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Tim Timberlake - Crooked Generation

August 4, 2025 | 28:30

Tim Timberlake - Crooked Generation
Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.
#Conviction #Repentance #SeekGod #SpiritualGrowth #WordofGod #Gospel #Salvation #Transformation #LoveofGod #Offense #Sin #Deception #Sanctification #Grace #Mercy #Baptism

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Crooked Generation | August 4, 2025
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  • Hey. family is pastor tim timberlake of celebration
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  • Church, and we are in for an incredible message today.
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  • We've been walking through the book of acts
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  • And today's passage.
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  • It leads us to the subject matter of a crooked generation.
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  • I want you to get your bible.
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  • I want you to get your pen, get your notepad.
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  • As we go into the message that has already begun.
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  • Entitled a crooked generation.
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  • A people without conviction is
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  • A lost people.
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  • Peter is telling us
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  • Through the text.
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  • That when the word of god pierces your heart,
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  • It convicts you
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  • And it draws you back into the presence of god.
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  • Point number one, i want you to write this down
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  • Because i believe that it will speak to you.
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  • Is this
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  • If the word doesn█t wound you,
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  • It can't wake you.
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  • Y'all don't have to talk to me.
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  • It's okay
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  • If the word doesn't wound you.
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  • It can't wake you.
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  • God doesn't pierce your heart to punish you.
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  • He pierces it to resurrect you.
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  • He pierces your heart to let you know without him,
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  • You are doomed. you're about for hell.
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  • You're not going to make it.
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  • But with him, all things are possible.
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  • We have to get to the place and the position in our life
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  • Where we understand that without jesus christ
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  • There are very few things that are possible.
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  • But with him all things are possible.
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  • To those that believe.
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  • We don't like to hear messages
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  • Like this because it offends our flesh.
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  • It makes us uncomfortable.
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  • It allows us to know
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  • That there are imperfections at work on the inside of us.
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  • And surely it can't be right because we're perfect.
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  • I'm not that bad.
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  • I'm not that bad of a person.
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  • God still loves me just the way i am.
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  • Who told you that?
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  • Let's debunk a couple of myths
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  • Right here at the very beginning of the message.
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  • If god loved you just the way that you were,
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  • He would have never sent his son for you.
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  • God loves you, but he does not love some of your decisions.
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  • He loves you, but he doesn't love some of your life stuff.
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  • He loves you, but he doesn't love some of your languages.
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  • He loves you, but he doesn't love some of your actions.
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  • He loves you enough to send his son
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  • To dwell on the inside of you, because he's not after just you.
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  • He's after himself on the inside of you.
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  • That's why the scripture says greater is he
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  • That is in me than he that is in the world.
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  • So does god love you?
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  • He does, but he loves himself more,
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  • And he placed himself on the inside of you.
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  • So god is after himself in you so that he can work through you.
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  • So that other people could see
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  • Someone flawed and imperfect at work
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  • Through the help of jesus christ.
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  • To know that if god can do it for you, oh,
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  • Surely he can do it
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  • For me.
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  • And so we get offended
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  • By messages like this.
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  • Because we've heard years
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  • And years of cookie cutter messages.
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  • That make us believe.
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  • That we okay in our sin.
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  • We've been told to believe
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  • You confess your sins one time.
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  • It don't matter what you do after that.
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  • That's a lie from the pit of hell.
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  • Listen to me.
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  • There would be no sanctification
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  • After salvation if you could confess jesus one time.
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  • Live however you want to and still make it to heaven.
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  • We don't want to hear that, though,
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  • Because we believe that no matter what i do,
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  • No matter where i am,
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  • No matter how long i'm doing it, he still loves me enough
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  • To let me enter into eternity with him.
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  • Listen, he loves himself on the inside of you enough
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  • To allow you to experience his grace and his mercy.
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  • That's why he continues to come after us.
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  • Because he's at work on the inside of you.
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  • Don't think for a second you can live however you want to
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  • Live, and still make it into eternity with him.
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  • It doesn't work like that.
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  • We get offended by messages like this.
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  • But here's the message just like this that offend
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  • Your flesh or a gift to your soul.
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  • Many stand for worship,
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  • But don't kneel in repentance.
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  • Many stand in praise.
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  • But don't kneel in repentance.
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  • Scripture says
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  • That at the very mention
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  • Of that name,
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  • Every knee,
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  • Whether you believe in him or not, every knee,
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  • Whether you're
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  • A buddhist or not, every knee, whether you're a hindu or not.
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  • Every single knee will bow
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  • And every tongue shall proclaim that jesus christ is lord.
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  • There is no other option.
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  • Hear me.
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  • If the gospel never cuts you.
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  • Your conscience is already numb.
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  • And a numb christian is satan's
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  • Favorite type.
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  • Because you are harmless to hell
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  • And you are invisible to heaven.
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  • Somewhere
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  • In our language,
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  • We've convinced ourselves and confused ourselves
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  • That acceptance to all
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  • Its love,
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  • Acceptance does not equal love.
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  • If i love you but i never tell you the truth.
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  • I don't love you.
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  • Are you listening to me?
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  • There are many passages of scripture
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  • Like this one where it says we are a crooked generation.
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  • Another passage where jesus said, you are a son of satan.
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  • If god accepted all people,
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  • He would never utilize that language.
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  • But he loves us, so he speaks truth to us,
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  • Even when it cuts our flesh and pierces our heart
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  • So that the gospel of jesus christ could be sown like a seed
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  • Into our life and bloom and flourish
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  • Like a harvest of eternity in the kingdom of god.
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  • Point number two is this.
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  • Repentance.
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  • True repentance is rebellion
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  • Against yourself.
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  • It's rebellion against yourself.
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  • It's rebellion against your wants.
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  • It's rebellion against your ways.
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  • It's rebellion
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  • Against the things
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  • That you desire is rebellion against the flesh.
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  • It's a rebellion against what your soul craves,
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  • Separate from god.
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  • True repentance is not just asking god to forgive you.
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  • True repentance is allowing actions to turn your life
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  • Away from the sin, so that you can now
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  • Pursue righteousness and holiness in jesus christ.
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  • When you repent, you declare war on your flesh and the traitor
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  • At work on the inside of you, your greatest enemy.
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  • Hear me is not the devil.
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  • Your greatest enemy is the traitor.
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  • Oh, the inside of you that keeps opening the door
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  • For the devil to enter back into your life.
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  • And i know some of you think it's the devil.
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  • It ain't the devil.
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  • It's you making poor decisions.
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  • I know some of you been blaming the devil.
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  • Stop blaming the devil.
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  • It ain't the devil.
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  • It's you in the wrong relationship.
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  • And you keep opening the door for the devil to come back in.
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  • And you're giving him too much praise and too much glory.
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  • And he's standing there taking all the credit you give him.
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  • Because you are not in the right relationship.
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  • We don't want to hear that, because surely it can't be us.
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  • We need somebody to blame.
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  • Devil is not your greatest enemy.
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  • You are.
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  • The traitor at work.
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  • On the inside of you that keeps
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  • Opening up the door for the enemy.
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  • The devil can't force is something.
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  • You got to open the door for him.
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  • And we say we want a relationship with jesus.
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  • But we still get in bed with satan every single night.
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  • The devil is not
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  • Your biggest enemy.
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  • Your decisions are.
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  • Some of you listening to me right now.
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  • You know that relationship you in.
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  • It's not given to you by god.
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  • You keep asking god to bless it,
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  • But god will never bless you with anything
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  • That would separate you from him.
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  • God will never bless
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  • What he told you not to get into.
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  • And we keep blaming satan.
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  • The devil made me do it.
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  • No. he did.
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  • Stop lying.
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  • You did that because of your decisions.
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  • And you opened the door for the enemy.
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  • And you welcomed him in to your dinner table.
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  • And you sit down and you converse with him.
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  • And you had a great time laughing and and going through
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  • All the different things that god told you not to do.
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  • And you're
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  • Entertaining the enemy because you let him in.
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  • He didn't force himself and stop giving the enemy more credit
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  • Than what he deserves and start making better decisions.
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  • We make so many excuses for our sin.
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  • And you know what?
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  • We'll even do?
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  • We'll look at a church
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  • For a church that makes us feel comfortable in our sin.
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  • Until we find the church
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  • That we can still live however we want to live.
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  • And attend there faithfully without ever being called out.
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  • That's where we are,
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  • And that's why scripture calls us a crooked generation
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  • Twisted, perverted,
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  • Bent over, warped in our perspective
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  • Because we are more in love with us than we are
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  • With christ.
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  • But what we must know
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  • Is that every sin
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  • We excuse is a future chain.
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  • We will wear. yes.
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  • And you're trying to move into a new season,
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  • But you're chained to the sins of the old.
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  • You're trying to step into a new relationship,
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  • But that soul tires keep calling you back
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  • Over and over and over again,
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  • Because you have not stopped entertaining
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  • What the enemy has presented you with.
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  • Every sin that we excuse when we eventually
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  • Become a chain that we are tied to.
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  • And so how do we break
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  • The chains of sin
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  • Through repentance?
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  • What is repentance?
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  • Repentance
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  • Is the revolution your old self hopes.
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  • You never start.
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  • What is true repentance?
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  • Repentance
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  • Is what your flesh hopes you never discover.
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  • What is true?
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  • Repentance?
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  • Repentance
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  • Is what your sinful habits
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  • Hope you never discover.
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  • Repentance is a revolution
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  • Against the old version of you,
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  • So that the christ on the inside of you
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  • Could be raised to new life, and you can walk out
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  • The rest of your days understanding that he is holy
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  • And righteous and pure, and he's giving you grace,
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  • But he is not giving you grace to abuse.
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  • He's giving you grace to utilize when you stumble and you fall.
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  • Not to live in a lifestyle of sin, but.
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  • And so peter gives us
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  • The scripture.
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  • Written by luke
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  • To allow us to know
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  • That where there's true repentance,
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  • There is action that follows.
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  • Point number three.
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  • A private faith
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  • Produces public compromise.
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  • A private faith produces public compromise.
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  • So our faith can't remain silent.
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  • Let me ask you this question.
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  • Is the world silent around you?
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  • No, it is not.
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  • The world is very loud about what
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  • The world believes in, and it tries to convince you
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  • That you should believe in it as well.
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  • And if you don't believe in it, shame on you.
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  • A private
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  • Conviction.
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  • It's the breeding ground
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  • For public compromise.
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  • Louder than your words.
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  • Your life should speak.
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  • What does this look like?
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  • Lived out in 2025.
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  • It looks like you.
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  • Walking and modeling.
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  • The love of jesus christ in a manner that speaks so loud.
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  • You don't have to say a word.
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  • The reality is
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  • As if your old self isn't buried
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  • Don't be shocked when it haunts you.
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  • Stares you in the face while you looking in the mirror.
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  • Tell you what you go do.
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  • Some of your flesh
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  • Speaks louder than god does.
  • 00:15:23.305 --> 00:15:27.643
  • Tell you when to wake up.
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  • When to go to sleep.
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  • When you're going to eat.
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  • And when you're going to work out.
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  • When you're not going to work out.
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  • You know
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  • Your spirit man is supposed to be in control of your flesh, not
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  • The other way around.
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  • Amen.
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  • And if your old self is not buried.
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  • Don't be shocked when it haunts you.
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  • How do we make sure that the old man is buried?
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  • Baptism.
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  • Baptism is not an add on ritual.
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  • It's the funeral that proves the resurrection is real.
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  • And it is at work on the inside of me.
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  • Are you listening to me?
  • 00:16:10.652 --> 00:16:12.187
  • It is a public declaration that i am dead
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  • And christ is alive and at work on the inside of me.
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  • I don't talk how i used to talk.
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  • I don't treat people how i used to treat people.
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  • I don't walk how i used to walk.
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  • My attitude ain't the same.
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  • I'm not quick tempered.
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  • I don't allow anger to rule me or lead me.
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  • I am dead and christ is alive at work on the inside of me.
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  • So i don't say what i want to say.
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  • I say what he wants me to say. i don't do what i want to do.
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  • I do what he wants me to do.
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  • And that's how the scripture starts off.
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  • What do you want me to do?
  • 00:16:42.618 --> 00:16:46.455
  • What is the sign of a repentant life?
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  • When you wake up every single day
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  • And you ask god what do you want me to do?
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  • What do you want me to do?
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  • I'll do that.
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  • What do you want me to go? i'll go there.
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  • What do you want me to say?
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  • I'll say that you no longer speak for yourself.
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  • You speak on behalf of the king of kings and the lord of lords,
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  • And set work on the inside of you.
  • 00:17:08.577 --> 00:17:12.181
  • There's so many people that want resurrection power.
  • 00:17:13.215 --> 00:17:15.684
  • But skip their own burial.
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  • You can't have both.
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  • He's resurrected on the inside of you
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  • While your flesh is still alive.
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  • Don't skip
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  • Your burial.
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  • There's some of you that need to get baptized.
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  • Make a public declaration, a public confession
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  • That you no longer live for yourself.
  • 00:17:44.246 --> 00:17:45.848
  • Jesus christ is lord.
  • 00:17:45.848 --> 00:17:47.749
  • He is the lord of my life and my decisions.
  • 00:17:47.749 --> 00:17:59.128
  • And so the
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  • Scripture allows us to know that baptism
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  • Is the line in the sand where the grave loses
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  • Your name.
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  • Why is it so important?
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  • Why is baptism so important?
  • 00:18:16.645 --> 00:18:19.615
  • Because every burial demands
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  • A witness.
  • 00:18:22.718 --> 00:18:26.388
  • How many ever been to a funeral
  • 00:18:27.055 --> 00:18:28.257
  • Before a homegoing service and
  • 00:18:28.257 --> 00:18:31.293
  • Been to the burial?
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  • That person didn't get out that casket.
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  • Get a shovel,
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  • Dig their own grave,
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  • Get in it, and then scoop the dirt on themselves.
  • 00:18:40.769 --> 00:18:43.939
  • And you stand there and watch like that's normal.
  • 00:18:43.939 --> 00:18:47.209
  • No. they remain in that casket.
  • 00:18:47.843 --> 00:18:51.947
  • They were placed in that grave.
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  • They were lowered.
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  • And you stood as a witness.
  • 00:18:55.717 --> 00:18:58.453
  • Because every burial demands
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  • A witness.
  • 00:19:01.557 --> 00:19:04.560
  • Every burial demands a witness.
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  • Baptism is allowing others to witness that you are dead.
  • 00:19:07.429 --> 00:19:12.267
  • And christ has been raised to new life on the inside of you.
  • 00:19:12.267 --> 00:19:15.837
  • And we celebrate with heaven because you are dead, and he
  • 00:19:15.837 --> 00:19:19.641
  • Is alive and well.
  • 00:19:19.641 --> 00:19:22.811
  • And so peter is instructing them now.
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  • They've been pierced in their heart.
  • 00:19:25.581 --> 00:19:27.149
  • They've been convicted of their sin.
  • 00:19:27.149 --> 00:19:28.884
  • They ask, what should we do?
  • 00:19:28.884 --> 00:19:30.519
  • And look at what peter says.
  • 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:31.920
  • Repent and be baptized.
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  • Because true repentance has action that follows.
  • 00:19:34.923 --> 00:19:41.663
  • But, pastor,
  • 00:19:41.997 --> 00:19:42.764
  • I just got my hair done.
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  • Repent and be baptized.
  • 00:19:46.335 --> 00:19:49.137
  • Pastor, i didn't bring clothes today.
  • 00:19:49.137 --> 00:19:50.973
  • I wasn't planning on it.
  • 00:19:50.973 --> 00:19:52.107
  • Listen, you're not planning your own plans.
  • 00:19:52.107 --> 00:19:54.543
  • God is planning the plans that he has for you.
  • 00:19:54.543 --> 00:19:57.045
  • For i know the plans i have for you, saith the lord.
  • 00:19:57.045 --> 00:19:59.648
  • Those plans are good and not evil.
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  • You may make your plans, but god's purpose prevails.
  • 00:20:02.351 --> 00:20:05.887
  • You don't have to be prepared
  • 00:20:05.887 --> 00:20:07.556
  • For the purpose of god to be raised to new
  • 00:20:07.556 --> 00:20:09.725
  • Life on the inside of you.
  • 00:20:09.725 --> 00:20:14.062
  • And so, point number
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  • Four, as we land the plane, is this.
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  • Don't sanitize your faith
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  • For a culture that is allergic to conviction.
  • 00:20:21.270 --> 00:20:29.478
  • Don't sanitize your faith
  • 00:20:30.045 --> 00:20:31.413
  • For a culture that's allergic to conviction.
  • 00:20:31.413 --> 00:20:35.217
  • And his holiness.
  • 00:20:35.651 --> 00:20:37.753
  • Holiness is refusing to bend.
  • 00:20:37.753 --> 00:20:40.555
  • Or the world expects you to break.
  • 00:20:40.555 --> 00:20:45.961
  • What does revival
  • 00:20:46.395 --> 00:20:47.129
  • Look like at the 2025?
  • 00:20:47.129 --> 00:20:51.099
  • Revival.
  • 00:20:51.366 --> 00:20:52.034
  • Looks like a straight spine
  • 00:20:52.034 --> 00:20:53.402
  • When everyone around you has spiritual scoliosis.
  • 00:20:53.402 --> 00:20:58.307
  • Revival.
  • 00:20:58.573 --> 00:20:59.107
  • Looked like in 2025.
  • 00:20:59.107 --> 00:21:01.843
  • Revival looks like you having a straight spine
  • 00:21:01.843 --> 00:21:05.314
  • And staying faithful to the things
  • 00:21:05.314 --> 00:21:07.015
  • God has called you to stay faithful to.
  • 00:21:07.015 --> 00:21:09.484
  • When everyone around you compromises.
  • 00:21:09.484 --> 00:21:12.954
  • What is revival look like in 2025?
  • 00:21:12.954 --> 00:21:15.424
  • Staying put long enough to allow the gospel of jesus
  • 00:21:15.424 --> 00:21:18.894
  • Christ to pierce your heart and sow seeds of righteousness
  • 00:21:18.894 --> 00:21:22.030
  • So that a harvest could be reaped in eternity.
  • 00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:25.767
  • What does revival look like in 2025?
  • 00:21:25.767 --> 00:21:29.204
  • You, standing flat footed,
  • 00:21:29.771 --> 00:21:33.008
  • Straight back,
  • 00:21:33.008 --> 00:21:35.344
  • Straight spine
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  • Against what culture and society
  • 00:21:37.846 --> 00:21:40.015
  • Calls cultural norms.
  • 00:21:40.015 --> 00:21:43.151
  • What does revival look like in 2025?
  • 00:21:43.952 --> 00:21:47.055
  • It looks like you leading your life
  • 00:21:47.856 --> 00:21:50.926
  • Through the lense of love.
  • 00:21:50.926 --> 00:21:53.161
  • Loving people enough
  • 00:21:53.161 --> 00:21:55.330
  • To call them to a standard
  • 00:21:55.330 --> 00:21:58.467
  • That god requires all of us to live our lives by.
  • 00:21:58.467 --> 00:22:02.371
  • What you have to understand this.
  • 00:22:03.138 --> 00:22:04.539
  • This salvation.
  • 00:22:04.539 --> 00:22:06.708
  • It is free.
  • 00:22:06.708 --> 00:22:09.144
  • But separation and sanctification will cost
  • 00:22:09.144 --> 00:22:12.547
  • You every false friendship you thought was real.
  • 00:22:12.547 --> 00:22:19.921
  • You want to know if your friend group is real?
  • 00:22:20.889 --> 00:22:22.758
  • Start talking about jesus.
  • 00:22:22.758 --> 00:22:25.260
  • You want to know if that person is supposed to be your boaz?
  • 00:22:25.260 --> 00:22:28.096
  • Start talking about jesus.
  • 00:22:28.096 --> 00:22:29.898
  • You want to know if she's supposed to be your ruth?
  • 00:22:29.898 --> 00:22:31.933
  • Start talking about jesus.
  • 00:22:31.933 --> 00:22:33.602
  • You'll find out very quickly where people stand with you
  • 00:22:33.602 --> 00:22:37.439
  • When you start talking about the savior that saved you.
  • 00:22:37.439 --> 00:22:44.179
  • Separation.
  • 00:22:44.513 --> 00:22:45.981
  • It will cost you every false relationship
  • 00:22:45.981 --> 00:22:50.218
  • You thought would stay with you for the rest of your life.
  • 00:22:50.218 --> 00:22:57.526
  • So don't sanitize your faith for a culture
  • 00:22:58.427 --> 00:23:01.463
  • That's allergic to conviction.
  • 00:23:02.063 --> 00:23:06.701
  • We live in a generation
  • 00:23:07.202 --> 00:23:08.403
  • That calls evil good
  • 00:23:08.403 --> 00:23:11.406
  • And good evil.
  • 00:23:11.406 --> 00:23:14.876
  • Generation that calls evil good
  • 00:23:14.876 --> 00:23:17.212
  • Needs of people who call compromise what it is.
  • 00:23:17.212 --> 00:23:20.782
  • Crooked.
  • 00:23:21.049 --> 00:23:22.884
  • Spiritual.
  • 00:23:22.884 --> 00:23:23.485
  • Scoliosis.
  • 00:23:23.485 --> 00:23:25.287
  • Perverted. twisted.
  • 00:23:25.287 --> 00:23:26.721
  • Bent in dire need of the gospel of jesus
  • 00:23:26.721 --> 00:23:30.225
  • Christ to straighten us out.
  • 00:23:30.225 --> 00:23:33.662
  • The reality of our lives here, my family, is
  • 00:23:34.563 --> 00:23:37.265
  • You can't walk the narrow road and ride the cultural wave
  • 00:23:37.265 --> 00:23:40.936
  • At the same time.
  • 00:23:40.936 --> 00:23:44.639
  • Can't do it.
  • 00:23:44.973 --> 00:23:49.945
  • When the word cuts,
  • 00:23:50.412 --> 00:23:52.681
  • When the word pierces, allow it to.
  • 00:23:52.681 --> 00:23:56.551
  • Because it's changing you, it's transforming you.
  • 00:23:56.551 --> 00:23:58.887
  • It's renewing you from the inside out.
  • 00:23:58.887 --> 00:24:03.859
  • When the spirit cuts,
  • 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:06.895
  • Let it bleed out.
  • 00:24:06.895 --> 00:24:07.796
  • What's killing you?
  • 00:24:07.796 --> 00:24:10.565
  • I'll say it again.
  • 00:24:10.565 --> 00:24:11.500
  • When the spirit cuts, let it bleed out.
  • 00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:14.536
  • What's killing you?
  • 00:24:14.536 --> 00:24:16.471
  • When conviction calls.
  • 00:24:16.471 --> 00:24:18.106
  • Bury the old you.
  • 00:24:18.106 --> 00:24:19.374
  • Before it burries you.
  • 00:24:19.374 --> 00:24:24.412
  • But don't remain numb in sin.
  • 00:24:25.046 --> 00:24:29.918
  • What you feel right now.
  • 00:24:30.452 --> 00:24:31.453
  • That's conviction.
  • 00:24:31.453 --> 00:24:33.822
  • I know it's a challenging.
  • 00:24:33.822 --> 00:24:34.890
  • I know it's tough.
  • 00:24:34.890 --> 00:24:36.024
  • I know it's a hard message to hear.
  • 00:24:36.024 --> 00:24:37.325
  • But what you feel right now, it's conviction.
  • 00:24:37.325 --> 00:24:39.361
  • That's jesus calling you to a higher standard.
  • 00:24:39.361 --> 00:24:42.797
  • It's him reminding you that he loves you
  • 00:24:43.632 --> 00:24:46.234
  • Beyond what you are doing right now.
  • 00:24:46.234 --> 00:24:49.204
  • He's allowing you to know the plans and the purpose he has
  • 00:24:49.204 --> 00:24:52.007
  • For you are greater than what you currently see.
  • 00:24:52.007 --> 00:24:55.777
  • Well, we're out of
  • 00:24:56.211 --> 00:24:56.878
  • Time for today's broadcast,
  • 00:24:56.878 --> 00:24:58.547
  • But we still have so much work to cover.
  • 00:24:58.547 --> 00:25:00.882
  • And so i want to encourage you do whatever you can
  • 00:25:00.882 --> 00:25:02.884
  • To join us right back here.
  • 00:25:02.884 --> 00:25:04.152
  • Same time, same place.
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  • Next week as we continue to march to the book of acts.
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  • My prayer is that you feel a godly conviction to change,
  • 00:25:08.623 --> 00:25:12.794
  • To allow the word of god
  • 00:25:12.794 --> 00:25:13.962
  • To transition you and to transform you,
  • 00:25:13.962 --> 00:25:17.098
  • And to mature you and to grow you up into the things of god.
  • 00:25:17.098 --> 00:25:20.669
  • And if that is the case,
  • 00:25:20.669 --> 00:25:21.903
  • Then today's broadcast was worth tuning into.
  • 00:25:21.903 --> 00:25:25.407
  • My prayer
  • 00:25:25.407 --> 00:25:26.675
  • Is that you would prayerfully consider locking arms with us
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  • To make sure that this gospel we believe in gets to the people
  • 00:25:30.045 --> 00:25:34.115
  • That needs to hear it most.
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  • And so our team is going to throw some information
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  • At the bottom of the screen.
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  • We just scan that qr code right down that web address.
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  • Call us, send us email.
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  • As we partner together on this endeavor
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  • To get the gospel of jesus christ to everyone
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  • Who needs to hear it.
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  • Before we close this broadcast, i want to pray with you
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  • And i want to pray for you.
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  • For those
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  • That may be on this journey and you feel distant from
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • I'm going to stretch my hands as a point of contact,
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  • And i want you to repeat this prayer after me.
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  • Lord jesus, come into my heart.
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  • I repent for my sin.
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  • Forgive me for my own, forgiveness to others.
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  • Forgive me, god, for my unrighteousness.
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  • Forgive me for the decisions that i've made knowingly
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  • And unknowingly.
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  • I ask right now, in the name of jesus,
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  • That you would cover me by your blood.
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  • I believe with my heart that you were raised from the dead.
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  • And so i confess with my mouth that you are my lord, my master,
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  • And my savior.
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  • In jesus name i pray. amen.
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  • If you prayed that prayer
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  • And you want us to continue to go on this journey with you,
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  • Scan that qr code that's at the bottom of your screen.
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  • Our team here would love to get to you some resources
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  • And pray with you and pray
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  • For you on this journey of being a believer in christ.
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  • And if you're ever in the jacksonville area,
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  • Visit us here right
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  • At celebration church in jacksonville, florida, 9 a.m.
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  • And 11 a.m. on sunday mornings.
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  • If you're not within driving distance in north florida,
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  • Continue to watch here on this incredible broadcast
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  • As we continue to spread the gospel
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  • Of jesus christ far and wide.
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  • Until then, i want you to know god loves you
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  • And i love you too.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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