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Tim Timberlake - Divided Devotion

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Divided Devotion | May 17, 2026

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Hey family, i want to wish you a very beautiful day.
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I pray that this broadcast finds you well.
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If it does not, i pray that you're changed
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And transformed and renewed in your mind
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Through the word of god.
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There's nothing that brings about change
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And transformation in our life like the word of god.
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And so i pray today he speaks to you.
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I pray today he changes and transforms
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You from the inside out.
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And i pray that as you click off this broadcast,
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That your life will never be the same.
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Let's go into today's message entitled divided devotion.
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Let's see
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What god has in store for us as we go into the word of god.
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Text your friend, get your notepad.
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Grab your bible.
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Let's lean in today to devided
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Devotion.
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The mixture.
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They were carrying the presence of god and carrying
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Portable idols.
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And stephen is teaching the sanhedrin█s
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A valuable lesson.
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Yahweh became a god,
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Not their god.
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The tabernacle became one option
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Among many devotions.
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This family is more dangerous
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Than outright rebellion
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Because outright
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Rebellion rejects publicly,
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While mixture feels spiritual.
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And so we'll chase
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Spirituality separate from jesus,
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And we'll go on these retreats all over the world.
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The chase spirituality.
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But we won't come to church.
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We'll go to bali,
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But we won't go down the street.
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This is spiritual pluralism
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Inside a people that were created for covenant.
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And that's why you will never find satisfaction
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Or fulfillment in those things.
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You can fill your schedules.
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You can fill your calendars.
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You can fill your mind with all these things
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That your heart's desire,
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And you still won't find satisfaction or fulfillment.
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You will only find an empty vessel at the end of the day.
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Because you are created
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For one person and one person only.
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You weren't created for many gods.
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You weren't created for many idols.
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You weren't created for the worship of many different
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Things.
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You were created to worship one
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True living god
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And his name is jesus.
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And god will not sit on a shelf
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Beside what he died to deliver you from.
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And so you don't have to bow publicly to be bound
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Spiritually.
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The reality of this passage is that israel didn't leave god.
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They just diluted their relationship with him.
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And dilution is just slow denial,
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Leading you down
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The pathway of death.
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For the wages.
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Of sin
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Is death.
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And make no mistake about it, at the end of your life,
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You're going to have to pay the bill.
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Yeah, and ain't nobody too
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Tough to spend eternity without jesus.
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Ain't nobody gangster enough to take their last breath
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Here on earth.
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And find out that you will be separated for eternity
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From the king of kings and the lord of lords.
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And they think to themselves, i'm going to be alright.
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And you're sitting here, you're chasing
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After the possessions of this world,
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Because the possessions of this world have become your rampha,
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They become your malik.
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And we sit here, we chase money,
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We chase gold, we chase opportunities.
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I just want to remind you of what scripture says.
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Scripture says, for the streets of heaven are paved.
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So why are you chasing?
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What is pavement in heaven here on earth?
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You killing yourself over?
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What is pavement in heaven?
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That's right. yeah. that's right.
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What we walk on.
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You are killing yourself
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Over what is pavement in heaven.
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Because this goal, these dollars, this money
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Has become your idol.
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And if god
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Isn't enough in your heart,
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No amount of him
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Will ever be enough to save you.
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Want to point something out to you?
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In the text it says the images
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Which you made to worship.
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So look at me.
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They didn't just adopt idols,
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They made them.
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They didn't find idols.
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They constructed them.
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They didn't stumble upon these idols.
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They manufactured them.
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This is deeper than inherited sin.
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This is customized sin
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Based upon our preference because we are impatient.
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This is us
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Opening the door to sin and welcoming sin
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Into our lives, because we were too impatient to wait on god.
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Genesis chapter four, verse seven.
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God speaking to cain said, cain, if you do things
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The right way, will not your countenance be lifted?
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But if you don't do things the right way, sin
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Is crouching at your door,
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And its desire is to rule you, so you must master it.
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And the reality for some of us today is
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We are opening the door to sin, and we don't even realize that
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Sin is walking with us. it's training us.
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It's developing us
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Because we did not change our countenance by the word of god.
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And so point number one is this. the most dangerous
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Idols are the ones you designed to agree with you.
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That's why some of you are not faithful
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To jesus, because he doesn't always agree with you.
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That's why you're not consistent
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In the word of god, because the word of god
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Doesn't always tell you what you want to hear.
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That's why you're not consistent in prayer.
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Because when you pray, god desires to speak to you,
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But you don't actually want to hear what god has to say
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Because you've already determine
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The most dangerous idols are
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The ones you designed to agree with you.
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Let me put it to you like this in idol is any god
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That never disagrees with you.
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And if your god never corrects
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You, you created him or her.
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We don't fall into idolatry.
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We fabricated.
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We make it, we manufacture it.
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And a god you can control, a god that you can change, a god
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That you can demand and tell that god to do whatever
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You want it to do, is a god that will never deliver you.
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And that's why some of us are still stuck,
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Because we're sitting here trying to control god.
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Let me tell you this any spirit you try to
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Control is a demon spirit.
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And it will not deliver you
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Any idol you can control, any little god that you can control.
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It will not deliver you.
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Only one god can deliver you.
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His name is above every other name.
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His name has
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And will always have all power locked on the inside of it.
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And scripture says, when you say the name of
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Jesus, every demon flees.
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When you say the name jesus, every disease.
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Listen.
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When you say the name of jesus.
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There's still power
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In that matchless name.
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And some of us were sitting here
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Calling out our idols
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Instead of the name.
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Of god.
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What we fail to realize
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Is a self-made relationship and self-made worship.
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It always leads to self-made destruction.
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And look at what god tells the children of israel.
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I also will remove you beyond babylon.
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Babylon represents exile,
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Displacement, judgment.
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When we read this, god didn't just punish their behavior,
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He removed them from the promise
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Which teaches me if i refuse to remove
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My idols, god will remove me from the place
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I'm supposed to thrive.
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That's right.
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And god will never compete with what
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You refuse to confront.
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But it's not that bad, pastor.
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Okay?
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It ain't never hurt nobody.
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Pastor.
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Okay,
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I paid a lot of money for this gold necklace.
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Pastor.
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Okay, let me point out something to you.
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That little eye you wearing.
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I hope it can see.
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Where are you going
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And warn you for where you headed.
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Because that little eye.
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It's an idol.
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God won't compete with what you confuse to confront.
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And the thing you protect
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Can become the reason you are displaced.
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Unaddressed idols in our heart, in our life.
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They. they don't stay hidden.
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They just relocate into other areas.
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And so you may be thinking, you're hiding it over here
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And it reappears over here.
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And you're a little bit selfish here.
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And you say, okay, god, i'm willing to give that to you, but
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I'm not willing to give this to you.
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God, i'm
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Willing to give you a little
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Bit of time, but i'm not willing to give you all my time.
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And he's the one who gave you time in the first place.
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Verse 43 teaches us that you can't carry idols
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And expect to stay in the promise.
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Verse 44 says,
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Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony.
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This tabernacle of testimony is god's dwelling place.
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It contained the ark, the law, the presence of god.
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It was called testimony because it testified
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Of god's covenant with the children of israel.
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And here's the tension that we may live in right here.
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They had the right structure, but they had the wrong heart.
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And some of you, you have the right structure.
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You got the right plan,
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You got the right blueprint, but you got the wrong heart.
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You're trying to use god
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To accomplish the outcome you want to see.
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Instead of being used by god to fulfill
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The thing that he desires for you to walk out.
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Point number two is this.
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Verse number 44 teaches us you can build what god designed
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And still miss what god desires.
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You can build
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What god designed and still miss what god desires.
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You can absolutely host his presence without surrendering
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Your preferences.
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That's why some of you you want to meet with me and ask me.
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Can we do the things your old church used to do?
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Because it reminds you of momma
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And them and grandmama and them and big mamas church.
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And here's my rebuttal.
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Find it in scripture.
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It's it's a preference.
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And if we prioritize preference over
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God given purpose, we make our preferences an idol.
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And so the structure of a thing can be right
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While devotion to that thing is wrong.
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And you can have a holy system, and you can replace that
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Holy system with an unserendered soul,
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Because your preference reminds you of how you used to
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Experience god,
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And not how god desires for you to experience him today.
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And you will
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Create a whole theology framework based around
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An encounter you had four years ago.
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Because you fail
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To realize that god is still moving.
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And so we talk about how we used to experience god
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And what god used to do, and how god used to move.
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And i remember back in 1995.
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If i were about loose
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And revival was everywhere and all these great things,
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And it was the golden age and the golden era, and i'm
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Telling you, god is moving today.
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God is healing.
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Today he's delivering today.
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He's setting the captives free today.
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But you will miss what god is doing
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If you keep looking
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Through the rearview mirror of what god did.
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Look at what the passage never says.
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The passage never says that god demanded
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From moses to have perfect construction.
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He asked for for consecration.
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And the children of israel were too impatient to give
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God their full consecration.
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And so they interjected other idols and false gods
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With their god.
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Scripture says, according to the pattern
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Which he had seen, moses did not invent the tabernacle.
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He replicated heaven's designs.
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He followed the instructions.
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And let me tell you, it is very, very frustrating for a leader
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To get instruction from god, and the people are too impatient
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To receive it.
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Let that sink in for a second.
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And so, god, he's
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Not just a god of pattern.
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He's also a god of preference.
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And when you abandon god's pattern and preference,
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You replace it with your own selfish desires
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And label it as spirituality.
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And so god's
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Pattern, it produces presence
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And your preference produces performance.
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And that's why we settle for pastors who perform
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Instead of pastors who teach the word of god.
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And that's why we can receive instruction from god and think
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To ourselves, i need to improve what god has given me,
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And we think we can make god's instruction better.
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So we add to it.
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We think we can do better
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Than god's plan for our life, and so we add to it.
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You don't improve god's design,
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You just obey it.
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Are you listening to me?
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You can't improve god's design.
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It is perfect.
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You just have to obey it.
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Let me say it this way innovation without revelation
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Always leads to imitation, without power.
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And so you'll use the name,
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But you won't know the name.
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And when heaven gives us patterns
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And when heaven gives us blueprints.
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And when heaven gives us instructions,
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Earth does not have the authority to edit it.
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You don't have the authority
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To edit the plan of god for your life.
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You don't have the power, the intellect to know
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How, the wisdom, the revelation to take instructions
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And blueprint from god and tweak it and it be better
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Than what god gave you.
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And so the moment you try to adjust
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God's design for your life
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Is the moment you reduce god's glory in your life.
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Verse number 45.
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Our fathers brought it in with joshua.
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The tabernacle didn't stay in the wilderness.
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It moved into warfare.
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It moved with them as they moved.
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But they wanted to to keep it stuck.
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They wanted it to be positioned.
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They wanted it to be fixed because they kept
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Making false gods and making false idols,
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Because they did not believe that god was in fact moving.
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And sometimes
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When it seems like god is doing
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Nothing, god is in fact doing something.
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And sometimes when it seems like god is not moving,
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God is intentionally not moving
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Because god is moving something in you.
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And so don't be impatient when it feels like
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God is not doing anything to then create your own idol
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Or your own god, because you were not patient
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Enough to see god work it out for you.
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The tabernacle didn't stay in the wilderness.
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It moved into warfare, and under joshua
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It entered into the promised land.
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This is a powerful truth for us to understand
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And identify with, because god's presence
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Wasn't just for survival.
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God's presence was also for conquest.
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The presence of god
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Would go before them before they went into battle.
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Whenever god called the children of israel, whenever
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God called his people to occupy or to take territory,
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He always sent his presence with them.
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Because the presence of god is not just for survival,
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It is also for conquest, for progress,
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For the advancement of the gospel of jesus christ
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And what god gave you for victory.
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You can reduce to
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Becoming a relic if you stop walking in faith.
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And so
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What once led you can become something
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You just look at.
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And some of you got these
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Pretty bibles.
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Soft leather.
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Supple leather,
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Big bold print.
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But you don't open it.
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And you talk about it,
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But you don't read it.
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And once
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In your life, it led you.
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And now you look at it and you pass it
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By every single day, and you rest your coffee on it.
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In the back of your car somewhere.
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You don't even know where it is.
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What once led you.
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Now you look at.
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And it is only this that can change you.
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It is only this that can lead you.
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It is only this that can change you.
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It is
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Only this that can set your mind on the path of righteousness.
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It is only this that can build your faith.
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It is only this that will change your mind.
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And make no mistake about it, you need your mind changed.
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What you have
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To understand is yesterday's encounter
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Cannot replace today's obedience.
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Point number three.
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Revival dies
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When remembrance replaces pursuit.
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Revival dies
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When remembrance replaces pursuit.
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This will be a house
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That continues to pursue the presence of god.
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We will not talk more about what
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God did than what god is doing,
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And what god has a desire for us to see that he's already done.
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We will always and continue to chase
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After the presence of god, because
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Revival dies when remembrance replaces pursuit.
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If it doesn't move with you, it will eventually
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Mean nothing to you.
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Are you listening to me?
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If the presence of god does not move with you,
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The presence of god will eventually mean nothing to you.
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That's why some of us can treat the presence of god
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Just like it's an accessory to our lives.
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And we dictate and determine when we spend time
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With the presence of god, and we spend time
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With the presence of god when we need something from god.
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And if we don't need nothing from god,
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God does not hear from us.
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That's why
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We can look at her service and determine when god stops
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Moving in the service.
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Because we have idolized our schedule in our calendar
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Over the presence of god.
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And that's why we can dictate and determine
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How long we take off from the house of god.
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Because we don't want to go to church,
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And we don't want to be inconvenience.
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To sit 20 minutes in traffic and to church is getting too big.
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And if you think the church is getting too big,
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What in the world do you think heaven is going to look like?
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Oh, it ain't worship too long.
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What in the world do you think heaven is going to sound like?
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And as god is moving forward,
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Idolatry has you standing stuck.
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And you can honor
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Yesterday so much that you miss god.
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Today,
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I refuse to create a culture where we honor
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What god used to do more than what god is doing,
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Or we honor how god used to move more than how god
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Is moving right here, right now, today, in this very moment.
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And the danger isn't losing god.
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It's locking him into where he used to be.
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And god,
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He did not bring you this far to be remembered.
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He brought you this far to keep moving with him.
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Stephen's message is clear.
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He shares with the sanhedrin
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You had god's presence.
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You received god's pattern.
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You experienced god's power,
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But you carried other things along with god.
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And the tragedy
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Of this revelation isn't that god stopped moving.
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It's that his people kept moving with everything
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Except for him.
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But regardless of
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If we identify it.
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Regardless of if we identify him,
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He is still god.
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Hey family, i pray you are blessed by the word of god.
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We're out of time for today, but we still want to
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Continue these conversations.
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And i want to continue to share the
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Gospel of jesus christ with you.
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So i want to encourage you to do whatever you can to
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Join us right back here on this incredible network.
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Same time, same place.
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Next week, as we continue to march
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Through the acts of the apostles,
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I'm going to set myself
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In agreement with you for whatever it is
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You may be believing god for today.
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And so,
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Lord jesus, i thank you for my brother
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And my sister that are leaning into this moment,
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Watching, listening
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And just seeking your answers, seeking your face.
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I pray right now that you'll meet them wherever they are.
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God, the plans and the purpose you have for
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Them are still good and those plans are not evil.
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And so right now, when you share with your sons and daughters
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What it is that you have in store for them
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And what it is that you desire for them to do
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And carry out in this season so that their lives
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Could be a better reflection of who you are.
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In the name of jesus, we pray.
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Amen. family.
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Our team is going to
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Throw some information at the bottom of the screen.
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Would you pull out your phone
00:26:26.368 --> 00:26:27.402
To get that qr code right down the address,
00:26:27.402 --> 00:26:29.471
Write down that web address, and pray
00:26:29.471 --> 00:26:31.673
About partnering with us so that we can continue
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The spread of the gospel of jesus christ.
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I believe now more than ever, we need the word of god.
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Our world is in disarray,
00:26:39.514 --> 00:26:41.516
And humanity and society and culture,
00:26:41.516 --> 00:26:44.185
They're all searching for answers.
00:26:44.185 --> 00:26:45.920
And we as believers, we have the solution.
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His name is jesus.
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And so would you prayerfully consider helping me share
00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:53.995
Advance.
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Spread the gospel of jesus christ in an hour that i believe
00:26:55.196 --> 00:26:58.566
Is so pivotal, so key,
00:26:58.566 --> 00:27:00.168
That it's going to take all of us
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In partnership together to advance the gospel
00:27:01.436 --> 00:27:03.872
The way he desires for us to.
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I want you to know god loves you and i love you,
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And i can't wait to see you right back here next week.
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Same time, same place.
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Until then, be blessed.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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Tim Timberlake - Divided Devotion

May 17, 2026 | 27:29

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