Tim Timberlake

Tim Timberlake - The Conjunction of Feelings

April 2, 2025 | 27:29

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Conjunction of Feelings | April 2, 2025

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Hey. family is pastor tim timberlake,
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And i am so excited about today's broadcast.
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I believe god has given me a word specifically for you.
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And so what i want you to do, i want you to grab your word.
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I want you to grab your pen, grab me a notepad,
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Do me a favor, call somebody
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And let them know we're on right now.
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And this word is going to change and transform their life.
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Let's go into the broadcast that has already begun
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For this incredible message
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That i believe is going to change your life.
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Entitled the conjunction of feelings
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So faith
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Is living through this tension
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That we have a dialectical thinking
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To exchange the conjunction of.
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But with ed.
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Jesus demonstrates this to us, not limiting his emotion,
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Not limiting his feelings,
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But putting them on full display for us
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So that we could see even the king of kings
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And the lord of lords
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Has feelings and emotions and deep pain and deep, deep trauma
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That he has to navigate with god.
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In matthew chapter 26, verse 38, he says,
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My soul is sorrowful even to death.
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And yet.
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Not my will.
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Allow yours to be done.
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The scripture says, my soul is sorrowful.
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He knew that he was going to be crucified for us.
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He knew that he would have to be whipped for us.
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He knew that he would be pierced in his wrists
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And his feet for us, and his desire.
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And his answer was, and yet.
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My will.
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It's not about me.
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It's about god.
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And the reality is, family.
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Your feelings may be legitimate.
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But oftentimes the conclusions you make from
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Those feelings need to be challenged.
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If you're not challenging your feelings, you're
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Following your feelings.
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And if you're following your feelings,
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You're leading yourself to a life and a lifestyle
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That is fleeting and will not last.
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Your feelings may be true,
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But what we must understand is that
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There is a higher authority at work
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That is greater than our feelings.
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This higher authority has
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To be the priority of our life,
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Not how we feel.
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So when we read romans chapter 12, beginning at verse number 9
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To 21, this is the context that paul was painting for us,
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The conjunction of our feelings.
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I want you to write this down
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Point number one, because this is important
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For what we're going for our time together today.
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You can't call it love if it disappears
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When it's inconvenient.
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Romans chapter 12, verse nine says, let love be
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Genuine, arbor, or refute or be disgusted
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With what is evil, and hold fast to what is good.
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The world says love is about how you feel.
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God says love is about what you do.
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Culture says love is about what makes you happy.
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Jesus shows us that love is supposed to make you holy.
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And if your love does
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Not make you holy, then it is not love at all.
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Because love is more than just making you happy
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And giving you feels.
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And you get the butterflies in your belly
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Whenever you get around that certain someone.
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Love should make you holy.
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So if this love that you say you have lead you to the bedroom
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Before you're married, that in fact is not love.
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That in fact is lust,
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And it is not leading you into a holy lifestyle.
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And i know some of you
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Like, well, pastors
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February, you're supposed to be talking
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About relationships and marriages,
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And i'm single and i'm trying to find my spouse.
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So i want to hear what
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And how i carry in my life when i'm a single person.
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And i just came to tell you, if you don't get this right,
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You will fall prey to your flesh
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And you will get into a marriage
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That you are not able to sustain because your relationship
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With jesus christ was built on a shaky foundation
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And not the word of god.
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Let me tell you what our flesh desires.
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Our flesh desires a shallow love
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And shallow love seeks comfort.
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But true love embraces sacrifice.
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A shallow love seeks a filling.
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But true love seeks to be built in faith
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And hear me single people hear me loud and clear.
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If the person you are pursuing and is pursuing you
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Is does not have the desire to build your faith more
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Than they do to desire their flesh,
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You need to leave that person.
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Y'all not talking to me today?
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Let me talk to this side.
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If the person you are pursuing
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Is not trying to help you build your faith,
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You need to leave that person. why?
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We learned this last week because true love
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Always leads you to the altar.
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True love
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Never leads you to the bedroom without a ring.
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Y'all quiet up in here.
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It's okay.
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I'll preach to myself.
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Coaches says
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Love should make you happy.
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Jesus says
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Love should make you holy.
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A love that does not endure
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Wasn't love.
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It was just a season.
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Counterfeit
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Love is easy because it cost you nothing.
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Real love is a war
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Because it cost you everything.
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Family.
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If your love does
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Not make hill nervous, it is not genuine love.
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If there are not imps and demons
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And people scheming against your love,
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That end in fact is not real love.
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Because real love makes hell tremble.
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Real love makes the devil nervous.
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Real love makes demons flee.
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Real love.
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It's shaped the very foundations of hell
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Because it represents and reflects what jesus has done for
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Us. and i need you to hear me when i tell you this.
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The love that changed the world
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Didn't come with chocolates and roses.
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It came with nails and a cross.
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And if the love that you have for people
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Does not reflect that, then it is in fact not love at all.
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I wish i had a church that understood
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That would not here to celebrate love for a day.
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February the 14th.
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But we're here to model
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And demonstrate love 365 days of the year.
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The same love that changed the world.
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It didn't come with a cute card.
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It did come with a teddy bear.
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It didn't come with chocolates.
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It didn't come with hershey's kisses.
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It came with a cross and nails.
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It laid its life on the line for you and for me.
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And it said, i do anything to reach you,
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Even when you're in sin. because i love you.
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And if the love that jesus gave to us did not come
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With a sacrifice today, that effect would not be love.
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I got to move, i got to move.
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I got to move.
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Point number two is this i want you to write this down
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Because i believe this is going to help somebody.
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Paul teaches us
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Romans chapter nine.
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If revenge
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Makes you feel powerful,
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Honor proves you actually are.
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So some of us are seeking revenge.
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We want to get back.
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We want to get even.
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We want them to feel what we feel.
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We want them to be in pain. like they put us in pain.
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And that's not what scripture says.
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Scripture makes it very clear.
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Revenge.
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It's fleeting.
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Romans chapter 12, verse ten.
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Love one another with brotherly or sister affection,
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And outdo one another in showing honor.
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That word honor is
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Either abused in church or misunderstood in church.
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What this word honor
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It means, is
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You don't give it to people who deserve it.
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It's what you do because god
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Demands it.
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If you can't honor those that are in proximity of you,
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You will never be
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Honored yourself.
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And some of us are seeking to be served
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Instead of looking for opportunities to serve others.
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Some of us, some of us are eager to get power
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Instead of operating in humility and relinquishing
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Power to the one that is all powerful.
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See, i truly believe that
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The quickest way up is down.
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And if ever you want to be promoted in this life
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And elevated in this life, you have to be humble
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Before the lord.
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The scripture is very clear.
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Although culture says honor is earned,
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God says honor is given.
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The world promotes people who elevate themselves,
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But god promotes those who lifts others up.
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If you only honor
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Those who can help you.
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That's networking.
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That's not love.
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Sundays are not
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An opportunity for us to network.
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Sundays are an opportunity for us
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To express true and genuine love.
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This honor that i speak of, it's not a weakness.
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It is the weapon that overcomes evil.
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It is the thing that crushes
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The hand of the enemy in your life.
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There is nothing that defeat your enemy quicker than love.
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And when your enemy knows and they try to do everything
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Against you,
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And you still love them in spite of it confuses them.
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And scripture
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Teaches us in romans chapter 12, i want us to go back here
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Because i don't say anything without scripture to back it up.
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I want you to see this, and i want you to hear this
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Because it is the bible, if at all possible.
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Verse 18 so far is it depends on you.
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Live peaceably
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With all, beloved, never avenge yourselves,
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But leave it to the wrath of god.
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For it is written, vengeance is mine.
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I will repay, saith the lord, to the contrary.
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If your enemy is hungry, feed him.
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If he is thirsty, give him something to drink,
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For by so doing you will heap burning clothes on his head.
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So if you want to defeat your enemy, love your enemy.
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If you want to tease your enemy off,
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Love your enemy the way christ loves you,
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And watch how the enemy flees
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Because of this love you have for them.
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So this honor
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That i speak of, it is not given to the elect.
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This is not given to those who can pay for it.
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It's given to those who don't deserve it.
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But you do.
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One of the things that i've learned is
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I can't claim to follow jesus
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While acting like judas.
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God, i know what your word says,
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But i don't feel like it.
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God, my body feels terrible.
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But i trust you. no, no, i can't utilize the conjunction.
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But anymore.
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God, i feel bad and you're still good.
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God, i hear your word.
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And i don't agree with your word.
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Do you know what god is waiting for?
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God is waiting for us to be honest with him.
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God is waiting on us to be transparent
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In his presence and express to him how we really feel.
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Some of us think that we're fooling god
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By not expressing to god our frustrations
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When he already knows.
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Because he made you and he designed you,
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And he knows the number of hairs on your head,
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And you get in your prayer closet,
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And you act like you got your stuff together.
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And you utilize
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Christian, his language that demonstrates and displays
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How phony you are.
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And god is not going to answer those prayers.
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God will only answer what is genuine and authentic
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To you and to him.
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Leads me to point number three.
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Faith doesn't ignore emotions.
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It just refuses to be enslaved
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By them.
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Faith doesn't love nor ignore the feelings.
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It doesn't ignore the emotions.
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It doesn't ignore that you are in real pain.
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It just refuses to be enslaved by them.
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This is why this is important.
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If you let your emotions define your theology,
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You will shrink god down to the size of your problem.
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If you allow your feelings to define your theology,
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You will shrink god down to the size of your struggle.
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Faith is not
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The absence of emotion,
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It is the refusal to be ruled by them.
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Dialectical thinking allows you to feel deeply
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Without letting those feelings dictate your faith.
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While acknowledging your struggles
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And refusing to let what you feel dictate
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How you love romans chapter 12, verse 14 says, bless
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Those who persecute you and bless and do not curse them.
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Faith doesn't deny emotions.
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It just does not let emotions drive our vehicle
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To faith.
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You must understand
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Is that your feelings are real,
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But they don't get the final say in your life.
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The word says follow your heart.
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God says guard it.
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Culture says emotions define truth.
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God says truth should define your emotions.
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I need you to hear me when i tell you this.
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Your feelings are temporary, but your faith is eternal.
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And i think sometimes we forget.
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That jesus felt
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Abandoned on the cross,
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Yet he still trusted the father.
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Some of you feel abandoned by god.
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And you've been taught not to have feelings,
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And you've been taught not to have emotions,
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And you've been taught not to question god.
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And all of those things are not biblically sound.
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Because jesus himself demonstrates that to us
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On the cross where he says, father, father, why?
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Jesus felt.
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The full brunt of emotions.
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The full pain in his physical body.
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But he still trusted the father.
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And if you have
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No other takeaways from today than the statement
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I am about to make, i'm afraid that the sticks to you.
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Like meat on bones and it is this
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Faith moves
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Even when feelings don't.
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My faith.
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It moves even when my feelings don't.
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You must
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Be reminded that your pain may have a voice,
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But it does not have a vote.
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Your pain cannot have the final say in your life.
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Your feelings, your emotions.
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How you feel cannot have a vote in your faith.
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Your faith has to be
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The driving factor behind why you do what you do, not.
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Your feelings.
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And although your feelings allow,
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The truth of the gospel of jesus christ is louder
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If you actually listen.
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So please don't
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Mistake the silence of god for the absence of god.
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Your faith move even when your feelings don't.
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And it is possible
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That you can feel abandoned by god
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And still be held by him at the same time.
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I don't know who i'm talking to right now.
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You may be in this moment right now,
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And you may feel like god has not heard you, and
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Your feelings may be valid, but they are not the last truth.
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The word of god is the truth, and the truth
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Shall always set you free.
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So the thing that we must do
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Is stop treating our emotions and our feelings
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Like idols.
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And start stewarding
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Our relationship with god like he is in charge.
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Anything that you put before god has become an idol.
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If you put your feelings before god, it has become an idol.
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If you put your emotions before god, it has become an idol.
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If you put your will before god, it has become an idol.
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If you put your wants
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And desires before god, it becomes an idol.
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How do you know when your will has become an idol?
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When you do whatever you do
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Because of how you feel like doing it?
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Here me and i know this is harsh,
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But there are people that decided
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Not to come to church today because of how they feel.
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And we've belittled our relationship
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With jesus to just mere feelings
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When he denied his feelings
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And went to the cross for us,
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Was nailed in his wrist and in his feet.
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It was pierced and his side was of
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What was on the cross with her,
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With a thorn on his head that was piercing
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Through the flesh and the skull of his body.
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And he abandoned his feelings to fulfill the purpose
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And the will of god on our life.
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How dare we follow our feelings over our faith!
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How dare we below
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To our relationship to jesus christ based off of how we feel?
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And who else is in the room?
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No, no.
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As long
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As you have a desire to meet jesus, jesus will meet you here.
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But family, i need you to understand
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Jesus goes where he is desired.
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Not where he's tolerated.
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The last point that we'll cover
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Today is this.
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If your love has a limit,
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Your faith has a ceiling.
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If your love has a limit,
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Your faith has a ceiling. romans
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Chapter 12 verse 21 says,
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Do not overcome by evil, but overcome with good.
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If your love is limited, so is your spiritual growth.
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Love that starts when tested isn't love.
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It's self-preservation.
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And the world says match my energy
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And god says shift atmospheres.
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Culture teaches self-preservation,
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But a kingdom love embraces self-sacrifice.
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Loving the lovable is human,
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But loving the unlovable is divine.
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And it's easy to
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Love those that we think love us.
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But it's supernatural to love those that we know
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Hate us.
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One of the things
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About this scripture that jumps off the page to me.
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Is that i can't claim
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To have mountain moving faith.
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If a grudge can keep me stuck.
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I can't claim
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To have mountain moving faith
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If unforgiveness is holding me
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Hostage.
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If hate can't be found in jesus,
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Then it shouldn't be found
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In his followers.
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The conjunction of our feelings.
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Is that we can absolutely
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Feel what we feel.
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But lean more
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Into a greater narrative than what we feel.
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That is the gospel of
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Jesus christ.
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So the limit of your love
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Is the lid on your spiritual growth.
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Because god will always call you
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To love beyond what is comfortable to you.
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In this particular text, paul
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Is calling us to love when it's easy.
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It's calling us and demonstrating
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For us to love when it's hardest.
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And if we can walk this out.
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Scripture says,
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This is how the world will know that you are a follower
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Of jesus christ.
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So the next time your feelings
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Try to dictate your love, remember this
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I feel frustrated
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And i still choose to love.
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I feel disappointed
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And i still choose to forgive.
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But i feel angry
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And i still choose to love them over my anger.
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I feel like i've been taken advantage of and
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I still choose to demonstrate the love of jesus christ.
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Don't allow your feelings
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To demonstrate the narrative that god has not asked of you
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To demonstrate.
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Allow your feelings to be subjected to your faith,
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Because your faith is anchored in the hope of jesus christ.
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Love is not just a feeling,
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It is a faith move that takes you from glory to glory
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And faith to faith.
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So again, your feelings may be real,
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But they are not the final authority.
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God is.
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And if we can
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Wrestle with that tension.
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Of the conjunction
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Of our feelings.
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This is how we demonstrate to the world.
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That we don't just confess
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Jesus christ.
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We actually believe in jesus christ.
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And for it was jesus that said.
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Not my will,
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Let your will.
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Well, family, we are out of time for today's broadcast,
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But i would encourage you to continue to lean into
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What god is doing right here on this incredible broadcast.
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The word of god
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Is transformative, and i believe that as we lean in together,
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Our lives will be changed together forevermore.
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And so i would encourage you right now,
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You set your hearts on things above,
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And some of you may have some prayer requests
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And petitions that you want us to connect with you on.
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Our team is going to throw some information
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At the bottom of the screen right now.
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Before we get off this broadcast,
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I'm going to pray with you, and i'm going to set my faith
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In agreement with doors for what you're believing god for.
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At the bottom of the screen, you'll also find
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Some information that i pray that you pray through,
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And that information is how you can partner with us,
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Your partnership with us enables us to continue
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To spread the gospel
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Of jesus christ to the places that need the most,
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And my prayer is that you would prayerfully
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Consider becoming a partner with timberlake ministries.
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And so right now, i'm going to stretch
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My hands towards the screen as a point of contact with you.
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No matter wherever you are around the world,
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Our faith shall connect and your prayer requests
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Will ping the ear of god and he will respond.
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And so right now, in jesus name, i thank you,
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God, for my brother, for my sister that are watching.
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And i ask right now in the name of jesus
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That those prayer requests, the petitions, god,
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The tears that they've cried at night,
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Those things would not go unnoticed.
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God, you're so good and that you are a god
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That not only hears, but you are a god that provides.
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And so right now, in the name of jesus,
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I ask that you provide all that they have need of.
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In jesus name. i pray.
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Amen.
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Well, family, if you're ever in the jacksonville area,
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Please stop by.
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Visit us on a sunday at 9 a.m.
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Or 11 a.m., and if you're not, continue to catch us here.
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I can't wait to continue the word of god with you next week.
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Same time, same place.
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I want you to know god loves you and i love you too.
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I'll see you soon.
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♪♪
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Tim Timberlake - The Conjunction of Feelings

April 2, 2025 | 27:29

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