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Tim Timberlake - From Doubt To Declaration

April 28, 2025 | S25:E19

Tim Timberlake - From Doubt To Declaration
Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.
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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - From Doubt To Declaration | April 28, 2025
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  • Hey family is pastor tim
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  • Timberlake of celebration church,
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  • And i'm excited about the word
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  • That god has given me for our time together today.
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  • If all of us were to be honest, if we've been on this journey
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  • With jesus christ for any period of time, we've had questions.
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  • Questions that quite honestly,
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  • We don't have the answers to ourselves.
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  • And we walk this journey with jesus christ, and sometimes
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  • It seems like he doesn't give us those answers today.
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  • Let's go to the word of god as we continue in the series
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  • And see exactly what jesus has to say about that.
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  • So the disciples have found the messiah,
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  • And now they're spreading the news coming and see who
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  • We have found.
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  • What a beautiful passage of scripture
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  • That not only
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  • Brings us to the conclusion that there is power
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  • In our testimony,
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  • But we also see in the text that jesus invites.
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  • He does not force.
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  • Jesus did not demand that they followed him.
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  • Jesus did not force them to follow him.
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  • Jesus invited them to follow him.
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  • And today jesus is giving you an invitation.
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  • Come and follow me.
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  • If you're taking notes, i want you to write this down
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  • In point number one. as we continue to journey
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  • Through this passage of scripture.
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  • Your influence should be
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  • A mirror reflecting jesus,
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  • Not a spotlight on yourself.
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  • Your influence should be a mirror that reflects jesus
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  • And not a spotlight on yourself.
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  • John the baptist had an assignment,
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  • And his assignment was to point people beyond himself.
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  • John the baptist understood that he was not the light,
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  • But he was supposed to make way
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  • For the light of the world to come and to do
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  • What only jesus could do.
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  • And despite his own following, he directed his disciples
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  • To jesus, exemplifing humility on purpose.
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  • What areas of your
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  • Life did you need to exemplify humility?
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  • Have you made life about you
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  • Or is it all about jesus?
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  • Have you made things about you?
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  • Or at the end of your life?
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  • Can you say with all sincerity, god, it is all about you
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  • And not about me?
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  • True ministry is about guiding others to christ
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  • And not seeking personal recognition.
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  • The greatest threat to
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  • The american church is not satan.
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  • The greatest threat to the american church
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  • Is pastors seeking recognition for themselves.
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  • It is a threat
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  • Because when a man or a woman stand behind the sacred desk
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  • And they desire to consume light,
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  • They become a distraction
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  • From the light that is supposed to change and transform us.
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  • And when we do this out of selfish ambition and selfish
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  • Gain, the spirit in which we possess
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  • Is transmitted across this platform to the people.
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  • So true ministry is not about consuming light.
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  • True ministry is about being a reflection
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  • Of the light.
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  • If your platform
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  • Is not leading others to jesus,
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  • Hear me very clear.
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  • I want you to lean in for this because you need to hear it.
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  • It is just a pedestal for your ego.
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  • God has blessed you
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  • At what he's blessed you with for your platform.
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  • God is not giving you what he's given you for your platform.
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  • God has not opened up doors
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  • That he's opened up for your platform.
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  • God has said all these things so that he can get glory.
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  • And if god is not getting glory out of your influence,
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  • Then that influence
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  • Is not your platform that influence is your pedestal,
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  • And you need to surrender it
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  • Back to the feet of jesus
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  • So that he could make greater
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  • Out of it than you could ever make.
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  • If you held on to it in the first place.
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  • John's willingness to decrease so another could increase
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  • Challenges us to find joy and success,
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  • And laying our ambition down at the feet of jesus
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  • So that he could live the purpose out of us
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  • And allow others to see him in and through our lives.
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  • Point number two.
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  • If your jesus always agrees with you,
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  • You're not following.
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  • A redeemer.
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  • You're following your own reflection.
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  • No, what scares me?
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  • People that always say
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  • God said.
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  • God said.
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  • God told me.
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  • God showed me.
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  • God said. god said.
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  • God said.
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  • God didn't say all that.
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  • I spent a lot of time with god.
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  • There's some moments
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  • Where i have to wait.
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  • And be patient
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  • And take months sometimes take years, to hear a
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  • From god in the area that i have been praying for.
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  • If every
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  • Time i pray, god says what i want him to say.
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  • I am not serving a redeemer.
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  • I am serving my own reflection.
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  • John the baptist in this text demonstrates
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  • Something so supernatural for us to model our lives after
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  • He moves out of the way,
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  • Expresses true humility so jesus could arrive on the scene
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  • And defy messianic expectations.
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  • See first century jews and participated
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  • A political liberator.
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  • A king that was
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  • Swinging the sword
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  • To overthrow the politics and the power of rome.
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  • And when john the baptist declares jesus, he does not
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  • Declare him as the powerful and mighty king.
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  • He does not the declare him as the mighty warrior.
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  • He does not declare him as the true and living savior.
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  • He declares him as the lamb
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  • Of god.
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  • See, religious leaders were looking for a roaring lion,
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  • But jesus arrived on the scene as the lamb
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  • Of god.
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  • Religious leaders were waiting for a savior
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  • To come and shout and scream and push back the veil of rome.
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  • And jesus came as a lamb of god to push back the veil of hell.
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  • And sometimes jesus does not show up
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  • The way we anticipate and expect for him to show up.
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  • But the good news is, he always shows up.
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  • What we can't get distracted by.
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  • Is our feeble expectations of him.
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  • Jesus is not who you think he is.
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  • Jesus is who he says he is.
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  • And if we were to apply anything from this point, it would be
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  • We must align our understanding of jesus with the one
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  • Who he truly is, not the one who we want him to be.
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  • Jesus did not come to meet expectations.
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  • Jesus came to transform hearts.
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  • Jesus did not come to live up to your approval.
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  • Jesus came to transform your approval to meet his.
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  • Jesus did not come to meet your expectations.
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  • He came to achieve them.
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  • But the jesus you see
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  • Is the jesus you will get.
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  • Our limited vision
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  • Can contain a limitless messiah
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  • If we allow it to.
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  • It is in jesus that we see that true
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  • Leadership is not rooted in dominance.
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  • It is rooted in service.
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  • Jesus did not arrive
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  • On the scene in a throne.
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  • He did not arrive on the scene riding a chariot.
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  • He arrived being proclaimed
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  • As the lamb of god.
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  • And some of you are seeking power through dominance.
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  • Some of you are seeking influence to dominance.
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  • Some of you are seeking recognition through dominance.
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  • Some of you are seeking platforms to dominance,
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  • And you will never accomplish what you are seeking.
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  • If that is your heart's desire.
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  • If the king
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  • Of glory did not get power by dominating,
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  • Neither will you.
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  • The unexpected messiah teaches us
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  • That god's plans surpass
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  • Our understanding.
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  • Point number three.
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  • There's a radical call
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  • In john chapter one, verses 35 to 51.
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  • The radical call is come and see.
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  • Which allows me
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  • To know that true discipleship begins with an invitation,
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  • Not a qualification.
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  • He is not looking for your resume.
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  • He's not looking for your linkedin account.
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  • He's not looking for your job history and what you've done
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  • And all the accolades that you've accomplished.
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  • He's waiting on you to accept the invitation
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  • And the invitation has been and will always be.
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  • Come and see.
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  • Jesus calls us into a transformative
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  • Relationship, regardless of our past or of our status.
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  • And when jesus says, come and see, it
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  • Breaks these barriers of being unworthy.
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  • It breaks these barriers of this, this insufficiency
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  • And this self-esteem issues that we have.
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  • When jesus says, come and see.
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  • He's trying to prove to us that no matter where you are,
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  • No matter what season that you're
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  • In, i have already chosen you with the invitation
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  • To be a part of this journey with me to transform your life
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  • Not by your power, but by my power
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  • And all you have to do is accept the invitation
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  • That only i can give to come and see.
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  • And so this invite.
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  • It does not come
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  • Because you are qualified.
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  • It comes because jesus invites you to observe
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  • What others had to observe
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  • From afar in the old testament.
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  • Now we can observe up close and an intimate relationship.
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  • The call to come and see is an invitation
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  • To a transformative journey with jesus christ.
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  • Jesus doesn't just tell us about the kingdom.
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  • Jesus invites us to witness it.
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  • This invite
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  • Is an invitation
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  • That can only come from him.
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  • As i read this,
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  • I was reminded of matthew chapter 22
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  • Beginning at verse number nine.
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  • It says, go
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  • Therefore to the main rows and invite to the wedding feast.
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  • As many as you find.
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  • And those servants went out into the roads,
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  • And gathered all whom they found, both
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  • Bad and good.
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  • So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
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  • But when the king came in to look at all
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  • The guests, he saw, there was a
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  • Man who had no wedding garment.
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  • And he said to him. friend,
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  • How did you get in here
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  • Without a wedding garment?
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  • And he was speechless.
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  • Then the king said to the attendants,
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  • Bind him by hand and foot,
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  • And cast him into the out of darkness, into the place
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  • Where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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  • For many are called, but few are chosen.
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  • And as i read this, i had the question but god,
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  • What if he could not afford wedding garments?
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  • God, what if he just didn't have the right attire?
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  • What? what if he.
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  • What if he could not find the appropriate garments to wear?
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  • And i started to
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  • Do some research, and i came across this article
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  • That talked about kings in this particular day and age,
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  • Which is the reason jesus is using this as a parable
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  • To break down the importance
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  • Of of his truth and his gospel and and kings
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  • At this particular time when they were getting married.
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  • They sent out all of the wedding garments as an invite to all
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  • Who needed to be there.
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  • So the people that were invited to the wedding
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  • Did not have to worry about the garments at all.
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  • The invite was the garment.
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  • So the way to tell
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  • If someone was invited or not was based upon
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  • If they were wearing the king's garments.
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  • And this is the reason this parable is so important,
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  • And context
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  • For where we are in john chapter one is because the king
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  • Sent out garments to demonstrate how glorious he was,
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  • And how powerful he is and how wealthy he is.
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  • And so when someone
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  • Shows up to a wedding not wearing the king's garment,
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  • It was a boast of pride in their own appearance.
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  • And the
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  • King of glory will share his glory with no one.
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  • And that's why he says in the parable to the attendants,
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  • Take this man,
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  • Bind him by hand and foot, and cast him out into the darkness,
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  • Where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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  • Not because he did not send an invite,
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  • Because the invite he sent
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  • Was not accepted by the man.
  • 00:15:32.681 --> 00:15:36.852
  • So as we go back to john chapter one
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  • With greater context,
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  • This invitation
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  • To come and see challenges us
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  • To move from skepticism
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  • To discovery.
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  • Point number four.
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  • Doubt
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  • Isn't the enemy of faith.
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  • It's the invitation to deeper
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  • The journey.
  • 00:16:16.792 --> 00:16:19.695
  • Some of you have been wrestling with doubt.
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  • You've been struggling with that.
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  • You thought that you are
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  • A weaker or less christian because you have doubts.
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  • And my wife would tell you if
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  • She was standing here beside me.
  • 00:16:35.711 --> 00:16:38.847
  • My greatest struggle in my walk with jesus
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  • Is doubt.
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  • That i doubt his existence.
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  • Not that i doubt that he's good.
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  • Not that i doubt that he's powerful and majestic
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  • And righteous.
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  • But my struggle
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  • Is sometimes i doubt
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  • That what i read in this word
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  • Can happen for me.
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  • Y'all, i've encountered pain.
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  • I've encountered the type of pain
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  • That strips you of the ability
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  • To say anything for days.
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  • The type of pain that drops you to your knees
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  • And you ask god, god, are you still there?
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  • And god,
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  • If you're still there,
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  • I know that you are good, but can't
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  • You just be good to me?
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  • I know some of you in this moment and you don't.
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  • That god is going.
  • 00:18:01.096 --> 00:18:04.399
  • And the beauty.
  • 00:18:04.766 --> 00:18:07.836
  • Of distinction that you feel.
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  • You will never know
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  • How real faith is
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  • Until you discover how real doubt is.
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  • Doubt isn't the enemy of faith.
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  • It's the invitation to deeper your journey
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  • With jesus.
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  • As we read this passage.
  • 00:18:33.795 --> 00:18:35.464
  • I'm reminded nathaniel skepticism was not met
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  • With judgment.
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  • It was met with grace.
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  • Like daniel asked
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  • His friends, can anything good
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  • Come from nazareth?
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  • Nazareth was a little town
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  • Of about 500 people
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  • Historically known for bad things,
  • 00:19:02.658 --> 00:19:05.827
  • Known in the region to be a graveyard
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  • For dreams and hopes and destinies and futures.
  • 00:19:09.965 --> 00:19:13.936
  • And so when the daniel here that the messiah has been born
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  • In nazareth, and now he stands before us today
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  • As the lamb of god, he is skeptical,
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  • And he is doubting that he is in fact in front of this messiah.
  • 00:19:24.313 --> 00:19:31.420
  • And jesus
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  • Is not put off by his doubt.
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  • Jesus is not deterred by his skepticism.
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  • Jesus does not push him away because of his doubt.
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  • Jesus says, come
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  • And see.
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  • What a beautiful invitation
  • 00:19:52.307 --> 00:19:54.009
  • For those that wrestle with doubt in god.
  • 00:19:54.009 --> 00:19:59.147
  • Not stay in wait.
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  • Come and see.
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  • Because every doubt
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  • That i've ever had.
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  • Jesus has always met me.
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  • There.
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  • He didn't meet me
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  • When i faked like i didn't have doubt.
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  • He didn't meet me
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  • When i propped my life up off of the religious antics
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  • Of church clichés and church
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  • Antics and and what i've seen other people do. he.
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  • He never met me in those moments,
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  • But he always met me at the crossroads of where
  • 00:20:38.654 --> 00:20:41.657
  • I doubted his goodness and his reality of faithfulness,
  • 00:20:41.657 --> 00:20:46.161
  • Always overshadowed by doubt with his faithfulness.
  • 00:20:46.161 --> 00:20:49.865
  • And i'm reminded of james that says,
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  • When we are faithless, he remains faithful.
  • 00:20:51.767 --> 00:21:00.609
  • And if your faith is alive,
  • 00:21:01.209 --> 00:21:03.545
  • That means that your faith has to walk hand in hand with doubt,
  • 00:21:03.545 --> 00:21:07.683
  • Leading you back to the feet of jesus.
  • 00:21:07.683 --> 00:21:11.086
  • Because the reality is,
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  • If you have big faith,
  • 00:21:13.121 --> 00:21:16.258
  • You also have big doubts.
  • 00:21:16.258 --> 00:21:20.662
  • For it is doubt
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  • That allows us to demonstrate trust
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  • And a god that we cannot see.
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  • Family.
  • 00:21:34.009 --> 00:21:36.545
  • You can act like you believe in every area of your life
  • 00:21:36.545 --> 00:21:40.449
  • If you want to, but you miss an opportunity
  • 00:21:40.449 --> 00:21:43.385
  • For jesus to actually meet you there.
  • 00:21:43.385 --> 00:21:48.090
  • You. sow faith
  • 00:21:48.423 --> 00:21:54.496
  • And doubt
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  • Are intertwined.
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  • For without doubt, faith lacks.
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  • Yeah.
  • 00:22:04.206 --> 00:22:07.476
  • True faith.
  • 00:22:07.476 --> 00:22:08.577
  • It involves embracing uncertainty.
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  • One of the greatest sins.
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  • I believe we are faced with today.
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  • Is the sin
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  • Of false certainty.
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  • If you know the answers,
  • 00:22:31.032 --> 00:22:33.535
  • And every season and every problem
  • 00:22:33.535 --> 00:22:35.937
  • And every day of your life, if you have the solutions,
  • 00:22:35.937 --> 00:22:39.241
  • If you already know how it ends, if you already know
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  • Where god is going to move and where he is
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  • Not going to move, if you already know what door
  • 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:47.249
  • He's going to open before he opens it.
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  • If you already know
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  • When god is going to
  • 00:22:50.152 --> 00:22:51.119
  • Heal your body, when you already know
  • 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:52.888
  • When god is going to bring your children back home.
  • 00:22:52.888 --> 00:22:54.990
  • If you already know when god is going
  • 00:22:54.990 --> 00:22:56.625
  • To do all these things and there is no need for god.
  • 00:22:56.625 --> 00:23:01.897
  • So your faith thrives best in the unknown,
  • 00:23:02.798 --> 00:23:08.236
  • For it is in the
  • 00:23:08.637 --> 00:23:09.638
  • Unknown that you depend on jesus to lead you
  • 00:23:09.638 --> 00:23:12.541
  • And guide you out of darkness and into his marvelous light.
  • 00:23:12.541 --> 00:23:16.745
  • And if you are here today and you are a skeptic of jesus,
  • 00:23:16.745 --> 00:23:19.915
  • Jesus is not pushing you away and say, stay and wait.
  • 00:23:19.915 --> 00:23:23.685
  • He's saying, come and see.
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  • I got even in your skepticism and your doubt,
  • 00:23:27.856 --> 00:23:34.696
  • For i am the only god
  • 00:23:34.696 --> 00:23:37.866
  • That can take your doubt
  • 00:23:37.866 --> 00:23:41.203
  • And turn it
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  • Into a declaration.
  • 00:23:43.405 --> 00:23:50.512
  • Doubt
  • 00:23:50.745 --> 00:23:52.814
  • Is the enemy of faith.
  • 00:23:52.814 --> 00:23:56.017
  • Doubt
  • 00:23:56.251 --> 00:23:57.719
  • Is the catalyst that deepens your reliance
  • 00:23:57.719 --> 00:24:00.989
  • On the divine power of jesus.
  • 00:24:00.989 --> 00:24:04.192
  • So john chapter one, verses 35 to 51,
  • 00:24:05.026 --> 00:24:08.430
  • Is a beautiful conclusion that challenges us to reflect
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  • What it truly means to be a disciple of jesus christ,
  • 00:24:12.801 --> 00:24:16.671
  • And to allow him to guide us by hand
  • 00:24:16.671 --> 00:24:19.508
  • And to all perfect truth, even when it means that he is
  • 00:24:19.508 --> 00:24:22.677
  • Leading us through the dark because he is the light.
  • 00:24:22.677 --> 00:24:30.218
  • I pray this message has blessed you.
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  • I pray that you are at least processing
  • 00:24:33.622 --> 00:24:37.259
  • And doing personal inventory on your own heart
  • 00:24:37.259 --> 00:24:40.829
  • To see what those areas of doubt
  • 00:24:40.829 --> 00:24:43.098
  • May be in your journey with jesus christ,
  • 00:24:43.098 --> 00:24:46.268
  • And my prayers that you don't leave them suppressed
  • 00:24:46.268 --> 00:24:49.070
  • And you don't leave them hidden and tucked away, that you would
  • 00:24:49.070 --> 00:24:52.140
  • Allow the holy spirit
  • 00:24:52.140 --> 00:24:53.308
  • To draw them to the surface so that he could heal
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  • And answer those questions you may have according
  • 00:24:56.244 --> 00:25:00.048
  • To his plan and his purpose for your life,
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  • That this broadcast has been a blessing to you.
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  • Would you share it with somebody,
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  • With other people by partnering with us financially
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  • So before we close, i'm going to set myself in agreement
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  • With you for what you may be believing god for
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  • Right now.
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  • In the name of jesus.
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  • I thank you for my brothers and my sisters
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  • That are watching this broadcast.
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  • God, whether they are in the states or god,
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  • Whether they are in africa or asia, god
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  • Or any other place
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  • Around the world right now in the name of jesus, i
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  • Thank you that your spirit is right there with them.
  • 00:25:54.436 --> 00:25:58.173
  • Your spirit knows no boundaries, no limitations, and god,
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  • The word says that there are 2 or 3 gathered in your name,
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  • That you are in the midst of them.
  • 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:06.748
  • And we know god in this moment.
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  • There are more than two of us together.
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  • There are more than three of us together.
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  • There is a multitude of us
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  • Gathered in this moment, watching,
  • 00:26:13.888 --> 00:26:15.590
  • Leaning into the word of god and via this broadcast.
  • 00:26:15.590 --> 00:26:18.493
  • And we thank you for being with us, for dwelling
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  • With us,
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  • For answering these petitions and requests that have been made
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  • Known to you.
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  • In jesus name we pray. amen.
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  • Family, i want you to know
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  • I'm so grateful
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  • We get an opportunity to do this every single week
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  • As we go through the word of god.
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  • My prayer is that we would grow together
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  • With lean into the voice of god together,
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  • And as a result, we would all be transformed
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  • And changed to become more like jesus christ.
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  • If you're ever in the jacksonville area, stop by.
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  • Visit us on sunday at celebration church 9 a.m.
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  • Tell your family and friends about it.
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  • I look forward to seeing you next week.
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  • I want you to know god loves you and i love you too.
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  • Be blessed in jesus name.
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