If you’ve ever felt stuck in routine, disconnected from God, or unsure if you’re truly following Him – This message is for you.
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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - Loyal To The Wrong Thing | May 24, 2026
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- Hey family as tim timberlake, pastor of celebration church.
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- And i'm excited about the word
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- That god has given me for our time together.
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- And i want to know, are you a loyalist?
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- What are you loyal to? who are you loyal to?
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- What are the things that you continue to go back to?
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- Time and time and time again.
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- Today's message is going to highlight and illuminate
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- And prayerfully extract some things out of you
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- That maybe you have implemented,
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- That god never intended for you to.
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- I want you to get your word.
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- Grab your notepad.
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- Grab your pen.
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- Let's lean into the message entitled loyal
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- To the wrong things.
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- This is what you say.
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- We tell them stuff like this is your house.
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- He knows whose house it is.
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- Because
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- We're used to church language.
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- Based upon what we've heard our forefathers say
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- And the matriarchs of the family say,
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- Because we don't have
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- A personal revelation of jesus christ ourselves.
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- And so we pray the prayers that we hear other people pray
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- Without developing a prayer language ourselves.
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- We say the things we've heard other people say,
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- Because we have not heard from god, to hear
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- What he desires for us to say.
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- So we become echoes of culture and society.
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- Instead of hearing the voice of god to echo
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- What his voice is.
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- And we live in this cycle
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- Of talking about what god did
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- And said of what god is doing.
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- God's presence is not static.
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- It advances, it disrupts, it gives direction.
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- It leads.
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- Because god never intended his presence to be preserved.
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- He intended his presence to be carried.
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- Write this down.
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- Point number one.
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- You can be loyal
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- To a move of god and miss god moving.
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- Look at me for a second.
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- Don't be more loyal to the name of a church
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- Than you are your relationship with jesus christ.
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- You can be loyal to a move of god and miss god moving.
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- Hear me?
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- Look at me for a second. i say this with love.
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- This is for everybody watching online because i know you are.
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- Don't be more loyal to your denomination
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- Than you are your relationship with jesus christ.
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- Because some of us carry tradition
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- As if it's revelation and it's not revelation, it's
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- Tradition and practices and things put in place
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- By people to keep control over
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- Something that is contrary to what god has already freed.
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- So you can be loyal to
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- A move of god and miss god moving. hear me?
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- You don't inherit god's presence by bloodline.
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- You steward it by obedience
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- And you see god move at the speed of your obedience.
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- And when you obey his last command
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- And when you obey his word, then you begin to see his hand
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- Move on your behalf like you could never dream or imagine.
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- And the reality is, is some of us are not seeing
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- God's hand move.
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- Not because god isn't moving.
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- Some of us aren't seeing god's hand move
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- Because we got our backs turned to it.
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- And you can be loyal
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- To a move of god and miss god
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- Moving. the presence of god is not furniture to admire.
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- The presence of
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- God is a fire to advance you.
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- For the children of israel.
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- It was a fire at nighttime and it was a cloud by day.
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- To moses it was the voice in the burning bush.
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- To david
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- It was five smooth stones
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- Placed in in a sling that would kill goliath.
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- Who is he? to you.
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- And you have to know him for yourself.
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- You have to know him intimately.
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- You have to know him for yourself.
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- You cannot know the god of your parents
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- Through their lens
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- And think that god will be intimate with you
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- Because you have not develop a relationship with him.
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- And the reality is
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- That some of us are standing
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- On our parents faith because we think
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- Our parents faith will get us into eternity
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- With jesus christ, and it will not.
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- You don't
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- Inherit the kingdom of god because your parents
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- Pass on their beliefs to you.
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- You inherit the kingdom of god.
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- When you make a conscious decision to follow jesus christ.
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- And this is where we are in 2026.
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- Some people want the promise without carrying the presence
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- That makes it all possible in the first place.
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- And so we have routine without revelation.
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- And if the holy spirit wants to move
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- Beyond our little devotional, we call it the devil.
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- Because we got our routine down pat.
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- We wake up in the morning,
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- We go to our favorite chair, a cup of coffee.
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- We read our scripture.
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- We spend three minutes reading that scripture,
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- And we pray for that scripture and we say, thank you, god.
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- I'm going to have a good day in jesus name.
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- And we think that's intimacy with him.
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- And we have routine without revelation.
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- And we make demands to god.
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- We make demands from god, and we don't even have a
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- Revelation of who he is.
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- We read scriptures
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- And we only read the ones of what we
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- See him doing for other people. and we have little saying.
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- It's like what he's done for others.
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- He'll do the same thing for me.
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- No he won't, especially if you living in sin.
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- And you expect god to bless your mess.
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- You expect god to bless the decisions
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- He has delivered you from that you keep going back to
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- And you keep blaming the devil.
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- No, it's your choices and god will not bless the poor choices
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- You continue to make without being accountable to him.
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- So we got routines without revelation
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- And we know how to do church,
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- But we don't know intimacy with jesus christ.
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- And so we would depend on church cliches
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- More than the word of god.
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- When we make up our own little theology
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- Based upon what we want, what we desire,
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- And if jesus does not answer
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- Those things, then we stop coming to church
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- Because we want control.
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- We want to control god.
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- We want to control where god is.
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- We want to control how god moves.
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- We want to control how how timely he moves.
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- God, i need you to move in an hour.
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- And 20 minutes.
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- If you don't move within that,
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- You ain't going to move today for me.
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- Or maybe it ain't service. maybe.
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- Maybe it's your relationship.
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- God, i've been i've been single 15 years,
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- And you start reminding him of the time
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- That you've been single, that you've been making demands
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- For him to do and fulfilling your life.
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- And when god does not meet you at your expectations, you stop
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- Talking to him.
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- Because surely a god
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- That does not answer you cannot hear you.
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- Surely a god that does not give you
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- Your demands is not good.
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- This is the garbage that we've been taught.
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- You soe $2,026.
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- The lord is going to speak to you.
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- Maybe you don't have 2026,
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- But i want you to give your best seed.
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- And we twist and we manipulate
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- And we take advantage of god's word
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- For control.
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- Point number two is this.
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- Loyalty to your perspective
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- Can make you blind to his presence.
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- I want you to think about this.
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- Some of your
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- Strongest convictions today were never god's commands.
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- They were passed down from generation to generation.
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- And you feel convicted
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- About something that god does not feel convicted about.
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- You carry a conviction
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- That's not even in the word of god
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- Because someone else told you
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- You need to be convicted over that.
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- And so some of our strongest convictions
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- Have been passed down from generation to generation,
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- But not passed down to the word of god.
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- And if it is a strong conviction and it is in the word of god,
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- A lot of times
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- We take it out of context because we don't have
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- A revelation of what god's word says.
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- We have the information that's been given to us
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- By the generation that went before us,
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- That didn't really understand what god was saying,
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- Because they received it from somebody else
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- And they received it from somebody else.
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- And it's like telephone.
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- You passed that message along, and till it becomes
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- So diluted, it no longer has power.
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- And so just
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- Because it honors god in your mind,
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- Does it mean it reflects god's design for your life? yes.
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- It says that david found favor with god
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- And he desired to build a dwelling place for god
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- Without asking god, is this what you desire for me to do?
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- And so loyalty to your perspective
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- Can make you blind to his presence.
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- Your passion for god does
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- Not excuse your misunderstanding of god.
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- And we have a lot of people that are passionate for god.
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- But because you're passionate does not mean you're powerful.
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- The term
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- The season saints used to use
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- Oh, they're very zealous,
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- Which means you got a lot of energy,
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- But not a lot of revelation.
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- And you need both.
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- You need the energy to run in obedience
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- After the things that god desires for you to run after.
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- But you also need revelation to know when to run.
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- And some of us get excited that we got a word from god.
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- We got a word from god. we got a word from god.
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- But did you listen for the timing of it?
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- Because the timing of god is just
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- As important as the instructions that god gave you, right?
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- Are you listening to me?
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- And some prayers that you pray?
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- They sound spiritual, but they are still
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- Rooted in control.
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- And you are loyal.
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- You are absolutely loyal.
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- You're just loyal to the wrong thing.
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- You are more loyal to what you want than you are
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- Than what god said.
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- And when that becomes our reality,
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- The danger in that is not that we love god.
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- Too little
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- Is that we love him in a way that limits him
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- Just to fit our lifestyle.
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- And when he doesn't do what we want him to do.
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- We don't love him the same.
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- We don't have the same intensity.
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- We don't have the same intimacy.
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- We don't talk to him how we used to talk to him.
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- We just talk to him in pastor,
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- Remember when you first met your love?
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- How you used to talk to him?
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- Stay up on the phone. y'all be talking about nothing.
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- What you want to talk about? i don't know
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- What you want to talk about.
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- I don't know,
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- Y'all just happy to be on the phone with each other.
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- Some years go by.
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- It goes from what?
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- You want to talk about it?
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- Don't talk to me.
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- Don't, don't don't talk to me.
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- And if it ain't, don't talk to me.
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- Don't talk to me like that.
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- Y'all know what i'm telling you.
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- Truth.
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- And some of us treat god like that
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- When we first developed a relationship with him.
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- God, what you want to talk about?
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- I'll talk about anything.
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- God who you want me to talk to?
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- I talked to him about you all the days of my life.
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- And you start praying prayers.
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- And those prayers don't start getting answered.
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- And god, like, where you been?
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- God, don't talk to me.
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- I got a witness right there.
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- Don't talk to me.
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- Don't talk to me. don't talk.
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- You ain't answer my prayers.
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- You ain't done what i want you to do.
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- And because you ain't done what i want you to do,
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- I don't want to talk to you.
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- And you can absolutely try to limit
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- God based upon what you want him to do in your life.
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- And stephen, he is teaching the sanhedrin
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- Council while his life is standing trial.
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- You are doing the thing that you are saying i have done,
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- And you are disguising it
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- As discernment.
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- Just because god favors you, it doesn't mean
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- He agrees with every idea you have about him.
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- The scripture teaches us god favorite david.
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- In the same sentence, it says that david desired
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- To build a dwelling place for god without asking
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- God what it is he wanted him to do.
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- How does that relate to us?
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- In this context,
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- We build environments that make people feel close
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- To god without ever requiring them to follow him.
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- And so we're more concerned about how people feel
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- When they come than we are, that we lift up the name of jesus
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- And please, the one who matters most.
- 00:14:07.396 --> 00:14:10.966
- And so we get so consumed with the consumerism of christianity,
- 00:14:10.966 --> 00:14:15.471
- Because christianity now is popular,
- 00:14:15.471 --> 00:14:18.707
- Everybody says that they are christian.
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- And they're not following jesus christ.
- 00:14:24.747 --> 00:14:26.081
- I saw a pastor on some podcast two weeks ago saying
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- That she was also a practice in which like how?
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- I tell you, i tell you how we get this confused
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- Because we want to be associated with anyone we
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- Think is successful.
- 00:14:43.065 --> 00:14:44.967
- And so whenever we define christ as successful,
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- We want to associate with christ, control
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- The narrative, control him, limit him to a particular corner
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- In our lifestyle so that we can benefit from it.
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- And it works to our advantage instead of makes us sacrifice
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- And surrender to him.
- 00:15:00.316 --> 00:15:03.585
- And so we build environments
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- That make people feel close to god
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- Without ever requiring them to follow him.
- 00:15:07.156 --> 00:15:08.991
- That's why we can go in services and environments and churches
- 00:15:08.991 --> 00:15:12.594
- And not feel convicted when we leave.
- 00:15:12.594 --> 00:15:16.565
- That's why we can go into environments
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- Where we talk about jesus, but never encourage people to know
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- Him, because we want people to know us.
- 00:15:22.671 --> 00:15:26.542
- It's about my name.
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- It's about the name of our church,
- 00:15:28.811 --> 00:15:31.880
- And you're going to know jesus.
- 00:15:31.880 --> 00:15:32.715
- But you go, no, jesus, through me.
- 00:15:32.715 --> 00:15:34.750
- I'm telling you, you don't got to go through
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- Nobody else to discover intimacy with jesus christ.
- 00:15:37.186 --> 00:15:41.957
- And if you've been going here any amount of time,
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- I always tell you this don't take my word for it.
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- Look at the word of god.
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- Point number three is this.
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- The greatest idols?
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- Aren't always evil.
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- Oftentimes they're inherited.
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- Look at what happens in the passage.
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- Verse 47.
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- But it was solomon who built a house for him.
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- Again, not asking god
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- What he actually wanted.
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- This must be god,
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- Because i heard my father say he wanted to do it.
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- It must be the will of god, because my father endeavored to
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- Do it.
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- And sometimes we don't ask
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- God what he desires for us or from us.
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- We ask people, what do you think god wants?
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- Because we've become more dependent on people's voices
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- Than we have been dependent on the voice of god.
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- But, solomon, look at that passage.
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- This is a language that shifts us from desires to execution.
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- He executed on instructions that god did not give him.
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- And stephen's pointing. this
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- Is we begin to equate the house
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- Of god with god himself,
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- Not because god is holy, but because we've had a part
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- In building it.
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- How do we know this?
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- Because we talk about the house more than we talk
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- About the owner of the house.
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- And it becomes about fixtures in the house,
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- And it becomes about things in the house,
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- And it becomes about the systems
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- And the structures and the order that's
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- Put in the house instead of the owner of the house
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- Asking him, what do you want?
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- How do you want us to move? where do you want us to go?
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- Where do you desire for us to to to position this
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- In this particular place in the gathering.
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- What do you want from us? what do you need from us?
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- And we don't ask the owner of the house
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- That we're in what he desires, because we're so fascinated
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- With this house that we no longer
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- Have a fascination and stand in awe of him.
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- And this is what
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- The temple became a substitute for.
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- The temple became a substitute for obedience.
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- And when you turn what god allowed
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- Into what god requires, you create
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- An idol of something that god used to use.
- 00:18:24.286 --> 00:18:32.027
- And so what god allows you to build
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- Can become the very thing that blinds you from seeing him.
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- If you look more at it than you do at him.
- 00:18:39.935 --> 00:18:43.939
- And so the greatest idols aren't always evil.
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- Oftentimes they are inherited.
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- Hear me?
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- When structure replaces
- 00:18:49.711 --> 00:18:50.879
- Sensitivity, religion replaces relationship.
- 00:18:50.879 --> 00:18:54.283
- And some of us are very religious,
- 00:18:55.017 --> 00:18:57.252
- But we have no intimacy.
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- And so we have practice with no power.
- 00:19:00.022 --> 00:19:02.724
- And we think our practices in our routines will equate to us
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- Becoming more like jesus christ.
- 00:19:06.261 --> 00:19:07.763
- And they will not.
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- Your intimacy with christ
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- Allows you to become more like him. why?
- 00:19:10.699 --> 00:19:12.501
- Because you become like who you spend time with.
- 00:19:12.501 --> 00:19:17.472
- And spending
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- Time around him is not the same as spending time
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- With him.
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- When structure replaces
- 00:19:26.615 --> 00:19:27.883
- Sensitivity, religion replaces relationships.
- 00:19:27.883 --> 00:19:31.386
- This is what stephan was teaching the sanhedrin council.
- 00:19:31.386 --> 00:19:34.423
- The temple was never meant to contain god.
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- It was meant to point people to him.
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- But if we marvel at the structure more than we do
- 00:19:41.263 --> 00:19:44.199
- At his presence, the structure becomes our god
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- And his presence is no longer there.
- 00:19:47.169 --> 00:19:50.372
- So hear me.
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- The greatest tragedy in this passage
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- Is not losing the presence.
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- Here's the greatest tragedy.
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- It's thinking you still have it when you don't.
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- Just let that sink in for a second,
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- Because some of you, in this moment,
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- You think that you still have the presence of god,
- 00:20:13.328 --> 00:20:17.299
- But you don't have the presence of god.
- 00:20:18.133 --> 00:20:21.003
- You have your opinion of the presence of god,
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- And god's
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- Presence is no longer there.
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- The danger is thinking that you have
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- The presence of god when you don't.
- 00:20:35.250 --> 00:20:39.888
- Moses said, god,
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- If you take
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- Us into the promised land and your presence is not there,
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- I don't desire to be there either.
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- David said, don't take your spirit
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- Away from me. why?
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- Because something happened
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- In each of their lives that allowed them to see.
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- We can build something for god and his presence, not be there
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- Because we were focused more on what we were building
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- Than we were the person we were building it for.
- 00:21:10.852 --> 00:21:15.190
- And you can absolutely be loyal
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- And still be loyal to the wrong thing.
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- That's why on this day, we celebrate what jesus did
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- As he entered into the city and people cried, hosanna!
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- And then they crucified him
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- Because they were more loyal to a system
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- They created than the person
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- That came to break them from the system
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- That was holding them in bondage.
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- And the same crowd that welcomed him rejected him
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- Because he didn't fit what they built.
- 00:21:48.623 --> 00:21:54.329
- And some of you aren't faithful to
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- Jesus because he doesn't fit into what you built.
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- He doesn't fit into the life you built.
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- He doesn't fit into the goals you have, the dreams,
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- The aspirations, your pinterest wall, your your dream boy.
- 00:22:04.606 --> 00:22:08.043
- He doesn't fit to those things.
- 00:22:08.043 --> 00:22:09.411
- And so you're not consistent in your time with him
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- Because he doesn't fit into the limitations
- 00:22:11.847 --> 00:22:14.216
- You want him to fit into.
- 00:22:14.216 --> 00:22:15.684
- And i'm telling you, god is so much bigger
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- Than your limited perspective of him.
- 00:22:17.919 --> 00:22:19.855
- He's so much better than your viewpoint.
- 00:22:19.855 --> 00:22:21.990
- He's so much greater than what you could ever
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- Think of or imagine.
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- So don't chase after your word.
- 00:22:25.627 --> 00:22:27.829
- Chase after the word of god.
- 00:22:27.829 --> 00:22:29.364
- And every single time you chase after this word he says,
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- This word will supersede your expectations.
- 00:22:32.667 --> 00:22:37.038
- That's why your word will fail you.
- 00:22:37.773 --> 00:22:39.608
- But god never will.
- 00:22:39.608 --> 00:22:41.376
- You will let you down, but god will never let you down. you.
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- You will break promises to yourself
- 00:22:45.080 --> 00:22:47.048
- And god will never break promises to you.
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- You will break promises to god.
- 00:22:49.684 --> 00:22:51.286
- But god always keeps his promises because he cannot lie.
- 00:22:51.286 --> 00:22:56.958
- And it's not that you good.
- 00:22:57.559 --> 00:22:58.927
- It's not that you got your stuff together.
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- It's that he said it. and therefore if he said it,
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- He cannot take back what he said.
- 00:23:03.331 --> 00:23:05.200
- And so, god, he does not love the sin that you're in.
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- And that's why he's making these promises to you.
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- He loves him on the inside of you.
- 00:23:10.305 --> 00:23:12.307
- That's why he declares the word of god to you.
- 00:23:12.307 --> 00:23:15.610
- And here we are thinking,
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- Oh, i got to have it because god said it.
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- I know god is going to
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- See it through because he spoke it over himself,
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- And he loves himself,
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- And he's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.
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- And he is faithful to his promises
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- That he's declared over you because he cannot lie
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- Even when you do. yes.
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- And jesus
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- Didn't come to dwell in our little systems.
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- He came
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- To become the temple, to become the savior, to
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- To become the the righteous redeemer,
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- That we all have a desperate need of receiving. he.
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- This is the one true living god,
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- And whatever he allows us to.
- 00:24:08.296 --> 00:24:09.598
- Stuart. we we cannot think to ourselves.
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- We own it.
- 00:24:11.967 --> 00:24:13.168
- And it is great because we had a hand in building it.
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- No, it's great because he defines it as that.
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- The temple that
- 00:24:25.347 --> 00:24:26.047
- Was never meant to contain him.
- 00:24:26.047 --> 00:24:29.718
- And stephen is teaching the saint.
- 00:24:29.718 --> 00:24:30.986
- Hedren counsel.
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- What you're trying to do is contain, you're
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- Trying to limit, you're
- 00:24:33.288 --> 00:24:34.289
- Trying to restrict god, but you cannot restrict
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- A god that cannot be restricted.
- 00:24:37.125 --> 00:24:41.396
- I just want to remind you
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- Of the god that we serve.
- 00:24:44.933 --> 00:24:50.338
- The children of israel
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- Turned their backs on god.
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- He's still his faithful.
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- He was just.
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- But he was faithful.
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- They made other idols
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- And god.
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- He sent them a deliverer
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- To remind them that there was only one true living god.
- 00:25:09.124 --> 00:25:12.861
- And every single time you turn your back on god,
- 00:25:12.861 --> 00:25:15.163
- God send someone across your path
- 00:25:15.163 --> 00:25:17.198
- To remind you that he is faithful.
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- When you are faithless, that he is good when you're not,
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- That he is great and greatly to be praised.
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- My encouragement to
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- You today is to be loyal, but be loyal to the right person
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- And be loyal to the right thing.
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- Do not be loyal to the wrong things.
- 00:25:34.749 --> 00:25:36.718
- Do not be more loyal to a system
- 00:25:36.718 --> 00:25:38.520
- And a structure that you created it,
- 00:25:38.520 --> 00:25:40.422
- And you're loyal to it because you created it.
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- Then you are the presence of god.
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- For family.
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- This is the part of
- 00:25:47.162 --> 00:25:48.229
- The broadcast where i tell you we're out of time.
- 00:25:48.229 --> 00:25:51.766
- But listen, if you are ever in the jacksonville area
- 00:25:51.766 --> 00:25:54.603
- Or the north florida area or remotely close,
- 00:25:54.603 --> 00:25:57.172
- I want to encourage you to come on a sunday morning.
- 00:25:57.172 --> 00:26:00.241
- We would love to host you and your family.
- 00:26:00.241 --> 00:26:02.577
- Our times are 9, 11 and 1:30 p.m and we can't wait to
- 00:26:02.577 --> 00:26:07.549
- Experience what god he does through
- 00:26:07.549 --> 00:26:09.884
- Your life when you step foot on this property.
- 00:26:09.884 --> 00:26:12.921
- If you're not within driving distance of north florida,
- 00:26:12.921 --> 00:26:15.056
- It's okay.
- 00:26:15.056 --> 00:26:15.757
- Continue to watch this broadcast
- 00:26:15.757 --> 00:26:17.325
- As we continue to deliver the word of god.
- 00:26:17.325 --> 00:26:20.629
- And my prayer is
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- That you would prayerfully consider helping us continue
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- To extend, stretch, advance the gospel of jesus christ.
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- These broadcasts and these moments
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- Aren't possible without partners that believe that this time
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- Is the time that we need
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- To be aggressively
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- And urgently sharing the good news of jesus christ.
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- And so would you become a part of that partnership team,
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- Become a
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- Part of this partnership family that helps to spread the gospel
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- Of jesus christ and advance the kingdom of god?
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- If you desire to do so, that information
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- At the bottom of the screen, that's going to be your friend.
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- Copy that information down and pull out your phone.
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- Scan that qr code. partner with us.
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- Help us continue to spread of the good news of jesus christ.
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- I want you to know that god loves you.
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- I love you, and i can't wait to see right back here next week.
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- See you soon.
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