Tim Timberlake

Tim Timberlake - From Drifting To Dwelling

March 11, 2025

Join Pastor Tim as he shares a word that directs us on how we should live our lives as true believers of the Risen Savior.

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - From Drifting To Dwelling | March 11, 2025

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Hey, family, i am excited about today's broadcast
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And the word that god has given me for our time together.
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All of us go through seasons
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Where we don't quite feel anchored.
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We feel like we're drifting.
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Let's go into the word of god as we discover how to go
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From drifting to dwelling.
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And we believe that he is where you are.
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And so whether you're in this room or in another room,
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Thank you for making your way to the house of god.
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I believe god is going to speak
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To us today,
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And he has a word for us.
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As we read in matthew chapter 18, beginning at verse number
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Ten, this parable of
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The lost sheep and the shepherd going after the lost sheep.
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It's a very familiar parable,
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But i don't want to,
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Assume that we all know who matthew is.
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And so let me give you some context to what we are reading.
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Matthew is, of jewish descent, and he is an outcast
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Because of his proximity to the roman empire.
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In this particular text, he's writing about the importance
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Of community.
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And paul reads a lot and gathers a lot of his information
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That he writes about in the new testament from matthew.
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As a matter of fact,
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The first time
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That we start to hear about community
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And how we should live in community
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And how we should believe as people
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Who dwell amongst each other
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And be the church, is through the writings of matthew.
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And it is in matthew that we see in verse 18
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The importance of what it means to walk out this life
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With godly character and integrity.
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In matthew, he's writing what jesus
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Is saying from his viewpoint, from his perspective.
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And he's writing in the house of peter
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This conversation that jesus is having with the disciples,
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Allowing them to know how they should carry themselves
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When they are in proximity of other people
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Who are newcomers to the faith.
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Also, how we should live our lives
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When we are surrounded by other people,
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So that people know that we are true believers
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Of the true and living savior, jesus christ.
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And so it is in this text that we find jesus almost
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A month out from being crucified,
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That he's preparing his disciples about his,
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Crucified eviction and his burial and his resurrection.
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And he's teaching them
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In the previous chapters on the sermon on the mount, then
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After this, about the importance of making disciples.
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And here we find
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Jesus in the house of peter, talking to the disciples
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About what they should do.
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And so i want us to begin
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Reading at verse
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Number one in chapter 18, so that we can get the full picture
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Of what this parable of the lost sheep really means
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In, matthew chapter 18, beginning at verse number one,
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It says at the time the disciples came to
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Jesus saying, who is the greatest
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In the kingdom of heaven?
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And isn't it crazy how they could be listening to jesus
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And they could listen
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To the teachings of jesus
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And still be thinking
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To themselves,
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Okay, when jesus leaves, who's going to be
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The person that takes over jesus?
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But is it going to be me?
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Am i going to be the one that's performing the miracles?
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Come on,
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How many of you ever thought to yourself, jesus came for me,
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And this bible is for me, so that i can have all the power,
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Get all the attention, get all the influence.
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And i like feeling like i am the big dog on top.
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How many of you like that? let's be honest.
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All of us do.
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If you don't got your hand raised in lying.
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You need to stop it.
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Because our flesh likes the attention.
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Kind of good to get. amen.
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And they ask jesus.
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Okay, jesus, after you leave here,
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Who's going to be the person
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Who amongst us is going to be the greatest?
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And they're fighting for power
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And they're fighting for position,
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And they're fighting for honor, and they're fighting
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For attention,
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And they're fighting to get this answer from jesus.
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Who amongst us is going to fill
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Your vacancy?
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Who among us is going to be the person that now goes
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Into the highways and byways talking about you, jesus,
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And getting to recognize sin because of it?
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Look at what
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Jesus says in verse number two and calling to him a child.
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He put him in the midst of them
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And said, truly i say to you, unless you turn
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And become like children,
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You will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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Unless you become like a child,
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You will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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And what jesus was simply telling these disciples,
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You are not going to enter into the kingdom of heaven
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If you think that you deserve power,
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If you think you deserve honor,
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If you think you deserve a position,
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The way you are elevated in the things of god,
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In the body of christ, in the kingdom
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Of god is you are elevated through humility
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And understanding that you are still a child
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In the eyes of god.
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And that's why god refers to us as his children,
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Because he wants us to view him as our father.
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And when we view him
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As our father, we understand that he provides
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More than we have need of before we even know we need it.
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And jesus is explaining to the disciples,
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Unless you turn and become like
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Children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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Whoever humbles themselves
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Like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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So if you want to know what it means to advance,
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If you want to know what it means to be promoted,
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If you want to know what it means to be elevated
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In the things of god, you have to humble yourself
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Before the lord and acknowledge god in my own feeble power.
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I have nothing.
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In my flesh i am frail, but before you and surrendered
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To you, i have more than enough, because i can acknowledge
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That in my weakness you are still strong,
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And it is not until we come to the end of ourselves
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That we understand the significance
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Of the power of jesus christ.
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And so jesus continues.
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Whoever receives one such child
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In my name receives me.
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But whoever calls as one of these little ones
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Who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him
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To have a great millstone fastened around his neck,
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And to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
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And in this passage, jesus is giving us
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The analogy of us being children in the hands of god.
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And he's telling us, in order to be a part of this kingdom,
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In order for us to be a part of this family,
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We have to understand our place in the perspective of god.
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And that is like a child. but he takes it a step further.
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If there is someone who leads a child of god toward sin,
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It is better that they have a stone
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Around their neck and to be thrown into the sea.
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What is jesus talking about?
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He's talking about people who know better
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And lead people into sin.
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And he's talking about people
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That have a form of godliness.
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But also have
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A selfish ambition and selfish motives.
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He's talking about people who know what they should do,
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But they lead other people away into sin.
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He's talking about people
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Who have been around the things of god.
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But trying to pull people
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Out of the things of god.
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Jesus is addressing the pharisees
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Who have a form of godliness,
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But it's cloaked in so much religion
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That they don't have a relationship.
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And if we were to summarize this in language
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That we can understand in 2025, i believe
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Jesus would be addressing people who know who he is.
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But lead people
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Away from who he is.
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Pastors who twist texts
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For selfish gain.
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People
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Who confess they believe in jesus christ
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But leave their girlfriends
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In their boyfriends and committing sinful acts.
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People who stand
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With their hands lifted on sundays.
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But hate people on mondays.
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Or people who idolize.
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The melanin
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Or ivory in their skin.
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More than loving their brothers and sisters
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That don't look like them.
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People that put more emphasis
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On an elephant or a donkey
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Than they do the lamb.
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I believe
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What jesus is saying in this text is anything
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That you put more light on than you put on me,
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It's pulling people away from me.
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And those things have become an idol.
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So if you promote your fraternity or your sorority
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More than you promote the gospel.
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You've made it an idol.
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You're leading people away
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From what i desire.
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Are we going all the way there today? all.
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So listen to the text.
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Whoever calls this one of these
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Little ones who believe the little ones are believers.
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So make no mistake about it.
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When he's referring
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To little ones, he's talking about you and me.
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Because in the eyes of god,
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We are all little ones.
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There's no growing up in the kingdom of heaven.
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There's no adults in god's perspective.
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We are all children of god.
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Verse seven says,
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Woe to the world for temptations to sin, for it is necessary
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That temptations come, but woe to the one
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By whom the temptation comes,
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And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin,
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Cut it off and throw it away.
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It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame,
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Than with two hands or two feet to be thrown
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Into the eternal fire.
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This is what this scripture means.
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This is not the literal meaning.
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If you sin, cut off a limb.
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This is a literal meaning.
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Cut off anything that is holding you back from being
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Who god has called you to be.
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Simply put, some of you
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In 2025, you're not disciplined enough
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To not have accountability
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With your phone or your laptop or your ipad,
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So you need to cut it off.
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Others of
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You are not disciplined enough when it comes to social media.
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That's so quiet in here.
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So you need to delete it.
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How do you
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Know when you need to delete it off of your phone?
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When it consumes more time than you give to god?
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Jesus is explaining to the disciples
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If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off.
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Look at what else he says.
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He says to us in verse number nine,
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And if your eyes causes you to sin,
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Pluck it out and throw it away.
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It is better for you to into life
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With one eye than it is with two eyes
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To be thrown into the hell of fire.
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What he's saying
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Is, is if it is easier for you to throw your phone away
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And you still make it to the pearly gates, then do that.
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But don't keep your phone and go to hell.
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Those are sympathy claps,
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And i know it hurts and i know it's hitting home.
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And i know you feel convicted,
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But that's the holy spirit placing his finger
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On areas in your life that have become idols in your life.
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And all of us have something that we need to lay at the altar
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So that we can become more like jesus christ this year, in,
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In, in this day, more than we have any other day.
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So maybe it's not your phone,
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But maybe it's a show.
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Maybe it's on a show.
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Maybe it's a relationship.
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Maybe it's not a relationship.
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But maybe it's you
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Making the hope of a relationship,
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An idol over god's ability to provide it for you.
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I don't know what that idol is for you.
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The word of god says
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That it is better to enter into the kingdom of life.
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One hand.
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One foot.
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And the.
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Go to hell with all your limbs,
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Y'all.
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I'm telling you,
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When i get there, i'll make it.
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The limping.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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But i'm not going to hell,
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Walking.
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I'm not going to hell.
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Holding with both hands the sin that has led me there.
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So whatever it is holding you back
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From entering into heaven, cut it off.
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What jesus is saying to us is you have to hate sin.
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Hate it.
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It should disgust you.
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What your flesh leads you into doing.
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It should kill you off that you find yourself
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Doing the thing that you said you would not do again.
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That's right.
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This is what
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Jesus is saying to us in the same sentence,
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That he begins to unpack the parable of the lost sheep.
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There's no chapters.
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There's no verses.
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When jesus is communicating this,
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It is one train of thought.
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Then the next thing out of jesus mouth, he says,
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See that you do not despise one of these little ones.
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Who are the little ones? we are the little ones.
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But he's telling us, see that you don't
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Despise your brothers and your sisters,
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Because whatever you despise, you devalue.
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Whatever you despise, you devalue.
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If you despise someone because of the
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Color of the skins, you devalue them.
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If you despise someone
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Because of how they vote, you devalue them.
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If you despise somebody
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Because of their history, you devalue them.
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If you despise someone because of how they look
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And how they dress, you devalue them.
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And you can never advance with what you despise.
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Jesus says,
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For i tell you that in heaven there are angels
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That always see
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The face of my father who is in heaven.
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What do you think?
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If a man has 100 sheep
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And one of them has gone astray,
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Does he not leave the 99 on the mountains
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And go in search of the one that went astray?
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And so often we read this text and we automatically assume
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Jesus is just talking about people
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Who never knew who he was, and they are lost
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And now they are found.
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But scripture says astray, which means that at one point
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They were a part of the flock.
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So my question for us
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Is what is causing you to drift?
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What is pulling you away from the flock?
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What is pulling you away from the father's house?
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What is pulling you away from his presence?
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What has caused you to drift?
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Because drifting
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Does not start off fast, it always starts off slow,
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It says, what do you think?
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If a man has 100 sheep
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And one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the 99 on
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The mountains to go and search for that one who went astray?
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How have you drifted?
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I tell you to one.
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It's most glaring.
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It's distractions.
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We drift
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Because we get distracted.
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And distractions
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Is the enemy's silent weapon.
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It doesn't destroy your faith,
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But it diverts it.
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Some of you have been distracted so long
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That you don't even realize what's distracting
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You anymore.
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I know this is painful to hear,
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But we all need to hear it.
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The devil doesn't need to tempt you with sin.
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If he can keep you distracted with good things.
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Somebody just threw a phone.
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I heard it.
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The devil doesn't need
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To get you to sin.
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If he can just keep you distracted with good things.
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But they're not bad, pastor.
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But they're not from god.
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And here's the danger.
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With good things.
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You're really good at doing good things.
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And if the enemy can keep you busy doing
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Good things, you never step into the god.
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Such things that he desires for you to step into.
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And so he dangles
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The carrot of good things in front of you.
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Before you know it,
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You're distracted.
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You're led astray.
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And then you find yourself.
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Is the second part of drifting.
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Isolated. oh.
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How many of you ever felt just by your hands?
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I'm better by myself.
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Especially when you saying you feel shame.
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You feel guilt. i don't want to be around nobody.
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I don't want nobody praying for me.
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I want nobody all up in my business.
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I read the state by myself.
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How many have been like that before?
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It's a tactic of the enemy to isolate you.
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Because god made you for community.
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So as matthew is writing this, hearing
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What jesus is saying in peter's home,
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He he's writing this from the context of the importance
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Of biblical community, the church.
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The church,
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The ecclesia.
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See, we think church is a building because of constantine.
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Who? who anchored and chained bibles to podium.
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So the only time people could hear
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It was to go to a building.
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And so when people started to hear scripture,
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They automatically assumed, i'm going to church
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When the reality is, is that's
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Never been the context for jesus.
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We are the church.
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But the
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Enemy wants you to believe that you go to church
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So that he can make you feel
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Isolated when you're not in the building,
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But your brothers and sisters
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Are the church of the living god.
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And when you find yourself in community,
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When you're tempted, they hold you accountable
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So that you don't fall to temptation.
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How do we fall?
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How do we stumble? how do we trip?
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How do we come up short
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When we are isolated on an island by ourselves?
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With us and our temptation alone?
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And that temptation begins
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To make us believe that it is not that bad,
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And you find yourself slowly compromising on things that
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You would never compromise on
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When you were once with the rest of the flock.
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And so you start making
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Excuses for your sin.
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Little compromises.
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They cause you to drift.
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And what you once knew was wrong.
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You no longer feel godly
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Conviction.
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Because you've been doing it
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So well
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By yourself.
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And you drift
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And you drift
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And you drift.
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And then you come to the point where you realize
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I am a lone sheep.
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That has become vulnerable
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To my surroundings.
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But thank god,
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Jesus counts
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Every one of us.
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And he doesn't forget us.
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I'm so glad jesus didn't forget about me
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When i was by myself,
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When i was isolated,
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When i was at the lowest moment of my life.
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I'm so thankful that jesus remembered me.
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I'm so grateful.
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Not only did he remember me, but he came looking for me.
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Aren't you so glad that jesus remembered you?
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Aren't you so glad
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That jesus did not forget you when you wanted to be forgotten?
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Because of the sin and the decisions
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And the lifestyle that you had begin to live.
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But he came searching for you
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And he said, i'll turn over mountains for you.
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I'll raise valleys for you.
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I'll do whatever i gotta do to find you.
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I'll even leave the 99 when you are the one,
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Because i have not forgotten you.
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And the reality is, is
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Some of you are in this moment and you feel forgotten by jesus.
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And jesus is not forgotten. you.
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He remembers you.
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He remembers
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Every detail about you.
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And although you may feel distant,
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He is closer than you think.
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And so
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What you need to know about god.
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Is that he never stops
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Loving you,
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And his son never stops searching for you.
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Even when you have drifted
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Well.
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Family,
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We are out of time for today's broadcast,
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But we are not out of the word of god.
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And so i want to encourage you to continue
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To lean into this broadcast, same time, same place next week,
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And let's continue to grow together.
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Let's continue to anchor our hope in jesus christ,
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Allowing our faith to be built
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By hearing the word of god and our minds to be renewed
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By this transformative gospel that we so believe in.
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I want you to look at the bottom of the screen
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And if this message is bless you today,
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I want you to get this information.
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Let us know how this message has helped you,
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And if there's any way that we can be in prayer with you
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Or for you, please let us know.
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There's a number of different ways
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That you can do so at the bottom of your screen.
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Wear this to mail in a prayer request to call us
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Or to email us.
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One of those three ways would get to us
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The prayer request that you have need of,
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And allow us to join with you in faith as we believe together
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For god's will and purpose for your life.
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I also want you to look at the bottom of the screen again.
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There's going to be some information
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About how you can partner with us.
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And my prayer is that you would pray
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About partnering with us so that we can continue
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To spread
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The message of jesus christ far and wide around the world.
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If you're ever in the jacksonville area,
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Please come to visit us at celebration church at 9 a.m.
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And 11 a.m. every single sunday.
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But we can't wait to see how god continues to impact your life.
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Whether you're in person or watching here
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On this incredible broadcast.
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Before we close, i want to pray with you right now.
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In jesus name.
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I thank you for my brothers and my sisters
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That are leaning into this moment,
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That have taken out time to listen to the word of god
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And to have their minds renewed by the refreshing
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Of the word of god right now.
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God, you know their request.
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You know their desires. you know their longing.
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And i thank you, god, that you're
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Not just a father that hears,
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But you are a father that responds.
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And so today we thank you
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For doing the impossible in our lives.
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In jesus name we pray. amen.
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A family i want you to know god loves you, i love you,
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And i can't wait to see you right back here.
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Same time, same place next week.
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Be blessed.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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Tim Timberlake - From Drifting To Dwelling

March 11, 2025

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