Lures: The Lure of Power
October 25, 2016
27:32
Bil Cornelius
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Lures: The Lure of Power
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- - Bil Cornelius: Could it be
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- that we're wanting something
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- without having to pay the price
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- for it?
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- "Just give me a wand and I can
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- just wave it and get what
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- I want.
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- That's what I want to do.
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- Let me just shake me nose and,
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- wow, dinner's served.
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- That was great.
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- I didn't even have to put an
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- apron on and get messy.
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- There it is, dinner's served."
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- See, the lure of power is that
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- we want to skip the process.
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- The truth is is that everything
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- - Bil: You are the church and
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- - Bil: Welcome.
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- How you guys doing?
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- Great to have you here today.
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- Thanks for joining us.
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- If you got your outlines,
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- pull those out if you would.
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- As you do that, let's hear our
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- mission statement together
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- across all of our campuses.
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- We are here to do, what?
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- To take as many people to heaven
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- as we can before we die, period.
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- That's what we're all about here
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- at Church Unlimited.
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- Again, thanks for being a part
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- of our services today.
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- We're glad that you guys have
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- joined us today.
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- We're gonna look at Jesus in
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- Matthew chapter 4.
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- If you got your Bibles,
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- Matthew chapter 4.
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- It says, "Then Jesus was led by
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- the Spirit into the wilderness
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- to be tempted."
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- I find it interesting that it
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- says here Jesus was led by
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- the Spirit.
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- So, the Spirit of God leads him
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- into the desert where the Spirit
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- of God knows the devil's gonna
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- be there to tempt him.
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- Now, wait a minute, I mean we
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- know the Bible's very clear that
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- that God does not tempt us,
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- so why would the Spirit of God
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- allow Jesus to go into a
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- situation where we know he's
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- gonna be weak because he's not
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- eating and he's gonna be
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- tempted?
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- Bad combination,
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- weak and tempted,
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- bad, bad, bad combination.
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- So, why would the Lord allow
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- this to happen unless this was
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- part of God's purpose?
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- Can I tell you something that
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- may surprise you?
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- That thing you struggle with,
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- are you trying to pray away
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- the one thing that makes you go
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- to God more than anything?
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- Are you asking God to remove the
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- one thing that makes you seek
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- him more than anything?
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- See, even if our lures,
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- in our temptations,
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- God has his purpose accomplished
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- because whatever your weakness
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- is, whatever your kryptonite is,
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- and we all have something
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- different, whatever it is,
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- I bet it does drive you to your
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- knees.
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- I bet it does make you say,
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- "Lord, I need your help.
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- God, I need you in my life.
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- I do not know how to deal with
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- And so, it makes us go to God.
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- So, it says here, "Then Jesus
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- was led by the Spirit into
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- the wilderness to be tempted
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- by the devil."
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- Now, it says here the devil, it
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- says, "After fasting 40 days and
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- 40 nights, he was hungry."
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- No surprise there, right,
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- Jesus is hungry 'cause he hasn't
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- eaten.
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- It says, "The tempter came to
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- him and said, 'If you are
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- the Son of God, tell these
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- Now, that sounds pretty good
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- actually.
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- I'm sure Jesus was like,
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- "Mmm, that's not a bad idea.
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- I mean, I'm pretty hungry.
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- I hadn't eaten in 40 days."
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- But did you notice how the devil
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- said it?
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- He said, "If you really are
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- the Son of God."
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- Do you notice he's trying to get
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- Jesus to question who he is?
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- So, I think it's interesting
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- that the devil's strategy is
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- really typically not to get you
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- to question who God is.
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- He's okay with you believing in
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- God.
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- He wants to make sure you don't
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- believe in yourself 'cause
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- here's what that looks like,
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- "Oh, God can do big things.
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- I know he can."
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- Okay, the Lord wants to do big
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- things through you.
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- "Oh, oh, not me.
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- No, no, no, I'm not good
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- enough."
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- So, see, we know that God's
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- a good God, and he's a big God,
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- and that he can move mountains
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- but somehow we think that we
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- can't access that 'cause we're
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- not very good.
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- And so, the devil wants to get
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- you to doubt yourself.
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- So Jesus, the devil even says to
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- him, "You know, if you're
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- the Son of God."
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- Well, first of all, the devil
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- knew he was the Son of God.
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- I mean, he knew that.
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- And so, for him to say this,
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- he was trying to get Jesus off
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- his game, and the devil's trying
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- to get you off your game too by
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- getting you to doubt yourself.
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- So, just keep that in mind.
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- And so, there's no reason to
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- doubt yourself.
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- You gotta remember who God made
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- you to be.
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- But it says here,
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- "Jesus answered him."
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- So, he says, "Hey, you know,
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- I know you're hungry and if you
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- really are the Son of God,
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- why don't you go ahead and
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- turn those stones into bread?
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- Jesus answered, "It is written:
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- 'Man shall not live on bread
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- alone, but on every word that
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- comes from the mouth of God.'"
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- So, Jesus is saying, "You know,
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- that sounds really nice.
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- It does sound really good to eat
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- right now, but I'll eat later.
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- But you know what?
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- I'm not here to depend upon
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- food.
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- I'm here in the desert hungry to
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- depend upon my Father."
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- And so, one of the ways that we
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- all fall into the lure of power,
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- number one, it's that play when
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- you act independently of
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- the Father.
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- You see, what we oftentimes fall
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- for is we're not trying to power
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- trip thinking that we're all
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- that but what we do is we try to
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- live the Christian life apart
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- from spending time with God.
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- So, what we're really saying is,
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- "I got enough power of my own.
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- I got this, so I'll serve Jesus
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- without hanging out with him.
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- I'll try to overcome my
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- struggles without calling on his
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- power."
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- And so, the temptation,
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- the lure of power is for us to
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- somehow think that we can
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- replace Jesus as the Lord of our
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- lives.
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- You're supposed to need God.
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- You're supposed to not be able
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- to do it on your own because
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- then you're supposed to call on
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- him.
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- It's an act of worship to
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- depend upon God to say,
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- "God, I need you.
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- I need you desperately.
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- I can't pull this off on my own.
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- I've tried.
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- I have tried to succeed in this.
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- I can't do it."
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- And God says, "That's right.
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- I knew that and that's why you
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- need me."
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- Don't fall for the lure that's
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- at play for power to act
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- independently of the Father.
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- So, what's the answer for this?
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- The answer is pray to pray and
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- surrender and say, "God,
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- I need to connect with you.
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- I need you in my life.
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- I gotta call out to you."
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- So, the answer here it says,
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- "We fall for the lure of power
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- thinking that somehow we're in
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- charge of our own lives.
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- Say, "Lord, I'm gonna pray.
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- I'm gonna surrender this to you.
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- I'm gonna trust in you."
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- One of the ways you know you're
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- falling for the lure of power in
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- your life to act independently
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- of the Father if you're worried
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- all the time.
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- Are you worried about things?
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- Are you paranoid?
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- Are you nervous?
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- "Oh, what's gonna happen here?
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- Oh, what's gonna happen there?
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- Oh, I don't know the future.
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- I don't know what's gonna
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- happen."
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- People say, "Oh, I'm so worried
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- about the future 'cause I don't
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- know the future."
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- Let's just back up for a second.
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- Do you ever think you were gonna
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- know the future?
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- Like, who told you you were
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- gonna know the future.
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- Like, you're not God.
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- Of course, you don't know
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- the future.
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- But see, what happens is if
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- you're not worshiping,
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- then you're worrying.
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- The way you overcome worry is to
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- worship because what you're
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- saying is you're saying,
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- "God, I resign as manager of
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- the universe and I'm gonna allow
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- you to be in charge."
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- Which he smiles and says, "Yeah,
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- I been in charge the whole time.
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- Glad you finally figured that
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- out."
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- And if you resign as manager of
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- the universe, you'll discover
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- the next day, it still runs on
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- its own because God's in charge.
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- You're not in charge.
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- And so, we stress out.
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- We get worried.
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- That's a sign we're not
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- depending upon God.
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- So, whatever you're lacking,
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- Jesus in this case was lacking
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- food, but he knew where he lacks
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- is where he's supposed to
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- connect with the father.
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- So, where you're lacking,
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- the answer isn't to get
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- paranoid, or freaked out,
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- or just start grasping for
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- anything that will work.
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- Instead say,
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- "God, I'm gonna trust you.
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- I'm lacking money.
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- You're my resource.
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- You know, Lord, I'm not happy.
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- I gotta find my happiness in
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- you.
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- Lord, I don't have the person
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- I want in my life or my
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- relationships aren't going good.
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- I'm gonna depend upon you to
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- turn that around.
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- Lord, my career's not where
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- I want it.
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- God, I'm gonna ask you to guide
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- me.
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- Lord, I'm not very good with
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- money and I'm in a big mess
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- right now.
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- Lord, I need your counsel."
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- If you'll begin to depend upon
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- God, he'll come through for you
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- because he put it in the
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- foundations of the world when he
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- began history, he already sent.
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- 'Cause it says he spoke
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- the world in existence.
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- He also spoke to all your needs
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- and before--listen, Jesus died
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- before you needed him to.
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- Then what makes you think
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- everything else you need hasn't
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- already been sent your way?
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- Listen, God is rarely early
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- but never late.
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- You can trust that what you
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- need when you need it,
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- you'll have it.
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- And so, if you feel like you're
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- lacking something,
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- the only thing you're lacking is
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- turning to him and saying,
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- "God, I just need to trust you.
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- I just need to trust in you and
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- know that you are there for me."
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- Look at the next temptation
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- here.
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- "Then the devil took him to
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- the holy city, and had him stand
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- on the highest point of
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- the Temple.
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- 'If you are the Son of God--'"
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- Notice again, he's trying to go
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- after his character,
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- his integrity, and he's starting
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- to go after his identity.
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- "If you're the Son of God,"
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- right?
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- Of course, we know he is.
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- "'If you're the Son of God,'
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- he said, 'throw yourself down.
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- For it is written: "He will
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- command his angels concerning
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- you, and they will lift you up
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- in their hands."'"
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- This is one of the only places
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- in the Bible, I think it's
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- the only place in the Bible,
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- that the devil quotes Scripture.
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- So, apparently, we need to be
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- careful.
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- Just 'cause someone quotes
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- a Scripture to us, doesn't mean
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- it's really of God.
- 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.080
- Now, the Scriptures of God, but
- 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:40.290
- they can be taken out of context
- 00:08:40.290 --> 00:08:43.030
- and clearly, the devil is not
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- meaning well by quoting
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- the Scripture so he's taking it
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- out of context.
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- He says, "'If you're really
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- the Son of God, then throw
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- yourself down.
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- He will command his angels
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- concerning you, and they will
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- lift you up in their hands,
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- so that you will not strike your
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- foot against a stone.'
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- Jesus answered him, 'It is also
- 00:08:57.170 --> 00:08:58.160
- written: "Do not put the Lord
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- your God to the test."'"
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- So, the temptation here is
- 00:09:01.230 --> 00:09:03.070
- something we also all fall into.
- 00:09:03.070 --> 00:09:05.120
- The temptation is he says,
- 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.000
- "Hey, let's go to the top of
- 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:08.060
- the temple in this religious
- 00:09:08.060 --> 00:09:10.130
- environment of Jerusalem think
- 00:09:10.130 --> 00:09:12.140
- about how cool it will be if
- 00:09:12.140 --> 00:09:14.150
- you're like the pinnacle of
- 00:09:14.150 --> 00:09:15.200
- the temple."
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- The temple is this really tall
- 00:09:16.090 --> 00:09:16.270
- building, and you're up there
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- and then you step off
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- the building and it looks like
- 00:09:19.170 --> 00:09:20.200
- you're gonna fall and die.
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- And the angels you know will
- 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:23.010
- catch you.
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- How cool will you look to
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- everyone?
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- People will be like,
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- "Man, that's Jesus right there.
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- Boom, check him out, man.
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- That is awesome, you know?
- 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.010
- And so, think about how awesome
- 00:09:32.010 --> 00:09:33.170
- you'll look, how spiritual
- 00:09:33.170 --> 00:09:34.230
- you'll look.
- 00:09:34.230 --> 00:09:35.090
- Oh, man, Jesus it will be
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- great."
- 00:09:36.110 --> 00:09:37.230
- And Jesus is like, "Yeah,
- 00:09:37.230 --> 00:09:38.180
- that's not what I'm here for."
- 00:09:38.180 --> 00:09:40.130
- Jesus is like, "I'm not here for
- 00:09:40.130 --> 00:09:41.140
- popularity contest.
- 00:09:41.140 --> 00:09:43.040
- I didn't come to this earth so
- 00:09:43.040 --> 00:09:44.050
- everyone will like me."
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- You know, I wonder if any of us
- 00:09:45.270 --> 00:09:47.100
- have fallen for the lure of
- 00:09:47.100 --> 00:09:49.150
- power of wanting to be liked,
- 00:09:50.050 --> 00:09:53.050
- of wanting to be Mr. Big,
- 00:09:53.160 --> 00:09:56.160
- Mrs. Awesome, of wanting
- 00:09:56.160 --> 00:09:58.120
- everyone to think that we're
- 00:09:58.120 --> 00:09:59.140
- super special, that we're super
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- spiritual and better than
- 00:10:02.040 --> 00:10:03.200
- others.
- 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:04.270
- I mean, I don't think any of you
- 00:10:04.270 --> 00:10:05.170
- guys have fallen for that,
- 00:10:05.170 --> 00:10:06.070
- right?
- 00:10:06.070 --> 00:10:06.270
- I mean, I haven't checked your
- 00:10:06.270 --> 00:10:07.280
- social media account lately.
- 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:11.240
- And those of you who are
- 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.090
- religious in the room right now
- 00:10:13.090 --> 00:10:14.230
- and are hearing this right now
- 00:10:14.230 --> 00:10:15.210
- thinking, "Oh yeah, I'm not into
- 00:10:15.210 --> 00:10:16.130
- all that."
- 00:10:16.130 --> 00:10:17.130
- But are you trying to look
- 00:10:17.130 --> 00:10:18.110
- spiritual?
- 00:10:18.110 --> 00:10:19.280
- Do you want people to know that
- 00:10:19.280 --> 00:10:21.040
- you know the Bible better than
- 00:10:21.040 --> 00:10:22.150
- they do?
- 00:10:22.150 --> 00:10:24.000
- Do you want people to know just
- 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:24.190
- how spiritual you are?
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- You know, frankly, I can just
- 00:10:25.290 --> 00:10:27.130
- use all the illustrations I can
- 00:10:27.130 --> 00:10:28.290
- possibly come up with for,
- 00:10:28.290 --> 00:10:30.150
- you know, stories and points
- 00:10:30.150 --> 00:10:31.180
- I'm making.
- 00:10:31.180 --> 00:10:32.050
- I just like to leave out the
- 00:10:32.050 --> 00:10:33.090
- ones that involve my own
- 00:10:33.090 --> 00:10:34.240
- failures 'cause, you know, then
- 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.180
- you'd like think I'm like human.
- 00:10:37.040 --> 00:10:40.040
- All of us want to impress other
- 00:10:40.040 --> 00:10:43.010
- people.
- 00:10:43.010 --> 00:10:44.170
- We do, we fall for the lure.
- 00:10:44.170 --> 00:10:46.030
- The lure of power's at play when
- 00:10:46.030 --> 00:10:47.060
- you try to look important, or
- 00:10:47.060 --> 00:10:48.270
- more spiritual, or better than
- 00:10:48.270 --> 00:10:50.170
- others.
- 00:10:50.170 --> 00:10:52.130
- We all fall for this.
- 00:10:52.130 --> 00:10:52.290
- You know, this is a real lure of
- 00:10:52.290 --> 00:10:54.080
- power with gossip.
- 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:55.050
- You know, gossip's really about
- 00:10:55.050 --> 00:10:55.290
- power.
- 00:10:55.290 --> 00:10:57.000
- Let me tell you what gossip
- 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:57.210
- really is.
- 00:10:57.210 --> 00:10:58.060
- Gossip is when you hear
- 00:10:58.060 --> 00:10:59.000
- something you like about someone
- 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:01.130
- you don't.
- 00:11:01.130 --> 00:11:04.000
- That's what gossip is.
- 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.270
- You know, oh but in a church
- 00:11:05.270 --> 00:11:06.270
- world we don't call it gossip,
- 00:11:06.270 --> 00:11:07.200
- we call it a prayer request.
- 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:08.140
- "Oh, we need to prayer for so
- 00:11:08.140 --> 00:11:09.150
- and so, did you hear?
- 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:13.240
- Did you hear?
- 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:14.240
- Oh, well, let me fill you in.
- 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:16.010
- We need to pray for them,"
- 00:11:16.010 --> 00:11:18.100
- right?
- 00:11:18.100 --> 00:11:18.250
- And so, the reality is that we
- 00:11:18.250 --> 00:11:20.270
- kind of like it.
- 00:11:20.270 --> 00:11:21.210
- We kind of like it when someone
- 00:11:21.210 --> 00:11:22.160
- goes down, especially if they
- 00:11:22.160 --> 00:11:23.190
- had it all together.
- 00:11:23.190 --> 00:11:24.090
- "Oh, you heard about so and so,
- 00:11:24.090 --> 00:11:25.200
- right?
- 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:26.060
- Do you know what their kid did,
- 00:11:26.060 --> 00:11:27.120
- right?"
- 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:28.020
- I mean, let's be honest, it
- 00:11:28.020 --> 00:11:28.250
- feels good when Mrs. Perfect mom
- 00:11:28.250 --> 00:11:31.010
- has a kid act up.
- 00:11:31.010 --> 00:11:31.240
- You're like, "Oh, that's just
- 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:32.120
- great."
- 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:33.010
- You know, we kind of like it.
- 00:11:33.010 --> 00:11:34.100
- I mean, let's just be honest,
- 00:11:34.100 --> 00:11:35.050
- right?
- 00:11:35.050 --> 00:11:36.040
- It's really true that we don't
- 00:11:36.040 --> 00:11:37.260
- talk about someone who's
- 00:11:37.260 --> 00:11:39.050
- succeeding in the office.
- 00:11:39.050 --> 00:11:40.060
- Oh no, we, "You know, so and so,
- 00:11:40.060 --> 00:11:41.150
- they got in trouble with
- 00:11:41.150 --> 00:11:42.010
- the boss."
- 00:11:42.010 --> 00:11:43.030
- But we never say,
- 00:11:43.030 --> 00:11:43.190
- "Hey, you know, so and so
- 00:11:43.190 --> 00:11:44.080
- won the award this year.
- 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:45.150
- I don't want to talk about
- 00:11:45.150 --> 00:11:46.010
- that," 'cause that doesn't make
- 00:11:46.010 --> 00:11:47.220
- you look good, right?
- 00:11:47.220 --> 00:11:49.090
- We all desire that we fall for
- 00:11:49.090 --> 00:11:50.280
- this lure to want to be
- 00:11:50.280 --> 00:11:53.160
- important but the Bible's very
- 00:11:53.160 --> 00:11:54.210
- clear that we should be lifting
- 00:11:54.210 --> 00:11:55.250
- up Jesus, not ourselves.
- 00:11:55.270 --> 00:11:58.270
- So, the answer's real simple.
- 00:11:58.270 --> 00:11:59.200
- The answer's actually one of our
- 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:00.130
- core values.
- 00:12:00.130 --> 00:12:00.290
- You want to write this down.
- 00:12:00.290 --> 00:12:01.170
- The answer is honor, to honor
- 00:12:01.170 --> 00:12:03.190
- others, this means we put others
- 00:12:03.190 --> 00:12:04.270
- first 'cause it's not all about
- 00:12:04.270 --> 00:12:05.270
- you.
- 00:12:05.270 --> 00:12:07.250
- What if you just begin to honor
- 00:12:07.250 --> 00:12:08.220
- people around you and you say,
- 00:12:08.220 --> 00:12:09.260
- "Man, you look great today.
- 00:12:09.260 --> 00:12:11.250
- You know what?
- 00:12:11.250 --> 00:12:12.110
- You're just really a great
- 00:12:12.110 --> 00:12:12.270
- person.
- 00:12:12.270 --> 00:12:13.260
- You know what?
- 00:12:13.260 --> 00:12:14.110
- You're just the best employee.
- 00:12:14.110 --> 00:12:15.200
- I just hey, you know what?
- 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:16.270
- I'm just so thankful for you."
- 00:12:16.270 --> 00:12:18.130
- And just honor other people.
- 00:12:18.130 --> 00:12:21.060
- Just try it.
- 00:12:21.060 --> 00:12:22.100
- It will blow your mind.
- 00:12:22.100 --> 00:12:23.240
- Just begin to pour into other
- 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:24.220
- people because this breaks
- 00:12:24.220 --> 00:12:26.280
- the lure of power in your life
- 00:12:26.280 --> 00:12:28.290
- to want to look like you're all
- 00:12:28.290 --> 00:12:31.010
- that, to want to look important,
- 00:12:31.010 --> 00:12:33.250
- to want to always look
- 00:12:33.250 --> 00:12:34.200
- attractive and perfect and like
- 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.060
- everything's going just right in
- 00:12:36.060 --> 00:12:37.040
- your life all the time.
- 00:12:37.040 --> 00:12:37.190
- This breaks that lure in our
- 00:12:37.190 --> 00:12:39.190
- lives.
- 00:12:39.190 --> 00:12:40.050
- It's really a big deal.
- 00:12:40.050 --> 00:12:40.270
- Now, the last one is where
- 00:12:40.270 --> 00:12:42.120
- I really want to kind of park
- 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:43.020
- for a second, okay, because this
- 00:12:43.020 --> 00:12:44.200
- is the ultimate lure of power.
- 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:47.050
- And we don't think about it as
- 00:12:47.050 --> 00:12:47.260
- power, but it is.
- 00:12:47.260 --> 00:12:49.290
- Look at the last temptation that
- 00:12:49.290 --> 00:12:52.090
- the devil throws at Jesus.
- 00:12:52.090 --> 00:12:53.290
- Mind you, he's hungry.
- 00:12:53.290 --> 00:12:55.090
- He's tired, 'cause he's had no
- 00:12:55.090 --> 00:12:56.100
- food, right?
- 00:12:56.100 --> 00:12:57.190
- And so, he's tempting him when
- 00:12:57.190 --> 00:12:59.050
- he's at his worst physically,
- 00:12:59.050 --> 00:13:01.100
- right?
- 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:01.250
- And so, the devil says this,
- 00:13:01.250 --> 00:13:02.290
- "Again, the devil took him to
- 00:13:02.290 --> 00:13:03.230
- a very high mountain and
- 00:13:03.230 --> 00:13:04.290
- showed him all the kingdoms of
- 00:13:04.290 --> 00:13:06.130
- the world and their splendor.
- 00:13:06.130 --> 00:13:08.250
- 'All this I will give you,'
- 00:13:08.250 --> 00:13:10.190
- he said, 'if you will bow down
- 00:13:10.190 --> 00:13:12.100
- and worship me.'
- 00:13:12.100 --> 00:13:14.020
- Jesus said to him,
- 00:13:14.020 --> 00:13:14.230
- 'Away from me, Satan!
- 00:13:14.230 --> 00:13:15.240
- For it is written: "Worship
- 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:16.230
- the Lord your God, and serve him
- 00:13:16.230 --> 00:13:17.280
- only."'
- 00:13:17.280 --> 00:13:18.230
- Then the devil left him,
- 00:13:18.230 --> 00:13:19.220
- and angels came and attended
- 00:13:19.220 --> 00:13:20.270
- him."
- 00:13:20.270 --> 00:13:21.160
- Here we've got the ultimate
- 00:13:21.160 --> 00:13:23.260
- temptation of power.
- 00:13:23.260 --> 00:13:25.220
- So, let me explain this.
- 00:13:25.220 --> 00:13:26.200
- So, first of all, the devil
- 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:28.060
- says, "Hey, check it out,
- 00:13:28.060 --> 00:13:29.080
- Jesus. I'll give you all these."
- 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.210
- He probably took him over to
- 00:13:30.210 --> 00:13:31.110
- Rome.
- 00:13:31.110 --> 00:13:31.270
- Rome was the most influential
- 00:13:31.270 --> 00:13:32.260
- city in the world at that time.
- 00:13:32.260 --> 00:13:34.000
- He's like, "I'll give you Rome,
- 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:34.290
- man.
- 00:13:34.290 --> 00:13:35.160
- You'll be the man.
- 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:36.250
- You'll be like the head
- 00:13:36.250 --> 00:13:38.000
- philosopher, man.
- 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.100
- I mean, forget all these
- 00:13:39.100 --> 00:13:39.290
- philosophers.
- 00:13:39.290 --> 00:13:40.180
- You'll if the philosopher.
- 00:13:40.180 --> 00:13:41.160
- You'll be the guy, right?
- 00:13:41.160 --> 00:13:42.110
- You can run the whole world."
- 00:13:42.110 --> 00:13:43.140
- Now, you may be thinking,
- 00:13:43.140 --> 00:13:44.010
- how can the devil offer him
- 00:13:44.010 --> 00:13:45.190
- the world?
- 00:13:45.190 --> 00:13:46.110
- I mean, is it the devil's?
- 00:13:46.110 --> 00:13:47.230
- Let me show you a Scripture.
- 00:13:47.230 --> 00:13:48.130
- It says in John 12:31,
- 00:13:48.130 --> 00:13:50.030
- "The time for judging this world
- 00:13:50.030 --> 00:13:51.120
- has come, when Satan,
- 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:52.150
- the ruler of this world,
- 00:13:52.150 --> 00:13:53.230
- will be cast out."
- 00:13:53.230 --> 00:13:55.220
- You see, you need to understand
- 00:13:55.220 --> 00:13:56.210
- something about the devil,
- 00:13:56.210 --> 00:13:57.220
- he runs the world.
- 00:13:57.220 --> 00:13:59.220
- If you don't know that, you're
- 00:13:59.220 --> 00:14:00.260
- gonna be really frustrated
- 00:14:00.260 --> 00:14:01.140
- and offended all the time.
- 00:14:01.140 --> 00:14:03.040
- Every time someone else's album
- 00:14:03.040 --> 00:14:04.110
- comes out, "Why did they have to
- 00:14:04.110 --> 00:14:05.050
- write a song about that?
- 00:14:05.050 --> 00:14:05.250
- That's so offensive.
- 00:14:05.250 --> 00:14:06.260
- I can't believe they'd even put
- 00:14:06.260 --> 00:14:07.270
- that in a song.
- 00:14:07.270 --> 00:14:08.130
- Oh my gosh, you seen that new TV
- 00:14:08.130 --> 00:14:09.110
- show, oh, It's horrible.
- 00:14:09.110 --> 00:14:10.160
- Oh, my goodness.
- 00:14:10.160 --> 00:14:11.080
- You know what they're putting in
- 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:11.270
- textbooks now at school?
- 00:14:11.270 --> 00:14:12.280
- I can't believe that these
- 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:13.220
- people are doing this, and the
- 00:14:13.220 --> 00:14:14.280
- government's trying to pass this
- 00:14:14.280 --> 00:14:15.200
- law, and they're so
- 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:16.140
- anti-Christian.
- 00:14:16.140 --> 00:14:16.290
- Oh, they're just horrible."
- 00:14:16.290 --> 00:14:17.250
- What'd you expect?
- 00:14:17.250 --> 00:14:20.160
- The world's not run by Christ.
- 00:14:20.160 --> 00:14:23.130
- The world's run by the devil.
- 00:14:23.130 --> 00:14:24.150
- "Oh, I just feel like it's
- 00:14:24.150 --> 00:14:25.010
- getting worse."
- 00:14:25.010 --> 00:14:25.190
- Right, it is according to
- 00:14:25.190 --> 00:14:26.150
- the Bible every year getting
- 00:14:26.150 --> 00:14:27.250
- worse and worse until Jesus
- 00:14:27.250 --> 00:14:28.160
- comes back.
- 00:14:28.160 --> 00:14:30.060
- That's what the Bible actually
- 00:14:30.060 --> 00:14:30.240
- says.
- 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:31.230
- So, instead of freaking out all
- 00:14:31.230 --> 00:14:32.290
- the time, that's to be expected.
- 00:14:33.160 --> 00:14:36.160
- The problem is is when
- 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:37.100
- Christians act like
- 00:14:37.100 --> 00:14:37.270
- non-Christians, that's the real
- 00:14:37.270 --> 00:14:40.020
- challenge, right?
- 00:14:40.020 --> 00:14:41.150
- It's like, "I'm having a hard
- 00:14:41.150 --> 00:14:42.080
- time just trying to be godly
- 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.090
- myself, let alone, trying to ask
- 00:14:44.090 --> 00:14:46.070
- someone who doesn't even know
- 00:14:46.070 --> 00:14:48.070
- Jesus to act like Jesus.
- 00:14:48.070 --> 00:14:49.150
- That's crazy."
- 00:14:49.150 --> 00:14:51.080
- And so, it says here that he's
- 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:52.290
- over the world.
- 00:14:52.290 --> 00:14:53.150
- So, he says, "Hey, Jesus,
- 00:14:53.150 --> 00:14:55.080
- since you know I got all of it,
- 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:57.130
- I'll give it to you.
- 00:14:57.130 --> 00:14:58.220
- All you gotta do is bow
- 00:14:58.220 --> 00:15:00.170
- the knee."
- 00:15:00.170 --> 00:15:01.180
- And Jesus won't do it.
- 00:15:01.180 --> 00:15:03.250
- What was the devil really doing?
- 00:15:03.250 --> 00:15:05.040
- He was saying, "You don't need
- 00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:06.140
- to go die on a cross.
- 00:15:06.140 --> 00:15:09.120
- You know, if you want to
- 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:10.040
- dominate the world,
- 00:15:10.040 --> 00:15:11.110
- if you want to be in charge,
- 00:15:11.110 --> 00:15:12.180
- I'll just give it to you.
- 00:15:12.180 --> 00:15:14.040
- You don't have to go die on
- 00:15:14.040 --> 00:15:14.210
- the cross for that.
- 00:15:14.210 --> 00:15:15.190
- I mean, talk about a pain,
- 00:15:15.190 --> 00:15:16.180
- literally.
- 00:15:16.180 --> 00:15:17.180
- You sure you want to do that?
- 00:15:17.180 --> 00:15:18.240
- Don't do that.
- 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.140
- Just skip all that.
- 00:15:20.140 --> 00:15:22.020
- I'll just give you the world."
- 00:15:22.020 --> 00:15:23.160
- Let me show you another
- 00:15:23.160 --> 00:15:24.010
- Scripture.
- 00:15:24.010 --> 00:15:24.280
- It says in Matthew 16:21,
- 00:15:24.280 --> 00:15:26.150
- "From that time on Jesus began
- 00:15:26.150 --> 00:15:27.150
- to explain to his disciples that
- 00:15:27.150 --> 00:15:28.230
- he must go to Jerusalem and
- 00:15:28.230 --> 00:15:29.270
- suffer many things at the hands
- 00:15:29.270 --> 00:15:31.060
- of the elders, the chief priests
- 00:15:31.060 --> 00:15:32.120
- and the teachers of the law,
- 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:34.000
- and that he must be killed and
- 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:35.260
- on the third day be raised to
- 00:15:35.260 --> 00:15:36.270
- life."
- 00:15:36.270 --> 00:15:37.120
- Now, Jesus was a very popular
- 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:39.240
- teacher until he began to talk
- 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.110
- about this.
- 00:15:41.110 --> 00:15:43.000
- I mean, they're like,
- 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:44.020
- "I love Jesus.
- 00:15:44.020 --> 00:15:44.230
- Man, he's the man.
- 00:15:44.230 --> 00:15:45.130
- Come on, everybody chant with
- 00:15:45.130 --> 00:15:46.020
- me.
- 00:15:46.020 --> 00:15:46.170
- Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."
- 00:15:46.170 --> 00:15:48.070
- Right, they were like,
- 00:15:48.070 --> 00:15:49.020
- "He's the man.
- 00:15:49.020 --> 00:15:49.220
- He's awesome.
- 00:15:49.220 --> 00:15:50.100
- Did you see him heal that guy
- 00:15:50.100 --> 00:15:51.080
- that was blind and now he can
- 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:52.190
- see?
- 00:15:52.190 --> 00:15:53.130
- Did you see, you know, that
- 00:15:53.130 --> 00:15:54.090
- person that couldn't walk and
- 00:15:54.090 --> 00:15:55.100
- now they're walking around?
- 00:15:55.100 --> 00:15:56.030
- And he walked on water.
- 00:15:56.030 --> 00:15:56.240
- And my favorite miracle, he
- 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:57.270
- turned all that water into wine.
- 00:15:57.270 --> 00:15:58.260
- I mean, that's cool.
- 00:15:58.260 --> 00:16:00.260
- You know, he took some kid's
- 00:16:00.260 --> 00:16:01.220
- lunch and he fed all of us from
- 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:03.030
- it.
- 00:16:03.030 --> 00:16:03.190
- I mean, that's awesome."
- 00:16:03.190 --> 00:16:04.120
- And they're like,
- 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:04.270
- "Yeah man, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
- 00:16:04.270 --> 00:16:07.050
- Oh, what's he gonna teach on
- 00:16:07.050 --> 00:16:07.290
- today?"
- 00:16:07.290 --> 00:16:08.200
- And all of a sudden, he gets up
- 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:09.090
- and says, "If you're gonna be my
- 00:16:09.090 --> 00:16:10.060
- follower, you gotta take up your
- 00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:11.230
- own cross and you gotta suffer
- 00:16:11.230 --> 00:16:13.060
- with me to follow me,
- 00:16:13.060 --> 00:16:14.190
- and I got to go die."
- 00:16:14.190 --> 00:16:16.120
- "Jesus, Jesus, what?
- 00:16:17.130 --> 00:16:20.130
- Can I get a refund?
- 00:16:20.130 --> 00:16:21.060
- I didn't know that was what
- 00:16:21.060 --> 00:16:22.170
- the seminar was about, what?
- 00:16:22.170 --> 00:16:25.080
- This is not what I was hoping.
- 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:27.260
- You gotta die?"
- 00:16:27.260 --> 00:16:28.150
- In fact, remember what we talked
- 00:16:28.150 --> 00:16:29.220
- about this that when Peter said
- 00:16:29.220 --> 00:16:31.050
- to Jesus, "Oh, you don't have to
- 00:16:31.050 --> 00:16:31.280
- die.
- 00:16:31.280 --> 00:16:32.140
- Lord, we'll die for you."
- 00:16:32.140 --> 00:16:33.190
- And what did he say to him?
- 00:16:33.190 --> 00:16:34.080
- He said, "Get behind me, Satan."
- 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.130
- Like whoa.
- 00:16:36.130 --> 00:16:37.290
- I thought Peter was his friend.
- 00:16:37.290 --> 00:16:38.210
- He just called him Satan.
- 00:16:38.210 --> 00:16:39.230
- And then Judas comes along,
- 00:16:39.230 --> 00:16:41.090
- kisses Jesus on the cheek.
- 00:16:41.090 --> 00:16:42.120
- As he's betraying him he says,
- 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:43.160
- "Go down what you're gonna do,
- 00:16:43.160 --> 00:16:44.070
- friend."
- 00:16:44.070 --> 00:16:45.210
- So, you call Judas your friend
- 00:16:45.210 --> 00:16:46.280
- and Peter who actually is your
- 00:16:46.280 --> 00:16:48.150
- friend, you call him Satan.
- 00:16:48.150 --> 00:16:49.190
- This doesn't make sense.
- 00:16:49.190 --> 00:16:50.160
- But it makes perfect sense in
- 00:16:50.160 --> 00:16:51.090
- the light of his purpose.
- 00:16:51.090 --> 00:16:53.080
- He was saying, "Peter, I know
- 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:54.040
- you mean well but my purpose is
- 00:16:54.040 --> 00:16:55.270
- to die.
- 00:16:55.270 --> 00:16:56.160
- I came to die.
- 00:16:56.160 --> 00:16:59.000
- So, Judas, while he's betraying
- 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.060
- me, actually is helping me enter
- 00:17:00.060 --> 00:17:02.160
- into ultimately my glory."
- 00:17:02.160 --> 00:17:05.140
- Does that make sense?
- 00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:07.120
- So, it seems opposite.
- 00:17:07.120 --> 00:17:08.050
- Check out the next Scripture.
- 00:17:08.050 --> 00:17:09.060
- Look at this.
- 00:17:09.060 --> 00:17:09.240
- It says in
- 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:10.160
- Philippians 2, verse 8,
- 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:11.270
- "He humbled himself in obedience
- 00:17:11.270 --> 00:17:13.020
- to God and died a criminals
- 00:17:13.020 --> 00:17:14.090
- death on a cross.
- 00:17:14.090 --> 00:17:15.090
- Therefore, God elevated him to
- 00:17:15.090 --> 00:17:16.140
- the place of highest honor and
- 00:17:16.140 --> 00:17:17.240
- gave him the name above all
- 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:18.250
- other names, that at the name of
- 00:17:18.250 --> 00:17:20.120
- Jesus every knee should bow, in
- 00:17:20.120 --> 00:17:22.070
- heaven and on earth and under
- 00:17:22.210 --> 00:17:25.210
- the earth," heaven, hell, and
- 00:17:25.210 --> 00:17:26.270
- earth, "every tongue will
- 00:17:26.270 --> 00:17:28.000
- declare that Jesus Christ is
- 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:28.260
- Lord, to the glory of God
- 00:17:28.260 --> 00:17:30.140
- the Father."
- 00:17:30.140 --> 00:17:30.290
- So, Jesus was like, "Hey devil,
- 00:17:30.290 --> 00:17:32.120
- I'm not gonna fall for this
- 00:17:32.120 --> 00:17:33.200
- little you'll give me whole
- 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.050
- world because after I do what
- 00:17:35.050 --> 00:17:36.210
- I'm gonna do, I'm gonna have
- 00:17:36.210 --> 00:17:37.270
- the world, heaven, and hell,
- 00:17:37.270 --> 00:17:39.290
- all under me.
- 00:17:39.290 --> 00:17:42.010
- So, I don't need the cheap
- 00:17:42.010 --> 00:17:43.180
- imitation you're trying to sell
- 00:17:43.180 --> 00:17:44.220
- me when I'm about to have the
- 00:17:44.220 --> 00:17:46.050
- real thing because I'm gonna go
- 00:17:46.050 --> 00:17:47.210
- to that cross.
- 00:17:47.210 --> 00:17:48.090
- I'm not skipping the cross."
- 00:17:48.090 --> 00:17:50.080
- And here is the greatest lure of
- 00:17:52.110 --> 00:17:55.110
- power that we all fall for.
- 00:17:56.060 --> 00:17:59.060
- Are you ready?
- 00:17:59.060 --> 00:18:00.090
- Turn to the person next to you
- 00:18:00.090 --> 00:18:00.270
- and say, "This is gonna be
- 00:18:00.270 --> 00:18:01.130
- profound."
- 00:18:01.130 --> 00:18:01.260
- Let them know right now 'cause
- 00:18:01.260 --> 00:18:03.110
- it's not from me.
- 00:18:03.110 --> 00:18:04.060
- Here it is, the biggest
- 00:18:04.280 --> 00:18:07.280
- temptation, the biggest lure of
- 00:18:07.280 --> 00:18:10.020
- power we fall for is that we all
- 00:18:10.020 --> 00:18:13.000
- want to skip the process.
- 00:18:15.030 --> 00:18:18.030
- "Oh, Jesus, you don't have to go
- 00:18:18.030 --> 00:18:18.270
- to the cross."
- 00:18:18.270 --> 00:18:20.140
- There is no Messiah,
- 00:18:20.140 --> 00:18:22.070
- there is no resurrection without
- 00:18:22.070 --> 00:18:23.240
- a death on the cross.
- 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:26.200
- And what we're tempted--this is
- 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:28.010
- why we like power.
- 00:18:28.010 --> 00:18:29.040
- We don't say we like power.
- 00:18:29.040 --> 00:18:30.010
- We wouldn't say that,
- 00:18:30.010 --> 00:18:30.200
- "I want power, ha, ha, ha."
- 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:32.160
- We're not like that but the way
- 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:34.050
- we want power is we think, "Oh
- 00:18:34.050 --> 00:18:36.060
- man, you know, I see this friend
- 00:18:36.060 --> 00:18:37.080
- of mine and they're really in
- 00:18:37.080 --> 00:18:38.050
- good shape.
- 00:18:38.050 --> 00:18:38.200
- And I've been reading all these
- 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:39.090
- books and it say I'm supposed to
- 00:18:39.090 --> 00:18:39.280
- work out every day, and eat
- 00:18:39.280 --> 00:18:40.260
- right, and eat real clean,
- 00:18:40.260 --> 00:18:41.240
- and eat no carb.
- 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:42.140
- And that's what I gotta do.
- 00:18:42.140 --> 00:18:43.060
- But you know I went over to GNC
- 00:18:43.060 --> 00:18:44.270
- and they got this little pill.
- 00:18:44.270 --> 00:18:47.240
- And we just take the pill,
- 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:48.230
- I look like the girl or guy on
- 00:18:48.230 --> 00:18:50.000
- the bottle."
- 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:52.110
- Are you falling for that lure
- 00:18:52.110 --> 00:18:54.090
- that says you can skip
- 00:18:54.090 --> 00:18:55.010
- the process of exercise and
- 00:18:55.010 --> 00:18:56.240
- eating right?
- 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:58.190
- Because actually those things
- 00:18:58.190 --> 00:18:59.240
- have a perverse effect.
- 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:01.150
- When you try to cheat the
- 00:19:01.150 --> 00:19:02.150
- process, you become unhealthy
- 00:19:02.150 --> 00:19:04.240
- because now not only are you not
- 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:06.180
- losing the weight and getting in
- 00:19:06.180 --> 00:19:07.170
- good shape, now you got a heart
- 00:19:07.170 --> 00:19:08.090
- palpitation problem.
- 00:19:08.090 --> 00:19:09.150
- How's that healthy?
- 00:19:09.150 --> 00:19:11.230
- It's a perverse effect.
- 00:19:11.230 --> 00:19:14.200
- It's just funny kind of how that
- 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:16.000
- works.
- 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:17.150
- So, we keep trying to skip
- 00:19:17.150 --> 00:19:18.150
- the process.
- 00:19:18.150 --> 00:19:19.010
- And maybe that's not your
- 00:19:19.010 --> 00:19:19.250
- struggle.
- 00:19:19.250 --> 00:19:20.130
- Maybe you say, "Well, I mean,
- 00:19:20.130 --> 00:19:21.170
- pastor, I'm not struggling with
- 00:19:21.170 --> 00:19:22.210
- that but, you know, I just want
- 00:19:22.210 --> 00:19:23.110
- to know God and walk with him."
- 00:19:23.110 --> 00:19:25.150
- You know, you're saying that but
- 00:19:25.150 --> 00:19:26.270
- when's the last time you really
- 00:19:26.270 --> 00:19:27.160
- prayed to the Lord without being
- 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:29.240
- in church and not before your
- 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:30.280
- meal?
- 00:19:30.280 --> 00:19:32.240
- But you just said, "God I want
- 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:33.170
- to just spend time with you,
- 00:19:33.170 --> 00:19:34.120
- I want to walk with you"?
- 00:19:34.120 --> 00:19:34.280
- See, everybody wants to know
- 00:19:34.280 --> 00:19:36.150
- Jesus but nobody wants to share
- 00:19:36.150 --> 00:19:37.190
- in his sufferings.
- 00:19:38.060 --> 00:19:41.060
- But if you're really gonna have
- 00:19:41.060 --> 00:19:41.290
- his character, that's the price.
- 00:19:41.290 --> 00:19:42.290
- Someone says to me, "Oh,
- 00:19:42.290 --> 00:19:44.100
- I want to be a Godly person.
- 00:19:44.100 --> 00:19:45.240
- I really want to love the Lord.
- 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:47.010
- And I want to be just a great
- 00:19:47.010 --> 00:19:47.190
- people person and really just
- 00:19:47.190 --> 00:19:49.150
- impact people's lives."
- 00:19:49.150 --> 00:19:50.130
- And God says, "Oh, you want to
- 00:19:50.130 --> 00:19:51.070
- be a people person?
- 00:19:51.070 --> 00:19:51.230
- Awesome.
- 00:19:51.230 --> 00:19:52.100
- I'm gonna put jerk one and
- 00:19:52.100 --> 00:19:53.090
- jerk two on either side of you
- 00:19:53.090 --> 00:19:54.050
- in your cubicle for the next
- 00:19:54.050 --> 00:19:55.160
- 3 years."
- 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:56.160
- "No Lord, I don't want that.
- 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:57.260
- Can you not do that?"
- 00:19:57.260 --> 00:19:58.150
- "But you said you want to be a
- 00:19:58.150 --> 00:19:59.050
- people person and nothing makes
- 00:19:59.050 --> 00:20:00.190
- you a people person like
- 00:20:00.190 --> 00:20:01.120
- difficult people."
- 00:20:01.260 --> 00:20:04.260
- In other words, the way you
- 00:20:04.260 --> 00:20:05.290
- learn to get along with anyone
- 00:20:05.290 --> 00:20:07.120
- is having to get along with
- 00:20:07.120 --> 00:20:08.030
- the worst of everyone.
- 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:12.160
- Could it be that we're wanting
- 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:14.140
- something without having to
- 00:20:14.140 --> 00:20:16.250
- pay the price for it?
- 00:20:16.250 --> 00:20:17.250
- This is the power of temptation.
- 00:20:17.250 --> 00:20:18.260
- This is why we all like
- 00:20:18.260 --> 00:20:19.130
- Disney movies.
- 00:20:19.130 --> 00:20:20.110
- This is why we always like, you
- 00:20:20.110 --> 00:20:21.250
- know, the Harry Potter stuff.
- 00:20:21.250 --> 00:20:22.290
- "Just give me a wand and
- 00:20:22.290 --> 00:20:23.190
- I can just wave it and get what
- 00:20:23.190 --> 00:20:24.190
- I want.
- 00:20:24.190 --> 00:20:26.030
- That's what I want to do.
- 00:20:26.030 --> 00:20:26.210
- Let me just shake my nose and,
- 00:20:26.210 --> 00:20:27.230
- wow, dinner's served.
- 00:20:27.230 --> 00:20:29.070
- That was great.
- 00:20:29.070 --> 00:20:29.220
- I didn't even have to put an
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- apron on and get messy.
- 00:20:30.090 --> 00:20:31.120
- There it is, dinner's served.
- 00:20:31.120 --> 00:20:32.230
- I can wave a wand and
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- get what I want."
- 00:20:33.230 --> 00:20:36.030
- See, the lure of power is that
- 00:20:36.030 --> 00:20:37.110
- we want to skip the process.
- 00:20:37.110 --> 00:20:39.040
- "I can do my boss' job.
- 00:20:39.040 --> 00:20:40.090
- Why does he have the job?
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- Why does she have the job?
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- Why don't I?"
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- You ever notice that your boss
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- has a lot more wrinkles than
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- you?
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- Could it be that they've been
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- there for 25 years and
- 00:20:45.100 --> 00:20:46.120
- you've been there for 3?
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- And so, they paid a price.
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- They haven't skipped the process
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- to get to that next level of
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- the company and now you're
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- complaining 'cause you haven't
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- been there long enough.
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- You haven't paid your dues.
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- God does want to bless you and
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- he put a principle into the
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- universe to bless you called
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- what a man sows, he shall also?
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- Right.
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- I remember when we brought home
- 00:21:12.020 --> 00:21:12.220
- Sophie from Russia.
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- She was this cute, little,
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- pudgy thing, man.
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- She just was chunky chunk.
- 00:21:16.120 --> 00:21:17.270
- She's not anymore.
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- She's beautiful now right here
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- in the front row.
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- But I will tell you she was just
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- a little, chunky, little baby,
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- and she wanted no part of me.
- 00:21:23.050 --> 00:21:25.010
- And this is true, Jess.
- 00:21:25.010 --> 00:21:25.270
- I mean, she wanted no part of me
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- at all 'cause she had never seen
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- boys ever, which I kind of wish
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- I could go back to those days
- 00:21:29.210 --> 00:21:30.110
- now but that's a whole other
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- story.
- 00:21:31.150 --> 00:21:32.220
- But the thing is is that I mean
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- she--in the orphanage,
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- there was just all there was was
- 00:21:35.270 --> 00:21:37.020
- ladies that took care of her.
- 00:21:37.020 --> 00:21:38.130
- So, she never had any kind of
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- men around her at all.
- 00:21:39.210 --> 00:21:40.210
- So she, I was like a UFO, man.
- 00:21:40.210 --> 00:21:42.180
- She was like, "I don't know what
- 00:21:42.180 --> 00:21:43.070
- you are but you smell.
- 00:21:43.070 --> 00:21:44.090
- And you're bigger and just,
- 00:21:44.090 --> 00:21:45.050
- yeah, I'm just not gonna hang
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- out with you at all."
- 00:21:45.280 --> 00:21:46.250
- So, she just did not connect
- 00:21:46.250 --> 00:21:48.020
- with me and it was almost
- 00:21:48.020 --> 00:21:49.030
- offensive 'cause I was like,
- 00:21:49.030 --> 00:21:51.170
- went all the way across the
- 00:21:51.170 --> 00:21:52.100
- world to get this kid, you know?
- 00:21:52.100 --> 00:21:54.040
- I'm trying to pour into her and
- 00:21:54.040 --> 00:21:54.290
- she wants nothing to do with me.
- 00:21:54.290 --> 00:21:55.280
- And so, then I finally realized,
- 00:21:55.280 --> 00:21:57.060
- okay, get over yourself, man.
- 00:21:57.060 --> 00:21:58.220
- She's 8 months, okay?
- 00:21:58.220 --> 00:21:59.110
- She doesn't know.
- 00:21:59.110 --> 00:22:01.000
- And so, I remember Jessica say,
- 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:02.110
- "You know what?
- 00:22:02.110 --> 00:22:02.260
- I'm tired.
- 00:22:02.260 --> 00:22:03.270
- You know, I was up last night.
- 00:22:03.270 --> 00:22:05.060
- Honey, would you take tonight?
- 00:22:05.060 --> 00:22:06.200
- 'Cause you know she's gonna wake
- 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:07.090
- up."
- 00:22:07.090 --> 00:22:07.240
- I was like, "All right,
- 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:08.090
- sure I'll do that."
- 00:22:08.090 --> 00:22:08.240
- And we kind of switched off and
- 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:10.210
- Jessica would do one night,
- 00:22:10.210 --> 00:22:11.090
- I'd do another.
- 00:22:11.090 --> 00:22:11.240
- And so, I would lay there and
- 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:13.070
- I gotta be honest with you,
- 00:22:13.070 --> 00:22:14.050
- it wasn't pretty.
- 00:22:14.050 --> 00:22:14.220
- It wasn't like super spiritual
- 00:22:14.220 --> 00:22:16.110
- going on at all.
- 00:22:16.110 --> 00:22:17.050
- So, this is what I looked like
- 00:22:17.050 --> 00:22:17.230
- most of the time.
- 00:22:17.230 --> 00:22:18.120
- I was just laying like this and
- 00:22:18.120 --> 00:22:20.190
- I would be like, "Sophie.
- 00:22:20.190 --> 00:22:21.210
- Sophie, no, come back.
- 00:22:21.210 --> 00:22:22.170
- Come over here.
- 00:22:22.170 --> 00:22:23.200
- Don't get hurt.
- 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:26.160
- Sophie?"
- 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:28.160
- And that's what it looked like.
- 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:29.060
- You know what I mean?
- 00:22:29.060 --> 00:22:29.220
- I mean, I was just so tired.
- 00:22:29.220 --> 00:22:30.190
- I was like, oh, my gosh.
- 00:22:30.190 --> 00:22:32.010
- She's exhausting.
- 00:22:32.010 --> 00:22:32.210
- And she would just play with her
- 00:22:32.210 --> 00:22:33.230
- little toys and stuff like,
- 00:22:33.230 --> 00:22:34.210
- and she'd look over at me
- 00:22:34.210 --> 00:22:36.070
- and then go play.
- 00:22:36.070 --> 00:22:36.260
- And she wouldn't come anywhere
- 00:22:36.260 --> 00:22:37.140
- near me.
- 00:22:37.140 --> 00:22:37.290
- And I'd try to pull her over,
- 00:22:37.290 --> 00:22:38.180
- and she no, no.
- 00:22:38.180 --> 00:22:39.030
- And I was just like man,
- 00:22:39.030 --> 00:22:40.010
- I'm so tired.
- 00:22:40.010 --> 00:22:41.000
- I'm just exhausted.
- 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:42.090
- Why am I even do thing this?
- 00:22:42.090 --> 00:22:43.080
- She doesn't want to see me.
- 00:22:43.080 --> 00:22:44.020
- I'm so tired.
- 00:22:44.020 --> 00:22:46.030
- Until one night and I was
- 00:22:46.030 --> 00:22:49.010
- I was like, I just knew Jess was
- 00:22:51.190 --> 00:22:53.040
- gonna walk in.
- 00:22:53.040 --> 00:22:53.200
- "Hey baby, no, I'm up.
- 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:54.050
- I'm good.
- 00:22:54.050 --> 00:22:54.210
- I'm up."
- 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:58.000
- And I'm laying there, and I wake
- 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:00.070
- up and Sophie's right here.
- 00:23:01.150 --> 00:23:04.150
- I was like, hey.
- 00:23:04.150 --> 00:23:06.240
- And that was the night that
- 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:09.130
- [congregation applauding]
- 00:23:12.230 --> 00:23:15.000
- And here's the truth, I would
- 00:23:16.210 --> 00:23:19.210
- never give up that process of
- 00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:22.110
- late nights, being tired for
- 00:23:22.110 --> 00:23:24.170
- anything.
- 00:23:24.170 --> 00:23:27.160
- Mom, I know you're tired but
- 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:30.050
- there is a bond that happens on
- 00:23:30.050 --> 00:23:33.050
- those late nights.
- 00:23:33.050 --> 00:23:34.160
- You know, it's going on.
- 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:36.270
- Where do you think a mother's
- 00:23:36.270 --> 00:23:37.150
- love comes from?
- 00:23:37.270 --> 00:23:40.270
- And it's a process, and it's
- 00:23:40.270 --> 00:23:42.080
- painful, and it's exhausting,
- 00:23:42.080 --> 00:23:44.050
- but it is worth it.
- 00:23:44.050 --> 00:23:45.040
- Is it not?
- 00:23:45.040 --> 00:23:47.030
- You wouldn't trade it for
- 00:23:47.030 --> 00:23:47.190
- the world.
- 00:23:47.190 --> 00:23:49.160
- The truth is is that everything
- 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:51.260
- that's worth anything has
- 00:23:51.260 --> 00:23:53.140
- a process.
- 00:23:53.140 --> 00:23:56.120
- What area of your life are you
- 00:23:56.120 --> 00:23:57.290
- not where you want to be?
- 00:23:57.290 --> 00:24:00.050
- Are you skipping the process?
- 00:24:00.050 --> 00:24:02.130
- Whatever it is that you want,
- 00:24:02.130 --> 00:24:04.020
- understand this, you're going
- 00:24:04.020 --> 00:24:06.050
- for the goal, but God's going
- 00:24:06.050 --> 00:24:08.170
- for developing you.
- 00:24:08.170 --> 00:24:11.150
- He's not as interested in what
- 00:24:11.150 --> 00:24:12.180
- you get as who you become in
- 00:24:12.180 --> 00:24:15.130
- the process.
- 00:24:15.130 --> 00:24:16.150
- If God instantly allowed you to
- 00:24:16.150 --> 00:24:18.050
- wave a little wand, use power,
- 00:24:18.050 --> 00:24:20.180
- and just get what you want,
- 00:24:20.180 --> 00:24:21.270
- the problem is you wouldn't have
- 00:24:21.270 --> 00:24:22.240
- the character, or the capacity,
- 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:24.280
- or the integrity to keep what it
- 00:24:24.280 --> 00:24:26.140
- is you want.
- 00:24:26.140 --> 00:24:28.220
- "Oh, so you're saying I should
- 00:24:28.220 --> 00:24:31.090
- learn to manage this small
- 00:24:31.090 --> 00:24:33.070
- amount of money," whatever small
- 00:24:33.070 --> 00:24:35.020
- is for you, "so I can get a
- 00:24:35.020 --> 00:24:37.150
- little more.
- 00:24:37.150 --> 00:24:39.130
- And if I'm faithful with this,
- 00:24:39.130 --> 00:24:41.250
- then I get a little more.
- 00:24:41.250 --> 00:24:43.050
- If I'm faithful with this--"
- 00:24:43.050 --> 00:24:44.100
- Exactly.
- 00:24:44.100 --> 00:24:45.230
- You can't skip the process.
- 00:24:45.230 --> 00:24:47.180
- "Well, sounds nice you say that
- 00:24:47.180 --> 00:24:48.260
- in a big ole church, pastor.
- 00:24:48.260 --> 00:24:50.080
- All these lights, and buildings,
- 00:24:50.080 --> 00:24:51.240
- and 12 campuses all over.
- 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:53.130
- I mean, look at you, I mean you
- 00:24:53.130 --> 00:24:55.140
- can just get up there and say
- 00:24:55.140 --> 00:24:56.030
- that."
- 00:24:56.030 --> 00:24:56.190
- Well, you know, it's true.
- 00:24:56.190 --> 00:24:58.190
- It was easy to do all this.
- 00:24:58.190 --> 00:25:00.090
- It was just a quick
- 00:25:00.090 --> 00:25:01.020
- 18-1/2 years, that's it.
- 00:25:01.290 --> 00:25:04.290
- Just a real fast.
- 00:25:04.290 --> 00:25:05.200
- Right, honey?
- 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:06.050
- Just quick 18-1/2 years, right?
- 00:25:06.050 --> 00:25:08.270
- People coming and people going.
- 00:25:08.270 --> 00:25:11.030
- Starting teams, trying to get
- 00:25:11.030 --> 00:25:11.280
- people in small groups, praying,
- 00:25:11.280 --> 00:25:13.140
- reaching out to more people.
- 00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:15.140
- You know, staying faithful when
- 00:25:15.140 --> 00:25:16.240
- we're getting criticized.
- 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:17.270
- Just staying faithful, preaching
- 00:25:17.270 --> 00:25:19.030
- in season, out of season.
- 00:25:19.030 --> 00:25:20.000
- Just a real quick 18-1/2 years
- 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:21.160
- Whatever it is that you want,
- 00:25:25.290 --> 00:25:28.040
- it's not fast.
- 00:25:28.040 --> 00:25:29.200
- If it's fast, it's not real.
- 00:25:32.100 --> 00:25:35.100
- If it's strong, you didn't skip
- 00:25:35.100 --> 00:25:38.090
- - Bil: Hey, thanks so much for
- 00:25:46.210 --> 00:25:47.140
- watching the program today.
- 00:25:47.140 --> 00:25:49.020
- I've got a question for you.
- 00:25:49.020 --> 00:25:50.150
- Have you asked Jesus Christ to
- 00:25:50.150 --> 00:25:51.200
- be your Lord and Savior?
- 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:53.180
- Have you prayed a simple prayer
- 00:25:53.180 --> 00:25:55.030
- that guarantees that you will go
- 00:25:55.030 --> 00:25:57.000
- to heaven because you know
- 00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:58.230
- Jesus?
- 00:25:58.230 --> 00:25:59.220
- Would you pray this prayer with
- 00:25:59.220 --> 00:26:00.130
- me right now?
- 00:26:00.130 --> 00:26:01.110
- You can just say this out loud.
- 00:26:01.110 --> 00:26:02.160
- You can say, "Dear Jesus,
- 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:04.040
- I realize I need you.
- 00:26:04.040 --> 00:26:05.280
- I believe you died on the cross
- 00:26:05.280 --> 00:26:07.000
- for me to pay the price for
- 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:08.140
- my sins and I believe you
- 00:26:08.140 --> 00:26:10.070
- rose again.
- 00:26:10.070 --> 00:26:11.080
- Please come into my heart, be my
- 00:26:11.080 --> 00:26:12.230
- Lord and be my Savior.
- 00:26:12.230 --> 00:26:15.100
- Thank you, Jesus, for saving me.
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