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Tim Timberlake - The Place God Never Promised

February 17, 2026 | 27:29

Tim Timberlake - The Place God Never Promised
Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.
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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Place God Never Promised | February 17, 2026
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  • Hey, family, we're
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  • Back for another incredible time in the word of god.
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  • And i'm excited.
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  • I'm excited about the text
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  • That we're going to be going through today.
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  • I'm excited because i know it's going to challenge you.
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  • It's going to push you.
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  • And for some of us,
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  • It's going to usher us into
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  • The season that we've been praying for.
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  • And it won't be done by comfort.
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  • It will be done by conviction.
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  • In acts chapter seven, stephen, he is standing
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  • Before the sanhedrin council and his life is on the line,
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  • And he understands everything he says is being picked apart.
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  • And so he delivers to them the word of god.
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  • And he does so by telling them what god had told
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  • Abraham in genesis.
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  • I want us to go to the word of god.
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  • It has already begun.
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  • Entitled what god never promised.
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  • Be blessed by the word of god. stay tuned
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  • In on your spouse.
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  • You've been dependent on your kids.
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  • You've been depending on that job
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  • You thought you got for yourself.
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  • You've been dependent on your car and your house.
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  • Your condo and your townhouse in your apartment.
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  • You've been dependent on all these different things.
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  • You've been dependent on pornography.
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  • You've been dependent on your faith.
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  • You've been dependent on cigarets.
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  • You've been dependent on alcohol.
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  • You've been dependent on these things.
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  • And god is saying, it is time for you
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  • To come home. yes.
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  • You can no longer
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  • Say that you are full of jesus christ.
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  • And when life presses in on you, everything but jesus
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  • Oozes out of you.
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  • The idols that you have erected in your life
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  • Begin to speak for you instead of the voice of jesus.
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  • You can no longer say.
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  • God knows my heart.
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  • You can no longer say that you are a good person.
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  • According to genesis, no one is good.
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  • And so the very fact that you think
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  • You're good tells you how you are not good.
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  • But you are graced.
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  • Paul says in second corinthians chapter 12,
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  • If you own your fast, that's part of your daily reading.
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  • Today.
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  • I asked the lord
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  • Three times to remove this thorn from my flesh.
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  • And he didn't remove weakness from me.
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  • He didn't remove the thorn from me.
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  • He didn't remove pain from me.
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  • He didn't remove the chaos from me.
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  • He reminded me that my grace is sufficient
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  • For you.
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  • And stephen
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  • Has that same boldness in his declaration
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  • Of reminding them, don't get stuck in haran
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  • Because he knows who's at work on the inside of him.
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  • And if you don't know who is at work on the inside of you,
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  • You will waver to the left and to the right,
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  • Because you find the voice of men and women.
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  • Instead of following the voice of god.
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  • When you follow the
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  • Voice of men and women, you look for affirmation
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  • And you live for affirmation.
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  • And when you don't get affirmation from people,
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  • Your confidence is crushed because it was never rooted in
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • But what kind of person,
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  • What kind of strength does it reveal to the world
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  • When you no longer need to be affirmed by people
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  • Because you've been marked by god?
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  • There's no greater boldness from a believer
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  • Than to carry themselves, not trying to be liked by everyone
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  • Because you are loved by the one that matters
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  • Most.
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  • Stephen is not looking for the approval
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  • Of the sanhedrin council.
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  • He's already been approved by god.
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  • And when you're approved by god, and when you're marked by god,
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  • You don't have to be marketed by men and women.
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  • I don't need nobody to market me.
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  • We don't need nobody to market celebration church
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  • Because we are marked by god himself.
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  • And what we will not do
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  • Is get stuck in haran.
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  • And so i will challenge you.
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  • I will step on your toes.
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  • I will bring you closer to the throne of jesus christ.
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  • Because that's where you will be fulfilled and find your joy
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  • Not in the things you need to be reminded.
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  • You're just a renter here you are renting your house.
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  • You are renting your car.
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  • You're renting your relationships.
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  • You're renting your finances. what do you mean,
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  • You're renting? you don't own none of it.
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  • And if you can't release it freely, it already owns you.
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  • You're not a resident of this earth.
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  • You are resident of heaven. you weren't here.
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  • This is not your final resting place.
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  • Your dwelling place is there for the word of
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  • God says i go to prepare a place for you.
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  • And if it were not so, i would not tell you.
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  • Stop making this earth.
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  • Your final destination.
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  • This.
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  • Is where you work
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  • Or
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  • This can be your haran.
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  • You can pitch a tent here
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  • And make a house here.
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  • And get comfortable here.
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  • And love the things of this world more than you.
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  • Love the things of god.
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  • And think that these things are going to get you there.
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  • When these things will not get you there,
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  • They will hold you from getting there.
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  • But the only thing that will get
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  • You to spend eternity with jesus christ is intimacy with him.
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  • Not the phony fluffy stuff, not the foo foo relationship
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  • That you hear most pastors talk about.
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  • Not that you're okay and you're a good person
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  • And just keep doing what you're doing.
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  • No, i'm telling you, if you don't change,
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  • You're going to go to hell.
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  • And if you don't apply the word of god, you will not make it.
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  • Stop playing church.
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  • Stop making a house
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  • And the place god never promised.
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  • Do you know who the strongest people on earth are?
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  • The strongest people on earth?
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  • For those that have been bent and twisted by life,
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  • Those that have been broken by life,
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  • Those that have hit rock bottom because it's only there
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  • That you find the rock
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  • That lifts you up,
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  • That pulls you out, that continues
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  • To put a fresh battery in your back
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  • And tell you
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  • You can make it with me, but without me, you won't make it.
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  • Those are the types of people that are used mightily by god.
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  • Do you know why?
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  • Because they no longer have the strength
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  • To keep up the facade that they are strong.
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  • Aren't you tired of always acting strong?
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  • Aren't you tired of always acting like
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  • You got your life together?
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  • Aren't you tired of always carrying the veneer
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  • And the mask.
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  • That your life is perfect?
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  • It's not scriptural.
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  • It's not biblical.
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  • As a matter of fact, it's the exact opposite of what jesus
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  • Instructed for you to do.
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  • He said, when you are weak,
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  • Then you are strong.
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  • And some of you
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  • Have been carrying
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  • Around the mask of strength
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  • Because you don't want to look like
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  • You don't got your life together.
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  • And the reality is, you don't got your life together.
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  • And you confess christianity.
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  • But when life squeezes you, the world comes out
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  • For separation comes out.
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  • Emotion comes out.
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  • Curse words come out.
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  • Anger comes out. frustration come out.
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  • Nothing that looks like jesus comes out of you
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  • When you're squeezed.
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  • And that's an indicator of who your god actually is.
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  • Don't tell me
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  • About the god you serve.
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  • Show me the god you serve.
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  • And how do you display
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  • Who you actually believe in?
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  • By not hiding
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  • Behind spiritual words,
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  • But actually walking out a biblical and godly
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  • Conviction.
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  • Point number one is this.
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  • This first sunday.
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  • And we go get this word today.
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  • We go get this work today
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  • Because you're not coming into this new year
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  • The same way that you entered 2025.
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  • You are not the same person.
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  • You are a new creation in christ jesus,
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  • And the only way that we change is by the renewing of our minds
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  • Through the word of god.
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  • Yes, god
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  • Did not call abraham to improve his life.
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  • He called him to die to it.
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  • He's not calling you to enhance your life, but jesus,
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  • He's not calling you to
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  • Enhance your relationship with everybody else.
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  • No, no.
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  • He's calling you to exchange your life.
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  • Jesus is not an enhancement to your life,
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  • And he's not an add on.
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  • It's not to sprinkle a little bit of jesus.
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  • No, no it's not.
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  • You do what you want to do.
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  • And jesus is an addition.
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  • Note you exchanged your life
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  • With the life that jesus has laid down for you.
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  • God did not call abraham to improve his life.
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  • He called him to die to it. i want you to leave your family.
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  • Leave your friends. leave the familiar place.
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  • Leave the things. leave the idolatry.
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  • Leave the possessions.
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  • Leave everything that you've been mixing and mixing with me.
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  • Leave it behind so that you can understand
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  • True intimacy with me.
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  • Because abraham's family,
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  • They had other idols.
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  • Hold on.
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  • Because i don't want them to think
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  • That i'm getting close to an end.
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  • They had other idols say
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  • They were mixing other gods with the true and living god.
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  • And some of you been praying,
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  • But you check your horoscopes every morning.
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  • And some of you
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  • Are making demands from jesus,
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  • But you're still sleeping with the girlfriend
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  • And your boyfriend that you have no commitment with.
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  • But you made them an idol instead
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  • Of erecting your relationship with jesus christ.
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  • Some of you have made your finances your god.
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  • Some of you made you your god,
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  • And god did not call you to add jesus as an enhancement.
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  • He called you to exchange your life for his.
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  • God does not wait.
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  • He does not wait
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  • For you to agree with his plan for your life
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  • Before he gives it to you.
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  • He gives it to you,
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  • And then you have a choice to obey him.
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  • Father
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  • Doesn't call you home by location.
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  • He calls you home by revelation.
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  • What is revelation god revealed to you.
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  • So what is praise and worship?
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  • Praise and worship is a response
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  • To the revelation you have of god.
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  • Come on.
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  • And the reason you can't lift your hands
  • 00:12:34.036 --> 00:12:35.805
  • Is because you don't have a revelation of who god is.
  • 00:12:35.805 --> 00:12:39.308
  • Because when you get a revelation of who
  • 00:12:40.109 --> 00:12:41.577
  • God is to you, you understand that you are not your own god
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  • And you don't have the power to save yourself.
  • 00:12:45.181 --> 00:12:46.749
  • You don't have the power to deliver yourself.
  • 00:12:46.749 --> 00:12:48.150
  • You don't have the power to heal yourself.
  • 00:12:48.150 --> 00:12:49.785
  • You don't have the power to open a door.
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  • You don't have the power to close the door.
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  • Only jesus can do that.
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  • And when he reveals himself
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  • To you in that way,
  • 00:12:55.958 --> 00:12:57.660
  • You have to bring yourself to the place
  • 00:12:57.660 --> 00:12:59.728
  • Where you acknowledge he is higher than me.
  • 00:12:59.728 --> 00:13:01.430
  • I am not higher than him.
  • 00:13:01.430 --> 00:13:02.898
  • But the reality is, some of you are trying to be god's god.
  • 00:13:02.898 --> 00:13:06.802
  • You know how i know?
  • 00:13:07.269 --> 00:13:08.270
  • Because you're still telling him what you want
  • 00:13:08.270 --> 00:13:09.371
  • Instead of listening to what he wants for you.
  • 00:13:09.371 --> 00:13:16.278
  • And it's not until you understand that god's voice
  • 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:19.315
  • Will interrupt your life before it improves your life.
  • 00:13:19.315 --> 00:13:23.185
  • And some of you are suppressing the voice of god
  • 00:13:23.185 --> 00:13:24.987
  • Because he's interrupting you.
  • 00:13:24.987 --> 00:13:26.255
  • He's interrupting your plans. he's interrupting your goals.
  • 00:13:26.255 --> 00:13:28.858
  • 2026 dream boards.
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  • He's interrupting those things
  • 00:13:30.459 --> 00:13:31.527
  • And you're pushing them to the back.
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  • Not this year.
  • 00:13:34.730 --> 00:13:35.564
  • God, i don't want to wait anymore.
  • 00:13:35.564 --> 00:13:37.299
  • I want what i want because i want it.
  • 00:13:37.299 --> 00:13:39.001
  • I don't want to wait any.
  • 00:13:39.001 --> 00:13:40.970
  • And god is saying, just wait on me.
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  • I am growing what i have made
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  • For you,
  • 00:13:44.540 --> 00:13:45.341
  • And i'm growing you up for the things
  • 00:13:45.341 --> 00:13:46.342
  • That you need to be grown for,
  • 00:13:46.342 --> 00:13:48.410
  • But you won't receive them in his time if you keep pushing
  • 00:13:48.410 --> 00:13:52.014
  • His voice down.
  • 00:13:52.014 --> 00:13:55.084
  • When does homecoming begin?
  • 00:13:55.684 --> 00:13:58.721
  • Homecoming begins the moment god's voice
  • 00:13:58.721 --> 00:14:00.990
  • Becomes louder than your comfort.
  • 00:14:00.990 --> 00:14:03.025
  • Yeah.
  • 00:14:03.025 --> 00:14:05.527
  • Stephen is telling them abraham made a decision to leave,
  • 00:14:05.527 --> 00:14:12.334
  • But he got stuck.
  • 00:14:12.768 --> 00:14:16.038
  • And partial obedience
  • 00:14:16.538 --> 00:14:19.074
  • Is still disobedience.
  • 00:14:19.074 --> 00:14:23.045
  • And some of you are partially obedient,
  • 00:14:23.846 --> 00:14:26.515
  • But you're still disobedient.
  • 00:14:26.515 --> 00:14:29.618
  • And so you still do things
  • 00:14:29.618 --> 00:14:30.786
  • That your flesh wants to do.
  • 00:14:30.786 --> 00:14:34.490
  • You still let life dictate your schedule.
  • 00:14:35.324 --> 00:14:37.793
  • Instead of you
  • 00:14:37.793 --> 00:14:39.161
  • Allowing the spirit of god to dictate your schedule.
  • 00:14:39.161 --> 00:14:42.731
  • I know this will happen the day.
  • 00:14:42.731 --> 00:14:43.933
  • I know people are going to grab the things
  • 00:14:43.933 --> 00:14:45.334
  • And they're going to leave early
  • 00:14:45.334 --> 00:14:46.502
  • Because they're too impatient to wait for the clothes.
  • 00:14:46.502 --> 00:14:50.272
  • I already know, i already know because we made our schedule
  • 00:14:51.407 --> 00:14:53.976
  • Our idols instead of the presence of god,
  • 00:14:53.976 --> 00:14:56.812
  • And we can't give god an hour and 30 minutes every single week
  • 00:14:56.812 --> 00:15:00.149
  • Because our agenda is more important than his.
  • 00:15:00.149 --> 00:15:03.252
  • Oh, you got
  • 00:15:03.585 --> 00:15:06.088
  • A decision you got to make this year, 2026.
  • 00:15:06.088 --> 00:15:09.325
  • Will you honor god with your time?
  • 00:15:09.325 --> 00:15:11.727
  • Or will you allow time to be your idol?
  • 00:15:11.727 --> 00:15:16.098
  • They put an emphasis on the temple.
  • 00:15:16.832 --> 00:15:19.335
  • One day they did the presence of god.
  • 00:15:19.335 --> 00:15:21.136
  • What is your temple?
  • 00:15:21.136 --> 00:15:24.940
  • What have you made a priority over the presence of god?
  • 00:15:24.940 --> 00:15:28.143
  • That god never intended for you to prioritize?
  • 00:15:28.143 --> 00:15:33.816
  • God tells abraham to leave your country,
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  • Leave your relatives, leave your identity,
  • 00:15:36.652 --> 00:15:38.620
  • Leave your leave your security.
  • 00:15:38.620 --> 00:15:40.389
  • No explanation, no guarantee, no backup plan.
  • 00:15:40.389 --> 00:15:43.525
  • Because god was not trying to improve abraham's life.
  • 00:15:43.525 --> 00:15:47.129
  • He was trying to be his life.
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  • Point number two is this.
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  • Faith
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  • Is proven when obedience cost you
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  • What you used to depend on.
  • 00:16:09.752 --> 00:16:14.690
  • Faith is proven
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  • When obedience cost you what you used to depend on.
  • 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:23.732
  • If your obedience to
  • 00:16:24.166 --> 00:16:25.534
  • God only happens when it makes sense,
  • 00:16:25.534 --> 00:16:29.371
  • You are still the lord of your own life.
  • 00:16:29.371 --> 00:16:37.212
  • A faith that never cost you
  • 00:16:37.813 --> 00:16:39.181
  • Comfort will never change. you.
  • 00:16:39.181 --> 00:16:44.253
  • I won't change a circumstance
  • 00:16:44.887 --> 00:16:47.322
  • And won't change your reality.
  • 00:16:47.322 --> 00:16:49.792
  • It won't change you into becoming more like christ.
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  • I want us to look at this.
  • 00:16:53.829 --> 00:16:55.064
  • God didn't call abraham because he was strong.
  • 00:16:55.064 --> 00:16:58.801
  • He called him so that he could stop relying
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  • On his own strength.
  • 00:17:00.969 --> 00:17:04.039
  • If your yes to god
  • 00:17:04.473 --> 00:17:05.974
  • Still protects your old life,
  • 00:17:05.974 --> 00:17:09.311
  • It's not a yes.
  • 00:17:09.311 --> 00:17:11.547
  • It is a delay
  • 00:17:11.547 --> 00:17:14.550
  • And you are stuck in
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  • Haran.
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  • You don't follow the father
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  • By staying safe.
  • 00:17:26.929 --> 00:17:30.165
  • You follow him by staying yielded.
  • 00:17:30.165 --> 00:17:33.602
  • By staying obedient.
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  • By remaining surrendered.
  • 00:17:37.406 --> 00:17:40.976
  • Because obedience is the proof.
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  • You trust the father even when your promise has no address.
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  • I want you to catch that because it's important.
  • 00:17:51.887 --> 00:17:53.722
  • God didn't give abraham an address to go to.
  • 00:17:53.722 --> 00:17:56.992
  • He didn't give him a map and say, i want you to go here.
  • 00:17:56.992 --> 00:17:58.827
  • He didn't tell him your destination
  • 00:17:58.827 --> 00:18:00.329
  • Is going to take you three hours and 33 minutes.
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  • Take a right here.
  • 00:18:02.364 --> 00:18:03.398
  • Take a left here.
  • 00:18:03.398 --> 00:18:04.466
  • Keep going straight for three months.
  • 00:18:04.466 --> 00:18:06.235
  • No, no.
  • 00:18:06.235 --> 00:18:06.969
  • His promise had no address, but
  • 00:18:06.969 --> 00:18:09.805
  • He still was obedient to follow christ.
  • 00:18:09.805 --> 00:18:14.476
  • After
  • 00:18:14.710 --> 00:18:16.778
  • His dad died.
  • 00:18:16.778 --> 00:18:19.648
  • Don't allow dead
  • 00:18:19.648 --> 00:18:20.949
  • Things to hold you hostage to a season.
  • 00:18:20.949 --> 00:18:24.920
  • God has already moved from.
  • 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:33.929
  • Abraham is told to leave without knowing where he's going.
  • 00:18:35.063 --> 00:18:38.333
  • No land the bottom timeline.
  • 00:18:38.901 --> 00:18:41.970
  • No evidence.
  • 00:18:42.271 --> 00:18:45.407
  • Which allows me to know.
  • 00:18:45.407 --> 00:18:47.543
  • Faith in scripture is not just believing god can.
  • 00:18:47.543 --> 00:18:51.613
  • Faith in scripture is obeying
  • 00:18:52.247 --> 00:18:53.715
  • God when you can't see.
  • 00:18:53.715 --> 00:18:57.319
  • And hear is what you need to know.
  • 00:18:58.053 --> 00:19:00.255
  • When you can't see,
  • 00:19:00.255 --> 00:19:02.558
  • He still sees you.
  • 00:19:02.558 --> 00:19:06.695
  • He came before you clap.
  • 00:19:07.196 --> 00:19:09.865
  • Because i need you to hear me when i tell you this.
  • 00:19:09.865 --> 00:19:13.068
  • God never sees you
  • 00:19:13.502 --> 00:19:16.438
  • And wishes he saw someone else
  • 00:19:16.438 --> 00:19:19.374
  • Right?
  • 00:19:19.374 --> 00:19:24.213
  • Did you hear what i said?
  • 00:19:24.780 --> 00:19:27.382
  • See, shame wants you to change.
  • 00:19:27.382 --> 00:19:29.818
  • Shame wants you to hide it wants you to curl up.
  • 00:19:29.818 --> 00:19:32.087
  • It wants you to hide your face.
  • 00:19:32.087 --> 00:19:34.556
  • And jesus never sees you and wishes he saw someone else.
  • 00:19:34.556 --> 00:19:39.828
  • Jesus sees you and he sees himself in you.
  • 00:19:39.828 --> 00:19:48.303
  • He sees you.
  • 00:19:48.637 --> 00:19:51.673
  • And so stephen
  • 00:19:51.673 --> 00:19:52.741
  • Confronts a generation obsessed with seeing themselves
  • 00:19:52.741 --> 00:19:57.913
  • Through power, through control,
  • 00:19:57.913 --> 00:20:01.783
  • Through rivalry,
  • 00:20:02.184 --> 00:20:04.519
  • Through idols,
  • 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:06.822
  • Through false relationships with god.
  • 00:20:06.822 --> 00:20:10.826
  • And he reveals something to them
  • 00:20:11.460 --> 00:20:14.496
  • That's so profound.
  • 00:20:14.496 --> 00:20:17.966
  • He tells them, through the story of abraham,
  • 00:20:17.966 --> 00:20:21.737
  • If you need clarity before you obey,
  • 00:20:21.737 --> 00:20:25.107
  • You don't want faith, you want control.
  • 00:20:25.107 --> 00:20:33.415
  • And there's a lot of you today
  • 00:20:34.016 --> 00:20:35.117
  • That need to give up control.
  • 00:20:35.117 --> 00:20:38.353
  • Whether you're in this room
  • 00:20:38.353 --> 00:20:40.489
  • With you in one of our overflows,
  • 00:20:40.489 --> 00:20:42.924
  • Whether you're watching online.
  • 00:20:42.924 --> 00:20:46.194
  • You need to give up control.
  • 00:20:46.194 --> 00:20:49.931
  • You need to understand
  • 00:20:50.399 --> 00:20:52.734
  • That a faith that needs proof is not faith.
  • 00:20:52.734 --> 00:20:57.105
  • It is negotiation.
  • 00:20:57.105 --> 00:21:00.275
  • And you can no longer negotiate with god
  • 00:21:01.109 --> 00:21:04.379
  • And think that he is still your lord and master.
  • 00:21:04.379 --> 00:21:11.687
  • You are not god's god.
  • 00:21:12.154 --> 00:21:14.022
  • Who are you to negotiate with him about the life he gave you?
  • 00:21:14.022 --> 00:21:21.096
  • How dare we try to impress him with something he gave us?
  • 00:21:22.197 --> 00:21:27.336
  • When you see him and when he sees you, he's not going to say.
  • 00:21:28.503 --> 00:21:31.573
  • I'm proud of the job you worked.
  • 00:21:31.573 --> 00:21:34.643
  • I'm proud of the life you made.
  • 00:21:35.277 --> 00:21:36.778
  • I see how much money you have.
  • 00:21:36.778 --> 00:21:38.613
  • I see the elevation.
  • 00:21:38.613 --> 00:21:40.615
  • I see the increase.
  • 00:21:40.615 --> 00:21:41.817
  • No, no is going to say i see you.
  • 00:21:41.817 --> 00:21:48.156
  • I see you
  • 00:21:48.457 --> 00:21:50.492
  • Even the you you try to hide from you.
  • 00:21:50.492 --> 00:21:53.762
  • I see. your great.
  • 00:21:53.762 --> 00:22:01.803
  • He sees you.
  • 00:22:02.137 --> 00:22:05.474
  • And so homecoming.
  • 00:22:05.907 --> 00:22:07.609
  • It requires leaving the all you behind.
  • 00:22:07.609 --> 00:22:12.314
  • So that the new you could be
  • 00:22:12.914 --> 00:22:14.583
  • Raised to new life.
  • 00:22:14.583 --> 00:22:17.853
  • Homecoming requires leaving what's familiar
  • 00:22:18.754 --> 00:22:22.424
  • Before receiving what has been promised.
  • 00:22:22.424 --> 00:22:29.398
  • And today,
  • 00:22:29.698 --> 00:22:31.967
  • You need to come home.
  • 00:22:31.967 --> 00:22:40.375
  • And you.
  • 00:22:40.642 --> 00:22:41.943
  • You know who you are.
  • 00:22:41.943 --> 00:22:52.421
  • My prayer for you
  • 00:22:52.854 --> 00:22:54.589
  • As you start this year of.
  • 00:22:54.589 --> 00:22:57.793
  • Is that you would be disappointed
  • 00:22:58.527 --> 00:23:01.430
  • In every idol
  • 00:23:01.797 --> 00:23:04.232
  • And every false god
  • 00:23:04.232 --> 00:23:06.935
  • And every fake relationship
  • 00:23:06.935 --> 00:23:10.038
  • And everything that you've propped up
  • 00:23:10.038 --> 00:23:11.873
  • In the place of jesus.
  • 00:23:11.873 --> 00:23:13.241
  • I pray that you would be disappointed in those things.
  • 00:23:13.241 --> 00:23:18.547
  • I pray that you would only find
  • 00:23:19.181 --> 00:23:20.816
  • Fulfillment, peace, joy, grace, and mercy
  • 00:23:20.816 --> 00:23:26.054
  • In your intimacy with jesus christ.
  • 00:23:26.054 --> 00:23:36.264
  • And so we're not going to bow our heads.
  • 00:23:37.132 --> 00:23:39.201
  • We're not going to close our eyes, but we're going to do
  • 00:23:39.201 --> 00:23:42.370
  • This.
  • 00:23:42.370 --> 00:23:43.238
  • We're going to bring every fake god
  • 00:23:43.238 --> 00:23:44.439
  • And every idol we've made to the altar.
  • 00:23:44.439 --> 00:23:49.010
  • And let me say this
  • 00:23:49.478 --> 00:23:50.712
  • Because i don't want you to get this misconstrued,
  • 00:23:50.712 --> 00:23:53.315
  • And i don't want you walking
  • 00:23:53.315 --> 00:23:54.516
  • Out of here with the mentality that certain things are sin.
  • 00:23:54.516 --> 00:23:58.186
  • Okay? smoking cigarets is not sin.
  • 00:23:58.186 --> 00:24:00.722
  • Smoking a vape is not sin.
  • 00:24:00.722 --> 00:24:02.657
  • Those things are not sin.
  • 00:24:02.657 --> 00:24:03.925
  • But they do make you smell like hell.
  • 00:24:03.925 --> 00:24:09.698
  • And they cut your life short.
  • 00:24:10.332 --> 00:24:13.468
  • And this earthen vessel is a temple
  • 00:24:13.468 --> 00:24:15.570
  • Of the most high god.
  • 00:24:15.570 --> 00:24:19.641
  • And so anything that will keep
  • 00:24:20.242 --> 00:24:22.010
  • You stuck in haran has become an idol.
  • 00:24:22.010 --> 00:24:26.248
  • So if you want to kick those habits, if you want
  • 00:24:27.215 --> 00:24:30.185
  • To break those routines, if you want to make jesus christ
  • 00:24:30.185 --> 00:24:34.556
  • The lord of your life and leave behind pornography,
  • 00:24:34.556 --> 00:24:38.159
  • And leave behind lust and leave behind addiction,
  • 00:24:38.159 --> 00:24:41.463
  • And leave behind relationships, and leave behind friendships,
  • 00:24:41.463 --> 00:24:44.966
  • And leave behind some family members that continue to drag
  • 00:24:44.966 --> 00:24:47.903
  • You back into becoming the worse person you have always known.
  • 00:24:47.903 --> 00:24:52.173
  • Then i want you to bring those things to the altar right now.
  • 00:24:52.173 --> 00:24:55.510
  • Don't wait for the person beside you.
  • 00:24:55.510 --> 00:24:57.245
  • You come.
  • 00:24:57.245 --> 00:25:00.715
  • Bring it.
  • 00:25:01.016 --> 00:25:01.883
  • Leave it at the altar.
  • 00:25:01.883 --> 00:25:03.118
  • I truly hope you are blessed by that word.
  • 00:25:03.985 --> 00:25:06.254
  • As we continue to go through acts
  • 00:25:06.254 --> 00:25:07.489
  • Chapter seven, i want you to do inventory.
  • 00:25:07.489 --> 00:25:10.358
  • Search your heart.
  • 00:25:10.358 --> 00:25:11.526
  • Ask the lord what is it that you have told me to do that
  • 00:25:11.526 --> 00:25:14.696
  • Maybe i've been partially disobedient, in,
  • 00:25:14.696 --> 00:25:17.999
  • And one of the greatest things we can ever learn from today's
  • 00:25:17.999 --> 00:25:20.735
  • Message is this partial obedience is still disobedience.
  • 00:25:20.735 --> 00:25:25.040
  • God is calling you higher.
  • 00:25:25.040 --> 00:25:27.075
  • The word of god says he calls you from faith to faith
  • 00:25:27.075 --> 00:25:29.544
  • And glory to glory.
  • 00:25:29.544 --> 00:25:30.745
  • There is no in between.
  • 00:25:30.745 --> 00:25:32.314
  • And so today, if you feel stuck,
  • 00:25:32.314 --> 00:25:34.115
  • If you feel like you're spinning your wheels,
  • 00:25:34.115 --> 00:25:36.051
  • Maybe it's
  • 00:25:36.051 --> 00:25:36.918
  • Because you have not fully surrendered
  • 00:25:36.918 --> 00:25:37.986
  • And submit it to the plan that god has for you.
  • 00:25:37.986 --> 00:25:40.622
  • I encourage you to do so today.
  • 00:25:40.622 --> 00:25:42.958
  • I want to pray for you.
  • 00:25:42.958 --> 00:25:44.392
  • Pray with you.
  • 00:25:44.392 --> 00:25:45.327
  • Set myself in agreement with the things
  • 00:25:45.327 --> 00:25:47.062
  • That you may be believing god for.
  • 00:25:47.062 --> 00:25:49.064
  • Definitely, father.
  • 00:25:49.064 --> 00:25:49.998
  • Thank you for my brothers and my sisters
  • 00:25:49.998 --> 00:25:51.299
  • That are watching this broadcast right now.
  • 00:25:51.299 --> 00:25:53.768
  • And lord, as we have learned in acts chapter seven,
  • 00:25:53.768 --> 00:25:56.638
  • There is
  • 00:25:56.638 --> 00:25:57.872
  • A place that you have for us and we have to continue to move
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  • So that we don't miss what it is that you are moving us into.
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  • I ask right now, god,
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  • That you would open my brother and sisters
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  • Eyes to see you in everything that they do, and open the ears
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  • So that they can hear your voice clearly for direction,
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  • For clarity, for wisdom and understanding.
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  • In jesus name i pray. amen.
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  • Our family, our team is going to throw
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  • Some information at the bottom of the screen.
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  • I hope that you would pray about partnering with us.
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  • Help us continue
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  • To spread this message of the gospel of jesus christ
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  • To the very areas of the world that we believe need the most.
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  • If we would do so, i pray that god would
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  • Continue to overwhelm you with his goodness and his mercy.
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  • There's no amount to large, no amount to small.
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  • Everything matters in helping us continue
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  • To get the gospel of jesus christ into the hearts
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  • And into the hands of people all over the world.
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  • If you're ever in the jacksonville area,
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  • Stop by celebration church on a sunday, 9 a.m.
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  • Or 11 a.m.. come visit us.
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  • I got a word for you.
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  • If you're not within driving distance,
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  • Continue to watch us right here on this network
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  • As we continue to bring you the word of god.
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  • I want you to know god loves you.
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  • And as always, i love you.
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  • I'll see you back here next week.
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  • Be blessed in jesus name.
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  • ♪♪
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