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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
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- 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?
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- 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
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- And all that we celebrate over the lamp,
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- We forget that he leaves to speed up to you.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
- 00:16:33.742 --> 00:16:35.744
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Because he's pulled you out of a season
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- That you thought was your promise,
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- When in fact it was your isaac.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- To serve them for the rest of your life.
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- If you don't surrender your life back to jesus christ.
- 00:18:28.290 --> 00:18:31.827
- I have been in a lot of situations and circumstances,
- 00:18:31.827 --> 00:18:35.164
- And i have made idols out of things
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- That god never told me
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- To make idols out of, and i have made gods
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- Out of things that i did not serve,
- 00:18:40.469 --> 00:18:42.504
- And i did not want to become my
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- Master, and never in my life did they save me.
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- Never in my life that they healed me.
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- 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,
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- You're on your knees
- 00:19:01.290 --> 00:19:02.658
- In front of the idol you constructed for yourself,
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- Thinking that it will save you
- 00:19:05.227 --> 00:19:06.862
- And no one can save you the way jesus can.
- 00:19:06.862 --> 00:19:10.966
- 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.
- 00:19:20.175 --> 00:19:21.476
- 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.
- 00:19:25.414 --> 00:19:27.482
- 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
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- 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.
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- What you worship today
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- Determines where you will live tomorrow.
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- What you worship will eventually carry you
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- Into exile or carry you into eternity.
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- And stefan
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- 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.
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- Anything, anything or anyone you place
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- On the throne of your heart will eventually
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- Dictate the direction of your life
- 00:20:37.953 --> 00:20:41.323
- And idols promised power.
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- But quietly steal your freedom.
- 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:47.729
- And a heart led by idols
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- 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.
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- That idol carries you.
- 00:21:00.575 --> 00:21:04.313
- How do you know when it's an idol?
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- When you can't walk away from it?
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- How do you know it's an idol
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- 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
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- When you can't cut them off? and you know you should?
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- The thing you bowed to today
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- Becomes the master.
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- You cannot escape tomorrow.
- 00:21:31.239 --> 00:21:34.810
- In israel, they rejected god.
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- They rejected moses.
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- They rejected the prophets.
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- And stephen is teaching the sanhedrin.
- 00:21:42.818 --> 00:21:44.686
- So now you reject christ.
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- This christ, you reject.
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- He came not to just change your heart.
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- He came to transform it.
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- He came not to just be a part of your life.
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- He came to be your life.
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- He did not make the ultimate sacrifice to enhance your life.
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- He made the ultimate sacrifice to exchange his life
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- For yours.
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- And in second corinthians
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- Chapter three, verse 16.
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- Scripture says, but whenever a person
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- Turns to the lord,
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- The veil is taken away.
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- And now the lord is the spirit,
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- 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
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- Just to watch you build another egypt in your heart.
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- 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.
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- He brought you out so that he could live on the throne
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- 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
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- And worthy as the king of kings and the lord of lords.
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- He brought you out
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- So that you could testify of his goodness, and remind you
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- That we overcome by the blood of the lamb,
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- And by the words of our testimony,
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- He bought you out so you could be reminded
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- That on your own a few things are possible.
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- But when you believe in him, all things are possible.
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- To those that believe, he bought you out
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- So that you can be a living walking,
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- 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
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- In sin and stuck in the wilderness and stuck in egypt.
- 00:23:40.802 --> 00:23:44.773
- He brought you out
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- So that you can fulfill the very promise
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- That god is giving you.
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- 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
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- 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
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- And placed you on the path of righteousness?
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- Not for your sake, not for your name,
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- 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.
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- He is the one that gave you the ability, gave you the gifts
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- He gave you the talents he gave you, the resources he is
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- The one who did those things.
- 00:24:27.749 --> 00:24:28.984
- And sometimes we need to be reminded
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- That it was not ourselves that positioned us
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- 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
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- 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
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- Who you used to be without jesus christ?
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- Where your mind was
- 00:24:55.744 --> 00:24:57.112
- Without his saving grace, where your life was
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- Without his mercy
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- And his steadfast love towards you, you need to be reminded
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- 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
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- Because you actually got what you've been praying for.
- 00:25:23.071 --> 00:25:26.107
- 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.
- 00:25:35.884 --> 00:25:38.486
- 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
- 00:25:41.923 --> 00:25:43.558
- 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?
- 00:25:49.164 --> 00:25:51.032
- I want to pray with you right now.
- 00:25:51.032 --> 00:25:52.834
- Maybe you feel stuck.
- 00:25:52.834 --> 00:25:54.603
- Maybe you feel forsaken.
- 00:25:54.603 --> 00:25:55.770
- Maybe you feel distant from god.
- 00:25:55.770 --> 00:25:58.840
- 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.
- 00:26:03.712 --> 00:26:07.782
- 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,
- 00:26:19.027 --> 00:26:21.329
- 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.
- 00:26:24.232 --> 00:26:27.936
- 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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