Embodying a God-Seeking Generation: A Call to Transformation

"I know that we think we can save ourselves or heal ourselves or transform ourselves, but we really can't. We need God. I am a type A energizer bunny, problem-solving, high-capacity leader, and yet I know that I still need God, that I need God in my marriage. I need God in my family. I need God in my church. I need God in my community. I need God in this nation that I can't make it on my own that I need God every moment of every minute of every hour of every day." [00:03:12]

"The earth is the Lord's and all its fullness the world and those who dwell therein. I love that sentence. It just says, God is sovereign. For he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. God is creator. Then we see two questions. Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Who will seek him? Or who may stand in his holy place? Who will dwell with him? These two questions are really about coming to Jesus and communing with Jesus." [00:04:26]

"He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully, he shall receive blessing from the Lord. God is sustainer. And righteousness from the God of his salvation. God is savior. I mean, there's an outline right there that we could preach from, just from those few thoughts that God is sovereign, God is creator, God is sustainer, God is savior." [00:05:29]

"Jacob who was a manipulator a schemer you remember Jacob was the one who decided to steal his brother Esau and he stole Esau's birthright or inheritance it was Jacob who tears his family apart and has to end up running for his life because of his brother ends up in the house of his uncle Laban where he spends several years playing this game of deception with uncle Laban until finally he has to pick up his family and once again run for his life because his uncle Laban is chasing him to die and he is running for his life because of this uncle Laban is chasing him to die and he is Destroy him. This is Jacob." [00:09:38]

"Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, those who have a clean conscience. The next part says those who have a pure heart. It's the Hebrew idea of bear or the idea of an uncluttered heart. Think about that for just a moment, an uncluttered heart. As I look at our culture today, we're so fast-paced and we're moving here and we're moving there and we're busy, we're working hard, we're playing hard that sometimes you can get to the point that you don't stop long enough to just evaluate your heart, to evaluate all the junk, the clutter in your heart." [00:14:13]

"Who shall ascend into the house of the Lord? Who will abide in his presence? Those who have a clean conscience and those who have an uncluttered heart who will not lift their souls up to an idol. What's the Hebrew idea there? Those who seek him. Those who seek him with a consecrated soul. It's the idea that we're not going to lift up our soul to another idol, but God's going to be first in every area of our lives." [00:16:35]

"Mirma is the idea of completeness, an unfractured way of living. And I can tell you today in the world all kinds of people are struggling with fracture. Fractured lives. And it's even touched the church. I call it this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality thing going on in our world because you can look at somebody, and on the outside, the fact that you are the individual they look like dr. Jekyll and they have it all together they have it all together until this mr. Hyde person that's hiding behind the mask begins to appear when you have a an unfractured life you're working on the person behind the face who you are in public is the same as who you are in private." [00:18:11]

"Jacob was a schemer. If we look back or we look at the end of his life, we don't have time to do the panorama of his life. If we just go to the end, he's on the top of the mountain and his brother Esau shows up with 400 warriors. It's reckoning day it's the moment where Jacob realizes it's all over he's going to obliterate my family all the deception all the scheming I've spent my life building my family my career all of this stuff and now my brother is here to obliterate me and destroy me." [00:23:17]

"Can I tell you that when you try to rely on your own gifts and your own talents to make it through life you're always going to fall short you're going to be left alone your gifts your talents your presence are only going to get you so far without God's presence you can be an overseer of a global denomination and still recognize that you don't have enough to get through life that you need God's presence more than than God is doing to help you and that's why I said let's систем theSay it's all for God yeah so do gifts and talents." [00:25:13]

"The more you know God, the more you need to know God. The more you find God, the more you need to find God. The more you have God, the more you need to have God. That you can do nothing in your own strength and in your own ability. But you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. That when you rely on your own gifts and talents, you are left alone." [00:25:36]

"All I can do, God, is just wrestle with you until you change my identity, until you change my name, and at some point, even in the midst of all this mess, I'll have all the junk, all the stuff, and I will turn my life around. I will turn my face towards your face, and I will seek after you, and I will be numbered with the generation of those who seek you." [00:30:09]

"This is your moment to make Christ first, to say, I can't save myself. I can't heal myself. I can't deliver myself. I can't face life on my own. I know I've got stuff in the conscience in my closet that I need to clean up. I know I've got stuff that's fractured, stuff, skeletons in the closet, fluttering stuff in rooms of my life. But now is my moment to say to God, this is Jacob. Here I am. I'm going to know you. I'm going to wrestle with you until I can see your face, until I can know you." [00:33:55]