David's Heart: A Call to Deeper Faith
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1. "I don't want to go through the motions of church life, and I don't want to live what we would probably classify as the American Christian life, that its goal is to live a comfort, increase, and an acquisition of things, acquiring things. I want to make sure that we never get caught up in the trap of the American Church Incorporated." ([00:00:36] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "There's been this uneasiness in my spirit that the Lord is saying, I'm preparing Christ Fellowship Church for the more, but I never want to be the guy that always seeks the more, as if it's like a carrot dangled in front of a horse or a donkey and you're always in this endless pursuit. You won't hear me talk a lot about the more, I want the now, I want everything he has now in this moment, but I think that God is preparing us and stretching us for more." ([00:01:28] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "The prophet gave Saul very specific instructions about destroying the people that were the enemies of God, kill everything that's living, kill the king, and the prophet said, I will be there to offer a sacrifice. Well, you know the story, 1 Samuel chapter 11, 12, and 13, and 14. It unfolds before us that the prophet delayed his coming, and Saul did not obey the nth degree of the command of God. Therefore, he left some key sheep living, key personnel living, and he spared the life of the king, all of which God had instructed him through the prophet, I need you to take care of all of this, and wiped them out." ([00:04:18] (54 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "My question to you this morning is, how many others did God look at in order to find his replacement? How long did God have to look in order to find the right person? Have you ever thought about that? Why do I ask that question? Because the qualification, the type of man that he was looking for, was the individual who would be after his own heart. Not his own personal heart, the individual himself, but the heart of God." ([00:07:41] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "I have found David, the son of Jesse. A man after my own heart. And there it is. There it is. Do you see it? Who will do all my will. Let me put it to you this way. I have found the man after my own heart. Listen to this. Who will do everything I ask him to do. Amen." ([00:18:15] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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6. "Because if you're not careful, you'll take biblical characters and you will elevate them to a place of saying, and to a point of where they're such high. I mean, they're just way up here and I'll never be able to, to be used like them or be favored like them. And then they can become somewhat like a rock star and you go, wow, they're way up there and they are special men and women. But guys, you understand, the Bible's not written to us to dangle a carrot in front of us so that we can never attain it." ([00:20:04] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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7. "You can sin and make a choice that you know is devastating to you, your family and others, and it be wrong. And it doesn't disqualify you from a relationship with him and his place of favor in your life. Now, if I sin and rebel and continue and refuse to repent, then that's when like Saul, that you disqualify yourself." ([00:21:46] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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8. "When you study the Old Testament Psalms, more specifically the Psalms, you are given insight, Matt, to the heart of David. Who he was at the core, where his convictions came from. And this is what I discovered. Hold up. Psalm 51 on the screen. That particular passage, I think it is. Psalm 51. Psalm 51. After David's failure with Bathsheba, committing murder with Uriah and losing his child, that was born in an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba, the prophet Nathan, Nathan, I said, came to him and pointed out his sin." ([00:27:32] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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9. "The church, us, all of us can never make revival about the outcome of revival. We cannot make what's happening here the pursuit of the outcome. We can't pursue miracles. We can't pursue breakthroughs and deliverances as our goals. That is a byproduct of keeping him our pursuit, our aim, our goal, our ambition, my drive, my hunger." ([00:41:06] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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10. "God is telling us as a church, even though there have been 42,000 water baptisms in this building, 60,000 outside of this building, and we've seen not dozens or hundreds, but literally thousands upon thousands of miracles, God says, please do not make the miracles your goal. Do not judge a service based upon what you see with your eyes. But continue to cry out to me that, Lord, create in me a clean heart. Seek my kingdom first, and all these other things will be added unto you." ([00:49:58] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "There's been this uneasiness in my spirit that the Lord is saying, I'm preparing Christ Fellowship Church for the more, but I never want to be the guy that always seeks the more, as if it's like a carrot dangled in front of a horse or a donkey and you're always in this endless pursuit. You won't hear me talk a lot about the more, I want the now, I want everything he has now in this moment, but I think that God is preparing us and stretching us for more." ([00:01:28] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "The prophet gave Saul very specific instructions about destroying the people that were the enemies of God, kill everything that's living, kill the king, and the prophet said, I will be there to offer a sacrifice. Well, you know the story, 1 Samuel chapter 11, 12, and 13, and 14. It unfolds before us that the prophet delayed his coming, and Saul did not obey the nth degree of the command of God. Therefore, he left some key sheep living, key personnel living, and he spared the life of the king, all of which God had instructed him through the prophet, I need you to take care of all of this, and wiped them out." ([00:04:18] (54 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "My question to you this morning is, how many others did God look at in order to find his replacement? How long did God have to look in order to find the right person? Have you ever thought about that? Why do I ask that question? Because the qualification, the type of man that he was looking for, was the individual who would be after his own heart. Not his own personal heart, the individual himself, but the heart of God." ([00:07:41] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "I have found David, the son of Jesse. A man after my own heart. And there it is. There it is. Do you see it? Who will do all my will. Let me put it to you this way. I have found the man after my own heart. Listen to this. Who will do everything I ask him to do. Amen." ([00:18:15] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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6. "Because if you're not careful, you'll take biblical characters and you will elevate them to a place of saying, and to a point of where they're such high. I mean, they're just way up here and I'll never be able to, to be used like them or be favored like them. And then they can become somewhat like a rock star and you go, wow, they're way up there and they are special men and women. But guys, you understand, the Bible's not written to us to dangle a carrot in front of us so that we can never attain it." ([00:20:04] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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7. "You can sin and make a choice that you know is devastating to you, your family and others, and it be wrong. And it doesn't disqualify you from a relationship with him and his place of favor in your life. Now, if I sin and rebel and continue and refuse to repent, then that's when like Saul, that you disqualify yourself." ([00:21:46] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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8. "When you study the Old Testament Psalms, more specifically the Psalms, you are given insight, Matt, to the heart of David. Who he was at the core, where his convictions came from. And this is what I discovered. Hold up. Psalm 51 on the screen. That particular passage, I think it is. Psalm 51. Psalm 51. After David's failure with Bathsheba, committing murder with Uriah and losing his child, that was born in an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba, the prophet Nathan, Nathan, I said, came to him and pointed out his sin." ([00:27:32] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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9. "The church, us, all of us can never make revival about the outcome of revival. We cannot make what's happening here the pursuit of the outcome. We can't pursue miracles. We can't pursue breakthroughs and deliverances as our goals. That is a byproduct of keeping him our pursuit, our aim, our goal, our ambition, my drive, my hunger." ([00:41:06] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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10. "God is telling us as a church, even though there have been 42,000 water baptisms in this building, 60,000 outside of this building, and we've seen not dozens or hundreds, but literally thousands upon thousands of miracles, God says, please do not make the miracles your goal. Do not judge a service based upon what you see with your eyes. But continue to cry out to me that, Lord, create in me a clean heart. Seek my kingdom first, and all these other things will be added unto you." ([00:49:58] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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