Tim Timberlake - When God Gives You What You Ask For

May 10, 2026 | 27:29

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

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - When God Gives You What You Ask For | May 10, 2026
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  • Hey friends and family, it's tim
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  • Timberlake of celebration church,
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  • And i'm so honored and privileged
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  • To share this moment
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  • In time with you as we dive into the word of god.
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  • I want you to grab your bible.
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  • I want you to grab your notepad. i want you to grab your pen.
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  • Do me a favor, would you text somebody?
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  • Call them, email them if you have to.
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  • Let them know we're on live right now.
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  • You want to go to
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  • The word of god,
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  • Walking through the acts of the apostles with them.
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  • I believe these
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  • Moments are pivotal and key in this season of life,
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  • And i believe we need the word of god now more than ever.
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  • Let's go into the messages that has already begun.
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  • Entitled when god gives you what you ask for.
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  • You can carry god's word
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  • And still resist god's will.
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  • And that's why
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  • Some of you can sit under a message like this
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  • And still idolize time more
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  • Than the presence of god.
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  • I can almost guarantee you
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  • When i say, okay, let's get ready to give.
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  • 10% of the church is going to grab the things
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  • And head for the door.
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  • You know why?
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  • Because we're so used to making our own idols
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  • That we don't discern the difference between
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  • The presence of god and the idol we constructed for ourselves.
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  • You can absolutely carry
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  • God's word and still resist the will of god.
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  • Revelation does not guarantee obedience.
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  • God can reveal himself to you,
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  • But only you can obey what god reveals to you.
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  • Revelation does not guarantee obedience.
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  • The danger of this is not the ignorance
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  • We carry of god's word.
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  • The danger is becoming familiar with what we have
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  • Been ignoring.
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  • And some people don't reject the bible.
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  • They simply neutralize it with being familiar with it.
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  • We become familiar with the presence of god.
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  • We treat the presence of god just like he's
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  • Anyone else, like he is anything else.
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  • And we
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  • We try
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  • To limit the presence of god in our life
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  • Because we like control over our lives
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  • And we like control over our time.
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  • And we like control of our situations and circumstances.
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  • And whenever god places his hand on it,
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  • We ask god to move it because we don't know
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  • The outcome of what god desires to do.
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  • And so instead of trusting god in the unknown,
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  • We would rather construct an idol that we know.
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  • And the most dangerous place in the world to be is hearing
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  • God's voice so often that it stops shaking your soul.
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  • And this exposes a truth in us.
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  • That surrender.
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  • It is optional
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  • If we so choose it to be.
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  • In a sermon
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  • You admire but refuse to obey
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  • Will eventually become evidence
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  • Against you.
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  • And some of you are like, man,
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  • I just want to hear from god.
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  • And you don't open his word.
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  • I just want to feel god's presence.
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  • But you don't pray.
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  • I just want to receive the blessing of god.
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  • But you don't sacrifice.
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  • Because you've constructed
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  • A golden calf for your own life.
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  • Instead of surrendering to the king of kings
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  • That can actually guide you
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  • Out of the season, that you're stuck in.
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  • The word of god was never meant
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  • To decorate your mind.
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  • It was given to you to dominate your life.
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  • And if the word of god is not dominating your life,
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  • Then you're being led by a false idol.
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  • That's why you like to add things with jesus.
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  • That's why you like to pray and ask jesus for certain things.
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  • But check your horoscopes every day.
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  • Because jesus isn't enough.
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  • That's why you like to pray.
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  • You pray with sage.
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  • You all don't got to talk to me?
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  • It's okay, i know
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  • Because y'all asked me to pray for you
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  • After you go through these things.
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  • I know i'm talking to you.
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  • Because we're too impatient
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  • To wait on jesus to respond and answer us.
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  • So you you pray to jesus while you're also sleeping
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  • With the demon.
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  • You are asking jesus to deliver you from.
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  • I want him to deliver me.
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  • I want him to deliver me. i want him to deliver me.
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  • I want him to deliver me.
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  • I want him.
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  • To deliver me.
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  • So what you're doing?
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  • Pastor.
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  • I'm praying for a job.
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  • What are you doing right now?
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  • I'm just waiting on god.
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  • I'm just.
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  • I'm just waiting.
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  • Have you.
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  • Have you put together a resume?
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  • No no no no no, i'm just i'm just waiting.
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  • I'm just.
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  • I'm waiting.
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  • Have you created a linkedin profile?
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  • No no no no no, because that's not how god works for me.
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  • God don't want me to work hard.
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  • He. he don't want me to have to pray
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  • And make a sacrifice for my next season.
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  • He he don't want that for me.
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  • Now he calls me his very own.
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  • Word of god was never meant to decorate your mind.
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  • It was meant to dominate your life.
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  • And if the word of god is not dominating your life,
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  • You are leading your life and you're leading
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  • Your life into destruction and you don't even know it.
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  • Point number two
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  • Some people escape the place of bondage
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  • But never escape the appetite of bondage.
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  • And so your clothes may change,
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  • But if your appetite doesn't, you won't be able to fit
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  • Those clothes very long.
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  • And you pray that god will usher you into a new season.
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  • And god, in fact, takes you from glory to glory,
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  • Faith to faith, and to a new season.
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  • But you're still stuck in the same old mentality.
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  • And so you recycle the same thing
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  • From your old season, in the season
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  • That god is ushered you into.
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  • Because some people escape the place of bondage,
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  • But they never escape the appetite of bondage.
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  • And you can leave egypt without egypt leaving you.
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  • And stephen exposes
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  • Israel's hidden problem in their hearts.
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  • They turned back to egypt.
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  • Now, i want you to hear me when i tell you this.
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  • It does not say.
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  • They physically turned and they went back to egypt.
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  • In their hearts they turned back to egypt.
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  • That's why some of you you're married and you still think
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  • About your old flame.
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  • You're in bed with your husband,
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  • But you're still thinking about your boyfriend.
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  • Because your heart
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  • Has turned back to egypt.
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  • And although god has removed you out of egypt,
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  • You have not changed your appetite.
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  • So you still crave the diet of onions, leeks
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  • And mushrooms.
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  • God is saying, i've given you manna.
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  • You say, god, i'm tired of eating the same thing
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  • Over and over again.
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  • I want onions, i want leeks,
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  • I want mushrooms, and god is saying,
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  • I'm providing for you daily bread every single day.
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  • But god, it's not good enough.
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  • And whenever god provides for you
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  • And it's not good enough, you have become your own god.
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  • Their bodies
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  • Were free, but the desires are still enslaved,
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  • And freedom in your location means nothing.
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  • If captivity still lives in your imagination.
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  • What you need to know
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  • Is that deliverance is incomplete
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  • Until your desires change.
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  • What do you desire today?
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  • Who do you desire today?
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  • What is it that you're desiring that's
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  • Contrary to what god desires for you?
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  • Some of you you are trying to use god for your outcome
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  • Instead of being used by god for his outcome, for your life,
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  • Because of your selfish desires and deliverance is incomplete
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  • Until your desires change and so you can get free.
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  • You can go through freedom.
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  • You can actually set to deliverance courses.
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  • And if your desires do not change,
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  • You still entertain the same demons
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  • You've been entertaining for the last five years of your life.
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  • And some of you come up to me at the services of with pastor.
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  • How do i know if this is the right person?
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  • How do i know?
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  • You know i want to marry him.
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  • My question is, is simple.
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  • Are they pursuing jesus?
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  • Well, no, they're not pursuing jesus.
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  • But i can change them.
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  • I can change them.
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  • How do i know what job god want me to want me to have?
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  • How do i know? what job are you?
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  • Are you chasing peace?
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  • Are you chasing a bag?
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  • Because sometimes
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  • It's more valuable to take less
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  • And keep your peace
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  • Than to sacrifice your peace
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  • And have more money.
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  • And what the wilderness reveals in all of us.
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  • The wilderness reveals a powerful truth.
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  • The wilderness reveals whether you actually want god
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  • Or whether you just want relief.
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  • And you know egypt is still alive in you.
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  • When comfort
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  • Becomes more attractive than your calling.
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  • And some of us chase comfort.
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  • And so we'll stay in places that we know god has moved on from,
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  • Because we found community there.
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  • And you asked me, pastor, what do you think about this?
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  • And i'll tell you, and it's not what you want to hear.
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  • And so you'll come back to me
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  • And ask me again, pastor, what do you think about this?
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  • And i'll tell you again, and you ask me again,
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  • I'm not going to tell you no more.
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  • Because you didn't listen to me the first time.
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  • And you will absolutely stop
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  • Hearing the voice of god if you don't honor it.
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  • Because the voice of god flows towards honor.
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  • And you want to know where you stop hearing god.
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  • You stop hearing god when you constructed your last idol
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  • And you make relationships with people,
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  • The god over your relationship with jesus
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  • And god is no longer there.
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  • And you wonder why you haven't
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  • Built this presence, why you don't have any peace,
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  • Why you're not hearing his voice,
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  • Why you're not getting the things
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  • That god told you that you would step into
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  • When you think that god lied. no god, it's not lie.
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  • You got lazy.
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  • And you know egypt,
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  • But you're unfamiliar with the voice of god
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  • In the wilderness,
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  • And you will not truly be free
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  • Until that thing
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  • That has enslaved you loses its appeal in your life.
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  • Point number three is this
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  • Impatience with god
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  • Is the factory where idols are made.
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  • You cannot wait for god.
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  • You will manufacture a substitute to replace him.
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  • While moses was receiving
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  • Revelation on the top of mount sinai,
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  • The children of israel built
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  • A golden calf in the valley.
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  • Which teaches us
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  • A valuable lesson.
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  • Impatience with god produces
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  • Man made solutions.
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  • When people lose patience with god's process,
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  • They start inventing their own gods.
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  • And every idol in your life
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  • Is born in the waiting season that you are
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  • Impatient in.
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  • Every idol in your life was birthed
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  • Out of you being too impatient to see god do something
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  • Significant and supernatural and seismic in your life.
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  • Every idol that you currently are
  • 00:13:47.276 --> 00:13:49.778
  • Entertaining is the fruit of your impatience.
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  • In a season of you supposedly waiting on god.
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  • And so what?
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  • You refuse to trust god for you will try to build yourself.
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  • And this passage teaches us a valuable lesson, stephen.
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  • He's teaching us a valuable lesson.
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  • I pray we pay attention to the revelation of this text.
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  • The golden calf was not created
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  • Because god was silent.
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  • The idols that they constructed, the idols that they built
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  • Was created because the people got restless.
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  • They got tired of waiting on god.
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  • They got tired of being patient.
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  • They got tired of resting in his presence.
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  • And they wanted to create something
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  • That they could see, something that they could touch, something
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  • That they could dance around instead of dwelling
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  • In the presence of the god who bought them out of egypt
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  • And opening up the red sea for them,
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  • And delivering for them daily bread, they for god
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  • Who provided
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  • Water in the wilderness, and they constructed their own god.
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  • And my question to you right now
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  • Is what idols have you constructed
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  • To take the place of jesus, because you were too impatient
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  • To wait on him?
  • 00:15:06.422 --> 00:15:09.692
  • That's why in the old testament, god leaves us
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  • Verses like, wait on the lord and be of good courage.
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  • Again i say, wait on the lord, and i just want encourage
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  • You today in order for you to get to where
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  • God wants you to get to quickly, you got to slow down
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  • To follow the steps that he's ordering on your behalf.
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  • And he said, i will be a lamp unto your feet,
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  • And i'll be a light unto your path.
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  • And although we celebrate over the light
  • 00:15:33.115 --> 00:15:35.451
  • And all that we celebrate over the lamp,
  • 00:15:35.451 --> 00:15:37.319
  • We forget that he leaves to speed up to you.
  • 00:15:37.319 --> 00:15:43.392
  • Although god lights your path,
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  • You dictate the speed in which you walk it out.
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  • The children of israel were too impatient.
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  • So they constructed an idol.
  • 00:15:54.303 --> 00:15:57.539
  • And every idol begins with the lie
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  • That god is taking too long.
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  • And some of you been single for
  • 00:16:07.916 --> 00:16:10.285
  • Many years.
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  • You think god has taken too long?
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  • God will wait until you sacrifice the idol
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  • Of marriage on the altar.
  • 00:16:16.825 --> 00:16:20.262
  • But some of you have been waiting
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  • For increase in promotion, and god will wait
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  • Until you sacrifice promotion on the altar.
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  • God will call you to sacrifice everything significant
  • 00:16:26.769 --> 00:16:29.872
  • And place it on the altar so he can test
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  • If you're really after him for him,
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  • Or if you're after him for what he can do for you.
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  • That's why god told abraham, place your son on the altar.
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  • It wasn't that he was making him sacrifice the promise.
  • 00:16:38.847 --> 00:16:42.384
  • He was making him sacrifice the blessing
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  • So that he could fulfill the promise.
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  • Isaac was not the promise.
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  • Isaac was the blessing that needed to be sacrificed
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  • So that god could fulfill the promise through abraham.
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  • God never promised him that you would have one son.
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  • He promised him that i will make you a father to many nations.
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  • And if you're not willing to sacrifice for isaac,
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  • That you're never going to possess
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  • What it is that god desires for you to possess.
  • 00:17:03.138 --> 00:17:07.142
  • Every idol begins with the lie
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  • That god is taking too long.
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  • God, when will it be my season?
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  • God, when will it be my time?
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  • God, when will i see the things i've been praying for? god?
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  • When will i get my spouse god? when will i get my child god?
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  • When will i get the promotion? god?
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  • When will i get the bad god?
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  • When will i get the thing, the thing,
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  • The thing god will, i will i get the car,
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  • The house, the things, the things.
  • 00:17:31.834 --> 00:17:33.836
  • And you have made idols out of these things.
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  • Instead of promoting god to the place of priority in your life.
  • 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:41.276
  • And some of you are angry with god
  • 00:17:42.010 --> 00:17:43.512
  • Because he's pulled you out of a season
  • 00:17:43.512 --> 00:17:45.047
  • That you thought was your promise,
  • 00:17:45.047 --> 00:17:47.649
  • When in fact it was your isaac.
  • 00:17:48.317 --> 00:17:51.720
  • And if you're not willing to put your isaac on the altar,
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  • You're not willing to discover the ram in the bush.
  • 00:17:55.190 --> 00:18:05.767
  • But you refuse to trust god for.
  • 00:18:06.401 --> 00:18:09.671
  • You will eventually build yourself.
  • 00:18:10.472 --> 00:18:14.376
  • And if you build it,
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  • It better be strong enough and powerful enough
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  • To take you into eternity.
  • 00:18:19.581 --> 00:18:22.151
  • Because the idols you construct, you have to be willing
  • 00:18:22.151 --> 00:18:25.687
  • To serve them for the rest of your life.
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  • If you don't surrender your life back to jesus christ.
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  • I have been in a lot of situations and circumstances,
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  • And i have made idols out of things
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  • That god never told me
  • 00:18:37.366 --> 00:18:38.367
  • To make idols out of, and i have made gods
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  • Out of things that i did not serve,
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  • And i did not want to become my
  • 00:18:42.504 --> 00:18:43.872
  • Master, and never in my life did they save me.
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  • Never in my life that they healed me.
  • 00:18:46.975 --> 00:18:48.944
  • Never in my life did they deliver me.
  • 00:18:48.944 --> 00:18:50.913
  • Never in my life did they set me free.
  • 00:18:50.913 --> 00:18:52.915
  • Never in my life that they promote or elevate me.
  • 00:18:52.915 --> 00:18:55.484
  • Never into my life did they change my mind.
  • 00:18:55.484 --> 00:18:57.719
  • They always pulled me away from jesus christ.
  • 00:18:57.719 --> 00:19:00.522
  • And some of you,
  • 00:19:00.522 --> 00:19:01.290
  • You're on your knees
  • 00:19:01.290 --> 00:19:02.658
  • In front of the idol you constructed for yourself,
  • 00:19:02.658 --> 00:19:05.227
  • Thinking that it will save you
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  • And no one can save you the way jesus can.
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  • The scripture says there's
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  • Only one way to the father, and that is by the son.
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  • There aren't many pathways.
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  • Don't listen to people that tell you
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  • There are many ways to god.
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  • You can serve buddha and serve jesus.
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  • You can serve all life and serve jesus.
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  • You can serve harry krishna and serve jesus.
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  • You can't serve both of them.
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  • You can only have one master and the one that you serve.
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  • He better be strong enough to usher you into eternity.
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  • If not, you will spend damnation in an eternal hell
  • 00:19:35.123 --> 00:19:38.460
  • Because you chose an idol that could not save you.
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  • Point number four is this.
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  • What you worship today determines where you will live
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  • Tomorrow.
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  • Scripture says they made idols.
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  • They created gods,
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  • And those idols led them into exile.
  • 00:19:57.813 --> 00:20:00.415
  • What you worship today
  • 00:20:00.415 --> 00:20:02.084
  • Determines where you will live tomorrow.
  • 00:20:02.084 --> 00:20:04.553
  • What you worship will eventually carry you
  • 00:20:04.553 --> 00:20:07.256
  • Into exile or carry you into eternity.
  • 00:20:07.256 --> 00:20:12.094
  • And stefan
  • 00:20:12.394 --> 00:20:13.328
  • Reminds the sanhedrin that idolatry led
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  • The children of israel into babylon.
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  • Idols never liberate.
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  • They always enslave.
  • 00:20:24.940 --> 00:20:28.577
  • And i want you to hear me when i tell you this.
  • 00:20:28.577 --> 00:20:30.112
  • Anything, anything or anyone you place
  • 00:20:30.112 --> 00:20:35.183
  • On the throne of your heart will eventually
  • 00:20:35.183 --> 00:20:37.953
  • Dictate the direction of your life
  • 00:20:37.953 --> 00:20:41.323
  • And idols promised power.
  • 00:20:41.890 --> 00:20:43.759
  • But quietly steal your freedom.
  • 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:47.729
  • And a heart led by idols
  • 00:20:48.263 --> 00:20:51.767
  • Will always end up in exile from god's presence.
  • 00:20:51.767 --> 00:20:56.705
  • Because the reality is, you can never just carry an idol.
  • 00:20:57.873 --> 00:21:00.575
  • That idol carries you.
  • 00:21:00.575 --> 00:21:04.313
  • How do you know when it's an idol?
  • 00:21:04.313 --> 00:21:06.748
  • When you can't walk away from it?
  • 00:21:06.748 --> 00:21:10.352
  • How do you know it's an idol
  • 00:21:10.952 --> 00:21:11.987
  • And you can't give it up to god?
  • 00:21:11.987 --> 00:21:15.190
  • How do you know that they are an idol
  • 00:21:15.190 --> 00:21:16.491
  • When you can't cut them off? and you know you should?
  • 00:21:16.491 --> 00:21:26.635
  • The thing you bowed to today
  • 00:21:27.235 --> 00:21:30.238
  • Becomes the master.
  • 00:21:30.238 --> 00:21:31.239
  • You cannot escape tomorrow.
  • 00:21:31.239 --> 00:21:34.810
  • In israel, they rejected god.
  • 00:21:35.444 --> 00:21:38.780
  • They rejected moses.
  • 00:21:38.780 --> 00:21:40.515
  • They rejected the prophets.
  • 00:21:40.515 --> 00:21:42.818
  • And stephen is teaching the sanhedrin.
  • 00:21:42.818 --> 00:21:44.686
  • So now you reject christ.
  • 00:21:44.686 --> 00:21:48.290
  • This christ, you reject.
  • 00:21:48.824 --> 00:21:52.194
  • He came not to just change your heart.
  • 00:21:52.194 --> 00:21:54.096
  • He came to transform it.
  • 00:21:54.096 --> 00:21:57.566
  • He came not to just be a part of your life.
  • 00:21:58.433 --> 00:22:00.669
  • He came to be your life.
  • 00:22:00.669 --> 00:22:04.206
  • He did not make the ultimate sacrifice to enhance your life.
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  • He made the ultimate sacrifice to exchange his life
  • 00:22:07.843 --> 00:22:11.513
  • For yours.
  • 00:22:11.513 --> 00:22:14.750
  • And in second corinthians
  • 00:22:14.750 --> 00:22:15.917
  • Chapter three, verse 16.
  • 00:22:15.917 --> 00:22:19.054
  • Scripture says, but whenever a person
  • 00:22:19.888 --> 00:22:21.690
  • Turns to the lord,
  • 00:22:21.690 --> 00:22:24.893
  • The veil is taken away.
  • 00:22:24.893 --> 00:22:28.630
  • And now the lord is the spirit,
  • 00:22:29.297 --> 00:22:32.534
  • And where the spirit of the
  • 00:22:32.534 --> 00:22:34.569
  • Lord is there is liberty.
  • 00:22:34.569 --> 00:22:39.174
  • God did not bring you out of egypt
  • 00:22:39.941 --> 00:22:42.711
  • Just to watch you build another egypt in your heart.
  • 00:22:42.711 --> 00:22:50.252
  • He brought you out of egypt
  • 00:22:50.852 --> 00:22:52.087
  • To usher you into the promise that he has prepared for you.
  • 00:22:52.087 --> 00:22:55.857
  • He brought you out so that he could live on the throne
  • 00:22:55.857 --> 00:22:59.194
  • You once gave to the idols you erected and constructed.
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  • He bought you out so that you could be reminded
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  • That there is no one as powerful and mighty
  • 00:23:05.901 --> 00:23:09.471
  • And worthy as the king of kings and the lord of lords.
  • 00:23:09.471 --> 00:23:12.908
  • He brought you out
  • 00:23:12.908 --> 00:23:14.109
  • So that you could testify of his goodness, and remind you
  • 00:23:14.109 --> 00:23:16.978
  • That we overcome by the blood of the lamb,
  • 00:23:16.978 --> 00:23:19.581
  • And by the words of our testimony,
  • 00:23:19.581 --> 00:23:21.683
  • He bought you out so you could be reminded
  • 00:23:21.683 --> 00:23:24.252
  • That on your own a few things are possible.
  • 00:23:24.252 --> 00:23:26.822
  • But when you believe in him, all things are possible.
  • 00:23:26.822 --> 00:23:29.691
  • To those that believe, he bought you out
  • 00:23:29.691 --> 00:23:32.060
  • So that you can be a living walking,
  • 00:23:32.060 --> 00:23:34.029
  • Moving, breathing testimony of the faithfulness of god.
  • 00:23:34.029 --> 00:23:37.833
  • He bought you out so that you will not stay stuck
  • 00:23:37.833 --> 00:23:40.802
  • In sin and stuck in the wilderness and stuck in egypt.
  • 00:23:40.802 --> 00:23:44.773
  • He brought you out
  • 00:23:44.773 --> 00:23:45.941
  • So that you can fulfill the very promise
  • 00:23:45.941 --> 00:23:48.143
  • That god is giving you.
  • 00:23:48.143 --> 00:23:49.711
  • He brought you out.
  • 00:23:49.711 --> 00:23:51.012
  • And i wonder, is there anybody that's listening to me right now
  • 00:23:51.012 --> 00:23:54.115
  • That could have knowledge
  • 00:23:54.115 --> 00:23:55.383
  • That it was god and god alone that brought you out of egypt
  • 00:23:55.383 --> 00:23:58.920
  • And placed you on the path of righteousness?
  • 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:01.823
  • Not for your sake, not for your name,
  • 00:24:01.823 --> 00:24:04.526
  • Not for your family, but for his name's sake, said the lord.
  • 00:24:04.526 --> 00:24:12.534
  • He. he bought you out.
  • 00:24:13.001 --> 00:24:19.007
  • He is the one that gave you the ability, gave you the gifts
  • 00:24:20.175 --> 00:24:23.178
  • He gave you the talents he gave you, the resources he is
  • 00:24:23.178 --> 00:24:27.749
  • The one who did those things.
  • 00:24:27.749 --> 00:24:28.984
  • And sometimes we need to be reminded
  • 00:24:28.984 --> 00:24:32.153
  • That it was not ourselves that positioned us
  • 00:24:32.153 --> 00:24:34.756
  • Where we were,
  • 00:24:34.756 --> 00:24:35.757
  • And it was not ourselves that opened the door
  • 00:24:35.757 --> 00:24:37.826
  • That we got a chance to run through.
  • 00:24:37.826 --> 00:24:39.294
  • It was not ourselves that positioned us in a new season,
  • 00:24:39.294 --> 00:24:42.531
  • And we have to remind ourselves
  • 00:24:42.531 --> 00:24:44.232
  • That if it had not been for the lord
  • 00:24:44.232 --> 00:24:46.401
  • On my side, where in the world would i be?
  • 00:24:46.401 --> 00:24:50.272
  • And i wonder,
  • 00:24:50.272 --> 00:24:51.206
  • Are there about 30 people that can recall
  • 00:24:51.206 --> 00:24:53.275
  • Who you used to be without jesus christ?
  • 00:24:53.275 --> 00:24:55.744
  • Where your mind was
  • 00:24:55.744 --> 00:24:57.112
  • Without his saving grace, where your life was
  • 00:24:57.112 --> 00:24:59.814
  • Without his mercy
  • 00:24:59.814 --> 00:25:01.182
  • And his steadfast love towards you, you need to be reminded
  • 00:25:01.182 --> 00:25:05.153
  • That you're no longer stuck in egypt.
  • 00:25:05.153 --> 00:25:08.123
  • Are you feeling some pressure in your life right now?
  • 00:25:09.124 --> 00:25:11.960
  • Maybe in a valley
  • 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:13.862
  • And maybe that valley you're in, like the children of israel?
  • 00:25:13.862 --> 00:25:17.098
  • It isn't because god has not heard you.
  • 00:25:17.098 --> 00:25:21.603
  • Maybe it's
  • 00:25:21.903 --> 00:25:23.071
  • Because you actually got what you've been praying for.
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  • David says in scripture, the lord is my shepherd.
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  • I have no wants.
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  • And so if the good shepherd is leading you,
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  • He's leading
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  • You away from those wants,
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  • And he's leading you into what you need.
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  • Are you stuck today in the wilderness?
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  • Are you stuck in the valley,
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  • Or are you stuck in the low place
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  • Because you've settled for what you've wanted
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  • Instead of following the voice of god to the place
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  • Of what you need?
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  • I want to pray with you right now.
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  • Maybe you feel stuck.
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  • Maybe you feel forsaken.
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  • Maybe you feel distant from god.
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  • And god is not distant.
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  • God is not silent.
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  • God is not absent.
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  • He is, in fact present in your time of need.
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  • And so right now, in jesus name, i pray with
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  • And for my brothers and sisters that are
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  • Leaning into this moment right now.
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  • I thank you god that you are the only god that can change
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  • Us, can transform us,
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  • That can position us on the path of righteousness,
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  • Not for our name's sake, but for your name's sake.
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  • Would you do that for my brother and sister today, lord?
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  • Would you change their minds?
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  • Would you show them that life is better with you?
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  • Would you allow them to experience your grace
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  • And your mercy in an undeniable way?
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  • In jesus name i pray.
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  • Amen.
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  • Family if ever in jacksonville,
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  • I would love to see you at celebration church.
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  • Stop by any sunday, 9 a.m.
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  • And 11 a.m.. bring your family with you.
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  • We've got something for the entire family,
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  • Whether they are infants
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  • Or whether they are college students
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  • Who would love to lift up the name of jesus with you.
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  • And if you're not in
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  • The jacksonville area, continue to stop by this broadcast
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  • As we continue to share and spread the
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  • Gospel of jesus christ, i want you to know god loves you
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  • And i love you to be blessed in jesus name.
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪♪
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