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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Title the message his house bless is my house. Now
we're in a series. We're in a passage.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
If you look on the screen Ephesians five seventeen to
twenty one, only five verses. If you got a paper Bible,
your iPhone Bible, you can swipe up and you can
just turn the page or whatever and you can see
what comes after Verse twenty one in Ephesians chapter five,
A lady right over.
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Here, I just found it. Okay, yeah, the Ephesians five
twenty two.
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Wives submit to your husband's every lady's favorite Bible verse.
Actually have a mug in my office that has that
verse on the mug because I believe in the Bible.
Then a little bit later, it's gonna say, husband's what
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love your wives? And then it's gonna talk about children
obey parents, And then.
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Is gonna talk about fathers.
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Don't exasperate or don't provoke your children to anger, but
but raise them up in the fear of the omission Lord.
That is gonna say, you know, employers, don't mistreat your employees,
and employees work hard even when they're not looking like
all these things that apply to.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Our regular lives.
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The house God is a big fan of the house,
the family, mom, dad, children who listen to their parents
and obey their parents. Right next week we will get
into that. Husbands, bring your wives. This is the one
you've been waiting for. Nobody's coming next week.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I just cut our audience by thirty percent right there.
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Right Anyway, before we get to that, we got to
talk about what comes up.
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And I think Paul does.
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This strategically and Epheesians five seventy to twenty one, because
he's gonna build the case.
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Before we get to the house, your house.
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Let's talk about God's house, because his house has the
ability to bless your house.
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And why you want to be connected to his house.
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Is because there's goodness to be found in the House
of God. That if you get invested in the House
of I'm a firm believe this.
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If you get invested in.
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The House of God, God gets invested.
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In your house. I believe that with all of my heart.
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My life is a testimony to that fact. My whole
life has been in the church. I told you this
that my church, the first church I was a part of,
was started in my parents' basement.
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My parents' basement, people.
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Would show up Tuesday night from Bible study, and I'd
be naked dancing on the dresser.
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Still run into people to this day, running through meole.
I remember when you were naked on the church. I're like,
please spare me. And I was raised in that church.
And then I found my lifelong friends in the church.
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And uh, church was everything. Back in those days. We
went to church three times a week. Never mind us
once you.
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Guys got it easy.
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It was Sunday morning, Sunday night, Bible study, Wednesday night,
sometimes prayer meeting on Friday night. Well, all the pagans
were partying. We be praying right. My whole life in
the church. I met my wife in a church basement. Yeah,
where all the naughty kids would make out during the
pot luck summers. Not me and my wife, though we
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were holy hallelujah. I got my kids baptist dedicated in
the church. I got two of my children out of
three baptized in the church.
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My best friends are in the church.
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I'm telling you, you put your life in the house
of God, and He puts his life in your house
at home. You need this message because your house at
home is filled with all kinds of angst, anger, frustration,
there's no blessing there. It's a curse. I'm gonna tell
you something. If you pay attention today, you lean in,
listen to this, God's gonna start doing a work in
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you wherein by you investing in his house, He's gonna
turn and flip the script in your house and give
you a blessing in your house.
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I believe this with all my heart. I believe with
all my.
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Heart put God first, Joshua chapter twenty one. As for
me and my house, said the Lord, you know what
I have found in my life. The people that are
the most blessed, the most successful, the people who put
God's house first. We've got business owners in this church,
millionaires in this church, blessed, prosperous, they tie, they serve,
they give them to come to church, they worship God
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on Sunday. We've got people in this church, every person
I've ever met that's successful in this church. And I'm
not talking just about financial success. I'm talking about home.
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Success, because that's really what we want.
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We want a home that's a refuge from all the
crazy in the store of this world.
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And I'm telling you something.
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The people that I have that the people that have
that are the people that give themselves to His house.
That's what Ephesians five seventeen to twenty one is. Let's
stand together for the reading God's word. As we get
into this text, here's what he says. Therefore, do not
be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
And do not be drunk with wine, for that is debauchery,
but be filled with the spirit. And then verse nineteen,
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addressing one another in psalms him spiritual songs. So when
he says addressing one another, he's talking to a church
by the way, addressing one another and psalms him spiritually. Obviously,
in order to address one another, we have to be
around one another. So I'm only them pointing that out
to say he's talking to the church gathering here. So
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many times we take the Bible, we make it an
individual enterprise, me and God. So many times people say
this is my handbook for life. No no, no, no. This
is not written to an individual. It's written to a people,
written to a group, the church.
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Jesus. Jesus is people.
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So addressing one another, psalm him spirit singing, making melody
to the Lord with your heart, give me thanks always
and for everything to God, the Father and the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then verse twenty one,
submitting to there's another word again, submitting to one another
out of reverence for Christ. This is greeting of God's word.
Let's pray, Father, speak to our hearts, renew our minds,
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transform us. We take this moment right now and we
say pause on the noise, the noise of the world.
What we have to worry about coming up. We're regretful
about what came before. We just say pause and speak
to your paper and help us all to see Jesus,
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Him and Him only in his money name. We pray,
and everybody said, amen, God, bless.
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You have a scene, have a scene. So I was thinking.
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About this season that we're in. This we're a week
away from Halloween. Anybody a Halloween fan? One of the
questions you just don't ask Church pepall because everybody's in his.
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I am, but I don't want to say anything. I'm
a Halloween fan. I'll tell you that I'm a big
fan of candy. Not the ghouls and the ghosts and
all that nunsense. I like candy.
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I like my kids getting candy that I didn't pay
for amen, somebody, I'm all for that.
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Can we have Halloween on a regular basis? Please? Right?
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Uh, you know, Halloween twenty twenty one is gonna be
a real test kitchen for post COVID living. I really
think about this because you think about all the holidays
had it bad during COVID, but Halloween really took it
on the chin because this is the one holiday where
we do everything anti COVID except wearing masks. We're program
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So it's the anti COVID Halloween because it's the one holiday,
anti COVID holiday, because it's the one holiday where we
tell our kids to get out of the house, not lockdown,
get out, go visit strangers houses. Okay, so that's not
just you know, your four selected friends that are all
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got the vaccine or got their negative tasks right, go
visit strangers' houses and ask them for free.
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Stuff, bring it back to our house and eat it.
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This is the only holiday that encourages anti COVID behavior.
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So I'm thinking about it. If we get through this year,
if Halloween.
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Happens and there's no upticking cases and death and all
that kind of stuff, then the dreaded numbers don't go
up what we might be coming out of the woods here,
and I was thinking about maybe that's you. Maybe you're
here and you're backing church for the first time and
you're wondering this is the right church, or you're looking
for church.
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And every week we find this out.
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Even now, we have been open almost a year, right
have we been over a year?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Over year? We've been opening over a year. Man, I
didn't realize this is that long.
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We've been opening since May twenty four, twenty twenty and
even now.
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People are coming back for the first time.
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So I'm wondering, who's here today and this is your
nod to God, like final nod to God or one
more chance God, or you're exploring the church or Christianity
or whatever and this is your first time and we're
so glad. And the question is, though, have you found
the right church?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And the answer is yes. I'm gonna tell you why
in just a moment. The outline of Ephesians five. I
want to write it.
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I want you to write down if Heesians five seventeen
to twenty one. I don't actually, you don't have to
write this down. It's on the screen, it's on your notes.
There the priorities of the church gathering. That's what he's
talking about. So he says, he's talking about understanding the
will of the Lord. Don't get drunk with the wine,
be fiel with the spirit, address one another, submit to another,
the priorities of the church gathering. And then he flows
then and skip ahead if you want to in your Bibles.
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If Heess five twenty two where he talks about how
the home is.
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Supposed to operate. But I believe that he.
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Intentionally, Paul the Apostle writing to the Ephegians, intentionally says,
this is what the church should look like.
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That will bless your house. Got it.
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This is what a good church looks like. That will
bless your house. So write this down now, this I
know you have to write down. Participating in a life
giving church produces a life giving home. If you participate
in a life giving church, you will you will see
God go to work in your home. And I, like
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I said, I've been raising the church my whole life,
and I know that the church and is not I've
been around.
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I've been to some bad churches.
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That church that was starting in my parents' basement, that
was a dysfunctional.
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Church, ladies and gentlemen. That was a hideous church.
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We had pastors doing unthakable things, one pastor after another
after another. My parents to this day say, it is
a act of God that you are evil in the church,
never mind pastoring a church. And I think, well, I
think what God did was he paraded all the ways
not to do it so that I would say, Okay,
I'm not doing that, so.
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I could do it the way God wants to do it.
An you think about churches that you may have gone to.
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Before, and when I was a senior in Bible College,
I was leaving Bible colleges going into the workforce, and
I was thinking, I want to just explore what the
church looks like because.
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I've been in school for four years.
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This time school can and you know, it can inoculate,
inoculate you from the real world. And so I went
out to all these churches. Every week I went to
a different church. I went to a Presbyterian, a Lutheran,
a Catholic church. Every week I was going to a
different church gathering. And they all had one thing in common.
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They were all boring. I'm not kidding here, the bor ring.
Anybody ever been to a boring church. I mean, you
know what I'm talking about.
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And what frustrates me about a boring church is a
church that's boring is disconnected from the message of the church.
Because people will go to a football games. This is
so amazing. People go to a football game. They will
go to the Tampa Bay Bucks if they want to
see their team win.
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They'll go to the Patriots if they want to see
their team lose, and they'll go.
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No one's coming back, No one's coming back next week.
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This is over now. I offended the women in the
Patriots fans. Oh my gosh. Anyway, Lord have mercy.
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Jesus is gonna have to do a work this week
to get you back.
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Okay.
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Anyway, sometimes you will go to a Bucks game and
you will or a Patriots game, and you will cheer
for three hours and they might lose. Right yeah, you
ever sit down and watch the football game they lose,
and you're.
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Like, I wasted three hours for that. People will pay money.
They will buy tickets, they will pay for parking, they
will pay for hot dogs. They will pay seventeen dollars
for a hot dog.
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Good buye a a African village hot dogs for a
year for that, and they will go and they will root,
and they will.
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Cheering, they will scream, and they will sing, and they
might lose.
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And there's more excitement over a football team that might
lose in the stadiums of sports in this world than
there are in the churches that believe in a savior
who did not lose, a savior who won, a savior
who conquered sin.
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Hell and the grave.
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A life giving church is a church that's connected in
their atmosphere to the reality of what Jesus did two
thousand years ago.
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He conquered death.
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That's why churches should never be boring. They should they
should be excited.
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I'm not saying they always have to be ah all
the time, but I am saying we should be happy
to be here, joyful here, excited to be here because
we know that the Lord we serve is alive forevermore
and he's coming back.
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Am I talking to anybody who knows you've been going
through something. You've been going through something and you don't
know how you're gonna get out, and you're going through
a valley.
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The Bible says, though I go through the valley the
shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, for you are
with me, and afterward I will dwell in the House
of the Lord forever, and I'm going to heaven. It
doesn't matter what happens necessarily here.
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I know my home is in heaven forever. I got
something to be excited about.
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And what frustrates me is when the church doesn't have
doesn't have joy.
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And the reason why is because.
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They get disconnected from the Gospel. They get disconnected from
the truth of Jesus, and we never want that. So
what does a good church gathering looking? Since you might
be finally making your way back to normalcy, might be
coming out of the COVID coma and into real life.
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Pick a church that'll pour life into you. Amen. And
if you're here shopping for churches, I just want to
let you know shopping is over. Three signs number one.
Three signs number one.
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A gathering that calls you to follow God's will, not
the world's ways. You want a church that will give
it to you straight, because every person on this planet
is sick with sin. If you ever find a church
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doesn't open the Bible, doesn't read the Bible, run like hell.
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Because they're just gonna bring you there. Anyway, I don't.
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Tell you what is popular with the world. It's my
job to tell you what's true with God. It is
my job to offend. I've said this many times during
this series. It is my job to upend your predilections,
your pre conceived notions. It's my job to question your
political affiliations. I want to offend Republicans and Democrats. I
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think a good Sunday is when both Republicans and Democrats
are offended.
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Amen.
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And then our church people come from Pentecostal backgrounds that
come from Baptists Parentica non really is Pentecostal or Charismatic
and non Pentecostal charismatic. And I love the fact that
some people, and I've heard this, the Baptists or the
non Charismatics think we're too Charismatics, and the Charismatics think
we're two Baptists.
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I like that cause that means we're ticking everybody off. Amen.
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Amen.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Amen, A good church.
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What I'm trying to tell you is a good church
doesn't cater to what you want to hear.
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A good church tells you what you need to hear, and.
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The world's ways will never match up what I say
from this pulpit.
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They will never match up.
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If it does, something's wrong. And Paul says this to
the Ephesians. Look in verse fifty seventeen, he says, therefore,
do not be foolish.
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Implication.
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Listen, The implication is that in that church in Ephesus
in the first century, to whom Paul is writing, there was.
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A bunch of people who were foolish. Think about that.
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He wouldn't say, don't be foolish if they aren't foolish.
So how did they get foolish? Well, let me tell
you how. Ephesus was a city or is still is
a relic of what it wasn't back then, But it
was a city in Asia minor what is modern day Turkey.
It was a burgeoning metropolis. It was huge, It was enormous.
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It was flooded with people, flooded with idolatry, temples, pagan revelry, parties, drunkenness, everything.
Just like every city in the modern world is you
went to the city to glorify yourself.
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This is what the scriptures teach about the city.
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Let me just do a little bit of unpacking of
the city in the ancient world. Every time the Bible
mentions the city. It talks about human sin and corruption,
and it really does. Now, it's not to say that
cities are bad.
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It's just to say that where you have cities, you
have more what people. And the Bible is very clear
that people are sinners.
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So what you have in every city is more sinners
per square foot than anywhere else. And wherever you have
more sinners per square foot, you have more opportunity for more.
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Sin, more corruption, more foolishness, foolishness.
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So there's there's this passage in Genesis four where Cain
kills Abel. God comes to Kane says, what you do?
He said, I'm not my brother's keeper. He says, your
blood's your brother's blood. Cries out to me from the ground.
You killed your brother, didn't you. And he said, I'm
going to put a mark on you, and I'm going
to cast you away from my presence. And the Bible
says the very first thing that Cain does when he
leaves the presence of God is he builds a city.
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City.
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The picture this Cure Scripture gives us of the city
is it is rebellion. It is rejection of the presence
of God, because we want the presence of more people.
And then there's another city. It's called Babbel. In Genesis
chapter eleven, the people after the flood come together. Now
God's first command was to spread out and fill the earth.
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But every time you see people building a city, is
the anti God?
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Way, is the anti fill the youth? No, we want to
gather together. And then verse all chapter eleven of Genesis
like what it says. It says, now the.
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Whole earth was one of the language and had the
same words.
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And as people migrated from the east, they find a
plane of shiner and settled there. And they said to another, come,
let us make bricks. That's called uh industry, that's called
mass production.
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Let us make.
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Bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they made brick forstone
and bit themen from mortar. And they said, come, let
us build ourselves a what city and a tower with
its top in the heavens, and let us make a what.
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Name for ourselves.
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In other words, let me go to the city to
make a name for myself. In many respects, the cities
are the ultimate idolatry of human heart, because we go
to the city to glorify ourselves.
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That's what people go to.
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The big apple for concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
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Right, you know what I'm saying. So you got these this,
I'm going to go this. I'm gonna make a name
of ze so I gotta be a great person.
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God comes down to scatters their language and confuses them
so that they can go and spread out and fill
the earth. Here's the point. The point is, don't be
fooled by the city.
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Be filled with the third person of the Trinity. Write
that down. Do not be filled by the city.
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So cities also have a lot of good to offer us.
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But there's a lot of foolishness.
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And just in case you're wondering, God regularly sends his
profits into the cities to save them. He wants to
save the people from the city. We don't curse the city, no,
no, no no. We work in the city to bring the
gospel to the city. But understand that wherever you have
a lot of people, you have a lot of sin,
and a lot of sin leads to a lot of foolishness.
In fact, I think what happened with COVID. To be
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honest with you, I think what happened with COVID because
the city's got it worse than the suburbs. I mean
people you were locked down in a maybe a three
or four bedroom house. There were people in the city
that were locked down in a one bedroom loft for
three months, and they left the city. The cities have
lost populations. I think what's happened actually is God has
Tower of babbled us again.
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He scattered the people from the cities.
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Now you see in our country rising crime, poor education,
greater income, inequality.
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Where's that all happening in the.
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Cities because the cities provide us with foolishness, not anti city.
I'm just telling you, don't be fooled by it. There's
the allure of our cultures.
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This is where I'm getting to. There's the allure of
our world. Young people. Listen to me. I'm gonna go
to this ste I'm gonna neighbor much, I'm gonna becoming great.
I'm gonna be Okay. Yeah, there's that allure.
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But what you're not seeing as what happens with everything
the devil gives us is bate and switch.
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It's Peyton. Yeah. Come, I'll make a name for you
and I'll eat you alive.
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At the same time, story after the story of the
story you can find about that.
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So what a church does is a.
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Church stands as a testimony to truth in an age
of life, tells you what you need to hear, not
what you want to hear, and rescues you spiritually, maybe physically,
but spiritually from the city the corruption. Know what the
will of the Lord is. You know what Paul the
Apostle says to the Corinthians. He says, I want you
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to pray for me. This is Paul the Apostle. Listen
to this is so powerful. He says, I want you to.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Pray for me. And he would think, well, what would
Paul need prayer for it? Is he sick? Is he devastated?
Did he go through a hard time? No, I want
you to pray that.
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I will have the right words to say to God's people.
One of the best things that you can do for
me is pray that prayer. I want you to pray
for me, your pastor. I think about Paul the Apostles.
He never was without words. He wrote one third of
the New Testament for Eeven's sakes. But he asked God.
He asked the people that he ministered to pray for
me that I will tell you what God wants me
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to tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Had one of our worship leaders this weekend texted me.
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He said, Pastor to Tim, I'm gonna pray for you tonight,
tell me what to pray for.
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I'm like wow, and I wrote back.
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I said, pray that I'll have boldness to say what
God wants to say. That's my prayer. That's what I need.
I need you to pray. Don't criticize your pastor. Pray right,
and you pray, and this is good for you. You pray
that he will say things that you may not want
to hear, because where else are you gonna get it?
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This world is based on catering to you, because everybody's
trying to sell you stuff.
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Now, you notice that we did not charge you.
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Admit today you didn't pay for parking. You pay for
forty dollars up there in the Patriots Land, but.
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You don't pay here because we're not trying to sell
something to you.
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We're trying to bring you to the one who gave
his life for you.
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It's free. It's offered free of.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Charge, So I got no dog in the hunt for
your money. God is here to speak to you, and
he might have something to say to you that you
don't want.
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He's gonna fill you with the will of the Lord,
not the ways of the world. Number two, A.
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Good church gathering is a gathering that continually seeks the.
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Fullness of the Holy Spirit.
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You want a church that encourages you to be filled
with the Spirit, spirit filled, which is what Paul talks
about in Ephesians five eighteen. He says, do not get
drunk with wine that's debauchery or wastefulness and other translations, but.
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Be filled with the Spirit.
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The Spirit capitalists means the Holy Spirit, the third person
of the Trinity God. The Holy Spirit wants to live
inside of you and be fully inside. He wants to
fill your life with himself. A couple points about this text.
The words be filled with the Spirit and their present
perfect in the Greek, which means that he's literally saying,
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keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit.
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In other words, it's not a one un done.
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It's not you got filled with the Holy Spirit some
time in the past and then you say that's it now.
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I filled up my tank. I mean, if you think
about it, if you did that with your car, I
filled up my tank.
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Back in nineteen ninety eight pastor, I'm all set. You
wouldn't get very far. Would you need to go back
to the gas station. What are you doing today? You're
getting back to the gas station, the spiritual gas station,
getting God to fill you with his word.
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With the spirit. We pray for it regularly. We'll do
it at the end of this message too. Pray for
you to receive.
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The spirit and to keep on being filled. Now you
think about what does it mean to be filled with
the spirit? Means it means to let the spirit have control.
What are you filled with right now? What is filling you?
I guarantee you whatever's filling you, it is causing you
to act in certain ways that might not be good
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for you. Some of you are filled with anxiety and
it's controlling you, and you can't sleep a night because
you're filled with anxiety. Well, the devil's handing you all
those things they worry about. And you need to know
that the Lord is your shepherd. You don't need to want.
He will guide you. He will make you lie down
at green pastors. He will restore your soul. Some of
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you are filled with anger, and anger controls you and
you lash out at everybody. You got into road rages.
We almost got into an accident. This because you're filled
with anger. Whatever you're filled with will control.
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Some of you are filled with lust.
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What a baptism testimony we just heard. To get to
see God break us free from that fullness.
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Some of you are filled with pride. No one could
talk to you, No one can tell you anything because
you know everything. You're so smart.
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You're filled with those they controls. Whatever is controlling you
is what you're filled with. Here's what the bipele was
telling you. Stop letting that feel you, start letting the
whole spirit failure. So in in in if Ephesus first
century church or first century city in Emphsus, like I said,
they had temples to pagan gods. One of the gods
that they worshiped in Emphaesis was called Dionysus. We're gonna
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put a picture of him on the screen here. That's Dionysus. Uh,
we'll put the full screen in just a moment. Dionysus,
who suffered from a lack of appendage.
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But he also.
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So you missed that one, all right. He was the
god of wine. He was a Greek god of wine.
So what they would do is to worship Dionysius is
they would do self serving things to worship Dionysias. They
would have wine parties. They would have they would have
a keegar first century cager. They didn't have beer, but
they had wine, so they would drink all his wine.
And they believed. Listen, they believed that when they drank wine,
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they were filling their bodies with Dionysus.
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Dionysius wasn't just the god of wine. He would actually
inhabit their bodies. And they're crazy.
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Secondly, they also believe that if they receive Dionysius by
drinking the wine, that Dionysius would help them control up.
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Communicate with the spirit realm.
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Now you think about this, they thought, if we drink wine,
Dionysius comes into our bodies and he will help us
communicate with the unseen realm. Friends, those are the promises
that God offers you in the Holy Spirit.
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That when you receive.
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The Holy Spirit, God, the real God fills your body
and then communicates with you concerning the unseen realm.
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That's what he's saying. So be not drunk with wine,
but be filled with the whole.
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What Dionysius offers you only Christ can deliver to you.
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Isn't that good?
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So it's kind of amazing how these things line up,
because here's what the Holy Spirit does.
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Write this down. The Holy Spirit brings joy.
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The Holy Spirit does for you what wine only promises you.
And when I say wine is wine is like Halloween
and church. I could say anybody a fan of wine,
and I'll be.
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Like, I am, but I'm not saying anything. Okay, all right?
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Because the Bible, believe it or not, goes both ways
on wine.
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It does.
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There are passages that say have some wine, and there
are passages that talk about wine as a mocker. And
there are passages that really demonize wine, and there are
passages that encourage one. And yes, Pentecostals and Baptists, Jesus
turned water into literal wine. Pentecostals and Baptists to say
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it was grape juice, No, it was wine.
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Yeah. The point is wine offers you something. What does
it offer you boldness? Right, Joe, Let's start with joy. First.
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Joy, You get off of work, you go to the bar,
not that I would know. You go to the bar,
have a couple of drinks. Suddenly you're like, I guess
meant they wouldn't so bad after all. And if you're single,
you have a couple more drinks and you're like, hell, hell, hello,
and what is your name, lovely lady, and she's like,
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get lost, creep. Now you know what I'm saying, boldness.
But then what happens is wine will offer you those
things temporarily and leave you with regret. Countless people addicted
to alcohol in alcoholics anonymous, trying to get free from
this false idol that can't deliver. Well, the Holy Spirit
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does deliver. This is why on the day of Pentecost,
when they receive the Holy Spirit, the people say they're drunk,
because the initial signs of the Holy Spirit and the
initial signs of wine are the same.
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Joy, boldness. But the back nine of wine is dereliction
and regret, and the back nine of.
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The Holy Ghost is transformation, life, change and good future.
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Got it? So it fills you with jaw.
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For a Psalm four seven, you put more joy in
my heart than when they.
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Have grain and wine abounding.
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Number two, the Holy Spirit lives in God's people, just
like the Ephesians believe that Dionysia would live in them
if they drink the wine.
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If you drink the Holy Spirit. Jesus said this.
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The spirit of truth in the world cannot know it
doesn't know him, it doesn't receive him. But you know him,
for he dwells with you, and he will be last
two words, everybody in you wants to take up residence
in your body. I want you to think about the
Holy Spirit as a person. But Jesus always used male pronouns.
He's another comforter. He the person of the Holy Spirit. Now,
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this is my favorite part about the Holy Spirit living
in you.
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Are you ready write this down? Number three?
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The Holy Spirit speaks to us from beyond this life.
What they believed about Dionysius, that he can help them
communicate with the underworld or the unseen world.
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Actually, the Holy Spirit is the one that does that.
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The Holy Spirit can tell you what's to come. Look
what it says in John fourteen seventeen. He would not
speak of his own authority, but whatever he hears, he
will speak, and he would declare to you the what
the things that are to come. Holy Spirit can warn
you about the future. The Holy Spirit can set you
up for a better day ahead, but you.
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Have to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit can warn you young ladies about the
guy who's hitting on you. You're gonna say no, not that one,
turn and walk away.
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But he's really handsome. He's the son of the devil.
Get away, get away.
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The Holy Spirit can warn you about the house you
shouldn't buy, about the job you shouldn't take, about the
friend you shouldn't make.
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That's what the Holy Spirit is their guide. Do you
think about that? How many people look for direction? Direction? Direction? Direction?
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They're on the internet, they're googling do I, how do I?
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Whatever? I don't know? Where do I go? You go
to the Holy Spirit.
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He's far more knowledgeable, wise and true than any search
engine on this earth. And when it comes to being
filled with the Holy Spirit, our church gets this question
a lot, especially in our Florida location, we get this
a lot. Is waters church spirit filled? And what they
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mean when they ask us that question is one of
two things.
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Is what a sure spirit field? They mean do you
encourage or allow speaking in tongues? That's really what the
question is. I would say we just asked that question
because the question is loaded. And the second question, the
second thing.
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That they're looking for, is will I if I come
to your church? Have a holy spirit hebgb moment, holy
spirit goosebump moment during your worship. That's what they mean.
That's really what they mean. So we make so much
of these two things concerning being spirit filled tongues and
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feeling the spirit.
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Well, okay, I got no problem with that.
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By the way, I speaking tongues. The scripture says, don't
forbid people to speak in tongues. Some of you don't
speak to some of you want to run from tongues.
Can I tell you I don't care where you are
on in then, because there are many many passages in
the Bible where the Holy Spirit fills God's people and
they don't speak in tongues.
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But something else happens. And I'm going to lead you
in a test to.
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Ask your question a question of you am I spirit filled?
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And it has nothing to do with tongues.
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But it has everything to do with living a life
that you can look back on and say, Amen, God
was good. So example number one, filled with the spirit
to face and resist temptation. God's Holy Spirit wants to
come into your life so that you can face and
resist temptation. You can start to beat back the demons
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that have beaten you down. The Bible says in Matthew
chapter three, Jesus gets baptized by John.
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He comes out of the water, and immediately the.
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Scripture says, the heaven's open, and he saw the spirit
of God descend on Jesus and rest on him. And
then it says this in a voice came from heaven saying, well, ho,
this is my son in whom I love, with whom
I'm well pleased. And in verse one of Matthew four, look, then,
somebody say, then, then Jesus was led by the spirit
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into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Jesus
was spirit filled, and the spirit led him in the
wilderness to be tempted. And every time he was tempted,
he resisted and he spoke, Thus say it the word,
the Word of the Lord, it is written.
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And every time that deb.
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Was like hey ya, Jesus were like, hey yah. That's
what the spirit fullness looks like. When you can say
to that temptation in Jesus' name, the.
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Lord rebuke you. I'm walking with my Savior.
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Get out of my line.
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So are you spirit filled?
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Question example number two Filled to serve the church, No
the robber's really gonna hit the road with all the
tongue speakers. I just want to speak in tongues. I
get it, and that's a wonderful gift, and I don't
mock it. I appreciate it. But you know, the Bible
says that there's a place for it. There's times when
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you just don't do it, Like on Sunday morning when
new people will show up for the first time and
everybody's going, hunhai, who stole my toyota?
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You know what I'm saying, Am I doing that? And
then and the new person's gonna be like, what the right? So,
so you know what I'm saying.
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There's moments not to do it for the sake of
people who are strange to the church.
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Do you know what that's called. That's called making worship
not about you and anybody who tells me, well, I
just can't controul it. You know, when the Holy Spirit
comes time, I just can't. It just comes out.
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That's not even biblical because the Bible says that the
spirit of the p is subject to.
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The control of the prophets.
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You cannot be overwhelmed with the spirits in such a
case that you turn into a lunatic.
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And soya said, I've met some spirit feeled Christians. They
are weird. Let me just tell you they were weird
before the Holy Spirit. Now they're just Christian weird. That's
all that happened.
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If you met them before Jesus, they want to preach
you out a different way.
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So let's get back to the point.
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Filed to Serve the Church Acts, Chapter six, there's a
disagreement with the church to the Greek widows are being
neglected in the distribution of food and the apostles. It
says the twelve summoned the number of disciples, and it says,
not right that we should stop preaching to do this duty.
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This is a task that anybody can do.
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Then they said this verse three says, therefore, pickout from
among you seven men of good reputation, full of the spirit, and.
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We will give them this. What's the last word duty?
What's duty?
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Duty is something that you do regularly. So duty is
something you do that you may not want to do,
but you do it for the sake of others. Notice
the qualifier was we need people who serve, and we
want the people who serve to be filled with the spirit.
So don't tell me about tongues and holy spirit goosebumps.
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If that's all you care about, and you can't pick
up a mop and sweep or clean or check in kids,
or help us out in the parking ministry or do
something on you know, during the week where you serve others,
that's a sign of being filled with the spirit. Number
three failed to boldly proclaim the Gospel. Here's another sign
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that you're filled with You're bold in talking about Jesus.
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It's just comes out of you.
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Now.
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You're not chapter and verse in people. You know how
you talk about Jesus at work? Some of you gotta
get this.
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The easiest way to talk about Jesus is to wait
till you're asked, because you're not there to preach your
little work.
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And when they ask you about, well, what's going on
with you?
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Oh?
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Man, church was amazing this week? That's there. You go church. Really,
I've been the church. It's poor.
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Yeah right, okay, yeah, I'm my church. And then you
start talking to this is what my church does?
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What are you doing? And I'm going to my church's
life group that see how natural it is.
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You don't have to go and hey, thu's say it
the Lord in Isaiah thirty eight, verse twenty four, you
don't do that failed to boldly proclaim the gospel that
the Holy spirau failure to be just, you know, confident
in talking about Jesus. In Act chapter four, the apostles
actually three the apostles.
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Preach, they arrest them, Act chapter four. They threaten them.
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They say, no more speaking in Jesus name, no more.
So the apostles Peter and John they come back to
the church and they say, guys, they.
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Arrested us, and then they threatened us, and they said,
we shouldn't preach in Jesus name anymore. What should we do?
And the Bible says that they prayed not for protection.
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Then they say, oh, let's avoid the world. Now, let's
go on lockdown, let's hide and shelter in place.
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No, they prayed for more boldness. They said, oh, wait
a second. You you meaning that the government.
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You mean to tell me that the government told us
we can't gather.
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And preach anymore.
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Let's pray that will gather and preach even louder.
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Because the Government's not God. God is God. Half of
you are clapping. I know which side you're on okay anyway.
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It says when they prayed, the place in which they
were gathered was filled, and they were shaking. It was shaken,
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. They
were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they what
they continued to speak the Word of God with boldness.
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That's being spirit filled. Number four.
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Filled to give up your life for God's plan, or
filled to surrender your plans for His plans. Rubbers hitting
the road. Now you want to talk about being spirit filled.
It begins when you surrender your plans to God's plans.
Acts Chapter seven, verse fifty five is when Stephen is
being stone. He's been stoned by those who hate him.
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He's preached Jesus and the people of rocks and the
hands and about the throw them, and the scripture says
in chapter seven, verse fifty five says, Stephen full of
the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven, saw the glory of
God and Jesus sitting get the right hand of God.
And verse six he says, and falling to his knees
as they're stoning him, as they are literally killing him,
falling to his knees, he cried out Verse sixty and said, Lord,
don't hold this sin against them.
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And when he said this, he fell asleep.
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He died for the glory of God. You know you're
spirit filled when you can surrender you your life plan
to God's ultimate plan. Now we're talking about being spirit filled.
So is waters church spirit filled? Well, it depends, It
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really does depend. It depends on are we facing and
resisting temptation? Are we serving in the church? Are we
bold in our presentation at the gospel? And are we
ready to give up what we want for what He wants?
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Amen? Number three.
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The third sign of a good church gathering is a
gathering where people are joyful, thankful, and helpful. Where people
are joyful, thankful, and helpful. A good church has people
full of joy, glad to be here. That's what I
love about you people. You're always glad to be here.
I can sense it from the moment I walk in.
It's just joy in this place. You know why there's
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joy because the gospel is preached. The gospel produces joy.
Religion produces grief. Some of you are like here for
the toursda, I thought this was a religious place. No,
we're not here telling you how to get to God.
We're telling you how God came to you. We're not
telling you how to climb the ladder to heaven. We're
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trying to tell you about the one who climbed down.
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The ladder into hell for you.
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We're trying to tell you about the one who came
to rescue you. We're trying to tell you the one
who came to seek and save you. We're trying to
tell you about the one who made you, formed you,
and then laid down his life on a cross for
you till two thousand years ago.
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That's not religion.
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And let me tell you as clear as I can,
no other religious system has this message.
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It is the only one. It's the only one.
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Where it's about what God did and not what we do.
And that makes you joyful. That's why I says, Grace
is a gift. Salvation is a gift. And I don't
know about you, and I do know about you. Everybody
loves a gift. Everybody gets happy.
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You buy me a gift. Right, Gifts bring joy.
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Salvation is a gift, and salvation by grace produces joy
and thankful people. So he says this in nineteen verse nineteen,
addressing one another, and saw Sam spiritual songs and.
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Me be like, wait a second, wait a secon who
who who?
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Who?
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Who?
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WHOA you tell me I gotta start singing around everybody
like addressing each other, like what are we supposed to do?
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Walking in shore and say hello? How are you? God?
Bless you?
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No, you're just talking about this should be the evidence
of a joyful heart. You know, people are joyful when
they start singing. And then he says giving things always
for everything, giving thanks, being thankful for what God has
given us, and then submitting verse twenty one.
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Submitting that means I'm here now.
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Now I'm gonna get into next week's message a little
bit right now. The word submission take it in two parts.
Submission sub means to get under and mission. What submission
submission is to get under what God is doing in
the church here. So I'm going to put myself under
the mission. How do you want me to help? How
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can I serve? How can I do something so that
we can reach our community and change the city for Jesus?
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Got it?
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So here's the question. Are you serving and giving from
a joyful heart because you know you've been changed by Jesus?
In fact, it's so important I want you to write
it down. I am currently serving or helping my church
and hopefully both to reach people on the weekend. Just
answer that on your notes, and if you don't have
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yes for an answer, maybe just leave it blank, fold
up your notes and wait for the end of the service.
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Are you serving? Here's you know? How you make a
church less joyful? Can I tell you? Just become a taker?
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You want to rob the joy from your brother and
her sister in Christ, Just become a taker. It's the
twenty eighty percent rule. Twenty percent of the people do
eighty percent of the work.
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And when you have.
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Twenty people, twenty percent of the people making up for
eighty percent of people, it exhausts them. Some of you
are not serving yet you are exhausting your brother or sister.
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Same thing.
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Financially, twenty percent of the people give eighty percent of
the money. Now we could bring up and I could
parade up here people one after another after another after another.
Who trust God with the tithe? Who bring the tithe
the first tenth to the House of God.
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One of them is me.
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I give the first tenth right to God, not give
I bring because it's not mine to give it's his
I bring the tithe. And here's the hard facts that
the church needs to hear. When you don't give, you're
a taker. You're either a taker or you're a giver.
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And some of you are in that eighty percent group.
And you get all the blessings of this place and
you give nothing, or you give a fiver to God.
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And if that's all you get forre, I get it.
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But many of you will give five dollars to God
and then go down the street and buy a Duncan
Donuts coffee for seven bucks or two for seven bucks.
That means Duncan Donuts comes first. That's what that means.
And America does not run on Duncan. America is running
straight to Hell. And it's the people who run with
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Jesus who won't join them there.
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We need America to run on Jesus. Somebody say amen,
right there? How do we do that? By giving and
serving and saying I will do my part.
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If you're sitting in a chair right now at Water's
Church and the lights are on and the air conditioning
is on, and the sound is working, and the kids
are being served, and there's coffee over there, everything is going.
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On I just want to let you know something. I
just want there's a roof over us right now, right,
I just want to let you know.
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You may not have thought about this, but listen, if
you're new, if you're here for the first time or
just a couple of.
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Months, someone paid for that before you got here.
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I know a lot of them. A lot of them
are still here. But contrary to popular belief, a church
is not visited by a semi truck driven by an
angel once a month who unloads magical money into the church.
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So you literally think that like no people gave they're
hard earned money and said you.
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Are worth it. They said you were worth it.
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Now my question is, can you now be the generation
who says the people who come up after me.
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They're worth it? Can you give to life change? Can
you serve to life change? If you're not serving what Jesus?
Are you following?
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Jesus said Luke twenty two twenty seven. I'm among you
as one who serves Mark ten forty five. The Son
of Man came not to be served, but to serve.
Matthew twenty three eleven. The greatest among you should.
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Be a servant.
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If you're not serving, especially the body of Christ.
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What Jesus are you following? Because that's what he was.
I was a servant.
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The problem I think in American Christianity, the problem, I
really believe, is that even in the church, we treat
our sports heroes better than our Savior. I ran across
this online and I want to share it with you.
It's a little memes funny, and it says this the
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twelve reasons why I, as a pastor are no longer
am no longer going to attend sporting events? And these
are the reasons that people give for no longer going
to church. So subsitu coach for pastor and yochting out.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
You got the idea. The coach never came to visit me,
Bill Belichick, and for visit any of you still a fan? Ah?
How could you?
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Every time I went, they asked for money. Does anybody
get into the stadium for free?
Speaker 1 (51:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (51:20):
The people sitting in my road didn't seem very friendly.
The seats were very hard. By the way, we've got
softer seats here.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
The referees made a decision I didn't agree with. I
was sitting with hypocrites. They only came to see what
others were wearing. Some games went into overtime like.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
This message, like this one right here message.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
And I was late getting up. The band played some
songs I'd never heard before. The games was scheduled on
my only day to sleep in and run errands. My
parents took me to too many games when I.
Speaker 1 (51:49):
Was growing up. Since I read a book on sports,
I feel I know more than the coaches anyway.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Number twelve, I don't want to take my children because
I want them to choose for themselves what support they like.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Bast will never break those rules first force. We'll break
those rules for God all the time. And somen You
gotta get your heart right.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
You gotta put God first, because if you put God's first,
God's house first.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, if
you bless his house, he will bless yours
Title the message his house bless is my house. Now
we're in a series. We're in a passage.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
If you look on the screen Ephesians five seventeen to
twenty one, only five verses. If you got a paper Bible,
your iPhone Bible, you can swipe up and you can
just turn the page or whatever and you can see
what comes after Verse twenty one in Ephesians chapter five,
A lady right over.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Here, I just found it. Okay, yeah, the Ephesians five
twenty two.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Wives submit to your husband's every lady's favorite Bible verse.
Actually have a mug in my office that has that
verse on the mug because I believe in the Bible.
Then a little bit later, it's gonna say, husband's what
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love your wives? And then it's gonna talk about children
obey parents, And then.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Is gonna talk about fathers.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Don't exasperate or don't provoke your children to anger, but
but raise them up in the fear of the omission Lord.
That is gonna say, you know, employers, don't mistreat your employees,
and employees work hard even when they're not looking like
all these things that apply to.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Our regular lives.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The house God is a big fan of the house,
the family, mom, dad, children who listen to their parents
and obey their parents. Right next week we will get
into that. Husbands, bring your wives. This is the one
you've been waiting for. Nobody's coming next week.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I just cut our audience by thirty percent right there.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Right Anyway, before we get to that, we got to
talk about what comes up.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And I think Paul does.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
This strategically and Epheesians five seventy to twenty one, because
he's gonna build the case.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Before we get to the house, your house.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Let's talk about God's house, because his house has the
ability to bless your house.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And why you want to be connected to his house.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Is because there's goodness to be found in the House
of God. That if you get invested in the House
of I'm a firm believe this.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
If you get invested in.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The House of God, God gets invested.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
In your house. I believe that with all of my heart.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
My life is a testimony to that fact. My whole
life has been in the church. I told you this
that my church, the first church I was a part of,
was started in my parents' basement.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
My parents' basement, people.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Would show up Tuesday night from Bible study, and I'd
be naked dancing on the dresser.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Still run into people to this day, running through meole.
I remember when you were naked on the church. I're like,
please spare me. And I was raised in that church.
And then I found my lifelong friends in the church.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And uh, church was everything. Back in those days. We
went to church three times a week. Never mind us
once you.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Guys got it easy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It was Sunday morning, Sunday night, Bible study, Wednesday night,
sometimes prayer meeting on Friday night. Well, all the pagans
were partying. We be praying right. My whole life in
the church. I met my wife in a church basement. Yeah,
where all the naughty kids would make out during the
pot luck summers. Not me and my wife, though we
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were holy hallelujah. I got my kids baptist dedicated in
the church. I got two of my children out of
three baptized in the church.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
My best friends are in the church.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm telling you, you put your life in the house
of God, and He puts his life in your house
at home. You need this message because your house at
home is filled with all kinds of angst, anger, frustration,
there's no blessing there. It's a curse. I'm gonna tell
you something. If you pay attention today, you lean in,
listen to this, God's gonna start doing a work in
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you wherein by you investing in his house, He's gonna
turn and flip the script in your house and give
you a blessing in your house.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I believe this with all my heart. I believe with
all my.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Heart put God first, Joshua chapter twenty one. As for
me and my house, said the Lord, you know what
I have found in my life. The people that are
the most blessed, the most successful, the people who put
God's house first. We've got business owners in this church,
millionaires in this church, blessed, prosperous, they tie, they serve,
they give them to come to church, they worship God
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on Sunday. We've got people in this church, every person
I've ever met that's successful in this church. And I'm
not talking just about financial success. I'm talking about home.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Success, because that's really what we want.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
We want a home that's a refuge from all the
crazy in the store of this world.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And I'm telling you something.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
The people that I have that the people that have
that are the people that give themselves to His house.
That's what Ephesians five seventeen to twenty one is. Let's
stand together for the reading God's word. As we get
into this text, here's what he says. Therefore, do not
be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
And do not be drunk with wine, for that is debauchery,
but be filled with the spirit. And then verse nineteen,
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addressing one another in psalms him spiritual songs. So when
he says addressing one another, he's talking to a church
by the way, addressing one another and psalms him spiritually. Obviously,
in order to address one another, we have to be
around one another. So I'm only them pointing that out
to say he's talking to the church gathering here. So
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many times we take the Bible, we make it an
individual enterprise, me and God. So many times people say
this is my handbook for life. No no, no, no. This
is not written to an individual. It's written to a people,
written to a group, the church.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Jesus. Jesus is people.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So addressing one another, psalm him spirit singing, making melody
to the Lord with your heart, give me thanks always
and for everything to God, the Father and the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then verse twenty one,
submitting to there's another word again, submitting to one another
out of reverence for Christ. This is greeting of God's word.
Let's pray, Father, speak to our hearts, renew our minds,
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transform us. We take this moment right now and we
say pause on the noise, the noise of the world.
What we have to worry about coming up. We're regretful
about what came before. We just say pause and speak
to your paper and help us all to see Jesus,
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Him and Him only in his money name. We pray,
and everybody said, amen, God, bless.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You have a scene, have a scene. So I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
About this season that we're in. This we're a week
away from Halloween. Anybody a Halloween fan? One of the
questions you just don't ask Church pepall because everybody's in his.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
I am, but I don't want to say anything. I'm
a Halloween fan. I'll tell you that I'm a big
fan of candy. Not the ghouls and the ghosts and
all that nunsense. I like candy.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I like my kids getting candy that I didn't pay
for amen, somebody, I'm all for that.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Can we have Halloween on a regular basis? Please? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Uh, you know, Halloween twenty twenty one is gonna be
a real test kitchen for post COVID living. I really
think about this because you think about all the holidays
had it bad during COVID, but Halloween really took it
on the chin because this is the one holiday where
we do everything anti COVID except wearing masks. We're program
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So it's the anti COVID Halloween because it's the one holiday,
anti COVID holiday, because it's the one holiday where we
tell our kids to get out of the house, not lockdown,
get out, go visit strangers houses. Okay, so that's not
just you know, your four selected friends that are all
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got the vaccine or got their negative tasks right, go
visit strangers' houses and ask them for free.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Stuff, bring it back to our house and eat it.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
This is the only holiday that encourages anti COVID behavior.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So I'm thinking about it. If we get through this year,
if Halloween.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Happens and there's no upticking cases and death and all
that kind of stuff, then the dreaded numbers don't go
up what we might be coming out of the woods here,
and I was thinking about maybe that's you. Maybe you're
here and you're backing church for the first time and
you're wondering this is the right church, or you're looking
for church.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And every week we find this out.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Even now, we have been open almost a year, right
have we been over a year?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Over year? We've been opening over a year. Man, I
didn't realize this is that long.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
We've been opening since May twenty four, twenty twenty and
even now.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
People are coming back for the first time.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So I'm wondering, who's here today and this is your
nod to God, like final nod to God or one
more chance God, or you're exploring the church or Christianity
or whatever and this is your first time and we're
so glad. And the question is, though, have you found
the right church?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And the answer is yes. I'm gonna tell you why
in just a moment. The outline of Ephesians five. I
want to write it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I want you to write down if Heesians five seventeen
to twenty one. I don't actually, you don't have to
write this down. It's on the screen, it's on your notes.
There the priorities of the church gathering. That's what he's
talking about. So he says, he's talking about understanding the
will of the Lord. Don't get drunk with the wine,
be fiel with the spirit, address one another, submit to another,
the priorities of the church gathering. And then he flows
then and skip ahead if you want to in your Bibles.
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If Heess five twenty two where he talks about how
the home is.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Supposed to operate. But I believe that he.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Intentionally, Paul the Apostle writing to the Ephegians, intentionally says,
this is what the church should look like.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That will bless your house. Got it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
This is what a good church looks like. That will
bless your house. So write this down now, this I
know you have to write down. Participating in a life
giving church produces a life giving home. If you participate
in a life giving church, you will you will see
God go to work in your home. And I, like
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I said, I've been raising the church my whole life,
and I know that the church and is not I've
been around.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I've been to some bad churches.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
That church that was starting in my parents' basement, that
was a dysfunctional.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Church, ladies and gentlemen. That was a hideous church.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
We had pastors doing unthakable things, one pastor after another
after another. My parents to this day say, it is
a act of God that you are evil in the church,
never mind pastoring a church. And I think, well, I
think what God did was he paraded all the ways
not to do it so that I would say, Okay,
I'm not doing that, so.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I could do it the way God wants to do it.
An you think about churches that you may have gone to.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Before, and when I was a senior in Bible College,
I was leaving Bible colleges going into the workforce, and
I was thinking, I want to just explore what the
church looks like because.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I've been in school for four years.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
This time school can and you know, it can inoculate,
inoculate you from the real world. And so I went
out to all these churches. Every week I went to
a different church. I went to a Presbyterian, a Lutheran,
a Catholic church. Every week I was going to a
different church gathering. And they all had one thing in common.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They were all boring. I'm not kidding here, the bor ring.
Anybody ever been to a boring church. I mean, you
know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And what frustrates me about a boring church is a
church that's boring is disconnected from the message of the church.
Because people will go to a football games. This is
so amazing. People go to a football game. They will
go to the Tampa Bay Bucks if they want to
see their team win.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
They'll go to the Patriots if they want to see
their team lose, and they'll go.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No one's coming back, No one's coming back next week.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
This is over now. I offended the women in the
Patriots fans. Oh my gosh. Anyway, Lord have mercy.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Jesus is gonna have to do a work this week
to get you back.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Anyway, sometimes you will go to a Bucks game and
you will or a Patriots game, and you will cheer
for three hours and they might lose. Right yeah, you
ever sit down and watch the football game they lose,
and you're.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Like, I wasted three hours for that. People will pay money.
They will buy tickets, they will pay for parking, they
will pay for hot dogs. They will pay seventeen dollars
for a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Good buye a a African village hot dogs for a
year for that, and they will go and they will root,
and they will.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Cheering, they will scream, and they will sing, and they
might lose.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And there's more excitement over a football team that might
lose in the stadiums of sports in this world than
there are in the churches that believe in a savior
who did not lose, a savior who won, a savior
who conquered sin.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Hell and the grave.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
A life giving church is a church that's connected in
their atmosphere to the reality of what Jesus did two
thousand years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
He conquered death.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
That's why churches should never be boring. They should they
should be excited.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I'm not saying they always have to be ah all
the time, but I am saying we should be happy
to be here, joyful here, excited to be here because
we know that the Lord we serve is alive forevermore
and he's coming back.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Am I talking to anybody who knows you've been going
through something. You've been going through something and you don't
know how you're gonna get out, and you're going through
a valley.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
The Bible says, though I go through the valley the
shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, for you are
with me, and afterward I will dwell in the House
of the Lord forever, and I'm going to heaven. It
doesn't matter what happens necessarily here.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I know my home is in heaven forever. I got
something to be excited about.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And what frustrates me is when the church doesn't have
doesn't have joy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
And the reason why is because.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
They get disconnected from the Gospel. They get disconnected from
the truth of Jesus, and we never want that. So
what does a good church gathering looking? Since you might
be finally making your way back to normalcy, might be
coming out of the COVID coma and into real life.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Pick a church that'll pour life into you. Amen. And
if you're here shopping for churches, I just want to
let you know shopping is over. Three signs number one.
Three signs number one.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
A gathering that calls you to follow God's will, not
the world's ways. You want a church that will give
it to you straight, because every person on this planet
is sick with sin. If you ever find a church
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doesn't open the Bible, doesn't read the Bible, run like hell.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Because they're just gonna bring you there. Anyway, I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Tell you what is popular with the world. It's my
job to tell you what's true with God. It is
my job to offend. I've said this many times during
this series. It is my job to upend your predilections,
your pre conceived notions. It's my job to question your
political affiliations. I want to offend Republicans and Democrats. I
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think a good Sunday is when both Republicans and Democrats
are offended.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And then our church people come from Pentecostal backgrounds that
come from Baptists Parentica non really is Pentecostal or Charismatic
and non Pentecostal charismatic. And I love the fact that
some people, and I've heard this, the Baptists or the
non Charismatics think we're too Charismatics, and the Charismatics think
we're two Baptists.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I like that cause that means we're ticking everybody off. Amen.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Amen, A good church.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
What I'm trying to tell you is a good church
doesn't cater to what you want to hear.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
A good church tells you what you need to hear, and.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
The world's ways will never match up what I say
from this pulpit.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
They will never match up.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
If it does, something's wrong. And Paul says this to
the Ephesians. Look in verse fifty seventeen, he says, therefore,
do not be foolish.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Implication.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Listen, The implication is that in that church in Ephesus
in the first century, to whom Paul is writing, there was.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
A bunch of people who were foolish. Think about that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
He wouldn't say, don't be foolish if they aren't foolish.
So how did they get foolish? Well, let me tell
you how. Ephesus was a city or is still is
a relic of what it wasn't back then, But it
was a city in Asia minor what is modern day Turkey.
It was a burgeoning metropolis. It was huge, It was enormous.
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It was flooded with people, flooded with idolatry, temples, pagan revelry, parties, drunkenness, everything.
Just like every city in the modern world is you
went to the city to glorify yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
This is what the scriptures teach about the city.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Let me just do a little bit of unpacking of
the city in the ancient world. Every time the Bible
mentions the city. It talks about human sin and corruption,
and it really does. Now, it's not to say that
cities are bad.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's just to say that where you have cities, you
have more what people. And the Bible is very clear
that people are sinners.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So what you have in every city is more sinners
per square foot than anywhere else. And wherever you have
more sinners per square foot, you have more opportunity for more.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Sin, more corruption, more foolishness, foolishness.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
So there's there's this passage in Genesis four where Cain
kills Abel. God comes to Kane says, what you do?
He said, I'm not my brother's keeper. He says, your
blood's your brother's blood. Cries out to me from the ground.
You killed your brother, didn't you. And he said, I'm
going to put a mark on you, and I'm going
to cast you away from my presence. And the Bible
says the very first thing that Cain does when he
leaves the presence of God is he builds a city.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
City.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The picture this Cure Scripture gives us of the city
is it is rebellion. It is rejection of the presence
of God, because we want the presence of more people.
And then there's another city. It's called Babbel. In Genesis
chapter eleven, the people after the flood come together. Now
God's first command was to spread out and fill the earth.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
But every time you see people building a city, is
the anti God?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Way, is the anti fill the youth? No, we want to
gather together. And then verse all chapter eleven of Genesis
like what it says. It says, now the.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Whole earth was one of the language and had the
same words.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
And as people migrated from the east, they find a
plane of shiner and settled there. And they said to another, come,
let us make bricks. That's called uh industry, that's called
mass production.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Let us make.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they made brick forstone
and bit themen from mortar. And they said, come, let
us build ourselves a what city and a tower with
its top in the heavens, and let us make a what.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Name for ourselves.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
In other words, let me go to the city to
make a name for myself. In many respects, the cities
are the ultimate idolatry of human heart, because we go
to the city to glorify ourselves.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
That's what people go to.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
The big apple for concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Right, you know what I'm saying. So you got these this,
I'm going to go this. I'm gonna make a name
of ze so I gotta be a great person.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
God comes down to scatters their language and confuses them
so that they can go and spread out and fill
the earth. Here's the point. The point is, don't be
fooled by the city.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Be filled with the third person of the Trinity. Write
that down. Do not be filled by the city.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
So cities also have a lot of good to offer us.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But there's a lot of foolishness.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
And just in case you're wondering, God regularly sends his
profits into the cities to save them. He wants to
save the people from the city. We don't curse the city, no,
no, no no. We work in the city to bring the
gospel to the city. But understand that wherever you have
a lot of people, you have a lot of sin,
and a lot of sin leads to a lot of foolishness.
In fact, I think what happened with COVID. To be
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honest with you, I think what happened with COVID because
the city's got it worse than the suburbs. I mean
people you were locked down in a maybe a three
or four bedroom house. There were people in the city
that were locked down in a one bedroom loft for
three months, and they left the city. The cities have
lost populations. I think what's happened actually is God has
Tower of babbled us again.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
He scattered the people from the cities.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Now you see in our country rising crime, poor education,
greater income, inequality.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Where's that all happening in the.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Cities because the cities provide us with foolishness, not anti city.
I'm just telling you, don't be fooled by it. There's
the allure of our cultures.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
This is where I'm getting to. There's the allure of
our world. Young people. Listen to me. I'm gonna go
to this ste I'm gonna neighbor much, I'm gonna becoming great.
I'm gonna be Okay. Yeah, there's that allure.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
But what you're not seeing as what happens with everything
the devil gives us is bate and switch.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It's Peyton. Yeah. Come, I'll make a name for you
and I'll eat you alive.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
At the same time, story after the story of the
story you can find about that.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
So what a church does is a.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Church stands as a testimony to truth in an age
of life, tells you what you need to hear, not
what you want to hear, and rescues you spiritually, maybe physically,
but spiritually from the city the corruption. Know what the
will of the Lord is. You know what Paul the
Apostle says to the Corinthians. He says, I want you
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to pray for me. This is Paul the Apostle. Listen
to this is so powerful. He says, I want you to.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Pray for me. And he would think, well, what would
Paul need prayer for it? Is he sick? Is he devastated?
Did he go through a hard time? No, I want
you to pray that.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I will have the right words to say to God's people.
One of the best things that you can do for
me is pray that prayer. I want you to pray
for me, your pastor. I think about Paul the Apostles.
He never was without words. He wrote one third of
the New Testament for Eeven's sakes. But he asked God.
He asked the people that he ministered to pray for
me that I will tell you what God wants me
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to tell you.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Had one of our worship leaders this weekend texted me.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
He said, Pastor to Tim, I'm gonna pray for you tonight,
tell me what to pray for.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I'm like wow, and I wrote back.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I said, pray that I'll have boldness to say what
God wants to say. That's my prayer. That's what I need.
I need you to pray. Don't criticize your pastor. Pray right,
and you pray, and this is good for you. You pray
that he will say things that you may not want
to hear, because where else are you gonna get it?
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This world is based on catering to you, because everybody's
trying to sell you stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Now, you notice that we did not charge you.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Admit today you didn't pay for parking. You pay for
forty dollars up there in the Patriots Land, but.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You don't pay here because we're not trying to sell
something to you.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We're trying to bring you to the one who gave
his life for you.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's free. It's offered free of.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Charge, So I got no dog in the hunt for
your money. God is here to speak to you, and
he might have something to say to you that you
don't want.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
He's gonna fill you with the will of the Lord,
not the ways of the world. Number two, A.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Good church gathering is a gathering that continually seeks the.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Fullness of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You want a church that encourages you to be filled
with the Spirit, spirit filled, which is what Paul talks
about in Ephesians five eighteen. He says, do not get
drunk with wine that's debauchery or wastefulness and other translations, but.
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Be filled with the Spirit.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
The Spirit capitalists means the Holy Spirit, the third person
of the Trinity God. The Holy Spirit wants to live
inside of you and be fully inside. He wants to
fill your life with himself. A couple points about this text.
The words be filled with the Spirit and their present
perfect in the Greek, which means that he's literally saying,
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keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
In other words, it's not a one un done.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's not you got filled with the Holy Spirit some
time in the past and then you say that's it now.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I filled up my tank. I mean, if you think
about it, if you did that with your car, I
filled up my tank.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Back in nineteen ninety eight pastor, I'm all set. You
wouldn't get very far. Would you need to go back
to the gas station. What are you doing today? You're
getting back to the gas station, the spiritual gas station,
getting God to fill you with his word.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
With the spirit. We pray for it regularly. We'll do
it at the end of this message too. Pray for
you to receive.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The spirit and to keep on being filled. Now you
think about what does it mean to be filled with
the spirit? Means it means to let the spirit have control.
What are you filled with right now? What is filling you?
I guarantee you whatever's filling you, it is causing you
to act in certain ways that might not be good
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for you. Some of you are filled with anxiety and
it's controlling you, and you can't sleep a night because
you're filled with anxiety. Well, the devil's handing you all
those things they worry about. And you need to know
that the Lord is your shepherd. You don't need to want.
He will guide you. He will make you lie down
at green pastors. He will restore your soul. Some of
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you are filled with anger, and anger controls you and
you lash out at everybody. You got into road rages.
We almost got into an accident. This because you're filled
with anger. Whatever you're filled with will control.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Some of you are filled with lust.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
What a baptism testimony we just heard. To get to
see God break us free from that fullness.
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Some of you are filled with pride. No one could
talk to you, No one can tell you anything because
you know everything. You're so smart.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
You're filled with those they controls. Whatever is controlling you
is what you're filled with. Here's what the bipele was
telling you. Stop letting that feel you, start letting the
whole spirit failure. So in in in if Ephesus first
century church or first century city in Emphsus, like I said,
they had temples to pagan gods. One of the gods
that they worshiped in Emphaesis was called Dionysus. We're gonna
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put a picture of him on the screen here. That's Dionysus. Uh,
we'll put the full screen in just a moment. Dionysus,
who suffered from a lack of appendage.
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But he also.
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So you missed that one, all right. He was the
god of wine. He was a Greek god of wine.
So what they would do is to worship Dionysius is
they would do self serving things to worship Dionysias. They
would have wine parties. They would have they would have
a keegar first century cager. They didn't have beer, but
they had wine, so they would drink all his wine.
And they believed. Listen, they believed that when they drank wine,
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they were filling their bodies with Dionysus.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Dionysius wasn't just the god of wine. He would actually
inhabit their bodies. And they're crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Secondly, they also believe that if they receive Dionysius by
drinking the wine, that Dionysius would help them control up.
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Communicate with the spirit realm.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Now you think about this, they thought, if we drink wine,
Dionysius comes into our bodies and he will help us
communicate with the unseen realm. Friends, those are the promises
that God offers you in the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
That when you receive.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
The Holy Spirit, God, the real God fills your body
and then communicates with you concerning the unseen realm.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That's what he's saying. So be not drunk with wine,
but be filled with the whole.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
What Dionysius offers you only Christ can deliver to you.
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Isn't that good?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
So it's kind of amazing how these things line up,
because here's what the Holy Spirit does.
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Write this down. The Holy Spirit brings joy.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
The Holy Spirit does for you what wine only promises you.
And when I say wine is wine is like Halloween
and church. I could say anybody a fan of wine,
and I'll be.
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Like, I am, but I'm not saying anything. Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Because the Bible, believe it or not, goes both ways
on wine.
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It does.
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There are passages that say have some wine, and there
are passages that talk about wine as a mocker. And
there are passages that really demonize wine, and there are
passages that encourage one. And yes, Pentecostals and Baptists, Jesus
turned water into literal wine. Pentecostals and Baptists to say
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it was grape juice, No, it was wine.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah. The point is wine offers you something. What does
it offer you boldness? Right, Joe, Let's start with joy. First.
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Joy, You get off of work, you go to the bar,
not that I would know. You go to the bar,
have a couple of drinks. Suddenly you're like, I guess
meant they wouldn't so bad after all. And if you're single,
you have a couple more drinks and you're like, hell, hell, hello,
and what is your name, lovely lady, and she's like,
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get lost, creep. Now you know what I'm saying, boldness.
But then what happens is wine will offer you those
things temporarily and leave you with regret. Countless people addicted
to alcohol in alcoholics anonymous, trying to get free from
this false idol that can't deliver. Well, the Holy Spirit
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does deliver. This is why on the day of Pentecost,
when they receive the Holy Spirit, the people say they're drunk,
because the initial signs of the Holy Spirit and the
initial signs of wine are the same.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Joy, boldness. But the back nine of wine is dereliction
and regret, and the back nine of.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
The Holy Ghost is transformation, life, change and good future.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Got it? So it fills you with jaw.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
For a Psalm four seven, you put more joy in
my heart than when they.
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Have grain and wine abounding.
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Number two, the Holy Spirit lives in God's people, just
like the Ephesians believe that Dionysia would live in them
if they drink the wine.
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If you drink the Holy Spirit. Jesus said this.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
The spirit of truth in the world cannot know it
doesn't know him, it doesn't receive him. But you know him,
for he dwells with you, and he will be last
two words, everybody in you wants to take up residence
in your body. I want you to think about the
Holy Spirit as a person. But Jesus always used male pronouns.
He's another comforter. He the person of the Holy Spirit. Now,
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this is my favorite part about the Holy Spirit living
in you.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Are you ready write this down? Number three?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
The Holy Spirit speaks to us from beyond this life.
What they believed about Dionysius, that he can help them
communicate with the underworld or the unseen world.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Actually, the Holy Spirit is the one that does that.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
The Holy Spirit can tell you what's to come. Look
what it says in John fourteen seventeen. He would not
speak of his own authority, but whatever he hears, he
will speak, and he would declare to you the what
the things that are to come. Holy Spirit can warn
you about the future. The Holy Spirit can set you
up for a better day ahead, but you.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Have to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
The Holy Spirit can warn you young ladies about the
guy who's hitting on you. You're gonna say no, not that one,
turn and walk away.
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But he's really handsome. He's the son of the devil.
Get away, get away.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The Holy Spirit can warn you about the house you
shouldn't buy, about the job you shouldn't take, about the
friend you shouldn't make.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That's what the Holy Spirit is their guide. Do you
think about that? How many people look for direction? Direction? Direction? Direction?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
They're on the internet, they're googling do I, how do I?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Whatever? I don't know? Where do I go? You go
to the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
He's far more knowledgeable, wise and true than any search
engine on this earth. And when it comes to being
filled with the Holy Spirit, our church gets this question
a lot, especially in our Florida location, we get this
a lot. Is waters church spirit filled? And what they
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mean when they ask us that question is one of
two things.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Is what a sure spirit field? They mean do you
encourage or allow speaking in tongues? That's really what the
question is. I would say we just asked that question
because the question is loaded. And the second question, the
second thing.
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That they're looking for, is will I if I come
to your church? Have a holy spirit hebgb moment, holy
spirit goosebump moment during your worship. That's what they mean.
That's really what they mean. So we make so much
of these two things concerning being spirit filled tongues and
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feeling the spirit.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Well, okay, I got no problem with that.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
By the way, I speaking tongues. The scripture says, don't
forbid people to speak in tongues. Some of you don't
speak to some of you want to run from tongues.
Can I tell you I don't care where you are
on in then, because there are many many passages in
the Bible where the Holy Spirit fills God's people and
they don't speak in tongues.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But something else happens. And I'm going to lead you
in a test to.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Ask your question a question of you am I spirit filled?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
And it has nothing to do with tongues.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
But it has everything to do with living a life
that you can look back on and say, Amen, God
was good. So example number one, filled with the spirit
to face and resist temptation. God's Holy Spirit wants to
come into your life so that you can face and
resist temptation. You can start to beat back the demons
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that have beaten you down. The Bible says in Matthew
chapter three, Jesus gets baptized by John.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
He comes out of the water, and immediately the.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Scripture says, the heaven's open, and he saw the spirit
of God descend on Jesus and rest on him. And
then it says this in a voice came from heaven saying, well, ho,
this is my son in whom I love, with whom
I'm well pleased. And in verse one of Matthew four, look, then,
somebody say, then, then Jesus was led by the spirit
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into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Jesus
was spirit filled, and the spirit led him in the
wilderness to be tempted. And every time he was tempted,
he resisted and he spoke, Thus say it the word,
the Word of the Lord, it is written.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
And every time that deb.
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Was like hey ya, Jesus were like, hey yah. That's
what the spirit fullness looks like. When you can say
to that temptation in Jesus' name, the.
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Lord rebuke you. I'm walking with my Savior.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Get out of my line.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
So are you spirit filled?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Question example number two Filled to serve the church, No
the robber's really gonna hit the road with all the
tongue speakers. I just want to speak in tongues. I
get it, and that's a wonderful gift, and I don't
mock it. I appreciate it. But you know, the Bible
says that there's a place for it. There's times when
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you just don't do it, Like on Sunday morning when
new people will show up for the first time and
everybody's going, hunhai, who stole my toyota?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
You know what I'm saying, Am I doing that? And
then and the new person's gonna be like, what the right? So,
so you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
There's moments not to do it for the sake of
people who are strange to the church.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Do you know what that's called. That's called making worship
not about you and anybody who tells me, well, I
just can't controul it. You know, when the Holy Spirit
comes time, I just can't. It just comes out.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
That's not even biblical because the Bible says that the
spirit of the p is subject to.
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The control of the prophets.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
You cannot be overwhelmed with the spirits in such a
case that you turn into a lunatic.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
And soya said, I've met some spirit feeled Christians. They
are weird. Let me just tell you they were weird
before the Holy Spirit. Now they're just Christian weird. That's
all that happened.
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If you met them before Jesus, they want to preach
you out a different way.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
So let's get back to the point.
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Filed to Serve the Church Acts, Chapter six, there's a
disagreement with the church to the Greek widows are being
neglected in the distribution of food and the apostles. It
says the twelve summoned the number of disciples, and it says,
not right that we should stop preaching to do this duty.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
This is a task that anybody can do.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Then they said this verse three says, therefore, pickout from
among you seven men of good reputation, full of the spirit, and.
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We will give them this. What's the last word duty?
What's duty?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Duty is something that you do regularly. So duty is
something you do that you may not want to do,
but you do it for the sake of others. Notice
the qualifier was we need people who serve, and we
want the people who serve to be filled with the spirit.
So don't tell me about tongues and holy spirit goosebumps.
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If that's all you care about, and you can't pick
up a mop and sweep or clean or check in kids,
or help us out in the parking ministry or do
something on you know, during the week where you serve others,
that's a sign of being filled with the spirit. Number
three failed to boldly proclaim the Gospel. Here's another sign
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that you're filled with You're bold in talking about Jesus.
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It's just comes out of you.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Now.
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You're not chapter and verse in people. You know how
you talk about Jesus at work? Some of you gotta
get this.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
The easiest way to talk about Jesus is to wait
till you're asked, because you're not there to preach your
little work.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
And when they ask you about, well, what's going on
with you?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Man, church was amazing this week? That's there. You go church. Really,
I've been the church. It's poor.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah right, okay, yeah, I'm my church. And then you
start talking to this is what my church does?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
What are you doing? And I'm going to my church's
life group that see how natural it is.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
You don't have to go and hey, thu's say it
the Lord in Isaiah thirty eight, verse twenty four, you
don't do that failed to boldly proclaim the gospel that
the Holy spirau failure to be just, you know, confident
in talking about Jesus. In Act chapter four, the apostles
actually three the apostles.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Preach, they arrest them, Act chapter four. They threaten them.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
They say, no more speaking in Jesus name, no more.
So the apostles Peter and John they come back to
the church and they say, guys, they.
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Arrested us, and then they threatened us, and they said,
we shouldn't preach in Jesus name anymore. What should we do?
And the Bible says that they prayed not for protection.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Then they say, oh, let's avoid the world. Now, let's
go on lockdown, let's hide and shelter in place.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
No, they prayed for more boldness. They said, oh, wait
a second. You you meaning that the government.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
You mean to tell me that the government told us
we can't gather.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
And preach anymore.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Let's pray that will gather and preach even louder.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Because the Government's not God. God is God. Half of
you are clapping. I know which side you're on okay anyway.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
It says when they prayed, the place in which they
were gathered was filled, and they were shaking. It was shaken,
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. They
were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they what
they continued to speak the Word of God with boldness.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
That's being spirit filled. Number four.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Filled to give up your life for God's plan, or
filled to surrender your plans for His plans. Rubbers hitting
the road. Now you want to talk about being spirit filled.
It begins when you surrender your plans to God's plans.
Acts Chapter seven, verse fifty five is when Stephen is
being stone. He's been stoned by those who hate him.
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He's preached Jesus and the people of rocks and the
hands and about the throw them, and the scripture says
in chapter seven, verse fifty five says, Stephen full of
the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven, saw the glory of
God and Jesus sitting get the right hand of God.
And verse six he says, and falling to his knees
as they're stoning him, as they are literally killing him,
falling to his knees, he cried out Verse sixty and said, Lord,
don't hold this sin against them.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
And when he said this, he fell asleep.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
He died for the glory of God. You know you're
spirit filled when you can surrender you your life plan
to God's ultimate plan. Now we're talking about being spirit filled.
So is waters church spirit filled? Well, it depends, It
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really does depend. It depends on are we facing and
resisting temptation? Are we serving in the church? Are we
bold in our presentation at the gospel? And are we
ready to give up what we want for what He wants?
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Amen? Number three.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
The third sign of a good church gathering is a
gathering where people are joyful, thankful, and helpful. Where people
are joyful, thankful, and helpful. A good church has people
full of joy, glad to be here. That's what I
love about you people. You're always glad to be here.
I can sense it from the moment I walk in.
It's just joy in this place. You know why there's
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joy because the gospel is preached. The gospel produces joy.
Religion produces grief. Some of you are like here for
the toursda, I thought this was a religious place. No,
we're not here telling you how to get to God.
We're telling you how God came to you. We're not
telling you how to climb the ladder to heaven. We're
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trying to tell you about the one who climbed down.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
The ladder into hell for you.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
We're trying to tell you about the one who came
to rescue you. We're trying to tell you the one
who came to seek and save you. We're trying to
tell you about the one who made you, formed you,
and then laid down his life on a cross for
you till two thousand years ago.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
That's not religion.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
And let me tell you as clear as I can,
no other religious system has this message.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
It is the only one. It's the only one.
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Where it's about what God did and not what we do.
And that makes you joyful. That's why I says, Grace
is a gift. Salvation is a gift. And I don't
know about you, and I do know about you. Everybody
loves a gift. Everybody gets happy.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
You buy me a gift. Right, Gifts bring joy.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Salvation is a gift, and salvation by grace produces joy
and thankful people. So he says this in nineteen verse nineteen,
addressing one another, and saw Sam spiritual songs and.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Me be like, wait a second, wait a secon who
who who?
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Who?
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Who?
Speaker 2 (45:23):
WHOA you tell me I gotta start singing around everybody
like addressing each other, like what are we supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Walking in shore and say hello? How are you? God?
Bless you?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
No, you're just talking about this should be the evidence
of a joyful heart. You know, people are joyful when
they start singing. And then he says giving things always
for everything, giving thanks, being thankful for what God has
given us, and then submitting verse twenty one.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Submitting that means I'm here now.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Now I'm gonna get into next week's message a little
bit right now. The word submission take it in two parts.
Submission sub means to get under and mission. What submission
submission is to get under what God is doing in
the church here. So I'm going to put myself under
the mission. How do you want me to help? How
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can I serve? How can I do something so that
we can reach our community and change the city for Jesus?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (46:18):
So here's the question. Are you serving and giving from
a joyful heart because you know you've been changed by Jesus?
In fact, it's so important I want you to write
it down. I am currently serving or helping my church
and hopefully both to reach people on the weekend. Just
answer that on your notes, and if you don't have
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yes for an answer, maybe just leave it blank, fold
up your notes and wait for the end of the service.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Are you serving? Here's you know? How you make a
church less joyful? Can I tell you? Just become a taker?
Speaker 2 (46:56):
You want to rob the joy from your brother and
her sister in Christ, Just become a taker. It's the
twenty eighty percent rule. Twenty percent of the people do
eighty percent of the work.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
And when you have.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
Twenty people, twenty percent of the people making up for
eighty percent of people, it exhausts them. Some of you
are not serving yet you are exhausting your brother or sister.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Same thing.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Financially, twenty percent of the people give eighty percent of
the money. Now we could bring up and I could
parade up here people one after another after another after another.
Who trust God with the tithe? Who bring the tithe
the first tenth to the House of God.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
One of them is me.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
I give the first tenth right to God, not give
I bring because it's not mine to give it's his
I bring the tithe. And here's the hard facts that
the church needs to hear. When you don't give, you're
a taker. You're either a taker or you're a giver.
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And some of you are in that eighty percent group.
And you get all the blessings of this place and
you give nothing, or you give a fiver to God.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
And if that's all you get forre, I get it.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
But many of you will give five dollars to God
and then go down the street and buy a Duncan
Donuts coffee for seven bucks or two for seven bucks.
That means Duncan Donuts comes first. That's what that means.
And America does not run on Duncan. America is running
straight to Hell. And it's the people who run with
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Jesus who won't join them there.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
We need America to run on Jesus. Somebody say amen,
right there? How do we do that? By giving and
serving and saying I will do my part.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
If you're sitting in a chair right now at Water's
Church and the lights are on and the air conditioning
is on, and the sound is working, and the kids
are being served, and there's coffee over there, everything is going.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
On I just want to let you know something. I
just want there's a roof over us right now, right,
I just want to let you know.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
You may not have thought about this, but listen, if
you're new, if you're here for the first time or
just a couple of.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
Months, someone paid for that before you got here.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
I know a lot of them. A lot of them
are still here. But contrary to popular belief, a church
is not visited by a semi truck driven by an
angel once a month who unloads magical money into the church.
Speaker 5 (49:34):
So you literally think that like no people gave they're
hard earned money and said you.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
Are worth it. They said you were worth it.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Now my question is, can you now be the generation
who says the people who come up after me.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
They're worth it? Can you give to life change? Can
you serve to life change? If you're not serving what Jesus?
Are you following?
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Jesus said Luke twenty two twenty seven. I'm among you
as one who serves Mark ten forty five. The Son
of Man came not to be served, but to serve.
Matthew twenty three eleven. The greatest among you should.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
Be a servant.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
If you're not serving, especially the body of Christ.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
What Jesus are you following? Because that's what he was.
I was a servant.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
The problem I think in American Christianity, the problem, I
really believe, is that even in the church, we treat
our sports heroes better than our Savior. I ran across
this online and I want to share it with you.
It's a little memes funny, and it says this the
(50:52):
twelve reasons why I, as a pastor are no longer
am no longer going to attend sporting events? And these
are the reasons that people give for no longer going
to church. So subsitu coach for pastor and yochting out.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
You got the idea. The coach never came to visit me,
Bill Belichick, and for visit any of you still a fan? Ah?
How could you?
Speaker 2 (51:14):
Every time I went, they asked for money. Does anybody
get into the stadium for free?
Speaker 1 (51:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (51:20):
The people sitting in my road didn't seem very friendly.
The seats were very hard. By the way, we've got
softer seats here.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
The referees made a decision I didn't agree with. I
was sitting with hypocrites. They only came to see what
others were wearing. Some games went into overtime like.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
This message, like this one right here message.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
And I was late getting up. The band played some
songs I'd never heard before. The games was scheduled on
my only day to sleep in and run errands. My
parents took me to too many games when I.
Speaker 1 (51:49):
Was growing up. Since I read a book on sports,
I feel I know more than the coaches anyway.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
Number twelve, I don't want to take my children because
I want them to choose for themselves what support they like.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Bast will never break those rules first force. We'll break
those rules for God all the time. And somen You
gotta get your heart right.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
You gotta put God first, because if you put God's first,
God's house first.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, if
you bless his house, he will bless yours
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