November 12, 2025 • 52 mins
So many of us treat God like a consultant. We bring Him our plans and ask Him to bless them, but we keep the driver's seat. This message is about the radical exchange God is demanding. It's time to hand over the keys, the title, and the whole car. We're going to unpack what it means to stop being the star of your own show and let Christ truly live through you. If you're tired of running on your own power, you need to hear this. Buckle Up!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome brothers in the Word. My name
is Tim Smith. I am the youngest child of Clara Jones.
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like love and offer this teaching to someone who needs it.
That's the only offering that I'm asking you for. Grab
your Bible, get something that has the Word of God
on it, whether it's your phone, your tablet, your computer.
But I need you to grab scripture. Prepare yourself to
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take detailed notes. Shout out to Shannon. Also shout out
to little cousin Kayla for holding it down in the
Word of God. So let's get into it with me.
No fluff, just real, uncut truth. We're talking about something
tonight that's in the DNA of every single person listening
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to my voice. And the thing that's inside all of
us is ambition. Ambition, that's that hustle, that drive that grind,
that need to build, that need to create, that need
to be somebody that need to flex on them, to
stunt on them. But we're going to flip it. We're
going to flip ambition on its head for this episode.
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So the title for our time together. If you're taking notes,
write this down, Crucified ambition. That's a different kind of ambition.
Crucified ambition. You heard me, crucified ambition. Now, before we
even touch the scripture, let's talk about the power word
for today.
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Our power word for today is exchange.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Exchange. What are we talking about? And exchange is the
act of giving one thing and receiving another in its place.
So we're not talking about a merger, we're not talking
about a partnership. We're talking about a total, complete substitution.
You give up the busted up kooptie, you get a
brand new whip. That's an exchange. You give up your
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counterfeit dollar, you get a crisp Hundie. That's an exchange.
So it's a trade up. So remember that word. Keep
that in the back of your mind. Exchange. So, family,
let me give your mission before we get started. Your mission.
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Should you choose to squabble up is this.
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I want you to identify the one ambition, the one desire,
the one plan you've been protecting. You've been protecting it
more than you've been praying about it.
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Your mission is to find that thing.
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And then I want you to get your hammer, and
I want you to get your nails ready. Let's park
the GNX right here next to our verse. And I
want you to imagine this car, because it's not just
any car. It's nineteen eighty seven Buick Grand National. We
got Anita Baker and the tape that cars all black.
It's menacing, it's fast, it's a street legend, and it's loud.
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And that right there, that's the description of our ambition.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Our ambition looks good, it feels powerful, it gets a
lot of attention, it's loud, and you know what, we
love to park it right in the center of our lives.
We like to park it right in the center of
everything who we think we are. But guess what Jesus
is about to ask you for the keys to that car.
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So let's go to the Book of Galatians. That's where
we're going to pull up. Pull up with me over
in the Book of Galatians, we're going to be In
the second chapter twentieth verse just one verse, one verse.
Paul's writing to the saints in Galatia, and Paul is
going to throw a theological grenade in that verse. And
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this verse is still making noise two thousand years after
the apostle first wrote it. Let me read it for you. Galatians,
Chapter two, verse twenty. I hope you got we're going
to be reading out at ESV. Paul says this, and
I want you to listen to the tents of his word.
He says, I have been crucified with Christ. It is
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no longer I who live for Christ, who lives in me,
and the life.
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I now live in the flesh.
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I live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for me.
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Did you catch that?
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Did you see that?
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Did you hear that?
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Here's the beauty, here's the genius of this one particular verse.
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And when I saw this, it blessed me.
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Whenever I go into the scripture, I always ask God
God opened my eyes so I can see some things
that I haven't seen before. And in this particular verse,
the Holy Spirit did just that. I want you to
see what he pointed out to me the Relations chapter two,
verse twenty. I want to read it for you one
more time because I want to make sure you got
the context of what we're looking at. Relations Chapter two,
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verse twenty. He says, I have been crucified with Christ.
Verse it is no longer I who live, but Christ,
who lives in me, and the life I now live
in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son
of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
So what do you see in that verse? What did
I see in that verse? This is what I see.
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This one verse contains both a death certificate and a
verse certificate. It's a funeral and it's a baby shower,
all in one verse. It's the end of you and
the beginning of Him, who is the beginning of Him,
the beginning of Christ, but the beginning of Christ in you.
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So Paul is laying out this divine exchange, and right
here in this verse is the blueprint for what we're
calling crucified ambition. Now let's break this down. Part A
the death certificate, and this is what he says, I
have been crucified with Christ. That's the death certificate. Crucified
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let's start right there. This isn't poetry. This is a
legal declaration that Paul is making, and the original language
gives the idea of something that happened in the past,
but the effects of what happened in the past still
continue into the present. It's a done deal, crucified, finished
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over for Nito. This is the death of your ego,
the death of your plans, the death of your brand,
the death of your kingdom. Because understand about crucifixion. Crucifixion
was the most shameful, painful, and final form of execution
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in the Roman world. Crucifixion wasn't a quiet, dignified passing
When Jesus was on that cross. He was on that
cross for hours in agony. So crucifixion was a public
spectacle of humiliation, agony. And Paul says, I have been
crucified with Christ. He says that was me. I was
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on that cross with him. It was a cold crucifixion.
All of us were on that cross with him. So
what if Paul saying to us, you don't get to
co pilot with Christ, you don't get to be the
vice president of your own life. You have to die
your ambition to be the star of your own show.
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It has to be nailed to that tree. Your desire
to have the last word, your desire, the need to
be right fully crafted, three year, five year plan. You
have to bring all of that to God. If you
don't bring it to God, then it gets the nails.
And I'm not saying, I'm just saying a lot of
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us so called Christians, we want a crown, but we
don't want the cross. We want the resurrection, but we
don't want the fellowship of His suffering.
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We skip the funeral.
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You want God to bless your plans instead of submitting
to His plans. That's not Christianity. You know what that is.
That's consulting. This is the death certificate. It's God looking
at your old life. God looking at your old life
and your old hustle, your old broken down way of
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doing things, and God stamps deceased on it. It's final.
Your past is a place of reference, it's not a
place of residence. Talking about that old you, the one
who ran on pride and fear, the one who ran
on insecurity. He's gone, she's gone. You have been crucified.
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If you are a child of God, you have been
crucified period. Got a question for you, what ambition are
you still trying to keep alive even though God has
already issued its death certificate. Let's keep going. So we
looked at the death certificate. Now let's look at the
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birth certificate again. Both of these are in the same verse.
Listen to what Paul says. He says it is no
longer I who live, he said, but Christ who lives
in me. So here's the turn right here, here's the
divine plot twist. After the funeral, there's a resurrection after
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the death certificate comes to birth certificate. Please listen to
the words of the apostle and listen closely. He says emphatically,
it is no longer I who live, but Christ who
lives in me. So therefore that means the tomb is empty,
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but your life is now full. This is the great exchange.
You give him your sin, you give him your brokenness,
you give him your failed ambitions, and he gives you himself.
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He moves in.
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It's not you with a little bit of Jesus sprinkled
on the top. It's not you trying really hard to
be a better person. It's not you coming up with
a better New Year's resolution. It is an alien life form.
It is a hostile takeover of your soul in the
most glorious way. So the old tenant has been evicted.
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There's a new king on the throne. Go over the
revelations before verse one. Think about it like this. Your
body is a house. In fact, the Bible even says
that our body is the temple of the holy ghost.
So your body is a house. And for years you've
been living there. You picked all the ugly furniture in
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that house. You left a mess everywhere. You picked those
ugly drapes. The plumbing was shot, the foundation was cracked.
Then Jesus came knocking at the front door my Bible,
he says over in Revelation. Behold, I stand at the
door and knock. Finny man, hear my voice, and open
the door. I will come in to him. But here's
the thing. Jesus doesn't want to just visit you for dinner.
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He doesn't want to rent a room. He wants the
deed to the house. He wants to own the whole house.
And when you hand over the keys, guess what. He
doesn't just renovate the house. He demolishes the old structure,
and he builds a new palace in its place. If
any man be in Christ Jesus, old things have passed away. Behold,
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all things are now new. So the address is the same,
but the resident is now royal. And this is where
so many of us get it twisted. We think that
the Christian life is just us trying to imitate Jesus.
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I remember a few years ago, was what would Jesus do?
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Christian life is not trying to imitate Jesus. The Christian
life is Christ living his life through you. It's his
patience in you. It's his love in you, his wisdom,
his power flowing through your personality, flowing through your hands.
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You become his hands, You become his voice, You become
his feet. And the only way that can happen is
he has to take up residents inside of you. And
he can't take up residents inside of you when your
ambition will not abdicate the throne.
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So, if Christ is living in you, here's what that means.
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The old ambitions, the old desires, they have no place
to stay. They become homeless, starve the lie, feed the truth.
The truth is, it's not your house anymore. Peak aboot
This is where the title of this lesson gets his
teeth crucified ambition. Your ambition had to die, so his
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ambition for you could live. These two cannot coexist at
the same time. The Bible says, you cannot serve two masters.
John said, behold, I looked and I saw one sitting
on the throne. So I don't want you to think
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that your ambition should take precedence over God's presence in
your life. And what is his ambition. Let's talk about
his ambition for a moment. His ambition for you is
that you would look more like him. The Bible says
that we are the light of the world. The Bible
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says that we are the salt of the world. The
only way this world can see its way out of
the darkness that it's in is to see the light
of Christ in you. When you walk into the room,
the room should light up. Why because the light of
Christ is on the inside of you. He wants his
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kingdom to come through you. And this brings me to
a scripture speaking of kingdom. I hear people quote the
Scripture quite a bit, but they treat the scripture like
as a cosmic vending machine. They skip past the first
portion of the scripture because they want to get to
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the payoff part of the scripture. Whenever you're reading Matthew
chapter five, chapter six, and chapter seven, that's all one sermon.
That's the kingdom manifesto. That's what's known as the Sermon
on the Mount. And Jesus is laying out his constitution
and what his kingdom looks like. His kingdom doesn't run
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along the rules and the laws and the government of
this world. His kingdom transcends the government of this world.
So let's put this particular verse on the table. It's
found in Matthew chapter six, verse thirty three. This is
Jesus speaking. He says, but seek first. Somebody say priority, priority,
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But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these.
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Things will be added to you.
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People hear this, and hear me clearly, because a lot
of people hear this verse and they think, Okay, if
I pray for ten minutes, God will give me that promotion.
If I go to church, I'll get the car. But
let's keep it the buck. That's not it. Break it down.
He says, seek first. What does that mean? That means
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the kingdom has to be first in priority, in your life. First,
before you pick up your phone in the morning to
begin your morning.
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Scroll, he must be first.
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The kingdom must be first in your passion, first in
your calendar, first in your attitude. Before you seek the bag,
before you seek the likes, before you seek the heart emojis,
before you seek the relationship. Hear me, seek the King
and his kingdom. What is the Kingdom of God? I'm
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glad you asked.
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The Kingdom of God.
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Is his rules, his reign, It's his way of doing things.
It's asking in every situation you find yourself in, what
does King Jesus want me to do here? How does
the government of Heaven operate at this moment? Then he
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goes on and he says, and his righteousness, what is
his righteousness? His character, his perfect justice, his holiness, his meekness,
his humility, his love. So seeking the Kingdom, it's not
about you getting things. It's about getting him. It's about
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aligning your entire life, your entire ambition, with his rule
and his character. And when you do that, when you
do that, when Christ is truly living in you and
his priorities are your priorities, then all these things that
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part is just a side effect. That part is a given.
That part is the French benefit of being a child
of the king. Why because he takes care of his children.
Facts on facts on facts. But we're so busy chasing
the allowance and we forget to have a relationship with
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our father. We're going to God asking God for an allowance,
and he's your heavenly father. Seeking his kingdom is the
natural result of Christ living in you. Don't ask God
to order your steps and then you decide that you're
going to skip the instructions that he gives you, because
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the instructions are right here in this verse. Let crucify
your ambition, let Christ live in you, and then seek
His kingdom above all less. What good is for a
man to profit the whole world and lose his soul?
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And the Bible says what shall he give in exchange
for his soul? So we have to look at our
lives and ask ourselves, am I truly seeking God first?
Or am I seeking my ambition? And then I'm asking God, Hey, God,
come bless this, Come lay your hands on this question
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for you when you wake up in the morning. What
kingdom are you seeking to build? Yours or his? Because
how you answer that question will determine who's really on
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the throne of your life, Parci. And I want you
to answer that too, Perci. This is the daily walk.
Paul goes on to say this in Relations chapter two,
verse twenty. He says, and the life I now live
in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son
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of God. Okay, so I'm dead. Christ lives in me.
I'm seeking his kingdom, right, but I still got to
go to work on Monday. I still have my bills
to pay. I'm still in this body. I'm still in
this world with all its pressures, with all his problems.
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So Paul anticipates you saying that, and guess what he says.
He says, and the life I now live in the flesh.
So Paul is not floating on the cloud. He's telling
you he's in the flesh too. He's in the flesh too,
just like you are right here and right now. The
daily grind, the traffic jam, the difficult conversation, the temptation.
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He's saying, this new life has to work in the
real world.
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So how does it work?
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Let me give you the cheat code. I live by
faith in the Son of God. That unlocks everything right there.
If we're not living by faith in the Son of God,
we're just some balloons just blowing wherever the wind takes
us to. I live. My life is governed by faith
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in the Son of God. The Son of God is
the object of his faith. It's not faith in the promotion.
It's not faith and securring the bag. His faith is
anchored to something that is unmovable, the Son of God.
That's it. That's the upgraded operating system. That's the power
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source faith. And what is faith? The Bible says that
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen.
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Faith is a trust. Faith is reliance. Faith is leaning
your full weight on God. Living by faith.
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Means you stop living by your feelings. We walk by
faith doesn't say we walk by feelings. It doesn't say
we walk by emotions. We walk by faith and not
by sight. So when you're walking by faith, you stop
living by sight. You stop living by your emotions. You
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stop living by your own understanding. IE I believe its
Proverbs Chapter three.
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Verse five and six. Trust in the Lord with all
your heart.
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Lean not to your own understanding in all of your
ways acknowledge him, who is him God?
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And what will he do? He will direct your path.
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So don't allow a temporary feeling to make a permanent
decision for your life, because guess what, your feelings will
lie to you. Your bank account will lie to you,
your doctor's report will lie to you. They will tell
you things, They will tell you facts. But faith doesn't
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deny facts. You know what faith does. Faith denies finality.
And you see it permeating all the way through scripture.
You will see what something factual will take place, and
faith will come in and it will govern the finality
of that thing. Let's double click on that, because it's
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one thing to say it, but it's another thing to
see it in the text. I was thinking about the
Bible today and I said, Lord, the Bible is a
book of receipts. We always talking about receipts. I got receipts.
I got receipts. I can't receipts. The Bible been keeping receipts.
We ain't doing nothing new.
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Did you know?
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The Bible doesn't just make claims. The Bible shows you proof.
Let me give you just one example, one particular example
of what I'm talking about, because facts are the evidence
that is presented by the prosecution. I don't know if
you notice, but the Bible says over in Revelation chapter twelve.
I believes verse eleven, that we overcome Satan by the
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blood of the Word, by the blood of the Lamb,
by the word of our testimony. So that testimony is
our life in the courtroom of God. Because the Bible
also says that Satan is the accuser of the brethren,
so he likes to go to God and snitch. So nevertheless,
we're in this courtroom. The facts are the evidence. Satan
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has presented the facts. The fact is that this death
certificate has been delivered.
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The fact is the body is cold.
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The fact that is the bank account is empty, the
fact is the door is closed. But faith is the
defense attorney that walks in, looks at the evidence and says,
you know what, I don't dispute the facts presented, your honor.
I just happen to know a higher law. Now let's
go all the way back to the Old Testament. A
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lot of times when we talk about Elijah, we often
talk about, you know, when he went through his season
of depression. But I want to show you something else.
About Elijah, because Elijah was a very powerful man, one
of the greatest Old Testament prophets. So the prophet Elijah
staying with a widow, and a town calls they're fat.
I'm not sure if you understand or if you remember
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this particular story about Elijah. But there's a famine in
the land when Elijah is staying with this widow. But
God is supernaturally providing for Elijah and the widow and
her son. So it's basically a miracle per day. Every
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day God gives them a miracle. But then tragedy strikes. See,
the Bible is not a fairy tale. The Bible is
real life. The scripture says in First Kings seventeen seventeen.
Sho write that down says, after this, the son of
the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill, and
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his illness so severe that there was no breath left
in him. No breath left in him. That's a fact.
The boy is dead.
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That's a fact. That's not mostly dead.
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That is a one hundred percent grade, a clinical fact.
The doctor's report is in cause of death, severe illness,
time of death. Now, so the mother is weeping the
finality of death has filled the room and has filled
the house. These are the facts. But now let's shift
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to Elijah, because Elijah's operating a whole different frequency. He
takes the fact this boy's lifeless body, and he carries
it upstairs. He is not denying the facts, but he
is about to deny the finality. The text says that
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Elijah laid the boy on the bed and he cries
out to God, look at it in verse twenty one,
look at this, move right here.
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Verse twenty one.
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Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and
cried to the Lord, O, Lord, my God, let this
child's life come into him again. This is not a quiet,
polite prayer. This is a desperate faith, feel demand. This
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is a man wrestling with God while standing on the
promises of God, and he's commanding that the finality of
death submit to the life giver.
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Elijah is prophesying to a corpse.
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He is speaking life to a situation where the facts
are screaming death and the receipt you want, receipt, I
got you verse twenty two. And the Lord listen, oh
my God, to the voice of Elijah. And the life
of the child came into him again, and he revived,
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might drop the fact was death, but faith in God,
who holds the keys to life and death, defied the
finality of the grave. So Elijah brought the boy downstairs
and handed him off to his mama.
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That's not a cute.
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Story, spiritual principle, for whoever wants to pick it up.
God is looking for some people who will carry their
quote unquote dead situations into his presence and refuse to
accept the finality of the facts. Is your business on
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life support? Take it to the upper room. Does your
marriage feel like it has no breath in it? Stretch
your faith out over it. The doctor gave you a
bad report. Okay, cool, don't deny the report, but deny
its conclusion by appealing to the great physician. So I'm
gonna leave that right there for whoever wants to pick
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it up. But I got a question for you. What
dead situation have you accepted as a final verdict? Forgetting that,
faith has the authority to appeal to a higher court.
That's gonna bless somebody. That's gonna bless somebody. Party. Let's
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talk about your motivation, Paul said, who loved me and
gave himself for me? This is the bowl right here.
Who loved me and gave himself for me? This is
the exchange that we were talking about the last phrase.
This is the why Why would you do this? Why
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would you crucify your ambition? Why would you go through
this painful process of dying to yourself?
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Why would you choose to live by.
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Faith when it's so much easier to.
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Live by sight. Paul tells you, he said, because of the.
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One who loved me and gave himself for me. Notice
how personal that is, that's intentional. Paul doesn't say who
loved the world. He doesn't say who loved the church.
He doesn't even say who loved us. No, Paul says,
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you better get your own. He says who loved me?
So Paul brings this thing up close and personal. Paul says,
he gave himself for me. He died for me. Paul,
the man who hunted Christians, the man over in Acts
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chapter seven, who held the coats of the men while
they stoned Stephen to death, the man who called himself
the chief of sinners.
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He understood the love that God had for him.
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He knew that he deserved judgment. Paul said, I was
one born out of due season. Paul didn't get the
experience that the disciples got to live with Jesus, to
walk with Jesus, to see Jesus do many mighty wonderful
Paul didn't get any of those advantages.
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Paul knew his ambition.
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Was to destroy the very thing that God was building,
the very thing that God was trying to build in
the early Church. Paul was trying to eradicate the Church
off the face of the earth. You all need to
understand just how bad this man was. And yet in
the middle of his mess, asked chapter nine, Jesus met
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him on Damascus Boulevard. He loved him, and he gave
himself for him. This isn't a theological concept that we're
talking about. This is a love story. This is the
creator of the universe looking directly at you, with all
your flaws, all your secret sins, all your selfish ambitions,
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and he's saying, I choose you, I love you, and
I will pay the ultimate price to have you. He
didn't just die for the collective us, No, he died
for you. He saw you, he knew you, and he
gave himself for you.
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Please let that marinate in your spirit.
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I pray that we will learn to appreciate the sacrifice
that Jesus made for us. That it's not a once
a year thing on Easter when we get all dressed up. No,
every chance you get, you should just stop and pause
and reflect about how God loved you, how he chose
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you out of your family, how he placed his hand
on your life. God loves you. Jesus says that the
Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Continue
in my love. This is a love that doesn't even
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make sense. This is an exchange that doesn't make any
sense because none of us deserve it. The Bible says,
for all have sinned and come short of the glory
of God. The Bible says, for the wages of sin
is death, but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. The Bible says, there's none righteous, no,
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not one. The Bible says, all of our righteousness is
as filthy rags. So there's nothing that you and I
can boast about. There's nothing that you and I can
brag about. And this is what fuels crucified ambition. His
love for you is the fuel for that g and
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X to crucify that ambition in your life.
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It's not duty, it's not obligation. It's not religion.
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It's not your church, it's not your pastor No, it's gratitude.
It's overwhelming, breathtaking love. When you finally get a revelation
of just how how much God loves you personally, then
dying to yourself is no longer a burden.
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You know what it becomes. It becomes a relief.
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Crucifying your ambition is no longer a sacrifice. It's a
reasonable response to an unreasonable love. I beseech you, therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies
as a living sacrifice wholly and acceptable onto God, which
is your reasonable service. Paul says over in Romans chapter twelve,
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verse one and two. He says, I urge you to
do this. He said, just present your body as a
living sacrifice. But the problem so many times is when
we go to make that sacrifice, we crawl off that altar,
the demand that God puts on us. We walk away
from it. Because we're free agents. God gives us free choice.
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So you have to ask yourself, choose you this day
who you will serve.
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And listen.
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If I stepped on your toes, I was aiming for
your heart. God took Paul's murderous ambition and he exchanged
it for an ambition to spread the Gospel to the
ends of the earth. Paul outran all of the disciples combined.
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Almost half of your New Testament Bible has that man's
signature on it.
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So what does that tell us?
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That tells us that God will take your mess and
he will make a message out of it. He will
take your brokenness and he will make you a breakthrough
for somebody else. But it all starts when you understand
the motivation. It is his radical, personal, sacrificial love for you.
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Got a question for you? Do you live your life
like someone who is just trying to follow rules or
like someone who is deeply and personally loved by Jesus?
What is your motivation? What is your motivation? Is it
to hold on to all of your positions and titles
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and rankings and parking spaces and to be seen at
the church?
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Is that it?
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Because if that's sinking sand, we all should be compelled
by the love of God to wake up in the
morning and ask God, God, what will you have me
to do for you today. Think of all the times
we go to God in our prayer, and it's always
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about God, bless me, bless me, bless me, bless me.
I see people go in and out of church every
week and the only thing that's on their mind is I.
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Got to go get my blessing. I got to go
get my blessing. Thing.
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Jesus died for you, so you can have some red bottoms.
Come on, don't don't do that. Don't play God like that.
We have a personal responsibility, like Paul, to pick up
that cross and follow him daily. So let's bring this
car back around. We started with this idea of crucified
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ambition and we broke down Paul's masterclass in Galatians chapter two,
verse twenty. First, you need a death certificate. You got
to have a death certificate. I have been crucified with Christ.
You need to keep that death death certificate in your
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back pocket. So your old life, your old plans, your
little kingdom is over. You have to let it die. Second,
you get a birth certificate, so you walk around with
a birth certificate and a death certificate. At the same time,
Paul said, it's no longer I who live for Christ
who lives in me. It's an exchange your life for his.
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It's the greatest trade up in history. You will find
no better upgrade than that right there. Third, you get
a user's manual, he says, the life I now live
in the flesh. I live by faith. So you operate
on a new power source. You trust Him, not you. Fourth,
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you get the motivation, he says, who love me and
gave himself for me. It's all fueled by a personal
radical love that changes everything, that changes your outlook on life.
This is the journey, this is the process. The depth
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of your ambition makes room for the life of Christ.
When you have the life of Christ in you, it
reorients your life.
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To seek His kingdom.
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It's like he told the disciples, he said, look look
at all these people that are coming towards us. Over
in John chapter four, he said, the harvest is great.
The laborers are few. He said, pray that God will
send more laborers. God is still hiring for laborers who
will go out there, who will go to the highways
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and the hedges, who will go to the prisons, who
will go to the hospitals, who will feed the hungry,
who will clothe the naked who. That's what He's called
us to do, to be His representation here on this earth.
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You have to do this by faith. You have to
do it by faith because you and I are completely
and utterly loved by God. That's the whole teaching. And
right there, put that in your spiritual backpack. This is
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a radical love that God has for you. So here's
the final call. Here's the final plea, and this I
want you to make a decision to get off the
throne of your own life. You're not that good of
a king anyway. Your kingdom is too small. It's stressful,
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and it's temporary, and it's of this world. This world
is passing. His kingdom is eternal, so you gotta exchange kingdoms.
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His joke is easy. My Bible tells me.
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His burden is like the ambition that God has for you.
The ambition that God has for your life is bigger
and better than any ambition you're chasing right now. It's
bigger and better than any ambition you could ever have
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for yourself. But you'll never experience it until you go
through the pain and the glory of crucified ambition.
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And if you only remember one thing today.
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Let it be this. God is not asking to be
your co pilot. He's asking for the driver's seat. He's
asking for the keys, he's asking for the title. He
wants it all. And trust me, he is a much
better driver than you.
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So I don't want to leave you hanging.
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I want to help you to put this into practice.
Three calls to actions for you this week, because my
Bible says that we are not only to be heroes
of the word, but we are to be doers of
the word. And what that means is you have to
put the word in action. You don't sit on your
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couch and watch someone work out and think that that's
going to benefit you while you eating donuts watching them
work out. No, you have to get up and take
your behind to the gym and get in the gym
and work out. And so here right now, we have
to get into our spiritual gem. We have to get
into our spiritual bag because we can't just hear this
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word and just say, yeah, that was a good word. Okay,
yeah peace. What's the next word? No? And that's the problem.
I think it's Christians. I used to say this a
lot back in the day.
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When God tells you to do something he does and
change his mind.
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About what he told you to do.
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Just go ask brother Jonah.
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If you don't believe me, go ask brother Jonah. Whatever
God tells you to do, he doesn't change his mind.
And so many times I see Christians will say, one
day God told me this, The next day God told
me this, the next day, God told me this. And
it's a God that they've built for themselves. It's their
own personal God. But whatever God has called you to do,
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whatever God has told you to do, God will provide
a means and a way for you to do it.
But He needs your obedience. Remember what the prophet Samuel
told King Saul. He said, obedience is better than sacrifice.
God wants your obedience. He wants my obedience, not tomorrow today.
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So go back to the last thing that God told you,
because He still wants you to do that. He still
wants you to do that. Obey God in the small
areas of your life, and then God will begin to
expand other areas of your life. But you've got to
show your faithfulness over the little things. I think so
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many times we're trying to keep up with what everybody
else is doing, and so we have to try to
put God on some sort of treadmill. God doesn't work
like that. God doesn't work like that at all. He's
not moved by your schedule. He's not moved by your countdown.
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So find the last thing that God told you to
do and go back and do that, because there's something
he wants to say to you back there. All right,
but let me give you these three called actions this week.
Number one, identify and crucify. Identify and crucify.
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This is what I mean. When you get a chance, take.
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Out a piece of paper or the notes app on
your phone, and I want you to be honest. God
loves honesty, be true to thine own self. I want
you to write down your number one ambition right now.
It's nothing wrong with having ambition, but I want you
to write down the number one ambition. What's the number
one thing that you're going to wake up tomorrow and
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go after the one plan, the one desire that you
know it's competing with God's will for your life.
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Then what I want you to do.
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After you write it down, I want you to write
Galatians two twenty over it where we just looked at tonight,
And I want you to then pray God, I nailed
this to the cross, It's yours. Now I seek your kingdom. Okay,
matter of fact, that's part of number two. Seek first,
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scroll second. Number two, seek first, scroll second for the
next seven days. Seven is the number of completion for
the next seven days. Before you check Instagram, before you
check your email, before you check the news, before your
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feet even hit the floor.
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If you can, if you can, read Matthew.
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Six point thirty three out loud, put it on your
phone screen, just open it up in your Bible.
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App, but read it out loud.
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Let allow those words to reverberate in your space, Allow
those words to come out of your mouth, hit the
wall and come back into your ears, and go back
into your spirit. Ask God to help you to seek
his kingdom first. Just ask God that God help me
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to seek your kingdom today, and watch how it changes
the posture of your heart for the rest of the day.
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Think about it. Think of what we go through to keep.
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Our phones at one hundred percent battery. When the last
time you plugged your spirit in. We won't let these
phones go. Lord, and fifty that phone go, Lord and fifty.
Some of y'all start losing it. But what about your spirit?
When is the last time you plugged your spirit in?
When is the last time you plugged into the word
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of God? When is the last time you plugged into fasting?
When is the last time you plugged into prayer? Where
you don't ask God for anything? So make sure you're
recharging your spirit. Make your spirit a greater priority than
a percentage on your phone. Number three, I want you
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to make the offering. Guys, No, I don't ask you
for a down and I never will. But you know
that person in your life right now, they're grinding, they're hustling,
and they're also running on empty, the one who is
building their own empire, and it's stressing them out.
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Send them this message. That's the offering. Share this podcast.
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Tell them you are thinking about them, And you know what,
I think there's a better way for you. Why don't
you listen to this? Do that for me, do that
for us. So I want to thank everyone who's watching
us on Facebook, on YouTube, to the podcast listeners, those
of you that are on Speaker, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio,
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thank you so much for listening. Wherever you are get
your podcasts, download the app, subscribe, like us rate us
review us give us five stars. You want to give
us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater.
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Let me pray for you.
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Father. We honor you.
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God for this time and your word.
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God. I thank you for the charge that you're giving us,
God to crucify our ambition. So God, I pray that
we will not just simply hear this word, but I
pray Father that we will respond to your word. God. God,
help us to be the vessels of change that you're
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calling us to be. God, God, help us to be
the men and women God that will bring glory and
honor to your name. Help us to seek first your
kingdom and your righteousness. Help us God to allow our
faith God to speak louder than the facts that we see.
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And so God, we thank you for the examples that
you've shown us in your word. We thank you God
for the work that you're starting in us, because we
know God that you will bring this work until completion
in the day of Christ. And so Father, we honor you.
We bless you. Father. So I pray for every man,
every woman, every young person God that is listening, and
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I pray Father that they will just take the seed
of your faith God, and begin to move mountains out
of their way. God, we crucify our ambitions, we nail
them to the cross. God. We seek you, we seek
your desires, we seek your will. Show us, God, how
we can better advance Your kingdom God, not our kingdom,
but your kingdom. O. God, forgive us, Father for the
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times that we've made it about ourselves. Forgive us God
for the times we just rushed into your presence and
we started just calling off things that.
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We want from you. Help us God to slow down.
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Help us God to set our affections on things above
and not on things on this earth. We thank you God.
We bless you, God, we honor you God. And it's
in Jesus Mighty matchless name that we do pray. A
man and a man listens. Family, as always, as I
like to say, get into the word of God, and
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the Word of God will get into you. I'm gonna
turn this thing over to brother Dana and brother
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome brothers in the Word. My name
is Tim Smith. I am the youngest child of Clara Jones.
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That's the only offering that I'm asking you for. Grab
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But I need you to grab scripture. Prepare yourself to
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take detailed notes. Shout out to Shannon. Also shout out
to little cousin Kayla for holding it down in the
Word of God. So let's get into it with me.
No fluff, just real, uncut truth. We're talking about something
tonight that's in the DNA of every single person listening
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to my voice. And the thing that's inside all of
us is ambition. Ambition, that's that hustle, that drive that grind,
that need to build, that need to create, that need
to be somebody that need to flex on them, to
stunt on them. But we're going to flip it. We're
going to flip ambition on its head for this episode.
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So the title for our time together. If you're taking notes,
write this down, Crucified ambition. That's a different kind of ambition.
Crucified ambition. You heard me, crucified ambition. Now, before we
even touch the scripture, let's talk about the power word
for today.
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Our power word for today is exchange.
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Exchange. What are we talking about? And exchange is the
act of giving one thing and receiving another in its place.
So we're not talking about a merger, we're not talking
about a partnership. We're talking about a total, complete substitution.
You give up the busted up kooptie, you get a
brand new whip. That's an exchange. You give up your
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counterfeit dollar, you get a crisp Hundie. That's an exchange.
So it's a trade up. So remember that word. Keep
that in the back of your mind. Exchange. So, family,
let me give your mission before we get started. Your mission.
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Should you choose to squabble up is this.
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I want you to identify the one ambition, the one desire,
the one plan you've been protecting. You've been protecting it
more than you've been praying about it.
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Your mission is to find that thing.
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And then I want you to get your hammer, and
I want you to get your nails ready. Let's park
the GNX right here next to our verse. And I
want you to imagine this car, because it's not just
any car. It's nineteen eighty seven Buick Grand National. We
got Anita Baker and the tape that cars all black.
It's menacing, it's fast, it's a street legend, and it's loud.
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And that right there, that's the description of our ambition.
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Our ambition looks good, it feels powerful, it gets a
lot of attention, it's loud, and you know what, we
love to park it right in the center of our lives.
We like to park it right in the center of
everything who we think we are. But guess what Jesus
is about to ask you for the keys to that car.
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So let's go to the Book of Galatians. That's where
we're going to pull up. Pull up with me over
in the Book of Galatians, we're going to be In
the second chapter twentieth verse just one verse, one verse.
Paul's writing to the saints in Galatia, and Paul is
going to throw a theological grenade in that verse. And
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this verse is still making noise two thousand years after
the apostle first wrote it. Let me read it for you. Galatians,
Chapter two, verse twenty. I hope you got we're going
to be reading out at ESV. Paul says this, and
I want you to listen to the tents of his word.
He says, I have been crucified with Christ. It is
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no longer I who live for Christ, who lives in me,
and the life.
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I now live in the flesh.
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I live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for me.
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Did you catch that?
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Did you see that?
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Did you hear that?
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Here's the beauty, here's the genius of this one particular verse.
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And when I saw this, it blessed me.
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Whenever I go into the scripture, I always ask God
God opened my eyes so I can see some things
that I haven't seen before. And in this particular verse,
the Holy Spirit did just that. I want you to
see what he pointed out to me the Relations chapter two,
verse twenty. I want to read it for you one
more time because I want to make sure you got
the context of what we're looking at. Relations Chapter two,
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verse twenty. He says, I have been crucified with Christ.
Verse it is no longer I who live, but Christ,
who lives in me, and the life I now live
in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son
of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
So what do you see in that verse? What did
I see in that verse? This is what I see.
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This one verse contains both a death certificate and a
verse certificate. It's a funeral and it's a baby shower,
all in one verse. It's the end of you and
the beginning of Him, who is the beginning of Him,
the beginning of Christ, but the beginning of Christ in you.
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So Paul is laying out this divine exchange, and right
here in this verse is the blueprint for what we're
calling crucified ambition. Now let's break this down. Part A
the death certificate, and this is what he says, I
have been crucified with Christ. That's the death certificate. Crucified
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let's start right there. This isn't poetry. This is a
legal declaration that Paul is making, and the original language
gives the idea of something that happened in the past,
but the effects of what happened in the past still
continue into the present. It's a done deal, crucified, finished
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over for Nito. This is the death of your ego,
the death of your plans, the death of your brand,
the death of your kingdom. Because understand about crucifixion. Crucifixion
was the most shameful, painful, and final form of execution
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in the Roman world. Crucifixion wasn't a quiet, dignified passing
When Jesus was on that cross. He was on that
cross for hours in agony. So crucifixion was a public
spectacle of humiliation, agony. And Paul says, I have been
crucified with Christ. He says that was me. I was
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on that cross with him. It was a cold crucifixion.
All of us were on that cross with him. So
what if Paul saying to us, you don't get to
co pilot with Christ, you don't get to be the
vice president of your own life. You have to die
your ambition to be the star of your own show.
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It has to be nailed to that tree. Your desire
to have the last word, your desire, the need to
be right fully crafted, three year, five year plan. You
have to bring all of that to God. If you
don't bring it to God, then it gets the nails.
And I'm not saying, I'm just saying a lot of
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us so called Christians, we want a crown, but we
don't want the cross. We want the resurrection, but we
don't want the fellowship of His suffering.
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We skip the funeral.
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You want God to bless your plans instead of submitting
to His plans. That's not Christianity. You know what that is.
That's consulting. This is the death certificate. It's God looking
at your old life. God looking at your old life
and your old hustle, your old broken down way of
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doing things, and God stamps deceased on it. It's final.
Your past is a place of reference, it's not a
place of residence. Talking about that old you, the one
who ran on pride and fear, the one who ran
on insecurity. He's gone, she's gone. You have been crucified.
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If you are a child of God, you have been
crucified period. Got a question for you, what ambition are
you still trying to keep alive even though God has
already issued its death certificate. Let's keep going. So we
looked at the death certificate. Now let's look at the
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birth certificate again. Both of these are in the same verse.
Listen to what Paul says. He says it is no
longer I who live, he said, but Christ who lives
in me. So here's the turn right here, here's the
divine plot twist. After the funeral, there's a resurrection after
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the death certificate comes to birth certificate. Please listen to
the words of the apostle and listen closely. He says emphatically,
it is no longer I who live, but Christ who
lives in me. So therefore that means the tomb is empty,
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but your life is now full. This is the great exchange.
You give him your sin, you give him your brokenness,
you give him your failed ambitions, and he gives you himself.
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He moves in.
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It's not you with a little bit of Jesus sprinkled
on the top. It's not you trying really hard to
be a better person. It's not you coming up with
a better New Year's resolution. It is an alien life form.
It is a hostile takeover of your soul in the
most glorious way. So the old tenant has been evicted.
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There's a new king on the throne. Go over the
revelations before verse one. Think about it like this. Your
body is a house. In fact, the Bible even says
that our body is the temple of the holy ghost.
So your body is a house. And for years you've
been living there. You picked all the ugly furniture in
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that house. You left a mess everywhere. You picked those
ugly drapes. The plumbing was shot, the foundation was cracked.
Then Jesus came knocking at the front door my Bible,
he says over in Revelation. Behold, I stand at the
door and knock. Finny man, hear my voice, and open
the door. I will come in to him. But here's
the thing. Jesus doesn't want to just visit you for dinner.
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He doesn't want to rent a room. He wants the
deed to the house. He wants to own the whole house.
And when you hand over the keys, guess what. He
doesn't just renovate the house. He demolishes the old structure,
and he builds a new palace in its place. If
any man be in Christ Jesus, old things have passed away. Behold,
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all things are now new. So the address is the same,
but the resident is now royal. And this is where
so many of us get it twisted. We think that
the Christian life is just us trying to imitate Jesus.
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I remember a few years ago, was what would Jesus do?
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Christian life is not trying to imitate Jesus. The Christian
life is Christ living his life through you. It's his
patience in you. It's his love in you, his wisdom,
his power flowing through your personality, flowing through your hands.
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You become his hands, You become his voice, You become
his feet. And the only way that can happen is
he has to take up residents inside of you. And
he can't take up residents inside of you when your
ambition will not abdicate the throne.
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So, if Christ is living in you, here's what that means.
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The old ambitions, the old desires, they have no place
to stay. They become homeless, starve the lie, feed the truth.
The truth is, it's not your house anymore. Peak aboot
This is where the title of this lesson gets his
teeth crucified ambition. Your ambition had to die, so his
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ambition for you could live. These two cannot coexist at
the same time. The Bible says, you cannot serve two masters.
John said, behold, I looked and I saw one sitting
on the throne. So I don't want you to think
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that your ambition should take precedence over God's presence in
your life. And what is his ambition. Let's talk about
his ambition for a moment. His ambition for you is
that you would look more like him. The Bible says
that we are the light of the world. The Bible
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says that we are the salt of the world. The
only way this world can see its way out of
the darkness that it's in is to see the light
of Christ in you. When you walk into the room,
the room should light up. Why because the light of
Christ is on the inside of you. He wants his
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kingdom to come through you. And this brings me to
a scripture speaking of kingdom. I hear people quote the
Scripture quite a bit, but they treat the scripture like
as a cosmic vending machine. They skip past the first
portion of the scripture because they want to get to
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the payoff part of the scripture. Whenever you're reading Matthew
chapter five, chapter six, and chapter seven, that's all one sermon.
That's the kingdom manifesto. That's what's known as the Sermon
on the Mount. And Jesus is laying out his constitution
and what his kingdom looks like. His kingdom doesn't run
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along the rules and the laws and the government of
this world. His kingdom transcends the government of this world.
So let's put this particular verse on the table. It's
found in Matthew chapter six, verse thirty three. This is
Jesus speaking. He says, but seek first. Somebody say priority, priority,
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But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these.
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Things will be added to you.
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People hear this, and hear me clearly, because a lot
of people hear this verse and they think, Okay, if
I pray for ten minutes, God will give me that promotion.
If I go to church, I'll get the car. But
let's keep it the buck. That's not it. Break it down.
He says, seek first. What does that mean? That means
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the kingdom has to be first in priority, in your life. First,
before you pick up your phone in the morning to
begin your morning.
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Scroll, he must be first.
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The kingdom must be first in your passion, first in
your calendar, first in your attitude. Before you seek the bag,
before you seek the likes, before you seek the heart emojis,
before you seek the relationship. Hear me, seek the King
and his kingdom. What is the Kingdom of God? I'm
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glad you asked.
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The Kingdom of God.
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Is his rules, his reign, It's his way of doing things.
It's asking in every situation you find yourself in, what
does King Jesus want me to do here? How does
the government of Heaven operate at this moment? Then he
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goes on and he says, and his righteousness, what is
his righteousness? His character, his perfect justice, his holiness, his meekness,
his humility, his love. So seeking the Kingdom, it's not
about you getting things. It's about getting him. It's about
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aligning your entire life, your entire ambition, with his rule
and his character. And when you do that, when you
do that, when Christ is truly living in you and
his priorities are your priorities, then all these things that
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part is just a side effect. That part is a given.
That part is the French benefit of being a child
of the king. Why because he takes care of his children.
Facts on facts on facts. But we're so busy chasing
the allowance and we forget to have a relationship with
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our father. We're going to God asking God for an allowance,
and he's your heavenly father. Seeking his kingdom is the
natural result of Christ living in you. Don't ask God
to order your steps and then you decide that you're
going to skip the instructions that he gives you, because
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the instructions are right here in this verse. Let crucify
your ambition, let Christ live in you, and then seek
His kingdom above all less. What good is for a
man to profit the whole world and lose his soul?
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And the Bible says what shall he give in exchange
for his soul? So we have to look at our
lives and ask ourselves, am I truly seeking God first?
Or am I seeking my ambition? And then I'm asking God, Hey, God,
come bless this, Come lay your hands on this question
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for you when you wake up in the morning. What
kingdom are you seeking to build? Yours or his? Because
how you answer that question will determine who's really on
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the throne of your life, Parci. And I want you
to answer that too, Perci. This is the daily walk.
Paul goes on to say this in Relations chapter two,
verse twenty. He says, and the life I now live
in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son
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of God. Okay, so I'm dead. Christ lives in me.
I'm seeking his kingdom, right, but I still got to
go to work on Monday. I still have my bills
to pay. I'm still in this body. I'm still in
this world with all its pressures, with all his problems.
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So Paul anticipates you saying that, and guess what he says.
He says, and the life I now live in the flesh.
So Paul is not floating on the cloud. He's telling
you he's in the flesh too. He's in the flesh too,
just like you are right here and right now. The
daily grind, the traffic jam, the difficult conversation, the temptation.
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He's saying, this new life has to work in the
real world.
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So how does it work?
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Let me give you the cheat code. I live by
faith in the Son of God. That unlocks everything right there.
If we're not living by faith in the Son of God,
we're just some balloons just blowing wherever the wind takes
us to. I live. My life is governed by faith
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in the Son of God. The Son of God is
the object of his faith. It's not faith in the promotion.
It's not faith and securring the bag. His faith is
anchored to something that is unmovable, the Son of God.
That's it. That's the upgraded operating system. That's the power
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source faith. And what is faith? The Bible says that
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen.
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Faith is a trust. Faith is reliance. Faith is leaning
your full weight on God. Living by faith.
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Means you stop living by your feelings. We walk by
faith doesn't say we walk by feelings. It doesn't say
we walk by emotions. We walk by faith and not
by sight. So when you're walking by faith, you stop
living by sight. You stop living by your emotions. You
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stop living by your own understanding. IE I believe its
Proverbs Chapter three.
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Verse five and six. Trust in the Lord with all
your heart.
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Lean not to your own understanding in all of your
ways acknowledge him, who is him God?
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And what will he do? He will direct your path.
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So don't allow a temporary feeling to make a permanent
decision for your life, because guess what, your feelings will
lie to you. Your bank account will lie to you,
your doctor's report will lie to you. They will tell
you things, They will tell you facts. But faith doesn't
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deny facts. You know what faith does. Faith denies finality.
And you see it permeating all the way through scripture.
You will see what something factual will take place, and
faith will come in and it will govern the finality
of that thing. Let's double click on that, because it's
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one thing to say it, but it's another thing to
see it in the text. I was thinking about the
Bible today and I said, Lord, the Bible is a
book of receipts. We always talking about receipts. I got receipts.
I got receipts. I can't receipts. The Bible been keeping receipts.
We ain't doing nothing new.
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Did you know?
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The Bible doesn't just make claims. The Bible shows you proof.
Let me give you just one example, one particular example
of what I'm talking about, because facts are the evidence
that is presented by the prosecution. I don't know if
you notice, but the Bible says over in Revelation chapter twelve.
I believes verse eleven, that we overcome Satan by the
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blood of the Word, by the blood of the Lamb,
by the word of our testimony. So that testimony is
our life in the courtroom of God. Because the Bible
also says that Satan is the accuser of the brethren,
so he likes to go to God and snitch. So nevertheless,
we're in this courtroom. The facts are the evidence. Satan
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has presented the facts. The fact is that this death
certificate has been delivered.
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The fact is the body is cold.
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The fact that is the bank account is empty, the
fact is the door is closed. But faith is the
defense attorney that walks in, looks at the evidence and says,
you know what, I don't dispute the facts presented, your honor.
I just happen to know a higher law. Now let's
go all the way back to the Old Testament. A
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lot of times when we talk about Elijah, we often
talk about, you know, when he went through his season
of depression. But I want to show you something else.
About Elijah, because Elijah was a very powerful man, one
of the greatest Old Testament prophets. So the prophet Elijah
staying with a widow, and a town calls they're fat.
I'm not sure if you understand or if you remember
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this particular story about Elijah. But there's a famine in
the land when Elijah is staying with this widow. But
God is supernaturally providing for Elijah and the widow and
her son. So it's basically a miracle per day. Every
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day God gives them a miracle. But then tragedy strikes. See,
the Bible is not a fairy tale. The Bible is
real life. The scripture says in First Kings seventeen seventeen.
Sho write that down says, after this, the son of
the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill, and
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his illness so severe that there was no breath left
in him. No breath left in him. That's a fact.
The boy is dead.
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That's a fact. That's not mostly dead.
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That is a one hundred percent grade, a clinical fact.
The doctor's report is in cause of death, severe illness,
time of death. Now, so the mother is weeping the
finality of death has filled the room and has filled
the house. These are the facts. But now let's shift
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to Elijah, because Elijah's operating a whole different frequency. He
takes the fact this boy's lifeless body, and he carries
it upstairs. He is not denying the facts, but he
is about to deny the finality. The text says that
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Elijah laid the boy on the bed and he cries
out to God, look at it in verse twenty one,
look at this, move right here.
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Verse twenty one.
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Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and
cried to the Lord, O, Lord, my God, let this
child's life come into him again. This is not a quiet,
polite prayer. This is a desperate faith, feel demand. This
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is a man wrestling with God while standing on the
promises of God, and he's commanding that the finality of
death submit to the life giver.
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Elijah is prophesying to a corpse.
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He is speaking life to a situation where the facts
are screaming death and the receipt you want, receipt, I
got you verse twenty two. And the Lord listen, oh
my God, to the voice of Elijah. And the life
of the child came into him again, and he revived,
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might drop the fact was death, but faith in God,
who holds the keys to life and death, defied the
finality of the grave. So Elijah brought the boy downstairs
and handed him off to his mama.
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That's not a cute.
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Story, spiritual principle, for whoever wants to pick it up.
God is looking for some people who will carry their
quote unquote dead situations into his presence and refuse to
accept the finality of the facts. Is your business on
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life support? Take it to the upper room. Does your
marriage feel like it has no breath in it? Stretch
your faith out over it. The doctor gave you a
bad report. Okay, cool, don't deny the report, but deny
its conclusion by appealing to the great physician. So I'm
gonna leave that right there for whoever wants to pick
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it up. But I got a question for you. What
dead situation have you accepted as a final verdict? Forgetting that,
faith has the authority to appeal to a higher court.
That's gonna bless somebody. That's gonna bless somebody. Party. Let's
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talk about your motivation, Paul said, who loved me and
gave himself for me? This is the bowl right here.
Who loved me and gave himself for me? This is
the exchange that we were talking about the last phrase.
This is the why Why would you do this? Why
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would you crucify your ambition? Why would you go through
this painful process of dying to yourself?
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Why would you choose to live by.
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Faith when it's so much easier to.
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Live by sight. Paul tells you, he said, because of the.
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One who loved me and gave himself for me. Notice
how personal that is, that's intentional. Paul doesn't say who
loved the world. He doesn't say who loved the church.
He doesn't even say who loved us. No, Paul says,
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you better get your own. He says who loved me?
So Paul brings this thing up close and personal. Paul says,
he gave himself for me. He died for me. Paul,
the man who hunted Christians, the man over in Acts
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chapter seven, who held the coats of the men while
they stoned Stephen to death, the man who called himself
the chief of sinners.
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He understood the love that God had for him.
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He knew that he deserved judgment. Paul said, I was
one born out of due season. Paul didn't get the
experience that the disciples got to live with Jesus, to
walk with Jesus, to see Jesus do many mighty wonderful
Paul didn't get any of those advantages.
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Paul knew his ambition.
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Was to destroy the very thing that God was building,
the very thing that God was trying to build in
the early Church. Paul was trying to eradicate the Church
off the face of the earth. You all need to
understand just how bad this man was. And yet in
the middle of his mess, asked chapter nine, Jesus met
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him on Damascus Boulevard. He loved him, and he gave
himself for him. This isn't a theological concept that we're
talking about. This is a love story. This is the
creator of the universe looking directly at you, with all
your flaws, all your secret sins, all your selfish ambitions,
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and he's saying, I choose you, I love you, and
I will pay the ultimate price to have you. He
didn't just die for the collective us, No, he died
for you. He saw you, he knew you, and he
gave himself for you.
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Please let that marinate in your spirit.
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I pray that we will learn to appreciate the sacrifice
that Jesus made for us. That it's not a once
a year thing on Easter when we get all dressed up. No,
every chance you get, you should just stop and pause
and reflect about how God loved you, how he chose
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you out of your family, how he placed his hand
on your life. God loves you. Jesus says that the
Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Continue
in my love. This is a love that doesn't even
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make sense. This is an exchange that doesn't make any
sense because none of us deserve it. The Bible says,
for all have sinned and come short of the glory
of God. The Bible says, for the wages of sin
is death, but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. The Bible says, there's none righteous, no,
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not one. The Bible says, all of our righteousness is
as filthy rags. So there's nothing that you and I
can boast about. There's nothing that you and I can
brag about. And this is what fuels crucified ambition. His
love for you is the fuel for that g and
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X to crucify that ambition in your life.
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It's not duty, it's not obligation. It's not religion.
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It's not your church, it's not your pastor No, it's gratitude.
It's overwhelming, breathtaking love. When you finally get a revelation
of just how how much God loves you personally, then
dying to yourself is no longer a burden.
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You know what it becomes. It becomes a relief.
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Crucifying your ambition is no longer a sacrifice. It's a
reasonable response to an unreasonable love. I beseech you, therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies
as a living sacrifice wholly and acceptable onto God, which
is your reasonable service. Paul says over in Romans chapter twelve,
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verse one and two. He says, I urge you to
do this. He said, just present your body as a
living sacrifice. But the problem so many times is when
we go to make that sacrifice, we crawl off that altar,
the demand that God puts on us. We walk away
from it. Because we're free agents. God gives us free choice.
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So you have to ask yourself, choose you this day
who you will serve.
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And listen.
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If I stepped on your toes, I was aiming for
your heart. God took Paul's murderous ambition and he exchanged
it for an ambition to spread the Gospel to the
ends of the earth. Paul outran all of the disciples combined.
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Almost half of your New Testament Bible has that man's
signature on it.
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So what does that tell us?
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That tells us that God will take your mess and
he will make a message out of it. He will
take your brokenness and he will make you a breakthrough
for somebody else. But it all starts when you understand
the motivation. It is his radical, personal, sacrificial love for you.
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Got a question for you? Do you live your life
like someone who is just trying to follow rules or
like someone who is deeply and personally loved by Jesus?
What is your motivation? What is your motivation? Is it
to hold on to all of your positions and titles
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and rankings and parking spaces and to be seen at
the church?
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Is that it?
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Because if that's sinking sand, we all should be compelled
by the love of God to wake up in the
morning and ask God, God, what will you have me
to do for you today. Think of all the times
we go to God in our prayer, and it's always
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about God, bless me, bless me, bless me, bless me.
I see people go in and out of church every
week and the only thing that's on their mind is I.
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Got to go get my blessing. I got to go
get my blessing. Thing.
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Jesus died for you, so you can have some red bottoms.
Come on, don't don't do that. Don't play God like that.
We have a personal responsibility, like Paul, to pick up
that cross and follow him daily. So let's bring this
car back around. We started with this idea of crucified
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ambition and we broke down Paul's masterclass in Galatians chapter two,
verse twenty. First, you need a death certificate. You got
to have a death certificate. I have been crucified with Christ.
You need to keep that death death certificate in your
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back pocket. So your old life, your old plans, your
little kingdom is over. You have to let it die. Second,
you get a birth certificate, so you walk around with
a birth certificate and a death certificate. At the same time,
Paul said, it's no longer I who live for Christ
who lives in me. It's an exchange your life for his.
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It's the greatest trade up in history. You will find
no better upgrade than that right there. Third, you get
a user's manual, he says, the life I now live
in the flesh. I live by faith. So you operate
on a new power source. You trust Him, not you. Fourth,
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you get the motivation, he says, who love me and
gave himself for me. It's all fueled by a personal
radical love that changes everything, that changes your outlook on life.
This is the journey, this is the process. The depth
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of your ambition makes room for the life of Christ.
When you have the life of Christ in you, it
reorients your life.
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To seek His kingdom.
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It's like he told the disciples, he said, look look
at all these people that are coming towards us. Over
in John chapter four, he said, the harvest is great.
The laborers are few. He said, pray that God will
send more laborers. God is still hiring for laborers who
will go out there, who will go to the highways
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and the hedges, who will go to the prisons, who
will go to the hospitals, who will feed the hungry,
who will clothe the naked who. That's what He's called
us to do, to be His representation here on this earth.
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You have to do this by faith. You have to
do it by faith because you and I are completely
and utterly loved by God. That's the whole teaching. And
right there, put that in your spiritual backpack. This is
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a radical love that God has for you. So here's
the final call. Here's the final plea, and this I
want you to make a decision to get off the
throne of your own life. You're not that good of
a king anyway. Your kingdom is too small. It's stressful,
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and it's temporary, and it's of this world. This world
is passing. His kingdom is eternal, so you gotta exchange kingdoms.
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His joke is easy. My Bible tells me.
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His burden is like the ambition that God has for you.
The ambition that God has for your life is bigger
and better than any ambition you're chasing right now. It's
bigger and better than any ambition you could ever have
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for yourself. But you'll never experience it until you go
through the pain and the glory of crucified ambition.
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And if you only remember one thing today.
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Let it be this. God is not asking to be
your co pilot. He's asking for the driver's seat. He's
asking for the keys, he's asking for the title. He
wants it all. And trust me, he is a much
better driver than you.
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So I don't want to leave you hanging.
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I want to help you to put this into practice.
Three calls to actions for you this week, because my
Bible says that we are not only to be heroes
of the word, but we are to be doers of
the word. And what that means is you have to
put the word in action. You don't sit on your
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couch and watch someone work out and think that that's
going to benefit you while you eating donuts watching them
work out. No, you have to get up and take
your behind to the gym and get in the gym
and work out. And so here right now, we have
to get into our spiritual gem. We have to get
into our spiritual bag because we can't just hear this
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word and just say, yeah, that was a good word. Okay,
yeah peace. What's the next word? No? And that's the problem.
I think it's Christians. I used to say this a
lot back in the day.
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When God tells you to do something he does and
change his mind.
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About what he told you to do.
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Just go ask brother Jonah.
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If you don't believe me, go ask brother Jonah. Whatever
God tells you to do, he doesn't change his mind.
And so many times I see Christians will say, one
day God told me this, The next day God told
me this, the next day, God told me this. And
it's a God that they've built for themselves. It's their
own personal God. But whatever God has called you to do,
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whatever God has told you to do, God will provide
a means and a way for you to do it.
But He needs your obedience. Remember what the prophet Samuel
told King Saul. He said, obedience is better than sacrifice.
God wants your obedience. He wants my obedience, not tomorrow today.
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So go back to the last thing that God told you,
because He still wants you to do that. He still
wants you to do that. Obey God in the small
areas of your life, and then God will begin to
expand other areas of your life. But you've got to
show your faithfulness over the little things. I think so
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many times we're trying to keep up with what everybody
else is doing, and so we have to try to
put God on some sort of treadmill. God doesn't work
like that. God doesn't work like that at all. He's
not moved by your schedule. He's not moved by your countdown.
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So find the last thing that God told you to
do and go back and do that, because there's something
he wants to say to you back there. All right,
but let me give you these three called actions this week.
Number one, identify and crucify. Identify and crucify.
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This is what I mean. When you get a chance, take.
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Out a piece of paper or the notes app on
your phone, and I want you to be honest. God
loves honesty, be true to thine own self. I want
you to write down your number one ambition right now.
It's nothing wrong with having ambition, but I want you
to write down the number one ambition. What's the number
one thing that you're going to wake up tomorrow and
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go after the one plan, the one desire that you
know it's competing with God's will for your life.
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Then what I want you to do.
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After you write it down, I want you to write
Galatians two twenty over it where we just looked at tonight,
And I want you to then pray God, I nailed
this to the cross, It's yours. Now I seek your kingdom. Okay,
matter of fact, that's part of number two. Seek first,
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scroll second. Number two, seek first, scroll second for the
next seven days. Seven is the number of completion for
the next seven days. Before you check Instagram, before you
check your email, before you check the news, before your
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feet even hit the floor.
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If you can, if you can, read Matthew.
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Six point thirty three out loud, put it on your
phone screen, just open it up in your Bible.
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App, but read it out loud.
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Let allow those words to reverberate in your space, Allow
those words to come out of your mouth, hit the
wall and come back into your ears, and go back
into your spirit. Ask God to help you to seek
his kingdom first. Just ask God that God help me
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to seek your kingdom today, and watch how it changes
the posture of your heart for the rest of the day.
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Think about it. Think of what we go through to keep.
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Our phones at one hundred percent battery. When the last
time you plugged your spirit in. We won't let these
phones go. Lord, and fifty that phone go, Lord and fifty.
Some of y'all start losing it. But what about your spirit?
When is the last time you plugged your spirit in?
When is the last time you plugged into the word
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of God? When is the last time you plugged into fasting?
When is the last time you plugged into prayer? Where
you don't ask God for anything? So make sure you're
recharging your spirit. Make your spirit a greater priority than
a percentage on your phone. Number three, I want you
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to make the offering. Guys, No, I don't ask you
for a down and I never will. But you know
that person in your life right now, they're grinding, they're hustling,
and they're also running on empty, the one who is
building their own empire, and it's stressing them out.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
Send them this message. That's the offering. Share this podcast.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
Tell them you are thinking about them, And you know what,
I think there's a better way for you. Why don't
you listen to this? Do that for me, do that
for us. So I want to thank everyone who's watching
us on Facebook, on YouTube, to the podcast listeners, those
of you that are on Speaker, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio,
(49:45):
thank you so much for listening. Wherever you are get
your podcasts, download the app, subscribe, like us rate us
review us give us five stars. You want to give
us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Let me pray for you.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Father. We honor you.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
God for this time and your word.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
God. I thank you for the charge that you're giving us,
God to crucify our ambition. So God, I pray that
we will not just simply hear this word, but I
pray Father that we will respond to your word. God. God,
help us to be the vessels of change that you're
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calling us to be. God, God, help us to be
the men and women God that will bring glory and
honor to your name. Help us to seek first your
kingdom and your righteousness. Help us God to allow our
faith God to speak louder than the facts that we see.
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And so God, we thank you for the examples that
you've shown us in your word. We thank you God
for the work that you're starting in us, because we
know God that you will bring this work until completion
in the day of Christ. And so Father, we honor you.
We bless you. Father. So I pray for every man,
every woman, every young person God that is listening, and
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I pray Father that they will just take the seed
of your faith God, and begin to move mountains out
of their way. God, we crucify our ambitions, we nail
them to the cross. God. We seek you, we seek
your desires, we seek your will. Show us, God, how
we can better advance Your kingdom God, not our kingdom,
but your kingdom. O. God, forgive us, Father for the
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times that we've made it about ourselves. Forgive us God
for the times we just rushed into your presence and
we started just calling off things that.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
We want from you. Help us God to slow down.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Help us God to set our affections on things above
and not on things on this earth. We thank you God.
We bless you, God, we honor you God. And it's
in Jesus Mighty matchless name that we do pray. A
man and a man listens. Family, as always, as I
like to say, get into the word of God, and
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the Word of God will get into you. I'm gonna
turn this thing over to brother Dana and brother
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