Your WALK with God Motivates
Your WORK for God.
- Haggai 1:12-15
- Haggai 2:1-3,9
- Haggai 2:4-5
- Haggai 2:6-8
When we say: I'm not FEELING it.
Then God says: You will after you OBEY.
When we say: I miss the GOOD old days.
Then God says: Your BEST days are ahead
When we say: I'm not sure God is WITH ME on this.
Then God says: I AM and ALWAYS have been.
When we say: I'm in over my HEAD .
Then God says: I'm NOT .
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Open up your Bibles to the book of Haggai.
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It's very exact, and it's actually the second shortest book of the Old Testament.
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So if you go to the book of Matthew in the New Testament, and take a left, you're going to come back to the book.
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So there's Malachi, Zechariah, and then you're going to get to this little book called Haggai.
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This month, I'm writing this book, and I got a pretty advanced mindset.
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It's about higher orders.
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If you go into my office, you're going to see that all of the walls I have are dry ice floors.
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And there's just lists, as soon as I'm done, you can walk in and you're done.
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You talk to my office, they have a unit of credit for the top five.
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There's dry ice floors everywhere.
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And I'll listen to a list of people that I don't follow all along with.
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Now, this is a list of things I have to do for the church, and this one is a list of resources that I need to check out.
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I need to get to my desk.
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Here's a list of things that I need to talk to Ryan about, here's a list of things that we need to talk about on the website, here's some things I need to talk about with small groups, and here's some things I need to talk to Ken about financially.
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The wall in front of my desk, I literally had to nail down a list to the wall, and I had slips of paper hanging, so guess what?
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More lists!
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And there's times when I'm in my office, and I sit down, and I'm looking through these dry erase boards, and I'm looking at these lists on my desk, and I'm looking at the wall, and I'm looking at all this stuff, and I'm...
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I just think...
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"Get a figure." Anybody else? I don't have it. I have so much to do.
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I'm not even sure where to start.
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And, uh, I suppose we have priorities, right?
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The book you're paying right now has some priorities.
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Quick history lesson for you.
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We were here last week. This stuff is on our website.
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To help set the context, remember the nation of Israel after Solomon's reign divided into two nations.
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There were ten tribes. Northern Israel, the connected name, Israel.
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There are two tribes, one of them is Jeroboam, and one of them is Judah.
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And God said that because of their persistent sin, He was going to send an omnibation, an act of discipline, to calm them.
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So Jeroboam and Jeroboam persisted in sin, and in 720 BC, the war between the Assyrians.
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And Judah didn't take note.
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And Judah persisted in saying, "About 586 BC, the words of the Babylonians, "to conquer them." Well, the Lord made a promise to Abraham, a promise that will never change.
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That man belongs to the Jewish people, and God is going to restore that.
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That's actually what we saw in the New World, on the Persians, they allowed the Israelites to come back into Jerusalem, to start rebuilding.
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You can speak to Cyrus the Apostle, we found our deep people, we built the Al-Hakkari service up there in our neighborhood.
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So they sent about 50,000 Jews from about 536 BC to come back to Jerusalem, and under the leadership of Zerubbabel, who was the civil leader, the governor leader, and under Joshua, who was the high priest.
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And they went back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple.
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And they started out really strong. And for two years they went after it.
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And then in 504 BC, they just stopped. They just walked.
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And they had their excuses. They were getting opposition from the Samaritans and...
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We saw a lot of people on there, excuse me, it's just how it is, it's just how we do it.
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And the foundations were laid and sat on it for 14 years.
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For 14 years!
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The foundations were laid while the Israelites were doing it.
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They were just back there doing their own house.
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You know, building their own houses and rebuilding their own gardens and and getting all their things in order.
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And then 520 BC, the Lord sends a prophet Haggis, after 14 years of stagnation of the temple project, the Lord sends this prophet, who we're going to read today, with this message.
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And the Lord says, you need to consider your ways.
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Because your prayer is messed up.
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You're working on your house like you've neglected God's house.
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Example.
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Book of Haggai has you four sermons.
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They were all spoken in 520 BC.
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Because of the days in the book, you know exactly what days these sermons were given on.
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Did you know that?
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The first one was August 29th, the second one was on April 17th, and the last two were on December the 18th.
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The message we're going to look at today is the second message.
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And we're going to see that people immediately responded.
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And so the last week, the priority had to be worship.
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Everything else in your life is going to flow out of God being first in your life.
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And God says get to work.
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But before we get into this passage, I want to say something about work, because a lot of people get confused.
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about works.
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You're good for a little bossy They blow up I don't care How many suitcases you've served at?
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I'm a little is you come across the street how much of your stuff you give away?
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How much of your money you give to a world vision? Those are not saving you Because the truth is you are by nature a sinner that is
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(mumbles)
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You can't make that up by doing good works.
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Like, look, I know I sit against you, but I'm doing all this stuff, so if the good outweighs the bad, that's what we're gonna do with this piece, right?
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As long as the good outweighs the bad, Bob's gonna graze on the curve.
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He doesn't graze on the curve, he grazes on the cost.
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The issue is this.
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You've done your sins, and I hope you've made a lot of Jesus Christ.
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If you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, God on the cross tells us that for those who receive him, for those who believe in his name, he gave you the right to become children of God.
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So as we talk about Mark's command, understand, you're being forced to hold on to that.
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You can dedicate every second of the rest of your life to serving God.
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It is not going to matter.
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Because what matters is that you receive eternal life as Jesus Christ did.
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That people often do me Sometimes runs the other extreme We've even seen the way that this is the church. What's almost like the good works get back But you don't want to put the cart before the horse Your work's gonna save you but save people Are not for good works Mark 5 in the chapter we believe in the disciple of Jesus Christ, worship of Jesus Christ, we talked about that last week, walk of Jesus Christ and worship of Jesus Christ.
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We're going to talk about those last two things this week.
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The first thing I say to you is save people's work.
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Ephesians 2.10 tells us that we must save four good hearts to God, not four damn for us to walk in.
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1 Corinthians 15, 58 says that we should be always abiding in the work of the Lord.
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The question is, well how do I get fired up for the work of the Lord?
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I love the initiative that people have, in this case, right?
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How do we fire up for this?
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Well, here's some motivating for you.
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I'll be telling you the bad news.
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What is Brian doing?
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I think Brian...
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can do good works.
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So here's your reward for you.
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If you get involved in the church, I'll give you a cookie.
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If you get involved in the church, you're going to personally get something out of it.
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That's not a good motivation.
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I can't threaten you.
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If you do anything to go along with the church, I know you'll be sick for a while, I know you.
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I don't know that.
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Believe me, I don't have any business into that.
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I can't threaten you.
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That's not the way to get through this.
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I can guilt you.
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Oh, you have so much to do.
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And...
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You're just not getting involved.
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And you should feel ashamed of yourself for not getting involved.
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Shame on you.
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Shame on you and everything you look at your boys.
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And you see them being at things in the church anyway.
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Oh, shame on you.
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I can guilt you.
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How can you sit here and look at all of these to be done.
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and pick somebody else's lady to get that she can work with.
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I know what you're doing.
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I can try to make it a competition.
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I can take somebody that is actively working in the church and hold them up and say, "Oh, I betcha nobody in the church can do as much "as this guy to carry it into this competition." All of those are wrong motivators to work.
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And here it is.
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This is what you have to lead with today.
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Your walk with God motivates your work for God.
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Your walk with God motivates your work for God.
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The only way that you're going to be jointly motivated to work for Christ is if you have a jointly walk with Christ.
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That's what we saw last week.
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You know, how come he's the one that built the temple?
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How many people think God had an ability to build this kind of temple?
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He didn't have that ability?
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He created the world in six days by speaking to it.
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He didn't build it in a little house as a problem for him.
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He didn't let it sleep if you slept. He doesn't sleep.
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I don't understand. If God was on the path of my cause, I knew it.
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I knew the house looked bad, but he built it.
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It was about the priority of putting God first.
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That's what he was pushing me to do.
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Look, I need to be first in your life.
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And the fact that you happen to be holding the temple is evidence that you haven't allowed me to be first in your life.
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So it's not about doing a job.
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It's about, here's your word for the day, relationship.
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Relationship.
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It's about partnering with God.
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You know 1 Corinthians 3 and I says, "For we are God's fellow workers." Think about this.
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If God in the universe wants to do something, then he said, "Hey, you want to do it with me.
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I'll provide the power, I'll provide the resources, I know this awesome eternal work that I'm going to do.
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You wanna come along?
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It's about relationship.
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You're with God, but it makes you work for God.
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And how does God motivate us to work?
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If they work, for Him working, how does He do that?
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I'll drop this down for you, there's more on your outline.
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Here's the four members of the suite.
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When we say this, we're gonna see how God responds.
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When we say, "I'm not feeling it," God says, "You will, after you obey." Look at verses 12 through 15, see what we're talking about here.
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It says, "Then it's approvable, "the son of Jilchel and Joshua, "the son of Jehoshaphat, the high priest, But all around the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet as the Lord their God had said to him.
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And the people feared the Lord, and Haggai let the Lord speak with the people with the Lord's message.
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"I am with you," declared the Lord.
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and the Lord stirred up the spirit of the new-born, the son of Jehovah, the father of Judah, the spirit of John the father, the son of Jehovah, the father of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the spirit of all the men of the people, and they ate and worked in the house of the Lord who rose from the dead, on the twenty-four third of the month, the sixth month of the year of darkness.
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How do I fire her up for 14 years of laziness?
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In other words, how do you evade anything that doesn't feel like you?
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When you think about it, there are a lot of things that you see the Lord calls us to do that let's be honest.
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You don't feel like doing them.
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You know the Austin church today?
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There's a lot of things God calls us to do that just don't feel like doing, like being taught.
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Like, pray for your enemies.
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Hard to do.
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Like, at times, I say with the most recognition of Mother's Day, "Love your spouse!" You don't have to, don't move your head at all. Don't agree, don't disagree, okay?
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I want you all to have a good day.
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You married people here.
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Can you acknowledge that sometimes it's easier than others to love your spouse?
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Can you acknowledge that?
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It's probably not always.
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Sometimes it's harder to say it to our children.
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Sometimes we don't feel like it.
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I want you to see the compression in this text.
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14 years of teaching this package, the message, and says in verse 12, "The people, first of all, obey." Obey. And then in the next verse he also says, "The people fear the Lord." Now when he says "fear the Lord," what does this make you think of in your mind?
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Like, I'm going to go to bed, and I'm like, "I didn't fear the Lord, I was just complaining the whole time." "Ehh, I'm scared of God." The fear of the Lord is reckless.
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It is this idea that He is God, And I am not.
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He is awesome.
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That was just a human being.
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Reference.
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"The people obeyed and in reference to the Lord." But then look at Acts 1-15. It says that the Lord stirred up the spirits.
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It's in the works.
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Jesus said the person whose heart, whose will is inclined toward, I want to honor the Lord, I want to be a sincere follower of Jesus.
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The person that exercises their will, notice that if you have this commandment, you keep this commandment, Jesus said that's the person that I manifest myself.
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The church, if you have this idea that well, once Jesus manifests himself to me, then I'm going to get serious about honoring him.
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You can't control your feelings and you can't lust directly with the nation.
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The only thing that you can control is your priorities.
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A lot of times it's not about I will follow a way when I feel like it, it's often times I'll obey and then I'll feel like it.
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Especially when I wasn't hanging out today.
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Somehow, there's a sense of obedience, a lot of spirit, every time I go out to people.
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I've seen this a thousand times over the years.
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For example, planning a mission trip.
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I can give you lists of names of people I've had this conversation with.
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You're planning this mission trip and you're like, "Oh, I was thinking about applying to... no." And then they decide, "No, I'm just going to go." They exercise more well even though they're not feeling it.
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And then they get back on the mission trip.
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What do they say?
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I can't wait to go to Nashville.
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That was the most incredible experience of my life.
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I love going to workstations.
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There's one, you don't feel like it.
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And then when we made the choice to do it, he started us off.
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He ran a day camp.
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We were a day camp where we'd have all these kids in the community.
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And, uh, he had a lot of volunteers.
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just anything in the community, once we make a can, we're going to do this.
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And we've had a lot of volunteers over the years that were like, "I don't want to get involved, I can't do it. No, no." And then they made a choice to get involved.
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And then after we shipped care, I've heard it a thousand times, "I can't wait until next year. I can't wait. I can't wait. We need everyone once a year." What happened? They made a choice, and God served their spirit.
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I didn't really want to do it, but I'm so glad I did.
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I can't wait to do it again.
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It's something I've never heard in 17 years of ministry.
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I've never heard somebody say, "You know what, Matt? I'm not sure if I'm going to step out, I'm going to choose to do this or that." I had nothing out of that.
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I wasn't blessed.
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I had never heard that.
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I had never heard disappointment in making a choice to step off the board.
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Never heard that.
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So, I would ask you, what step do you need to take to feel like David?
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What step do you need to take if you don't feel like taking it, you know, the move of heaven?
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Maybe there's someone you need to forget.
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What feeling are you in?
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What are you doing?
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If you would exercise your will and make the choice to call a person to the path of sin, you're going to see the Lord's spirit in your heart.
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You're going to be so glad you're in heaven.
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And you're going to say tonight, "I'm going to be so glad I'm in heaven." I didn't want to do it.
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He didn't say what to reconcile.
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I just feel like that burden's been lifted off of me.
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I did what I did to be able to do.
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We have guys that go to prison every Friday.
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They're already hearing testimonies from people like, "You know what, I gotta sign I really wasn't sure.
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I really wasn't sure.
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What are we hearing from the people that go in for it?
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Hearing, "That was incredible!
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I've never done anything like that before, but that was so fulfilling, I can't wait to go back!" The word stirs the spirit.
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Sometimes it's something you're already involved with.
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Maybe you're looking at something and you're like, "No, I'd like to get involved with the A/B team, and I'd be It was like a father and his son, father and daughter, putting a picture together.
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Maybe there's a husband and wife, maybe there's a couple more single people.
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I don't know.
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I don't wanna see two or three more people go on this trip.
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I'm sure there's some people in this room right now that are like, "Hey, you wanna just give up that?
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"I don't know." You take a step out.
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And then let's talk about it in the office.
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I want to hear your stories of the way God provided for you to go on the trip.
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The way God used you to hold the family together.
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The way that you get to see God's hand at work.
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The country is facing some very hard times.
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I promise you, if you take this step, if you exercise your will and decide to take this trip to Moldova, You'll want your name on the top of the list, the next year.
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And there will be more.
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It's kind of a thing.
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You go and ask your child to vote.
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So, when I said I had no ability to go to school after New Year's Day, secondly, throughout this time, I was about to go to New Year's Eve work.
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When I came back, I said, "Phil, please." God says, "The best days you're gonna have." Look at verses 1-3 in chapter 2. It says in the 7th book of the 23rd chapter of the book, "The moment the Lord came to the hand of the prophet, he got his rulable, the son of Sheolphael." He really wants us to move on to a different point.
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The governor of Judah, Joshua, the son of Jehoshaphat, (I'm not sure if we're still talking about the same Jehoshaphat) the High Priest, and all the rest of the people would say, "Who is the one among you who saw this house, the temple, who saw this house in its former glory?
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Have you seen it now?
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Is it not as "numbing" in your eyes?
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Stop there.
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I miss the good old days.
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This was less than a month into the project, and it seems that the work began to slow down.
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Here's something for you, you obviously were old enough to remember the glory of Solomon's Temple, who had a lot of scholars among you, he had, by himself, was probably old enough to remember that Solomon's Temple when it was destroyed.
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Now he and the others have remembered the incredible splendor of Solomon's Temple standing in front of this plot that has a foundation.
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And Solomon's Temple foundation Pompomine's temple...
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Mr. Bill is this temple This time is so here Send us only prepared for one and they were disturbed by The right of the skirt is The same, you get discouraged, you don't want to take the first step out of every single thing.
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Maybe it's a lingering health issue.
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Maybe it's somebody in your life that needs to build a board but hasn't received a board.
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Maybe you've been pushing for more, although financially it's too long.
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I mean, you get discouraged.
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It's even lousy.
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You lousily get to the place where you're just like, "I'm just writing a pro on the top, and you quit." One of the ways he does that is to "Testle, back in the good old days." "Testle, what was that one year?" "I had a parable at the church. You know that?" "I had a parable at the church in the good old days." I remember the good old days.
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Our worship theater, we were taught that in the middle of the day.
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Those were the good old days.
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And now I have this.
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Remember the good old days?
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When I was a kid, I remember Dad would always talk about it.
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We'd just bring this up regularly.
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And he would say, "I remember when I was a kid, candy bars were this big and they cost a nickel.
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And if anybody wants to have a bad day and say something like that to their mom or anybody else, 'Oh, you'll be okay. I'll have to give this to your father.' You should know that.
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I remember you were in there, and they just used to bring it up regularly.
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I don't think candy bars are this big and they cost a nickel.
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That doesn't happen.
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I can't afford that thing.
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Or a nickel.
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Then when I got older, I got a lot of stuff.
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Candy bars didn't get smaller.
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I think I got bigger.
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And so on, we pulled onto this concept of the good old days.
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We've idealized at this time in history when things were so much better.
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You can't really face that in order to respond to it.
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Why do you do that to people?
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"We did four other good holidays last week." "There were good holidays! Remember that?" "Oh, those were some good days last week." You can't really do that.
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I Promise you the Lord terrorist in ten years We're gonna be some people sitting here Coming back and saying you're all this really good all dates and you know there's like 80 of us or whatever and You know, we're starting this or smaller to this and you want to let your people go here's a good old days Well, because we're young, we don't really have the good old days, but we do have a different, dangerous comparison.
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And that's just looking at other ministries, just as we are.
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We can look at other ministries.
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We can look at Northway, we can look at these other churches that the Lord has so gratefully used.
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You look at these churches and then look at us, we're a group of people in school, we don't even have an ability.
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These places have, like, you know, playgrounds inside.
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Dangerous temptation to feel like, you know, our thing is so insignificant compared to, you know, we're pouring ourselves out and A lot of times it just seems slow going.
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That's certainly what people have had to face.
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And we're gonna get fired up when it's like our best days are gonna be here.
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I don't think much of it, our best days have actually happened.
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The first line, this is the message.
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(mumbles)
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First line, the Lord says, "The light of glory in this house "shall be greater than the quarter, "says the Lord of hosts.
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"And in this place, I will give peace "because of the Lord of hosts." With all these churches being built, there's a man that has a wonderful heart of God, thanks God, and an incredible servant of the Lord.
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He has his little say.
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I've heard him say so many times.
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He said, "Gentlemen, our best days are ahead of us." And as church planning can be hard, and we face some trials, and our best days are ahead of us.
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And we're gonna run, the Israelites.
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The scourge is going to come.
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But what we, excuse me, but what we do, We do believe that what we do now is going to matter then.
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And we need to do that now together.
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What we do now is going to matter then.
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The relationship that we're talking about, the people that we're going to do now, the people, I think the people that are praying together in small groups, I think the people that are just coming to Christ, the people that are taking these, that with being baptized and making major life decisions about faith all over in Jesus Christ.
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I think all these little kids in the church that are seeing God's faithfulness as he's providing with this church, this is a foundation that's being laid in the lives of people right now that are going to affect us next year, in five years, in ten years.
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There are some incredible things happening in this church.
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There are some incredible things happening now.
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Like you're sitting...
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...on the...
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...the best days...
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...are ahead of us.
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More glory for God.
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Certainly, you know, at this time, when we say...
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"I'm not sure God's looking at us." God says...
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And all of that.
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Be strong.
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Be strong.
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Be strong.
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according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt, my spirit remained in your midst.
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Dear God, when we didn't set out to do something for God, we set out to do something with God.
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I'm sure it's the people of Nigeria who look at this kind of foundation and say, "You know, let's just confess. Why are you denigrating yourself for a second-rate temple?
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It just doesn't matter." You see, the lawyer in the first point, he says, "It does. It does matter." I love this, how the Lord uses their names.
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Facing the spirit of the Lord, you feel me?
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Be strong.
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Be strong, Jerome.
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Be strong, Justin.
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Be strong, Paul.
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Be strong.
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So encouraging.
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How about we be strong?
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Here it is again.
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This is the second time he calls me.
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I am with you.
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I'm with you.
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You can't underscore the importance of that enough.
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It goes on and on.
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It says that the value of the job increases with the dignity and prestige of those willing to do it.
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Recall, the value of the job increases with the dignity and the prestige of those willing to do it.
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What do you mean by that?
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If I said, "Hey, when we're done with church today, do you want to, like, try to walk?" And they're walking back.
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I don't know if I can walk back.
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I said, "Well, um, that's a shame because Michael Jordan is visiting our church today, and he's actually been walking the benches right now.
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You've got to give me a walk." Like a beast, there's God on the pole.
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You see how under estimation that God's the way he went off.
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Because someone...
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Prestige is due.
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That wasn't the work of the Lord.
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Why should we get involved in the work that's happening here?
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Because God is.
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Or the prior, if you're supposed to work with God.
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So get involved because I am.
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This is not a partnership.
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This isn't just doing something for God, it's doing something with God.
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You can't build a little work for God's part of it. Anybody got a different line for that?
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I don't think what you do, I don't think you're a disciple of any of the other divine factors.
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I just don't think it's that important. No. No, God does.
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But don't think about that.
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Take a little drawing.
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He's I was working for a company.
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You're your own symbol or whatever. Just take good account of the times you're reading the Old Testament.
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God says, "I am the Lord and brush you off Egypt. I am the Lord and..." Why does he keep saying that?
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It's his religion.
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You are a bondage. I am the God who saved you. I am the God who saved you. I am the God...
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I have a God who wants you freedom. I have a God who loves you. I have a God who wants what is best for you. I have a God who will listen. I have a God who is faithful to you.
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I keep my word. I made you a promise and I keep my promises.
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That's why you repeat that.
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My spirit remains in this or again, it's about relationships And that's what you can do speak the great commission is to go inside That never Jesus and this Jesus calls them like, "Go to a project, go to this disciple project." And then he tells them all the time.
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He said, "Make disciples, and I'm going to be." We need to recognize this in this, actually Hebrews chapter 13 verse 1, the Lord promised to never leave you or forsake you.
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I can't pretend that God's not aware of me. And I guarantee you He has not, because He has promised He would never do that.
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If God promised He's not going to obey me, guess what? He's not going to obey me.
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So when we say "I'm not sure God's with me on this, God says I am, but I always have been, I would also add, I always do.
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And finally, when we say, "I live in my head," "I am a neighbor of my head," God says, "I'm alive." Looking for some six or eight.
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But God says to the Lord of hosts, "Yet once more in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea into the arctic, and I'm going to shake all nations so that the treasure of all nations shall permeate it.
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And I'm going to fill this house with more," he says in verse 3.
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The sobering mind and the gold mind, they're going to go in.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm in over my head, and God says, "I do not." God's graciousness lives in this awesomeness, reminding us of two things.
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Number one, first of all, God says, "I'm not ashamed of myself." Second, "Shame what?" The answer is everything.
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What are these verses about?
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Actually, this is a flash forward to the events of Revelation chapter 6 through 19.
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God is saying the days are coming and I know how to shake off the entire earth.
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Actually this verse is the only verse that's quoted in the New Testament.
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It's in Hebrews 12, verse 26.
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God's promising that the day is coming.
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There's a day coming, right?
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God's going to make all things new.
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God's going to render perfect justice on the earth.
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It's not going to come alive.
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It's not going to be like this little inconspicuous thing, like, something you can teach, like Jesus already came back.
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How would we miss that?
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How conspicuous is it going to be?
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Well, it's going to be according to "shady hands in the earth." It's exactly what the book of Revelation describes.
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Universal shapehound.
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So when he's not shaking or getting upset with me, he knows everything.
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He knows everything.
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It says in verse 8, "The soul was martyred and rose again, and the flesh was moved with us." It's all ours. You know that it's all ours.
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Everything that you have, God gave you.
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Somebody who believes in the earth, who believes in the earth, is lost.
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So for a church like ours, a small, young, where is the resources?
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And I'm asking him to speak up.
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Because...
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I want to know.
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Because of all this tooness, he's going to provide tooness.
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I think he's gone way in the now.
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He unbalances his checkbook.
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What do you think those numbers look like?
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I can tell you, George, that it's a bunch of infinity symbols.
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Because he's not lacking for anything.
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This is an incredible reminder.
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I'm going to be standing for a minute with my head.
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I was like, I don't know.
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I'm about to shake things up.
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There's some amazing things coming.
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(mumbles)
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As I close, I'm pushing to make it a great night.
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I'm not going to close with something like a sealed petition.
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"We need more fun at the church."
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[makes a noise]
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I mean, that is really what I'm dealing with.
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You're just in your familiar church.
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Your pastor is like, "We need more fun at the church." Encouraging like this. That's a really good way.
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Instead, I'd say this.
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You have the privilege of honoring your God.
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He energizes you, he promises glorious things, he will be with us at every step.
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And each time, during the day, he doesn't want to set up in the back.
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It all starts with your walk.
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It all starts with your relationship with Jesus Christ, because we walk the talk.
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There's no going to beat you for it.
Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Haggai 1:12-2:9
Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.