#S070 - “Stop Watching
Other People Eat” (Part 1)
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I want to invite
you to remain standing
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because we go to
the scriptures today.
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Judges, chapter six.
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Judges, chapter six.
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And we're going
to begin together
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at verse number
one, judges chapter six.
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And we will begin
together at verse number one.
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When you get there,
let me hear you say a man
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judges.
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Chapter six.
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We're going to look
together at verse number one.
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You get there, you
see past the room there.
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I'm going to try
to be quick today.
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I just said them a try
and we'll see where it lands.
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The Bible says then
the children of Israel
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did evil in the
sight of the Lord.
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So I want you to notice
how the Lord responds to this
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so the Lord deliver
them into the hand of
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Midian for seven years,
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and the hand of
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Midian prevailed against
Israel because of the midnights.
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The children of Israel
made for themselves dens,
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the caves and the strongholds
which are in the mountains.
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And so it was when
ever Israel had sown
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Midian nights would
come up also a malachite
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and the people of the east
would come up against them.
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Then they would encamped
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against them and
destroy the produce of the earth
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as far as Gaza and leave
no sustenance for Israel.
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Neither she nor ox
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nor donkey, for they would
come up with their livestock
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and their tents coming
in as numerous as locusts.
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Both they and the
camels were without number
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and they would enter
the land to destroy it.
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So Israel was
greatly impoverished
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because of the midnights
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and the children of
Israel cried out to the Lord
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and it came to pass
when the children of Israel
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cried out to the Lord
because of the midnight,
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so that the Lord sent a prophet
to the children of Israel
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who sent them to them.
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Thus they as the
Lord God of Israel.
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I brought you up out of Egypt
and brought you out of the house
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of bondage, and I delivered you
from the hand of the Egyptians
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and out of the hand of
all those who oppressed you
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and drove them out
before you and gave you what
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their name.
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Also, I said unto you,
I am the Lord your God.
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Do not fear the
God of the Emirates
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in whose land you dwell, but
you have not obeyed my voice.
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Verse 11
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Now the angel of the Lord came
and sat under the terrible tree
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which was in O'Farrell,
which belonged to Joash the Beza
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right while his son
Gideon Thrace, wheat in the wine
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press in order to
hide it from the midnight,
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and the Angel of
the Lord appeared
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to him,
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anybody ever thankful that
God still appears to His people?
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The Bible says the angel
of the Lord appeared to him
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and said unto him,
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the Lord is with
you, mighty men of valor
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and Gideon said
unto him, Oh my Lord,
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if the Lord is with us, why then
has all this happened to us?
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And where are all His
miracles which our father
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has told us about?
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Saying, Did not the Lord bring
us up from the land of Egypt?
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Now the Lord has
forsaken us and delivered us
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into the hands of the mighty.
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And then the Lord
turned to him and said,
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Go in this might of yours
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and you shall save Israel
from the hand of the midnight.
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Have I not sent you?
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And again I want to reprint
persist verse number four.
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Then they went
in camp against them
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and destroyed the
produce of the earth
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as far as Gaza and leave
no sustenance for Israel.
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Neither sheep nor ox
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nor donkey today
states for a little while.
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I want to talk to
you under the subject.
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Stop watching other people, even
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stop watching other people eat.
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Let's pray to God their father.
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All that I have
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in all that I am.
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It's yours.
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So, Father, I'm
praying that in this moment
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that you would do a miracle,
that you would give us the power
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to hear and act upon your word.
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Lord, would you feel
this space with your spirit?
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And at the end of
our time together,
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may heaven along
with earth rejoice
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because your people have heard
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your word in
hearkened unto your voice.
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So, Lord, I'm praying that we
would not just see in this text.
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Gideon But Lord,
may we see ourselves.
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Hide me in the
shadows of the cross.
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That Jesus alone might be seen.
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That Christ
alone would be heard.
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And at the end of our time
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together, let
Jesus alone be praised.
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Bless us.
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To this end, we ask
in the wonderful name
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of Jesus, our Lord, and those
who believe, say together, amen,
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and you may be seated
in the House of the Lord.
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You know, friends, I
want you to know that
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I love our churches theology,
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but sometimes I struggle with
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our church's thinking.
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You see, too often there
is this willingness to embrace
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small. This
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so that we even
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demonize biblical
terms like overflow
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abundance, prosperity, harvest,
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because we see that
as first day language.
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We are the Church of
prophecy, but we truly believe
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all visions died
with Ellen White in 1950.
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And at a certain point.
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CHURCH We've got to
have testimonies beyond
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just thanking God for
life, health and strength.
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And let me be clear, I'm
thankful for those things.
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But do you realize
that those are mercies
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that God gives to
those who don't even believe?
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You got to have a testimony
that's greater than God.
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Pay the bills and God help
me till the end of the month.
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And God, I'm just
thankful to have a job. And
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let me be clear, we are
thankful for those things.
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But I want God to do
more than just pay my bills.
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I want to be able to
pay several people's bills.
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Y'all not hear me today?
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I'm not just glad to make
it to the end of the month.
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I want to
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have enough and reserves so
I can handle months of famine
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when they appear.
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In other words,
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you shouldn't just be
praising God for good health,
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but you ought to expect
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to prosper in health
as your soul prospers.
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In other words, you
are not just thank God
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to get the loan, you are
to be the one giving the loan
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and living on the
interest that is repaid.
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I don't want to just
wake up in the morning.
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I want to have a reason
to wake up in the morning
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and say, Please, friends,
don't just take my word for it.
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You need to hear and receive
the language of Scripture
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and Deuteronomy 28 did not
God say to an obedient Israel
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that if you walk in my
covenants and keep my ways,
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he says, I'll make you
the head and not the tail.
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I'll put you
above and not beneath.
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You will be a lender
and not a borrower, he says.
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The blessings of the Lord will
chase you down and overtake you.
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Do you realize, friends, that
you are more than a survivor?
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Romans eight says that
we are more than conquerors
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through Christ
Jesus who loved us.
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In John ten, in verse
ten, Jesus said, I have come
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that to might have life
and have it more abundantly.
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Ephesians 320 says now unto him
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that is able to do
exceed ingly and abundantly.
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Above all, you can ask
our thing and the problem is
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that some of us
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are still looking at me
with this logical disgust
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because you're still
sitting on the premises
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instead of standing
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on the premises and
apart church of our excuse
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this journey
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is a call for some of us to
come out of survivors space.
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God is trying to deliver you
from a just get by mentality.
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I want more than a
barely passing mindset.
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I want my life not
to reflect my reality.
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But my life ought to
reflect what God promised to me.
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Oh, okay.
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Let me say it this way.
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I remember church on my
senior year in high school.
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I was getting
ready to go to the prom
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and I remember I was blessed.
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The date
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had already been secured
and the rental car was in place,
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but I still needed to
get a tuxedo for the prom.
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And I remember that day my
dad had given me the opportunity
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to choose the tux.
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In fact, he wrote the
name of the tuxedo shop.
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But what he did not do was
write an amount in the check.
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And so he said,
Son, I want you to choose
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whatever tuxedo you want.
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And so I remember
going to the place
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and I saw the cheap tuxedos
and the expensive tuxedos.
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And when I was about
to get the expensive one,
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I thought to
myself, This must be a test.
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I began to get afraid.
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I was anticipating a
lecture on overspending,
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and when I got home
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and gave him the
receipt for the cheap tuxedo,
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he actually began to
fuss at me for spending less
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than what he had provided.
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In fact, he
said, Son, your problem
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is that you say too small.
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If I was worried
about the amount,
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I would have written it in.
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In other words,
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if I didn't give you a limit,
why did you assign a limit?
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And what I'm saying
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is that we need a church
with a blank check faith.
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And if God didn't give you a
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limit, why are
you assigning I limit?
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You are to walk in
what he promised us,
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not what you think
that he has designed you.
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You are here in the
world today, friends.
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And so as we unpack the
word a little bit further today,
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I want you to just see
some things in the Scripture.
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You see, our text
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today is filled with
powerful nutrients for the soul,
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but the first thing it
teaches is that when you make
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excuse says you wind up having
to watch other people eat.
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Let me say it again.
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When you make a
bunch of excuses,
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you wind up in a position
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where you have to
watch other people eat now.
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Now, this is a
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very strange thing,
because when you disobey God,
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he reverses the
promise of some 23.
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Instead of
preparing a table for you
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in the presence of your
enemies, he prepares a table
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for your enemies
in your presence.
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So Jordan didn't catch that.
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Instead of preparing
the table in the presence
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of your enemies, he prepares
the table for your enemies.
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In your presence you see here
in Judges six, the Lord employs
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a strange form of chastening
against his very own people.
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Now recall Israel has failed
God in two particular ways.
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The first is that when
God gave them the land,
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they did not drive
out all the foreigners.
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They allowed them
to remain attached.
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And the second
thing that they did
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was they committed idolatry
in the land that God promised.
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But notice what
God's tasting was, not
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God did not drive
Israel from the land,
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and neither does God
curse the land or the harvest.
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God simply lays up the bounty of
the harvest for their enemies.
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In other words, I
need you to catch this.
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He does not cause
the land to be barren.
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The land bears its fruit
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and its seeds and the
vine cast for its fruit.
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When it is time the
livestock grows in abundance,
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God does not
take away the harvest.
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God just outsources the harvest.
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You are not with me.
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In other words, every year
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the land this plus every
year the land gives fruit.
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Every year the oxen are fat.
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And guess what?
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As soon as the food is edible,
the Midian knights come up
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and they raid every thing
inside and they leave Israel
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with nothing but barrenness
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and understand, friends
that God had initially set it
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up, that he would
prosper Israel in such a way
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that when the other
nations watched them eat,
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it would make
them curious about God.
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But because they became
curious about other gods,
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Israel now is having
to watch other people eat.
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Now remember church.
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This is
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the land that God promised
to Abraham and His descendants.
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And God says, I'm
going to bless the land.
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God says I'm going
to produce the land
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and notice that God
makes good on His promise.
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God causes the land to
prosper in an abundant fashion.
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God causes the harvest
to go into the overflow.
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God does not curse
what He gave to them.
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He simply gives what was playing
to them, to somebody else.
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You all missed it today.
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And the reason I'm saying
this is because there are times
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where we get discouraged by
the prosperity of the wicked.
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But how many of us know
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that sometimes the
prosperity of the wicked
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is simply the blessings
forfeited by the righteous?
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In other words,
sometimes they get blessed
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simply because we
are acting like them
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instead of acting like him.
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And there are times
where we get mad because they
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we think they're being
blessed more than we are,
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but they're only being
blessed because of how we are.
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Oh, Lord.
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And see, this is important
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because somebody is
about to miss God's planned
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blessing for your life
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because of a
season of disobedience,
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you see, because you
are not acting on the vision
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or the dream.
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God gives you God out sources
the blessing of the dream
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to somebody else.
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Okay?
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When God gives a vision or
a dream, I need you to know
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He also gives an assignment
that is also a call to action.
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And what somebody needs to know
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is that when God
gives you a vision,
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the vision is not the
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intellectual property
of the one who receives it.
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It is the property
of the God who gives it.
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And so if you will not act
in obedience with the dream,
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God is not going
to cancel the dream.
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He's not going
to censor the dream.
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He's simply
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go reassign it to somebody who's
going to do something with it.
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You are not acting
like now hear me today
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and see, this is critical
because there are some of us
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that are just
content to be dreamers.
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See, we love to run
around in church world
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and talk about how we
see things and the spirit
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and how God gives
us visions and dreams
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and how God showed you
something in the night sees it.
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And for many of us, the
dream alone is the trophy.
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But how many of us know that
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only about 5% of
those who receive dreams
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actually act upon the
dream that God has given them?
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But I need somebody to know
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that visions are not for
your spiritual entertainment.
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Visions are not for your
church potluck conversation.
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Visions are a call to
act upon that with God
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has put in your hearts.
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I see friends of mine.
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I need you to get that.
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When you don't do what
God has called you to do,
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you show
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that you're not a worthy
steward of the vision God
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has assigned to you.
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You see, church.
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If I don't act on the vision,
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I miss out on the provision.
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Okay. Okay. Yeah.
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See? See, we wonder
why they come in the back
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if I don't act on the vision.
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Are y'all here? Me, church?
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I miss out on the
provision and see like Israel,
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God is not going to curse
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the harvest that
comes from the drain.
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He's just going to reassign
the harvest to somebody else.
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Okay. Let me ask you this.
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Has anybody ever been in a
place in your life where you saw
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something bearing fruit,
you saw something blowing up?
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Maybe it was an
idea, maybe it was an app,
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maybe it was a book,
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maybe it was a song,
maybe it was a company.
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And when you saw it blowing up,
you felt something like this.
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I thought of it first.
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Anybody ever
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had that happen where you
saw something invented on QVC?
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Come on and say, man
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and you thought to yourself,
Man, I could have did that.
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But the problem is that
when God gave it to you,
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it was also a prompting or
a vision for you to act on.
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But guess what?
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If you don't act
on it, guess what?
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God isn't going curse the dream.
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Guess what is still going to
prosper is still going to blow
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up, is still
going to bear fruit.
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It's still going to be big.
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God is just going to
hand it to somebody else.
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Okay?
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I need somebody to be clear
that God is going got somebody
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is going to write the
book you are sitting on.
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Somebody is going.
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Patton The invention
you keep in your notebook,
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somebody is going to
act on the idea that you're
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smothering somebody who's
going to publish the recipe.
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God gave you.
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Somebody is going to marry
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that woman you
are taking for granted
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saying you're going to be
mad and 38 hot when you having
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to watch somebody else
eat are you are hear me today
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and I need somebody to be
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clear that the vision is
not your intellectual property.
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It belongs to God
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and see, the
message for somebody today
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is that when you
see others being blessed
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and you see others
eating, guess what?
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We ought to rejoice
with those who rejoice.
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The truth is that
you ought to congratulate
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those who are
walking in calling.
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The truth is that
you ought to celebrate
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and not become a hater.
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But how many of
us are at a place
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where, even though
I'm glad to watch you eat,
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I'm not content
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to just sit at the
table watching you chow down.
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I want to eat as well.
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I don't want to
just sit and watch.
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I want to eat if
I'm at the table.
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Listen, listen.
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I just this last week,
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my brother and his wife
and my nine month old niece,
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they were here in town
for Mother's Day weekend.
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And it's funny
because like I remember,
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we would sit down at the
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table and eat and my niece,
nine months has just moved past
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the point where she's graduating
from milk to table food.
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And it's funny because one time
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my brother took a little
too long getting her her food.
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And so we're all
sitting down at the table
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and she sits down
and she looks to the left
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then and smiles and she
looks to the right. But.
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But nobody's feeding
her anything but quickly.
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That smile turned into a
frown, and all of a sudden
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she took that sippy cup and
start banging it on the table.
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And all of a sudden
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she began to grab my brother's
arm and try to steer his spoon.
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And after a while
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she grabbed her daddy's
shirt and began to yank on it.
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And after a while she
grabbed the beard in his face
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to let him know,
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Daddy, I'm not just
sitting here to watch it.
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I'm here because I'm hungry
and I need something to eat.
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And I just need to
know, do I have $0.07?
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Donald, grab your daddy's
hand and grab your daddy's shirt
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and grab your
daddy's beard and say, Lord,
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I don't want to
just sit at the table.
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I'm tired of
watching other people.
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We Are y'all here?
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Me today? Friends.
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Come on.
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Second thing this teaches church
is that when God calls you,
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he calls from the future.
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You notice
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that God steps
into a space with Gideon
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where Gideon is actually
trying not to be noticed.
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The reason he is threshing
wheat in a wine press is so that
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his activity will not be
noticed by the media knights.
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In other words,
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Gideon is making it clear
that I'm not about that life.
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I just want to
live and let live.
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I just want to get my
groceries and go home.
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Y'all catch me today. CHURCH
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But did you notice something
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that when God steps
into this space, Julian,
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I need you to notice
how he steps to Gideon.
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When he shows up and appears
to Gideon, he refers to Gideon
00:22:24.81\00:22:28.11
as mighty man of valor.
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Oh, God.
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In fact, man,
there's a disconnect
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somewhat in the conversation,
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because Gideon is
just kind of like, no, no,
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you must not be talking to me.
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In fact, man, I'm the weakest
man from the weakest tribe.
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When God refers to him
00:22:46.43\00:22:48.00
as mighty man of valor, Gideon,
just like, Oh, you must think
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I'm one of my brothers. You'll
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never confuse me and listen
all the time we look alike.
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But that's not really.
I'm not really that one.
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But God shows up and
calls him not what he is.
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God doesn't call him what He is.
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God calls him
what He will become
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and see.
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The reason that Gideon
is missing it is because
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he's operating in
the space of assessment
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and God is operating
in this space of prophecy.
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Oh, you're not
hearing me the day
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to. The reason
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that Gideon is missing
this moment is he's so busy
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a setting his family
and assessing his history
00:23:35.94\00:23:38.68
and assessing his
capability that he's missing out
00:23:39.78\00:23:42.62
on what God is actually
prophesy saying about him
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and see if this is
critical for somebody today.
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Because I need you to
get out of the assessment
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business.
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I need somebody to
be clear on this truth
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that you will never do
anything for the glory of God
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if you always live your
life assessing what He is.
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Because God, when He calls
00:24:12.05\00:24:13.75
us, He doesn't
call us what we are.
00:24:13.78\00:24:16.92
He calls us
00:24:18.02\00:24:19.65
what we shall
00:24:19.69\00:24:22.76
take your time.
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He calls us what
we saw become and see.
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The problem is
that when you spend
00:24:28.83\00:24:30.93
your life in assessment,
you live in a limited reality.
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You see, the truth
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is that some of us are
planning our future finances
00:24:36.47\00:24:39.04
based upon our
current financial assessment.
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There are some
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that are planning our ministry
initiatives based on assessment
00:24:43.71\00:24:47.22
of the size of the team.
00:24:47.25\00:24:48.55
Right now, some of us are
planning our romantic future
00:24:48.58\00:24:52.25
based upon the current
crop that is before us.
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And I need you to get to a place
where you don't live your life
00:24:56.73\00:24:59.03
based upon what you
can assess in the present.
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But you got to live your life
00:25:02.26\00:25:03.70
according to what God
says about your future.
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Can I say this to
somebody in the church?
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You got to learn how to live
your life with your eyes closed.
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Because how many
of us live in a space
00:25:17.21\00:25:19.18
where sometimes you see
00:25:19.21\00:25:20.48
something different
when you close your eyes
00:25:20.52\00:25:23.12
than you do when you
open your eyes and see
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God speaks to us sometimes
when our eyes are closed.
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But what happens is
you've got to always be mindful
00:25:32.03\00:25:34.30
to never interpret your vision
through the lens of your sight.
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Because how many of us know
that sight will corrupt vision?
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Sight will discredit vision.
00:25:45.51\00:25:47.28
Sight will overwhelm vision.
00:25:47.94\00:25:49.58
Sight will make you think that
the vision was a hallucination,
00:25:50.81\00:25:53.75
simply because sometimes what
you see when you close your eyes
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won't match what you
see when you open your eyes
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and see friends of mine.
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I need you to know that
God is not here in the present.
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Looking forward
00:26:08.96\00:26:09.86
to the future.
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Know that Jesus said
when he introduced himself
00:26:13.90\00:26:16.07
to the church in Revelation.
00:26:16.74\00:26:17.57
He says, I am the
one who was and is
00:26:17.61\00:26:21.28
and I'm the one
who is to come so
00:26:22.11\00:26:24.31
that God is not in the present,
looking forward to the future.
00:26:24.35\00:26:27.78
God is already in the future,
00:26:28.48\00:26:29.88
waiting for the President
to catch up with where He is
00:26:29.92\00:26:33.15
and because God is already in
the future, guess what He does?
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He calls you from the future
00:26:37.93\00:26:39.66
and some of us
will miss the moment
00:26:40.53\00:26:43.30
and you will assume that
God is talking to somebody else.
00:26:44.50\00:26:46.57
You will assume that
God is not talking about you
00:26:47.57\00:26:49.47
because He's calling
you by your future name.
00:26:50.41\00:26:52.54
And there's somebody
that don't have the faith
00:26:54.24\00:26:56.21
to receive what
the pastor is saying,
00:26:56.24\00:26:58.18
because I need you to know you
ain't even finished school yet.
00:26:58.21\00:27:01.48
But God is calling
you mighty professor.
00:27:01.52\00:27:06.45
You haven't written anything,
00:27:06.49\00:27:08.26
but God is calling
you bestselling author.
00:27:08.29\00:27:10.73
Y'all not here.
00:27:10.76\00:27:12.09
The music industry is hard,
00:27:12.13\00:27:14.00
but God is calling
you Grammy Award winner.
00:27:14.00\00:27:16.73
Now maybe you
can't get pregnant,
00:27:17.50\00:27:19.60
but God is calling
you mother of three.
00:27:20.50\00:27:22.14
Maybe today
00:27:22.54\00:27:23.74
you're just a real estate agent,
but God is calling you mogul.
00:27:23.77\00:27:27.44
Maybe your life is full of sin,
00:27:28.14\00:27:29.94
but God is calling you
saint of the most high God.
00:27:31.05\00:27:33.68
Do I have seven folks
that know how to answer to your
00:27:34.78\00:27:37.39
future name?
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Thank you for joining
us for the Breath of Life
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Television Ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell.
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We hope and pray
that you have been blessed
00:27:48.10\00:27:50.87
by this fourth message
in the new sermon series
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ExcuseLess Join
us next week for part
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two of the message “Stop
Watching Other People Eat”.
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You don't want to miss it.
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