Tim Timberlake

Tim Timberlake - Living Like You Belong

January 16, 2026 | 28:30

Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Living Like You Belong | January 16, 2026

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Hey, family.
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My name is tim timberlake of celebration church.
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And growing up in the timberlake
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Household, we had some family rules.
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We had chores.
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We had things that we had to do
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To be a part of this incredible family.
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And there was just not a free for all.
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We couldn't just do what we wanted to do.
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When we wanted to do it.
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We had to live, simply put, like we belong.
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I want us to go into the message
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As we seek the word of god, as we go through the word of god,
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And we dive into this message that god has given me
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About the family of god and the children of god,
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Entitled live like you belong.
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A few weeks ago,
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My wife, pastor jen, told me, baby we need some chairs
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For this room in our house.
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You know, we've been in this house for five years.
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We ain't got no chairs in there.
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I said, you know, people can sit on the floor,
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You know, that's in, you know, a nice bohemian, chic esthetic.
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Come on, somebody,
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And i'll throw some pillows and some blankets down there.
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She said, no, we can't do that.
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She said, we, we, we got to get some chairs.
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I said, okay, let's order some chairs.
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And we ordered these chairs to show me the picture of them.
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And i said, you know, they look good to me.
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You you like them, i like them.
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You know, any wise man know that's the right answer.
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Amen.
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I said, you like them and you like them.
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I like them, too. i said, all right, let's order them.
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So she ordered them.
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When she asked, i said that i send you an email
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Of when they'll be shipped out.
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I said no,
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But i'm sure they'll send another email
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And the confirmation,
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And then they'll send out shipping information
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When they ship them out from the warehouse.
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And sure enough, about a week went by,
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They sent out confirmation.
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They said your chairs
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Would be delivered on saturday, which was yesterday.
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And so, 2 o█clock rolls around, i look outside and i see this
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This box on the front door, a little box on the front door.
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And i'm looking at this box.
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I'm like, surely six chairs can be in this little bitty box.
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I, am convinced
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That six chairs cannot be in this little box.
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I picked this little box up. it was just as light.
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I gave it to max. max ran around the house with it.
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I said, surely six chairs can be in this box.
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I placed the box.
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I said, jen,
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You know this has the furniture company's name on it.
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And i think this is the chairs.
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And so i got some scissors.
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I cut open the box and it was like 100 pieces in this box.
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And i'm thinking to myself,
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Every smart person is thinking to yourself,
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If you order a chair, you receive a chair.
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Come on somebody.
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You order a chair, you open the box,
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You take the chair out, you put the chair down.
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Then you sit in the chair.
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That makes logical sense.
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That's not how these chairs came in.
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So i'm looking at jen and she's looking at this box
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And i'm looking at and she's looking at this box.
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And on top is these instructions right here.
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These instruct these specific instructions right here.
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And these are 2025 instructions which means
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That they don't come with great detail.
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They come with a number and then an alphabet.
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And the number is attached to a screw.
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And so i got to pay attention to which screw is number one.
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Y'all don't believe me. you can look at these.
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I did the company favor.
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I ripped the name off of it because i didn't want them
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Suing me.
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I got enough lawsuits right now. amen.
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And so i thought to myself, i thought to myself, okay,
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I can go to the greatest source to show me
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How to put this together.
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Let me open tiktok.
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And then i remember tiktok is gone.
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And so i was stuck with these instructions
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That i had to figure out on my own.
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And i'm looking at these instructions.
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Number one, little screw number two.
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Also a little screw that's a little bit longer
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Than number one.
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Number three, a longer screw.
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And the number four is like
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A washer or something.
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Number five is also a washer.
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And then number six is what got me.
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Y'all zoom in on this camera, man.
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I want you to see this.
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Zoom in on this so they can see it so they know
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The lord is my witness.
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It's like a little upside down area right there.
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And then i look thumbtack right here.
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I was like, what did the thumbtacks for?
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What this go to do for the furniture.
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And so i get these pieces, i put them down in front of me.
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And you got two options.
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When you get instructions, the two options that you get in
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Life is you go follow the instructions
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Or you're going to wing it.
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I'm not gonna lie to you.
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I was tempted, y'all. i was tempted to just wing it.
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I was tempted to take the pieces, get some wood glue,
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Put the wood glue on where i thought the legs go.
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Let it sit till max.
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Don't jump on that until it finished drying
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And then call it an old happy day.
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Go, winger.
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How many?
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You didn't winged instructions before?
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How many?
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You didn't winged instructions.
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And the instructions were there for a reason.
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And things didn't turn out the way.
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Some of you put your son's bike together, put his daughter's
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Bike together, and you thought yourself, i did a good job.
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And the wheel is lopsided.
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They got the going down the sidewalk and the wheel.
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Come on.
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And they didn't fail.
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That baby didn't hurt themselves
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Cause you thought that you knew what you was doing
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And you didn't.
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And all i could
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Envision was my precious wife sitting in this chair.
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And the legs fall off this thing,
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And she fall on her back and look at me like, timothy,
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I can't believe
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You were watching these instructions.
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And so, like a good boy,
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I follow these instructions
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Line upon line, precept upon precept.
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I follow these instructions.
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And this, this what?
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The instruction says the goods.
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Look, our god is my witness.
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That's what the instructions, the goods.
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These instructions ain't good.
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Each chair took me an hour.
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Halfway to putting these chairs to get.
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I looked at jen.
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I said, jen, you owe me.
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And you know what i'm talking about.
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When i say you owe me.
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Let all the married folk in here say amen.
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Some of y'all single folk been telling your girlfriend
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Or boyfriend, you owe me too much. i need to cut it out.
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We going to get to that in a minute. but anyway,
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Back to these instructions.
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I said, i said to i sent my back hurts
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And i'm only halfway through these chairs.
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I'm will follow these instructions though
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She said, can i help?
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I said, girl, this only one
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Screw. what you go do?
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I said you can help me with time.
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Give me time.
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If any husbands are in here, you know what i'm talking about.
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The worst thing
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For any helper to do is to sit there and watch you
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Working while you work and
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Talking about your work can a good a good amen.
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Somebody giving you all the opinions
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And not picking up one screwdriver.
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Give me time.
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We go work it out.
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And this passage of scripture
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It's talking
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About the instructions.
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Therefore preparing your minds for action
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For following the instructions of the word of god.
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If you take the time to prepare and focus
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And follow the manual, you will end up with the life
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That functions the way it was designed to. see
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If i did not follow the instructions of this manual
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That was given to me for these chairs,
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I might have put it together, but it would not have stayed
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Sturdy and continue to stay together
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When people had sat in the chair.
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Therefore, it may have looked functional,
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But it was not functional
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And some of our lives look functional.
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But when you lift up the hood to our lives, it's not functional
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Because we only apply
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Half of the instructions and not all of the instructions.
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We only apply the things that make us feel good.
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And so we shout and rejoice over.
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You're blessed in the city and blessed in the field.
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We rejoice and shout over the fact
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That when we pray, god responds to our prayer,
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But we don't rejoice and shout over the fact
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That the bible says, listen, you need to be disciplined
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And you need to push away from sin,
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And you need to push away from your past,
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And you need to be a representar in and a reflection of me.
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And quite frankly, you need to live like you belong.
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And if you wing it,
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You skip the instructions
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And try to assemble things in your own way.
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And the chances are when you do that,
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Your life becomes unstable.
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And so when the word of god says,
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Prepare your minds for action,
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It's like reading the manual of the word of god.
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And this manual helps you to gather the tools that you need,
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And it helps you to prepare
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For assembling a life that is a reflection
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Of the grace that only jesus can give.
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When the scripture says, do not be conformed
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To the passions of your former ignorance.
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It's the warning not to rely on your instincts
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Or the shortcuts that your flesh tells you.
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It's okay to take shortcuts on it.
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It's a reminder that your own way of doing
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Things won't lead to the results god desires.
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And so
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In this series, homecoming, coming home to god
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Is more than just changing your location.
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It's transforming your identity.
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Coming home to god
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Is more than just allowing god to change you.
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In a moment.
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It's walking out sanctification
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So god can change you every single day.
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And when we come home to god, he calls us to live
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As his children, set apart,
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Transformed, and holy.
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This word holy.
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It does not mean to take on legalism.
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It does not mean that you have
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To follow every single rule or else you're bound for hell.
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No, it means that you understand you are now in a relationship
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With jesus christ in your life should reflect that.
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So if you're taking notes, i want you to write this down.
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Point number one is this
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You can't hold
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Hands with your sin and walk in step with the spirit.
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Are you listening to me?
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Why is that important to know?
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Because first peter chapter one verse 13 says, therefore
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Preparing your minds for action, everyone see action
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And being sober minded.
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Set your hope fully on the grace that will be
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Brought to you at the revelation of jesus christ.
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And what i'm about to say is going to offend
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A lot of people's flesh, but i don't care.
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I'm going to say it anyway.
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You can't desire to further your relationship with jesus
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And hold on to your horoscopes.
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Are you listening to me?
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I said what?
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I said,
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You can't desire to further a relationship with jesus
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And be messing around with ouija boards.
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You can't desire to further your relationship with jesus
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And be sleeping with anybody that you want to sleep with.
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You cannot hold the hand of sin and expect god to pull you
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Higher in the things of his will and his purpose for your life.
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You have to let sin go so that you can walk out
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The plans and the purpose that jesus has for you.
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It says,
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Therefore, preparing your minds for action and being sober.
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Mind that that word sober minded means
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Having your mind made up,
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Not being dual minded,
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Not being divided and how you think,
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Not practicing different things
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And at the same point adding things to your belief in
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Jesus christ.
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Listen, the word of god teaches us
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There's only one way to the father,
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And that is through his son jesus.
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So those stones you think have power don't have power.
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Jesus does.
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That saves you, thinks has power, doesn't have power.
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Jesus does.
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That dream catcher you think has power doesn't have power.
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Jesus does.
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And if you got those things in the house,
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Get them out of your house because it's holding hands
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With the tactic of the enemy to keep you a prisoner
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And a hostage to a life less than what jesus has for you.
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You've heard me say
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That the last two sundays this year has to be different.
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You want to know why you've been held back?
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It's because you're still practicing things
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Outside of christianity
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And applying it to your belief in jesus christ.
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And jesus is like, no, i have no other gods before me.
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It's not me and all these other little gods.
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It's just me.
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And so get rid of those things.
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And some of us have made idols
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Out of things that we should not have made idols out of.
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Maybe you don't have a buddha
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Erected in your house,
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But you've been binging netflix
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Over the word of god.
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Point number two is this
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Holiness
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Isn't optional for god's children.
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It's the evidence that you belong to him.
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First peter chapter one verse 14 says, as obedient children,
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Do not be conformed to the passions of your former
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Ignorance.
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Peter calls us obedient children in this text,
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Reminding us of our new identity.
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Returning home to god means that we leave behind
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The ways of the world,
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Not settling for comfort.
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And he says that when we do that,
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There's evidence that follows.
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What does evidence in our life look like?
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It look like the fruit of the spirit.
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It means that you're patient. it means that you're kind.
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It means that you steward
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Your life with joy and with love and with tender mercy.
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It means that you treat people with respect.
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It means that you pray for those that curse you.
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It looks like you.
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You love your brothers and your sister.
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It looks like instead of you reacting, you go home
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And you pray for the person that meant evil against you.
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How do you know that you're maturing in 2025?
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When those people curse you and you don't curse them out back,
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But you go home and you say, god, i pray for such and such.
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Who said this against me?
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I take them to your feet and i lay them at the altar,
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Because i don't desire to be who i used to be.
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I desire to live like i belong.
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And that is how we
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Know that we are obedient children.
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Stepping away from the former ignorance
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From ignorance highlights that before christ
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We didn't know better.
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Now that we've come home,
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We're called to live differently.
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Now that you home,
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Your life should reflect
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Where you belong.
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You can no longer use the excuse.
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It's just not my personality.
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That's not how god wired me.
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That's not who i am.
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And i would say,
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Don't settle
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For following your personality
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Over pursuing your purpose.
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Because when you live like you belong,
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You accept a new identity in christ jesus.
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You become a new creation,
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Which means the former version of you
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Has been laid in a casket so that the spirit of jesus
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Christ could raise to the surface
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On the inside of you,
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And you no longer pursue or do the things that you used to do.
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You have crucified those things, and now you carry your cross
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As a reminder that you are dead in christ jesus, and every step
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That you're taking
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Is a step to live like you belong to the house of god.
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And when you know who god is, you're not concerned about
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The affirmation of the world.
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Because you know.
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If it was grace
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That sustained you,
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This holiness that reminds you of the grace
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That keeps you.
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It's holiness that reminds you
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You're not practicing a religion.
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You are in a relationship.
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You're not trying to better yourself.
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You're allowing the spirit of god
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To mature. you.
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You're not trying to work out
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Your own sin.
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You casting yourself on the altar and allowing
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God to work out of you,
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Which should not be in you.
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The reality of our lives is god
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Doesn't just want your behavior,
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He wants your heart.
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Because a life of holiness,
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It flows from within.
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What i've learned about holiness.
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Is holiness
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And the price of holiness.
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It is high.
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But the cost and the price of compromise
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Is higher.
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You can no longer settle.
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You can no longer compromise.
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You can no longer live your life in comfort
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And convenience and expect
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To experience god's best.
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That is an entitled mentality.
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And that mentality
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Has to be laid at the altar
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So that you can experience
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God's best.
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Living a holy life.
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Isn't about following the rules.
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It's about revealing to the world
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Who your father is.
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And when you know who
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Your father is.
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You speak like your father.
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You walk like your father.
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You believe like your father.
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And you allow him
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To lead you and guide you.
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You know, when we mess up,
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When we try to be adults.
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Not once in the word of
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God does it say be a better adult.
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Not once in the word of god does it ask the question,
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How is adulting going?
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It never says
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Have a adult like faith.
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I never calls this to be a better adult.
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We fall short of the glory of god.
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When we think we're grown.
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We fall short of the kingdom of god.
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When we think we're grown, we fall short of the things
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Our heavenly father wants for us.
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When we think that we are adolts in the kingdom of god, god
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Has called you to be a child of god, and his word is clear.
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He says, i want you to have child like faith.
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So if i was to have a prayer for us in this year, 2025, it's
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Not that we would have adult like faith.
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It's not that we would have grown up
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Size faith, it is that we would have child like faith.
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Now, the bible does say, i want you to mature
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In the things of god,
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Which means that as a child, you should be growing
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In the knowledge of your father.
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You should be growing in the revelation of who your daddy is.
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You should be growing
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And understanding how significant and supernatural
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The work of your father is.
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But not once
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Does it tell you you work out every thing in adulting.
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When you think
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About every time you've sinned,
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Every time you stumble,
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Every time you've come up short, it's because
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You thought you were grown.
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And god is saying,
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Don't worry about that.
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Be a child.
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Be a son.
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Be a daughter.
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And trust me
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To be your father.
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And when we do that,
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We're walking
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In the footsteps
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Of holiness and living
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Like we belong.
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When i give you one more point
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Before we close.
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That is this.
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The world doesn't need
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More people who claim god's name.
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It needs more people who live
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God's nature.
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The world doesn't need more people claiming god's name.
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We need to live out god's nature first.
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Peter chapter one verse 15 says, but as he who call you
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Is holy, you also be holy,
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And all of your conduct,
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Not some of it.
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Not in public
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And live different in private.
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Be the holy
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As god is holy,
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Be he righteous
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As god is righteous,
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But as he called you is holy, you also be holy.
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And all of your conduct.
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When we live holy lives, we showed the world
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What god is like.
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Holiness is our response to his grace,
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Not a way to earn it.
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We understand that his grace is sufficient for us.
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We understand that he redeems us and renews us and restores us
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By the blood of jesus christ.
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And so we walk out this life like we belong.
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Holiness.
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It's not about striving to be good.
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It's about surrendering
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To the one who already is.
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And a life of surrender.
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Looks like our life
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Of holiness.
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So right now,
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Some of you are thinking.
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Have i followed
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All the instructions
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That this is my life?
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Uphold
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The standard of the weight of life
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When it comes crashing down on me?
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Or does my life crumble
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Because of the instructions given to me
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Have not been followed in its totality?
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We can't take a partial gospel and think that
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We get the fullness of god.
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We have to follow line upon line, precept upon precept,
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And we have to apply the things
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That even we don't want to apply.
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We have to be consistent.
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We have to be faithful.
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We have to be unwavering and diligent
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In the things of god, so that when life weighs on us,
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Our life is still a reflection of the way
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It was designed by god.
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I should have prayed that this message blessed you,
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And i pray that from this day
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Forward, you will live like you belong.
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If you find yourself on the fence today
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Watching this broadcast, you're not sure if you belong.
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I want us to eliminate all assumptions.
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I want us to get rid of all questions.
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I want you to have
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Assurance today that you belong to the family of god.
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I want you to repeat this prayer after me.
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The heavenly father, i thank you for your son jesus,
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And i ask you to lay down
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Every thing in my mind that may be a distraction
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From receiving him as my lord and as my master.
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Today, god,
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With those distractions laid down and removed and
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And out of the way, i accept, i receive.
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I confess with my mouth that he is my lord
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And my master,
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And i believe in my heart that he is my king of kings.
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In jesus name i pray. amen.
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Well, family, if you prayed that prayer,
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The first thing i want to say is congratulations.
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We celebrate with you and we celebrate with heaven
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For that decision that you made.
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It's the greatest decision you could ever make.
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The second thing i want to encourage you to do
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Allow us to know.
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Let us know. you made that decision today.
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A team is going to throw some information
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At the bottom of the screen.
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It's the how you can do so.
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You can write us, you can email us, you can call us.
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Let us know that
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You made this decision today to follow jesus christ.
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And for those that are watching, that are just making
00:26:30.305 --> 00:26:32.941
That decision,
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Or you've been walking with jesus
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A long time, i pray that you see the impact of this broadcast
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And that you would prayerfully consider partnering with us.
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If so, follow the instructions at the bottom of the screen.
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There's no partnership too large, no partnership too small.
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We are grateful for every single partner
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And every single donation,
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And we believe that we are better together.
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And so as we conclude this broadcast today,
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I want you to know that god loves you and i love you too.
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And to the next time, be blessed.
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♪♪
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Tim Timberlake - Living Like You Belong

January 16, 2026 | 28:30

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