  • 00:18:41.136 --> 00:18:43.071
  • And someone witness to you and now you are found
  • 00:18:43.071 --> 00:18:46.375
  • And you are not contributing back to the family.
  • 00:18:46.375 --> 00:18:52.114
  • How dare we consume
  • 00:18:52.581 --> 00:18:56.051
  • Instead of devote ourselves
  • 00:18:56.051 --> 00:18:59.021
  • To the gospel of jesus christ?
  • 00:18:59.021 --> 00:19:02.224
  • What you won't release will eventually rot you.
  • 00:19:02.224 --> 00:19:06.428
  • What you have to understand is a closed fist
  • 00:19:06.428 --> 00:19:09.631
  • Can't hold the kingdom of god.
  • 00:19:09.631 --> 00:19:16.805
  • I never read in scripture
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  • Which says generosity bankrupt them.
  • 00:19:18.574 --> 00:19:23.645
  • What generosity did
  • 00:19:24.112 --> 00:19:26.348
  • It broke the chains of greed
  • 00:19:26.348 --> 00:19:28.550
  • Rome placed on them?
  • 00:19:28.550 --> 00:19:31.954
  • Your generosity will never bankrupt you.
  • 00:19:32.788 --> 00:19:36.725
  • Your obedience to god will never bankrupt you.
  • 00:19:36.725 --> 00:19:40.562
  • Your tithing will never bankrupt you.
  • 00:19:40.562 --> 00:19:43.131
  • What it will do is it will establish you,
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  • And it will set you up
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  • In a place
  • 00:19:47.469 --> 00:19:48.670
  • Where you are walking out the will of god for your life.
  • 00:19:48.670 --> 00:19:51.273
  • After all, obedience is better than what
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  • You don't own possessions.
  • 00:19:54.943 --> 00:19:57.079
  • They prove whether you are owned by them or not,
  • 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:01.016
  • And anything that you
  • 00:20:01.516 --> 00:20:02.618
  • Can't freely give owns you.
  • 00:20:02.618 --> 00:20:09.591
  • If god can't place
  • 00:20:10.025 --> 00:20:10.892
  • His hands on it, that is your god.
  • 00:20:10.892 --> 00:20:14.062
  • Are you listening to me?
  • 00:20:14.062 --> 00:20:17.332
  • If god can't place his hands on your wallet,
  • 00:20:17.332 --> 00:20:19.167
  • Your wallet is your god.
  • 00:20:19.167 --> 00:20:20.202
  • If god can't place his hands on your purse,
  • 00:20:20.202 --> 00:20:22.070
  • Your purse is your god.
  • 00:20:22.070 --> 00:20:23.171
  • If god can't place his hands
  • 00:20:23.171 --> 00:20:24.539
  • On what it is that you're stewarding,
  • 00:20:24.539 --> 00:20:26.174
  • Those things that you're stewarding are your god.
  • 00:20:26.174 --> 00:20:32.214
  • Let's do some personal inventory real quick.
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  • When you hear tithes and offering,
  • 00:20:34.850 --> 00:20:36.285
  • Does your heart get tight?
  • 00:20:36.285 --> 00:20:40.188
  • You have a panic attack, a little anxiety.
  • 00:20:40.188 --> 00:20:43.392
  • Get tense.
  • 00:20:43.392 --> 00:20:45.527
  • Well, maybe you've made money.
  • 00:20:45.527 --> 00:20:46.662
  • Your god.
  • 00:20:46.662 --> 00:20:48.630
  • Because anything that god
  • 00:20:48.630 --> 00:20:50.799
  • Allowed you to steward, that he says, i want you to return.
  • 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:54.269
  • This is because he has something greater in mind
  • 00:20:54.269 --> 00:20:56.738
  • To allow you to steward and the first place,
  • 00:20:56.738 --> 00:20:59.875
  • God doesn't ask because he needs.
  • 00:21:00.642 --> 00:21:02.644
  • God has to break greed off of us
  • 00:21:02.644 --> 00:21:05.347
  • So that things don't become our god.
  • 00:21:05.347 --> 00:21:08.583
  • You don't own possessions.
  • 00:21:09.151 --> 00:21:11.553
  • They prove
  • 00:21:11.553 --> 00:21:13.789
  • That you are owned by them or not.
  • 00:21:13.789 --> 00:21:17.259
  • So i ask you the question
  • 00:21:17.259 --> 00:21:20.062
  • If god asked you for it, would you freely give it?
  • 00:21:20.062 --> 00:21:23.365
  • Notice i didn't say cheerfully, give it
  • 00:21:24.132 --> 00:21:25.701
  • Because there's some things
  • 00:21:25.701 --> 00:21:26.868
  • That god will ask you for that you won't cheerfully give,
  • 00:21:26.868 --> 00:21:29.171
  • But you will walk it out in obedience anyway.
  • 00:21:29.171 --> 00:21:30.972
  • There's been times when god said, i want you to give this.
  • 00:21:30.972 --> 00:21:33.275
  • I said, god, really?
  • 00:21:33.275 --> 00:21:36.611
  • Who? that hurts.
  • 00:21:37.012 --> 00:21:38.180
  • That's painful.
  • 00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:40.649
  • I just want you to know god doesn't just love a cheerful
  • 00:21:40.649 --> 00:21:42.651
  • Giver.
  • 00:21:42.651 --> 00:21:43.452
  • God also loves a sad giver as well.
  • 00:21:43.452 --> 00:21:49.391
  • How do you know when you're not being controlled by things?
  • 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:53.895
  • When it hurts to give and you still give it?
  • 00:21:53.895 --> 00:21:56.898
  • How do you know when you are being controlled by things?
  • 00:21:57.999 --> 00:22:00.802
  • If you're moved by your feelings.
  • 00:22:00.802 --> 00:22:08.210
  • We make church more about what we feel,
  • 00:22:09.010 --> 00:22:11.246
  • About what we want to do, about our convenience,
  • 00:22:11.246 --> 00:22:14.349
  • Instead of what god desires to do through us.
  • 00:22:15.317 --> 00:22:18.653
  • But there's something that happens in scripture,
  • 00:22:19.654 --> 00:22:22.391
  • And that's something that can happen in us
  • 00:22:22.391 --> 00:22:24.926
  • If we walk out what scripture teaches us according to the plan
  • 00:22:24.926 --> 00:22:29.731
  • And the purpose that god sets before us.
  • 00:22:29.731 --> 00:22:32.968
  • Scripture says in acts chapter two, verses 42 through 47,
  • 00:22:32.968 --> 00:22:37.672
  • And awe and wonder filled all of them.
  • 00:22:37.672 --> 00:22:41.810
  • Point number four is this
  • 00:22:41.810 --> 00:22:44.980
  • Favor is the fragrance
  • 00:22:44.980 --> 00:22:47.883
  • Of faithfulness.
  • 00:22:47.883 --> 00:22:51.420
  • They didn't grow by gimmicks.
  • 00:22:52.053 --> 00:22:55.390
  • They grew by guts.
  • 00:22:55.390 --> 00:22:58.093
  • They grew by obedience.
  • 00:22:58.093 --> 00:23:00.128
  • They grew day by day.
  • 00:23:00.128 --> 00:23:03.098
  • They grew one obedient decision after another.
  • 00:23:03.098 --> 00:23:06.601
  • Obedient decision.
  • 00:23:06.601 --> 00:23:08.003
  • It doesn't say that they grew by putting on great events.
  • 00:23:08.003 --> 00:23:13.041
  • It says that the family came together
  • 00:23:13.041 --> 00:23:16.011
  • And they met day by day, and they followed the teachings
  • 00:23:16.011 --> 00:23:20.081
  • Of jesus christ.
  • 00:23:20.081 --> 00:23:21.283
  • And they devoted themselves to the teachings of jesus christ.
  • 00:23:21.283 --> 00:23:24.352
  • And they were faithful to the teachings of jesus christ.
  • 00:23:24.352 --> 00:23:26.922
  • And they broke bread together, and they shared together,
  • 00:23:26.922 --> 00:23:30.091
  • And they laughed together and they cried together.
  • 00:23:30.091 --> 00:23:32.994
  • That is the truest depiction of the church of god
  • 00:23:32.994 --> 00:23:36.631
  • That we have in scripture.
  • 00:23:37.199 --> 00:23:40.101
  • And so
  • 00:23:40.302 --> 00:23:41.203
  • Church health isn█t measured by crowds.
  • 00:23:41.203 --> 00:23:43.972
  • Church health is measured by commitment.
  • 00:23:43.972 --> 00:23:48.643
  • Are you committed to jesus christ?
  • 00:23:49.411 --> 00:23:51.847
  • Are you
  • 00:23:51.847 --> 00:23:53.114
  • Committed to being a follower and a disciple of jesus christ?
  • 00:23:53.114 --> 00:23:56.384
  • Are you committed to the bride of christ?
  • 00:23:56.384 --> 00:23:58.587
  • Or do you still entertain girlfriends on the side?
  • 00:23:58.587 --> 00:24:04.626
  • Because true discipleship
  • 00:24:05.193 --> 00:24:08.330
  • Is not about attendance.
  • 00:24:08.330 --> 00:24:11.032
  • It's about commitment to the one
  • 00:24:11.032 --> 00:24:14.469
  • Matters the most.
  • 00:24:14.903 --> 00:24:17.572
  • And when they were committed to jesus christ.
  • 00:24:17.572 --> 00:24:20.709
  • Scripture says, then the lord added to their number daily,
  • 00:24:20.709 --> 00:24:26.248
  • Because the people refuse to subtract
  • 00:24:26.248 --> 00:24:29.818
  • From their devotion.
  • 00:24:29.818 --> 00:24:34.523
  • You do what only you can do.
  • 00:24:35.123 --> 00:24:38.226
  • God then does what only he can do,
  • 00:24:38.226 --> 00:24:41.396
  • And he provides,
  • 00:24:41.796 --> 00:24:43.865
  • And he performs, and he shows up
  • 00:24:43.865 --> 00:24:47.702
  • And he delivers and he saves and he sets free.
  • 00:24:47.702 --> 00:24:52.140
  • And he does what he does
  • 00:24:52.641 --> 00:24:55.911
  • When we do what he has asked of us to do.
  • 00:24:55.911 --> 00:25:00.615
  • Well, family, that's our time for today's broadcast.
  • 00:25:01.650 --> 00:25:04.519
  • But i want to encourage you
  • 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:05.720
  • To continue to search through this passage of scripture.
  • 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:08.990
  • Get out of it everything that jesus desires
  • 00:25:08.990 --> 00:25:11.960
  • For you to get out of it.
  • 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:13.061
  • And let's continue to grow together as we continue
  • 00:25:13.061 --> 00:25:16.731
  • To go through this incredible book of acts.
  • 00:25:16.731 --> 00:25:20.135
  • As we close this broadcast today, i want to pray with you.
  • 00:25:20.135 --> 00:25:23.538
  • I want to set my faith in agreement with your faith
  • 00:25:23.538 --> 00:25:26.841
  • And our expectation in agreement
  • 00:25:26.841 --> 00:25:28.977
  • With what god desires for you and for us.
  • 00:25:28.977 --> 00:25:33.114
  • And so right now, in jesus name,
  • 00:25:33.114 --> 00:25:34.749
  • I thank you
  • 00:25:34.749 --> 00:25:35.584
  • For my brothers and my sisters
  • 00:25:35.584 --> 00:25:37.052
  • That are watching this broadcast.
  • 00:25:37.052 --> 00:25:39.220
  • And i just ask right now, god,
  • 00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:40.422
  • That you would meet them where they are today.
  • 00:25:40.422 --> 00:25:43.358
  • God, as they heard the word commit it beyond convenience.
  • 00:25:43.358 --> 00:25:46.027
  • I just thank you god, that you would draw out of them
  • 00:25:46.027 --> 00:25:48.597
  • Every sinful nature, every thought,
  • 00:25:48.597 --> 00:25:51.333
  • Every imagination, everything that is contrary
  • 00:25:51.333 --> 00:25:54.536
  • To the plan and a purpose you have for them
  • 00:25:54.536 --> 00:25:56.571
  • So that they can step into who you want them to be
  • 00:25:56.571 --> 00:25:59.708
  • In this season of living
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  • And this season of life, in jesus name we pray.
  • 00:26:01.142 --> 00:26:04.212
  • Amen.
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  • Family at the bottom of the screen,
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  • For your personal consideration in helping us continue
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  • To get the message of jesus christ into the hearts
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  • And into the minds of people all over the world.
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  • I'm so amazed by
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  • What god continues to do through this broadcast,
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  • And the people that it's reaching.
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  • Incredible partners like you that help make this possible.
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  • Stop by on a sunday, visit us at 9 a.m.
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  • Or 11 a.m.
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  • To see what god is doing. live and in person.
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  • If you're not within driving distance
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  • From north florida, it's okay.
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  • We'll be right back here.
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  • Same time, same place next week.
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  • I want you to know god loves you and i love you too.
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  • See you soon.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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