1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 All right. Well, if you were here last week 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,200 or indeed, if you watch this online you'll know that I 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,900 started last week, a new series based on this amazing book by aw 4 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:18,800 Tozer called The Pursuit Of God was written in 1948 and 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,800 prophetic for its time. And so it is equally may I 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,400 suggest even more. So for this time as well, I 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,800 started the series by reading an excerpt from the preface. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,800 Face, and maybe I'll do so again, albeit a smaller part of 9 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,900 it and it starts like this in the hour of old, but to 10 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:43,300 Universal Darkness, one cheering gleam appears within the fold of 11 00:00:43,300 --> 00:00:46,500 conservative Christianity. There are to be found increasing 12 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:50,600 numbers of people whose religious lives are marked by a 13 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:56,800 growing hunger, after God himself They're eager, the 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,900 spiritual realities and will not be put off with words. 15 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:05,300 Nor will they be content with correct quotes interpretations? 16 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:11,700 They are a thirst for God and they will not be satisfied until 17 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:15,700 they have drunk deep found to Living Water. 18 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:20,300 May that be true for us. I pray in this place because 19 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:24,100 ultimately, as I talked about last week, if we strip down the 20 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:28,200 complexity that Us preachers and pastors like to convey not 21 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,800 necessarily on purpose. Certainly we can fall into the 22 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,200 Trap of trying to impress we do. So as a disservice to you, 23 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,400 because you see the simple gospel, as we sang earlier is 24 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,800 simply this the Jesus came to restore relationship, God. 25 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,500 And you see our religion is simply that we pursue God. 26 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:54,400 And we seek him and his presence and the Lord had laid on my 27 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,200 heart. This serious to start the year 28 00:01:58,100 --> 00:02:00,300 with the way, in which we would like to continue, which is 29 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:03,900 pursuing him and him alone. Yes, we love the blessings. 30 00:02:03,900 --> 00:02:06,900 Yes, we love everything else, but but ultimately, it's about 31 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:10,500 him and his presence. And so, as I said last week, we 32 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:12,300 are based in the talks on this book. 33 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:15,700 Thank you. Aw Tozer for That he's not 34 00:02:15,700 --> 00:02:18,500 alive, still, by the way. Otherwise it'd be very old, but 35 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:23,100 I credit him for this, you know, he wrote this book on his knees, 36 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,400 literally Niche. Literally on his knees. 37 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,100 You can get this for free. It's out of copyright, download 38 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:31,300 as a PDF. If you've got Kindle unlimited, 39 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:33,300 that's free there. I know many of you have 40 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:35,800 purchased it since last week, but it is a wonderful book. 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,800 And last week, we looked at chapter one, which was following 42 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:44,900 hard after God, and we Looked at, hmm, what it means to pursue 43 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:47,800 God, and, and actually, wonderful, Fred. 44 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,500 He was leading worship earlier, he sang out that, you know, that 45 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:56,100 God is, is seeking us that, that there is that urge within us to 46 00:02:56,100 --> 00:02:58,200 pursue God, because he places it in us. 47 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,500 But then it's our part to play whether we respond to that and 48 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:03,700 seek God. And that's what we looked at 49 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:06,200 last week. Now, what is it this week? 50 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:11,900 Well, the chapter this week is called the blessedness of Sent 51 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:15,300 possessing nothing. The blessedness of possessing. 52 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:20,500 Nothing and and I think it's fair to say that in pursuing God 53 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:23,300 we need to stop pursuing substitutions. 54 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:30,500 Because we are created to pursue to worship God and if we're not 55 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:34,300 pursuing and worshiping God, we would do so for something or 56 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:38,100 someone else. So the question for us is not, 57 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:40,800 are you pursuing its who are you pursuing? 58 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,700 What? And so the challenge that aw 59 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:47,200 Tozer presents in this chapter 4, which I'm going to base. 60 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,600 My talk on is challenging us to say, who are you pursuing? 61 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,500 And he starts the chapter with a very famous verse. 62 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:58,800 It's in the The Sermon on the Mount is called the Beatitudes 63 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,700 and it's the first one that says this in Matthew 5:3 will be on 64 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:04,500 the screen. And if you're on Homer, be on 65 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:07,300 your screen. Blessed are the poor in spirit 66 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:10,000 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 67 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:13,400 What does that mean? Well, let's unpack that 68 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,100 together. And in order to do that, let's 69 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:18,000 start at the beginning, you know, when God created man and 70 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,500 woman upon this Earth, it is interesting to note. 71 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:28,200 I find that he created the world and pleasant things first before 72 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:30,200 he created them. You notice that? 73 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,000 You know, I love that about God. He didn't just plunk man and 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,900 woman on this in Hip inhabited Rock and say right there you go 75 00:04:39,900 --> 00:04:42,600 guys. Have some fun who's seen that, 76 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:44,300 that movie is it Mars with Matt Damon. 77 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:46,900 You know, God could have done that. 78 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:48,800 You know he laughs. You haven't seen the movie. 79 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,400 There's no massive. Spoiler alert goes to Mars, 80 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,700 rest. It's a red rock. 81 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,600 But you know, in the creation I rather think the Gods like 82 00:04:58,600 --> 00:04:59,300 right. You know, we're going to do 83 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:01,800 going to create man and woman in our own image but let's first 84 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:06,900 create an amazing place, right? So he spends a few days creating 85 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:09,600 this modes of most amazing place, and when it's ready, 86 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,100 there's right now for the Pinnacle of creation and a 87 00:05:13,108 --> 00:05:14,800 woman. And I are going to love this, 88 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,400 you can imagine, I was like, hey, check this out. 89 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,700 Look what I've created for you. Wow, look at the birds, the way 90 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:22,700 they fly. Look at the beautiful sunsets. 91 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:25,200 Hey, check this out, you should eat this, it's really tasty. 92 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:30,000 Lady, not the Apple. But you can imagine God, he 93 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:38,300 wants them to enjoy the things. And things they were, you know, 94 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:41,500 in the Genesis account, they're simply called things. 95 00:05:42,700 --> 00:05:46,100 And you see these things were external to us. 96 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:53,200 And internal to us deep in the heart of man was a shrine where 97 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,600 God Alone was in Throne, just as God has intended. 98 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:01,300 He wanted to bless us with things, but they were always 99 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:04,300 designed to be external to our hearts. 100 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:07,700 God Alone was all they possessed. 101 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:14,100 Within was God, without were the beautiful and wonderful things, 102 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,800 the things, but greater for us to enjoy. 103 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,200 But if you know your story and Genesis this would not last with 104 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,600 it. What happened? 105 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,200 And I think in order for us to understand the blessedness of 106 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,600 possessing nothing, we need to understand what happened way 107 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,100 back. When sin entered the world, we 108 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:37,100 need to understand the full impact of the Fall. 109 00:06:37,100 --> 00:06:40,200 You see when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and essentially 110 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:43,200 they Proclaim that they wanted to be like God, that was what it 111 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,600 was. We don't need God, then 112 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,400 everything changed sin. Came in and turn God's creation 113 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,400 upside down. We often say, don't, we, that 114 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,100 God's kingdom is an upside down kingdom. 115 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:56,400 That's only from this perspective, we live in the 116 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,500 upside down, keeping God's kingdom is the right. 117 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:04,900 Way up as he had intended. God was out and things were in. 118 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:09,300 Where once we pursued God and sought after him, all of a 119 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:13,700 sudden, the things took a seat into the Throne of our that's 120 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:18,000 what happened. And we showed God the door. 121 00:07:19,700 --> 00:07:22,400 And in that moment, we went from Freedom into bondage. 122 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,600 Those things that now, entered our hearts, we became in 123 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:30,900 bondage, and this has not changed thousands of years, like 124 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:34,100 What does this mean for us today? 125 00:07:35,900 --> 00:07:39,900 What's the reality of us today? Well, aw Tozer points out, that 126 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,600 it is not a mere metaphor, but an accurate analysis of our real 127 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,900 spiritual trouble. There is within the human Fallen 128 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:51,600 heart, he calls it. A tough route of Fallen life. 129 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,700 Whose nature is to possess, always to possess, it covers 130 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:59,200 things with a deep and fierce passion that is the battle. 131 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,400 We faced, with our fallen flesh, we are New Creations in Christ, 132 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,400 Jesus, but we still have the flesh. 133 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:09,800 Out in the enemy, the wages against us you know on toes that 134 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,900 I think makes a very interesting point that goes on to make that 135 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:18,200 say that the pronouns we love pronouns my and mine look 136 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,300 innocent enough in print, he says, but that constant and 137 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:25,600 Universal use is significant. This is interesting. 138 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,500 How often do we hear it? How often do we say it? 139 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:34,200 That's mine. My this, my that mine this. 140 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:37,100 And I think even makes a valid point which is we got, we got 141 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:42,500 used to that but underlying that he said a verbal symptoms of a 142 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:46,400 deep spiritual disease. It's kind of interesting but 143 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,600 about you but I certainly feel challenged about this. 144 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,600 And I think it expresses the real nature. 145 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:58,900 The Fallen nature that we battle against this desire to possess 146 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,700 to have mine. Mine mine, do we use the 147 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:06,300 sentence? My God, as much as we use my 148 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:12,300 everything else? I know I don't #Transparent. 149 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:23,500 And be relevant. You know, we put our trust that 150 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:30,700 we in things for our safety, we put our hope in things for our 151 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:34,400 future. We put our faith in things for 152 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:38,500 our presence. We seek out things to fill The 153 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:45,100 Thirst in our hearts. But you see that is not how God 154 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:47,200 intended our relationship to be with you. 155 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:51,700 Those things were designed created to be external to us and 156 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:53,700 in our hearts only God would be throw. 157 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:59,600 It said, I know there are times when In my life. 158 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:03,100 I go to things before I go to God. 159 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,400 I'll go to a glass of wine before I go and seek God for 160 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,000 Comfort. Now, I'm not suggesting to you 161 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,200 that. I have an alcohol problem. 162 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:16,100 I'm normal like you. I enjoy a glass of wine. 163 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:19,800 There's nothing wrong with me but I noticed I noticed there 164 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:27,600 are times I'm like you were looking at me as if because I 165 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,900 don't do that. I'm trying to I'm trying to be 166 00:10:30,900 --> 00:10:35,600 very self disclosing to make her a very valid point that it is 167 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:40,700 very subtle but it is. There I reckon in the garden. 168 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:42,700 I mean clearly there wasn't since oh, Adam and Eve would 169 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:45,900 have felt that way, but if that were the case and go with me on 170 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:48,600 this, it was said, you know what, we just need to God right 171 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,900 now. I mean that cranberry juice over 172 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:56,600 there that we meant, it is very tasty, but We've really just so 173 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,700 thirsty. And that's really what we are 174 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:08,500 called to do and to pursue God, and yet the pronouns, my and 175 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:10,500 mine have taken over to the degree. 176 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:16,300 They've almost camouflaged a reality that we battle, which is 177 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:18,400 the things of taking route to the heart. 178 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:27,200 What a challenge, isn't it? Let's look at what Jesus talked 179 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,100 about, because Jesus reference, and we're going to look at 180 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:35,400 Matthew 16:24 225, why don't we turn together the in your Bible, 181 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,200 obviously, but it also be on the screen and if you're at home on 182 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,600 your screen as well. What about Sunset? 183 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,200 2014 right? Then Jesus said to his 184 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,000 disciples, if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself 185 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,800 and take up his cross and follow me for whoever would save his 186 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,600 life will lose it but whoever loses his life, for my sake, 187 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:04,600 We'll find it. Wow, strong words, Jesus. 188 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,100 Really, you mean wait? Hold the folk. 189 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:10,100 You mean, I've got to take up my cross. 190 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:15,600 I've said this before, you know, Isn't the whole point of 191 00:12:15,608 --> 00:12:19,000 Christianity, Jesus, that you picked up your cross and you die 192 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,100 for me, so I can have my best life and I can feed myself 193 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:26,100 everything I want. Well, you know, that's not 194 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:28,500 actually what Jesus said. I think it says here. 195 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,300 Take up your cross. You mean we've got to die as 196 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:33,900 well. I thought it was just you dying 197 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:35,800 for us, so that we wouldn't need to die. 198 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:41,800 Blessed are the poor in spirit. You know, Jesus call it life and 199 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,400 self or as we would say, the self life with me and to die to 200 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,500 it, and give it up for, Christ's sake is to preserve everything 201 00:12:49,500 --> 00:12:52,600 unto life eternal. This is a very strange mystery 202 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:54,700 in some respect, but a hidden truth. 203 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:58,100 Nevertheless, you know, two toes are points out in the blessed 204 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:01,500 one, who possesses the kingdom, are they who have renounced 205 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:04,200 every external thing and have taken out from their heart or 206 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,400 sense of possessing. We're going to look at the 207 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:14,000 moment about How we do that? They are poor in spirit that we 208 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 possess nothing. Now I'm not talking about the 209 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,800 title Deeds to your home. I'm not talking about the fact 210 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,800 that you own a car, there's a difference between that and 211 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,600 possessive. Look at the moment. 212 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,500 No, the he says these blessed poor are no longer slaves to the 213 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:30,900 tyranny of things. That is true. 214 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,700 You know you buy something that's amazing and I mentioned 215 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:38,600 this last week the new mobile phone comes out a few months 216 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,300 later and you need that one because all of a sudden, the one 217 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:43,200 you've got that you love so much is terrible. 218 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:49,600 It is the tyranny of things. You know, let's look at a story 219 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,500 in the Old Testament. As I mentioned last week as is 220 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:56,100 frequently true the New Testament principles of 221 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:58,100 spiritual life. Find this best illustration in 222 00:13:58,100 --> 00:13:59,900 the Old Testament so we're gonna look at story. 223 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,400 It's a story of Abraham and his son, Isaac remember, that story, 224 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:07,800 very good story, shocking story, many ways, but just to bring you 225 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:09,800 up to speed. If you're if you don't 226 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,900 understand the story or the context Abraham was old and 227 00:14:12,900 --> 00:14:15,900 eyes, it was born, you know, God had promised Abraham and Sarah, 228 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,300 that they would have a son. He was old enough, of course, to 229 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:26,200 be his grandfather, and this boy took a place in his heart that 230 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,600 we wouldn't be surprised that. But God, actually, in the 231 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,700 account comments on the strength of his affection, And it's not 232 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:36,500 hard to understand why his son represented for Abraham. 233 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:40,100 The very Promises of God, of course it represented. 234 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:44,100 The Covenant that God had made it represented the very Messiah 235 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:47,400 that was to come. That's how amazing this boy was. 236 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,700 And you can imagine that as he watched this boy grow from 237 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,600 Boyhood to manhood the heart of the old man. 238 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,600 Wasn't it closer and closer with the life of his son and toes are 239 00:15:00,608 --> 00:15:04,000 points out as he makes comments to this till at last the 240 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,500 relationship bordered upon the perilous and it was then that 241 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:11,700 God stepped in as toes a says to save both father and son from 242 00:15:11,700 --> 00:15:13,800 the consequences of an unplanned love. 243 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:17,800 And of Interest. And then we pick it up there for 244 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,700 at this point on Genesis 22 verses 1 to 2. 245 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:28,600 It says this God tested Abraham and said to him Abraham he said 246 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:35,900 here I am. Take your son, your only son, 247 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:39,100 Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah and offer him 248 00:15:39,100 --> 00:15:42,500 there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I 249 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:47,200 shall tell you. You can imagine the agony, 250 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:48,700 right. That Abraham would have felt 251 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 what? What I mean? 252 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:56,300 What. What about me? 253 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:58,700 God, I'm old. You know, had my time? 254 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,400 Not my son. Matt doesn't make sense anyway, 255 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:07,200 because it's my son. Which means that we're going to 256 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,300 see an amazing nation and the Messiah is going to come on my 257 00:16:10,300 --> 00:16:12,300 son. You've made a mistake God and he 258 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:16,800 wrestles A whole night. And in the morning he resolves. 259 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:22,800 He would offer his son as got to direct them to, but he would 260 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,700 then trust God who raised him from the dead. 261 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:29,000 That was how the conclusion he got to. 262 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:32,700 And in fact, if you read it in the Hebrews was a solution, he 263 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:38,800 found in that dark night. So God let the suffering old 264 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,700 man. Go through it up to the point. 265 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,100 Many says, stop. Stop. 266 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:49,100 Don't harm the boy. It's okay. 267 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,700 Never intended. You actually kill the boy. 268 00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:57,200 And he wanted to remove him from the Temple of your heart. 269 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:05,599 I might rain unchallenged. Then Heaven open happened, right 270 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:10,099 after in heaven, open and a voice was heard saying this to 271 00:17:10,099 --> 00:17:12,599 you by myself. This is God speaking. 272 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:16,099 I have sworn declares the Lord because you have done this and 273 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:19,700 have not withheld, your son, your only son I will surely 274 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:23,400 bless you and I will surely multiply your Offspring as the 275 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,200 stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore and your 276 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,900 Offspring shall possess, the Gate of his enemies and in your 277 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:34,700 offspring, Shall all the nations of the earth. 278 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:37,500 Be blessed because you have obeyed. 279 00:17:41,100 --> 00:17:45,400 This was a man who was now truly truly surrendered. 280 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:52,200 Utterly obedient to God, man. Who now possessed nothing. 281 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,700 Yet this Man Poor of spirit. Was Richard. 282 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:04,800 Everything he had, was his still to enjoy, wasn't it? 283 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,900 We read. As we read the story of the 284 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:12,200 amount of Catholic e, he had and the servants, and all of that 285 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,000 stuff. And he still had his son by his 286 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:20,800 side as toza points out. He had everything but possessed, 287 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:25,600 nothing. He had everything the things but 288 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:31,400 he possessed none of none of them took the throne in his 289 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,400 heart. Any longer only God only would 290 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,100 he pursue God he would enjoy the things. 291 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:43,800 And you know, the world would say look how rich Abraham that 292 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,100 he would only smarter himself, he couldn't explain it to them, 293 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 but he knew that he owned nothing. 294 00:18:52,300 --> 00:18:55,800 That he's real treasure was in word and in turn. 295 00:18:56,500 --> 00:19:03,000 Can we say that about ourselves? What's your real treasure is it, 296 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,200 God himself and Eternity. Is that the thing that you 297 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,600 pursue is that the thing you possess in your home? 298 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,800 What holds us back from surrendering our things? 299 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:25,100 The question mark. Let's look at these, shall we? 300 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:28,300 You know, I think it's worth saying and toes and makes the 301 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:30,000 point. And as I said, I based my talk 302 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:37,100 on this. that, because We the things we cling to feel so 303 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:41,200 natural to us, it is rarely recognized as the danger. 304 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:47,200 It possesses hoses us because it feels so naturally to cling for 305 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,600 the next upgrade because it feels so natural to cling to be 306 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,600 like our neighbors and have the car they have. 307 00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:56,900 Because it feels so natural to listen, deaf and I were watching 308 00:19:56,900 --> 00:20:04,300 a movie last night. Last Glass Onion right? 309 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:09,300 The Knives Out movie. It's a second one, very good. 310 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,100 But anyway I'm not going to spoil it for you but there's a 311 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:15,900 very rich billionaire who has his own Island obviously. 312 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:21,400 And he has all everything he wants and they will look Glam 313 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,600 and they have everything and I will be honest. 314 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:34,600 There was a touch of me. that Paul that affinity for Come on, 315 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,400 Lord. I don't think I went as far as 316 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,900 saying, come on board. I do want to do myself a 317 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:45,600 disservice and get you worried about your pastor but There was 318 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,500 something in me that wanted to cling to that kind of life. 319 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,800 It was very attractive and I had to, yeah, we had a bit of a joke 320 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,300 together, didn't we? Come on. 321 00:20:53,308 --> 00:20:57,300 Let's not go there board. Thank you your blessings. 322 00:20:57,300 --> 00:20:59,600 Thank you. More than we need but we want to 323 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,700 pursue more than that stuff. But it's so. 324 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:10,100 Feels so natural, right? Okay. 325 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:13,500 So what are the things that hold us back from surrendering? 326 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:18,600 I think number one, We often hindered from and these are from 327 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,800 Tozer we often hindered from giving up our Treasures to the 328 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,600 Lord, out of fear for their safety. 329 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:28,000 Now, this is especially true. When these Treasures are loved 330 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,200 relatives and friends, aren't they? 331 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,400 You know, I have too often times. 332 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,600 I try and step in and control situations with my with my 333 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,300 family because of fear for them. You know. 334 00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:40,000 And there's a part of that that's natural. 335 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,600 I'm a I'm a father and a husband and I'm called by God to, you 336 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,800 know, to Father well and to be a husband, but there is a line, 337 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,900 you can cross where you start thinking that it all comes down 338 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:51,200 to you and then you can sort things out. 339 00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:58,600 Black geography, knowledge here. And we the line is very crafty 340 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,800 line because what it actually says is God I think I will trust 341 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,200 myself more than you on this one. 342 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,100 Because the reality is, if I don't surrender them fully to 343 00:22:11,100 --> 00:22:12,900 you, I just don't know what you're going to do. 344 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,500 And I'd rather not do that. And by the way, this might be 345 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:21,200 for you a son or a daughter that you just going to let go and 346 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,300 stop controlling them. And you know I have this check 347 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:27,300 something like Lord you know it says in the scriptures that we 348 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:32,800 don't want to be over exasperate, our children you 349 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:38,000 know that's wisdom it can sometimes so possess them out of 350 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,400 out of out of a motive to protect them that we can step 351 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,300 over a line and we say, God, just get out the way for a 352 00:22:42,308 --> 00:22:46,600 moment I'm going to do this. Rather than pray about it and 353 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:52,600 seek God on it, you know? But here's the truth of it guys. 354 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:54,800 And this is what the enemy does. Not want you to know. 355 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:57,300 Everything is safe, which we commit to him. 356 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,600 Nothing is really safe, which is not so committed. 357 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:08,100 There might be relationships in your world right now that right 358 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:10,900 now, the holy spirit is just a little finger on. 359 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,000 You got to surrender them to. You need to recognize that. 360 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,500 I love them as much as I love you. 361 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,600 But I've got an amazing plans and purposes for them. 362 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,700 Number two, we don't realize that what we have comes from. 363 00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:29,400 That's another reason why we can't sometimes surrender things 364 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,700 and I'll gifts and our talents should be turned over to him. 365 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:34,700 They need to be surrendered to him. 366 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,700 You know, we need to recognize that those gifts that we have 367 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:41,900 come from him. I remember a particular occasion 368 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:44,800 when I was growing up. I was about 15 or 16. 369 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,900 I would play the piano. I thought I'd be a pop star. 370 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:56,500 Through even had a stage name, have, I'd tell you in case you 371 00:23:56,500 --> 00:24:01,800 Google it. Marcus Christian. 372 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,200 So good, right. Anyway. 373 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,800 I tell this story or not, why not? 374 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,900 We will have a laugh at my expense. 375 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:18,700 Yeah. So I thought yeah. 376 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:20,800 And I wrote some songs and they weren't too bad. 377 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,400 So got a got crew together bound together. 378 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,800 Hideouts, you go space and we are safe for this. 379 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:30,200 Now the studio, we did it. I did a demo CD, three songs. 380 00:24:32,300 --> 00:24:35,500 And I remember playing them. And at the time I was living at 381 00:24:35,500 --> 00:24:38,800 home, well, obviously with a 50s and my mom would say, you know, 382 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,700 I'm just, you know, isn't God, great gifts? 383 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:42,300 He's given you and I'll be on it. 384 00:24:42,300 --> 00:24:44,300 I don't know why the Lord brought this from remembrance. 385 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,600 Probably because it's pertinent for this talk, but there was a 386 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,200 part of was like, yeah, okay, but look how good I am. 387 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:54,300 How incredulous? Honestly. 388 00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,800 I was that, barefaced proud, but yeah, but look, I've worked hard 389 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,100 at this. Yes, of course, you have 390 00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:02,800 darling, but, but if so good that he's blessed you with that 391 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,300 gift of music and this another. Yeah. 392 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:09,900 But now that is probably I know none of you are like that is an 393 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:15,100 extreme example to prove a point that probably in the true 394 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:17,500 humility that everything comes to him, we find ourselves on 395 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:23,200 that Speck that scale somewhere that Your talents or gifts, even 396 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,700 experience. You have comes because of the 397 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:27,200 plans. You walk in the garden laid out 398 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,000 before you. And it's like, I'm not going to 399 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,800 surrender that that gift to God because he might take it, I 400 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,700 might have to Christian music, I want to be a pop star. 401 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,300 No I genuinely thought that some of you may be thinking that as 402 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:43,200 well. Maybe something different for 403 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,600 you, maybe it's another gift in you know maybe in business or 404 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,100 whatever and you're like, well if I Surrender that I know 405 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:50,700 what's going to happen, if he's going to want me to do something 406 00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:51,800 else. And I'm really enjoying this. 407 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:56,600 We could get into the truth. How many of you are really 408 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,600 uncomfortable? I don't forget hands up, son. 409 00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:04,400 I know it's not the seats. Little bit wide. 410 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:13,300 Everything is safe, which we commit and actually the best is 411 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:15,500 when we can get, it has a plan and purpose for us. 412 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 We need to be willing to surrender those things. 413 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:21,600 Number three, Here's another one, we fear that will end up 414 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,000 lonely and isolated. If we fully surrendered to God 415 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,900 because there is this narrative that we've bought into subtle 416 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:32,000 one that says, God is boring. And he doesn't want you to have 417 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,300 that great things. Well, just go back to the 418 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:36,200 Genesis account, find, that's not correct. 419 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:42,800 God wants you to have a boring life and if you surrender your 420 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,800 going to end up wearing sandals, how are your Bible around all 421 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,700 the time? If you do that, there's nothing 422 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:56,400 wrong with that. I'm just saying, Defend someone 423 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,800 answer. I mean, My email address is no, 424 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:00,900 I'm joking. Downey, mummy. 425 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:04,100 But you know the point there is this narrative that the enemy. 426 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:07,100 I mean, you know that's that's the whole point of the lion that 427 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:09,700 in the garden. God is holding back some truth, 428 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:12,100 you guys, you know, if you want to be like God and you got to 429 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:14,600 eat that Apple. It's holding back to me and we 430 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,300 buy that same old truth. Now, if you fully surrender to 431 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:18,900 God, he's going to hold back. Everything from you. 432 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,100 If you hold onto it and possess it, then you can be in control 433 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,000 and you can have a great life because you'll be free. 434 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,000 I spoke about this a while ago, Free Will and freedom of 435 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:32,100 different things. Just because you have free, will 436 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:33,600 doesn't mean you going to be free in that. 437 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,000 In fact, if you opposite, listen, if you exercise, your 438 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,100 free will out of God's best view your wound up. 439 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:46,700 Bondage, wind up in bomb. It's a just because you're free 440 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:48,600 to make your decisions. Doesn't mean you've got freedom? 441 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:51,600 The only true freedom is, when you follow God's plan for your 442 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,100 life, that's freedom. That's that's what's happening 443 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:57,300 here and so one of the reasons we don't want to give up our 444 00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:03,200 stuff and surrender fully. Is because we feel like we're 445 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,000 not going to have freedom, you're going to feel more free 446 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,200 than you've ever felt. So as I attempt to bring this a 447 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,000 plane into land but winning not a bumpy one, we end with the 448 00:28:14,008 --> 00:28:15,500 question. How do we surrender? 449 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:20,500 And toes are once again gives us three very good points. 450 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:24,000 The first one, is this one. Put away all defenses. 451 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,200 Make no attempt to excuse ourselves from that. 452 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:36,900 Either in our own eyes or before them. because, I don't need to 453 00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:39,000 be prophetic to know the this truth. 454 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,900 But right now, the Holy Spirit given the number of us in this 455 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:44,800 room is highlighting to some of you and your heart right now, 456 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,500 what you need and your reaction in the flesh is going to be. 457 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:51,500 Whoa, Lord aren't no. These are the reasons why. 458 00:28:51,700 --> 00:28:54,800 And I can't do it right now. Next Tuesday, I can, but just 459 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,700 give me one more week. Yeah, my how did you know? 460 00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:04,700 Toes are says this. Let me quote him. 461 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,800 Whoever defends himself will have himself for his defense and 462 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:14,500 you will have no other Let him come defenseless before, the law 463 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:18,500 will have first offender, no less than God himself. 464 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,800 I want to say that again, whoever defends himself will 465 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:28,200 have himself for his defense and he will have no other but let 466 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,000 him come defenseless before the Lord and He will have for his 467 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000 Defender. No less than God. 468 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,500 Number to realize that this is truly business. 469 00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:46,600 No careless or casual dealings with the God almighty. 470 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,300 Oh yeah, Lord you know what? You're right. 471 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:50,800 I'll surrender. It come Monday. 472 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,600 I can't really meet you knows my heart is, his grace is 473 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,800 sufficient. You know what Paul says that 474 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,800 Grace that we receive isn't there to cover over since, it's 475 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,200 not an excuse Grace, is to empower us for, right, living? 476 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:07,000 That's what braces. God's Graces, he doesn't matter. 477 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,600 He knows me. He knows me. 478 00:30:09,700 --> 00:30:11,800 He's God knows me. I'll say this. 479 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,800 But, you know, come Wednesday and I'll be difficult. 480 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000 It's a, we're dealing with a holy God. 481 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,100 He's become over familiar, familiar with God. 482 00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:24,500 In someone's in my heart on this but wants us to run into his 483 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,600 arms and sit on his lap lap as a child of God. 484 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,900 That doesn't mean, we forget that he is enthroned as king of 485 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:36,000 kings and Lord of lords. You know, you wouldn't rush into 486 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,600 the Kings. I was going to say queen the 487 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,100 king's presence here and he's stupid, would you have be a 488 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:44,400 certain amount of reverence it comes with the position of being 489 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,200 King. And so it is us with us when we 490 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,500 when we come before the holy God, set apart. 491 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:57,700 Number three, be specific. It may be, he will need, you 492 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,300 will need to become more specific named, the things, and 493 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:03,900 the people, Lord, I fully surrender. 494 00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:09,400 Joe Sally already, I fully surrender. 495 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:15,400 My car. I've had that before I polished 496 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,200 it to inch of its life, my car It's all my car. 497 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,600 Now, it doesn't either washed infer but and I don't think 498 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,700 polishing is bad. I like a nice bully, but there 499 00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,100 is something in our heart sometimes, but we can just make 500 00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:32,300 everything. So shiny treasure in that thing. 501 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:33,700 Why? Because when people see me in 502 00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:37,000 that shiny car, I feel like something and they probably 503 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,800 think I'm stopped. It happens to us and he just 504 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,800 telling us how we what goes on in our heart and so be specific. 505 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:52,300 I'd like to invite the band up as I am You still with me, good. 506 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,700 I know it's some hard stuff isn't it? 507 00:31:55,700 --> 00:31:58,000 But it's real. Thank you, sister. 508 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000 It's real now, if you want to walk with Jesus and let's get 509 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000 down to some real stuff. I mean, when Jesus says, pick up 510 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,700 your cross, we have to look at that. 511 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:08,900 And say, what does that mean? We don't just real because we 512 00:32:08,908 --> 00:32:10,800 don't read it passing. Well, that doesn't apply to me 513 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,300 anymore. Yes, it does. 514 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,800 Listen, the book benefits and the blessings God wants you to 515 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,000 enjoy. This is not a message to say you 516 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,100 have to live a life with nothing. 517 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,700 It's a message that says God wants to you to live a life 518 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:30,500 where you enjoy, the things God has and walk in the freedom. 519 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:35,200 When you have God right here in the center of your heart, there 520 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,900 was a blessing that comes from that and that's why it's such a 521 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:41,800 battlefield because the enemy knows it that man, if they fully 522 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,500 comprehend this truth, wow, I'm in trouble. 523 00:32:44,900 --> 00:32:47,300 If they fully comprehend the truth that they've actually gone 524 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:50,800 and put Maya Maya, Mine in that heart, the degree. 525 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,500 That's unhealthy. If they realize that then I'm in 526 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:59,600 trouble because I haven't got things, I can pull them with I'm 527 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,800 excited about this were quite frankly, because when you 528 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,100 started getting thirsty for God, and you can say, Lord, I want to 529 00:33:05,108 --> 00:33:07,000 be thirsty for you since. Okay? 530 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,300 Great, let me show you some of those barriers. 531 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,000 These are some of the things that get in the way. 532 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:14,200 You know it says in the scriptures that God disciplines 533 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,300 those he loves and discipline means, you know, when you grow a 534 00:33:18,300 --> 00:33:23,300 rose bush, you have those trellises in order that the 535 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:26,000 rosebush can grow straight and true and healthy. 536 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,400 And that's what discipline means. 537 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,700 It's about putting a trellis up in our lives and this is a 538 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,500 trellis talk is a trellis, talk you. 539 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:12,900 And so I want us to stand. You know it says in the 540 00:33:12,908 --> 00:33:16,300 scriptures that God disciplines those he loves and discipline 541 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:20,100 means, you know, when you grow a rose bush, you have those 542 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:24,900 trellises in order that the rosebush can grow straight and 543 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:27,000 true and healthy. And that's what discipline 544 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,800 means. It's about putting a trellis up 545 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,500 in our lives and this is a trellis talk is a trellis, talk 546 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:36,100 you. And so I want us to stand.