Building for what matters most!

Looking at at a man this morning, as our our bible reading, by the name of Absalom. Absalom is the third son of the king of David. But I wanna take a look at a couple of things this morning that he built his life. He had a lot of things he was working toward, but he never spent the time working on a relationship with god. I wanna take a look at that this morning. [00:55:53] (22 seconds)  #PrioritizeGod

He built a pillar to honor his name. He wanted to have a place that he could be buried, and everybody will remember him in a in a fun way, but he ended up being put into a pit in their woods. He built for glory, and he died in shame. He built this pillar for remembrance, but all it became was a warning. He built it for glory, but he died in shame. [00:56:15] (31 seconds)  #PillarOfFolly

It was supposed to be something beautiful, but throughout ages, people have passed by throwing rocks at it as they despised him because he rebelled against the king. When I read this story, it begins to really trouble my spirit. He spent so much time and effort. And if you study god's word, he spent a lot of time to build a pillar and to win the people's heart, to steal him away from king David. He did a lot of things, spent a lot of time, a lot of energy. [00:56:46] (36 seconds)  #WastedEffort

But when he died, he died so far from what he had intended. See, Absalom didn't plan to die and be put in the pit. He had planned to have be in this wonderful, memorial that he had placed for himself. See, hurts my heart when people dedicate their hearts, dedicate their life to misguided priorities. You can have a lot of things in this life, but if you build your life without god, you're not gonna end up where you think you're gonna end up. [00:57:22] (29 seconds)  #MisguidedPriorities

sometimes you don't. But god's still good to you. You can keep waking up in the morning and you feel good, energetic, ready to jump out the bed, have a wonderful day. And then the days you wake up and your body does not wanna move at all. Gonna get a witness. You you get you you had intentions of shouting. You had intentions of all the things you wanna do but your foot said not today. That back said, I don't think so. [00:59:05] (28 seconds)  #FaithThroughWeakness

I don't care how many followers you have. Somehow, was bragging. I said, I need you in church. You need to come and worship god. I can't. I'm gonna do a live stream and I've got so many friends that could be watching my live stream but don't you realize that you need Jesus before you need your Facebook friends. You're not building a life with god. Now let's look at this here. Absalom built for years. He was building on his legacy. [01:01:19] (30 seconds)  #WorshipOverStreaming

He spent years to steal away the hearts of those that were in king David. He spent so much time on building all these things. But at the end of the day, you see, David was a friend of god. David was a servant of god. And and as he began as Adam began to go against god's friend, the child of god, and I was talking about this one that was serving up all of his heart. You know, there was no contest. [01:01:48] (27 seconds)  #AbsalomLegacyWarning

As long as David did what god told him to do, Absalom had lost from the very beginning. He spent years. I believe it's forty years to steal the hearts of men away from David. He began to work on all the things he was going through, And the word of god says, and they threw his body into a pit in the woods. That is not where he planned on ending up. And you know there's many people today that are doing somewhat the same thing. [01:02:16] (31 seconds)  #DavidVsAbsalom