1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,080 Made it a little bit easier to wake up this morning. 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,640 You know, little, little sunshine in my steps. 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,360 If if I was in a musical right now, that the soundtrack would 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:08,600 be awesome. Let me put it that way. 5 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,400 It's good to be here. It's going to be back here. 6 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,400 I mean, last week we were my wife, Maddie and I and many of 7 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,000 our college student leaders and students, we were over in Iowa, 8 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:20,480 the urban heavyweight known as Des Moines. 9 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,400 That's who we were. And there was 7500 college 10 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,520 students gathered to do what we just did, to sing the name of 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,120 Jesus and to hear his word preached that they would be 12 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,560 mobilized for the mission of God on planet earth. 13 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,480 And it was just so amazing to see college students for every 14 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:40,560 tribe, tongue and nation from all across our nation to say 15 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,560 Jesus Christ is King. And they're coming from schools 16 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,720 like Florida and from Oregon, from Syracuse and Iowa State and 17 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,160 Dallas, TX, at Denton University of North Texas. 18 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:53,800 I mean, we're coming from all over the country united under 19 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,480 one name, which is Jesus Christ. And we are a part of that 20 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:57,920 movement here in the Salt Network. 21 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,480 We are about seeing the the gospel advance in the next 22 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,239 generation. And I am so excited to see what 23 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:07,720 he does here at ASU in 2026. We're praying big things. 24 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,280 I'm not just here to celebrate with you what's happening in New 25 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,360 Year. I want to actually preach God's 26 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:12,840 Word to you. So if you could turn your Bibles 27 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,240 to Romans chapter 12. We're going to be starting a new 28 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,480 series this morning just for the month of January. 29 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,920 That in a world that is super anxious and worried and 30 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,800 stressed, what actually anchors us? 31 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,200 What actually settles us in the middle of a turbulent world? 32 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:37,840 What actually gets people to be steady when life is unsteady? 33 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,120 I think the Bible has some things to say about that. 34 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,880 I think that that Scripture is going to be helpful for us in 35 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,160 seeing what it's like to live the life God intended. 36 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,280 It's interesting how the turn of a New Year's calendar can make 37 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,240 you painfully aware of how much you want to be like everybody 38 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,360 else. You know you'll listen like 1:00 39 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,840 to 10:00. Ask yourself this question one 40 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,400 to 10. How much pressure do you feel 41 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,920 this year to be like somebody else? 42 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,400 Certainly not everybody else. Like I'm not waking up this 43 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:09,639 morning wishing I was a Packer fan. 44 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,680 You know, that's not me, but I am. 45 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,720 I have considerations, right? I'm thinking to myself, hey, how 46 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,000 can I be more like this dad or this husband? 47 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,360 How can I take care of my body in this way? 48 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,200 How can I take care of my finances like them? 49 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:30,240 How can I dress like them? Maybe you are less socially 50 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:31,160 inclined. You're like, you know what? 51 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:33,920 I actually don't look at people and go, I want to be like them. 52 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:36,760 I kind of want to stand out. Maybe you're more individualist 53 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,280 in nature, but I guarantee you have people that you look to and 54 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:45,280 respect, people that you follow on social media, people that you 55 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,360 see at work that you're like, man, I just want to be more like 56 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,480 them. And that's a pressure that we 57 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:58,640 feel each and every week. And it provokes insecurity, 58 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:06,360 fear, jealousy, greed, envy. It's a pressure. 59 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,920 Pressure to vacation like they do, dress like they do, work 60 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:13,960 like they do, live in a house like they do, date like they do, 61 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:20,440 be married like they do. That pressure is exhausting and 62 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,960 it's anxiety inducing. That pressure is not meant to 63 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:27,960 bear the weight of your life and your soul. 64 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,560 That pressure divides your heart. 65 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:42,360 That pressure to look out at what everybody else has and what 66 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,040 they are doing and what they are like. 67 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:52,000 It's crushing. We're in this series called 68 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Undivided, which is for you younger folks in the room, it's 69 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,400 going to be looking at mental health. 70 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,680 Us older folk might say it's just our stress. 71 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,560 We haven't said the word mental health is often, but it is 72 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,360 common. It's the we're all talking about 73 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,000 the same thing. It's like, hey, how can I go 74 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,640 about the stress and anxiety and the worries of this world? 75 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,280 How can I do that and be steady and strong? 76 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:19,440 How can my life be settled? Because the temptation each of 77 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,280 us face every single week is we'll slice up life like a 78 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:24,400 pizza. We have our family slice and our 79 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,520 work slice, our church slice and our money slice. 80 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,720 But God isn't intended to be a portion or a slice of your life. 81 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,600 He's meant to hold the whole thing together for you. 82 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:41,600 And if he is only a portion of your life, you'll experience the 83 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,440 woes of building your life on something other than God. 84 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,880 If God is just a piece of your life, you won't actually 85 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,520 experience the peace He wants you to experience in 2026, 86 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,240 because the divided heart brings in brings an anxious life, but a 87 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,080 undivided life brings a settled, peaceful heart. 88 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,040 So I want to help show you through God's Word what it's 89 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,160 like to make God everything about your life, what it's like 90 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,920 to make him more than a peace, but the thing you're the 91 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,640 epicenter which you orbit your life around. 92 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,560 I think Romans 12/1 and 2 is going to be helpful for that. 93 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:25,960 We're in the book of Romans, and the book has a premise. 94 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,640 In case you're unfamiliar, Paul wrote this book to a church in 95 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,880 Rome and he's writing to them saying, hey, all of humanity has 96 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,040 a big problem. It's called a worship problem. 97 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,720 We have a worship problem. We worship created things rather 98 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,960 than the Creator. We try to worship ourselves and 99 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,480 all our doings and our achievements and say, Hey, God, 100 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,480 look at me and all the greatness I bring to the table, and would 101 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,600 you just look at me and save me? But that's actually contrary to 102 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,800 the gospel. And he says, hey, guess what? 103 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,000 All that working, all that striving, all of that obedience, 104 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,920 guess what? It's not enough to save. 105 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,480 And so the book in these problems of worship, it kind of 106 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,520 hinges around for their force for therefore is in the book of 107 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,440 Romans, the first one is in verse chapter 3, verse 20. 108 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,640 And it talks about how all the world stands condemned under the 109 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,760 law that your righteousness is not going to be enough to get 110 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,040 you into heaven, That if you got to heaven tonight and God's 111 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:20,320 like, hey, why should I let you in? 112 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,800 And you said, hey, look at all the good things I've done. 113 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,680 That's not going to cut it. That's not the ticket because 114 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,080 your righteousness is insufficient. 115 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,080 So he says in 320, therefore we all are under wrath. 116 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,720 Then you move to chapter 5 and it's the therefore of 117 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,520 justification that we have been justified by Christ and his 118 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,400 righteousness and now we can have peace with God. 119 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,240 Then you have Romans chapter 8 verse one, which is therefore 120 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,440 now there is no condemnation for those of us who are in Christ 121 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:50,800 Jesus. That's three. 122 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,720 Therefore is going from condemnation to justification to 123 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,160 the assurance of not being condemned anymore. 124 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,520 But now we get to chapter 12 verse one, and Paul is 125 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:05,480 reflecting on all those mercies of Romans one through 11 and 126 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,200 he's saying, look at what God has done. 127 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,840 And then he writes this Romans chapter 12 verse one says this, 128 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:17,200 I appeal to you. Therefore, I urge you, I'm 129 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,080 pleading with you as emphatically as I can tell you 130 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:27,000 this, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies 131 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:36,160 as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your 132 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:40,760 spiritual worship. Verse 2, Do not be conformed to 133 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:47,240 this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that 134 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:53,080 by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good 135 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,760 and acceptable and perfect. These are God's words for us 136 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:58,960 today. I want to help you grab hold of 137 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,120 them for your life in the form of a big idea. 138 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,240 This is the sermon in a sentence. 139 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:03,960 If you like to take notes, I hope you jot this down. 140 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,360 It's this that divided hearts settle through undivided 141 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,400 worship. Divided hearts settle through 142 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,440 undivided worship. That if we're not giving God our 143 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,120 whole selves, if we're giving him just a component or a peace 144 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,560 or a part of our life, our hearts are going to grow 145 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,680 anxious. They're going to going to grow 146 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:29,080 weary and worried, but God saying here to us in Romans 147 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,799 chapter 12 verses one and two that divided hearts will settle 148 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:36,440 through an undivided worship. If we would offer our whole 149 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:41,880 selves to God, we will find the peace that he has promised. 150 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,480 So I want to give it to you three ways to offer your whole 151 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,960 self today. The 1st is this, that if I give 152 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,520 God my whole self when my body is a sacrifice. 153 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,000 Here's how you know you're giving God your whole self and 154 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,640 not just a part of your life. First, I give God my whole self 155 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:02,160 when my body is a sacrifice. Do you see that there in the 156 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:03,200 text? I appeal to you. 157 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,360 Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, you consider all 158 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:10,240 that God has done to move you from being condemned by your sin 159 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,920 to being justified by faith. God's mercy is the Vista with 160 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:15,400 which you're looking at your life. 161 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,120 You look at God's mercy towards you, His withholding of His 162 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,280 wrath and His judgment against you, and then what do you do? 163 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,400 You present your bodies as a sacrifice. 164 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:30,640 That's a good thing to write down. 165 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,920 Your body is a sacrifice. That's a spiritual truth. 166 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:39,040 Your body, it's constantly being offered to someone or something 167 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,120 in worship. You were made to do that. 168 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:45,320 It's just who is the audience of your worship is the question. 169 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,560 Your body is a sacrifice. Now, what comes to mind when you 170 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:52,360 think of the word sacrifice? Do you think of animals on an 171 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,800 altar? Maybe you think of like a 172 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,360 sacrifice bunt in baseball. Maybe you're like like a total 173 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,360 sports pro in that way. And the first thing that comes 174 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,040 to mind for you is baseball when you hear the word sacrifice. 175 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,920 Or maybe you think of like Ron Weasley and Harry Potter, like 176 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,080 he's going to sacrifice himself. Like you think of that, or you 177 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,120 might be thinking similarly to how the Romans thought altars, 178 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:16,840 temples, priests and blood. That's when they hear the word 179 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:18,200 sacrifice. That's what they think too. 180 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,560 But like, hey, this is going to require blood. 181 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:23,440 It's going to require a temple, it's going to require an altar. 182 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:25,800 That's how they thought about it too. 183 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,320 In the Greek Roman world, people would have had those similar 184 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,400 thoughts. But Paul is redefining it for us 185 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,880 here as a Christian that there's three characteristics of a 186 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:37,400 sacrifice. He wants you to see. 187 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,880 So you see that word living. That's not just a living 188 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,280 sacrifice, it's actually wants you to think of the sacrifice as 189 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:48,320 three pieces, living, holy and acceptable. 190 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,120 See that in your Bible? That's the kind of sacrifice 191 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,600 your body is supposed to be living sacrifice, a holy 192 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,280 sacrifice and an acceptable sacrifice. 193 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:57,720 Now let's look at that first one. 194 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,560 Living sacrifice. That feels a bit like an 195 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:01,800 oxymoron, does it? Not? 196 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,320 Like jumbo shrimp or man child, right? 197 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,640 Or maybe even good coffee. Yeah, somebody like, wow, that 198 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,400 guy's putting coffee on a blast. I don't like it. 199 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,840 I'm sorry. Living sacrifice is 200 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,240 intentionally an oxymoron because in the Old Testament 201 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:25,360 sacrifices were dead, and in the New Testament sacrifices, us are 202 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,800 alive. That's a shift. 203 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,960 That's a shift in Christian sacrifice, that we are a living, 204 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,480 breathing, alive sacrifice unto God. 205 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,840 We are not only a living sacrifice, we are a holy 206 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,440 sacrifice. That means we are set apart from 207 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:51,880 sin, that we go about our everyday lives hunting down, 208 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,680 chasing, removing the cancer, the tumor that is in US called 209 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,000 sin because it is destroying us from the inside out. 210 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,320 And because God is holy, we are called to be like Him in 211 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,760 holiness because His Spirit lives in us. 212 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,640 We are crushing sin at every turn we can. 213 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:12,360 We hate it because it put our Savior on a cross. 214 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,920 So we are living. We are holy sacrifices set apart 215 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,440 from sin, and we are acceptable. Which means it is well pleasing 216 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,720 to God that there are sacrifices some of you are making to God 217 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,680 right now that aren't acceptable because they're not actually the 218 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:34,640 offering God wants. That's something you go about 219 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,440 your life and the unacceptable sacrifices. 220 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,440 You're saying, hey Lord, look at all the good I am doing and you 221 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,800 look at him and go, God, look at me and how awesome I am. 222 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,120 Look at all the people that are following me. 223 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,440 Look at all the accolades I've achieved. 224 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,560 That's not what that's not God's economy for this a holy and 225 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:56,960 acceptable sacrifice, sacrifice that's well pleasing is simply 226 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,400 this obedience. Are you doing what God has said? 227 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,760 That's what's well pleasing to God. 228 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,800 If you are stuck living in unrepentant sin, you are not 229 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:13,200 holy and you are not offering a well pleasing sacrifice, holy, 230 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,080 acceptable, living. These are worship. 231 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,840 You see that in your Bible there, a sacrifice that's 232 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,440 living, holy and acceptable, which is your spiritual worship. 233 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,600 You might have another translation of the Bible there 234 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,400 that's talking about true worship or even reasonable 235 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:28,840 worship, depending on your translation. 236 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:34,440 They're all getting at this idea that worship goes beyond just 237 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,640 singing. It is not less than singing like 238 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,920 what we just did is worship. Certainly that is the narrowest 239 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,560 sense of the word. What Paul is doing for us here, 240 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:47,000 that our sacrifice, our living wholly and acceptable worship to 241 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,520 him is the broadest sense of worship. 242 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,440 It is offering your whole self to God. 243 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,280 That's what he's saying. Not just your lips in praise, 244 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,880 not just that part of your body, but you wake up every single day 245 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,120 consumed and captivated by Christ. 246 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,520 You worship Him. You offer your whole self to 247 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,960 God. Hey, I'm going into that meeting 248 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,160 as a representative of God. Hey, I'm parenting this 249 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,760 bickering match between my kids as an offering to God. 250 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,440 I'm opening up my Bible in the morning as an offering to God. 251 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,320 I'm driving this car as an offering to God. 252 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,960 Everywhere you go, everything you do is meant to be worship 253 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,040 unto God. Whatever it is, whether you eat 254 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,080 or you drink, it's meant to be done unto God. 255 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,640 And the only proper response to God's grace and His love and His 256 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:53,400 mercy for you in Christ, the only reasonable, true and 257 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,800 spiritual response is that your whole life and whole heart 258 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:02,800 belong to Him. Member, I appeal to you. 259 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:07,360 Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, what God has 260 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:16,080 done for you has changed you completely, that you are not 261 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,960 your own anymore because you were bought with a price. 262 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,760 And now Christian, guess what? You can't help but see what 263 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:30,720 Christ has done and you can't help but live like He lived as a 264 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,680 living, holy and acceptable sacrifice. 265 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,640 Because Christ doesn't just want a piece of your life, He wants 266 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,800 the whole you. He doesn't just deserve a piece 267 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,160 of your life, He wants the whole you. 268 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,680 And we understand the difference between giving a part of 269 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,360 ourselves and our whole selves. Now imagine for a moment you're 270 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:50,720 in a relationship or you're married. 271 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,160 Let's stick with a marriage one for the sake of the 272 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,680 illustration. And if I got home today and I 273 00:15:56,680 --> 00:16:01,320 told my wife, hey, you have 12 minutes of emotional connection 274 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:02,760 today. That's it. 275 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:05,280 That's the only part of my that's the only part of my heart 276 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:06,320 you're getting today. 12 minutes. 277 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,360 You know why I don't have time for that. 278 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,160 That'd be pretty, pretty aggressive, wouldn't it? 279 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:14,440 How well would that go for me? Not good. 280 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,720 Or if I said, hey, you know what, my body has a limit and I 281 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,480 will no longer be taking out the trash. 282 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,840 You get a part of my body, you don't get all of it. 283 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,880 You can have my attention for 12 minutes, but you know what? 284 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:29,560 I'm not taking out the trash. I'm not going to serve you in 285 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,440 that way. Or to flip the illustration, 286 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:36,200 hey, if your wives fellas told you know what, you can hold my 287 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,160 hand and that's all you're getting from me physically 288 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:47,120 forever, That holding back parts of yourself would undermine the 289 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:52,280 unity that God intends. That that relationship is meant 290 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:58,040 to be an offering of your whole self and body and mind and 291 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:05,079 heart. Holding back would destroy the 292 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:07,359 relationship. It would hurt it. 293 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,480 And the same is true of our relationship with Christ. 294 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,280 He is worthy. He is deserving of our whole 295 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,560 selves, our whole bodies, physically for him. 296 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,839 And Christ sets the pace for us in this. 297 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,040 This isn't something he's God isn't asking you to do something 298 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:28,280 he hasn't already done for you. And what's crazy to me is like 299 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,240 if you read the Bible, there's no shot a human being would have 300 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,680 invented a story like this. They wouldn't have invented a 301 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,400 Christ like this, a savior like this. 302 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,760 Only Jesus is like this. And only God could have created 303 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,640 such a divine plan of mercy and grace for us. 304 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,400 Because Romans 12/1 is telling you to present yourself as a 305 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,560 living sacrifice, the very thing Christ did for you. 306 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:56,960 He lived his life as a complete sacrifice for you, offering his 307 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,640 body in obedience, offering his body with his blood dying on a 308 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:07,880 cross for us. He lived a life where it cost 309 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:14,360 him that body and in turn we live lives in return that may 310 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:18,480 cost us our very selves is why people like Jim Elliott have no 311 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,280 problem dying for Christ is because Christ died for him. 312 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,480 He's like you know what to live is Christ to die is gay. 313 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:30,640 It does not matter. I want to offer my body as a 314 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,480 sacrifice of worship. So why does this matter? 315 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,440 Where does this hit real life? I want to help you see where God 316 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,440 is calling you to put your body on the altar in 2026. 317 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,560 I just want to walk. Walk through those 3 words. 318 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:44,920 Living, holy, and acceptable. So where is God calling you to 319 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,240 put your life and your heart on the altar? 320 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,320 Your body first? Maybe it's in the living 321 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,400 category. Here's what I mean by that. 322 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:59,000 Does God exhilarate you? Like does God exhilarate you? 323 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:04,400 As thrilling as things can be on earth, is the most thrilled the 324 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,560 thing that makes you most alive? Is it God? 325 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:14,120 That's a tell tale sign of your worship is God is thrilling to 326 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:17,840 you. You love him, you're captivated 327 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,400 by Him. You can't help but talk about 328 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,640 Him. Maybe, just maybe, he's calling 329 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:29,320 for you to put your life in a different category this year and 330 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:35,240 say, hey, no, Christ is my life and your body would follow suit 331 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,080 in that second holy. Are you setting yourself apart 332 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,080 from sin? Like, are you listening to what 333 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,320 God has said in his word about how to live and conduct 334 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,920 ourselves here on earth in a holy and acceptable way? 335 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,280 And you're saying, hey, I'm putting to death this part of my 336 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,560 life that is sinful. I'm not sleeping with somebody 337 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,960 that is not my spouse. I am not lashing out in anger. 338 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,600 I am not getting greedy when I hear about other things that 339 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,080 people are achieving with their wealth. 340 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:04,800 Are you putting to death those things in your life? 341 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,520 Holy and acceptable? Acceptable. 342 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:11,800 I want you to ask this question of yourself. 343 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,880 Has God's mercy shifted your audience in life to pleasing 344 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,440 God? A lot of us are here today, 345 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,280 living a life that's trying to please others. 346 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,800 That your body is a sacrifice to the pressures of this world, to 347 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,320 the pressures of your boss, to the pressures of your parents, 348 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:27,920 to the pressures of your friends. 349 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Could you just shift your audience to being, hey, what am 350 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:38,960 I doing today to please God? You give your whole self to God 351 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:44,000 when your body is a sacrifice. He gets you and your presence, 352 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:48,080 your physical self. That's not the only component. 353 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,480 Second, I give my God my whole self When second, my mind is 354 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,560 transformed. When my mind is transformed. 355 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,680 Verse 2. Do not be conformed to this 356 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,200 world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. 357 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:11,680 Conformed is the idea of being fashioned or molded mentally. 358 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,320 I want you to think of like a glass welder, like, like the 359 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,720 people who do those cool Instagram videos that like are 360 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,160 so satisfying to watch. You know, when they're making 361 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,880 glass with their bare hands and blowing in. 362 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,200 There's like all kinds of heat and stuff. 363 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,600 I want you to think like that, that your mind is being 364 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,400 fashioned like that every time you are reading something, every 365 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,840 time an idea is introduced to you, that you begin to believe 366 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,240 things about the world and about God and about yourself. 367 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,360 That can be good or they can be bad. 368 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:49,120 They're almost never neutral. And you are being conformed. 369 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,840 You are patterning your life after somebody. 370 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,840 When I was 8 years old, I wanted to be nothing other than Benny 371 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,920 the Jet Rodriguez from The Sandlot. 372 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:06,020 So I wore the cool 2 tone shirt and I wanted to get the PF Flyer 373 00:22:06,020 --> 00:22:08,560 T-shirt like shoes. Like I wanted to be that dude. 374 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:10,800 Never got his jawline apparently. 375 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:12,920 But you know, I, I, I, I prayed for it. 376 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,520 You're patterning your life after somebody mentally. 377 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:18,920 You're like, hey, how am I going to live? 378 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,920 How am I going to think? How am I going to spend money? 379 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,440 How am I going to spend my time? And God is saying, do not be 380 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,320 conformed to how the world tells you to think about the world. 381 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,000 Don't let the world fashion and shape you and pattern you after 382 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,880 it, but rather what does the Bible say? 383 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,000 Be transformed. This is where we get our word 384 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,360 metamorphosis. That you, like a Caterpillar 385 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:43,960 would become a beautiful butterfly. 386 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,640 Like you would actually have that level of change in your 387 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,440 life that people would not even recognize what you've become 388 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:54,720 because the Word has changed you so much that you might have been 389 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,360 an angry person and now you are a loving person. 390 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,120 You might have been a cynical person and now you're a person 391 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:04,080 full of faith. God can do that in your life. 392 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,720 This year. He can take the most anxious 393 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,960 person in this room, the person who thinks there's no way I can 394 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,080 get out of this prison cell and he can set you free. 395 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:19,120 That is the power of God. He can do it. 396 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,120 So we are not like the world. We want to be like the Word 397 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:29,720 being transformed by the renewal of your mind, and the world is 398 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,880 not going to let up on pressuring you to be like 399 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:36,600 itself. It's peddled down from the world 400 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:42,080 in your ears all the time. Hey, have our things, spend 401 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:46,360 money our way, solve conflict like we do, lead like we do, 402 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,520 parent like we do. The world is full of 403 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,040 worshippers. Human beings have a worship 404 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:59,240 problem though. People are often worshipping 405 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,720 stuff rather than the Savior, and the Bible is calling God's 406 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:08,080 people Saints to not be conformed to the world. 407 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,160 Listen to me St. City, the world will pressure 408 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:17,760 you to become like itself, but the Word will fashion you to 409 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,880 become like God's Son. You must have the word in your 410 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,320 life. It must be the thing that is 411 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,200 renewing your mind non-stop. That's actually that word 412 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,280 renewal is huge there for understanding why we're talking 413 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,920 about the Bible right now. Do you see that word there in 414 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,680 your Bible? If you are unfamiliar, be 415 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,040 transformed by the renewal of your mind. 416 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,480 That word in your New Testament is always connected to the Holy 417 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,320 Spirit. Whenever you see the word 418 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,360 renewal, I want you to think this is the Spirit's work. 419 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,000 We worship God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, 420 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,960 and this is His role in changing you from the inside out. 421 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:55,560 That the word renewal is like new birth, that what was dirty 422 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,000 is now clean. What is old is now new because 423 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,880 of the Spirit and the Spirit's primary agent. 424 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,680 The thing that is God is using to change you the most I'm 425 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:17,360 holding in my hands. Would you let God renew your 426 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:22,480 mind this year? Would you resist the temptation 427 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,720 to be fashioned by the world and let God fashion you to be like 428 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,560 him instead? That is the best life, the most 429 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,640 flourishing life possible. That most of your anxiety is 430 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:37,800 because you're disobeying God. And little by little, day by 431 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,520 day, you can be fashioned into the image of the designer. 432 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,600 I don't know if you like home renovation shows. 433 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:49,200 I like them as ambient TV in the background where I'm just trying 434 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,600 to like, you know, play a video game on my phone or something 435 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,840 and Maddie just wants to clock in there. 436 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,600 But one of the things I love about it is I love watching the 437 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,000 process. Little by little, day by day, 438 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,600 this, this designer, this architect will come in and they 439 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,400 completely have a new idea to make this thing look brand new. 440 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,480 And there's a process of tools and work being done. 441 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,120 And what I love seeing is at the end of it, you can't even 442 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:19,760 recognize the old home. Do you realize that God can have 443 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,960 a complete renovation project of your heart? 444 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,760 A complete renovation project of your heart? 445 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:34,640 Like, you may be prone to losing self-control every time you get 446 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,760 bad news, but you don't have to stay that way. 447 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:46,760 That you, like a moth to a flame, could pull up your phone 448 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,600 and be drowning in a sea of debt because you're addicted to 449 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,160 gambling, but God can break you free from that. 450 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,000 The architecture of your life is built by what you give your mind 451 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:07,320 to. You can be a new person, 452 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,960 Christian, You are a new person, and now you can be renewed day 453 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:16,320 by day, new mercy after new mercy, and your life is moving 454 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,080 in the direction of your strongest thoughts, the things 455 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,320 you believe most about the world, and for the pressure of 456 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,800 this world to fade, for anxious hearts to settle. 457 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,160 For 2026 to be your best year yet, you have to get your mind 458 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,920 renewed by the words that you can discern what ought to happen 459 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,360 tomorrow for your life. So what's this going to mean? 460 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:36,320 It means St. City, we're going to have to 461 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,560 have less scrolling and more Scripture in 2026. 462 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,000 Less scrolling and more Scripture. 463 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,680 As your pastor, may I just confess something to you? 464 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:50,120 This is such a hard problem for me, like the dopamine addiction 465 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:51,640 is real right here in this pulpit. 466 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,600 I wake up and I am ashamed to tell you that. 467 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,480 Well, the first thing I do is I open up my phone and I just 468 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:01,120 start scrolling and I scroll and I scroll and I scroll in what is 469 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:04,640 called by our younger friends doom scrolling, right 470 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,800 prophetically stating that doom is upon me, it's coming upon me. 471 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:11,560 And when I read and when I see and when I have. 472 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,480 And may I just say that I one of the reasons why I'm doom 473 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:19,080 scrolling instead of opening up my Bible first, I don't actually 474 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,520 believe some of the things God said. 475 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,640 I would say I believe it, I would read it and then I'd say I 476 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,480 believe it and I would try to apply it. 477 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,240 But the reason I'm not actually applying it is because I don't 478 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:32,880 truly believe it. Here, let me explain for you 479 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,480 that Psalm 19 I want to read for you verse, it says this, that 480 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:43,120 God's words are more to be desired than gold, even much 481 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,360 fine gold. It's sweeter than the sweetest 482 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:51,200 thing you could think of, honey. Now I would tell you, I believe 483 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,080 that. But when I wake up in the 484 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,400 morning and the thing I crave 1st is my phone, guess what? 485 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,720 I'm telling my life and my heart that I actually crave something 486 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,760 else more than scripture. And if Scripture is going to 487 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:08,680 change your life in 2026, you can't just read it, not think 488 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,800 about it or not believe it and then start doing it. 489 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,600 You have to ask yourself the real hard question. 490 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,040 Do I believe this? Like if you're going through 491 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,080 your Bible reading plan and you're like, hey, it's it's 492 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,600 January. I'm in Genesis right now. 493 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,600 So maybe you're reading about Abraham right now and you're 494 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,520 like, hey, do I believe that faith is what God blesses? 495 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,360 And where in my life does it take faith? 496 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,440 Do I believe God is trustworthy enough to follow? 497 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,880 You have to ask yourself the hard questions and go Lord show 498 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,840 me what's in me that doesn't believe this and watch on this 499 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,600 side. Your life will truly change. 500 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,000 Don't just spend 2 minutes in a devo. 501 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:54,880 Actually sit with God and say I love you and I love your word 502 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,960 and watch as he changes your mind from the inside out. 503 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,560 He'll renew it. So less scrolling and more 504 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,800 scripture now. Second, less entertainment, more 505 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,560 enjoyment of God's glory. Now, I don't want you to just 506 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,600 have Scripture on your mind. That's a great thing, and I hope 507 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,840 I appropriately emphasize how important it is for your life. 508 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,920 But this word renewed in 2nd Corinthians 318, jot that 509 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:28,040 reference down. It's saying with unveiled face, 510 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,400 we're being transformed to be more like God from one glory to 511 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,280 the next. And the thing that helps you 512 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:38,280 transform beyond just Scripture is a meditation and an enjoyment 513 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:43,360 of what? The glory of God, the weight of 514 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,000 who God is, sits so heavy on your life. 515 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:52,560 His gravity upon your soul is so mesmerizing that you are 516 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:57,120 enjoying him. You read a story of Jesus 517 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,280 meeting with people in John and he's dunking on the Pharisees in 518 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,320 John 8:00 and you're like, man, I love Jesus. 519 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,320 I can't believe I would know him like this. 520 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,320 Enjoying God, exhilarated by God. 521 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,760 And what gets in the way of that is our stupid attention span 522 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,200 most the time. We get entertained way too 523 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,040 easily. And that's saying that as 524 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,960 somebody who loves movies and TV and hobbies and sports, like I 525 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,240 love all that. I'm not saying none of that. 526 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,880 I'm saying less of it, that your life would look different, your 527 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,520 anxiety level would look so different if you would have just 528 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,120 enjoyed God with part of your day. 529 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,880 If instead of in the car listening to Joe Rogan for the 530 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,800 70th time, what if you listened to somebody talking about the 531 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,440 glories of Christ? What if instead of on Netflix 532 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,280 binge watching again and again and again, what if you took the 533 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:02,800 time to actually take time to enjoy God in prayer and in 534 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,160 presence? And some of you are like, man. 535 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,560 Or is he saying that I can just sit there and enjoy God? 536 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:13,120 Yes, he's meant to be enjoyed. He's meant to be loved. 537 00:32:18,420 --> 00:32:24,460 We must give our minds to God. And I'm convicted by this. 538 00:32:24,460 --> 00:32:26,540 Like I'm going to be changed by this in 2026. 539 00:32:26,540 --> 00:32:28,460 Lord willing. I'm praying God would speak to 540 00:32:28,460 --> 00:32:32,220 me in a new way this year as I lay aside so many trinkets and 541 00:32:32,220 --> 00:32:36,820 treasures and just stupid garage sale stuff for the treasures of 542 00:32:36,820 --> 00:32:39,560 heaven that would seek first the Kingdom of God in his 543 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,240 righteousness, that that would be true of me in 2026. 544 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,600 So would you go with me this year? 545 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,400 And would you say, hey, less scrolling and more scripture, 546 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,400 less entertainment and more enjoying of God. 547 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,040 And I think that our church will look so different as a result. 548 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,760 So will your life. You won't regret giving God 549 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:02,440 less. 3rd and finally, I give my whole self to God. 550 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,640 I give God my whole self when third, my will is surrendered. 551 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,160 You are a human being, which means your body and your mind 552 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,840 have been given to God. But you have another part of 553 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,160 yourself that some of you and your mind and your body. 554 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,680 You're in the right place with your body. 555 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,120 Like you'd go to church right now and your mind would be 556 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,640 engaged. You're listening to what I have 557 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,160 to say, but it does not change the way you live at all. 558 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:36,200 Your will is unaffected. You remain in the same place in 559 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,280 your life because you're like, Nope, you're stubborn. 560 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,920 You're like, Nope, God, you don't get to tell me what to do 561 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,960 in that area of my life. Look at listen what the Bible 562 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,800 says. You'll be transformed by the 563 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,000 renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is 564 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,800 the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect that 565 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,320 we're meant to discern as we go about our life, what we ought to 566 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,160 do in our everyday decisions that honor God, that pleases 567 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,680 God, that brings glory to God by the way that we live. 568 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,760 We're discerning through the testing. 569 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,520 We go about our day and like, hey, how should I handle that 570 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,600 thing at work, that parenting moment, that conflict with my 571 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,639 spouse? How should I handle that? 572 00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:16,639 You're testing that. You're thinking about that and 573 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,280 you're like, hey, is this how the world thinks about it? 574 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,040 Or is it here's how the word thinks about it and you're going 575 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,560 about that non-stop. And then there's a point of 576 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,480 choosing. Will you obey or disobey? 577 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,400 That's where the will is that phrase the will of God is can be 578 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,560 very confusing for people. So I want to clarify it for you. 579 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,120 There's two types of God's will in the Bible. 580 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,040 It can be used in two different ways. 581 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,400 The first is this that one got one way to think about God's 582 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,920 will is his sovereign will. It's the will that always gets 583 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,639 done. Like if God says it, it happens. 584 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,120 If he speaks, guess what, Let there be light, there's light. 585 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,560 If he says, hey, my son is going to come in 2000 years and die on 586 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,840 the Roman cross, that's God's sovereign will. 587 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,920 We call that his will of decree, that he speaks like a king and 588 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,440 consider it done. It's happened. 589 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,720 The 2nd and the one that's talking about here in Romans 590 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:11,920 chapter 12. We call that His will of desire. 591 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:20,320 It's what God wants for you, it's his design for you, and 592 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,200 it's the kind that we can actually violate, the kind that 593 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:29,880 to violate would be sin or foolishness, and God's will is 594 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:34,480 simply that you would obey him. I've heard it said this way, 595 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,680 that God's word is God's will, and God's will is God's word. 596 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,720 God's word is God's will, and God's will is God's word. 597 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,880 Meaning when God tells you to do something, do you obey the 598 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,240 commandment he's given you? Like right now? 599 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:54,080 Don't be conformed, be transformed, or you obeying 600 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,720 that? Or does it go in one ear, out 601 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:01,040 the other? It's easy to not surrender to 602 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:02,800 God's will because our hearts have been so formed by the 603 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,960 world. His influence on us needs to 604 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,320 keep growing and growing and growing and growing. 605 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,640 And it does with time. Praise be to God, but our hearts 606 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:19,400 are so depraved and dark that even with the Spirit in us, 607 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,360 there's still so many things that pull us towards the things 608 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,960 of this world that we need God to act upon us. 609 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,520 We need His influence so His ownership of us would not be 610 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,800 diminished. And for many of us, it's like we 611 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,640 want Jesus to have the keys to our house, but just not every 612 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,640 room. This is how it feels in our 613 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,840 heads that he won't. We give Jesus the keys to our 614 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,960 house, but not every room. Like he can have the living room 615 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,040 on Sundays, but we keep the bedroom, the office, and the 616 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,040 entertainment room locked. Like you can't have that. 617 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,480 You don't get to talk over that area of my life. 618 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,160 Lord, your, your desires there don't match mine. 619 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,040 And I'm going to do what I want to do. 620 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,160 I'm going to live with who I want to live with, even though 621 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,880 they're not my spouse. I'm going to watch what I want 622 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,600 to watch. I'm going to lash out how I want 623 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,000 to lash out because it feels good. 624 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,560 And some of you are here thinking, wait a second, Is he 625 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,880 calling me to put every part of my life over to God? 626 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:19,680 Yes, yes I am. Because you're asking if I gave 627 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,440 God my time, what would happen to my calendar? 628 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,040 What would happen to my plans and my hobbies? 629 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,880 You're riddled with doubt and you're like, hey, if I gave, 630 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,680 actually gave God my talent, what would happen to my career? 631 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,160 If I gave God my treasure, what would happen to my retirement 632 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,960 plan? Jesus is worthy of your total 633 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,240 will being surrendered to Him. Let Him worry about all those 634 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:44,200 things. You just do what He told you to 635 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,840 do. Don't let the world convince you 636 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,600 to only surrender parts of your will to Jesus. 637 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,520 He gets to tell you how to live in this life. 638 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,720 He gets to tell you what to believe about the world. 639 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,960 He gets to call the shots for your life. 640 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,360 He is your Lord. That word means Master, boss, 641 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:08,960 authority, and He teaches us through here what His will is. 642 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,800 Don't let your heart stay divided. 643 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,320 Let it be settled through undivided worship, that your 644 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,560 body and your mind and your will align and be unified. 645 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:26,880 Let the gospel renew you, because what hope could you 646 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:33,200 possibly have to fix your heart? What hope could you have to 647 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:39,920 change what you want in life? I mean, our hearts unconsciously 648 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,040 and instinctively produce all kinds of things. 649 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,360 Like what hope could you have to stop being a jealous and 650 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:52,920 prideful and ego driven person? What hope could you have against 651 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,040 insecurity and cynicism and anger? 652 00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,400 How are you going to stop being those things? 653 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,960 What hope to heal your heart could you have for foolishness 654 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:08,920 and anxiety and doubt? What hope is there for despair 655 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:14,080 and shame and bitterness? Don't you see it runs so much 656 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,600 deeper than just what you do in your will? 657 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,560 It's who you are underneath. That's the problem that God has 658 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,160 to change who you are at your core. 659 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,160 You need a new heart. You need a new mind. 660 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,920 You need a new body. You need all those things. 661 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,000 And thanks be to God that Jesus Christ Saints City has come for 662 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:40,120 us, that that outside force has changed us and it can continue 663 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,040 to change us. That we have a living, breathing 664 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,640 sacrifice. We have a mind that was 665 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,680 perfectly renewed. We have an acceptable, pleasing 666 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:53,640 offering to God in Jesus. Don't you see the gospel that we 667 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,720 have a living, holy, pleasing sacrifice, who gave His body on 668 00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:01,920 the Christ on the cross, so that we could have a Christ that He 669 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,520 gave His blood on the cross, dying of death. 670 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,160 You should have died for your sin, having no sin of His own to 671 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,680 pay for. He went there on a bloody cross 672 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:12,640 for you and I. And not only that, he had a 673 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:17,560 completely transformed mind. The mind that is Christ Jesus is 674 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,120 the mind that looks at everybody and says, you know what, I'm 675 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,760 going to count them more important than me. 676 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,440 And thank God he did because he thought I was more important and 677 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,640 you were more important than his own life. 678 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,720 He shed his blood on a cross so that we can have a relationship 679 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:35,520 with God again. Don't you see how much God loves 680 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,000 you? He sees that dark part of your 681 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,760 heart. He sees that pattern in your 682 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,320 thinking, that pattern in the way you behave, and he sees how 683 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,680 much you hate it, how ugly you think it is. 684 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,000 And he looks at you and he says, But God demonstrates his own 685 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,880 love, and that while we were still sinners, that while we 686 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:58,360 were at our ugliest and our darkest, he died for you so that 687 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,560 your body, your mind, and your will could be glorified in 688 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,560 Christ. It could be changed. 689 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,120 This is the good news of the gospel. 690 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,880 It is an announcement. You can't fix your heart. 691 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,160 But guess what, I can. That's what God tells you today. 692 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,760 It's so often our division in our hearts, our disunity in our 693 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:23,800 minds and our bodies. Guess what? 694 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,560 It's because we forget the most basic and foundational thing in 695 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:33,400 the Bible. You can't change you, God can. 696 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:39,400 God can do it. Don't believe the lies that 697 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,040 you're going to be stuck there forever. 698 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,760 God can change your life this year. 699 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:51,480 His Word is alive, His Son is alive and His Spirit is active 700 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,640 all. Would you let Him work in you 701 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,320 and through you? Who else is there to want and 702 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:05,360 live for? What other Savior is coming for 703 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:09,360 you? There's only Christ, the one who 704 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,920 by the mercy of God saved us from our sin. 705 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,160 Why worship anyone or anything else? 706 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,040 Why let the pressure of the world and people? 707 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:26,200 Why try to become like them when you have Jesus, the one who is 708 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,840 worthy to pattern your life after? 709 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:34,520 I appeal to you, therefore, by the mercies of God, to present 710 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,440 your bodies as a living, holy and acceptable sacrifice to God. 711 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,760 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the 712 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:47,760 renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is 713 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,600 the will of God, what is good, what should I do, what is 714 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:56,000 acceptable, what does God want and perfect? 715 00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,040 You have the perfect sacrifice in Jesus. 716 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,280 Let's be his disciples. In fact, I want to help you 717 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,360 close with this four ways that you can be an undivided disciple 718 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,280 this week. These are our language for 719 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,200 disciples here at Saint City. These are how we think about 720 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,560 being a disciple. That this component hits all 721 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,520 parts of our life as a Jesus follower. 722 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,920 That's why we have 4 words actually, Because I don't want 723 00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,720 you to be an undivided disciple. I want you to look at every part 724 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:27,640 of your mind, body, will. I wanted them to all be affected 725 00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:32,720 by the gospel of Jesus Christ. So 4 WS so you wouldn't be 726 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:36,360 divided, but you could stand. I think Abe Lincoln said that 727 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,120 house divided against itself cannot stand, right? 728 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,240 Is that an Abe Lincoln quote? Don't quote me on that. 729 00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,560 Abe said it first. Offer God these four things this 730 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:44,200 week. Ready. 731 00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:49,560 Offer God first your worship. Are you offering your whole self 732 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,360 to God? Only you can answer that 733 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,400 question. Are you offering your whole self 734 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,840 to God? Or is He just get Sunday 735 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,320 mornings from 10:00 AM to 11:15 on the Sundays you want to be 736 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,120 here? Does he get just a portion of 737 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,480 your day? Or is your whole self belonging 738 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,880 to God? That is your only hope in life 739 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,360 and death, that you belong to Christ. 740 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,680 So are you offering your whole self to Him? 741 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:22,280 Second, offer God your walk. I'm talking about spiritual 742 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,120 disciplines when I say this. When we talk about walking with 743 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,800 Christ, we're talking about spiritual disciplines at Saint 744 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,240 City. Like, hey, what part of your 745 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:32,520 life have you pulled off of the altar that you are not willing 746 00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,560 to sacrifice anymore with your spiritual disciplines? 747 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,560 Maybe it's sacrificing your attention in prayer. 748 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,920 Maybe it's sacrificing your time and getting up a little bit 749 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,440 earlier so you can spend time getting to know God, so you can 750 00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:49,960 love God more through His Word, being in a small group. 751 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,200 In fact, community groups are launching this week at Saint 752 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:53,720 City. If you want to be in community, 753 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:55,240 be encouraged to be a disciple like this. 754 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,520 May I just encourage you to meet with us Tuesday night at 6:30 at 755 00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,320 the Graduate. That's not in my notes. 756 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,040 I'm not I wasn't going there. I just feel it right now in this 757 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,800 room that you guys need to hear. Hey, guess what? 758 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:05,440 You can be a disciple with God's people. 759 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,960 You can have fellowship and carry out the one another's and 760 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,840 they're going to help you walk with Christ. 761 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,360 But some of you pulled that part of your life off the altar. 762 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,320 You're like, you know what, God, I've experienced too much pain 763 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:16,760 from the church. I don't want to be in a 764 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,120 relationship with Christians anymore. 765 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:20,600 That Sunday morning is just good enough. 766 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,880 You're living a divided life. God intends for you to be in 767 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,080 fellowship with His people. Don't settle for the anxiety 768 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,520 producing absence of gospel community. 769 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,480 Divided hearts settle through undivided worship. 770 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,000 Give God everything in your walk. 771 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,920 Don't pull it off the altar. The problem with living 772 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,720 sacrifices is we often keep crawling off the altar. 773 00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:52,720 God wants to keep crucifying your flesh, so keep walking with 774 00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:55,720 him. Third and not finally work, 775 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,480 offer God your work. When I say working for Christ 776 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,760 always that same city is talking about disciple in terms of how 777 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:05,760 you serve the local church that that's our language for serving 778 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:06,320 the church. Why? 779 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,040 Because even in the rest of Romans 12, you can Fact Check me 780 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:10,720 on this. The next thing he starts talking 781 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:14,080 about is how you use your gifts for the church that this isn't 782 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,040 it's directly connected in the Bible that your worship always 783 00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:21,720 produces an output inside of a local community of believers. 784 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:25,480 So how are you sacrificing in 2026 for the church? 785 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,440 Join a team, get here early once a week, once a month, you know, 786 00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,560 like do what you got to do. We we work with your schedule, 787 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:35,160 but you need to know something. It's always going to cost 788 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,640 something if it's a sacrifice. If it doesn't cost you anything, 789 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:41,560 it wasn't a sacrifice. So work for Christ 4th and now 790 00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:46,360 finally offer God your witness. We worship, we walk, we work and 791 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,800 we witness as his disciples. Who are you telling about the 792 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,360 sacrifice Jesus has made? Have a person that you're 793 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,160 praying for this year that would come to know Jesus. 794 00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,000 Have a person in your life that you are praying about. 795 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,160 Hey, I need to tell them about what God has done in me. 796 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,560 Testify. Witness, some of you are here at 797 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:03,840 the invitation of one of those things. 798 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,640 And may I just tell implore you, consider what Jesus has said. 799 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,240 Turn from your sin and embrace him by faith. 800 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:14,440 He is the only hope for living a life of eternality, of 801 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,840 immortality. It's with God and God alone. 802 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,000 When God gets our undivided worship, our hearts are settled. 803 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:28,880 So we all forgot our bodies, our minds, and our will. 804 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,280 Would you pray with me, Lord? Thank you. 805 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,960 Thank you that no one else and nothing else is worthy of this 806 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,080 kind of affection and worship. It's you and you alone. 807 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:42,320 And so, God, I pray that 2026 would be a year for a St. city 808 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:46,280 where we March forward into the great and glorious reality of 809 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:50,760 your Kingdom on earth, Lord, that we would see you work and 810 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,720 move in our discipleship. That we would be less divided, 811 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,240 less distracted by the things of this world and we lean into all 812 00:47:57,240 --> 00:48:01,240 that you are. Oh God, you love us so much and 813 00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:04,160 we're so grateful for your patience in our pursuit of you. 814 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,480 But God, would you show favor upon us more grace? 815 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,240 You don't, we don't, we don't deserve it. 816 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,600 But I'm asking God that as people take one step this week, 817 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,560 you'd give them ten that as they open up your word, maybe for the 818 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,480 first time this year, God, they would change their heart in an 819 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,200 instant. They go, man, I want this. 820 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,520 Would they be transformed? And God would you get all the 821 00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:30,120 glory in Jesus name, Amen.