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Tim Timberlake - The Price of Pretending (Part 2)

November 25, 2025 | 28:30

Tim Timberlake - The Price of Pretending (Part 2)
Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.
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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - The Price of Pretending (Part 2) | November 25, 2025
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  • Hey, family, it's pastor tim timberlake.
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  • I'm right here in jacksonville, florida,
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  • And i truly believe that god has a word for you.
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  • I'm excited that you will go on this journey with us
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  • As we continue to share with you the gospel of jesus christ.
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  • I want us to continue the conversation
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  • That we began last week entitled the price of pretending.
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  • And today, as we dive into the word of god,
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  • I believe we're going to grow a little bit further.
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  • And so let's get into the message
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  • As it has already begun.
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  • Entitled the price of pretending
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  • Part two.
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  • Tucked away
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  • Hidden
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  • Covered ends up
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  • Spreading into a situation you can no longer control.
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  • A little bit of sin that's hidden in your heart root.
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  • Rooted in self.
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  • Selfish ambition.
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  • Selfish gain, greed, fleshly desires
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  • Tucked away in your heart
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  • Will eventually spread into the areas of your life
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  • You never intended for it to spread into.
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  • What is it that you have hidden in your heart and tucked away
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  • And tried to keep from jesus?
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  • That jesus desires to expose and uncover
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  • And put his hand on so that he can reverse it
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  • And change it and transform you from the inside out.
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  • What remains
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  • Hidden continues to be poison,
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  • But you allow god to uncover and can provide a testimony
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  • For other people to get delivered from the same thing.
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  • So here's my question for us right now.
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  • What is it that you're being held hostage to,
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  • That jesus has already freed you from?
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  • The enemy that couldn't stop the crucifixion
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  • Tried to corrupt the congregation.
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  • So what?
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  • He could not stop in what jesus was doing.
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  • He tried to stop, do what jesus desired to do to his sons
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  • And his daughters.
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  • So if the enemy can't stop jesus, guess what?
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  • He'll try to distract you.
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  • How does the enemy distract?
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  • He doesn't distract you with things you don't want.
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  • He distract you with things that you actually do want.
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  • When if the things that
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  • You've been praying about and praying for are not
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  • Being brought to you by jesus.
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  • What if they're being brought to you by satan?
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  • The reality is,
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  • If some of us are stepping into seasons prematurely,
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  • Not because god opened the door,
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  • Because the enemy has distracted you to make you think that you
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  • Are ready for a season, that god has not matured you,
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  • In so you can walk into it.
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  • The enemy understands it's anything
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  • You walk into prematurely you're not prepared for.
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  • Your character is not prepared for.
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  • Your integrity, is not prepared for.
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  • Therefore, you won't stay in the open door
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  • And in the open season that you walk in.
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  • But let me tell you what happens.
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  • You end up impacting and influencing other people too.
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  • And when they see you fall
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  • And when they see the door shut, they're impacted
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  • And their relationship with
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  • Jesus is impacted because your character
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  • Was not developed enough to take you there.
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  • So i want to encourage you
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  • Don't rush the process
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  • Of god's pruning in your life.
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  • And although it seems like god
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  • Is taking things from you, he's not taking anything from you.
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  • God is growing you and maturing you and raising you up
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  • And developing in you a reflection of himself,
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  • So that when the world sees you,
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  • They see him kind of going to get amen.
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  • This is what happens in luke
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  • One sells the savior out
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  • In acts chapter five.
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  • The others try to sell the spirit out.
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  • Both prove this truth.
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  • The devil does his best work in people
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  • Who want to look godly without being holy.
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  • Y'all heard what i said.
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  • In the people
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  • That look holy.
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  • They understand a form of godliness.
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  • They understand a form of religion.
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  • They understand a form of relationship.
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  • But they don't have the complete and total picture,
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  • Because there's so much
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  • Selfishness and ambition rooted in what they define
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  • As religion and relationship with jesus christ.
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  • That is misconstrued.
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  • And they don't even realize that they are being used
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  • By the enemy to infiltrate from the inside out.
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  • The body of christ.
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  • So satan
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  • Doesn't need a seat in the crowd
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  • When he can just whisper and entertains
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  • The ones that are already at the table.
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  • Hear me?
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  • Don't be one of the ones
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  • That are seated in the presence of jesus,
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  • But still entertaining the voice of satan.
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  • Point number one.
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  • God doesn't just want a portion.
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  • He wants your posture.
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  • See, when people read this,
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  • They think about the portion first.
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  • I bet people in the audience were thinking,
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  • How much was it they kept back?
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  • If they drop dead, how much was it
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  • That they were supposed to bring?
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  • It wasn't in the amount.
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  • It wasn't in the profit.
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  • It was in the posture.
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  • What is the posture of your heart?
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  • Is it to tip god and keep back
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  • Most of it for yourself and your lifestyle?
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  • Or is the posture of your heart?
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  • God, all that i do, it belongs to you.
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  • What an honor and a privilege it is to steward
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  • God's resources.
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  • What an honor and a privilege to this.
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  • To live in god's house.
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  • What an honor. the purpose of this.
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  • To drive god's car.
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  • Amen.
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  • It all belongs to him.
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  • But, but, but we can't clap for that
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  • Because we think what we have belongs to us.
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  • And. and one of the greatest indications
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  • Of if possessions has a hold on you is if at giving time,
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  • You don't do it as worship.
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  • You do it
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  • As you have to do something.
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  • I got to give.
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  • I got to stop.
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  • No, no, no. you get to give.
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  • You get to sow.
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  • So it's not in the profit.
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  • It's in the posture.
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  • What is the posture of your heart?
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  • What is the posture of your mentality?
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  • What is the posture of your perspective?
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  • The posture
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  • Was that we could hide some and present some to jesus.
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  • And he won't notice what we've hidden.
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  • I mean, let me
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  • Just teach a little bit about the arrogance.
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  • They thought
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  • That god would be moved
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  • By what they laid down.
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  • Without laying their life down.
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  • So they thought
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  • God would blush over the amount
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  • That they return
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  • Without returning their hearts to him.
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  • First.
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  • They thought the prophet
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  • Would impress other people.
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  • When they had not laid down
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  • Their own ambition and will.
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  • He never measures
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  • The size of your gifts,
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  • But he always measures
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  • The size of your surrender.
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  • What is it that you have kept back?
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  • What is it that you have tucked away?
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  • What is it that you have hidden?
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  • What is it that you have buried in a safe place
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  • For a rainy day that does not belong
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  • To you?
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  • The tragedy of acts chapter
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  • Five is not about generosity gone wrong.
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  • It's about authenticity gone missing.
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  • Because they step into becoming someone
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  • That is not in the nature or the character of god.
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  • And any time we step into becoming someone
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  • That is not in the nature
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  • Or the character or the reflection of god,
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  • We are more
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  • Like the reflection of the enemy than we are our father.
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  • So where in scripture does it say
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  • That god had greatness and he had goodness
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  • And he hid it away from his children?
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  • No, it says that god loved us,
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  • So he gave to us.
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  • This is what we have to understand.
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  • God is a giver.
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  • He is generous.
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  • The nature of god, the character of god is generosity.
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  • The enemy is a taker.
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  • Scripture teaches us the enemy comes to steal.
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  • He comes to kill and he comes to destroy.
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  • So anytime. hear me?
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  • Look at me for a second.
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  • Because this is bad theology that we hear when we get sick
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  • And when we have to fight disease.
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  • To think, man, i am fighting this battle for god.
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  • That's good.
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  • Come on. god wants me sick.
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  • It must be the will of god that i'm going through this.
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  • It must be the desire of god that i'm going through this.
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  • Listen to me.
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  • It is the enemy's desire that you are sick.
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  • He is the one that comes to kill, steal and destroy.
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  • Scripture says
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  • Jesus comes that you may have life and life
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  • More abundantly.
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  • That abundance has been misconstrued to think just
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  • Financial.
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  • It is far more than finances.
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  • What does finances mean?
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  • I don't have the health to enjoy it.
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  • Right.
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  • May we be a people
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  • That study the word of god for ourselves.
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  • Point number two is this.
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  • The holy spirit doesn't share leases.
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  • He takes possession.
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  • When peter said, why has satan filled your heart?
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  • It meant something else
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  • Was already living where the spirit should be dwelling.
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  • The holy spirit does not take a lease out on your soul.
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  • He desires to dwell there.
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  • In certain traditional churches, they say,
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  • We want the spirit of god to stop by,
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  • Give us a visit.
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  • Drop on by lord.
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  • No, no.
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  • I want the spirit of god to dwell with me.
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  • I want to live in his presence.
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  • I don't want a drop.
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  • I want him to invade my life.
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  • Change me, transform me, renew me.
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  • I need his presence every second of every hour in the day.
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  • And if he does not indwell me, then i will lead myself.
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  • And i always lead myself into the direction
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  • He does not want me to go in. amen.
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  • He doesn't.
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  • I want a lease on you.
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  • He wants to occupy you.
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  • He wants all of you.
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  • Not most of you.
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  • He wants all of you.
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  • The reality is that you can't be spirit filled
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  • If you're still self fueled.
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  • Some of you are
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  • Searching, fulfilling.
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  • When the spirit of god desires
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  • To infill you.
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  • You're searching for emotions.
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  • When the holy spirit desires to dwell
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  • On the inside of you.
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  • One of the hardest things
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  • To grasp from this text
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  • Is this reality right here.
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  • Satan doesn't need your body,
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  • Just your permission.
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  • That's all he needs.
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  • Your permission.
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  • What gives
  • 00:14:06.962 --> 00:14:08.063
  • Satan permission in your life?
  • 00:14:08.063 --> 00:14:11.267
  • Disobedience.
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  • Right?
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  • Gosh, i wish i had time.
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  • Disobedience has cost
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  • You more than you realize.
  • 00:14:22.678 --> 00:14:26.215
  • Disobedience has taken you further away
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  • From the presence of god than you could understand.
  • 00:14:30.786 --> 00:14:36.358
  • And how do we operate in disobedience?
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  • Do we make a conscious decision all the time to be disobedient?
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  • No. but what we do make a conscious decision on
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  • Is being comfortable.
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  • When god has called us to be courageous.
  • 00:14:48.604 --> 00:14:52.508
  • And so some of the greatest
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  • Forms of disobedience doesn't look like stubbornness.
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  • It looks like convenience. out.
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  • When i read this text,
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  • I'm reminded
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  • That the spirit of god,
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  • The parts
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  • We're self, makes the decisions.
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  • I can't ask god to bless
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  • What i've already made a decision to do.
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  • And some of us, not all of us.
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  • Some of us in this moment
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  • And we already have made up in our mind.
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  • This is what i'm going to do today.
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  • This is what i'm going to tip.
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  • This is what i'm going to give.
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  • Because in your mind, this is all i have
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  • And you're looking at the wrong thing.
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  • You're looking at the amount and god
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  • Is looking at your posture.
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  • Who do you belong to?
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  • As a child growing up.
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  • I never looked at my piggy bank to determine what i could get.
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  • Not once
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  • Did i go into the store.
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  • Back in the day, we used to have something called toys r us.
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  • Y'all don't know nothing about no toys r us.
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  • No more.
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  • Jeffrey the giraffe was that dude.
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  • And i would get an allowance
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  • Of a dollar
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  • Every saturday.
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  • I cleaned it.
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  • Would have taken me a hundred years to buy anything
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  • With my allowance, but i never considered my allowance alone
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  • Because my parents
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  • Had their money as well.
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  • So i understood if i was obedient
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  • Then they would contribute
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  • To what i wanted to possess.
  • 00:17:16.718 --> 00:17:26.128
  • But it took me making a sacrifice
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  • And an offering of my time and other things
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  • That they required of me to at least get the little bit
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  • That i worked for.
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  • When you're in moments of worship
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  • Where there's giving, or whether it's
  • 00:17:46.582 --> 00:17:48.784
  • The posture of your heart turning towards jesus in song,
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  • Are you thinking more about the amount you have
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  • And what you don't have?
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  • Are you thinking
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  • About what it is that god desires to do for you?
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  • Hear me family.
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  • God is not looking for you to tip him.
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  • Great.
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  • And if you think this message is about money,
  • 00:18:10.572 --> 00:18:12.674
  • Then you are completely missing the point.
  • 00:18:12.674 --> 00:18:22.885
  • Thank god
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  • That our lives have not been a reflection
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  • Of ananias and sapphira, where when we held things
  • 00:18:28.724 --> 00:18:32.427
  • Back from god, we drop dead.
  • 00:18:32.427 --> 00:18:40.936
  • But maybe we should steward the fear of god
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  • In that regard a little bit more than what we currently do.
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  • Understanding that god is the same yesterday,
  • 00:18:48.911 --> 00:18:54.283
  • Today,
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  • And forevermore.
  • 00:18:56.318 --> 00:19:00.622
  • Where has the holiness gone?
  • 00:19:01.223 --> 00:19:05.194
  • In our posture and in our heart
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  • For the things of god.
  • 00:19:08.430 --> 00:19:11.767
  • Where has the dignity gone?
  • 00:19:11.767 --> 00:19:14.069
  • The purity going for the things of god?
  • 00:19:14.069 --> 00:19:17.406
  • That at some point
  • 00:19:17.406 --> 00:19:18.974
  • Our disobedience could lead us to death.
  • 00:19:18.974 --> 00:19:26.582
  • We think all of life is given to us
  • 00:19:27.349 --> 00:19:29.551
  • Because we're that good
  • 00:19:29.551 --> 00:19:30.819
  • And we're we make good decisions and we're just a good person.
  • 00:19:30.819 --> 00:19:33.989
  • And and we have to get this
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  • Because we've done good for other people.
  • 00:19:35.724 --> 00:19:37.559
  • No, we deserve hell.
  • 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:42.364
  • That's what we deserve.
  • 00:19:42.864 --> 00:19:45.100
  • We are selfish.
  • 00:19:45.100 --> 00:19:46.602
  • We are thieves. we are liars.
  • 00:19:46.602 --> 00:19:49.404
  • We are adulterers. you like?
  • 00:19:49.404 --> 00:19:50.772
  • I never cheated on my spouse.
  • 00:19:50.772 --> 00:19:52.374
  • But you've cheated on jesus.
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  • We we we.
  • 00:19:54.209 --> 00:20:02.251
  • We are manipulators.
  • 00:20:02.718 --> 00:20:06.288
  • But the grace of jesus
  • 00:20:06.755 --> 00:20:09.992
  • Still flows towards us.
  • 00:20:10.492 --> 00:20:12.961
  • Because his grace is sufficient
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  • For me.
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  • I won't get through it again today.
  • 00:20:26.074 --> 00:20:27.576
  • It's okay.
  • 00:20:27.576 --> 00:20:31.413
  • But i want you to understand this.
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  • They didn't die from greed.
  • 00:20:36.418 --> 00:20:41.590
  • They died.
  • 00:20:41.890 --> 00:20:44.793
  • Because of divided occupancy.
  • 00:20:44.793 --> 00:20:50.599
  • They created
  • 00:20:50.932 --> 00:20:52.567
  • A spiritual duplex in their soul
  • 00:20:52.567 --> 00:20:55.904
  • That will allow the holy spirit
  • 00:20:56.538 --> 00:20:59.441
  • To stay on this side.
  • 00:20:59.441 --> 00:21:03.011
  • And allow satan to still design.
  • 00:21:03.645 --> 00:21:12.421
  • And because
  • 00:21:12.754 --> 00:21:14.856
  • Of dual occupancy,
  • 00:21:14.856 --> 00:21:17.559
  • They die.
  • 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:25.600
  • The question
  • 00:21:25.934 --> 00:21:26.868
  • You should be asking yourself right now.
  • 00:21:26.868 --> 00:21:30.639
  • Is who
  • 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:32.974
  • Has filled you?
  • 00:21:32.974 --> 00:21:38.413
  • Is it satan
  • 00:21:38.747 --> 00:21:40.816
  • Or is it the holy spirit?
  • 00:21:41.383 --> 00:21:46.254
  • Whenever it comes
  • 00:21:46.688 --> 00:21:49.891
  • To this area and our mentality is,
  • 00:21:49.891 --> 00:21:53.862
  • I don't have or i don't want to give.
  • 00:21:53.862 --> 00:21:58.033
  • We have missed the point.
  • 00:21:58.033 --> 00:22:00.402
  • We get an opportunity to give and to return,
  • 00:22:00.402 --> 00:22:05.774
  • To help the proclamation of the gospel spread
  • 00:22:05.774 --> 00:22:09.945
  • So that those that are lost can be found.
  • 00:22:09.945 --> 00:22:13.281
  • And a godly conviction can hit them,
  • 00:22:13.281 --> 00:22:15.851
  • And they can become disciples of jesus christ and help
  • 00:22:15.851 --> 00:22:19.187
  • Other people become disciples of jesus christ.
  • 00:22:19.187 --> 00:22:21.923
  • If it stops with us, we have missed the point.
  • 00:22:21.923 --> 00:22:29.498
  • We've laid tips at his feet.
  • 00:22:30.098 --> 00:22:33.502
  • Instead of complete surrender.
  • 00:22:34.102 --> 00:22:41.009
  • Ananias
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  • And sapphira.
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  • They gave everyone repeat this after me.
  • 00:22:46.281 --> 00:22:49.584
  • They gave.
  • 00:22:49.584 --> 00:22:52.687
  • But they gave empty.
  • 00:22:52.687 --> 00:22:59.694
  • So you can give
  • 00:23:00.061 --> 00:23:02.864
  • And still be full of yourself.
  • 00:23:02.864 --> 00:23:09.771
  • They gave but they did not empty.
  • 00:23:10.505 --> 00:23:13.341
  • They didn't empty themselves of themselves.
  • 00:23:13.341 --> 00:23:15.877
  • They didn't empty their flesh of sin and selfish ambition.
  • 00:23:15.877 --> 00:23:19.614
  • They kept some tucked away.
  • 00:23:19.614 --> 00:23:21.483
  • And they tried to hide it from the holy spirit,
  • 00:23:21.483 --> 00:23:23.652
  • Because they thought more about what they were losing than
  • 00:23:23.652 --> 00:23:27.522
  • What they were gaining.
  • 00:23:27.522 --> 00:23:32.627
  • And time.
  • 00:23:32.928 --> 00:23:33.929
  • You think first about what you're losing more
  • 00:23:33.929 --> 00:23:37.032
  • Than what you're gaining.
  • 00:23:37.032 --> 00:23:38.400
  • You are thinking more
  • 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:39.868
  • Of earthly possessions than the kingdom of god,
  • 00:23:39.868 --> 00:23:42.571
  • Which is at hand.
  • 00:23:42.571 --> 00:23:49.778
  • And it is for this reason
  • 00:23:50.345 --> 00:23:53.415
  • That i believe luke uses the same language
  • 00:23:53.415 --> 00:23:57.419
  • As he did with judas.
  • 00:23:57.919 --> 00:24:04.993
  • And the language
  • 00:24:05.360 --> 00:24:07.429
  • That luke uses.
  • 00:24:07.429 --> 00:24:10.398
  • It paints a vivid picture for us.
  • 00:24:10.398 --> 00:24:14.269
  • That they gave from their overflow
  • 00:24:15.036 --> 00:24:18.673
  • And not from their obedience.
  • 00:24:19.307 --> 00:24:22.410
  • Well, family, we're out of time for today's broadcast,
  • 00:24:23.512 --> 00:24:26.815
  • But i want to encourage you to continue to lean in with this
  • 00:24:26.815 --> 00:24:29.618
  • As we continue to go through the book of acts.
  • 00:24:29.618 --> 00:24:31.520
  • I truly believe that god is changing
  • 00:24:31.520 --> 00:24:34.122
  • And transforming you
  • 00:24:34.122 --> 00:24:35.924
  • Into the believer and the follower of jesus christ.
  • 00:24:35.924 --> 00:24:38.593
  • He desires and designed for you to be.
  • 00:24:38.593 --> 00:24:41.997
  • Right now, before we close,
  • 00:24:41.997 --> 00:24:43.064
  • I want to set myself in agreement with you,
  • 00:24:43.064 --> 00:24:45.400
  • And i want to pray for those.
  • 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:46.668
  • And i want you to repeat after me this prayer,
  • 00:24:46.668 --> 00:24:48.737
  • Those that may need to connect
  • 00:24:48.737 --> 00:24:50.205
  • To jesus and return your life back to him.
  • 00:24:50.205 --> 00:24:54.042
  • You've heard this message,
  • 00:24:54.042 --> 00:24:55.110
  • The price of pretending, part one and part two.
  • 00:24:55.110 --> 00:24:57.846
  • And you, you've come to the point where you know
  • 00:24:57.846 --> 00:24:59.781
  • You have to make this decision
  • 00:24:59.781 --> 00:25:01.116
  • To not only just be a follower,
  • 00:25:01.116 --> 00:25:02.584
  • But also be a disciple of jesus christ.
  • 00:25:02.584 --> 00:25:05.120
  • So i want you to repeat this prayer after me.
  • 00:25:05.120 --> 00:25:07.188
  • Lord jesus, come into my heart, i repent.
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  • I turn
  • 00:25:11.660 --> 00:25:12.594
  • Away from my sin and i turn towards you.
  • 00:25:12.594 --> 00:25:15.430
  • I confess that you are my lord and my savior,
  • 00:25:15.430 --> 00:25:18.800
  • And i believe in my heart of hearts
  • 00:25:19.601 --> 00:25:21.403
  • That you're raised from the dead for me.
  • 00:25:21.403 --> 00:25:23.872
  • And so i desire to live my life
  • 00:25:23.872 --> 00:25:27.108
  • And eternity with you now and forevermore.
  • 00:25:27.108 --> 00:25:31.446
  • In jesus name i pray.
  • 00:25:31.446 --> 00:25:33.248
  • Amen. family.
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  • If you prayed that prayer, maybe for the first time,
  • 00:25:34.950 --> 00:25:37.252
  • Maybe for the hundredth time,
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  • Whatever time it is for you, we want to know about it.
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  • We want to go on this journey of faith with you.
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  • Our team is going to throw some information
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  • At the bottom of the screen.
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  • I want you to pull out your phone, scan
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  • Allow us to know
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  • You've made the step of faith to walk with jesus.
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  • We're going to pray with you.
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  • We're going to set ourselves in agreement with you.
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  • We're going to provide a faith community around you
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  • To get you from where you are
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  • To where i believe god desires for you to be.
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  • And if this broadcast is bless you in any way,
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  • There's no amount to large, no amount to small.
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  • Advance the gospel of jesus christ far and wide.
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  • Doesn't have the opportunity to reach.
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  • The only hold up is us not partnering
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  • Go to the four corners of the world.
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  • And so my prayer is that you pray.
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  • There's no pressure, only prayer.
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  • Please follow the instructions at the bottom of the screen.
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  • In the jacksonville or the north florida area.
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  • And 11 a.m..
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  • If you're not within driving distance
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  • Of jacksonville in north florida,
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  • The unadulterated gospel of jesus christ.
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  • I'll see you next week. be blessed in jesus name.
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